The Media Show - Diversity at the BBC, Yousra Elbagir, Hugo Rifkind

Diversity at the BBC, Yousra Elbagir, Hugo Rifkind

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What's the BBC doing to retain BAME employee and improve diversity at the most senior levels? Marcus Ryder, discusses why he recently left the BBC. And Steve is joined by David Lammy MP and Joe Godwin, Director of the BBC Academy and Director of BBC Midlands who is the Chair of the BBC's Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Yousra Elbagir, the winner of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Prize talks about her work as a journalist in Sudan.

And, Times columnist Hugo Rifkind on how his tweet inadvertently spread "fake" news far and wide.

Producer: Ruth Watts.


Published on Thursday, 1st December 2016.

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