XCity 2016

40 YEARS OF JOURNALISM AT CITY UNIVERSITY

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Exclusive interview

Andrew Marr

Robert Peston Katie Hopkins Amol Rajan LOVE AND WAR Our relationship couldn’t survive the front line

JOURNO TO JOKER Swapping front page for comedy stage

VIRTUALLY NEWS Is virtual reality blurring fact with fiction?

The Daily Mail thanks City University for producing so many of our first-class journalists. They help us produce the quality journalism that is behind our success Britain’s biggest-selling quality national daily

The team

Editor Sarah Drumm (@sarah_drumm)

Deputy editor Liam Coleman (@ColemanLiam) Managing editor / Deputy chief sub-editor Helena Cartwright (@helenacart)

News editor Megan Carnegie (@megan_cbrown) Deputy news editor Nick Atkins (@MusicNickAtkins)

Features editor Ellie Harrison (@Ellie_Harrison) Deputy features editors Harriet Brown (@harrietbrownie)

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rint is dead! A phrase so overused that it almost lost its relevance.

But then The Independent slammed the brakes on its print edition. For some, it’s the first nail in that widely-predicted coffin. On p70, the paper’s editor Amol Rajan says it’s the only way to survive, particularly when “circulations are falling off the cliff, advertising is falling off the cliff and readers are going online”. He also predicts who’s next to go digital only.

Should print journos jump ship?

Yashi Banymadhub and Paula Erizanu investigate how to move over to broadcast on p104, while anyone thinking of starting their own media enterprise can turn to p76 for advice from startup founders themselves.

Kemi Alemoru and Karl Tomusk, meanwhile, pit robots against writers in their Spot the Bot quiz on p84 – with some interesting results.

In our cover feature, political pundit Andrew Marr talks about the thrills and (literal) spills of TV interviewing, documentary making and being an otherwise non-stop workaholic (p55).

On the future of print, he says: “You can never wave goodbye to any medium.”

So it’s not all doom and gloom. Dawn Alford, deputy editor of new venture New Day, says there is still room for good news on p22. For others, print is going luxe – as shown in Camilla Sterne’s roundup of ostentatiously produced magazines on p48. On p68, Harriet Brown and Ellie Harrison round up the best places to buy these indie mags.

If you still feel left out of the digital loop, Giles Coren’s social media guide on p23 will stop you getting FOMO (that’s Twitter speak for Fear Of Missing Out).

We hope you enjoy reading this year’s XCity – as well as flipping through the pages, smelling the ink and stalking the listings pages. Print’s not dead yet.

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Production editor Patrick Clarke (@PaddyClarke) Deputy production editor Kemi Alemoru (@kemioliviax)

Art director Izy Radwanska Zhang (@izaradz) Deputy art director Ian Donegan (@IanDonegan) Advertising manager Natasha Turner (@NatashaDTurner) Deputy advertising manager Adam Chapman (@adamrobert_c)

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Social media editor Lucy Devine (@lucedevine) Deputy social media editor Sophia Pathak (@sophiewithana) Publishers Jason Bennetto, Barbara Rowlands Group design tutor Malvin van Gelderen (www.idesigntrainer.com) Reporters Manpreet Boora (@ManniBoora) Yashi Banymadhub (@YBanymadhub) Zoe Wickens (@ZoeWickens) Ben Allen (@BenAllenwf)

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Contents FEATURES

NEWS

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OSCARS NOMINEE

Adam Benzine calls British TV quotas “a joke”

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STAYING ABREAST OF NEWS Reporter dons prosthetic boobs for a good cause

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CENTREPOINT FAIRY TALE Once homeless City student interviews Wills at his home

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Winner, Zaina Erhaim, trained more than 100 citizen journalists in Syria

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GOOD NEWS VS BAD NEWS The New Day’s unfaltering optimism goes up against the Daily Mail’s delight in disaster

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ABUSE IN THE DIGITAL AGE Charlene White, the first black woman to read ITV’s News at Ten, tackles trolling

GOING NATIVE When advertorial crosses over to editorial: does native advertising compromise integrity?

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EASY LISTENING Five journalistic podcasts – for those who still haven’t got over Serial

A HISTORY OF THE LISTICLE We guarantee eight things you never knew about the BuzzFeed favourite

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HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA Giles Coren dumps a dose of criticism on every social media platform going JOURNALIST’S UNIFORM: DECODED Scruffy or artful? XCity goes journo fashion spotting A HACK WALKS INTO A BAR...

Meet the journalists swapping headlines for punchlines

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EXCLUSIVE: KATIE HOPKINS Britain’s “most hated” woman apologises for, well, nothing

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SHOOTING FOR GOLD Seven photographers share their winning Olympic shots

VIRTUAL REALITY: THE FUTURE OF NEWS? The new technology changing the way we see the world LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Caroline Wyatt, former defence correspondent, and ex-partner Peter Davis reflect on love and war

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DISSECTING GENERATION Z All you need to know to get inside the post-millennial mindset

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THE POWER OF PRODUCTION Magazines made from HIV+ blood, seaweed and other out-there materials THE HIDDEN FACE OF JUSTICE Ghana’s most famous undercover hack talks disguises, democracy and death threats

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REPORTING ON REFUGEES Panorama journalist Paul Kenyon recounts his coverage of the Eritrean refugee crisis

28 THE 55 EXCLUSIVE: UNSTOPPABLE ANDREW MARR Broadcaster, strokesurvivor and painter: life as Marr

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CITY OF MIGRANTS

Photographer Chris SteelePerkins previews his latest project on migrants living in London

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ROLL UP, ROLL UP: THE US ELECTION British journos try to cover the media circus that is the US election

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Q&A: JEREMY VINE We have a sit down with the king of the swingometer

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LONG LIVE INDEPENDENT MAGS Behind the scenes of the independent magazine shop revival

Interview: Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson

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The 12 weirdest freebies journalists have been sent How to: be a successful media couple Video: 30 seconds with Katie Hopkins

70 EXCLUSIVE: AMOL RAJAN The Independent is in print no more. We talk digital with its editor

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DEATH OF THE FOOD CRITIC Has Instagram killed off the restaurant reviewer?

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THE MEDIA AND GRIEF How Bowie and celebrity deaths cause the media to collectively lose its mind

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YOU’RE THE BOSS Startup founders talk through all their successes and failures – and how you can set up your own media business

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CH-CH-CHANGES The NME going free is just the latest stage in music journalism’s evolution

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SPOT THE BOT Who’s better at writing, a journalist or a robot? You can decide

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WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN? XCity investigates why only 15% of sports presenters are women in 2016

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HERO HACKS UNMASKED Are press agency reporters the unsung heroes of journalism?

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INVESTIGATIONS REBORN Thanks to BuzzFeed and Vice Media, investigative journalism is making a comeback

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BRING IT ON HOME Working from home is becoming the norm – what are the pros and cons of turning your living room into an office?

joining ITV: Robert Peston talks politics, positivity and peanuts

IN DEFENCE OF FASHION JOURNALISM It’s more than high heels and hemlines – fashion journalists are driving social change too

CLICK RIGHT HERE If you want to get an important story heard, clickbait may (unfortunately) be the answer.

Can it ever be justified?

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REGIONAL RESURGENCE Cuts from big publishers have citizen journalists coming to the local rag’s rescue

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MY NIGHT AT THE OSCARS City alumni Adam Benzine talks us through the glitziest event in Hollywood

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD How to tell the story using just a comic strip

WAGING WAR Want to know how much other journalists earn?

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO Veterans of the airwaves tell us why radio reigns supreme

POINT AND SHOOT Documentary maker Jamie Roberts, who interviewed “Jihadi Sid” for Channel 4, on tolerating extreme opinions

CHANGING PLATFORMS Moving from print to broadcast: why it’s easier than you think

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WIT AND WISDOM Highlights from this year’s listings interviews

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Editor of The Sun, TONY GALLAGHER, takes the credit for his wife’s cooking

FAST LANE LIVING Is motor journalism all fast cars and glamorous locations? A day in the life of Autocar’s Vicky Parrott JOURNALIST EXCLUSION ZONES What it’s really like to report in a country where you’re not wanted

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MATT LAWTON tells us how he penalised two youths for their foul play

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QUIZ: WHO ARE YOU? Are you more Caitlin Moran than Jeremy Paxman? Find out here

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First female head set to shake up the department The new director of City’s journalism department has told XCity that she plans to make changes to the structure of postgraduate courses Professor Suzanne Franks, undergraduate course director at City University London, will become the first woman to head the journalism department when she takes over in August.

Prof Franks said that she also wanted to introduce closer ties between the postgraduate and undergraduate programmes.

The former BBC producer will replace the interim head Professor Michael Bromley in August, making her the first female head in the department’s 40-year history.

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I want students to take a combination of core modules and electives

particular journalism pathways that they are interested in.”

She added: “I also want to see more interchange between the BA and MA and there to be more opportunities for staff to teach across different courses depending upon their range of expertise.”

At present, there are 10 journalism postgraduate courses available in Broadcast/ Television; Financial; Interactive; Science; Investigative; Erasmus Mundus; International; Magazine; and Newspaper.

Prof Franks is also planning to set up an advisory board, comprised of distinguished alumni and working journalists to provide a sounding board and keep “close tabs on what the industry wants”. She is also committed to continuing to involve a solid base of visiting lecturers with wide and relevant experience of the industry.

Her hope is to maintain MA recruitment figures but she called for a 25% growth of the 70-strong undergraduate course over the next few years, in line with the university’s strategic plan. She also wants to keep up City’s steady stream of PhD students and build upon the journalism department’s

Prof Franks will be the first female head in the department’s 40-year history

growing reputation for research excellence. “There are so many important debates in the field these days and I want City to continue to provide a platform where practitioners and academics can meet to discuss and understand the issues facing today’s journalists. And of course encouraging students to participate in these events is an important part of our role.”

Before joining City in 2012 as head of undergraduate

journalism, Prof Franks worked at the BBC producing programmes such as Newsnight, When asked about future Watchdog and Panorama, before changes to the different starting an independent postgraduate pathways she production company, specialising told XCity: “I want to look at in political coverage. She if we really need such separate completed her PhD at the courses, I’d prefer there to be University of Westminster in more synergy, because there’s 2007. In 2008, she took up an too much overlapping at the appointment at the University moment. I want students to take of Kent and she moved to City a combination of core modules University London in 2012. and electives depending upon the She also wrote Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and Media, published in August 2013.

Following the announcement of the new position, she said: City University London is to join promoted in the sports league. and a university in 1966. UoL “I am particularly proud to the University of London (UoL) You gain clout.” was founded by Royal Charter in be beginning the role as we this August.

He added: “It would make 1836 and has 17 self-governing celebrate the 40th anniversary Professor Michael Bromley, us the leading providers of colleges and 10 specialist of the department, which is City’s interim journalism head, journalism in the University of research institutes. Other one of the oldest journalism looks forward to the merge: London. We stand alone.” universities in the federation departments in the country “Joining the University of City University traces its include King’s College London, and has developed a fantastic London is going to be really history back to the Northampton University College London and reputation around the world. It’s interesting. It means a step Institute in 1894. It became London School of Economics. something I’ve worked very hard change in the university’s the Northampton College of to become a part of.” identity. It’s like getting Advanced Technology in 1957 Ella Braidwood Megan Carnegie

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City University to merge with the University of London in August

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City University masters graduates are the most successful in the UK Graduates with masters degrees from City are the most successful in the UK at landing jobs in top media companies, according to new research

by LinkedIn. The professional social networking site has gathered employment statistics from 300 million user profiles and found City to have the highest percentage of masters students currently employed by leading media organisations.

City has been placed first in a list of 25 institutions before Falmouth University, which ranked second, and Cardiff University, which ranked third.

Professor Suzanne Franks, incoming head of the journalism department said: “This is welcome recognition of City University London’s dedication to providing academic excellence for business and the professions, to which journalism has contributed for 40 years.

“It is central to the department of journalism that we support students to excel in their chosen careers and that they get the best start possible in the world of work when they graduate from our masters programmes.”

City ranks third in the UK and 28th in the world for communication and media studies (QS World University Rankings 2015).

Dr Dan Mercea, director of the Media and Communications MA, commented: “We are delighted with obtaining the top spot but more importantly, we are thrilled to have this confirmation that our graduates continue into fruitful careers.”

He said yes! Shock leap year proposal at City City TV studio manager was left “dumbstruck” when his girlfriend popped the question at the campus caff When City’s TV studio manager Tony Phillips went for his morning coffee on 29 February, the last thing he could have expected was to get a marriage proposal with his cappuccino.

His fiancée Patricia, a palliative care nurse, planned the big question by emailing the university’s broadcast technicians asking to take him to the coffee hut in Northampton Square.

Wearing exactly the same clothes as when the couple first met – a black and white dress, black heels and a red coat – Patricia prepared the scene with a poster, and t-shirt for Tony with the words: “Will you marry me please London Boy.” They met on a dating website and Tony’s user handle was London Boy, while Patricia’s was Thursday Lady.

The couple have been together for 14 months and planned to get married next year, but Patricia decided to take advantage of the tradition that allows a woman to propose to a man on leap year.

Tony, 63, who has worked at City University for seven years,

said he was “pleasantly shocked” to see her – and said yes. He recalled: “I went for a coffee at Dan’s and saw the back of her head. You know when you think ‘that doesn’t half look like someone I know’, and then she turned round.

“She took the initiative and totally surprised me. It was a lovely sunny day. I didn’t know all of that was going on.

I wasn’t expecting the proposal, because I’ve made plans to ask her to marry me on Easter Sunday. I’ve got the ring, I’m still going to ask her.”

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I couldn’t get down on one knee as a group of students chose that moment to come in for a snack Patricia said she was not sure if her nerves would allow her to go through with the surprise until the last minute. She joked: “I could never be a spy!”

Luckily for Patricia, she said

Tony had not picked up on the signs that something was out of the ordinary that morning.

She said: “The day went nearly to plan with the exception of Tony totally missing the poster and the fact I couldn’t get down on one knee as a group of students had chosen that moment to come into the café for a morning snack, which left very little room.

“In the time I have known Tony, I have never seen him dumbstruck, but he certainly was that morning.”

Dave Goodfellow, senior technician at City, was in on the secret. He said: “Tony walked straight into the hut and missed the marriage sign on the door.

He was completely oblivious.”

Tony and Patricia spent the rest of the day having lunch in the Darwin Brasserie at Sky Garden, in the “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper overlooking London.

After they are married, the couple plan to spend their honeymoon staying at an ice hotel in Finland.

Emily Clark

Lucy Devine Reader, I married him.

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Ex-Marr show editor heads up new political module The BBC’s Barney Jones leads the new Political Headlines module, while Social and Digital Journalism is another new addition for this year The ex-editor of The Andrew Marr Show has been hired to run a new political journalism module that replaces City’s long-­running Public Administration week.

Political Headlines, which runs for five sessions in the second term, is led by Barney Jones and The Spectator’s assistant editor, Isabel Hardman.

Jones said: “The module looks at the relationship between journalists and the structures of central and local government.

It looks at how stories come out, how people make stories from political situations and from what politicians say and do. It is less of a study of the structure of government.”

Political Headlines was one of two new modules that were introduced to City’s MA journalism programmes this year.

The second module is Social and Digital Journalism, which replaces Online Journalism. This equips students with skills in

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A cheery Barney Jones (left) with guest speaker, Lord Michael Forsyth (right) after a Brexit debate

SEO, gathering stories with data journalism and social media management.

Barbara Rowlands, director of the Magazine Journalism MA at City, explained the problem: “Teaching all students together for Online Journalism didn’t work because

different courses have different needs and it was difficult to co­ordinate what was delivered in the main lecture with what was taught in the workshops.”

Natasha Turner

A “jaw dropping” exposé of behind-thescenes farce and frivolity during the Scottish referendum has been published by a former broadcast student.

Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided is the first book of ITV broadcaster, Joe Pike.

Published in September 2015, it is a compilation of more than 60 off-the-record interviews. Pike conducted these over a period of eight months during the Scottish referendum campaign and in the lead up to the 2015 general election.

Pike (Broadcast 2011) said: “There were moments when my jaw dropped but I had to make people think that they hadn’t just told me something shocking.”

For example, he uncovered the fact that the Better Together campaign spent £27,000 on a results night party, which included 64 cases of white wine and 50 cases of red wine.

Owen Wilson on Pike’s book: A “Scottish Thick of It”

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“That’s a lot of money for a bunch of people to get drunk in Glasgow,” said Pike.

In the updated version of his book, published in March 2016, Pike has explored the parallels between the Scottish referendum and the EU referendum.

Fear, risk and uncertainty will dominate rhetoric during the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign in the lead up to the EU referendum. According to Pike, this rhetoric – coined Project Fear – is lifted almost verbatim from Better Together’s campaign during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

Pike said: “The arguments are the same, the polling is the same, the buzzwords are the same.”

Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided is published by Biteback.

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Credits: Joe Pike; Natasha Turner

“Jawdropping” exposé of Scottish referendum

Undergrads with Felicity Green

Tea with Fleet Street legend First year journalism undergraduates spent an afternoon of tea and cakes with the First Lady of Fleet Street, Felicity Green OBE. Four BA journalism students won a competition after they produced a video about Green, 89, called ‘Draw My Life’. The interactive presentation and a second ‘Facebook Profile’ video, which honoured Fleet Street’s first female associate editor and fashion journalist of the 1960s, gained them first place in the competition. The entire first year of around 68 students participated in the assessed competition for their Introduction to the British Media module.

Julia Milet, one of the winning students, said: “She is an extraordinary woman who has done so much for women in journalism. I truly admire her and think a lot of women who want to do journalism should too.”

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Sophia Pathak

Oscars nominee brands British TV quotas “a joke”

Former City student Adam Benzine hits out at the BBC after his award-nominated documentary was turned down in the UK A British filmmaker and City alumnus, who was nominated for an Oscar, has branded UK television quotas “a joke” after his Academy Award-shortlisted documentary was snubbed by the BBC. The short film, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, was sold to the American channel HBO, as well as to Canada, Israel, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. But the BBC showed no interest.

The 33-year-old Torontobased director, Adam Benzine, (Magazine, 2005) told XCity: “It’s tragic to think an Oscarnominated British film can’t find a place on British television.”

He added: “The UK is a joke, it’s so difficult to get funding.

Channel 4 is basically retreating from international documentary support, the BBC is in a torrid state and BBC Four is under threat of closure. If it goes, it will do irreparable damage to support for UK documentary filmmakers.”

Benzine spent two years planning a film about the French director Claude Lanzmann and his seminal 10-hour Holocaust

documentary, Shoah, while he was working for Canadian business publications Real Screen and C21.

Despite garnering critical acclaim, Benzine lost out to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness at the 88th Academy Awards Ceremony.

The next day, Benzine said: “It was an honour and a delight to be there, and to be recognised among such an incredibly talented pool of filmmakers.

Of course, losing sucks but Sharmeen made an important film and is a worthy winner.”

Part of the problem with the UK documentary landscape, Benzine told XCity, is the BBC’s quota system, which classifies factual entertainment and factual documentary under the same umbrella.

He said: “Something like The Great British Bake Off or Top Gear is classed as factual, in the same way as a documentary like Man on Wire. The commissioning editors will increasingly programme reality and factual entertainment to meet their annual quotas.

“Without quotas specifically

The focus of Benzine’s film: Claude Lanzmann, with longtime lover Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, 1952

for documentary making, there isn’t going to be pressure on editors to commission what we would consider to be a documentary.”

He asked friend and editor for the BBC’s Storyville documentary series, Nick Fraser, for help in getting the film off the ground.

“I said to him, I’ll make a film about Lanzmann and you should play it on British television, as well as licensing Shoah in 2015, which will be the thirtieth anniversary of its release,” said Benzine.

Unable to commission the documentary himself, instead, Fraser wrote a letter for his friend on BBC-headed paper stating an interest in a film about Lanzmann and in licensing Shoah. After seeing it, Lanzmann, who had not been interviewed at length for more than two decades, agreed to let the team of six into his Paris apartment.

They sat with him for several days, resulting in six hours of interview footage.

Benzine put all his money into covering the costs of filming, including the flights from Toronto, accommodation and renting the cameras.

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, had its world premiere at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto in April 2015 and was bought for “a considerable figure” in a fierce bidding war by HBO. The Magazine alumnus said: “It’s great to have HBO’s support and when they back a film, it’s a game changer. That was the point at which we could pay all our crew and move from debt into profit.”

On International Holocaust Memorial Day in 2015, Shoah was aired on BBC Four, the first time the film had been shown on British TV in more than a quarter of a century. “Separately, I feel a little bit proud about that,” said Benzine.

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A follow-up novel? It IS that easy for Sanghani A The Daily Telegraph journalist has followed up her debut novel, Virgin, with Not That Easy. The book, published by Mills and Boon, tells the story of 21-year-old virgin, Ellie Kolstakis and her mission to break her celibate status.

Radhika Sanghani (Newspaper, 2012), said that she wanted to develop Ellie as a character since writing the first novel. The first book was about her university days while the second talks about her graduate life, which can also be hard for a young woman. “The first book is centred around Ellie losing her virginity and what that’s like and trying to figure herself out. She starts to figure out feminism at the end of the book and being aware of gender equality.”

Britain’s top science book prize awarded to first female author Gaia Vince (Periodical, 2001) became the first female to win the UK’s most prestigious science book prize. Vince was awarded the Royal Society Winton Prize and collected her £25,000 award

Royal Winton Society winner Gaia Vince

at the ceremony in September last year.

Vince travelled the world for two and a half years, before writing her novel Adventures in the Anthropocene. In it, she describes the places and people she met on her global adventure and considers how humans are affecting the planet.

Speaking to XCity, she said: “Initially there wasn’t going to be a paperback, but after winning the prize the publisher quickly decided to print a paperback edition. It was very good news.”

Hundreds of people gathered at the ceremony on 24 September, where Vince explained that she felt “very happy” with her win and enjoyed having her family with her for the awards.

Rising star up for British Media Award Hannah Hudson, (Magazine, 2009) has been nominated for not one, but two of this year’s British Media Awards.

She is shortlisted in the “Rising Star” and “Content Team of the Year” category as part of the team behind British Airways’ monthly online travel magazine theclub. ba.com and website highlife. ba.com for Cedar.

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Manpreet Boora

City policies cause slip in free speech ranking

With two nominations, Hannah Hudson has reason to celebrate

The sequel covers everything from body image to sex. Sanghani revealed: “She’s a young woman trying to make sense of herself and her sexuality in a world where there are lots of expectations of women to do things a certain way.”

Read the full article on her new book and the challenges she has faced as a woman writer on taboo subjects at www.xcityplus.com Yashi Banymadhub 10

City University was criticised by a current affairs website for its policies on free speech.

The university was demoted from a green to amber ranking in Spiked Online’s free speech university rankings.

Spiked surveyed all British universities and student unions, examining their policies and actions, and ranked them using a traffic-light system.

A statement on Spiked Online said: “The City University London and City University Students’ Union collectively create an environment that chills free speech.”

The university’s freedom of speech policy, revised in April 2015, appears to be the reason for the change in Spiked’s rating.

Tom Slater, co-ordinator of Spiked’s Free Speech University Rankings said: “It is the policies, rather than the actions, that have moved City’s ranking.

“City’s policies substantially curtail free expression. You don’t need to ban someone if they’re not allowed in the first place.”

City University Student Union’s safe space policy restricts “discriminatory language” and the university’s free speech code of practice cites a highly

controversial speaker as one instance in which it would cancel an event.

A spokesperson for the university said: “City is committed to upholding academic freedom of enquiry and to ensuring that free and open-minded discussion can take place. We have to balance this with a duty to ensure the welfare of staff and students, by protecting them from anything which incites hatred or violence, or calls for actions which would break the law.”

Nick Atkins

Credit: Mills and Boon; Nick Pattinson; Hannah Hudson

University downgraded from green to amber by Spiked Online

“Mr Mommy” snaps go viral Images of City graduate, Jamie Fullerton, exploded on Chinese social media after he signed up to experience childbirth in a bid to combat myths of motherhood Photographs of a former City student wearing fake breasts and tending to an artificial baby caused a stir on Chinese social media last year, when they went viral on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.

The pictures were taken by staff at a “Mr Mommy” course in Shanghai, where Jamie Fullerton (Magazine, 2005) was put through a simulation of the experience of childbirth as part of an investigation for an article on the Mail Online website.

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They wanted me to wear an adult nappy, and use it The photos began trending on social media before being picked up by People’s Daily, China’s most popular English-language government newspaper.

Fullerton said: “My editor wasn’t very happy with it, because all the pictures were doing the rounds before the story actually came out.

“It ended up going viral on Weibo. Enormously embarrassing and humiliating photos of me were being passed around. Luckily I don’t have any kind of vanity, so I didn’t mind too much.”

The experience is part of a 10-day course undertaken by men as part of a promotion by Zhaimom, a parenting website that offers consultancy services for new mothers. Initially, three new fathers were paid £1,000 each to take part in the study, which is said to help them understand and empathise with their female counterparts.

Fullerton took the course to address childbirth myths in China.

As many older generations believe air conditioning is damaging for new mothers, he was deprived of cool air for his stay.

It’s twins! Jamie Fullerton experiences life as a new mother

“It was in August so it was really scorching hot. I was quite uncomfortable,” Fullerton said.

But there were some things that the ex-City student was not prepared to do. He explained: “I did refuse to do one thing. They

wanted me to wear an adult nappy, and use it. I’ve done a lot of weird things for journalism, but I think that would have been a really low point.”

