More than 100 black and minority ethnic journalists have written to UK editors to denounce a lack of diversity that has led to “a long litany of inadequacies in newsroom coverage of race and how stories about non-white people are covered”. The journalists, assembled under the auspices of a new group, Black Journalists Collective UK (BJCUK), call on editors to improve diversity among their staff in order to improve their reporting of race issues and subjects. “We need journalism that better serves all communities in the UK and therefore we need newsrooms that reflect the society they serve,” the letter says. He cited a different tone in coverage of the personal lives of black players compared with white players. It cites 2005 research by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that found only 0.4% of British journalists are Muslim, and just 0.2% are black.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2018 16:02 UTC