Lack of diversity in newsrooms across Britain is an ongoing problem. The Sutton Trust, an educational charity reported that 0.2% of working journalists in the UK are Black while 80% of news editors are privately educated. A new journalism school for children and teenagers that opened in London this week aims to tackle some of that imbalance. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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