Social class still counts in the media. The majority of top broadcast journalists are privately educated and from privileged backgrounds, and across the industry there are fewer working class people in every section.

Representations of class reproduce cultural stereotypes and reinforce bigoted tropes such as "the undeserving poor" and "welfare scroungers". Class intersects with race and gender in a spiral of silencing and scapegoats.

This panel looks at why social class still matters in the media and what we can do about it.

To discuss this, the Media Democracy Festival is hosting a panel event, live and direct with these excellent guests:

Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center.
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Deirdre O’Neill @DeirdreAONeill is the author of Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool, the principal editor of the Journal of Class and Culture @J_ClassCulture and the co-coordinator of the Inside Film Project. Her most recent film is The Acting Class about the lack of working-class actors.

Sarah O'Connell @Sarahcoconnell is a freelance investigative journalist and film-maker who works for all the major news channels, including Sky News, BBC News and ITV news. Mostly her films look at the criminal justice system, but she has covered a wide variety of topics, including housing, bereavement and mental health."


-Gholam Khiabany teaches in the Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His latest publication is Media, Democracy and Social Change co-authored with Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman.

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