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  The Media Society Award for 2013 will honour Sir Harold Evans for a lifetime of ‘going after the story’, ‘demanding open debate’, ‘ploughing his own furrow’ and both defending and enhancing the freedom of the press.   Each year The Media Society makes this award to a person or institution, judged to have made an outstanding long-term…

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK presents:   Entrepreneurship Forum 2013: A Bigger Splash   Date: 28 May 2013 Time: 18.30 – 21.30 Venue: Grange St.Paul’s Hotel, 10 Godliman Street, London, EC4V 5AJ Price: SCC Members; £15 Non-members; £25   To sign up, click here     Join the SCC and the Young…

Stepping off the aircraft steps into a puddle of rain was not what expected when I arrived at Doha airport. The heavy downpour had delayed the landing and for the locals was a welcome break from the searing heat.   But that wasn’t the only difference I noticed, compared with a visit six years ago,…

Emma Gilpin-Jacobs is global director of communications at the Financial Times Group and on the board of the Financial Times itself. She is 44, has three year old twins (a girl and a boy) and a team of 14 based in NY, Hong Kong and London. She is responsible for corporate communications, public affairs, internal…

BT Sport, NOW TV, new owners at Virgin and a revived ITV suddenly make the business of television a new game. Add in the spend on drama by Netflix and the greater interest in making for what used to be called the small screen and the picture looks very colourful.   The launch of BT…

As more and more previously classified information becomes available from governments and other public bodies, the responsibility for journalists to hold these organisations to account grows.   This growth in available information has unlocked a wealth of potential stories. With much of this information in the form of pure data, the ability to analyse data…

On Wednesday, May 1, the Financial Times hosted a 125th anniversary party at a mansion in New York to celebrate the news organization’s milestone year. The exclusive, invitation-only event was the first in a series of global receptions hosted by John Ridding, CEO, FT Group, and Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times, and gathered more than…

For a journalist, a smartphone is not a luxury but necessity. I recall earlier days of mobile telephony in India. In the early 1990s I was given a Nokia handset, which looked like a brick and must have weighed around 400g.   I used to cover local courts then and I remember that before the…

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