Ben Allen

Ofcom appoints first Arabic board member

Credit: David Høgsholt; Jamie Fullerton

Senior lecturer gains place on Ofcom board to reflect multiculturalism onscreen

Dr Zahera Harb, senior lecturer on International MA

The first member of Arabic ethnicity has been appointed to the content board of the communications watchdog Ofcom.

Dr Zahera Harb, a former journalist in Lebanon, is a senior lecturer on the international journalism MA at City and board member of the Ethical Journalism Network. She was appointed to the three year Ofcom role in December last year.

According to Dr Harb, her expertise in media and ethnic background made her suitable for the appointment. She said: “My

specialism is journalism, media and communication, but I think my expertise in foreign language broadcast and the different cultural experience is what I’m bringing to the board.”

The academic explained that Ofcom wanted to reflect the diversity and multiculturalism of British society on the board.

Dr Harb added: “It is important to consider the type of cultural representation of ethnic minorities on British screens.”

She said Ofcom’s chief executive, Sharon White,

has previously raised the topic of how often ethnic minorities are seen on television screens.

Before her academic career, Dr Harb worked as a television journalist in Lebanon for 11 years. She was a reporter, producer, news anchor and news editor.

Since then, she has written extensively about media and politics in the Arab world and published articles on the representation of ethnic minorities in British media.

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Drones capture Myanmar’s first free election Coverage of the Myanmar election last year warranted unusual tactics from a former City student.

Poppy McPherson (Magazine, 2012), while reporting for Coconuts Media on 8 November, utilised drone footage to cover Myanmar’s first free election in 25 years.

She said: “We managed to carve out a niche by doing things others weren’t – meta coverage of the media scrum, sending up drones to film the huge crowds of opposition supporters and publishing satirical pieces.”

Voters at a rally for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in Myanmar. The party won in a landslide victory

Mayor hopeful calls for media gender shift

Catherine Mayer, are far from being achieved.

Of the pay inequality experienced by women in London, she said: “Society doesn’t work for anyone when it is lopsided to this degree.

“If we can give women the same opportunities as men it will make the city flourish for everyone.”

The 2016 London mayoral election will be held on 5 May.

City alumni have stormed the board in a new set of awards nominations to recognise talented female journalists.

Words By Women (WBW) Awards, a female only awarding board, was set up to address the lack and diversity of women put forward for the 2016 British Press Awards.

Only 17% of this year’s nominations were women and only four were not white.

Helen Nianias (Magazine, 2010), Emily Dugan (Newspaper, 2006), Radhika Sanghani (Newspaper, 2012), Amber Rolt (Magazine, 2014) and Barbara Speed (Magazine, 2014) have all been nominated.

Nianias, a freelancer nominated for the WBW Foreign Correspondent of the Year award, said poor representation of women in the media is a “huge problem”. She said: “I find it weird that the Press Awards could find so few female and black and ethnic minority journalists they believed worthy of praise.

“It’s a shame that the WBW Awards had to be set up in the first place – but I’m glad they were.”

The ceremony will take place the day before the Press Awards at London’s Groucho Club.

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Lucy Alderson

Women need senior positions and flexible hours, says WEP candidate for Mayor of London A London mayoral candidate and City graduate has called for equality in the media, and for more companies to embrace flexible working.

Sophie Walker, leader of the Women’s Equality Party and former reporter for Reuters, is running for mayor against Labour’s Sadiq Khan and Zac Goldsmith for the Conservatives.

Walker, from the 1997 Newspaper Journalism MA course, decided to run for mayor after her frustration at the last election: “The pace of change was still absolutely glacial.

Gender equality was a couple of lines at the back of the manifesto, as if women were some sort of special interest party rather than half the population.

“One of the key objectives of the Women’s Equality Party is equality in the media, both in terms of having women in more senior positions in media and how we portray women’s lives and experiences.”

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Sophie Walker wants to even up our ‘lopsided society’

was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 8.

“It made me realise how rare [flexible working] actually is, and how many men and women don’t have that capacity.

“Men want to be able to work flexibly, and to be an equal parent. They are just as frustrated by the gender limitations placed on them as women are.”

Walker said the goals of the Women’s Equality Party, founded last year by Sandi Toksvig and

City women up for brand new awards

Credit:Women’s Equality Party; Poppy McPherson

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Of mice and money: £200k on pest control at City uni

But no record of how many mice have been caught, FOI reveals Nearly £200,000 has been splashed on City’s mouse infestation in the last six years, XCity can reveal.

But the university does not record the number of mice trapped, nor does it record mouse sightings.

The figures obtained from a Freedom of Information request show that the university spent a whopping £196,537.65 on pest control between 2009 and 2015.

Mice have been seen scuttling around the university – from the journalism department to the Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, disturbing staff and students alike.

XCity+ sub Tom Marsh saw one in a media ethics lecture: “I noticed the people around me looking towards the floor.

“A couple of minutes later I looked and there was a mouse. It ran towards my feet, up the steps and back down again.

“At 20-minute intervals you could hear people shouting or gasping. It was really small, grey and had a long tail.”

Staff have also been affected by the roaming rodents. Rosie Waterhouse, director of the Investigative Journalism MA, had an unpleasant surprise in her office after the Christmas break: “I opened the top drawer

and there was some sort of brown stuff. It looked as if somebody had spilled tea.

“Then I opened the bottom drawer where I had left crisps and biscuits. They’d all been nibbled away at. I looked a bit closer and there were droppings.

I felt sick.”

A university spokesperson said City takes “proactive steps” to keep its buildings rodent-free and its contractors undergo market comparison, adding that a specialist company “covers the delivery of regular preventative measures as well as the setting of traps in response to sightings”.

City paid Envirocare GB and Green Compliance Pest and Environment, which held the old contracts. Rentokil Initial Pest Control is the current mouse exterminator.

A Rentokil spokesperson described a routine contract: “The idea on cost depends on how many visits a year the customer would like, how much equipment they would need and also the type of pests.”

Rentokil declined to comment on whether it records the number of rodents trapped.

What £200,000 could buy 200,000 chocolate mice, Thorntons 33,333 souvenir cast iron mice, National Trust 10,000 Mousetrap board games, Toys R Us 5,714 stalls tickets, The Mousetrap, St Martin’s Theatre 4,000 mouse taxidermy classes, £50, British Academy of Taxidermy 20 tuition fees for journalism MA, £9,875, City University

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Author of 274 books: “there’s no money in it” A potential City record has been set after a former student published his 274th book in 30 years.

The Stakhanovite feat was racked up by Ian Graham (PGDip, 1978). The 62-yearold’s books are mostly illustrated children’s non-fiction, based on scientific topics such as radioactivity and space travel.

Graham has also written graphic novel adaptations of classic stories, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and historical nonfiction books about courtesans and imposters.

In December last year he self-published a book for the first time: Death Duties, a short crime story series for adults.

At the moment, he is working on a book for young readers about “the latest, coolest

technology – everything from cars, to spacecraft, to skyscrapers”.

The author said he would love to slow down but the freelance salary isn’t enough to retire on. Graham told XCity: “It is increasingly difficult to earn a living from writing.

“Children’s non-fiction is particularly badly paid, and payments have been falling for years. I earn less today for a typical children’s book than I did 10 years ago.

“Freelance work is very much feast or famine. My plan is to win the lottery.”

Graham was joint winner of the 2012 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize.

His website is ian-graham.co.uk.

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Space exploration is the author’s favourite book topic

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Star pupil wins £27k school place after alumni ITV show

Comprehensive school boy is rewarded with scholarship to study at private boarding school after appearing on ITV documentary School Swap: The Class Divide, was produced by Elaine Carlton (Periodical, 1994) and Emma Slater (Investigative, 2009), and aired on ITV1 in August 2015.

The programme staged a oneweek swap between pupils at The Bemrose School, a state-funded school in Derby with Warminster College, a private boarding school in Wiltshire. One pupil, Brett Riley, so impressed both

“

Brett reminded me of many of my soldiers that, given the right environment, would thrive

the production team and Mark Mortimer, the headmaster at Warminster College, that he was offered the chance to take a place at the £27,000 a year school.

Speaking to the Derby Telegraph at the time, Brett said: “I was filmed saying that I really wanted to stay on at Warminster – but I only meant for another week, or maybe two, just so I could try out a few more things. I never imagined that I would be offered this opportunity and it is absolutely life-changing.”

Carlton, the show’s development producer, who has previously worked on the Tonight with Trevor McDonald show, was delighted with the news that the teenager had received a place at Warminster School. “It was

Katy, Jon, Qasim, Brett, and headmaster Mark Mortimer with Bemrose head Jo Ward

amazing to work on something that really affects somebody’s life,” Carlton said.

After initially meeting Brett, Carlton sought to include The Bemrose School in the programme. She said: “I mainly saw Brett’s potential when he went to the private school. Brett was really inspired by his meeting with Mark Mortimer.”

Mortimer, who is a former army officer, saw potential in Riley straight away. He said:

“Brett reminded me of many of my soldiers, who weren’t doing particularly well at school, but given the right environment would thrive.” The school is about 150 miles away from Brett’s home in Derbyshire.

Mortimer said: “He’s well over halfway through his second term now. It’s been a bit of a shock to his system, but he’s doing well.”

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Magazine cohort scoop PPA New Talent Awards Barbican on 9 March. Flynn is a digital news reporter at The Sun. She said: “I was, and still am, so shocked to have won – I was up against some really talented journalists who not only did great things at City but have continued to be amazing writers since leaving.”

Also in Flynn’s category were fellow City alumni Anna

Ellie Flynn with Sarah Faulder, chief executive of PLS and Will Drew, group editor of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and Restaurant Magazine

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Cafolla, Sophie Eastaugh, Beth Gault, Naomi Larsson, Robert McCallum, Kate Samuelson and Francesca Specter.

The judging panel, including Woman’s Weekly editor Diane Kenwood, Radio Times editor Ben Preston and Mark Payton, editorial director of Haymarket Media Group, were impressed with Mona Tabbara (Magazine, 2015), who was awarded Best Graduate and Intern of the year for her work as editorial assistant at Virgin Media Presents, owned

by Redwood.

Barbara Rowlands, director of City University London’s MA Magazine Journalism course, said: “I’m really thrilled that City postgrads have won this prestigious award – and for the ninth time too.

“Ellie and Mona are hugely talented young journalists – as were all the City students on the shortlist. It must have been a tough choice for the judges.”

Other nominated Magazine Journalism alumni included

Mona Tabbara with Steve Palmer, director of Sterling Solutions

Chemist + Druggist reporter Annabelle Collins (2014), Samuel Horti (2014), and features editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Helena Lee (2011).

Estates Gazette’s Amber Rolt was also nominated for New Business Journalist of the Year and Thomas Howells, for Best Graduate/Intern of the Year.

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Credit: ITV Studios; PPA Award

This year’s PPA New Talent Awards were once again awash with City graduates, with 16 ex-Magazine MA students on the nominees list and two winning awards.

Ellie Flynn (Magazine, 2015) walked away with the Most Promising Graduate Award after the glitzy evening at The Brewery, near London’s

Sofa surfing journo nabs interview with the Prince

Credit: The Big Issue/Louise Haywood-Schiefer

Undergraduate Sophia Kichou bonded with the Duke of Cambridge after learning that both had lost their mothers at a young age It sounds like a screenplay for an unlikely TV drama. A would-be journalist has a chance encounter with the future King of England at a homeless shelter.

But this is precisely what happened to Sophia Kichou, who moved from Uganda to the UK aged 18 and became one of the country’s thousands of hidden homeless, sofa surfing and staying on floors.

It was during her time at Tottenham Court Road’s CentrePoint Hostel that Kichou met Prince William, who took over Princess Diana’s patronage of the homelessness charity.

Kichou, now 24, said: “I told him I dreamed of going to university and becoming a journalist. He said if I did that, he’d give me an exclusive interview. People in positions of power say things like that and they don’t really mean it. I didn’t give it much thought.”

She won ITV’s Breaking into News award in 2012 for her report on youth homelessness and began a BA in Journalism at City University London in September of the same year.

Kichou was nominated for CentrePoint’s Media award in 2015 and was contacted by Clarence House after the Prince saw her name on the list.

She told XCity: “It was agreed that I would do the interview for The Big Issue because they had just agreed on a new partnership with CentrePoint. The whole thing would be up to me, with no PR angle.”

Two weeks before the scheduled meeting, Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev and Prince William presented Kichou with the CentrePoint Media award at a glitzy ceremony at St. James’s Palace.

“We were joking around and the Prince said: ‘You can’t ask me any hard questions when you interview me,’” she said.

With her questions approved

by Clarence House, a nervous

It was all smiles when former journalism student Sophia Kichou met Prince William

Kichou arrived at Kensington Palace. “It didn’t sink in until I got there. I didn’t know until after we’d finished that he never lets anyone into his home, let alone his living room,” she said.

The interview lasted just over an hour and Kichou quizzed the Duke about the growing number of homeless young people and about his life as a father.

“He lost his mum when he was very young and I lost my mum when I was eight. We had a lot of parallels,” she explained. “It was more natural, like a conversation.”

However, Kichou was not prepared for the media frenzy following the interview’s publication in December’s The Big Issue. The story was picked up by the global press and she remembers being recognised by commuters on the tube that morning. However, she had a

mixed experience of being on the other side of the camera and she criticised a lack of accuracy, as well as the way that some broadcasters portrayed her particular circumstance.

She added: “Hundreds of people left comments on my website saying how inspiring I was, and that reading my interview had encouraged them to continue their journey. I didn’t expect that at all, it was incredible.”

During her time at City, Kichou completed several internships, worked as a guest producer at Arise News, blogged for the Amy Winehouse Foundation and stewarded at the Royal Albert Hall. She hopes to become a broadcast reporter when she graduates this year and calls her time at City “a dream”.

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City staff lead the way in post-grad academic study Six members of staff from the City University journalism department (Barbara Rowlands, Rosie Waterhouse, Tom Felle, Lis Howell, Jonathan Hewett and Heather Brooke) have either recently completed doctorates or are nearing completion.

The areas of study range from Dr Waterhouse’s analysis of the myth of Satanic ritual abuse to Hewett’s research on teaching techniques for social media and digital journalism.

Felle and Prof Brooke are conducting independent research around Freedom of Information and its importance as a research tool for journalists.

Left: Dr Zahera Harb Right: Dr Barbara Rowlands

Dr Rowlands, who completed her PhD by prior publication in June 2015 on media representations of complementary and alternative medicine, said: “Cut us down the middle and you’ll find we’re journalists and not academics.

But it is a practice-based subject, so we have to make absolutely sure that our research has an impact on teaching and learning.”

Prof Michael Bromley, City University’s interim head of journalism, supervised Dr Waterhouse’s PhD and said she “did a fantastic job”.

He added: “A university department always needs to have research activities.”

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The Tab: the City pitch turned media empire

The online student tabloid has branched out to the US thanks to Dow Jones investment

from Balderton Capital, Rivlin set up an office in New York.

The Tab then launched new branches of the site at 45 US colleges including Harvard and Yale and one in Canada, despite only having moved beyond the Cambridge University campus it started on four years ago.

The Tab claims only to report news that students care about.

Each campus has an editorial team of students that work with the contributors for that city, aided by a paid professional team in the head office.

Rivlin told XCity that he and his business partner, George Marangos-Gilks, had always dreamed of moving to America.

Stories broken by The Tab US began making headlines in its first month, including their in depth coverage of a Black Lives Matter protest at Dartmouth University, with several students writing first person accounts of the shocking events.

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broken in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Huffington Post, our videos were used by Vice, and the editor at The Dartmouth Tab went on Fox News to talk about a story, so we had quite a good pick up quite quickly.”

He added that the success of the company’s American arm is due to the quality of the writers and content.

Since its establishment in 2009, The Tab has had no shortage of media attention and criticism. The Sun once printed a story based on a fake April Fool’s story published by The Tab, claiming that Cambridge University had stripped the BNP’s Nick Griffin of his degree.

While the now defunct Rear of the Year competition made national headlines as many branded it “sexist”.

Despite the controversies, the attention earned The Tab some Fleet Street partners.

Rivlin announced they will offer a formal journalism certificate that gives industry recognition to The Tab’s writers, along with the chance to complete internships at national publications with the help of News UK, Business Insider and The Big Issue.

Rivlin said the next step for The Tab is to refine their technology to make uploading content and contacting their team easier.

Rivlin described his visions for The Tab app, which will display all the latest news in the user’s area as well as show contributors how much traffic their article is generating.

He said: “We’ve already built a system helping people to tell their stories and now we’re going to use technology to massively scale that up. We have 3,000 writers – you can start adding zeros to that, with the technology we’re looking at. When we set up The Tab, I would go on tour and sleep on people’s sofas and drink with them in pubs [to get stories].

Now we won’t have to do that.”

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Lost in the City: office workers of London depicted in graduate’s book Decades spent taking photos of workers in London’s financial district has culminated in a 96-page book.

Lost in the City features photographs taken by Nicholas Sack (Periodical, 1986), a freelance photographer between 1985 and 2015.

City workers are depicted in black and white against a backdrop of towering modern architecture, imbuing them with a sense of alienation.

Sack said: “I deliberately exclude familiar landmarks, and I don’t have shop fronts, facades or glaring logos.

“It’s stripped down to

simply the architecture and the figures.

“I think that by excluding all those specific markers I’m investing the pictures with a sort of otherworldliness.”

Sack, who worked as a freelance photographer for 30 years after graduating from City, sees it as more than just a collection of images. He explained: “It’s like anthropology really. It’s a small scale study of human behaviour, which is endlessly fascinating to me.”

Lost in the City was published by Hoxton Mini Press in November 2015.

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Photos from Lost in the City, a ten year exploration of urban alienation

Credit: Nicholas Sack/Hoxton Press

Four years after pitching the idea of a tabloid website as part of his Entrepreneurial Journalism module at City, Jack Rivlin could not have guessed the media startup would go on to change the face of student journalism.

Rivlin (Newspaper, 2012) is now the editor-in-chief of The Tab, an online student tabloid currently based at 47 UK campuses. Earlier this year the ambitious 26-year-old, who Business Insider named as the 32nd coolest person in tech – just one below Stephen Hawking – announced a string of developments.

Following a £2m investment

Gary Younge blasts modern reporting in James Cameron Memorial Speech The Guardian journalist criticises lack of focus on minorities and everyday tragedies Modern reporting came under attack from The Guardian’s Gary Younge in his James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City.

Younge’s lecture, on 22 February, highlighted how ethnic minorities are under-reported and that we are desensitised to everyday tragedy.

He said: “There are things that happen with such regularity and predictability that journalists have simply ceased to recognise their news value – not least if

those things are least likely to happen to the people most likely to be journalists.”

Younge, who graduated from City’s Newspaper MA in 1993 and is now editor-at-large for The Guardian, titled his lecture ‘Democratic Imbalance: Who Decides What’s News’.

Another Day In The Death Of America, Younge’s forthcoming book, is a study into the circumstances of 11 shootings involving young people (nine

Younge speaking at his James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City

of whom were black) across the United States in 2013, all of which were given only fleeting coverage in the press.

Regarding this lack of coverage, Younge said: “This

Credit: City University; Andrea Sarner

Egg freezing feature wins big at Health Writers Awards Moya Sarner, who was on the Magazine Journalism course in 2009, has won one of the Guild of Health Writers Awards this year.

Sarner’s feature, titled ‘I’m 29: should I freeze my eggs?’ for The Guardian Weekend magazine scooped the top prize as part of the Consumer Weekly Magazine Category.

Sarner, who graduated in 2010, is now the acting commissioning editor of Times2 and freelances for Good Housekeeping and The Guardian.

Sarner used her experience of trying to get pregnant to write the winning piece

Zoe Wickens

is less the product of malign neglect than unconscious omissions born from the dead weight of power and privilege that make the poor and dark in America invisible.”

He went on to point out that news values and human values are not the same: “If they were, the front page of every newspaper and leading item on every bulletin would be ‘Child dies of hunger’”.

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There are things that happen with such regularity that journalists have ceased to recognise their news value The speech prompted a string of approving tweets from attendees, including Amnesty International’s Steve Crawshaw, who called it “brilliant, depressing and important”.

Media commentator and City University lecturer Roy Greenslade said: “This was one of the best lectures I’ve attended.

Every journalist should read it.”

A full transcript of the speech is available at GaryYounge.com.

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Outrage over FOI refusals Government departments and public bodies have been criticised

by Freedom of Information experts over a number of refusals, delays and restrictions being placed on FOI requests.

The comments were made by Heather Brooke, whistleblower of the MPs’ expenses scandal and professor of journalism at City. Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, and The Guardian journalist Rob Evans, who sent the FOI for the release of the black spider memos, spoke at City on 7 March.

Brooke rated the cabinet office as one of the worst offenders for refusing FOI requests. She said that it is “entrenched in executive privilege”, pointing out that it is worrying that “the person in charge of the law is, by record, non-compliant to it”.

Brooke fights on for FOI requests

She said: “You have the assumption that the government works to help you, that it will be useful but instead you find malevolence. It’s not so much the public’s interest but it becomes the interest of the bureaucracy - they close ranks and they see questions as destabilising and threatening.”

Evans said that the biggest problem caused by delays is that by the time a journalist receives the information it is no longer news and therefore it becomes worthless. He cited the black spider memos as an example of absurdly long delays. He filed the FOI in April 2005 and had to wait until May 2014 to receive the letters.

In unearthing the MPs’ expenses back in 2008, Brooke said she faced similar hurdles.

She recalled: “When I won the MPs’ expenses case, it was very definitive but even so they changed the FOI once or twice.

MPs tried to totally exempt their addresses and that is why I am sceptical. Even though the

BA student commended for dissertation on Thatcher’s death The use of Twitter around the death of Margaret Thatcher was the focus of an awardwinning dissertation by a Journalism BA student.

Carolina Are (BA Journalism, 2014) won the Undergraduate Dissertation Award in Media and Journalism at the Undergraduate Awards Global Summit in Dublin last year.

Are, from Sardinia, Italy, found that the most followed journalists used Twitter to report the death of the former prime minister in 2013.

“It was a really fun project,” said Are, “I chose Thatcher because she was very controversial and everyone had an opinion on her.”

The project investigated whether journalists stuck to their guidelines and it concluded that most used 18

Twitter for their own views without affiliation to a company.

Are received the phone call about her award and the all-expenses-paid trip to the awards in Dublin, while working as an account executive at a PR firm in London. The ceremony took place on 10 November 2015 and was “very inspiring,” says Are, and and she valued being able to speak to many different successful people her age.

Having worked in PR and communications for over a year, Are recently rediscovered her old passion for criminology and is now moving to Sydney to start an MA in the subject, after being recommended by ex-City lecturer Dr Benedetta Brevini.

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Carolina Are celebrates in style

government won’t change the act, they have a habit of playing around with statutory instruments.”

The government has decided not to impose a fee on FOI requests after the review and has ruled out making legal changes so that public bodies can be transparent with how they are using taxpayers’ money.

Isaby was also in agreement, and expressed his frustration at the restrictions.

He said: “People talk about journalists speculating or spreading rumours but as soon as they try to get to the facts, you have a government trying to crack down on it.”

The panel reiterated the power of using the Freedom of Information Act, with Brooke saying that it is imperative for people to “use it or lose it” and Evans saying it can act as a “shield against the government”, if people show that they value it.

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Alumna killed in earthquake A former International Journalism student was one of the victims in the Gorkha earthquake in Nepal last April, in which 8,000 people died. Mathilde Forissier, who was 26 at the time, was on holiday with her fiancé, PierreVladimir Lobadowsky, 27.

Both were killed in a landslide in Kathmandu.

Following her International MA at City in 2011, she joined the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Michael Bromley, the interim head of the journalism department, said: “It was with great sadness that the department of journalism learned of the tragic death of Forissier.

“Mathilde was a vibrant and intelligent person who enjoyed the respect of staff and students.

The world of journalism has lost a young, bright talent.”

Yashi Banymadhub

Credit: Undergraduate team /Paul Clarke

Freedom of Information requests are refused by a cabinet office “entrenched in executive privilege”, says City professor and campaigner Heather Brooke

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City’s young guns clean up in Forbes 30 Under 30

Credit: Adam Fekete

Four City-educated journalists have made Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list. James Ball, Josie Le Blond, Jeremy Evans and George Arbuthnott were in the European media category.

The first European list recognises 300 young people

who are “transforming the future of media”. Other sectors included in the list are music, science and healthcare.

James Ball (Magazine, 2008) was a key player in The Guardian’s HSBC tax avoidance story and was awarded the XCity Award in 2014 for his work on the Edward Snowden files.

He said: “I’m really grateful to City for helping that happen. I think the course I did spotted a lot of what was about to happen to journalism: the growth of data skills, a mini-boom in investigations, and the growth of online.”

Jeremy Evans (Broadcast, 2013), founder of news website Explaain, said: “I was pretty shocked to be nominated yet alone included in the list. It’s a great boost for my startup Explaain, and a real endorsement of our mission to make the news easy and accessible.” Evans, a guest lecturer at City, founded Explaain when studying at City and entered the idea into the University’s entrepreneurial competition, CitySpark. The website breaks down complex news stories into bite-sized bits.

Josie Le Blond (International, 2015), is a freelance journalist and has written for

The Guardian, The Telegraph and Reuters. She said: “I was delighted and surprised to be included on the list. It’s great that the judges also considered the work of freelancers who can feel like industry outsiders.”

