The Race Beat is a network for people of colour, open to anyone working in, or interested in, journalism.

We are independent of any media organisation and open to all people of colour – experienced news reporters, citizen journalists, students, writers, freelancers, staff writers, broadcasters, media academics, aspiring columnists and critics. You don’t need to be a professional journalist to join us. Come down and get involved!

The May meet up will be a great a chance to get to know people of colour who are interested in the media. We will also be discussing further our big events coming up later in the year, including a panel at Byline Festival on the coverage of climate change the environment. Where are the people of colour?

We are also planning a one day conference in Glasgow on Friday 27 September with Gary Younge as keynote speaker and another day long event in London in November. Both will include workshops, panel discussions, networking.

Bring ideas for who you would you like to see speak at our events this year, or maybe you are a journalist who could offer some training?

This is a space for people of colour only. We welcome queer and trans people of colour and all other identities.

The venue is wheelchair accessible.

About us

We want to create space for writers of colour to come together and begin to:

• collaborate on race related stories and reporting projects on a wide range of subjects,
• provide accessible spaces for regular discussion; on craft, on racism, on class, skills sharing, solutions,
• build partnerships with small organisations fighting for better representation and supporting writers of colour,
• strategise on ways to properly fund more quality journalism (comment, criticism, investigations) and race reporting by writers of colour.

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Thank you to our hosts, Newspeak House: an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across UK public sector and civil society. Find out more here