JOURNALISM'S NEXT TOP MODEL
10.00am, Monday 07 June 2010
JOURNALISM’S NEXT TOP MODEL
Time: 8 June 2010 10.00am - 9 June 2010 5.00pm
Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Robert Picard of “The Media Business”
Panels:
"Gonna make you a star": how does new talent shine?
A galaxy of Fleet Street's finest has been confirmed for Journalism's Next Top Model, the international conference on the future of the news industry.
Jane Moore (The Sun), Peter Osborne (The Mail) and Andrew Penman (The Mirror) join Matthew Engel (FT) to discuss how talent can emerge in the changing media landscape.
Another industry panel will review the current state of regional and local media. Industry panellists include:
Richard Hooper – former dep. Chair OFCOM
Claire Enders – Enders Analysis
Roger Parry – former Chair Johnston Press
William Perrin – activist and blogger
Charles Wheeler Award and Memorial Lecture
The conference will conclude with the British Journalism Review annual presentation of the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.
Followed by the Memorial Lecture, given by: Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
News media all over the world are failing as the traditional revenue from advertising bleeds to the web. Free news websites are discouraging the young from buying newspapers. So who will pay for what sort of journalism in the future?