Also listed was George Arbuthnott, (Investigative, 2013) Deputy Insight Editor at The Sunday Times, where he won “Campaign of the Year” at the British Journalism Awards for a two-year investigation exposing human trafficking in the UK. The list is compiled by experts from CNN, The Memo and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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Josie Le Blond made the cut

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Alumna film director rolls out third Bridget Jones blockbuster The latest instalment of the Bridget Jones’ Diary is back this September, with former City Broadcast MA student Sharon Maguire in the director’s chair once again For a woman who could never decide which man to date, nor stick to any one diet plan, it seems only appropriate that the new Bridget Jones film has multiple possible endings. Sharon Maguire, who completed the Broadcast MA in 1989, told XCity that she filmed several end scenes to Bridget Jones’ Baby, and not even the cast know the outcome of the franchise’s third instalment. Bridget, 43 and still single, is unsure of the father of her unborn child, and Maguire could only reveal that, “Bridget is no nearer to finding the meaning to life”.

Maguire directed the first film, Bridget Jones’ Diary, which received Oscar, Grammy and Bafta nominations. Her involvement in the film is down to her friendship with the writer, Helen Fielding.

The pair became friends after their respective long-term relationships ended, and they entered what Maguire describes as “either a desperately funny or just a plain desperate” chapter of their thirties.

Fielding started to “cannibalise” their lives for an anonymous column in The Independent. Maguire said: “It was

Sharon Maguire with Renée Zellweger at the Bridget Jones’ Diary premiere in 2001

only when we started going to various parties or dinners and people [said] ‘have you read this thing Bridget Jones?’ It was word of mouth, then we realised what it was and how successful it would become for her.”

Fielding recommended Maguire to the makers of the film, because the character Shazza was based on her, especially “the swearing and the drunkenness”. Speaking about the “daunting” experience of directing a blockbuster movie for the first time Maguire said: “They reluctantly handed me

about £2 million and told me, ‘Don’t mess it up’”.

She still praises the City course for getting her into directing, describing it as “brilliant”. She said: “I had so much fun. I really enjoyed my time there, and most importantly it got me a job”.

She was offered a researcher position at Channel 4 while still at City, which led to her directing commercials and documentaries.

She said that this worked in her favour when it came to being trusted with her debut film.

Returning to work with the

characters, many of whom were originally based on her and her friends, felt “strange”. Maguire says that it made her realise how much her life had changed since the column and the film’s monumental success. Now married with two children, she describes herself as “Mrs Mum”.

Although returning to the directors’ chair and to filming the rest of the cast was strangely familiar, some found it harder than others. She added: “Hugh [Grant] said it was like getting into wet swimming trunks.”

She has also established her own production company, Seven Stories, and is making a television adaptation of a novel she recently wrote. In addition, she will be producing a BBC drama about lawyers operating in Guantanamo Bay after 9/11.

Maguire said the new venture does not feel like a change of direction in her career. She added: “I just want to tell and be involved in storytelling. That would be the theme in my career that combines all of my projects, regardless of which format they’re in.”

Kemi Alemoru

Time Inc. has appointed its youngest ever editor, Emily Wadsworth (Magazine, 2015) for its new online publication, List For Life.

Wadsworth, 23, was appointed editor of the site, which launched on 29 January 2016 and appeared on the cover of NME. List For Life is aimed at 18 to 26 year-olds who are starting their careers, or looking to change direction.

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Emily Wadsworth with her NME cover

celebrities while maintaining a career focus throughout.

Speaking about her success to XCity, she said: “I enjoyed my time at City, it was a lot of hard work but I think I was always very keen to use it as a networking opportunity too.

One of the best skills you can have is being able to network, it’s 100% how I got my job, being able to get out there and speak to people.

“I do have a lot of responsibility and my job as editor has been a steep

learning curve, but I’m learning so much every day.

I work with some incredible people and I have been lucky to get so many fantastic opportunities. I’m really excited to see List for Life grow.

I love that it’s my brand. I work long hours but I’m lucky enough to get out and about a lot. Whether I’m going to meetings, filming, reviewing or interviewing, I always have a lot on and I love it.”

Lucy Devine

Credit: Geraldine Mahoney; List For Life

Time Inc. appoints its youngest ever editor

XCITY AWARD 2016

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Syrian-born war reporter and teacher wins XCity Award 2016 Working amid danger is an everyday routine for Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim. Based in Aleppo, one of the main regions of the Syrian civil war, Erhaim faces the constant threat of airstrikes, arrest and even kidnap — yet she continues to report on the conflict.

Erhaim (International, 2011) has won the XCity Award and its £500 prize, which honours a City alumna who has made an outstanding contribution to journalism.

Over the last two years in Syria, Erhaim has trained more than 100 citizen reporters.

In doing so, she has helped establish many of the emerging independent newspapers and magazines in the country.

In 2015, she won the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism for her work with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), a global organisation that supports journalists in countries undergoing conflict or crisis.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, an NGO fighting for the defense of press freedom, cites Syria as the third deadliest country for journalists. International news organisations and freelancers

have fled, leaving only civilians to report events.

Yet a lack of journalism training within Syria means that there are few left to document the lives of those who stayed behind.

Erhaim teaches Syrian civilians the skills and strategies needed to become citizen journalists, all at no cost to them. She said: “Many of my students are treated as activists rather than citizen journalists and their work is often used for free. I teach them the basic journalistic skills for them to be taken seriously by international media.

“The lessons include how to write news, how to make a

feature, how to report, how to stay objective in these circumstances general but important journalistic values.”

In the face of terrorist threats, Erhaim often has to teach classes in secret locations. She informs her students about the time and place of classes hours before, to avoid being spotted.

Speaking about the conditions, she said: “It’s dangerous for anyone to live in Syria, but there is an extra layer of danger applied to any journalist. It puts you on the wanted list. You could easily be arrested, kidnapped or killed, and no one would be able to help you.”

Despite this, she does not regret

her decision to return to her native Syria. “People always ask me whether returning to Syria was tough – it wasn’t, it was just the natural thing to do.”

Prof Michael Bromley, interim head of journalism at City and member of the judging panel said: “I am in awe of what she has achieved.

Zaina has empowered Syrians to report on their own circumstances and [this] is a powerful demonstration of the contribution journalism can make.”

Erhaim said: “I am honoured to be recognised alongside such great journalists. Studying at City University was such an achievement. It helped me get my first job and my work has been recognised by international organisations as a result.”

Since returning, her reporting from within Syria has appeared in The Economist, The Guardian and many other outlets.

She said: “I feel a burden to complete what my colleagues and friends have died for. They died to make the world see what is going on, and I will make sure that happens.”

Helena Cartwright

Erhaim has trained more than 100 civilians to report and document life in Syria

The best of the rest: XCity Award nominees Adam Benzine

Jenny McCall

Benzine’s debut documentary, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, was nominated for an Oscar in the 2016 Best Documentary Short Subject category this year. Multiple international broadcasters also bought rights to the film.

George Arbuthnott

McCall won the Modern Slavery Media Award for best news story. Her work exposed the UK’s failure to protect victims of trafficking. The award was presented to her by Home Secretary Theresa May on AntiSlavery Day in October 2015.

While at The Sunday Times, Arbuthnott won ‘Breaking News Story’ at the British Journalism Awards, and went on to score a double victory at the Sports Journalism Awards 2016 for breaking last year’s scandal about blood doping in athletics.

Ben Whitelaw

Whitelaw is head of community and digital development at The Times and creator of journalism education website, Wannabe Hacks. He created a smartphone app for The Times which mirrors the concept of a daily print newspaper.

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Interview: Rhiannon McGregor

COMMENT

Good news bad news

As the news stands are stacked with doom and gloom, Britain’s latest paper, the New Day, claims to bring “an upbeat, optimistic approach” to its pages. Deputy editor, Dawn Alford, and the Daily Mail’s associate news editor, Stephen Wright, debate whether the headlines should take a more positive spin

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efore we launched, we asked people from all over the country what they like about newspapers and what stopped them picking one up if they’re a lapsed reader. Lots of people said that they would read print if the news wasn’t so depressing, because they get enough of that on Twitter and Facebook.

The problem is that traditionally, stories have only been considered newsworthy if they’re bad news. But life isn’t all doom and gloom; there are sad bits and great bits. That’s not to say that everything in our paper is sweetness and light. But it’s a question of editing to include more stories that will make the reader laugh, like this week we’re looking at Crufts.

Of course, the front page will always be the biggest story, whether that’s good or bad news.

But life isn’t all about the Syrian war; it’s also about watching great TV, playing with the children and taking the dog for a walk. As with all newspapers

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Life isn’t all about the Syrian war; it’s also about watching great TV there’s a pace, a way that people read through – it’s about the overall experience. I’m currently editing a story about the sex trade, so it’s not a positive story, and if that goes at the back then earlier on we’ll make sure we put in great pictures to make people smile.

There are also different ways of covering stories and including a more human element. Even in the sad ones there’s often a ray of hope that you can highlight and pull out. If you take the Paris attacks, we’ll all remember the pregnant lady hanging out of the window and the people who tried to help her. It’s not about dumbing down news, but you can add elements that will make people feel more positive when they finish reading. It’s about the overall experience.

Stephen Wright, associate news editor, Daily Mail

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s a senior reporter for crime and investigations my focus is usually sad news. A newspaper is full of different types of stories; you can’t ignore bad news just because it’s going to make people unhappy.

Whether it’s covering a horrible murder case in the UK or investigating a company that’s ripping people off, it’s all bad news but it’s in the public interest and people will want to read about it.

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You can’t ignore bad news just because it’s going to make people unhappy

I don’t buy the claim that as journalists it’s our duty to give news stories a more positive spin. I think you have to report it as it is.You don’t want to selfcensor on a story without a really good reason. For example,

in 1994 a number of girls’ bodies were found and a husband and wife, Fred and Rosemary West, were convicted of murdering and torturing 12 young girls. I covered that trial. There was a degree of self-censorship because some of the evidence was too horrific to report in full. In that case I had a responsibility to offer judgment on what would be acceptable –you don’t want people to have nightmares.

But when you have something like the Paris attacks, you can’t ignore that. You have to report on it. You can’t deliberately look for the good things, neither should you look for the bad things. You do have to get the mix right, but if something horrible like 9/11 happens, you can’t ignore it.

A story like that is going to dominate for weeks. It’s about trying to be a responsible journalist because, at the end of the day, readers have a choice about which newspapers they buy, so news really is driven by the market.

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Snapchat is for sex.

Facebook for stalkers.

LinkedIn for losers.

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An understanding of social media is essential for the modern journalist. Giles Coren shares his wisdom

ack in 2010, Giles Coren, restaurant critic and columnist for The Times, committed quite the social media faux pas.

He tweeted: “Next door have bought their 12-year-old son a drum kit. For f***’s sake! Do I kill him then burn it? Or do I f*** him, then kill him, then burn it?” Cue complaints

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“My advice to any journalist is to say whatever you want on Twitter. Be completely unrestrained, give free rein to your darkest imaginings and if you survive 10 years, you’ll be at the top and earning decent money. But the most likely thing is that you’ll have been fired or gone to prison.”

FACEBOOK

“Facebook is just a way for married people to find sweethearts from university and school and have a shag, or haunt them online. I thought Facebook was over. I cancelled it in about 2009.”

SNAPCHAT

“That’s just used for sex, isn’t it? I’m obviously not on that. But I can see the appeal, that the messages disappear. I’ve made the mistake of thinking that things on the internet are ephemeral, but actually they last forever and you end up looking like a controversialist.”

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from Mediawatch-UK, the general public, and (obviously) the neighbours themselves.

Now, Coren’s Twitter persona is more demure. His feed is mostly cute pictures of his kids and thank you tweets to people who like his writing. Older and wiser, what does Coren now think of social media?

“I get about 10 emails a day saying: ‘So-and-so wants to hook up on LinkedIn.’ It must mean that at some point, years ago, I filled in a profile on LinkedIn, but I don’t know how to access it. All the most boring people I knew from school or university try to contact me on it and thank God, I don’t know how to contact them back.”

INSTAGRAM

“I used to be on Instagram, but I found it insanely boring. I used to rail hard against people who take photos of their food and post them, because I always felt that it’s a weird, disempowered, disenfranchised, underpaid, loser subculture. Which is not to condemn them, it’s just an awful long way from what I do.”

REDDIT

“I did a show in America and they made me to go on Reddit and answer questions in real time [an AMA – ask me anything]. But I’m a writer, not a reader. I write it, they read it. I don’t want them to come back and talk to me.”

ANYTHING ELSE? “YouPorn. If you’re a selfemployed writer, doing nothing all day except write, a wank every three hours is key.

And without internet porn, freelance journalism, certainly for men, couldn’t exist.”

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Words: Megan Carnegie Illustrations: Isabella Bunnell

THE FREELANCER The kimono dressing gown was the first thing she bought when she went freelance, because working from home demands a fine balance between comfort and luxury. Her mismatched pyjama set is carefully orchestrated to look like loungewear rather than sleepwear; after all, she wouldn’t want the postman to think she was unemployed. Her flatmates (both work in PR, both enjoy the fruits of her stress-baking labours) are grateful she collects teapots rather than cats. But really, it’s only a matter of time.

The journalist’s wardrobe: decoded

Journalists may be familiar with their style guides, but they are notoriously unstylish. Wendy Chuck, costumer director of the film Spotlight, defined it succinctly in an interview with The New York Times. “It’s an unthought-about uniform. It mirrors school uniforms. You don’t really care; you’ve got other things to think about that are not clothes.” Nonetheless, style tribes have emerged from the journalist’s smart-casual dress code...

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She works at one of the UK’s biggest fashion magazines, but she’s far from raking in the cash. Luckily, she and her fellow fashion assistant take turns in dipping into the fashion cupboard when the editor’s away. There was a horrible moment last week when a decaf soy cappuccino met a pair of Isabel Marant culottes, but thank goodness, there’s an express dry cleaner next to the office. She knows small handbags are in season and even though she read Marie Kondo’s book from cover to cover, she can’t quite bring herself to downsize. A concertina bag like this fits her assortment of patterned notebooks, flats for the commute and Vitamin Water – with one voluminous pocket for fashion show freebies.

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THE BROADCASTER

THE REVIEWER

He learnt the importance of a wipe-clean jacket early on in his career – She’s eschewed the backpack she so coveted at City and has those Liam Gallagher parkas stand no chance when the first gig pint gets graduated to the handbag, although she never leaves the house without the basic make-up kit – waterproof mascara and concealer thrown. Headphones draped around his shoulders, he slips them on if ever he feels he needs a break from the office gossip. The only thing that says for midday touch-ups. Still haunted by the salmon pink top she wore business about him is his industrial-sized satchel, bought from Brick Lane’s on her first TV appearance, she prefers to keep the colour to her bottom half. After years of flattening stray bits of hair on camera, she’s flea market with his first paycheck. It’s bursting with empty Golden Virginia packets and his NME back catalogue – before it went free, of course. mastered the “sleek” ponytail and yes, she has a better side.

THE MUSIC JOURNO

Although he’s king of “smasual” (smart-casual) attire, he secretly enjoys dusting off his natty Paul Smith suit for the premieres. For him, glasses maketh a man, and he took great care in choosing them. No obvious brand of course – he describes his style as “the Muji aesthetic”. Equipped with an excellent man bag and scarf combo, he likes to offset the metrosexual look with desert boots or brogues. When he’s interviewing big names, he goes for a minimal look and picks one stand out accessory. Elton John once even complimented him on his pocket square.

THE REPORTER

Once upon a time his shoes gleamed, but the endless storychasing and dashing to and from court mean they have seen better days. He gets dressed in the dark to make it in for 7am, so more often than not he’s sporting odd socks. Alternating between plain tie and patterned shirt (to help mask those ingrained underarm sweat stains) is his specialty but even when the office is a tropical greenhouse, he refuses to wear shortsleeved shirts. He would hate to to be mistaken for someone working in IT. 25

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Words: Luke Terry and Charlotte Whistlecroft Illustration: Ian Baker

A hack walks into a bar... t’s nothing new for comedians to write for newspapers, magazines and websites.

David Mitchell, Frankie Boyle and Richard Herring all regularly put their thoughts on paper. However, a new trend is seeing journalists swapping their dictaphones for microphones and taking to the stage to perform live comedy.

In 2010, Steve Richards, political commentator for The Independent, created his live show, Rock N Roll Politics. Putting down the pen and picking up the microphone, Richards shares his experiences with his audience about life backstage in British politics. From texts from David Cameron to stories of Peter Mandelson’s vampiric presence in Westminster, Richards describes his comedic performance as “anti-satire”.

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But Richards is not alone as a journoturned-performer. He represents a new type of established journalist who is swapping the page for the stage. Former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman took his own comedy show, Paxo, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014, while Times columnist Caitlin Moran hosts An Evening With Caitlin Moran in theatres around the country. She recently created her own Youtube channel called Caitlin’s Moranifesto, to speak directly to her readers.

Even some of today’s most popular comedians trained as journalist before switching to stand-up. Professional comic Josh Widdicombe trained on City’s magazine course in 2007 before working as a sports reporter for The Guardian from 2008. Now a

full time stand-up, he has since appeared on Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, QI and his own sitcom, Josh, on BBC Three.

Widdicombe also co-hosts sports-based panel show, The Last Leg, alongside two other journalist-turned-comedians Adam Hills and Alex Brooker. Hills trained in journalism in Australia and once admitted, “Comedians are just lazy journalists. I can say whatever I want on stage and it doesn’t matter if I haven’t researched it.” Similarly, Brooker was a sports reporter for the Liverpool Echo and Press Association before becoming a presenter for The Last Leg in 2012.

But why are so many hacks making this leap to comedy? Tim Clark, who co-founded the comedy site Such Small Portions while

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...and gets onstage. Meet the journalists swapping dictaphones for microphones to become comedians

on the City magazine course in 2007, believes online content demands sharper, funnier writing.

Clark says: “The audience demand, mainly via social media, is for new content which isn’t standard news writing. People want to be entertained now with their online content in a way that no newspaper or magazine (except for Private Eye) ever did a decade ago.”

In 2014, Clark won the “Dave Turns The Tables” competition at Leicester Comedy Festival run by television channel Dave, in which journalists were invited to try standup. He beat writers from The Guardian, ITN and FHM to be crowned winner.

Now a freelance journalist, Clark believes online news reporting and live feeds have more comedic potential, while social media is the perfect platform for short, witty writing.

“If you read a live blog of a football match or follow PMQs, you’ll see snippets of humour. Twitter is good for that too. The length of a tweet is similar to the length of a Jimmy Carr joke”.

Other journalists have noticed the fluidity between online journalism and comedy, and are now trying comedy for themselves...

Stevie Martin, 27, left her fulltime role as staff writer for online magazine The Debrief in December last year to spend more time writing and performing with her sketch group called Massive Dad. The troupe, comprising Martin, Tessa Coates and Liz Smith, formed in April 2013 and has since run two sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and performed on BBC Radio 4’s Fresh From the Fringe.

Martin studied the magazine MA at City in 2011 before writing for the careers website Go Think Big and then The Debrief. However, after securing contracts for a show with both BBC Three and Channel Four with her sketch group, Martin turned freelance so she could dedicate more time to comedy.

Martin believes training in journalism has improved her comedy writing as it helps structure a joke. She says: “You want to end on a really strong sounding word and it can make the all difference between a quite funny show and a really clever one. Our jokes have a clever rhythm and that’s something I think I bring to the group because I’m a journalist.”

When working as a commissioning editor for The Debrief, Martin found that online was the ideal place for witty writing. In fact, she deliberately looked for professional comedians to write some of the lighthearted content.

She says:“I had journalists who were really meticulous and got really good case studies, but if we needed something really fluffy like ‘things you know if you hate avocado’, then I basically had five comedians I would go to.”

Ralph Jones, 26, is also a journalist who juggles writing with comedy.

Jones, who studied magazine journalism at City in 2013, writes for ShortList magazine but spends his free time performing with comedy group The Awkward Silence. He runs Criminal, an improvised comedy night in London, and is currently writing a radio show set inside a priests’ confession booth.

Like Martin and Clark, he believes that online journalism has become the perfect platform for comedic writing to flourish. He says: “People are taking their stand-up and writing it down for online. I think in another life a lot of the comedians in the 60s, like Peter Cook and David Frost, would be writing online pieces.”

Not everyone, however agrees the internet is helping turn journalists into comics.

Ariane Sherine says she sees a lot of weak comedy writing online: “It’s rare to read an article that makes you laugh out loud.”

Sherine has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Esquire, as well as writing for a range of TV shows (including Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Countdown and The Story of Tracy Beaker). All of that is on top of touring the country performing musical comedy.

She doesn’t think the need for funny online articles is helping transform journalists into comedians as they don’t use reliably funny jokes: “A lot of the writing is fluffy but with no real punchlines, or weak jokes instead of ‘bankers’.

“I can’t say I’ve ever seen an article where I thought: ‘If someone read this on stage it would really work and the audience would be laughing until their intestines flew out of their mouths.’”

Similarly, Eleanor Brayne-Whyatt, 23, a writer for the online comedy publication Illegitimate Theatre, believes that you shouldn’t always mix up entertainment and journalism. She says: “Online jokes are difficult because it is just someone reading it, there is no delivery. So many jokes rely on good delivery and the internet doesn’t really allow for that.”

So if the internet is not pushing journalists towards comedy then what is?

“The thrill of being on stage,” answers Sherine. “I think that’s all there is to it. It’s so different to the solitary, lonely freelance life or even being in a newsroom, which can be dull.”

Others claim it’s the chance to break the shackles of impartiality that draws journos towards the mic.

Maggy Whitehouse, former BBC presenter and finalist in the 2015 UK Funny Women Awards, argues: “The joy and difference between comedy and journalism for the news reporter is that the former allows you your own opinion whereas the latter should be impartial stating of facts with none of your personality showing.”

Whitehouse was a broadcast journalist for 35 years and the second woman in Britain to host a radio breakfast show when she started at Hereward Radio in Peterborough. After wanting a career change she became a stand-up comedian in 2012, aged 56.

“A good journalist is curious about what makes people tick; a bad journalist is a sociopath,” Whitehouse says. “Journalists make good comedians because the nature of the job means you have to be slightly off-the-wall and want to be in public and risk ridicule.”

Whether or not the internet is helping journalists transform into comics, the crossover between the two professions is clear. Stevie Martin has noticed this similarity.

She says: “A lot of comedians email me and say how do I write? Part of me wants to slap them and say ‘I spent thousands on an MA. You can’t just write.’ But they can - which is really annoying.”

Both require the ability to entertain, but also to take criticism and handle rejection.

“Freelancing is like the audition process,” Martin says. “You pitch something and if you don’t hear back, you didn’t get it.

But it becomes a good lesson. It makes you thick skinned.”

But above all, stand-up and journalism often share the same common goal.

As Sherine says:“We just want to experience people laughing at our jokes. There’s no better feeling than making human beings laugh.”

Inspired? Read these tips before ditching your desk for the stage Maggy Whitehouse says: Use your personal stories. “As a reporter, you talk to people from all ranges of life.

Their stories will intrigue and amuse your audience.”

Stevie Martin says: Don’t pin all your hopes on that first gig.

“Bad gigs will be the best thing to happen to you. You’ll cry so much but what matters is you try it again.”

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n a wet Wednesday afternoon, a slight blonde woman in a cream coat and a coral beanie comes dashing across the forecourt of a Westminster hotel and bursts through the revolving doors.

She is 10 minutes late, weighed down by an overstuffed rucksack, and terribly, terribly apologetic. “Hello, hello! I’m so sorry!”

This is Katie Hopkins, also known as “Britain’s most hated woman”, or “Britain’s most controversial columnist”. She once referred to a nine-year-old girl with autism as a “twat”, and has said that she would not let her children play with those with “lower class” names, like Tyler or Charmaine (her own children are Poppy, India and Maximillian).

When a Scottish aid worker was diagnosed with Ebola in 2014, she tweeted about “little sweaty Jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians”. Some 20,000 people signed a petition calling for Hopkins to be investigated on racism charges; a police inquiry was dropped after five months. She was investigated by police again after writing a column in which she described migrants as “cockroaches”. So incendiary was the article that the UN high commissioner released a statement saying that Hopkins’ language was “very similar” to that used in the Rwandan media before the 1994 genocide.

In the flesh, Hopkins is warm, accommodating and chatty. At 41, there’s something almost mumsy about her, with her pearls and her almost-trendy drainpipe trousers, as well as a trace of the jolly convent schoolgirl she once was. In the bland function room we’ve booked for the interview, she dashes to the mirror to fix her hair, before pulling out several packets of pills and spreading them across the table. She has suffered from debilitating epilepsy since she was 19.

That Hopkins is infinitely more pleasant company than she appears in print (or on television, or radio, or Twitter) doesn’t come as a complete surprise. A flick through past interviews indicates that this is how she operates: strident and shocking in her own words, charming and courteous when someone else is holding the pen.

Everything about her public image is closely choreographed.As soon as our photographer lifts the camera she switches on the Hopkins Look, arching a camp eyebrow and pursing her lips in disapproval.When we sit her down to record a quick video clip, she slips into the role of director: “You want to stand next to her, there, while you’re asking me questions.”

Since November 2015, Hopkins has been one of the Mail Online’s star columnists. “I feel like that’s my home,” she says, “and I completely love it.” It’s five days after The Independent announced it was to close its print editions, and Hopkins is smug.

“I look forward to seeing more newspapers collapsing in on themselves and wishing they were the Daily Mail.”

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Something to smile about: Hopkins’ loud mouth has attracted more than 627,000 Twitter followers

She’s not required to write a column for the Mail Online every week, although she does. Her only obligation, she says, is “to feel something, and be sufficiently excited or animated about it”.

A sample of the things Hopkins has felt excited or animated about since the start of 2016: Madeleine McCann; asylum seekers; the Cologne sex attacks; Gary Lineker’s divorce; the Oscars diversity row; Brexit; mental illness; the junior doctors’ strike and Kanye West.

