A survey of the UK’s journalists has found that those describing themselves as black are particularly under represented and that most young journalists earn less than £29,000 a year.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford surveyed 700 professional journalists working in the UK for its report Journalists in the UK. According to the government Labour Force Survey there are currently 64,000 journalists in the UK.

In terms of the ethnic make-up, those who said they were black made up  0.2 per cent of the survey sample despite making up 3 per cent of the UK population, according to the 2011 consensus. Asian Britons made up 2.5 per cent of the survey sample despite making up 7 per cent of the UK population.