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December 3, 2024

Barriers still exist for disabled people in journalism

Claire Harris says disability is not a barrier, but not considering the environment is.

By Claire Harris

All media organisations, including the BBC, are improving access to careers in journalism to disabled people, but barriers still exist.

It’s important we have more openly disabled journalists in our industry. It’s vital because journalists help shape how we understand the world as individuals, so that we can all make informed decisions on issues that directly affect us.

If we only understand disabled people to be ‘inspirational’, to have ‘triumphed over adversity’, or to have ‘achieved a miracle’, we are presenting a narrow view where people who are disabled are still pointed out as being different.

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