Organised by The Guardian
IMPORTANT: You must pre-book your £5 ticket via this link here
Join us for the third in our series of lunchtime events in partnership with The University of Manchester.
This event will be live streamed online and available to view on demand at a later time for all ticket holders.
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, part of The University of Manchester, holds the entire archive of the Manchester Guardian. In this series of events to mark our bicentenary, our panels of special guests and experts will each discuss an item from the archive, its relevance to today’s news and media, and how it may influence our future.
For this livestreamed event, we will be taking a closer, more critical, look at the issues surrounding representation in newsrooms. According to the Sutton Trust, 80% of news editors attended private school, with only 11% of journalists being from working class backgrounds, and 0.2% being Black. Combined with Women in Journalism’s 2020 research into news organisations’ lack of diversity, this paints a startling portrait of who decides what is newsworthy and how it is reported.
Guardian deputy Opinion editor Joseph Harker will chair a panel - including professor of sociology at UoM and former Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge and gal-dem lifestyle editor Niellah Arboine - to peel back the statistics and ask: with decision-makers in the media being predominantly white, male and privately educated, how can we be certain that the news we’re consuming is the whole story, rather than a carefully constructed narrative that perpetuates long-standing myths? More speakers to be announced.
Running time: 60 minutes
This event will be hosted on a third-party live streaming platform and will be streamed globally.
1pm BST | 2pm CEST | 5am PDT | 8am EDT