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

• 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.