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Marcus Ryder secures new role at Lenny Henry Centre for media diversity DIVERSITY CHAMPION: Marcus Ryder MBE has worked in the UK media industry for 25 years LEADING MEDIA diversity champion Marcus Ryder MBE has secured a new role at Birmingham City University to examine representation across UK media. Mr Ryder has been officially named as Head of External Consultancies at the centre based in Birmingham City University and will look into diversity across the industry including in journalism, acting, film, TV and radio in both front-of-house and behind the scenes roles. The new role will see...

kmfm Young black women are forced to be "stronger and more resilient than their years should require", a BAFTA-nominated director has told Sky News. Sarah Gavron's film Rocks, which has been nominated seven times at tonight's BAFTAs, celebrates the friendship of a group of multicultural young girls from inner-city London, and is described as a "love letter" to such real-life women. Gavron said it is "harder than ever for young people" at the moment growing up in a Britain which "in some ways feels broken," with "all the youth resources being stripped away"...

British Journalism Award winner and leading authority on media diversity Marcus Ryder MBE gives his take on the issue following Press Gazette’s race and the media survey. When we talk about the racism and bigotry in the UK media industry it is very easy to focus on some of the worst most visible excesses. The recent Press Gazette survey about racism and bigotry in the UK news media makes for shocking reading. When three quarters (74%) of black journalists who responded to the survey were able to answer “yes” to the question: “Have you personally experienced, or witnessed, racism whils...

Gamini Seneviratne             That is a term that historians of colonization are familiar with as a descriptive of the duplicity, treachery and the breach of treaties that marked England’s relations with the peoples it sought to colonize / loot particularly in the 19 th century.             What this note addresses are the manifestations of trickery and the purveyance of falsehoods by and on behalf of the family that some people in Britain and some in former British colonies, directly and indirectly, support financially and otherwise. That applies in varying degree to...

Observers say relationship survives on basis of unwritten rules that are now being reexamined