All Diversity articles – Page 3
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Industry TrendsOpening the conversation: Diversity in media and broadcasting
The conversation around diversity in media and broadcasting was a key focus among many of IBC2022’s speakers and panellists and was particularly emphasised in Day Three’s session with ‘Soho Media Club: In conversation with John Olivieira - moving the diversity and inclusion needle’.
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Industry TrendsIBC2022: The Hottest Themes and trends of IBC2022
The IBC2022 Show ended on a high earlier this week, after four days of high-quality networking, more than a thousand exhibitors, and some robust analysis of the wider industry from some of the biggest names and brands in the M&E world. Here we take a look at some of the ...
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VideoRISE: Strive to Rise
IBC2022: Strive to Rise is a new formal recognition programme designed by Rise for companies working across the media technology industry working towards gender equality. This initiative has been designed to encourage and celebrate good practice within organisations and to support companies to increase and diversify their pool of talent. ...
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Industry TrendsIBC2022: True gender equality in media tech on the rise
Sunday morning on the IBC Conference stage saw three companies discuss how they have piloted Strive to Rise, a new formal recognition programme for media technology companies working towards gender equality.
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Industry TrendsThe challenge: Ethics of VR and AR in media
Speaking at IBC2022, Nonny de la Peña, Journalist, Filmmaker, Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR/AR) pioneer & Founder, Emblematic Group explained just why VR and AR will play an increasingly important part in global media and entertainment.
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: Creating a more diverse workforce with STARZ’s Jamila Daniel
Jamila Daniel, Chief Diversity Officer for Lionsgate and Senior Vice President of Human Resources at STARZ, is responsible for partnering with the company’s leadership team to effect organisational changes in policy and culture that lead to a more diverse and inclusive workplace. In this IBC Digital 2021 video, she explains ...
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NewsVFX house Misc Studios launches in London
Adam Luckwell and Michael Elson have launched Misc Studios, a VFX house dedicated to high-end VFX production based in central London’s Noho area.
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Industry TrendsThe great race is on to decarbonised digital
The call to action for the DPP’s Committed to Sustainability Programme came out of a 2018 industry leader’s conference as a top business priority. Identified as a ‘fairly simple assessment tool’, it was launched officially in 2019 and recently celebrated the milestone of 50 media companies joining the programme. George ...
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NewsIBC Launches 2022 Awards Programme
Nominations are now open for the IBC Innovation Awards, with entries for the IBC Social Impact Award opening on Monday 11 April. All parts of the industry are invited to suggest nominations for projects and programmes and all entries are free.
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NewsITV announces £80 million Diversity Commissioning Fund
ITV plans to reserve £80 million of its content commissioning budget over the next three years to drive change towards racial equity and disability equity.
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Industry TrendsGender Diversity in Broadcast Technology: How are Vendors and Organisations Responding?
A lack of gender diversity continues to be a problem in the field of broadcast engineering. In part one of this article, we focused on the working environment for women employed by broadcasters, but what are vendors and industry organisations doing to address this imbalance?
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NewsRise launches annual mentoring schemes, adding north and central Europe, as well as ANZ to its expanding global locations
Rise, an advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, has launched its mentoring schemes for 2022-2023.
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Industry TrendsIWD: Gender diversity in broadcast technology: More needs to be done
International Women’s Day: Technology has a reputation for being solely the domain of white men, and broadcast engineering is no exception. In fact, historically, it has had less gender diversity than other technology industries. But in this era of increasing focus on diversity, how is broadcasting doing?
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NewsRise Awards 2021 Winners Announced
Rise, the advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, has revealed the winners for the 2021 Rise Awards.
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Industry TrendsWhy diversity does not guarantee inclusion
The DTG’s live webinar entitled Diversity, Skills and Talent was built around the core challenge of creating a deep and inclusive grassroots pool of rich engineering talent for the future.
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Industry TrendsAudio post’s diversity problem
Broadcasters have made commitments to boosting diversity, but progress has been patchy and a new report from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre shows shows that audio post-production in particular is lacking.
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NewsMactaggart Lecture: David Olusoga calls on TV industry to share power with BAME community
Historian, broadcaster and writer David Olusoga has warned the TV industry to share power with a marginalised Black, Asian, and minority ethnic community or risk losing the entire next generation of viewers, and face obscurity.
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NewsITV appoints Ade Rawcliffe as group director of diversity and inclusion
ITV has promoted Ade Rawcliffe to group director of diversity and Inclusion at ITV, reporting directly to ITV group CEO Carolyn McCall.
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NewsRTS diversity chair warns Coronavirus cuts could damage diversity
There is a danger that efforts to make TV a more inclusive industry might be damaged by cuts resulting from the fallout of Coronavirus restrictions.
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NewsThe IBC Podcast: RTS diversity, Avid and the IBC Accelerators
The first episode of The IBC Podcast features discussions with RTS Diversity Committee chair Angela Ferreira and Avid chief executive Jeff Rosica, as well as an introduction to the IBC Accelerators.
