Diversity in the media: talk is cheap, what we need is action

Marcus Ryder is the Chair of the Royal Television Society Diversity Committee, and Head of Current Affairs BBC Scotland. He recently organised the first political hustings on media diversity between the three main Westminster political parties on how each Party would aim to increase diversity if they won the General Election in May 2015. He will be speaking at an LSE Media Policy Project event on Thursday 27 November on diversity in the media. Here, he argues that talking about diversity is not enough, and that it could even do more harm than good.