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DEBATE IN THE MEDIA. Competence is crucial when Sveriges Radio hires, regardless of the position in question. The best person should always get the job. In a letter addressed to us at the address of Sveriges Radio, which has also attracted the attention of other outlets, several employees express opinions about the recruitment and how it affects our content, and the subject has also been discussed in several articles in recent days. We therefore want to resolve some of the misunderstandings that have just arisen in the debate about what competition is in Swedish radio.
THIS HAS HAPPENED
39 Swedish Radio employees write in the wake of Black Lives Matter a call against racism and the lack of representation of their own management. Signatories request an inventory of SR employees based on origin and that more people with minority backgrounds are employed.
Niklas Orrenius of DN makes a report where some of the signers appear, including Kodjo Akolor, as well as initiators like Palmira Koukkari Mbenga.
Following statements by CEO Cilla Benkö at “Studio Ett” and Svenska Dagbladet, questions arise as to whether SR allocates quotas to people to gain more diversity and whether representativeness of the Swedish population is a primary objective in SR recruitment. .
A quote from Cilla Benkö on Svenska Dagbladet spreads on social media: “We hire based on factors and choose the best for the job right now. Sometimes ethnicity is a deciding factor, sometimes gender, sometimes economic background, sometimes if you come from an urban or rural area ”.
First of all, we fully support all the hires that have been made so far and we believe that those who have landed jobs in Swedish radio are the best. The recruits are professional managers with high integrity and have only one goal; that those who work with us do so on their own merits and obtain the jobs, not for those who are in any other sense, but rather they are the most suitable people for the position and the ones we wanted to hire. Pointing out anything else is a problematic suspicion that minimizes all those affected by such statements, both those who point out and those who are pointed out.
Sveriges Radio’s hiring is not percentage-based and never will. However, what we seek is to broaden our perspectives in the range we offer. We want to increase our accumulated knowledge in many different areas of knowledge to further reflect the economic, technological, political and social development of society. We must have the ability to portray the conditions and conditions, the joys, the problems and the phenomena of all people in a rapidly changing society.
The role of news journalism is not to pursue thesis.
There is a fundamental problem with some of the criticisms that are being heard increasingly harshly in today’s debate, namely, that certain areas can be better protected by those who in one way or another are affected by what is portrayed. But the role of news journalism is not to pursue thesis, because the role of journalism is not to represent one point of view or another. The role of journalism, on the other hand, is to be a keen, impartial and objective examiner, to portray society with classic journalistic integrity.
Swedish Radio reporters are professional journalists who can report on all subjects, we are proud of the journalism we produce 24 hours a day and throughout the year, more than 155,000 hours of radio each year. What a journalist can do, regardless of their background, is offer additional perspectives in an editorial discussion, and we think this is helpful. We think a wide range of angles is good for our reports and good for our range.
We take a new vision at the end of the year that applies to work during the next leave period. As you know, a vision is a goal, not a description of the present. Sveriges Radio’s vision is: “More voices and stronger stories for greater understanding.” Therefore, it is also important that we relate to the question: what perspectives are we missing today and what can we do about it to create even more breadth between us and in our range, regardless of whether it is, for example, language skills , specialized competition? within a subject area or established network of contacts.
One thing should be clear: you don’t have to be a Smålander to report on Småland, you don’t have to be a former military to report on defense, and you don’t need to have a background from a certain country to report on that particular country.
Cilla Benkö
CEO of Swedish Radio
Björn Löfdahl
Program Director at Swedish Radio
Carolina Wikström
Director of Human Resources and Finance at Swedish Radio
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