Birmingham City University is hosting a conference on 10th July, with an aim to move forward the diversity debate and dealing with difference in the media industry.
update: Please note, this event has now been postponed to later this year.

Held in partnership with the Broadcast Journalism Training Council, the event - Bridging The Gap - aims to go further, looking at what works and what doesn’t when it comes to getting young people into broadcast journalism, ensuring they succeed once they’re in, living with difference and allowing difference to be reflected in the output.

Broadcasters have been committed to recruiting their journalists from more ethnically diverse backgrounds for two decades.

That commitment has been backed up with a range of schemes and support packages but the Broadcast Journalism Training Council described diversity as “journalism’s big problem”.

The conference will be held at Birmingham City University School of Jewellery.
More information here.