Wednesday, 27 May 2020

A Lifeline For Independent News Publishers During Covid-19

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Over ten years ago, when I was at the BBC, I pitched a daytime series called “Headline Hunters”. The idea was simple enough. Two presenters ...
Monday, 25 May 2020

Who's Afraid of 'Diversity of Thought'?

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In a recent interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show the corporation’s outgoing director general was quizzed about diversity. While mentioni...
Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Why Diversity Targets Fail To Achieve Real Change

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What is so great about 14%? When you talk to most British companies and broadcasters the number plays a prominent role in their diversity po...
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Monday, 4 May 2020

We need targeted support if diversity is going to survive Covid-19

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To not explicitly support under-represented groups is to implicitly condemn them to fail. That is the message that we have seen time and ...
Monday, 27 April 2020

Trevor Phillips, the Covid-19 Review and Why it Proves We Need Diversity Behind the Camera

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Yesterday a joint letter was sent by 16 BAME medical organisations, representing tens of thousands of medics in the UK, to Public Hea...
Friday, 24 April 2020

How Social Media Challenges Shed Light On Industry Diversity Problems

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Two Twitter threads I have recently been part of sum up the difficulties of creating a more diverse media industry perfectly. In the l...
Monday, 20 April 2020

If you want to know the truth about diversity - follow the money

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One of the most important programmes I oversaw, just before I left the BBC, was a Panorama investigation into drugs in sport. The inves...