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Ways to make journalism less classist:
- don’t make degrees a requirement
- do outreach work with working-class school kids (particularly GCSE age)
- offer working-class people paid apprenticeships (regardless of age)
- employ based on writing ability, not nepotism
- don’t make degrees a requirement
- do outreach work with working-class school kids (particularly GCSE age)
- offer working-class people paid apprenticeships (regardless of age)
- employ based on writing ability, not nepotism
- don’t just presume someone can afford to move to London without you providing extra financial support
- make sure you cover working-class issues, and make sure your coverage isn’t middle-class centric
- don’t caricature working class people in your news coverage
- make sure you cover working-class issues, and make sure your coverage isn’t middle-class centric
- don’t caricature working class people in your news coverage
- media outlets need to talk to the working-class, not about them
- stop infantilising the working class
- stop using exclusionary language (it’s very alienating)
- recognise institutional classism (i.e being expected to speak with a posh, southern accent) is an issue
- stop infantilising the working class
- stop using exclusionary language (it’s very alienating)
- recognise institutional classism (i.e being expected to speak with a posh, southern accent) is an issue
- stop seeing everything north of London as “the north”
- make sure you have a diversity of working class people from all ethnicities, sexualities, genders etc
- and (most vitally) stop pitting working class communities against each other (north v south, black v white)
- make sure you have a diversity of working class people from all ethnicities, sexualities, genders etc
- and (most vitally) stop pitting working class communities against each other (north v south, black v white)
