Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity Blogs
Welcome to our blog section, where our leading experts, researchers and collaborators share their insights and opinion.
The trust gap is a representation gap
Between 2 and 9 November, I attended seven media events: a think tank report on disinformation; a press regulator's ann...
Why has BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme Never Had a Black Editor or Presenter?
The absence of non-white journalists on the BBC’s flagship news programme is not just a symbolic failure – but one of...
Growth for Whom? The question the BBC’s economic case never asks
Our national broadcaster paints a compelling picture of its value through opportunity, but who is getting those cha...
LHC Response to publication of Annual Report BBC urged to explain widening representation and audience gaps
Responding to the publication of the BBC's 2025/26 annual report and accompanying publications, Jaldeep Katwa...
Scrutiny for Whom? What MPs didn’t ask during the BBC Charter Review Select Committee hearings.
Key questions of racial, gender and sexual diversity missed out on parliamentarians’ scrutiny . E...
LHC response to launch of Creative Diversity Network report on Diamond 2025
"Representation that isn’t built into structures doesn’t last" - the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity respo...
The Unfinished Business of Media Diversity
Jaldeep Katwala, the Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, asks has anything changed?
LHC Director Response to Ofcom News Consumption Survey
LHC Director Response to Ofcom News Consumption Survey
Birmingham was never short of talent, just doors
Birmingham City University has just entered a 10-year partnership with the BBC. It is validating 12 new degrees develop...
LHC Response to DCMS Select Committee Report on BBC Charter Renewal
"The Committee has backed greater prominence for trusted news, an end to political appointments to the BBC Board, and...
Cuts for whom? Why the BBC needs to think about freelancers too — and not just 2,000 staff job cuts
On 17 June, the BBC’s new Director-General Matt Brittin emailed staff to set out a plan to cut between 1,800 and 2,000 ...
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Diane Kemp Reflects on the Journey of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity
Diane and Ngozi sat in a quiet room at the BCMR offices in Birmingham City University on a cloudy Friday afternoon. It...
Does the World's Biggest Journalism Festival Have a Blind Spot on Diversity?
Journalists are meant to be like a piece of grit in your eye - that small, persistent irritant that forces you to stop,...
We built it, and they came
Marcus Ryder MBE reflects on the centre's achievements, how the UK media industry has changed and what he has learnt in...
Filming Windrush
Newsreel films of the Empire Windrush and the arrival of West Indians at Tilbury Docks have been shown extensively in n...