Black journalists call on editors to improve diversity in newsrooms

Black Journalists Collective UK demands journalism that better serves all communities

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.

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