{"id":85548,"date":"2023-11-29T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovieandtv.com\/?p=85548"},"modified":"2023-11-29T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T23:17:18","slug":"bbc-presenter-says-too-many-white-colleagues-affects-his-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovieandtv.com\/tv\/bbc-presenter-says-too-many-white-colleagues-affects-his-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC presenter says ‘too many white colleagues’ affects his mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake says an overwhemlingly “white” work force has an impact on his mental health.<\/p>\n

Speaking to a journalism diversity conference on Wednesday, he said there are no Muslim workers involved in the “senior editorial process” at Radio 5 Live. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s really affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He claims his colleagues’ response when he revealed this was to reply defensively and say they were not being racist. But he says that this was missing the point, reports The Telegraph.<\/p>\n

At the Journalism Diversity Fund (JDF) conference held at Media City in Salford, he continued: “I\u2019ve seen a lot of people leave this building because they couldn\u2019t deal with the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arthanayake said others found they had to be a certain type of person to progress at the BBC. He said the “hardest thing” is to walk into a room at work and see “nobody looks like you”.<\/p>\n

He added: “If you want journalists to progress, they have to be who they are. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a single Muslim involved in the senior editorial processes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest thing is to walk into a room, look around and nobody looks like you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presenter was talking during an on-stage interview with Jo Adetunji, editor of The Conversation, at the JDF\u2019s annual equality, diversity and inclusion conference organised by the National Council for the Training of Journalists. The JDF awards bursaries to aspiring journalists from backgrounds who do not have the financial means to pay for their training.<\/p>\n

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