Breathing a new
lease of life
Useful Websites:
One of the primary ways
www.emap.com
in which a Black press will
www.pressgazette.co.uk
thrive is via the internet.
www.newnation.co.uk
With publishing remaining
www.pridemagazine.com
so expensive and with
readership figures for print
www.mediauk.com
across the board in decline,
www.accessabc.com
it’s inevitable that the
www.preciousonline.
internet will increasingly
co.uk
play a decisive part in
www.blackbritain.co.uk
newspaper and magazine’s
consumption. Any good
www.ligali.org
publication will have a
www.magforum.com
supporting website which
www.voice-online.co.uk
delivers its audiences to
advertisers.
www.ethnicmedia.co.uk
With the advent of web
www.abc.org.uk
2.0 technology, which
Useful Text Books:
is more user-orientated,
Law, Ian: Race in the News
we will hopefully see far
more interaction and
Ferguson, Robert:
engagement with a Black
Representing ‘Race’
press. Also, we have van Dijk, Teun A: Racism
increasingly observed and the Press
the decline in traditional
Gordon and Rosenberg:
advertising in conventional
Daily Racism – The press
print media. Websites
and black people in Britain
open up vast markets into
Ross: Black and White
which previously timid
Media – Black Images in
advertisers may venture.
Popular Film & Television
Lastly, and very bravely, the
Black media have moved
ed. Husband: The
into television through
Development of Ethnic
Colour Telly, a station
Minority Media in Western
which transmits via the
Democracies
internet. Audiences are
Mirza: Black British
unsatisfied with what is
Feminism
offered by terrestrial TV, and
ed. Husband: White Media
Colour Telly’s founders are
and Black Britain: a critical
tapping into this market
look at the role of the
as a progressive move to
media in race relations
turn Black media into more
financially viable media.
Fryer: Staying Power: The
History of Black People in
Jennifer G. Robinson teaches Film
Britain
and Media Studies at Crossways
hooks: Black Looks: Race
Academy in south-east London.
and Representation
She is currently studying for an MA
Benjamin: The Black Press
in Media and Communications at
in Britain
Goldsmiths University.
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