Getting real about diversity and talent: 10 recommendations
Europe’s newsrooms are still predominantly white and middle class, though societies are changing at rapid speed. How to better reflect all members of the increasingly diverse European societies within Europe’s Media and public sphere is crucial; the issue of diversity and gender is and important element in EFJ’s project work.
The European Federation of Journalists has published a new report about how to get newsrooms and editorial teams more diverse. As part of the EFJ project ‘Managing change in media’, supported by the European Commission, one of its contributors, Alexandra Borchardt, drafted ten recommendations for newsrooms to be more diverse, to enable them to identify talent and reflect the society they are reporting about.
About the author
Alexandra Borchardt is an experienced journalist, keynote speaker and media advisor. She is a consultant for WAN-IFRA and a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. As their Director of Leadership Programs she developed and led on courses for senior journalists and media managers.
