UK media has diversity sights fixed on 50:50 objective | opinion
email rounding up the latestTwo decades ago, as a national newspaper junior reporter, I interviewed a family who agreed to have their picture taken for the article. The father of the family was black and, when the newsdesk realised it, I was directed to find an alternative family.Research from the National Council for the Training of Journalists
Marcus Ryder, external consultancies head at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, notes changes in the media landscape. In the 1980s and ’90s, just four television channels existed, creating a “very strong oligopsony” — a market dominated by a few buyers. The small number of programmes bought, he adds, “did not help black people”.
Miranda Wayland, Amazon Studios and Prime Video’s Europe diversity head, says the emergence of streaming services means more opportunity “for diverse storytellers” and “historically excluded groups represented onscreen”.
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