BBC staff take 'unconscious bias' course to encourage more diverse recruitment

Senior BBC staff have taken a course in “unconscious bias” in a bid to stop them recruiting new employees "in their own image", the director of news has disclosed.

James Harding, who joined the BBC last year, said his staff had been given training to improve the diversity of new recruits, with targets to increase the representation of ethnic minorities. They are already offered video training on diversity issues, with online information to teach them how to challenge stereotypes and preconceptions about race.

The speech follows findings from the BBC Trust, published yesterday (Mon), which order BBC management to increase the number of ethnic minority faces in news and current affairs, both on screen and behind the camera.

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"Unconscious bias" - is this the new offence? If someone hasn't actually said or done something racist they can be accused of thinking it without knowing it? Couldn't make this shit up.