03 Make a difference Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is giving this year’s Claudia Jones lecture


book exploring the Windrush generation, Charlie Brinkhurst- Cuff’s output has blossomed since one of her first jobs editing a property supplement at the Hampstead & Highgate Express. She is now a senior staff editor at


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rom writing what it’s like to be a mixed-race girl on Tinder – being called a caramel cutie – to Motherland, her


Te New York Times, was an editor- in-chief at gal-dem magazine and is a winner of Te Guardian’s Georgina Henry Award for Innovation in Journalism. She is rightly proud of her hard- hiting Vice article, Te UK Imprisons Twice as Many Black Women as White Women for Drugs, and her exploration of Afro-Caribbean hair salons in Peckham for the


Financial Times. She believes her journalism can counteract the negativity found in right-wing tabloids that affect people of colour in the UK. * Te Claudia Jones lecture will


take place online from Tursday 2 December.


TV fails its staff M


Te TUC’s short film, Liam/Every trans person should join a union, about the importance of recognising the issues


trans workers face and building a more inclusive workplace has won the 2021


Outvertising Awards best campaign prize. Te film was writen and directed by Sam Nicklin and you can watch it on YouTube: htps://youtu.be/ G5WFKE6030A


ore women and people with disabilities are


leaving TV and radio than joining up and broadcasters need to start talking to the unions.


Natasha Morris, the NUJ’s legal and equality officer, has been working with Included, the diversity and inclusion consultancy behind Ofcom’s 2021 Diversity in Broadcasting Report, which predicted the proportion of TV employees who are disabled could fall during the next five years – as would the number of female radio employees.


She said. “It’s not just about


recruitment policies, it’s about removing barriers, making broadcasting organisations places where disabled people feel valued and not an aſterthought. It’s in everyone’s interest that the skills, talent and experiences of disabled people and under-represented groups are used in programme making and news gathering.” Te report found that only 16 per cent of women in the TV workforce were aged 50-plus, compared with 22 per cent of men and 32 per cent of the working age population.


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