It seems incredible – almost unbelievable – that anyone could summon up the bile that she does on such a regular basis, on such a variety of topics, and for it to be genuine.

But she insists, with great earnestness, that she really does believe everything she says; that it’s not just for attention.

“I would never write something just because I intend it to become the news.” At the same time, she admits to saying “some inflammatory things, where I know it will piss enough people off and make me laugh”, which seems pretty close to the same thing.

I would love it if next-generation journalists would not apologise

She is regularly excoriated by other journalists and public figures for her views.

The Guardian columnist Zoe Williams has questioned whether “Katie Hopkins” is a made-up media character or a “real person with an antisocial personality disorder”.

Writer and activist Jack Monroe is currently suing Hopkins for libel, after Hopkins accused Monroe of sympathising with the vandalism of a war memorial in May 2015. Hopkins’ Twitter feed, meanwhile, is permanently filled with abuse (“Katie Hopkins is a disgusting piece of trash” and “Katie Hopkins is an actual tumour can’t wait for her death” are two typical examples).

Hopkins insists that criticism doesn’t affect her. “Nothing upsets me,” she shrugs.

“Whatever names I get called, I literally have no feelings about it, just as long as I can come back with a comeback that makes me giggle.”

While more than happy to listen to other people’s opinions, she has never apologised for anything she has written, and thinks more journalists should be willing to nail their colours to the mast.

“One thing I hate to see is journalists distancing themselves from an issue,” she says. “Some journalists will write, ‘Now I >> 29

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would never argue that we shouldn’t be welcoming migrants. However…’” She rolls her eyes. “And then they get angry. Don’t let yourself off with that lame, pathetic distancing from the debate. It just means you were scared to say what you thought.

“I would love it if next-generation journalists would not apologise,” she continues. “I’d love it. Be big enough. Stand strong. If you think something, say it, stand there, mean it, believe it, take it and carry on.

Why say sorry?”

She looks at us intently. Before coming today, we’d made a pact that we weren’t going to debate Hopkins on anything. Others have tried to crack her, to make her repent, and failed; we’re not going to do it in half an hour, and besides, it’s not really our job. But the question doesn’t seem to be rhetorical.

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“Tell me why to say sorry,” she says. “Tell me why you’re not convinced.”

Well, we venture cautiously, sometimes you can say something – “Tell me what.”

Sometimes you can write something that’s so extreme – “Tell me.” She has positively lit up at the prospect of a debate, leaning forward in her chair, eyes shining. “Don’t be frightened of saying it,” she says, with an encouraging nod.

“Tell me the thing.”

Sometimes the content of your writing is so extreme, we say, that one could argue that it’s actually dangerous; that it’s racist and inflammatory. Hopkins shakes her head.

“You’re going waaaay around the edge. Tell me a thing I’ve said that’s racist.”

We mention her most infamous Sun column, the one in which she compared migrants to cockroaches and called on the British government to use “gunships” on boats carrying refugees to Europe. “Oh, that.”

Apparently, what she meant was that migrants have “this enduring quality”.

“Cockroaches seemed to me this idea that these people can survive sodding anything: bombs being dropped on them, crossing the Med, half-drowning.” She leans back in her chair. “Now, if you’re the Society for Black Lawyers [who reported her to the Metropolitan Police for the 2

article] then you will interpret that as being an entirely racist comment. So you’re not wrong, and other people would absolutely agree with you.” She flashes a kindly smile.

As a result of the Society of Black Lawyers’ action, Hopkins was arrested and questioned under caution, and the case was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service to see if she could be prosecuted. (It was eventually dropped.)

She claims that she refused to answer any police questions, instead writing and delivering a “brilliant” four-page speech. “I just went in and gave them both barrels, and off we walked.” We ask if she felt scared at any point during the investigation.

Hopkins shakes her head. She’d recommend the experience, apparently. “It was quite empowering. I would advise journalists to think about being questioned under caution with a barrister next to you.”

“But it’s interesting,” she continues. “You 1. Show’s over: the panel show If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World was axed in December 2015 due to low ratings.

2. Emma Willis interviewing Katie Hopkins as she enters the Celebrity Big Brother House in 2015.

3. For the TLC show, Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story, Hopkins gained and lost three stone to prove “fat people are lazy”.

4. Hopkins infamously said she doesn’t like children named after locations, despite naming her eldest child India.

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“Truth” “Fantastic”

London?

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“Unnecessary” Relaxation?

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perceive my comments to be racist, and I accept your view – I disagree, but I accept it. But the police said that if they hadn’t had the Society of Black Lawyers on their case, it wouldn’t have gone any further. I find black power to be very powerful actually, that’s what got me into trouble.”

Hopkins spent years building a public profile before moving to the Mail Online.

After appearing as a contestant on The Apprentice in 2006, she wrote a column for the Exeter Express & Echo, and was wheeled out onto various reality and political television programmes: I’m A Celebrity, Question Time, 10 O’Clock Live, Celebrity Big Brother. (In 2010, she married her second and current husband, Mark Cross, on the reality show Four Weddings; photographs of the pair having sex in a field had been splashed across the tabloids three years

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previously. (Cross was married to another woman at the time.) In October 2013, she joined The Sun as a weekly columnist.

There has been a Katie Hopkins documentary – Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story, in which she deliberately gained, then lost weight to show that fat people can, in fact, diet – and a short-lived panel show on the lifestyle satellite channel TLC, If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World.

It’s a substantial portfolio, but she laughs when we refer to her as a journalist.

She’s had no training as a writer or broadcaster; she read economics at Exeter University before attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst (she was thrown out when officers discovered she was epileptic).

“I haven’t really got used to the word ‘journalism’ at all,” she says. “It’s not until a lot have people have said, ‘You’re a journalist’ that I will finally say yes, I think I now am.”

She understands that people assume she was simply handed paid writing and broadcast work after appearing on The Apprentice, but says it took time and a lot of effort. “For 10 or 12 years I was working at it, writing a lot of articles for free that were rejected.”

Criticism of the quality, rather than the content, of her work is one of the only things that bothers her. “If I had done a radio show and my producer said that I didn’t deliver, or if I wrote something and [Mail Online editor] Martin Clarke rang and said, ‘That’s not the standard’, I would be mortified.”

So it must have stung when If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World was cancelled in December, after receiving poor ratings. (Only 69,000 people were reported to have tuned into the first episode.) She rolls her eyes when

I’m much more tolerant than most of the LGBT community, who I find extremely intolerant

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“Simple”

The Guardian?

“Dreadful” Twitter?

“Fabulous”

Donald Trump?

“Bombastic” Watch Katie Hopkins play the word association game on xcityplus.com we bring it up. “Oh my God. Bloody hell.”

She says she was “fine” with the show being axed; that she might not have signed up to a second season anyway, even if it had been on the cards. She’d wanted to make a show featuring “normal people - the Tesco checkout chick, the black cabbie driver” but the end result was a “chat show with celebrity randoms”.

Hopkins talks a lot about “normal people”.

As she tells it, she loves them, and some of them are beginning to love her, despite themselves. “You see it on Twitter. They say: ‘I hate Hopkins, but she’s bang on the money with this one.’” And despite her reputation as a snob (there was the children’s names fiasco, of course, and the time she said that families on benefits should not have more than one child), she’s quick to paint herself as a voice for the marginalised. “I offer a narrative for people who feel they no longer >> 31

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Today, freedom of speech is playing on Hopkins’ mind. LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell has been in the news after being “no-platformed” by a National Union of Students representative, and she brings the story up unprompted.

“The space we used to speak in has got smaller.

Jon Ronson really nails it in his last book [So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed]. He says that now, the perceived ‘intolerants’ like me live in this space –” she makes a tiny circle with her hands,“– and the people calling themselves tolerant and understanding live in this bit, policing this enormous list of things you can and can’t say.” She flings her arms wide. “I actually think I’m much more tolerant than most of the LGBT community, who I find extremely intolerant.”

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It’s classic Hopkins: make a reasonably thoughtful point, then throw in a crude generalisation about a minority group for good measure.

Her brand of brash conservatism has also endeared her to a certain presidential candidate. In December 2015, Hopkins wrote a column supporting Donald Trump’s claims that parts of London have become so radicalised that people are scared to go there. Trump posted a tweet thanking Hopkins, calling her as a “respected columnist”.

She hoots with laughter when we mention it.

While sceptical of some of Trump’s more outrageous claims – “Of course he’s not going to stop migration, that would be ridiculous” – she admires him deeply. “He stands up and says something in the face of oncoming flack. That’s what I like about him. It’s what I sometimes try and write about: capture the mood of a percentage of your nation, and just give it some welly.” She recognises something of herself in Trump. “It’s easy for the left to discredit him as a raging lunatic, but if he was

Donald Trump stands up in the face of oncoming flack and that’s what I like about him

a lunatic, he would be stood naked shouting at the rain. But actually, he has a force behind him, because he’s articulating some things that some people think. And I think it’s the same for me.” It’s a snappy soundbite, and one recycled, almost word-for-word, from one of her Mail Online columns.

Our time is almost up. Hopkins has a dinner date with the wife of David “Dins” Dinsmore, the former editor of The Sun. When we ask what she is working on this year, Hopkins becomes uncharacteristically vague. Normally a ruthless self-promoter, she mentions a project she can’t talk about, and her plans to carry on “perfecting” her Mail Online column. In a flurry of thanks and apologies for her late arrival, she bustles off for dinner.

Five days after our interview, Hopkins trends on Twitter – her reluctance to talk about the future suddenly makes sense. She is to have brain surgery in an attempt to cure her epilepsy. She might, she says, not survive.

She does, of course. Shortly after coming round from surgery, she’s back on Twitter. “A tweet from the High Dependency Unit to give you bad news. Even 12 hours in surgery and the removal of part of my brain has not shut me up.”

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HOPKINS’ MOST CONTROVERSIAL QUOTES

“A name is a shortcut for working out what class that child comes from and do I want my children to play with them?”

“Kate and Gerry McCann didn’t deserve £11million of our cash to look for Maddie or try to resolve their consciences or salvage reputations” Mail Online, Februray 2016

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“Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants.”

“Ginger babies. Like a baby.

Just much harder to love.”

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Twitter, July 2013

“Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not.

You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.”

The Sun, July 2013

Twitter, 8th March 2016

“Palestinians busy knifing Israelis.

2 state solution my arse. Filthy rodents burrowing beneath Israel.

Time to restart the bombing campaign” Twitter, November 2014

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“Adam Johnson does not deserve prison. That girl wanted WAG, got SLAG so played victim.”

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Ian MacNicol Freelance “Michael Phelps had won this event, the 200 metre butterfly, at the last two Olympic Games, but at the London Olympics Chad le Clos hadn’t read the script. With swimming photos, you often get messy backgrounds with the legs of the cameramen, but as all the attention was on Phelps, it was quite clean and authentic behind le Clos with the cameras elsewhere.

The Olympics is the most emotional of all events and that moment when you capture an unexpected gold doesn’t get any bigger than that.”

Matt Dunham The Associated Press “The photo shows Cuba’s Angel Valodia Matos kicking the referee after being disqualified for taking too much injury time.

It was the bronze medal match during the men’s taekwondo over-80kg class at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. They argued for a bit and then he kicked the referee in the face. He tilted back as if he was about to do something, and I just pushed my button down and got a short sequence of photos. They had to gradually push him out of the arena as he was still shouting. He and his coach were banned for life after that. It’s not something you expect to see, especially at the Olympics where it’s all about sportsmanship. It’s nice to do stuff that you wouldn’t normally see.”

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“Matthew Pinsent won his fourth gold in Athens in 2004. He was so emotional at the end; it just made you realise how exhausted he was and that he gave it everything. The other three guys were singing the national anthem, but he just broke down in tears. At the start, when the rowers were all sitting in their boats ready to go, it wasn’t all arenas and fanfares.They have to row 1.5 kilometres without any support or motivation apart from themselves. There was a huge amount of pressure for the Brits to win, and I’ll never forget when Pinsent called it with the last stroke and the boat almost lifted out of the water as they edged it.”

Bob Martin Sports Illustrated >> “This was the US four-man bobsleigh team that went on to win the gold medal at Vancouver. It was a foggy, miserable day and I couldn’t find a good place to work. On a dull flat day, you just have a dull flat slope, so you can’t get a good picture, but the US team set off when the snow started to come down really heavily. I like the picture because we managed to get into an opportune place.

I finally found the perfect shot by climbing underneath a different track – the one that was used for the luge run. Once there, you could look straight down the barrel of the lens at the bobsleigh start. It was a bit of a naughty spot because though it wasn’t unsafe, it wasn’t an official photo position.

I was lucky that day because most people got nothing, as the bottom half of the course was in fog.”

Clive Mason Getty Images “This was the boat of Nico Delle Karth and Nikolaus Resch from Austria at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. As they came toward me and went around the mark, the buoy that everyone has to go around, a huge wave completely smashed Nico in the face. It was remarkable that he stayed on because the conditions were so bad. We had had calm weather for the best part of two weeks, then this one rogue day. A lot of the photographers’ cameras were so wet they broke down. Luckily, mine was still working and I got the shot. The photo is not as razor sharp as I’d like it to be, but these pictures are so dramatic it doesn’t matter.”

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“It’s the Chinese diver Huo Liang in the 10 metre platform contest at Beijing that Tom Daley competed in. The majority of divers wear a swimming cap, but Liang didn’t. Every time that he would dive and spin, all the water that was built up in his hair would spin off. The light behind him really added to the effect. There was only a certain section where you could get the droplets coming off his hair as he shot into the black. You had to be in that position. You go to any event and there’s hundreds of photographers, so getting something different is very difficult.”

Adrian Dennis Agence France-Presse “I was assigned the cross-country event during the equestrian competition at London 2012. After shooting virtually the same kind of action picture for about 20 riders, I had to move on to keep my sanity. While waiting for the next rider, I leant over the back of the stand and I noticed the shadows of spectators. I started to envision what it would look like when a horse ran directly beneath me. There was only going to be a few more minutes before the sun was obscured and the picture would be lost. Luckily for me, Thai rider Nina Ligon rode past and I made this frame. I knew right away the picture was quite special.”

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in the digital age

Standing up for your beliefs on screen can lead to trolling on social media.

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“I know there are certain jobs that I’ve had over the years where I’ve been employed to get more diversity on screen, but I am also qualified to do the job so it’s never been an issue for me.” White’s previous jobs include presenter and senior broadcast journalist at BBC Look East, BBC News and reporter for BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat.

But White has also suffered rejection for her skin colour. “I never wanted to get into entertainment TV, but a commissioner once told me not to consider it because ethnic minorities are rarely employed for entertainment shows.” She sighs. “It’s utterly ridiculous. But when you’re not the one making the decisions, there’s not a lot you can do other than continue to work hard and prove that skin colour doesn’t stop me having a job I love, or being good at that job either. I hope that at some point it might become irrelevant.”

But this seems a long way off, considering that much of the online abuse White receives is racist. In the past, she has received comments such as “Deport her. Send her back to Africastan” and “This ‘black’ wouldn’t have even had a ‘LIFE’ if it wasn’t for all the young soldiers who died in the war… she should be ‘SACKED IMMEDIATELY.’”

So how does she deal with the comments?

“It depends on my mood,” she laughs. “On social media I talk about a lot of things I’m passionate about that aren’t always well received, such as women’s issues, racism and LGBT. It’s important to remember that the people saying vile things online would never dare say it to your face. ” White believes the best weapon is silence, but on the occasions that she does respond she is witty and scathing.

When someone criticised White for “feeling smug” about an article she shared on Twitter, she responded: “You replied within 3 mins of me tweeting it. So I’m going to guess that, no, you didn’t read it.” She explains: “When someone realises I’ve got the better of them I just get a stream of abuse, but by that point I’ve moved on to something else.”

Of course, 20 years ago when White was training, social media didn’t exist.“It’s a whole new realm and although it’s important to be aware of it, I don’t let it define who I am,” she says. “I have to remember that I worked really hard to get to where I am and I’m not going to let a few people ruin that.”

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Charlene White, pictured above with fellow ITV presenter Mark Austin, remains buoyant

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he should be sacked immediately.

She is an ungrateful immigrant.”

For three weeks every year, Charlene White receives a torrent of online abuse for her decision not to wear a poppy on camera. As a supporter and patron of many charities including the Poppy Appeal, White feels she would be going against her beliefs to favour one charity on-screen.

“Of course it would have been easier to give in,” says White. “It’s horrible to get the nasty messages I do for three weeks a year, but I have to stand up for what I believe in.” White’s father and uncle were both in the army and fully support her decision not to wear a poppy: “They were surprised and shocked when the backlash started, because the abuse that I get is personal and has nothing to do with the forces.” White’s decision is also fully supported by ITV. “It’s a difficult situation for them to be in,” she admits. “They don’t like to see me putting myself in a vulnerable situation, but I’m allowed to have opinions.”

On 9 April 2014, White became the first black woman to present ITV’s News at Ten. “I didn’t realise until two days later when the former chief exec at ITN came over to my desk and said: ‘You know you made history two days ago.’” But for White, it’s not a big deal.

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inder. ‘Hello’ by Adele. Serial. What do they all have in common? Each has been downloaded over 100 million times. The first series of Serial, Sarah Koenig’s truecrime podcast, was one of the biggest cultural phenomena of the last 18 months. It dramatically raised the profile of podcasting, prompting excitable declarations of a podcasting “renaissance”. So if you were one of the millions gripped by Koenig’s murder-mystery, here are five more journalistic adventures that show just what the medium is capable of.

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ongform is a website that collates the best narrative journalism and creative nonfiction from across the internet. The companion podcast, which has been running for three years, is made up of conversations with journalists, editors and podcasters about the tricks of their trade.

Interviews with the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, Jazmine Hughes (associate editor at The New York Times Magazine) and Ta-Nehisi Coates (author and national correspondent for The Atlantic) veer seamlessly from discussion of their writing to life’s bigger questions like race, religion and Katy Perry.

Death, Sex and Money Presenter: Anna Salle Network: WNYC Studios Country: US

ritish podcaster Helen Zaltzman made her name with the comedy podcast Answer Me This, which has totted up 331 episodes since launching in 2007. Her latest creation, The Allusionist, is a mixture of highbrow facts and downright silliness lasting between 10 and 25 minutes. Zaltzman describes them as “sort-of documentaries, sort-of essays”.

The show combines reporting, comedy, interview and storytelling. Zaltzman says the absence of scheduling contributes greatly to the success of her shows: “The lack of restriction is incredible, you never have to cut good material or eke stuff out, like you might with radio where you have a set time slot.” There are very few independent British podcasts and even fewer full-time podcasters; Zaltzman is an inspiring exception.

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nna Salle was a political broadcaster for New York public radio station WNYC when the company launched a station-wide competition for new podcast ideas in 2014. Salle won with Death, Sex and Money, an interview show comprised of intimate conversations with listeners and celebrities about the important things they rarely talk about.

Episodes cover personal tales of everything from heroin addiction and police corruption to adultery and the joys of living alone. Guests have included Bill Withers, Jane Fonda, Scott Aukerman, a senator, an astronaut’s husband and a sex worker.

The Allusionist Presenter: Helen Zaltzman Network: Radiotopia Country: UK

Mystery Show Presenter: Starlee Kine Network: Gimlet Media Country: US

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tarlee Kine launched Mystery Show in 2015. The six-episode series is a cross between investigative journalism and sitcom, with Kine solving wonderfully mundane mysteries such as why someone owns a number plate that reads ILUV911 or how tall Jake Gyllenhaal is.

Kine’s USP is her willingness to let investigations diverge into entertaining but fruitless dead ends. She continues questioning people long after many journalists would move on with the narrative. The result is a heartwarming and inspiring reminder of all the stories waiting to be told, if someone would only ask.

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Song Exploder Presenter: Hrishikesh Hirway Network: Radiotopia Country: US

f writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then talking about it on a podcast would seem even more fruitless, given that the songs themselves are usually available on the very same device. Hrishikesh Hirway’s Song Exploder proves otherwise.

On each episode Hirway “explodes” a song with the help of the musicians who made it, using clips from the mixing desk and anecdotes about the songwriting process to tell the story of how it was made. The podcast has featured the likes of Björk, MGMT and The Microphones, who share their inspirations and techniques.

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Is virtual reality the future of news? ’m crouching on a boat in the middle of a tumultuous Aegean sea. A mother and her four-year-old child, distressed and shivering, sit across from me draped in yellow blankets. As I meet her gaze the mother begins to relay the harrowing tale of her family’s flight from Syria. They want to go home. It’s too much to take, so I remove my virtual reality (VR) headset. I’m safely returned to a small dark room in BBC Research and Development (R&D) at number one Euston Square in north London.

The video, an early edit of the R&D team’s newest VR feature, is an animated reconstruction of a boat battling its way over the sea from Turkey to Greece. This is one of the latest in a surge of VR news productions.

VR journalism has become increasingly popular in newsrooms across the globe. The New York Times, Vice, Fox News and the BBC are among the media organisations that have introduced VR content since the beginning of 2015. In February, the Associated Press news service launched a VR news channel.

VR places viewers in an interactive, threedimensional and 360-degree environment.

Content is either filmed or animated and can be viewed through a specially-made headset, or on a smartphone or computer.

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As tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Samsung invest in headsets that will make VR footage increasingly accessible, news channels and documentary filmmakers are starting to get in on the action. VR hardware and content revenue is predicted to reach £56bn by 2025 – roughly the size of today’s desktop PC market.

Zillah Watson, editor at BBC R&D, is working to lay down the foundations for future generations of VR filmmakers. She and her team have been working with VR since June 2015 when, armed with a large multicamera rig, they visited the refugee camp at Calais. They planned to record footage for a feature-style report on the settlement.

But while filming, the crew stumbled across a breaking news story when striking French ferry workers caused a closure of the port and left long stretches of the motorway at a standstill. They decided to film a 360-degree video, showing refugees armed with knives as they attempt to climb into stranded lorries, in hopes of crossing the channel into the UK. The Calais video premiered on the BBC’s YouTube channel in September 2015, and has received about 37,000 views.

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Calais. That was the real breakthrough,” recalls Watson.

In this instance,Watson and her crew were able to capture the action at a safe distance.

But recording VR footage often requires more risk taking than traditional filming. “To really capture the essence of what’s going on with VR you need to be right at the centre of the action, and that holds all sorts of other dangers for the crew,” explains Watson.

So far, all of BBC’s content has been viewable solely as click-and-drag 360-degree videos on YouTube. However, this mode of viewing is the lowest rung on the ladder of the VR experience. Its immersive capacity

VR Timeline Mar 2014 - Facebook buys Oculus Rift for £1.4bn Jun 2014- Google Cardboard released Sep 2015 - BBC releases Calais film Nov 2015 - The New York Times release ‘The Displaced’ Feb 2016 - AP teams up with AMD

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is dramatically increased with the use of a headset, but the clunky hardware comes at a price – Facebook’s state-of-the-art Oculus Rift headset currently retails at £410.

For the moment, the Google Cardboard headset is an affordable bridge between content creators and their audience.

This lightweight pair of cardboard goggles costs only £15 and works by positioning a smartphone at an optimal distance from the wearer’s eyes. Two inset lenses create a 3D effect when combined with a compatible VR app.

“Somebody downloading an app on their phone, putting it in cardboard and putting it on their face will [end up being] the equivalent of somebody holding a giant blocky mobile to their ear,” jokes Sam Dolnick, associate editor of The New York Times. “The Cardboard will probably be an icon of this moment in 10 years.”

The New York Times distributed more than one million Google Cardboard headsets to print subscribers in conjunction with the November 2015 release of its first VR video, The Displaced, which they made available through their VR app.

The 11-minute film follows the narratives of three refugee children who fled their homelands to camps in South Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon. The viewer watches the children as they navigate swamps and abandoned buildings, discussing both their terror in Syria and the hardships they face in their new home.

After the video’s release, people called the news desk in droves asking how they could provide help and support to the refugees.

Dolnick believes the video was so effective because it reached viewers on a heightened emotional level.

He says: “You read a million stories about refugees, but we heard over and over again that this was the first one that made you realise, ‘Oh my god, there are a million kids living in these places.’ You knew that intellectually, but the film made you realise it and feel it in a new way.”

VR has been likened to an “empathy machine” by industry leaders like UN

filmmaker Gabo Arora and immersive journalist Nonny de la Peña, whose respective VR documentaries, Waves of Grace and Kiya, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

“Every time we show the film to people, we get an intense emotional reaction,” says Arora, senior advisor at the UN whose documentary of Waves of Grace, follows Ebola survivors in Liberia. “It creates empathy – not pity – which is an important line to draw.”

This heightened emotional reaction places a much greater responsibility on the reporter or filmmaker. As with any journalistic medium, mistakes or misrepresentations can be introduced in the production and editing processes. For example, particular elements of scenes could be omitted or distorted.

Nic Fildes, technology and communications editor at The Times, is wary that VR viewers are open to manipulation and misinformation. He says: “The impact of a VR report, inadvertently or deliberately misreported, could have a traumatic effect on the viewer and increase its polarising effect.”

While this ethical question is pertinent, news organisations are currently more

concerned with the challenges and limitations of creating VR content.

Like Dolnick, Zillah Watson thinks the value of VR lies in the greater “sense of understanding” offered by placing viewers into an otherwise inaccessible context.

However, she says the BBC still has a long road ahead in integrating VR content, along with a host of tough editorial decisions.

She says: “It’s early days for the technology.

At the moment, there’s no formula for any of these things, and it needs time, exploration and lots of mistakes before we find out what really works.”

