Can We Make The Media More Diverse? | PressPad Founder Olivia Crellin

Storyteller with Lisa Golden

How do we make the media more diverse?

This question is one that almost all industry have not really been able to address. Because, in part, it’s hard to know where to start, which makes it all the easier to shrug your shoulders and not do anything.

There are structural inequalities in education, health, access. Different people have different levels of responsibility, from caring for children, caring for the elderly, to the amount of people who are relying on their one salary. There’s good old racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, classism.

This week I’m speaking Olivia Crellin, journalist and founder of the social enterprise PressPad. As she says later in the show, Olivia wanted to try plug one hole in the ship. For most aspiring UK journalists the only way they’d get any access to the newsrooms they’d hope to work in is by unpaid internships. The most of which, are in London, one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world.

PressPad links the young people who get work experience in London with experienced journalists who can offer a spare room. The idea is - they get somewhere to stay, they have someone in the industry they know, the media institutions get access to the wider pool of talent they’re always saying they wish they could access.

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