Women are making significantly fewer contributions as Directors (26% of contributions),Writers (33.4%), Producer Directors (39.2%), and Executive Producers (40.8%). In all theseroles, they are represented below the UK workforce rate of 47%. However, women stilldominate the role of Head of Production (81.1% of contributions) and are still stronglyrepresented as Commissioning Editors (59.8%).
Commissioning Editors who identify as South Asian (7.5%) are represented in line withnational population figures. However, people who identify as South Asian are significantlyunder-represented in…
People who identify with mixed or multiple ethnic groups are represented most strongly bothon (7.5%) and off-screen (5.4%). These figures are relatively high compared to…
Race and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five markets In this Reuters Institute factsheet we analyse the percentage of non-white top editors…
Disabled people are still very under-represented across UK programmes. Off-screen, disabledpeople make just 6% of contributions, and on-screen contributions are only slightly higher at8.3%. These…
Disabled people are making fewer than 6% of contributions across most of the senior roles.Moreover, over the past three years we have seen a decrease…
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