Ethnic minorities 'largely absent' from British media

This story was published on Wednesday 18th January 2012

Ethnic minorities remain “largely absent" from opinion pages, senior executive roles and staff jobs within the British media, according to statistics compiled by New Statesman.

The magazine undertook the research in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence verdict and Diane Abbott’s controversial tweet last week, which it said had put racism “at the top of the political agenda".

Read the article on the Press Gazette website.