Camera Technology Ricoh Theta S a handheld 360-degree camera GoPro Odyssey 16 synchronised cameras, captures 8k30 video Panocam HMC 3D 360 24 synchronised cameras, head mounted

1. Hana, 12, stands in a field in Lebanon in The New York Times’ film, The Displaced 2. XCity tries out Google Cardboard goggles

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ournalists are selfish people. Being a defence correspondent is not dissimilar to being in the forces.

Both jobs involve being away for long periods of time in dangerous war zones, which is really tough on those you leave behind.

For much of my career as a war correspondent, Peter was my boyfriend.

We met at a conference in 1999 and were together for around seven years. I would often be away for several months at a time, usually in Iraq or Afghanistan. He was a management consultant at the time.

I think I missed five Christmases and New Years. I look back now and I feel really, really guilty. But I also believe that stories need to be reported and people need to know.

Being a woman adds to the guilt. I think of all of my male colleagues, such as Paul Wood

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or Ian Pannell, who are both defence and international correspondents for the BBC. Very few people ever say to them: “What about your wife and family? What do your children say?” Women are always asked.

The nature of the job made contact with Peter hard. In the early phases of the campaign in Afghanistan, between 2001 and 2003, I would wake up at 5am, spend the whole day on patrol, update the news every hour and spend most of the night editing footage, getting three hours of sleep if I was lucky. This was my routine for several weeks at a time and by the end I was shattered.

Even when I was free to talk, the technology was unreliable and intermittent. In 2001, for example, I was in one of the poorest areas of Afghanistan, in the north. The people were so poor they didn’t have windows, doors, TVs, radios or electricity. My team and I were camped in a tent in the garden of what was called the Foreign Ministry of the Northern Alliance,

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a military front that fought against the Taliban government. It was a one-storey mud structure with a garden. There was no running water or heating; it was freezing at night.

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the first time that I’d been to an area of conflict where mobile phones worked. Today you can email, FaceTime or Skype from the middle of a war zone, but back then there was an immense distance between you and the people you loved. I also slightly cut myself off from home because I was so immersed in the job.

While I was away I chose not to tell Peter everything because I didn’t want to worry him. I became close friends with the crews that I worked with and it really helped to talk to them if something had gone wrong or we had seen something horrible. One day I was with a camerawoman called Julie Ritson and we saw a minibus full of people blow up in front of us. We had to clear up the mess with the soldiers and we were very traumatised by it. It was good to be able to talk to Julie after that, about what we felt and what we thought. It wasn’t counselling but it

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A long-distance relationship is tough enough – but imagine if your other half worked in a war zone. A BBC correspondent and her partner reflect on seven years together

1. Wyatt touching down in Basra, Iraq, 2008 2. Happier times: Wyatt and Davis at a friend’s wedding in Edinburgh, 1999

was someone to talk to. I never told Peter or my family about things like this.

Even when I came home I found it difficult to explain to Peter and my family what it was really like, and often I didn’t want to talk about it. I always felt so grateful for simple things like running water, and having somewhere where I could shut the door and all of the chaos would go away. I think because of this Peter found that I was much less sympathetic for things that were going on in his life. If he told me about his bad day at work I would just think: “At least you have a house and you haven’t lost your family.” It’s all relative. When you come back from such extreme situations, there’s no time to adjust to normal life.

I have a new boyfriend now and Peter is married. We are still very much on good terms and try to get together once a year.

Being in a relationship with a defence correspondent is never going to be easy, but it’s certainly been my favourite job. It’s about everything – arts, culture, humanity. I’d also like to think it’s an important job, because I think it’s vital to have people in areas of conflict who are not involved, who can put it in context and try to make sense of it for a wider audience.

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ne year I counted that I had seen Caroline for 54 days in the entire year. Of course the nature of the job is that it is completely unpredictable.

Often when she was supposed to come home something else would happen,

causing her to stay. Covering wars is not a predictable business.

When she was in an area of conflict she would very occasionally get a mobile signal to work, depending on where she was, and this was expensive so conversation was limited.You couldn’t just have a chat.

Quite often I would go for weeks and months without hearing a thing and it was difficult to know if that was just because she was busy or it was something rather worse than that.

No, Caroline didn’t tell me everything, but I’m not criticising her for that. I think sometimes when you’ve been in as ghastly a situation as she had, there’s no vocabulary to explain it unless you’ve been there, so often she didn’t try. I expect that she was probably also protecting herself, because talking about it to me wouldn’t have helped the situation.

People in these sorts of jobs often end up forming very close bonds with the other people there and their loved ones can get left out.

It was difficult for her to adjust to normal life when she came home. She’d been living on the edge. Once she said to me: “When you’re out on patrol you realise that every step could be your last.” Suddenly, “What are we going to have for supper?” sounds a bit mundane. I tried to talk about it but she didn’t really want to.

It’s not dissimilar to when the military come back – they have seen things that are highly abnormal and so it’s difficult to talk to someone who hasn’t been in that situation and can’t appreciate what it must feel like.

There was probably a part of her that didn’t want to sound melodramatic. It did make things quite difficult when she was home. It was hard to find an equilibrium again.

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Additionally, things that were once important became irrelevant. On one occasion I had lost my job, which to me was a big deal, but she was in real danger so I just tried not to talk about it. I felt guilty for making her worry about it. In the end the lack of communication certainly put a strain on the relationship.

The scariest moment for me was during the early part of the Iraq invasion when the bombing began. I’d heard it on the news, but couldn’t get hold of her at all and didn’t know what was going on. That’s the one that particularly sticks in the mind. Of course, when Caroline did eventually get in touch she would never go into detail but it was just a huge relief to know she was alive.

In addition to the risks of being shot or blown up, I was also worried about sexual assault. It seems to be increasingly common in war zones – either that, or we are just more aware of it – but it’s certainly not unheard of. Being a woman makes you a different kind of target. Should women be reporting on the front line?

Definitely. Caroline is very good at getting the woman’s side of the story and talking to local communities in a way that a male correspondent can’t.

The hardest part was trying to get on with my life and suddenly turning the relationship on and off. When Caroline was uncontactable for weeks at a time I had to go into my own little world. Caroline would sometimes be given a couple of hours notice before flying out, making the transition even harder.

Was it worth it? Sadly, after a long breakup, things didn’t work out for us because of the nature of our jobs – but she’s a cracking journalist and human being with phenomenal stories to tell.

In addition to the risks of being shot or blown up, I was also worried about sexual assault

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ou’ve spruced up your Facebook and can think in 140 characters. Millenials are at your disposal. Unfortunately, you’re still one step behind Generation Z – the new generation, born between 1995 and 2008.

Despite 92% of Gen Z being online daily and 24% being online “almost constantly” (according to a study by American think tank Pew Research Center), they are turning away from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Advertising agency Sparks & Honey found that more than 25% of 13 to 17-year-olds deleted their Facebook accounts in 2014 and last year, reality star Kylie Jenner said she was quitting Instagram (although she had yet to follow through at the time of going to press).

So what platforms are they using and why? And what are the values that define a generation where digital reigns supreme?

#BeAuthentic Constant access to global news has bred a generation of social activists. But they’re also savvy. Sparks & Honey found that Gen Z’s main concerns include global warming and gender equality, but they want their news delivered to them in a way that is “authentic”.

Authenticity relies on stars who are relatable. Digital agency Deep Focus carried out a study of 902 Gen Z-ers, which found that 63% want to see “real people” on their media channels instead of celebrities.

The best kind of “real people” are the Gen Z-ers themselves. Malala Yousafzai, and 16-year-old TED Talk education activist, Adora Svitak, are this generation’s poster girls and Lele Pons, a 19-year-old from Venezuela, is the most watched person on Vine.

Tell a story Gen Z likes to see its authentic stars deliver narrative-driven content.

Deep Focus found that 67% of viewers prioritise storytelling.

Youtube is now collaborating with Gen Z-ers to make narrative videos on its new subscription channel, Youtube Red. The channel, which launched in Europe this February, currently has four original video series, including one from Youtube star, PewDiePie – a 26-year-old Swedish vlogger with more than 40 million subscribers.

Stories must be told quickly and safely. Gen Z favour social media platforms like Whisper (an app where users can send and receive messages that are superimposed over images)and YikYak (a message board where users post on threads in their geographical area), because users on these platforms are anonymous. Whisper’s head of communications, Aishwarya Iyer, says anonymous platforms remove egos from social media – perfect for Gen Z-ers to “share their real thoughts and feelings”.

Similarly, on live-streaming video app Periscope, and Snapchat (a photo and video messaging service with 100 million daily users) content is deleted immediately after it is viewed.

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Dissecting

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Move fast

Going native

Dwindling display revenues and ad blockers have given birth to native advertising.

Aimée McLaughlin asks whether this compromises editorial integrity

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n a train journey home from NewYork one evening in 1950, “The Father of Advertising” David Ogilvy came up with an idea for one of his clients, Guinness. Immersing himself in a Yale biologist’s book on shellfish, he conceived “The Guinness Guide to Oysters”, which ended up being so successful that it spawned spin-offs including game and cheeses.

The Guinness Guide was an early example of advertorial (a hybrid of advertisement and editorial), a concept that has been around since the forties. But native advertising, which matches the editorial tone of an online publication, is a far more recent phenomenon. The Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) first ruling was on a piece of native content about Flora ProActiv published on The Telegraph website in 2011, which it felt was not clearly marked as sponsored content.

Native advertising also allows creative teams to think more laterally about how they associate a brand with a piece of content, according to digital strategy consultant and former group director of Haymarket Consumer Media, Patrick Fuller. “BMW might have an advertorial that talks about how some cars hold their value better than others, including a BMW. But online there might be an article about driving holidays, which is obliquely relevant to what they sell but is not actually about the product.”

Thanks to declining rates for traditional online advertising and the advent of ad blockers, Fuller says publishers are increasingly looking for alternative ways to monetise web and mobile sites.

“People don’t like ads and that’s becoming increasingly obvious in the way they consume online content.” Unsurprisingly, native advertising has exploded over the past few years. It is estimated that by 2020

the native content market will make up more than half of digital display advertising in Europe, according to Yahoo and Enders Analysis. The model has been particularly successful for new media brands such as Buzzfeed, which has an in-house creative team of more than 75 employees creating its custom video and listicle advertising content. Legacy publishers have also been trying to keep up – The Guardian set up its own branded content division, Guardian Labs, in 2014 and The New York Times’ T Brand Studio expanded to include a London office last year.

But Fuller argues native is not always as lucrative as it can seem. “It’s easy for a publisher to produce something lavish for the client, which they get paid a lot of money for.

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because they’re well qualified people with editorial skills.”

The explosion of native has also raised another concern: transparency. Brands including Red Bull, Marriott Hotels and luggage company Carryology already employ editorial teams to produce their own native advertising. It is a trend that Fuller thinks will continue to grow, but is “a tricky balance to strike because of the potential conflict of interest between advertising and editorial.”

Do readers have the right to feel duped by an ad masquerading as a feature? Not according to Laura Dye, digital account manager at Bauer Media.

“Readers don’t mind about native as long as it is creative content that speaks to them,” she says. “We put a spin on it in a Heat way or a Grazia way, so it has the unique tone of voice of the brand, but also ticks all the boxes of what the client wants.”

Native advertising has worked especially well for Bauer’s 2014 brainchild:The Debrief, a website aimed at women in their twenties.

Its business model is almost entirely based on native and according to Dye, 64% of its readers don’t mind reading branded content as long as it’s of interest to them.

One of The Debrief’s most successful collaborations to date was with jeans brand Levi’s in 2014. Master tailor, Lizzie Radcliffe, gave insider tips on how to customise your Levi’s – including spraying them with vodka

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to stop them from smelling. “We wouldn’t normally have access to a Levi’s tailor,” Dye explains. “It’s cool content that readers want to know about and that’s actually going to help them in their everyday lives.”

Dye puts the success of The Debrief’s advertising model down to the site’s millennial readership. “They’re definitely more responsive to native than older readers. They are digitally savvy and more open to blogs and loads of other sources to get their information,” she says.

Research carried out by YouGov and Reuters last year suggests the same.

Some 13% of 18 to 24 year olds said they felt more positive towards a brand after reading a piece of native content on a news site, compared to only 8% of respondents overall.

Blending native seamlessly with editorial is key to keeping millennial readers engaged, according to Dale Lovell, director of advertising agency Adyoulike, whose clients include Nintendo and Coca-Cola. “They don’t like to have that interruptive element, whereas the older generation is used to it because of ad breaks during television programmes for instance,” he says.

Younger audiences also appreciate the value of exchange when it comes to using websites for free, Lovell points out. “They’re happy to not pay for digital content, but they understand that there has to be an ad element in it somewhere,” he says.

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Lovell thinks the key to its success so far is creativity. “Like all the best adverts, if you inject a bit of humour then things work,” he says. “It’s about thinking outside of that advertorial box.” One of the company’s most popular pieces of native to date, which was created for Dentyl mouthwash and ran in The Independent, was written entirely from the perspective of a bathroom sink.

But native advertising’s critics argue that it is not all harmless toilet humour. There should be an open debate about the blurring of lines between editorial and advertising, according to Matt Wilson, press officer at the ASA. “There’s nothing wrong with native content blending in with the furniture of a website, but it can’t be cloak and dagger.

It shouldn’t be so immersed that you can’t separate what is editorial and advertising.”

Advertisers must be honest with readers in order to find the right balance, he says.

“They need to be upfront and clear at the start. You shouldn’t have to go through an entire article thinking that it’s one thing and then finding out that it’s another, it’s just not fair.The person who that happens to has the right to feel a bit miffed.”

The ethics of native may be up for debate, but it currently accounts for £509m, a fifth of the UK’s total digital display spend in 2014, says the Internet Advertising Bureau.

And as long the content is well-executed, it can engage readers in the same way. As 1960s advertising innovator, “The Socrates of San Francisco”, Howard Gossage put it, “People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.”

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A history of the listicle

Articles written as numbered lists are often scorned as the ultimate dumbed-down digital journalism – but listicles existed long before the internet

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Cats Who Are A Better Human Than You. 10 ways Jeremy Corbyn can improve as Labour leader.

16 Women Doing Amazing Things in 2016. Sometimes, digital journalism can feel like nothing more than a sea of lists.

It makes sense as listicles are almost comically well suited for the internet. The bite-sized format is perfect for online: a recent survey by news syndication company Mobiles Republic found that most people prefer to “snack” on online journalism, dipping into content frequently and for short periods of time. And the listicle’s ready-made structure is a gift to digital journalists under pressure to produce a steady stream of shareable content.

As a result, listicles are easily dismissed as a symptom of a dumbeddown digital age (you wonder if it was a coincidence that BuzzFeed, a pioneer of the format online, banned the word in its style guide in 2014 – around the time it was attempting to establish itself as a centre for

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‘serious’ reportage). Investigative journalist Nick Davies, who explored the phenomenon of internet “churnalism” in his book Flat Earth News, describes listicles as “news for people who’ve had their brains removed.

For anybody who is interested in the world, they act like a great big ‘trivia alert’, warning you to go elsewhere for your news.”

But online listicles aren’t always frivolous.

“A crucial part of ­­­ my job is being able to present complicated ideas, arguments and information in the clearest way possible,” says Max Benwell, a digital commissioning editor at The Independent. “One of the most popular pieces I’ve ever commissioned was a listicle about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – a hugely complex deal between the US and the EU. Turning the writer’s original 1,200 words into a listicle was probably one of the best decisions I’ve made as an editor.”

While now heavily associated with digital media, listicles have been a literary and journalistic staple for centuries. In 1592, the Elizabethan satirist Thomas Nashe published a pamphlet with a section titled ‘The Eight Kindes of Drunkennes’. “The first is ape drunke; and he leapes, and singes,” Nashe wrote. “The second is lion drunke; and he flings the pots about the house, calls his hostesse whore… The fifth is mawdlen drunke; when a fellowe will weepe for kindnes in the midst of ale”.With the addition of a handful of GIFs, Nashe’s list could be published on the internet tomorrow.

From the 17th century, etiquette books started to pop up in British bookshops. Essentially long lists of dos and don’ts, these were forerunners to the “handy hints” lists that proliferate online today (see Thought Catalog’s ‘15 Ways to Attract A Good Guy’, published in 2015, for a case in point)­. A proto-listicle about gentlemanliness

Tantalising numbered headlines have been splashed across glossy magazines since the mid-20th century

5 HISTORIC LISTS REWRITTEN FOR THE INTERNET AGE The Seven Deadly Sins 7 Things We’re Definitely All Guilty Of Doing The 10 Commandments 10 Rules To Follow If You Don’t Want To Go To Hell

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The Domesday Book 13,418 Places In England And Wales And All Their Stuff The Sumerian King List The 21 Best Semi-Mythical Dynasties of Ancient Southern Iraq The Bill of Rights 10 Amendments That Prove The World’s Newest Country Is Actually Pretty Awesome

featured in the fourth Earl of Chesterfield’s 1786 book Principles of Politeness. Number 26 on the list advises men against “smelling to the meat while on the fork, before you put it in your mouth. I have seen many an ill-bred fellow do this, and have been so angry, that I could have kicked him from the table.”

Fast-forward a couple of centuries to the mid-20th century, and numbered cover lines began to be splashed across glossy magazines. Today, listicles are often criticised for being ‘clickbait’: online content that relies on sensationalist, teasing headlines to attract attention, social media sharing, and increased advertising revenue.

But Cosmopolitan has been using the same tantalising tactic since at least 1965, when Helen Gurley Brown took over as editor of the US edition. Who could resist buying a copy of the June 1980 issue, with its promise to reveal what ‘3 Kinds of Men a Nice Girl Had Better Avoid Before She Becomes His Jibbering (and Soon to Be Discarded) Slave’?

Listicles might have found a natural home online – but they’re far from an internet invention. In a 2009 interview, the Italian novelist Umberto Eco said it best. “The list is part of the history of art and literature…

It has an irresistible magic.”

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The power of

packaging

hen did you last earmark a page or plunge nose-deep into a magazine to inhale the heady scent of freshly-printed ink? In the age of Snapchat and clickbait, these moments are few and far between. But independent publishers have created a trend for a new kind of optimised content: print products where the medium is just as important as the message.

The magazines in question come in odd formats or feature unusual materials, like blood and algae. MagCulture founder, Jeremy Leslie, thinks these outlandish designs are a reaction to the commodification and lower print standards of mainstream magazines that must compromise to turn a profit.

He says: “It’s easy for smaller independent magazines to do something that’s much more focused on the physical item. On the one hand, some production techniques can be gimmicky; on the other, it adds a level of thought to the magazine.

Some people look at these designs and think, ‘Yes, but is this a magazine?’ It starts a new conversation.”

Vangardist, Vienna www.vangardist.com

This Viennese “progressive men’s magazine” put the AIDS issue into readers’ hands by printing its May 2015 issue with the blood of three HIV positive donors. Partnering with advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, the magazine injected 90 millilitres of sterilised HIV positive blood into two kilos of ink to print 3,000 special editions of its “HIV Heroes” issue.

Each blood-infused and safe-to-touch copy was sealed in a plastic envelope, asking readers to open the package and break the seal on the stigma and misinformation that still surrounds the HIV virus.

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Werk, Singapore www.workwerk.com

Issue 23 of Singaporean graphic designer Theseus Chan’s Werk is a collaboration with renowned German publisher Gerhard Steidl, who is known for his mastery of book printing techniques.

Entitled “Deformed”, the magazine features the handmade collages and surreal compositions of young Japanese artist, Masaho Anotani, who inspired the project when he sent a carefully wrapped package of art to the editor.

Chan explores layered typography and unconventional materials, like fluorescent inks, shipping materials and foils. The resulting book is an anarchic bricolage of printed odds and ends.

Sirene, Milan www.sirenejournal.com

Sirene is uncompromisingly devoted to the sea: this indie magazine for thalassophiles (lovers of the ocean) is printed on paper made from the algae 1 that infests the Venetian Lagoon and upsets its fragile marine environment.

The overgrown algae are cleared away, harvested, dried and mixed with recycled paper particles to make the speckled pages that host Sirene’s graphically minimal flow of nautical content.

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Meet the magazines giving print a facelift

Posterzine, London

www.peopleofprint.com Founded in September 2015 by creative collective People of Print, Posterzine is a poster disguised as a design magazine. The monthly monograph unfolds to reveal a letter from editor Marcroy Smith, an interview with one featured printmaker and a wall-ready A1 poster by the issue’s featured designer. Issue 6 shone the spotlight on Londonbased designer and typographer James Lunn, whose frenetic black and gold poster design captures his creative philosophy: “accidentally on purpose”.

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It’s easier for smaller independent magazines to do something much more focused on the physical item.

Rubbish Famzine, Singapore www.rubbishfamzine.com

AnOther, London

Credit: Posterzine, Rubbish Famzine, George Harvey for AnOther

www.anothermag.com

Print meets pixels in this biannual independent fashion magazine that featured a high-definition moving cover of Rihanna for its spring/ summer 2015 issue.The relatively sleek 9”x12” LED display features video footage that readers can click and play to see Rihanna’s photoshoot in the edgy garb of fashion house Alexander McQueen.

By plugging in headphones, the reader can switch to audio mode and listen to an album-length soundtrack by musician and producer John Gosling, called ‘The Sound of McQueen’. The 400-page issue was one for collectors, with only 1,000 numbered editions manufactured.

Rubbish is a biannual zine dreamt up by a family of four, parents Pann and Claire Lim and children Renn and Aira, to chronicle their lives. Each issue adopts a new shape to complement its concept. The fourth and most recent issue, released in September 2015 is themed “Garden City” after the family’s jaunts around their hometown – the island city-state of Singapore.

The issue’s five printed components come stacked between a wooden flower press, with the screws of the press holding the pages together.

Earlier editions featured tiered multisized booklets and another arrived in a tin box resembling a time capsule.

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The hidden face of

Anas travels to court in his signature disguise: a bead mask beneath a bucket hat

justice

He's one of the most famous names in Ghana but few could pick him out of a crowd. Madcap investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas talks disguises, democracy and death threats

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nas Aremeyaw Anas is a difficult man to define. To his many fans he is the "James Bond of journalism". A man of the people taking the fight to the corrupt and crooked. To his critics he is a reckless vigilante, a showman and a criminal.

Raised in a military barracks, Anas trained as a barrister before moving into journalism in the late 90s. After his maiden scoop – achieved by posing as a street hawker to expose bribe-taking police officers – he took the decision that would define his life.

He would go undercover on a full time basis, concealing his identity to all but his closest associates and wearing a disguise whenever he made a public appearance.

So protected, he set about implementing his own inimitable brand of journalism.

Following the three tenets of his motto: “Name, shame and jail”, Anas carries out audacious, meticulously planned sting operations in which he goes undercover, armed with miniature cameras hidden about his person, capturing a first person account of whichever transgression he has decided to expose.

Once he has gathered enough evidence to guarantee a conviction, he takes the case to the relevant authorities, reaping the headlines as he goes.

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Named, shamed and jailed: Anas' top 5 scoops Torture on the High Seas Korean employers' maltreatment of Ghanaian fishermen at sea.

Orphan's Home of Hell Child abuse and corruption in Ghana's biggest state orphanage.

Nigeria's Baby Traders Scammers exploiting childless couples desperate for babies.

Spirit Child Witch doctors purchasing albino people's body parts for medicine.

Ghana in the Eyes of God Endemic corruption in the judicial system, from clerks to judges. Over the course of two years spent undercover, Anas filmed 500 hours of footage showing 34 judges accepting bribes to alter their decisions in court.

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While his anonymity shields him from backlash once he goes public, allowing him to go repeatedly undercover as himself, he also adopts elaborate disguises in order to get close to his targets. He has camouflaged himself as an imam, a woman, a ragged beggar and even as a rock (essentially a piece of tarp with two holes for eyes).

The results speak for themselves. Since 2010, he has checked himself into a psychiatric hospital to bring down a drug ring, exposed a rash of quack doctors in Nigeria and, last year, revealed widespread institutional corruption in Ghana’s judicial system.

His collected stories read like a who’s who of exploitation and vice in sub-Saharan Africa and although he has lost count of the amount of people in jail as a result of his work, his feats have certainly put him on the map. In 2009, even Barack Obama had a kind word for Anas, the “courageous journalist who risked his life to report the truth”.

Dr Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar, a lecturer at City University and former editor of the Abuja Bureau for the BBC World Service, confirms that Anas’ reputation has long spread beyond Ghana, into Nigeria and throughout west Africa. "Anas is quite unique,” he says. “I don’t know of any

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Anas delivers a speech

journalist, whether in Africa or elsewhere, who applies the kind of style he applies.

“It is the measure of support he has among the people that, despite the kind of enemies that he might have because of his reporting, he still remains alive and largely safe.”

As for Anas, he considers himself a pragmatist. The morning I am due to interview him I receive a series of confusing messages from different email accounts, confirming the appointment at differing times throughout the day. He is held up in court, it seems. Then there is no signal. I wonder whether this is some form of vetting process, imagining a crack team of Ghanaian investigators scrutinising my intermittent Twitter offerings as I wait. Eventually, I get a Skype call from one of the various accounts I’ve added over the past five hours. His video, naturally, is switched off.

“Yes,” comes a voice purring down the line. “This is Anas.”

He tells me his journalism is a product of his society. “Growing up, I looked around and I saw people looking for solutions.

Solutions to hunger, solutions to children who are being trafficked, solutions to people who decide to trample on the rights of the poor and the deprived. I thought there is no point in doing journalism that doesn’t lead to the progress of society. What I am doing is solution journalism because the problems here are staring me in the face.

“If we give the powerful the chance, they would always want to dominate. If we give evil that chance, it will triumph over good in society.”

