Transcript Black and Minority Ethnic Women – Newspaper representation

Black and Minority Ethnic Women –
Newspaper representation
• Looking at the number of photographic
images of visibly ethnic minority women
• Image as….illustration of an article?
• Or whether the story was about the women
featured in the image
• Main news section only
• Range from tabloid to broadsheet
Anna
Wednesday November 11 2009
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Bristol Evening Post – 31 women, 3 BME
Daily Star – 52 women, 7 BME
Daily Telegraph – 45 women, 7 BME
Daily Mail – 36 women, 2 BME
The Sun – 60 women, 6 BME
The Times – 27 women, 3 BME
The Guardian – 25 women, 1 BME
Disappointments
• The Guardian – only one BME woman featured to illustrate
a story about mobile phone usage in India.
• Bristol Evening Post – three BME women – one story, one
vox pop and one advert. Not good enough for such a
diverse city.
• The Daily Mail – (no surprises there!) two BME women
featuring only in advertisements
• Rihanna – the Bajan singer pushed up the averages for The
Sun and Daily Star, but only because she changed her
outfit five times in one night which merited pictures of
each outfit.
Conclusions
• Stories about the achievements of BME
women are largely invisible.
• Where they are featured, the stories tended
to focus on their appearance rather than
achievements.