UK TV Industry Revamps Diversity Monitoring System For First Time In A Decade To Provide “Fuller, Nuanced Picture”

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• The new Diamond will also allow broadcasters for the first time to analyze diversity on both linear and streaming shows while being “better able to report on intersectionality,” according to the CDN.
• Related Stories News British Broadcasters, Paramount & Super-Indies Sign Up For Class Confident Actions That Emerged From James Graham's MacTaggart News GLAAD Selects Winners Of Black Queer Creative Summit TV Pilot Pitch Competition In Partnership With Starz There will be a new question set and individuals will find it easier to edit and control their data to reflect any change of circumstance, the CDN said, while there will be multiple tech and privacy improvements.
• New partner The Everyone Project has worked on similar systems in Australia, Germany and New Zealand.
• Watch on Deadline For around a decade, Diamond has been used to create reports that have informed the British TV industry’s approach to diversity, pushing it to improve in areas like disability representation and representation of Black people working behind the camera.
• The new Diamond will roll out for the first time next year.