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Marcus Ryder
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- When your son’s school tells the kids to come school dressed up as kings and queens to mark the coronation. Sometimes you just to remind everyone of the original royalty. #AfricanRoyalty
- My favourite Malcolm X quote: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Happy birthday #MalcolmXDay
GIF - I’ve just done the bravest or most foolish thing in my career. I listed all the board members of the #SocietyofEditors (some of the most powerful people in uk media) & said silence is not an option, we need allyship. New piece in @HuffPostUK
- The only thing more shocking than the allegations made in @DavidHundeyin investigation into working practices at BBC Africa offices, is the complete silence and lack of interest in the UK and failure of the BBC to properly respond. This is how trust and credibility are lost.Who watches the watchers? In my latest long-read on @WestAfricaWeek, I examine a sordid situation including HR malpractice, poor corporate governance and sexual harassment at @BBCAfrica. tryflok.com/contents/8fcea…
- One of the worst kept secrets in TV & the world of diversity is officially out. Next month we launch the Sir Lenny Henry Centre For Media Diversity. A group of academics and senior execs have been talking about it for a few months now. March 25th is D-Day
- Dear BBC, ITN, & all UK news organisations, race is now central to any Royal reporting. Who you appoint as your Royal correspondent will indicate how seriously you take diversity and how much you understand principles of inclusion. #OprahMeghanHarry
- Roseanne racist tweet and ABC fire her. Alan Sugar racist tweet & BBC simply say "its right he apologised". ABC has black CEO vs BBC not 1 black member on exec committee. Even if u think BBC is right its hard for black people 2 trust their actions when looking at their management
- If @Channel4 #BlackToFront has taught us anything today, the lack of diversity throughout the UK TV industry the other 364 days of the year is a choice. The talent is there.
- If a journo genuinely wants to “check their privilege” (male, white etc), one of the best ways they is to look over how they’ve interviewed people from different demographics in similar positions and if it changes. Would u interview a European president in the same way?The president of Guyana swats away Richard Madeleys stupid question #GMB
00:00 - Personal News: I've been awarded an MBE for services to Diversity in the Media. Honoured to be recognised but most of all grateful to the people who nominated me and made it happen, you know who you are - THANK YOU! PS I'm the other Marcus on the list :)
- Proud to be signatory, along with over 150 other BAME broadcasters and journalists, demanding change following the @BBCNaga judgement that she broke BBC editorial guidelines.
- If racism = prejudice + power. Diversity and Inclusion programmes seem to spend far too much time trying to "fix" the prejudice part of the equation and not enough time on shifting who has the power.
- The UK riots have exposed a serious flaw in how British media execs think about diversity and onscreen representation. A flaw I have been writing about since at least 2012: Positive portrayal of racially diverse individuals vs portrayal of racially diverse communities. A thread…