The first 10 minutes of our call pass in a steady stream of rousing blockbuster rhetoric, delivered in a half-whisper that is somehow both measured and urgent, as though he were passing on a vital secret.

He tells me about the “everyday life” he has sacrificed, how he rarely sleeps in the same bed for two nights in a row and has to have 24-hour protection.

These, Anas says, are necessary precautions for anyone in his line of work. “I receive intimidation and death threats every

day. They are very normal. I live beyond it now. Your enemies will not smile at you. It is up to you as a journalist to ensure that you live to tell your story.”

Some of these lines I have heard before.

For a man whose anonymity is so key to his survival, Anas is hardly media shy. Interviews with Vice, the BBC, a TED Talk and a documentary biopic based on his life, all in the last three years, do not quite chime with the image of a dedicated recluse committed to social change.

Clive Patterson, a producer and director at production company Insight TWI who has worked on several films with Anas, says that while he has no doubt he has “always worked in the interests of journalism and the story”, he is nonetheless partial to “outrageous, some would say meaningless, stunts”.

He says: “He’s a showman, there’s no doubt about that. He loves the limelight.

He courts attention and he’s a publicity stuntman. He consciously plays to the press in the way that certain famous people do.”

He is less concerned, though, with Anas’ stunts than his ethics. Last year Patterson shot Justice!, Al Jazeera’s inside story follow-up to Ghana in the Eyes of God, Anas’ three-hour film that showed 34 judges and 140 court officials allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for throwing out claims or reducing sentences. The bribes were from Anas, posing as a relative of those on trial, filming the entire time.

On the one hand, the documentary has left Ghana reeling – it shows justice for sale amid endemic institutional corruption.

On the other hand, there have been claims of entrapment. During the investigation, criminals were freed, among them an alleged rapist and a man charged with armed assault.

“It’s a slightly grey area,” admits Patterson.

“The whole investigation probably flew in the face of about 50 different regulations…

He was bribing government officials.

"Obviously in the west we have standards of journalism which do not apply to the African context, at least legally. Anas has grown and developed as a journalist in an

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There is no point doing journalism that doesn't lead to the progress of society

Anas as a policeman

Anas unmasked

environment which is different to ours so his norms aren’t the same as ours.”

Anas, for one, has no qualms about his methods. When I raise the question of ethics he is singularly unapologetic. “If I see a criminal, I will not leave him alone in the name of some separation in journalism.

“People are not happy about promises.

People want to see action, no matter how it’s done. While that action makes sense and it serves society, they are prepared to see it and they will give you their support to make that change.”

For now, popular support is behind him.

When Ghana in the Eyes of God was released in a series of free screenings across the country, many wore t-shirts with messages of support. “I am Anas,” read one. Another: “Anas is watching, do the right thing”.

Call him what you will, the positive change Anas’s work has had on his society is undeniable. When I ask how long he intends to keep going, his reply is both grandiose and humble, extraordinary and inspiring.

“I pray that all this comes to fruition and we are able to minimise corruption, minimise human rights abuses. Then perhaps, the need for me to do what I do will be less… but in the face of crying mothers and deprived, poor people, I can't say: ‘OK I’m tired, I want to quit.’ I can’t just sit there when I know I can do something.'

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Reporting the Eritrean

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t the end of last year, half a million of Eritrea’s 6.3 million population had fled the country. After Syria, this is the second biggest refugee crisis in the world, but their stories rarely reach the world’s media. Reporters Without Borders has called Eritrea a “black hole of information”, ranking its press freedom the worst in the world for the past eight years.

Investigative journalist Paul Kenyon is one of few to cover the crisis. For the BBC’s Panorama documentary, ‘Children of the Great Migration’ in 2015, Kenyon followed the migrant route from Eritrea to Europe. His story demonstrates the ethical and editorial dilemmas, constant government surveillance and tedious bureaucratic barriers involved in telling a story that has previously gone untold.

We had six four-wheel drives, a lot of gear and filming equipment, luggage, a cameraman, a producer, translators, and two Khartoum government escorts.

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he documentary took eight months to make. Initially we wanted to follow a migrant boat out of Tripoli, Libya, but there were ethical issues. For example, if you see it capsize, what do you do? If you help, you’ll be overwhelmed because there might be 200 people trying to get in your boat.

We looked at hiring 200 life vests but once you start taking control of the situation, you become involved; they don’t see you as a journalist but as a lifeline.

In the end, we decided to go further back down the route towards the Eritrean border because these hypotheticals posed too much of a problem.

I tried to persuade the Eritrean embassy in London to let us into the country but, because journalists have been banned since 2001, it was an absolute nonstarter. The best thing we could do was to get in through Sudan.

We got to Khartoum, Sudan, without a visa. A contact of mine – a delegate attending a conference on smuggling in Africa held by the International Organisation for Migration – put our names on the register so we snuck in pretending to be diplomats.

We were there for a week trying to get permission to film near the Eritrean border but were denied. The temptation is to say “screw you”, but obviously you can’t. You’ve got to maintain relationships.

After four months of negotiations and meetings, we got in.

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e needed permission from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to go into a refugee camp in Sudan and we had to be escorted by a spy from the Sudanese intelligence service. People are very scared of Sudanese intelligence agents, but he was a really gentle and romantic guy. He showed me that he’d been writing poetry in English. One line, a plea to a friend with whom he had lost touch, read: “My friend where are all our joyful evenings in the city, our white nights in the days of joy?” It wasn’t particularly good but it was powerful. He asked me if I’d go through his poems and correct his grammar.

When we got to Shagarab, the refugee camp in Kassala, east Sudan, there was more negotiating to be done. Even though it is a UNHCR camp, it’s run by the Sudanese authorities, and the head was not prepared to let us in. So we had another meeting.

Having said nothing throughout, our poet approached the head of the camp, whispered something in his ear, showed him something in his wallet – probably his ID revealing his rank in the Sudanese intelligence service – and we were in.

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e spent one day in Shagarab. The camp hosts some 21,000 refugees, 95% of whom are Eritrean. The other 5% are mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia.The camp is not lots of people in tents with fires and pots of boiling water; this one has semi-permanent housing.

There was an Eritrean woman in her 20s with a young child who had left her army husband behind. She wanted to be in the documentary.

She said [Eritrea’s president] Isaias Afwerki’s regime kills people and she wanted it to end. However, we decided we wouldn’t use her because broadcasting it could have endangered her and her family.

When we first tried to interview the Eritreans, they all ran away in the camp. You can’t force people to talk to you. Eventually I got one or two, and then the rest became a little more confident. We interviewed maybe 20 people in the end, but a lot of them had similar stories so we chose three or four of the best contributors for the documentary.

These guys are utterly desperate and many asked for money and for my phone number. I’m sympathetic and I used to give out my number but I stopped because I would get constant calls. One caller said that if I didn’t send him money he would kill the next person he saw.

With the kids it was difficult because their parents weren’t there to give permission to film. So we blurred their faces, what we call a “light blur”, which means you can still see some of their features.

it “bringing the story home”. I’ve tried to keep away from that because it distorts the truth.

To celebrate on the day the Panorama investigation was broadcast we got drunk and watched the tweets come in. I think it got three million viewers but I don’t think our Sudanese hosts watched it. They shut down communications afterwards. Life just goes on.

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We stayed in Kassala, the main town on the Eritrean-Sudanese border. The first night we stayed in the UNHCR compound. My producer, Howard Bradburn, was annoyed that there wasn’t any hot running water there, but there wasn’t any hot water in the whole town.

We stayed in three different hotels, all exactly the same. You end up eating pieces of fried chicken and chips and drinking lots of Coca-Cola, because it’s a dry state.

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fter Shagarab, I wanted to go to Eritrea. Eritrea has a shoot-to-kill policy for migrants who try to cross the border. When I suggested trying to go to the border, suddenly our poet-spy didn’t speak very good English.

Eventually, he took us to an army checkpoint that was a four-hour drive out of Kassala. We met a guy sitting on a plastic chair, drinking Coca-Cola in his little hut by some prickly bushes.

The border wasn’t that dramatic. It was just a road.

I went to speak to the Eritrean guards on the other side. They were confused about why anybody would be walking into their country. I gave them some water and some English money and they gave me an Eritrean nakfa, which is probably worth about one pence. Eventually the poet waved us back. Even though the border didn’t seem dangerous, he didn’t want us to provoke the guards.

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The unstoppable

Andrew Marr Broadcaster, reviewer, painter, stroke survivor.

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t must be exhausting being Andrew Marr. While most people are yawning their way into the office on a Monday morning, Marr hasn’t even started his weekend. It’s just before 10am and he’s already recorded his BBC Radio 4 show, Start the Week. Straight after our interview, he’s getting stuck into a book review for The Sunday Times. Then it’s preparation for this week’s Andrew Marr Show.

We meet at his local hangout – Caffè Nero at BBC New Broadcasting House in central London. He greets us each with an iron-grip handshake and declines our offer of coffee – he’s been drinking it all morning. Our interview is punctuated with jovial “hellos” to colleagues swinging by for their morning caffeine hit and within minutes, he’s cracking jokes with the photographer. Whenever someone takes your photo, they’re taking “a little slice of your soul,” he warns. “That means I have no soul left.”

Marr is on the ball. Does he think we should leave the European Union? “Good try,” he laughs. He is quick to qualify any discussion of politics by saying he’s “not a Tory and not Labour, just BBC”. Mid-flow, we mention his 2008 superinjunction, used to gag the reporting of an affair with a fellow journalist. “I don’t talk about that anymore,” is the brisk, blunt response. In the next breath, he’s chatting about driverless cars.

In conversation, Marr commands attention, his voice booms with authority. Any response is matched with his beady-eyed gaze – giving a hint of how it feels to be in the Marr hotseat.

We listen intently as he tells us how to interview. “The notion that the interviewer is the important thing riles me. Theatrical interviewing, shouting out how tough I am, how macho I am, that annoys me, because as far as I’m concerned it’s about listening to the person being interviewed; not seeing the interviewer pirouette and preen,” he explains.

“But sometimes, you do have to be aggressive in your interruptions and keep up at them.”

He is known for his fearless interviewing tactics and non-stop working life, but there are moments when Marr reminds us that he isn’t superhuman.

There was a time he did not consider himself cut out for a broadcast career. “My voice is too posh in Scotland, where I started [my career], and I don’t, to be fair, have an obvious face for television.”

We suspect he is referring to his prominent ears and cheeky grin, but his appearance has also changed as a result of a major stroke in 2013. At 53 years old, Marr was considered young to have

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a stroke, but has since admitted that his busy work schedule and fondness for highintensity exercise was a likely contributing factor. He appears to have recovered well, but we are reminded of the event when he sits down and lifts his dormant left arm onto his lap, where it remains for the rest of our interview. Occasionally it’s put back in place after a wild gesticulation with his other hand.

Nonetheless, he’s done a pretty good job of regaining his position as Britain’s number one political commentator. With his eponymous Sunday morning politics show, he is accustomed to delivering ruthless, agenda-setting interviews. Alastair Campbell was reduced to tears under questioning about his role in the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, later revealing that he would have liked to punch Marr on air. And a once flourishing friendship with Gordon Brown – Marr said the pair would “sit up late at night and talk about Scottish philosophers” – was ruined when he asked that question about Brown’s use of prescription painkillers during his time as prime minister.

The press pounce on these occasions with rabid excitement, and they have become a hallmark of the show. If it doesn’t happen, Marr is in trouble. It’s a lot of pressure – so how does he prepare? Days not filming are spent poring over newspapers, blogs and the stories involving future guests. Every Friday, Marr will sit down with the show’s editor Rob Burley and a team of researchers to discuss the game plan: the questions that will get under his subject’s skin.

By Saturday, the researchers have prepared an arsenal of information for Marr to grill his interviewees effectively – from spending figures to contradictory quotes with which to probe politicians. The final step is to rehearse the interview, with Burley playing the role of an upcoming guest. This isn’t a unique tactic – Marr tells us some poor person in Ed Miliband’s office has to pretend to be him, too. “I know that Ed Miliband went through his interview with me seven times. It’s knocking up, like practising to play a game of tennis.”

Politicians are more media-savvy than ever, meaning interviewers can’t rely on a signature style. Marr is known for his dogged line of questioning, but will mix up his act depending on who he is speaking to and their mood.

Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt was forced to endure him reading out angry letters from junior doctors, while a clash with outgoing London mayor Boris Johnson earlier this year resulted in the Daily Mail moniker of “the grand interrupter”.

He cites a confrontational pre-election interview with chancellor George Osborne – “quite aggressive, by my standards” – as another example. The chancellor was trying to tell Marr where he had managed to find £9bn for the NHS in a time of austerity. “I kept trying to find out where he’d got it from. Taxes? Down the back of the sofa? He didn’t have an answer.”

Marr says an unpredictable approach is necessary to fend off rehearsed answers.

He recalls a July 2015 interview with Jeremy Corbyn, when he adopted a softer attitude and was subsequently accused of giving the opposition leader an easy ride. “I asked him, ‘Are you a Marxist?’ Every other politician would have said ‘certainly not’, but Jeremy was genuinely thinking about the question.”

Corbyn is high up on Marr’s most memorable interviewees list. Alex Salmond is there too, because “you never quite know what’s going to come out”. Marr enjoys Boris Johnson’s brazenness (“he likes to be vivid”).

His favourite? “The one I enjoy most is Osborne,” who, Marr says, is more willing than some to engage in intellectual debate on camera.

The worst are those who refuse to deviate from their rehearsed answers – “if I took off all my clothes and danced on the table, the same script would come out” – but Marr won’t name a least favourite (“I think that’s unfair”). He does, however, take a pop at Gordon Brown and his “great big grinding answers that go on and on and on”.

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Marr shakes his head at the thought of the now infamous pills question: “Not my finest hour.” He outraged Number 10 by asking the then prime minister about his reliance on prescription medication.

The question was described by Brown’s office as an inappropriate intrusion, leading the BBC to launch its own defence of Marr’s questioning. Indeed, Marr himself went on to defend the incident under oath during the Leveson Inquiry, where he described the question as “legitimate in the circumstances”.

He regrets the episode: Marr fulfilled his duty to get the nation talking, but not with the story he wanted.“I asked it in a maladroit way. And it was my fault to go for an easy hit.

The thing was, it was a damn good interview but the rest of it got blown away by that question. He cracked about the banking system, and said [he’d] made mistakes.”

It’s not all hostile questioning and confrontation, though. Every Sunday, the BBC puts on a post-wrap breakfast for the show’s guests. “That’s when you get the anecdotes, stories and gossip. It’s great fun.” We are firmly told it’s all off the record.

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But sitting down over breakfast serves an important function. “It’s a chance for political enemies to sit down, have bacon and eggs together and have a natter,” Marr explains.

It’s not so different at home.

Marr’s wife, Jackie Ashley, is The Guardian’s political columnist. Debates around the dinner table are commonplace in their Primrose Hill household. He says the rest of the family usually make fun of his “lack of politics”. “Jackie comes from a staunchly Labour background; her dad [Jack Ashley] was a Labour MP. I come from a Scottish Tory background. As you can imagine, a fair amount of genial abuse goes on inside the family.”

Politics has been a big part of Marr’s life since childhood. By the age of nine, he was already preoccupied with political rebellion.

Defying his Conservative parents, he wrote to the Chinese embassy in London, asking for help in setting up a Communist cell at school. They sent a box of Mao’s Little Red Books that Marr handed out to classmates, earning him the nickname “Red Andy”.

Now, instead of picking sides, Marr prefers to debate, always hungry for the next political crisis. He is feverish about the prospect of a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. “It’s a massive, really complicated choice. Will the rest of the UK start to experience the explosion of interest in politics and genuine debate that Scotland went through at the time of the Scottish referendum, where you couldn’t go into a bar or a coffee house without people arguing about Scotland’s destiny?”

Marr’s passion for debating appears to be a key reason for his move from print to broadcast. He describes his editorship at The Independent as “the best and worst of times”, and despite working “ludicrously hard” during the two-year stint, he admits his love of reporting encroached upon his managerial capability. “I don’t think I was or would be a very good manager,” he says. “[Columnist] Simon Jenkins once said to me: ‘You and I have the same problem, we like to report in our voices, we don’t want to be prima donnas, which is why we shouldn’t be editors.’”

His executive skills left much to be desired, although he confirms it was the split ownership of the newspaper that spelled his eventual demise, rather than the unsavoury

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article which compared Tony Blair to his predecessor John Major – rumoured to be a possible reason at the time. Mirror Group CEO David Montgomery sought a “yuppie tabloid”, whereas the Irish tycoon and coowner, Tony O’Reilly, wanted an austere pro-European broadsheet. Staging a massive redesign seemed the only way to straddle two such incompatible models.

“There was the pressure on me to get rid of so many journalists that I didn’t think it honourable or right to carry on. What the owners wanted to cut would have equalled the entire loss of the sports and business teams. So I wrote a letter to the board saying: ‘If you agree this budget, as editorin-chief I would refuse to implement it,’” he explains.

“They fired me.”

But Marr is not a man to hold grudges. Our meeting comes 10 days after the cherished newspaper brand announced its digital-only conversion and he is reeling from the blow.“It filled a really important part of the ecology of British politics, it was socially liberal, with its heart on the left, but very pro-capitalist and pro-market in the way that The Guardian is not. The loss of The Independent as a big national voice will be noticed, perhaps more than people think at the moment,” he says.

His worry for The Independent is that it will bow to the pressure of having “lots of

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Above: Theresa May in heated debate on The Andrew Marr Show. Her silk suit was later doused with milk (by accident, according to Marr).

flickering things down the side,” (read: cat gifs and pop-up advertising) and in turn, lose its influence. The publications that have succeeded in generating ad revenue are, in his eyes, worlds away from their print counterparts – the Mail Online and The Daily Mail being prime examples. He surmises that unless a successful online revenue model is generated, newspapers will drop like flies and supplies of journalists will dwindle. He points to rumours that The Daily Telegraph is up for sale, says that the Daily Express is “self-evidently weak,” and The Guardian, “eating through its cash pile at a terrifying rate”, will soon be forced to make some serious decisions. Buoyed up by the wealthy News Corp, only The Times stands a chance.

Surely print is not dead if, in the same week The Independent closes, Trinity Mirror unveils its tabloid the New Day? His belief, quite simply, is that you can never wave goodbye to any medium. “Think of The London Review of Books. Two and a half thousand words of obscure Serbian poetry and yet there are people who want to read it.”

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He would say that, though. Marr is a voracious reader whose favourite book is the 1,225 page epic War and Peace, a surprising choice for someone with “an incredibly short attention span”. He needs constant stimulation and will skip from one project to the other if he finds himself even “mildly” bored. He is juggling a BBC 4 series about 20th century British fiction and two BBC films about another possible Scottish referendum, a topic very close to the Glaswegian’s heart. Then there are the numerous book reviews he churns out.

His mind may be working in overdrive, but his body will always bear the signs of the stroke. An unforgiving schedule of 18hour days was compounded by an intense rowing session in his workout shed, and he recalls experiencing “a blinding headache and flashes of light”. It was only after struggling to get out of bed the next morning and seeing the downward droop of his face in the mirror that he realised he’d had a stroke. He had torn a carotid artery and doctors told him he was lucky to live, let alone move. Three years on, Marr walks with a slight limp and can barely use his left arm. His recovery is down to extensive physiotherapy – and painting.

Although always a dab hand with a brush – he swaps painting tips with David Hockney, no less – he said (in The Scotsman) that it had moved from a relaxing hobby to a form of “physical exercise”.

He discusses his extra-curricular projects with a childlike thrill, and leans forward to explain his latest show. The BBC 2 film focuses on neuroplasticity – the brain’s creation of neural pathways to adapt to external input. This holds particular significance for Marr, whose stroke destroyed a piece of his brain the size of a golf ball. Although he was subject to “endless” scans after the stroke, as the show’s sole case study, he has agreed to undergo a few more. Not someone to do anything by halves, he will also endure a series of “innovative” treatments, such as having electric currents passed through his head, to speed up neural activity.

There is no doubt that his obsession with the brain also helps him understand what was, by anyone’s standards, a remarkable recovery. “You can get yourself out of problems by thinking,” he says.

Brain injuries are devastating.They can end careers, or one’s self as they know it. But as our interview with Marr draws to a close, it is clear that neither is the case. We wonder, if he has any advice to give his younger self?

“Be able to do everything.”

He picks up his review copy of The Great Acceleration, which explains how disruptive technology is speeding up the pace of our lives. Marr is no exception. There are books to read. Politicians to grill. Canvases to fill.

From where we’re standing, he took his own advice long ago.

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City of migrants Words: Carolyn Wickware

People from all corners of the globe now live in London. One photographer is documenting what it means to be New British

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agnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins has been capturing the dark recesses of British culture for the past 40 years, with his collections on the Teddy Boy lifestyle and British poverty considered classics of documentary photography.

Now, the 68-year-old is shifting his lens to focus on the UK’s growing population of immigrants.

Steele-Perkins has embarked on a project to photograph London-based immigrant families from all 196 countries in the world for his project, New British, which highlights London’s diversity. It’s an aspect of British life he has wanted to address for many years, but now the statistics are in his favour. A report released in January by the University of Oxford shows

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the number of foreigners living in the UK increased by 4.5 million between 1993 and 2014 to 8.3 million.

Since starting the project in 2014, SteelePerkins has photographed families from 97 nations through word of mouth, leafleting and social media, with community Facebook groups and local newspapers proving the most useful.

“People tend to feel more relaxed about letting a stranger into their house if I’ve gone through one of these communities,” he says.

With a family on board, it’s then a matter of scratching the country off his list. SteelePerkins has no vetting process. “It’s not like I’ve got 25 families to choose from, and I like the idea that it’s first past the post,” he says.

“It’s random. The family members don’t have

It’s a performance.

I’m trying to get everybody to project something to me

to all be from the same place. That’s how they are in the real world.”

Steele-Perkins doesn’t limit the number of nationalities one family can cover or what his subjects can consider to be their family. Being blood relatives isn’t vital.

“The family from Afghanistan invited their cousins and even their cousins’ boyfriends and girlfriends,” he says of his largest, and his favourite, family photo yet. “It was a very relaxed session. They were playing music.”

Yet this session with the Yousofi family, who have lived in London for 10 years, started as they usually do – very formally.

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Steele-Perkins usually suggests taking a break after 10 minutes to change the SD card in his Canon 5D Mark III digital camera, whether he needs to or not.

During this break, Steele-Perkins scopes out the best composition for his photo.

“I look at how the family relates to each other,” he says.

“It’s a performance. I’m trying to get everybody to project something to me.”

With the Yousofi family, it was a case of catching them off-guard. “I told them to talk amongst themselves and they started joking around. That was the photo.”

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Steele-Perkins has been documenting immigration and upheaval for most of his career and, among several other honours, he was presented with a World Press Photo award in 2000 for his image of displaced people during the Angolan civil war.

While he doesn’t believe in the “single heroic image” of war, faced with photographs like that of the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian refugee, Alan Kurdi, he acknowledges that they have the power to make forgotten situations newsworthy again.

“Photographs don’t change political realities,” he says. “It’s in the process of all the photographs and all the media reports, that’s

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where pressure builds. Then the situation needs a strong picture at the right time.”

With families from 99 countries still to photograph, Steele-Perkins says those from Africa and the Arab world have been the most elusive, and he is looking to hire a Muslim researcher to help make those connections.

But once the project is complete, he hopes his series will highlight an important part of British history and contribute to the national immigration debate.

You can see more of Chris Steele-Perkins’ New British photo series on his website, where you can also contact him if you’re interested in taking part.

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1. Yousofi family from Afghanistan, now living in Camden. From left to right: Abdullah (nephew), Haroon (father), Owain and Hamza (nephews), Liva (friend), Milad (son), Negeen (niece’s daughter), Maani (son), Imaan (niece’s son), Amina (mother) and Homaira (niece).

2. Iryna Vlade Kushniarevich from Belarus, her Polish husband Andrzej Stanislaw Zielinski who has a building company and their son Yves live in Eltham. Iryna’s parents Yladzlimir and Raisa Kushniarevich from Belarus are visiting, and Iryna is in her eighth month of pregnancy.

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3. Thein Mynt, left, was born in Myanmar from a Burmese mother and an Australian father.

The photographer’s brother, Chris SteelePerkins (in doorway), shared the same mother but had an English father. Thein’s partner, Jean Millar, on the sofa, is English; behind her is their son Lwin.

“Hiding” behind the sofa is Lwin’s English girlfriend, Francis. At the front in blue is Chris’s wife Miyako Yamada from Japan; behind her is Chris’s son from a previous marriage, Cedric. On the front table is a small photograph of Thein and Chris’s Burmese mother, Mary.

4. Rosémia and her husband Burnett Brown.

Rosémia is from Seychelles and is a pastor; her husband is from Jamaica and is a funeral director. Not present, but living in London, are son Claud Barbé-Brown, a media artist, and daughter Isaura Barbé-Brown, an actor.

5. Melanie and Jamie Yurt, from Malaysia and Turkey respectively, with daughter Liala.

6. Serbia. Nenad Obradovic, wife Jelena, elder son Marko and younger son Ilija. chrissteeleperkins.com.

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“It hit me like a sucker punch,” she recalls. “I walked through the door and found that I was one of 300 reporters.”

While the campaign strategists organising the debate were “terribly excited” by the presence of The New York Times and CBS – whose readers and viewers could, potentially, vote Republican – Sherlock’s arrival prompted no ripple of interest. Used to relative authority and autonomy as a reporter in the Middle East, she suddenly found herself “shoved to the back of the room”.

