Cultural & creative industries generate $2.3t globally, but remain sidelined in industrial strategy. Their value goes beyond economic multipliers. Arts & culture shape how we create meaning, build collective purpose & design better futures. New paper make this case ⬇️

#BLM OTD 1965 MLK, Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama capitol in Montgomery after a 5 day march from Selma protesting the denial of voting rights to Blacks. That day, civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, was shot & killed by the KKK.
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My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”

- Tony Morrison

The US collapse will make this even worse, but this is a predictable result of a sector still hoping it can get by on what worked 15 years ago. TV needs a rethink - and not by execs commissioning more white papers. It needs the pros in this piece to invent something completely new.

Today we’re at Connected TV World Summit, learning about how to get content to bigger audiences in better ways.

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🔥 We’re delighted to announce #GALSNGEAR founder Amy DeLouise will appear at our “Emergency summit on the collapse of DEI” on March 24. Amy will join “A woman’s place is in the audience - and other lies” to discuss gender equity in media. Free registration:

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We have partnered with The New Black Film Collective with a week of empowering events for media professionals, starting March 24. Join us!

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🔥 We’re delighted to announce Sadie Groom, CEO & Founder of Rise, will speak at our March 24 online event “Emergency summit on the collapse of DEI". Read her new article "The importance of DEI" here: www.tvbeurope.com/business/opi...

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🔥 We're delighted to announce Amanda Sapp, General Manager of Amazing 102.5 FM in #Houston, will join our "Emergency DEI summit" on March 24

Amanda will participate in our panel on diversity in media tech & craft roles.

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If you're furious that the biggest producers of culture in the world are falling over themselves to collaborate with the US government's brutal transformation project, join us TODAY at 3pm ET/7pm UK time for our Emergency DEI Summit.

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Band Aid has always been controversial, but Live Aid in 1985 changed the course of my life and set me on a path to a humanitarian career. This piece in the @theguardian.com is well worth a read.

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Been thinking about this great thread from Luke today. Stepping back from the detail, it strikes me that the far-right has a basic numbers problem. It can get up to about 15% of the population really passionate and loud about their issues (e.g Reform in election) but can't break out from there...