A Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

Bloomberg’s insightful stories address a broad range of racial, gender, economic and other inequalities, and demonstrate how depressingly quickly the influence of the George Floyd murder protests and the #MeToo campaign has faded. A piece on how the City of London has “given up on inclusion” features a range of interviews with Black professionals, who say that while firms still talk a good game, they offer little support, and an investigation into Citigroup’s ‘toxic culture’ shows that sexual misconduct – and its cover-up – is alive and kicking. There is also a chilling piece on the extent of online influence by both foreign state-backed actors and UK domestic extremists in stoking racism and inciting violence.

But the company’s senior-level commitment to diversity also manifests itself in events and initiatives designed to amplify the voices and increase the representation of women and other under-represented groups both within and outside the business, from tracking diversity across its news coverage – with annually rising targets on quoting more women and people of colour – to training workshops, to programmes fostering diverse recruitment. “Some good stories, with strong human angles that enhance their impact, and very good initiatives, with particularly impressive results for on-air female representation,” concluded the judges.