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The size, span and spin of a US election is staggering, from the length of the campaign trail – almost two years – to the vast amounts of money spent (an estimated $6bn was spent during the last election in 2012).

And if you’re not writing for an audience likely to vote for a candidate, you can kiss exclusive access goodbye. It makes reporting on the US elections especially challenging for British journalists. How do you come up with a fresh take on a show that the whole world is watching?

As a foreign journalist, there’s no guarantee of even getting through the door of an official campaign event. News outlets have to apply for media credentials beforehand, and even the BBC – whose website is read by 30 million Americans every month – is rarely authorised to send “more than eight” staff to a major campaign event, according to Anthony Zurcher.

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election for the BBC , and says it seemed “almost quaint” in comparison to the race to the White House.

“A US presidential campaign is a massive blitz of packaging and production and events,” he says. “It makes it hard to get a look at the ‘real’ candidates - especially when you’re not a major network or newspaper, where they feel like they have to let you behind the curtain.”

No election campaign could really survive without the presence of the media. (If Hillary Clinton holds a press conference and no press attend, did it really happen?)

The level of media curation involved in a US presidential campaign has been on the rise ever since 1960, the year of the first televised debate. John F Kennedy was widely judged the winner after his rival, Richard Nixon, looked sweaty and nervous under the studio lights. Two years later, the American historian Daniel J Boorstin coined the term “pseudo-event” to describe events that are dramatic, costly and conducted almost solely for the benefit of the media.

“Most of an American election is made for TV,” agrees Gary Younge, editor-at-

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When it comes to the US elections, British journalists will never get the best seats in the house. Moya Crockett investigates how to get ahead of the media circus

1. Donald Trump addresses supporters at a rally during the Republican caucus in Wichita, Kansas.

2. Former Republican candidate Carly Fiorina speaks to the media in the spin room after a debate in North Charleston, South Carolina.

3. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at the Democratic presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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large at The Guardian, who has covered every US election for The Guardian and The Observer since 1996. “Everything is so closely choreographed that you have to ask yourself: what is the journalistic benefit of covering something which is effectively a show?”

The obvious answer is that the set-piece events that make up a presidential campaign – the debates, the rallies, the conventions – can be wildly entertaining, and readers 1 want to know what happens at them. Over the course of this election cycle, Donald Trump has been the purest embodiment of American politician-as-entertainer.

For the most part, the hundreds of journalists who attend any such event will report the same thing. Campaign organisers often strive to keep journalists separate from supporters, making it hard to get hold of any 'colour'. At major campaign appearances,

reporters are often kept in a 'pen', from which they are not supposed to speak to supporters; at the debates, members of the press are shunted away from the audience into an adjoining room dubbed the 'filing centre', where they watch the debate on television screens. “It feels a bit like being at a school exam,” says Sherlock. “You sit at your assigned desk and it’s just a case of getting out as much information as you possibly can.”

But for foreign journalists in particular, whose chances of getting face-time with a presidential candidate are almost zero, a debate’s aftermath can offer the chance for a rare exclusive. Once the debate is over, journalists make their way to the "spin room" to speak to candidates and their representatives. “They’re giving their after-game interview,” says Zurcher.

“If [Republican presidential candidate] Marco Rubio has had a terrible night, his

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representative will tell you that it was the best performance of his life,” says Sherlock.

“Everybody knows it’s a bit of a joke – but it’s also quite serious, in that it’s an opportunity to get some access in a world where access to candidates is almost totally closed off.”

After the New Hampshire debate in February, Sherlock asked Donald Trump how many Muslim friends he has, and if he could name them (the Republican candidate has repeatedly claimed that “Muslims love him”).

“He looked at me and was like, ‘Oh, loads… about 20'.” The story made headlines on The Daily Telegraph’s website that day.

Going for a less popular candidate in the spin room can offer the chance for a more in-depth quote. On the same night, Zurcher scored a quick interview with Republican candidate Jim Gilmore, after spotting him standing alone. But the encounter quickly shrank in significance: Gilmore dropped out of the race six days later. “To be honest,” smiles Zurcher, “I think he probably just appreciated the attention.”

But you're unlikely ever to uncover a true exclusive at a major campaign event.

For those, you have to put in the networking hours on the social-political circuit, particularly in Washington DC. “It’s a race to see who’s going to get the next soundbite, who’s going to uncover that somebody had a scandal in their staff,” says Ashley Gold, an online reporter at the BBC’s Washington DC office. To do that, she says, you have to build relationships with people >>

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of conflicting polls are released every day by different organisations in the US – far more frequently than during a UK election, where there are only eight major pollsters – it’s a mistake to base too much coverage on who seems to be doing ‘well’.

In November 2015, Al Jazeera America announced that it will eschew ‘horse race journalism’ over the course of this election, paying less attention to polling data in favour of more in-depth reporting.

Speaking to voters is one of the simplest – and most effective – ways a foreign journalist can explore the issues powering an election, and get an exclusive story. For the last few months, the BBC has been using social media to report on the election.

BBC journalists have been travelling across the US in a 'pop-up car', interviewing ordinary Americans about their thoughts on various candidates. The results are filmed and streamed live via Periscope, then edited into videos for the BBC website. A young woman who said she would be voting for Bernie Sanders said that she admired the fact that Sanders “doesn’t bash other candidates.That

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shows what kind of character he has as a person.”

Zurcher says that Trump’s success is a prime example of why journalists need to speak to people, not just politicians. “We’re never, ever going to get beyond the Trump machine, but we can talk to his supporters, and they’re fascinating people,” says Zurcher.

“They may be written off as crazies or bigots, but they have their reasons for liking Trump, and it’s our job to find out what those reasons are.”

In January, Sherlock spent a week living with homeless families in rural New Hampshire, in an attempt to discover why so many poor Americans are responding positively to Trump. “It’s not a case of uncovering exclusives in the sense that you would as a journalist in other places,” she says. “You have to speak to people to pinpoint what this election is actually about.” She came to the conclusion that Trump’s rhetoric is tapping into the anxieties of the shrinking middle class. “There’s a section of [American] society who feel like they used to have it good, and now they don’t,” she says.

“That’s feeding majorly into this election.

Everyone’s looking at the same thing, so you have to come up with an interesting prism through which to look at it.”

But being a foreign news organisation in the US, for all its hindrances, can sometimes help when it comes to coming up with fresh angles for coverage. “We already have a unique perspective, because we’re explaining this to a foreign audience,” says the BBC’s Ashley Gold. “That’s our job: to pick at this craziness bit by bit, and try and make it make sense to outsiders.”

That’s our job: to try and make sense of this craziness for outsiders

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5. Trump meets journalists in the spin room after the Houston debate.

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who will tip you off. Smaller, more informal cocktail parties, dinners, and lunches can offer story leads in a way that major events never will.

“Americans like British people, and that’s an advantage not to be underestimated,” says Sherlock. “But DC is incredibly transactional; nobody wants to spend time with anybody else unless they can get something from it.” Constant networking can be a lonely business.

In 2010, Barack Obama lamented the journalistic tendency to cover American politics like it was a sport.“A lot of reporting in Washington, it’s just like [sports television news programme] SportsCenter,” he told a crowd at George Mason University. “It’s considered a sport and who’s up and who’s down, and everybody’s keeping score, and you got the teams going at it. It’s Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots.”

So-called "horse race journalism" – judging candidates by their performance against their rivals, rather than by their own policies and actions – can be an easy trap for reporters to fall into when covering the presidential elections. It’s a habit that can be exacerbated by paying too much attention to poll results. But since dozens

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ith 13 years of Radio 2’s lunchtime show under his belt, Jeremy Vine has found his spiritual home on the airwaves. XCity tunes in to discuss his current show, the one he left behind, and the state of the BBC. What made you move from Newsnight to Radio 2?

Every presenter wants their own show. And I was right [to move], because Newsnight isn’t the programme it was when I was on it. It had a million people a night watching it, and it’s got many fewer now. But also, to me, journalism is about connecting with a vast majority. I think a small subset of very well informed people watch Newsnight, and they’re well served by the BBC. The people I would like to be serving are those that don’t catch much news, maybe just hear my show, and they’re relying on me to tell them what’s going on.

Why do you think Newsnight’s viewing figures have gone down?

There’s nothing they’re doing wrong; it’s partly the loss of Paxman, but it’s probably just a marketplace thing. When you’re trying to appeal to really bright, treble-A starred viewers it’s harder now because they’re on Twitter all day long – it’s harder to surprise them. But I must stress that I think they’re doing a great job.They’re doing the very best they can.

That said, we’re learning more about the internet. The amount of error in usergenerated content is unbelievable, so I think it’s going much more back to brands.The first thing you ask when you’re shown a picture of an assassinated president is: “Who does this come from and do I trust them?” And that’s the question that’s keeping the BBC alive, I think. It’s still a very trusted medium.

Do you prefer working in radio or TV? Newsnight and BBC Breakfast are very old models of journalism. This isn’t a criticism of them, but a lot of clever people at the

BBC decide what the stories are. On Radio 2, audiences tell us what the news is. That’s much more where we are in the world now [with social media]. And the joy of radio is that it’s very well set up technically to listen to the audience.

I also think, fundamentally, we’re all into “one touch”: you go to your kitchen, you press one button to turn on your radio and you get the station you’ve chosen.

Radio involves just one thumb stroke, and that’s why we’re so powerful, still.

What was your reaction to claims from the Dame Janet Smith inquiry that there’s still a propensity for people not to speak out at the BBC, and to give celebrities too much leeway?

The thing about people not speaking out is a classic case with a big organisation, because obviously there’s a natural loyalty created by a monthly pay cheque. People just naturally feel that they might, as Janet Smith said, endanger their position by speaking out.

But I don’t think this notion of the stars being so powerful that nobody can cross them pertains now. For example, my editor will often tell me that I’ve done things wrong. He’s in charge, and I just need to accept what he’s said.

What about Jeremy Clarkson? Was he given too much freedom?

Clarkson was a big money-spinner, but he did hit somebody, and he went, so I think that’s an example of the system working. The other stuff he did, the inappropriate comments – there was a whole debate about whether they were sackable offences.

Do you ever restrict what people can say on your show?

I’m so averse to censoring people. We had Katie Hopkins on the other day and loads of people went nuts, saying, “Why have you got her on?” Am I supposed to censor people whose views I don’t like?

That sounds ridiculous.

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Long live

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Specialist shops are opening across the UK, celebrating the wonder of the independent magazine. XCity speaks to the owners of four of the best

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rint is where words go to die.” 10 years ago, Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalism at The City University of New York and champion of new technology, wrote this in his regular Guardian column. We should not suffer the limitations of print, he argued, when the digital age opens up new ways to communicate. Fast forward to 2016, however, and the forecast is very different: print is back from the brink.

While newspapers may be migrating online, independent print magazines are alive and kicking. “We’re physical creatures and we respond to physical experiences,” says Ruth Jamieson, who last year released Print is Dead, Long Live Print – an anthology celebrating new indie magazines and publishers. “The rise of digital media has created a hunger for

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a different kind of experience,” she says, ‘an escape from the endless scroll of Facebook.’

When compiling her anthology, Jamieson worked from an initial shortlist of over 200 magazines. And the number of magazines out there is set to grow even further, as there are currently over 2,000 magazine projects looking for funding on Kickstarter in the US and the UK. Thanks to websites like Kickstarter, the digital revolution is actually fuelling the print revival. Steve Watson, founder of Stack, a subscription service for independent magazines, believes that people all around the world are discovering that they can “turn their ideas into a quality publication” with access to investors and online creative guides. It seems that people are more eager than ever to fork out £15 for a well-crafted

magazine and give it pride of place on their coffee table, and this boom in independent magazines takes various forms.

According to a recent Women in Journalism panel, the number of magazine launches rose by 31% last year. What’s more, Stack has almost doubled its number of subscribers since 2014, from 1,654 to 3,292. The company also launched The Stack Awards in 2015, celebrating the best prose, photography, and design in the industry.

To top it off, magazine shops have been popping up across the UK over the past couple of years, stocking everything from hiphop magazines to imported cult publications such as The New Yorker.

The print hounds behind four of these shops tell XCity why we are in the golden age for independent magazines.

Martin Skelton, Magazine Brighton 22 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, BN1 4EQ magazinebrighton.com Opened December 2014

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When did your love affair with magazines begin?

When I was nine years old, I published a fortnightly magazine with my two best friends called The Medway Gazette. It was full of stuff we stole from newspapers and made up. We also filled it with unfunny cartoons. It actually lasted a year and a half.

Why did you decide to open in Bath?

Bath has a fantastic range of galleries and museums but none of them have any developed retail space. European galleries often have some kind of cultural offering or shop, and we wanted to offer that.

What’s your most niche magazine?

We just got a magazine in for red-haired people. It’s called MC1R. There’s also Puss Puss, which is all about cat’s fashion.

What magazine are you excited about?

Brownbook is a liberal magazine from Dubai.

It’s really important that stuff like this is coming out of the Middle East because it shows how Arabic culture can be modern, outward-looking, Islamic, witty and interesting. It’s a tiny weight on the scale but I’m glad it’s there.

What is the dream?

If we ever make a profit, we want to use that to help people in Brighton make their own magazines. It’s such a cultural city, but there are only three at the moment!

Alex Smith, Ideas on Paper Unit 4b Cobden Chambers, Pelham Street, Nottingham, NG1 2ED ideasonpapernottingham.co.uk

Daniel McCabe, Magalleria 22a Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LN magalleria.co.uk

What magazine has inspired you?

An Australian title called Four&Sons. It commissions leading photographers to look at dogs around the world – street dogs, architecture, dog hotels... It’s touching.

Where do you see the business going next?

We want to get the magazines into nearby businesses. Hotels, hairdressers, even dentists’ waiting rooms.There’s such a grim selection of magazines offered and people don’t want to read them, so indie magazines would be a very welcome distraction.

1. Alex Smith in Ideas on Paper 2. The Magalleria shop in Bath 3. Little Atoms magazine 4. Jeremy Leslie in magCulture

Opened April 2014 Why print?

If you’ve spent all day staring at a computer screen, you don’t want to spend the evening staring at another screen. We’re all so wired into our technology that it’s a luxury to escape from that.There is a deep-seated urge within us all to find a simpler, purer, peaceful way to live and the popularity of magazines is a symptom of that.

How important are the visuals?

Nothing is allowed in the shop unless I believe it’s a beautiful object in its own right. People value books and magazines because they stimulate the senses more than just looking at something on a screen.

What is your mission with the shop?

Alongside books and journals, I also sell stationery. I want to act as a catalyst so that my customers can get inspiration from what they read – and then they can get their own ideas onto paper.

What is your best-seller?

Brownbook is brilliant, its strapline is “an urban guide to the Middle East”.

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Jeremy Leslie, magCulture 270 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PE magculture.com Opened December 2015 Why did you decide to open a shop?

If you know what you’re looking for, you can usually find it in London, but you probably have to go to five or six different addresses to get it. magCulture has it all under one roof.

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Why print?

Print is fantastic because it’s finite and tangible, it forces you to edit and to make decisions, and it gives you time to reflect.

Digital content is essentially unmoored and it just disappears.

What is your best seller?

Little Atoms is doing really well, it grew out of a website and podcast. The magazine is essentially a transcription of interviews covering politics, literature, science and art.

Why magCulture?

Our ethos is simple: the magazines we stock are beautiful objects. We don’t want to be an Aladdin’s cave where you have to trawl through the shelves to find good stuff.

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On 26 March, The Independent became the first UK newspaper to go entirely digital.

Yashi Banymadhub and Tori Halman speak to editor Amol Rajan

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was boarding was already slowly sinking. But Rajan was determined.

He recalls a meeting with Evgeny Lebedev, owner of The Independent, when he was still editor of IndependentVoices, the newspaper’s opinion page. Lebedev told him: “You have all these ideas for why The Independent is such a great brand and you say we shouldn’t shut it.

Why don’t you do it yourself?’”

A feat easier said than done, particularly when on his first day, the figure for pre-paid circulation dropped to 42,000 from 80,000 the previous year.

This spiralling decline in print readership has heralded the inevitable demise of national newspapers. Advertising revenues in printed newspapers fell by £112m in 2015 alone, and The Independent was losing nearly £13m a year when Rajan started as editor. He reduced that to less than £5m in his first year. By scaling up the paper’s website traffic by a third over the last year, he was able to halve this figure again. But the print paper’s survival was still looking bleak.

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“You have a declining market, shrinking at the rate which newspaper readership is shrinking in Britain. That market is overcrowded, and you’re the smallest player.

You’re going to suffer,” Rajan explains.

The answer is Project Eagle, an operation that takes The Independent digital. Rajan hopes it will fulfill his ambitious plans to increase the paper’s global influence.

Rajan’s vision for the new digital brand is clear: to be “popular, but also vaguely populist”. He disagrees with criticisms from the paper’s own staff, who call the website a “clickbait operation”. “I think it’s right to have a slightly different tone because we appeal to the whole world, we’re not just a narrow newspaper,” he argues.

However, the website will retain its appearance and won’t change much from its current form. “We’re very proud of what our website’s doing at the moment, so we’re going to keep doing that but in a profitable way.” Rajan has already proved he can add growth to the site. A year after he became editor, The Independent said that the website’s traffic increased to 2.4 million

Profit is the best guarantee of independence

Credit: Jason Alden,The Independent

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n 12 February 2016, it was announced that after 30 years The Independent was going to axe its print publication, becoming the UK’s first quality newspaper to go entirely digital.

A few weeks later its editor, Amol Rajan, admitted to readers in a column in The Spectator that he “always knew” he would be the last editor of the newspaper in print.

When we speak to him a month later, the transition from print to digital is in full swing. Rajan is a busy man, squeezing our interview in between meetings as “things have erupted” at The Independent.

He explains, with conviction, that he knows the move is “the right thing” for the future of the newspaper, “to make sure its spirit, which I so believe in, survives in a global and profitable way”.

Rajan, who was 29 when appointed editor of The Independent in 2013, took on the role partly in a bid to save the newspaper after six years of working at the publication. In that time he had been a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist and comment editor. Even when he assumed the role of editor there was speculation that the ship he

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1. Amol Rajan, facing uncertainty. Rajan will lead The Independent and its staff in their move to go digital-only 2. Going, going, gone: The Independent on news stands

a day, a rise of 87% from the previous year.

That same year, The Daily Telegraph’s monthly reach dipped by 11% to 71.1 million while The Mirror Group’s national paper websites also saw a decline of 12% (to 67 million).

The Independent’s columnists will remain largely the same, with up to 20 of the biggest names carried across to the website.

The digital model will still see writing from the likes of Patrick Cockburn, John Rentoul, Simon Calder, Grace Dent and Janet Street-Porter. There will inevitably be losses, with reports that up to 75 journalists will lose their jobs.

The spirit of The Independent will live on not only digitally, but through a cut-down version of the i, which will take on 51 writers from its sister paper. Rajan likens the move online to the creation of the i in 2010, which he says critics initially dismissed as “completely mad”. However, thanks to the combined circulation of the i, the two papers were producing more written journalism in print than they had in the last 20 years.

“That’s pretty damn cool,” he quips.

Although the i was sold off for £25m to Johnston Press this February, there is still a

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co-dependency between the titles because of a three-year syndication deal in which The Independent provides copy to the i for an undisclosed fee.

Rajan is positive that the digital newspaper will yield profit from a combination of paidfor subscriptions (which gives users access to the paper and puzzles on iPad and mobile), as well as the revenue streams that come from independent.co.uk.

He says that the introduction of a paywall is unlikely, given that it works best for specialist publications, like The Financial Times, but it has not been ruled out completely.

Of course Rajan recognises that, while the internet reaches a vast potential audience, it also comes with more competition from digital platforms such as Buzzfeed, Politico and BBC News.“We won’t compete with our print rivals anymore,” he says. “But digitally, we’re competing with the whole world.”

So what does he think about the future of national newspapers? He believes others will follow the footsteps of The Independent soon. “Circulations are falling off the cliff, advertising is falling off the cliff and the readers are going online,” he says.

Plotting the rate of decline, Rajan predicts The Guardian will be next to go online, but reckons they have a while yet.

“The Guardian recently [did] a big audit of their finances and have realised that they very much need the print circulation. I think they’ve got a while left yet, but in the long

Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth, PA

Circulations are falling off the cliff, advertising is falling off the cliff

run, as John Maynard Keynes says, ‘We are all dead.’”

Rajan is a man of firsts. Not only is he steering the first UK newspaper to completely digitise, he is also the UK’s first non-white editor of a mainstream national newspaper, occasionally dubbed “the Indian at the Indy”. It is a name that he says he doesn’t find insulting. “The Indian at the Indy, that’s a funny thing to say. I think of myself more as a Londoner and an Englishman before anything else, but I’m very proud of my Indian heritage.”

Rajan doesn’t view diversity, or a lack thereof, in the media as a problem. “I find more and more people coming in from ethnic minorities. I don’t find the media industry prejudiced or racist. I think it takes time for industries to catch up with the diversity of the population as a whole and I think that as the population does become less white, the media will catch up.”

As with so much of Rajan’s career he is forging ahead. We wondered if the move to online-only is irreversible and whether he would one day resurrect The Independent in print. “Only if it was guaranteed to be financially viable. I love newspapers and I love the idea of The Independent in print, but I know it’s right to focus on digital.”

Although confident in the success of his new digital venture, the move is still a bittersweet one for the self-confessed print hound. “It’s going to be tough. It’s going to be really, really tough. But profit is the best guarantee of independence. It’s a bold and a brave move, but I think it’s the right one.”

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Death of the

food critic?

Whip out your iPhone, take a snap, and you could be giving newspaper restaurant critics a run for their money. But is it that simple?

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hen Taberna do Mercado, a Portuguese restaurant in Spitalfields, east London, opened in May 2015, the critics were raring to get in. “It’s not often that I can say hand on heart, these are the best pastel de nata I’ve tasted EVER,” exclaimed one. Another asked, “Is Portuguese cuisine just so awful that even they can’t tell when it’s gone wrong?” Who do you trust?

One is Giles Coren, The Times’ restaurant critic with more than 12 years experience, who pays for his meal (although the paper pays him back later). The other is social media “influencer” @SymmetryBreakfast, with 554,000 followers on Instagram.

Sharing foodie snaps on social media is the norm among millennial friendship groups, but as accounts are increasingly used for professional purposes, the influencers are encroaching on the critics’ territory. Anyone

after the latest openings can scroll through Instagram to find them, and restaurants and PRs are aware of this. They might get all the invites – but are they a threat?

Coren is sceptical, suggesting that it’s logical for PRs to invite social media superstars to create a buzz when critics like him don’t accept invitations. “What PRs do is get restaurants to provide a certain number of free meals to journalists – but no critic who is actually a critic ever takes a free meal,” he explains. “They can’t get me, they can’t get AA Gill, and they certainly can’t get Marina O’Loughlin [critic for The Guardian]. What they can get is a hipster kid with his iPhone, so they do.”

No critic would accept a free meal for fear of jeopardising their reputation. The Instagrammers, however, are not obliged to disclose freebies. And considering the photo sharing site’s popularity, inviting influencers to

openings is likely to become more common.

At the end of 2015, Instagram announced that it had hit 400m active users. Research firm eMarketer estimated that over $600m was spent on advertising on Instagram last year - expected to rise to $1.48bn by the end of 2016.

The critics are under pressure to keep up with the buzz that is created by social media. “The frenzy to get in quickly is definitely influencing the way we write,” Tracey MacLeod, restaurant critic for The Independent, explains. “Even if our readers aren’t up to speed on what the latest new restaurants are, we [the newspaper critics] feel that if you’re to go to a place after six weeks, everyone’s already been and done it, and a consensus has been reached.”

Getting social media influencers on board is a must for restaurants these days, explains PR expert Katerina Wolpert, previously

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We compared London’s most ‘grammed restaurants with what the critics had to say 1. Sushisamba, East London

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“#sushisamba #delicious #beef and great service 4/5 star” @alkillidar, Instagram, 20 Feb, 2016

VS “Sushisamba brought to mind the sport of extreme ironing. Both involve doing something mundane at an unusual height.”

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“These crispy fish sauce chicken wings @smokinggoatsoho are everything!” @cookinacurry, Instagram, 23 Feb 2016

“Tortelli filled with burrata and nduja finished with aged balsamic. So so good” @amymc_, Instagram, 5 Dec, 2015

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“If you’re drunk, as I imagine some Instagrammers might be as they fire off the killer shot, I’m sure they’re great. But they don’t do it for me.”

Jay Rayner, The Guardian, 14 Dec, 2015

“The wine list is fantastic, the food is clean, smart, comforting and fun … So why was everyone on their phone?”

Giles Coren, The Times, 16 Jan 2016

Credit: Farrukhz; Sartoria; Barney Moss;Wingz

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senior account executive at London-based Anteater PR, which specialises in campaigns for restaurants. “As print media is dying, social media influencers are becoming more influential [than critics],” she says. PRs identify who to invite by looking at their reach (number of followers) and their relevance (the type of content they post). “Most restaurants do care whether Instagram stars or bloggers are rating it.” Wolpert also confirms that, generally, the Instagrammers get their food for free.

Should readers beware of Instagram reviews? “There’s normally an unsaid understanding that it should be a good review,” Wolpert says. “That dynamic makes it dangerous to believe everything they say without a pinch of salt.”

Described by The Guardian as “the faceless food critic”, Clerkenwell Boy (CB) is London’s premier foodie scenester, with 127,000 followers on Instagram and 14,000 on Twitter.

