Over 100 British journalists of colour are signatories to an open letter demanding the US Ambassador to the UK condemns the arrest of African-American journalist, Omar Jimenez, on May 29th 2020, whilst he was reporting for CNN on the Minneapolis protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The letter is a vital act of black transatlantic solidarity during a moment when journalism is under threat, economically and politically, and there’s a pandemic of racism in the west. These factors make journalism challenging for reporters from racial minorities, who are already underrepresented in western newsrooms and, as this paper shows, encounter discrimination in the field, as well as within the institutions they work for. The letter speaks to how black British journalists are all too aware that the British journalistic field, like the American one, has a race problem, and institutional commitments to diversity often don’t correspond with the experiences of those included, impacting negatively on the retention of black journalists. Drawing on original interviews with 26 journalists of colour who work for Britain’s largest news organisations, this paper theoretically grounds empirical findings to illustrate why and how discriminatory patterns, as well as contradictions, occur and recur in British news production.

超过100名有色人种的英国记者签署了一封公开信，要求美国驻英国大使谴责2020年5月29日逮捕非洲裔美国新闻工作者奥马尔·希门尼斯（Omar Jimenez），而他正在为CNN报道在明尼阿波利斯抗议活动后被警察杀害乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）在新闻业在经济和政治上受到威胁的时刻，西方存在种族主义大流行的时刻，这封信是黑人跨大西洋团结的重要举动。这些因素使新闻业对来自少数民族新闻工作者的挑战，这些新闻工作者在西方新闻编辑室中所占的比例已经不足，并且正如本文所显示的，在该领域以及在其工作的机构内部都受到歧视。这封信说明黑人英国记者如何过分意识到英国新闻界，与美国一样，种族问题也存在，制度上对多样性的承诺往往与所包括的经历不符，对留住黑人记者产生了负面影响。本文以对英国最大新闻机构工作的26名有色记者的原始访谈为基础，从理论上根据实证研究结果说明了歧视性模式以及矛盾在英国新闻生产中为什么会发生，如何发生以及如何发生。