Media4Diversity

Internazionale, a weekly magazine focusing on culture and politics, decided to open their publication to writers whose voice, they believed, was not being heard. The team felt their readers wanted an alternative perspective on Italy as a culture and a country. A section entitled ‘L’Italia vista dai nuovi Italiani’ or in English ‘Italy Seen by New Italians’ was introduced. Rather than simply publishing articles on immigration issues Internazionale gave immigrants a platform to share their own personal experiences of living in Italy. ...read more

Respect Magazine is a glossy publication. Its high quality image and content is actively fighting the stereotype that youth or minority targeted publications are cheap or poorly made. Each edition focuses on one theme, for example, Gender issues, Religion, Suburbia or Equal Opportunities in the work place. The content includes in depth interviews, feature length articles, photos and social or cultural news. ...read more

The BBC is one of the world’s leading media organisations. Its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain. They see their audiences as being at the heart of everything that they do. How to reflect and engage these audiences is a BBC priority. The BBC Diversity Centre is responsible for ensuring that the BBC is legally compliant with all antidiscrimination legislation, hard-wiring diversity into the DNA of the BBC through the Diversity Strategy which is comprised of 4 elements - employment, output, audiences, strategy and business planning. In 2006 an Editorial Executive of Diversity was hired to assist BBC Vision (responsible for BBC TV channels) with delivering authentic representation of the audiences they serve. ...read more

Although Channel 4 -as a public service television station- is publicly owned it is entirely self funded. Its remit is to innovate and appeal to everyone – different cultures, nationalities, religious persuasions, physical and mental abilities, sexual orientation, races and ages. Founded in the eighties to combat the monopoly of the BBC and ITV, Channel 4 commissions its programmes from over 300 production companies across the UK. ...read more

The Diversity Unit is within the VRT to implement the actions outlined in the Diversity Policy and Charter. The Unit looks at a wide range of diversity issues, particularly those faced by ethnic minorities and people with disabilities. Affirmative action towards minority groups is part of the daily work of the Diversity Unit. ...read more

During the 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All, the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE and the production company C-Media created a partnership to make documentaries representing communities fighting discrimination in Finland. ...read more

The Roma Mainstream Media Internship programme has been running at the Centre for Independent Journalism since 1998. It tackles widespread misunderstanding of and stereotypes on the Roma community in the media by diversifying newsrooms. Young Roma journalists are offered internships within mainstream media organisations. ...read more

In 2000 it was revealed that statistical analyses had predicted that Leicester would be the first city in Europe to have a minority white population by 2020. This put Leicester in the media spotlight in a way it had never been before. In 2001, with the general elections coming up, the issue of race was beginning to rear its head. How the media covered the elections, particularly concerning race, needed to be carefully handled. ...read more

The initiative began to give young Roma journalists the skills to work in radio production and therefore be able to run a Roma Community Radio themselves. With skilled Roma journalists producing programmes, it became very difficult for public authorities to ignore the request for a Roma community radio station. ...read more