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industry 94% white ists are Muslim and only 0.2% are black, nearly 5% of the UK’s population is Muslim ccording to a damnand 3% are black. The issue of ing survey of 700 equality and diversity within news professionals, the journalism industry was conducted by City accentuated in February of University London, the Brit2016 when 94 men and just 20 ish journalism industry is women were shortlisted for 94% white, 86% university-edthe British Press Awards. ucated and 55% male. A Muslim survey particiThe results of the survey, pant has shared a daunting which were announced at the recruitment experience, he Changing Media Summit on stated “Consistently I’ve not 24 March, revealed that 65% really got anywhere, to such of journalists who have joined an extent that once I applied the profession over the last for the same job using an Enthree years are female. glish-sounding name and I However the results outlined did get an interview”. the fact that women remain There is an obvious lack of underpaid and lack the possibility of promotion. They national multicultural newsalso revealed that almost all papers that operate to reflect ethnic minority groups and the demographic and shape religions are significantly un- of our diverse society today, and that must surely stem der-represented. Researchers reported that from the narrow gateway of just 0.4% of British journal- opportunity for BAME and fe-
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alia Bouattia has recently become the first black woman and Muslim to be appointed as president of the National Union of Students (NUS), but instead of
celebrating such a landmark, media coverage has been littered with stories calling her a racist, an anti-Semite and an ISIS-sympathiser. Ms. Bouattia has been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks as she called the University of Birmingham “something of a Zionist outpost”, however she maintains that her argument was borne out of a political debate, not a religious one. Now, students from several universities, including Ox-
male workers. These bewildering findings pose the question, if 94% of the British media is white
how can ethnic minorities be represented adequately. How can mainstream media not be biased?
ford and Cambridge, are threatening to vote to break away from the NUS. The threats come following the controversial election of Ms. Bouattia. .
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