Black On White TV

Thursday, 11 August 2011

National Pride On The Small Screen

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Al Jazeera is hiring in Kenya and all I can think about are Boeings 747s. A few years ago I went to visit my family in Jamaica for the Chr...
Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Why The Riots Need More Black People

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OK a slightly provocative title I admit but hopefully it got your attention. To be precise the riots need more black and BME journalists rep...
Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Could better TV have stopped the London riots?

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Two days before the London riots kicked off Professor Peter King of Imperial College London appeared on a Radio 4 programme called Voices F...

Looting For An Identity

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I’m sitting in my office in BBC Scotland with my fellow news colleagues watching images of London burning as rioting and loo...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Are You Paid What You're Worth?

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One of the worse jobs I ever had was working in a factory in the East End of London that made plastic mouldings for shop displays – the ty...

News International Hacking - It will be all white on the night

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Working in news and current affairs you quickly realise that the more interesting story is normally the one behind the headlines that requi...
Thursday, 30 June 2011

Rewriting Black History

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The British Library Newspaper Collection in Colindale is currently digitising 40 million newspaper pages from its vast 750 million colle...
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BlackOnWhiteTV
The Black On White TV blog examines issues of race and diversity in British TV and across the media. It is interested in issues of representation and equality both in front of the camera and behind it. The blog was set up by Marcus Ryder who was a founding member of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity and has over 25 years experience working in television, radio and online. He left the BBC after 24 years as the Editor of BBC Scotland Current Affairs. He is currently Head of External Consultancies at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre of Media Diversity. He is also a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University for Media Diversity and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Journalism at The University of Sussex.
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