ITN to interview at least one BAME candidate for all roles
ITN is the latest media organisation to ensure interview shortlists have at least one BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) candidate.
In June, the BBC revealed plans to introduce a policy ensuring shortlists for top-level roles will have at least one BAME candidate by the year 2020.
But ITN appear to have gone one step further, announcing earlier this week that effective immediately at least one BAME candidate will be interviewed for every role.
The move followed publication of the news organisation’s BAME pay gap, which showed a mean BAME pay gap of 16.1% and mean BAME bonus pay gap of 66%.
Other ongoing diversity initiatives at ITN include unconscious bias training for all managers, reverse mentoring, a company-wide staff diversity and inclusion forum, and an apprenticeship scheme focused on ethnically and socially diverse candidates.
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