1. Black and Minority Ethnic Women – Newspaper representation
Looking at the number of photographic images of visibly ethnic minority women
Image as….illustration of an article?
Or whether the story was about the women featured in the image
Main news section only
Range from tabloid to broadsheet
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2. Wednesday November 11 2009 Bristol Evening Post – 31 women, 3 BME
Daily Star – 52 women, 7 BME
Daily Telegraph – 45 women, 7 BME
Daily Mail – 36 women, 2 BME
The Sun – 60 women, 6 BME
The Times – 27 women, 3 BME
The Guardian – 25 women, 1 BME

5. Disappointments
The Guardian – only one BME woman featured to illustrate a story about mobile phone usage in India.
Bristol Evening Post – three BME women – one story, one vox pop and one advert. Not good enough for such a diverse city.
The Daily Mail – (no surprises there!) two BME women featuring only in advertisements
Rihanna – the Bajan singer pushed up the averages for The Sun and Daily Star, but only because she changed her outfit five times in one night which merited pictures of each outfit.

6. Conclusions
Stories about the achievements of BME women are largely invisible.
Where they are featured, the stories tended to focus on their appearance rather than achievements.