Journalism industry research by Mark Spilsbury identifies issues for the lack of diversity in British media. The report commissioned and published in November 2017, by the National Council for the Training of Journalists, covers key questions, such as:

What stops students from some ethnic groups having a career in the media, even when they have trained for one?
The report also examines the pipeline of: who studies journalism, and the need to develop an alternative stream of non-graduate journalism entrants and the unconscious bias within the selection and recruitment process.

Review, published 28th February 2017, found people from BME backgrounds are still being held back in the workplace because of the colour of their skin, costing the UK economy the equivalent of 1.3 per cent in GDP a year. People from BME backgrounds are also more likely to work in lower paid and lower skilled jobs despite being more likely to have a degree. The UK economy could benefit from a £24bn-a-year boost if black and minority ethnic (BME) people progressed in work at the same rate as their white counterparts, the review has found.

‘Aiming Higher’ is a report compiled by the Runnymeade Trust’s academic forum, published in August 2015. In the forward, David Lammy MP states “…despite an increase of BME students in higher education overall, they are still under-represented at the best universities, less likely to get jobs that match their education level or to progress to professorships”.

The Creative Industries Federation creates a Diversity Report which analysis the entertainment and media workplaces to see which groups are being represented. The latest report speaks about the underlying issues – specifically that despite a 10-fold increase in spending power among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups over the past decade – and a 100% increase in African-Britains in the same period – that jobs in media and the creative industries that are occupied by BAME candidates has actually dropped by 12% over the last couple of years.