His popularity has earned him writing gigs for Caffeine and Suitcase Magazine. In a September 2015 interview with The Guardian, he clarified: “I never post anything I wouldn’t endorse, or accept a free meal that I wouldn’t happily pay for myself.” He has also said that he does not accept money for posts.

Clerkenwell Boy – also known as Tim – sees Instagram as a positive space.“You’re not necessarily caught up in the whole debate. On the back of a Jay Rayner [restaurant critic for The Observer] review you’ll get hundreds of comments.” In other words, you’re less likely to be called out on bad recommendations.

On 15 November 2015, three days after Mittel-Europe restaurant German Gymnasium opened its doors in King’s Cross, London. Tim posted snaps of the restaurant’s dishes, saying: “Amazing duck (to share or not to share) … #CBrecommends”. A few weeks later, the critics finally got in. “Not everything

is as it should be,” Grace Dent lamented in the Evening Standard.

Coren said his schnitzel was “a warm driving glove between a couple of Ryvita” in The Times.

Rayner used 1,100 words to say how crap it was.

Tim is diplomatic about the disparity of views: “Everyone’s entitled to their opinion.”

Instagram is great for finding out the newest and most exciting venues that are opening their doors in London. But whether it’s worth the money? Ask the critic.

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hen David Bowie died earlier this year, the world’s January blues took a collective turn for the worse. The day after the announcement on 11 January, his face was plastered across the front page of every national newspaper. From the Daily Mirror’s use of the ‘Space Oddity’ lyrics: “And the stars look very different today”, to the poignant words on The Sun’s front cover “Look up here, I’m in heaven” from his final single, ‘Lazarus’.

Later that month, British national treasures Alan Rickman and Terry Wogan also passed away, and both events were quickly followed by a media storm. Obituaries were published online within minutes of their deaths being announced, and the BBC set up live news feeds covering the tributes.

Each of these deaths was a reminder that when a megastar dies they inevitably garner huge media attention. While the press plays an important role in the public’s collective grieving process, the rise of social media over the past decade has made them part of the conversation as well.

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both, according to Ian Burrell, media editor at The Independent. “Newspapers would hope to increase news stand sales off the back of a moving treatment of the legacy of significant individuals,” he says. “But many fans value a considered piece that encapsulates the significance of the person’s life in a way that goes beyond the raw emotional outpourings on social media.”

Julie Burchill, journalist and blogger for The Spectator, also thinks widespread coverage is inevitable when people clearly want to read about it. “The media covers celebrity deaths at such length because there is a Venn diagram of intersecting popular topics, which any hack would be a fool not to make the most of: celebrity, tragedy, human interest and cultural resonance,” she says.

Other journalists argue there is a commentary bandwagon that the media jumps on whenever a big name celebrity dies. “There has to be a hundred thousand analyses and comment pieces for every single little thing, and that sometimes inflates the feeling of someone dying,” says Ed West, former deputy editor of the Catholic Herald, “It’s all about who has got a different hot take on something; what else can we say about what this person represented?”

The media’s obsession with celebrity death isn’t anything new. Newspapers have always had plans in place for notable deaths, according to West. His mother, Irish Independent columnist, Mary Kenny’s first job in journalism was as an obituary writer for the Evening Standard in the 1960s. “She wrote the Queen Mother’s obituary in 1965, which was a whole story in itself,” he says, “She had pneumonia in the 1930s, which could have been fatal and that’s when the papers first thought she might die. She ended up dying in 2003, outliving eight of her own obituary writers.”

The only difference now is that the reaction to death is so immediate, West adds. “News organisations need to have obituaries ready to be put up instantly. You can’t really wait until the next day anymore.” This obsession with breaking news has led to the occasional embarrassing faux pas, however. Last year, BBC reporter Ahmen Khawaja accidentally tweeted that the Queen had died during a “category one obituary rehearsal” for how the BBC would handle her death.

While it’s ghoulish to think that the papers already have obituaries prepped for everyone from Adele to the Duchess of Cambridge, The Sunday Times’ columnist

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Even in death, celebrities make the front page. Ella Braidwood and Aimée McLaughlin ask why grief takes over in the modern media

1. Photographers flock to a David Bowie mural in Brixton where fans lay flowers.

2. Terry Wogan waves goodbye on the final day of his BBC Radio 2 show.

Camilla Long points out that it is the media’s business to consistently provide high quality coverage, whether someone’s death comes as a surprise or not. “When the chips are down you are going to want to read a proper obituary of someone like the Duke of Edinburgh. If it had been weirdly cobbled together at the last minute you would think ‘what on earth is this paper playing at?’”

Social media has also added to this sense of immediacy, as well as highlighting that when a big name dies there are actually two stories to tell – one about the death itself, and the other about people’s reactions to it. It can even heighten the public’s significance when it comes to the media’s coverage of celebrity death, according to Charlie Beckett, professor of media and communications at the London School of Economics. He argues the volume of noise that now comes from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram has made social media users part of the discussion.

“Everything on social media interacts with the mainstream media and vice versa,” Beckett says. He adds: “People initially see it on TV and then respond on social media, but a lot of people identified very strongly with

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Bowie and you really got that from the social media reaction. That may have encouraged the media to actually give it more coverage.”

On the day that Bowie died, the BBC’s live feed included a report that an hour after the news of his death broke, the number of tweets being posted about him was averaging at around 20,000 a minute.

Critics of social media, such as Camilla Long, are quick to dismiss its importance compared to the mainstream media in the wake of celebrity death. “Given the choice between reading all the completely slushy tweets about David Bowie and The Times’ coverage of it, I think any reasonable person knows which one they would go for,” she says. “Traditional media has pieces by people who were actually close to him, who remembered him.”

Long’s outspoken tweets in response to social media tributes to the singer – one of which read: “This is NOTHING to do with Bowie. This is to do with the utter insincerity of social media grief, and the odd mimicry and circlejerkery of it” – triggered a heavy dose of trolling from Bowie fans. The incident also saw Long dedicate her Sunday Times column to it a week later, where she discussed the insincerity of these “Bowie blubberers”.

Similarly, Julie Burchill ranted about the flood of “sob signalling” that appeared on social media in light of Bowie’s death in a blog post for The Spectator the day after he died. “Death is as banal as love when a person with no talent writes about it,” she explains, “It’s not the insincerity I object to, but the banality.”

Regardless of Long and Burchill’s negative stance on the social media debate, the fact that they wrote articles off the back of it shows how significant it has become as part of journalists’ own coverage of celebrity death. The Atlantic also weighed in on the discussion several days after Long’s column was published, with an article that criticised the emergence of the “grief police” – commentators like Long and Burchill who suggest “there is but one way to grieve, and deviation from that way is wrong”.

As the public becomes ever more obsessed with celebrity culture, the media is bound to set aside huge amounts of resources and space to notable deaths. But the big difference from 10 years ago is the rise of social media. Members of the public now have a platform to express their grief, and regardless of the fact that they don’t know these celebrities personally, the press is taking notice of their words.

The reason why death matters to professional journalists and the public alike is that it elicits a genuine human response. As Long says: “When a pop star dies, a door has completely shut on when you were 14, went to a disco and listened to your favourite song. It’s a part of your life that has finished, so you mourn yourself a bit.”

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ore than 114,000 startups were created last year, according to StartUp Britain.

London alone is home to at least 36 business accelerators that can help support budding entrepreneurs. But new businesses are notoriously risky business. Research by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce found that fewer than half make it to five years.

Jane Singer, professor of innovation journalism at City University, says that while the tech startup space gets a lot of attention, a growing subset of this is journalistic startups.

“They’re exploring ways of telling stories and reaching audiences. Some are doing it within existing media organisations, and others are doing it on their own. It’s a booming space.”

XCity spoke to four media entrepreneurs about what it’s really like to start a business.

The Advisor Matthew Hussey, founder, Provenance Founded: 2013 www.provenance.org

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was doing promotion work for music companies before launching my own business, and I always needed freelancers for projects. I had also worked on the other side of things as a freelance journalist in LA, and would find out about projects I was perfect for after they had already happened.

I felt there needed to be someone in the middle, and that’s how my friend Patrick and I came up with Backscratchers. We help to connect freelancers with companies.

In 2011, I was about to finish my MA in Culture, Policy and Management at City when we came up with the idea. I changed my dissertation topic so that I could interview entrepreneurs and investors to get as much advice as possible. In 2012, we decided to quit our jobs and go for it.

I had spent the last seven years building my reputation in the music industry, but the

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tech startup world is completely different.

It was terrifying. But I knew that whatever happened, I would come out with a totally new set of skills.

We went onto a business accelerator programme which gave us £26,000 in exchange for a share of the company, although it ended up being more like £15,000 after administrative fees. We used the money to hire our third co-founder, Leo, a web developer who used to work at Ernst & Young. He was everything I wasn’t wrapped into one package.

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We didn’t really have a life outside the business

At first we would work weekends, we would always be in the office super late, we couldn’t take any holiday and we didn’t really have a life outside of the business. It was worth it, because I love my business and what I’m doing. We became profitable in our second year, and now on most days I can come in at 9.30 and leave by 6.30.

’ve been a journalist for 10 years now, and I’ve tried to get out many times. When I was freelancing in 2012, I would spend a whole day every Friday training as a cabinet maker. I was terrible at it, but I developed a deep appreciation for how long things take to make by hand.

That, combined with the healthy scepticism you develop as a journalist, led to Provenance. We felt it was difficult to establish where the things you buy are made and where materials come from, so we built a search engine where people could find products made locally and read about them.

The project is all about storytelling.

My friend Jessi Baker was working as a business strategy consultant and we presented a business plan to the Open Data Institute, a tech training centre, who gave us a £5,000 grant and an office for three months.

We were then accepted on an accelerator programme called Wayra and received £40,000 and an office space for nine months.

When it comes to investment, the money you raise tends to go into development, as opposed to taking home a salary that you can live on in London. I worked as a freelancer throughout.

I still create content and advise on the business, but the day-to-day running now rests with my business partner. I would consider selling my stake in the business – Provenance has been a success, but I don’t earn enough money to make a living from it.

The Innovator Grace Regan, founder and editor-in-chief, Clippet Founded: 2013 www.clippetnews.com

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founded Clippet with my business partner James MacLeod straight out of university. I had been running the student radio station and writing music reviews. James came to me with this idea of a short-form audio news digest app aimed at millennials and we decided to develop it. I used my radio knowledge, but I learnt news journalism, marketing, audience growth, outsourcing and investor relations on the job.

Clippet took about eight months to get off the ground and we had pre-seed investment from friends and family from very early on.

That was brilliant because it meant we could expand, experiment and employ a team of 15. It also had its problems, for example we may have found solutions for things sooner if we had been on a tighter budget.

The Young Business Erin Berman, co-founder and chief marketing officer, Few Minutes Founded: 2015 www.fewminutes.com

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fter studying journalism and marketing at the University of San Diego, I was working for a local paper in San Francisco and freelancing for food and literary websites. I quickly realised that publishing was in trouble and there weren’t many viable career options. I thought the best way to make an impact, while still doing what I love, would be through technology and startups.

I founded Few Minutes with Tsachi Ben Ezra and Omri Avisar in 2015. They were looking for someone with a journalism background to help develop the product and bring a storytelling element to their technology business model.

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I thought the best way to make an impact would be through this technology

We were operating and growing for about two years, but we weren’t making a profit.

Then, in 2015, we spent five months in Silicon Valley at an accelerator programme, trying to turn Clippet into a scalable, profitable business. In the process I think we really lost what the business stood for, which was journalism and connecting young people with the news. In the end, we decided to close Clippet and start new ventures. I’m now running a food startup, but I am really proud of what we achieved.

Few Minutes is an app that provides publishers with tools to better engage its readers and gives audiences the ability to sort stories based on time and preference.

The starting point was asking: “How can we create something that supplies relevant information in a digestible, streamlined way?”

We’ve learned a lot from the process.

The product has changed many times based on feedback from potential investors and our beta audience. We used to be more consumer-facing, but we shifted to focus on publishers in order to distinguish ourselves.

We have received a couple of monetary awards to do a beta test and now we are actively fundraising.

The Reading List: 5 resources for budding entrepreneurs 1. The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up 2015, by Sara Williams 2. UK government website, www.gov.uk/starting-up-a-business 3. The Small Business Start-up Workbook, by Cheryl Rickman 4. CityStarters’ Manifesto, www.citystarters.co.uk/starters-manifesto 5. Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to Build What’s Next for News, by Mark Briggs

Get prepared: top tips for starting your own business

Think carefully about investors.

“It puts you on a particular track, and the investors will have expectations about what returns they want,” Orsborn from Backscratchers explains.

“If you’re building tech, you’ll need the money to hire developers. But if you can start getting clients right away, do that instead.” Better Business Finance (www.betterbusinessfinance.co.uk) can provide advice on what type of finance is best for your business.

Are you meeting a need?

If not, pivot.

“We started with a skill swap website, but when it came down to it people didn’t actually want to use it,” says Orsborn. “We had to go back and figure out a new version.” Few Minutes co-founder Berman has similar advice: “The first solution you think of is probably not the one that will stick.” Entrepreneurial website StartUps.co.uk has resources for approaching market research.

Join forces.

“Successful media startups are founded by creative journalists and great tech minds working together,” Clippet’s Grace Regan explains. But it is essential to set boundaries. “You need to have a clear idea of how the company is split legally, to avoid tricky conversations in the future,” cautions Hussey. For more on how to protect your intellectual property, visit gov.uk/ intellectual-property-an-overview.

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Filmmaker Jamie Roberts reveals how he gets up close and personal with the UK’s most violent extremists

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t’s the summer of 2014 and Jamie Roberts, a documentary filmmaker, is rummaging through mounds of gear inside a garage in Walthamstow, east London. It’s full of equipment belonging to Abu Rumaysah: this includes inflatables for a bouncy castle business and some toys for his four children. Oh, and there’s the black flag of Islamic State.

Unbeknown to Roberts, this anonymous garage belongs to a man who, two months later, will be named as the latest highprofile British recruit of the terror group Isis. He is featured in the documentary, showing Roberts around Walthamstow and preaching the advantages of an Islamic caliphate on street corners.

The two met at a far right demonstration where Roberts was filming for another documentary. Shortly after Rumaysah and Roberts finished filming The Jihadi Next Door in October 2014, Rumaysah was arrested.

In September 2014, he skipped bail and travelled with his family to France, and on to Syria. The next time he was seen he was executing people in an Isis propaganda film.

Roberts’ interaction with such notorious interviewees is typical of his approach to filmmaking. His documentaries show how journalists are able to portray and deal with extremists in a responsible but equally insightful way.

Roberts’ first full length documentary, Angry, White and Proud aired in January 2014

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on Channel 4, and explores the opposite end of the radical spectrum, documenting the views of the far right. Roberts’ interest in investigating extremism stems from his desire to get behind the headlines. “I’m drawn to outsiders and outsider stories, and worlds that are underneath your nose but you don’t get to see,” he explains.

Sourcing people from such notorious, violent and extreme groups involves meticulous research and an exploration of their world. “You try to spread the net as wide as possible by using social media, going to events, and talking to charities,” Roberts says. Once the men have been sourced, the hard part is making naturally cynical and volatile men happy to be questioned in front of a camera. Roberts explains that, initially, “it’s a little bit dull and a PR exercise”.

However, to then cultivate a closer and more personal relationship, he says: “I continuously go to all the events, have to be there in pubs late at night and go to all the demonstrations.You have these events – like the violent protests – that no-one else has gone through, but you’ve all gone through it together so you have something that you can all refer to.You have a connection because you can talk about that event together in a way that no-one else really can.”

Other journalists, such as Louis Theroux, are famous for adopting a similar approach when interviewing figures of controversy.

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Like Theroux, Roberts embraces the idea of getting to know his subjects, which he believes allows him to portray their true characters. After spending significant amounts of time with them, Roberts has formed close personal relationships with the subjects of his documentaries. Even after filming finishes and his documentaries air, he continues to speak to them online and meet up for a coffee.

Both of his documentaries have required Roberts to confront views and ideologies that conflict with his own. However, he explains that having such different points of view to his interviewees does not necessarily mean that a personal connection with them is impossible. “There’ll be bits of talk about Islam or what’s going to happen when there is a caliphate, but a lot of that goes out the window after a while. It gets down to what chicken shops we like and ‘did you see that movie the other night?’”

The ability for Roberts to see his subjects as people, rather than a manifestation of the views they hold, allows him to delve deeper into what drives their extremism – and gives viewers an insight into their human side. “One of the most important things when you’re dealing with people that are notorious for violence is being robust but fair with them, while also trying to find out what the truth is on the ground,” he says.

Roberts’ commitment to the truth gives him credibility even with such explosive characters involved.

At a time when media commentary is rife with issues of extremism, Roberts focuses on abandoning any preconceptions and trying to report things how they actually are. “I think if you’re open and honest you can look someone in the eye and show them the film at the end,” he says. “They might not be comfortable with it, but you can say it’s the truth.”

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Bring it on home

The commute is dead, nine-to-five is no more, and the office is out: journalists are unshackling themselves from their desks and working when and where it suits them. Some organisations, like Trinity Mirror, have started abandoning physical offices and working from virtual newsrooms – saving a bundle on bills in the process. Others, like news agency Reported.ly, launched last year, have never had a physical location. But while workplace freedom sounds like a dream, are we setting ourselves up for a whole new host of problems?

More time for family You’ll never have to miss your kids’ first steps or first word. “I have a four-yearold son and a two-year-old daughter. If they’re at home, I can spend my lunch hour playing with them.

It’s a wonderful privilege,” says Eoghan Siobhne, duty editor at Storyful, who works at home full-time.

Work anywhere As long as you have an internet connection, you could be in the Outer Hebrides and still work with your colleagues in India. Reported.ly is able to report 18 hours a day with only six reporters across eight time zones, from San Francisco to Athens.

Isolation Having a crisis and need an understanding shoulder to cry on? Tough.You’re home, alone. “I miss the collegiality of physical newsrooms.You can’t go down to the coffee machine and have a water cooler chat or go for lunch with somebody,” says Malachy Browne, managing director at Reported.ly.

Less procrastination According to a February 2016 study by market research company Morar, 83% of workers are more productive when they have greater control over their work schedules – even with hours of thrilling cat videos to distract us.

24/7 working You never leave work. Last year, Ofcom reported that over half of adults check their phones first thing in the morning and last thing before bed, rarely switching off. Sir Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology at Manchester Business School, thinks working and living in the same space is not something we’re used to: “We haven’t been doing that in the past. We’ve always left one ‘box’ and gone into another ‘box’.”

Prolonged problem solving You might get more work done, but the second you’re faced with a technical issue, you can’t ask IT to come over and fix it.

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After more than three decades of scoops, Robert Peston is settling into his role as political editor of ITV News. He talks papers, positivity and self-improvement with Ellie Harrison

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hooping, whistling and raucous rounds of applause can be heard in the assembly hall of Highlands School in Enfield, north London. Sitting at the centre of it all is Robert Peston, beaming triumphantly.

The new political editor of ITV News – as of January – has just finished giving a talk to sixth form students on behalf of Speakers for Schools, the organisation he founded in 2011 to give UK state schools access to inspirational talks from leading figures.

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During the lecture, he breaks down the complex issues of Brexit and the Chinese economic crash, while the teenagers hang on his every over-enunciated “but!” and exuberant wag of the finger.

Afterwards, everybody is ushered out of the room and the cameras are put away.

Peston leans back on a well-worn school sofa, peeking out from behind his blackframed glasses. He breathes in deeply and gestures to a bag of peanuts he has retrieved from his rucksack. “Sorry, do you mind if I just nibble on these?” he asks.

Whether it’s for peanuts or a scoop, Peston is undeniably hungry. Throughout his career he has become known for his exclusives. His story on Northern Rock in 2007, which revealed that the bank was seeking emergency financial help from the Bank Of England, won him the Royal Television Society’s Scoop of the Year award.

Peston reveals he is obsessed with getting new stories. “There must be a restlessness about me that is somehow intrinsic. I’m very superstitious about these things but – touch wood – I’ll continue to get the odd scoop.

You don’t want to jinx yourself.” He begins to mumble incomprehensibly and revisits his peanuts in an attempt to change the subject.

The 55-year-old says he has his exclusives to thank for getting him through criticism of his unconventional delivery (The Daily Telegraph has described his presenting style as “strangulated” and The Times as “excruciatingly hard to listen to”). “Eventually the public forgave me for the way I sounded because I got these scoops. That, and I’m not as crap as I was.” He says he was relaxed about the criticism, because he is “hard-bitten”.

Indeed, Peston is used to coming under fire. Speaking about the importance of objectivity – and how to remain impartial – he says: “There are lots of people who think I’m pro-Tory.

There are lots who think I’m pro-Labour.

The thing that reassures me, on any day, is that I’m attacked from all sides. And that’s where you’ve got to be.” With a raise of the eyebrow, he picks up a stray peanut that has made its way onto his jumper and nonchalantly throws it into his mouth.

This idea of impartiality has its roots in Peston’s stint as city correspondent at The Independent, he says. He was there from its launch in 1986 and then joined The Independent on Sunday in 1990, after a brief time at the Sunday Correspondent.

“The calibre of the journalists at The Independent was amazing,” he says. “There was a lot of disillusionment with traditional Fleet Street newspapers and we just got the best journalists to join. For a long time the name really meant something - it was that huge drive to be objective that made it so important when it launched. It was the decisive influence in terms of how I approach journalism.”

He is certainly nostalgic about his time at The Independent and is “terribly sad” about the closure of its newspaper. “I really hope that they will have the resources to be a powerful online force. I don’t equate going online with death – far from it – but we’ll have to wait and see whether they can take on Vice or BuzzFeed.”

Peston left The Independent on Sunday in 1991 and went on to work at many other newspapers before joining the BBC as business editor in 2005. He says that his interviewing techniques as a print journalist and a broadcaster are based on the same principles.

“Somehow you want to combine one’s own natural curiosity with a technique that elicits material where readers and viewers are going to think: ‘Well, that wasn’t a waste of my time.’” Peston praises interviewers like Andrew Marr, Jeremy Paxman, John Humphreys, Brian Walden (who he calls “the master”) and David Frost for their ability to draw interesting issues out of their subjects.

Unlike Paxman, Peston says he is “not a confrontational interviewer”. He explains: “What I want to do is learn about someone.

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It’s a bit about putting people at ease and giving them room to talk. With interviewing politicians, you do have a duty to ask hard questions and you mustn’t let people off the hook.

“It is frustrating when politicians just dodge the answer… one of the things I’m trying to do with the new show is persuade politicians to do less of the soundbite stuff and more of the explaining.”

His new show, Peston on Sunday, launches at the end of April or early May. Peston stresses that it won’t clash with The Andrew Marr Show (“Why would we do that?”) and it will air in good time for the EU referendum and a series of important elections: mayoral, local, and Scottish. His dream first guest is Angela Merkel, “because I think she is the most important politician of this moment,” he explains. “Despite all the failings of the eurozone, I do not believe it would exist today if she hadn’t shown the kind of leadership that she has shown. She is a remarkable woman.”

Peston’s success is especially commendable given the illness and death of his wife, Siân Busby. After fighting a five year long battle with lung cancer, she died at the age of 51 in 2012.

“I didn’t do very much socialising in that time. Life, for large periods, was about home and work. We still saw close friends but the trivia of life felt very trivial, and for quite a long time I didn’t go to a single party; it just didn’t feel appropriate.”

It was him and his wife’s shared mantra of “life goes on” that enabled Peston to succeed professionally during this time. “It was really important to Siân and to me that, particularly for our boys [Max, 18, and Simon, 30], life felt as normal as possible.” And so during Busby’s illness, Peston continued to work and she wrote two books. The second was a crime novel set in 1946 called A Commonplace Killing, the final chapters of which Peston

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transcribed from her handwritten pages after her death. He wrote a preface in the novel explaining the process and why the last 25 pages had a different tone to the rest of the book. “Although, I think it’s beautiful the way it ends,” he says.

The Radio Times published Peston’s introduction as an article before the book was released. “The feedback was extraordinary. I got endless letters and emails from people who had suffered bereavement. They highlighted to me how alone they felt. We are very bad as a society at talking about death.” Peston then publicly wrote and spoke about grief a lot, but he doesn’t so much anymore because “Siân was a great believer that life goes on. It was important not to be defined by it, and I’ve got to make the most of life myself.”

He certainly has made the most of it, as his new post as political editor of ITV News goes to show. But it isn’t all smooth sailing at work. It is with red cheeks and bursts of laughter that he reveals what occurred on his very first morning at ITV. It was 11 January and the news of David Bowie’s death had just broken. Peston is a selfproclaimed “obsessive Bowie fan” (the musician was his specialist subject when he appeared on Celebrity Mastermind). He walked into his first editorial meeting and, overcome with sadness about the news, immediately cited a story he had read a few days previously about David Bowie being spotted in a tandoori restaurant in Chelmsford. “Of course, someone in the room knew it was made up [it was published on the spoof news site The Suffolk Gazette] and they must have just thought: ‘Who have we appointed in this role?’”

He shakes his head in self-disbelief and returns to ferociously gobbling his peanuts. It is reassuring that after 33 years in journalism, Robert Peston still makes mistakes.

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NME going free has sparked fresh concerns for the health of the music press.

Patrick Clarke and Polly Foreman check the prognosis

f you’ve ever been assaulted by Sid Vicious with a motorbike chain, dated Chrissie Hynde, or shared a toke with a couple of Rolling Stones, you were either a rock star in the 1970s, or you were writing about them.

For today’s critics it’s a different story, and one far removed from the hedonism of old. Music journalism has moved on from its “golden years”, and there are fears it’s in terminal decline.

The announcement last July that NME would be going free came after its halfcentury reign at the forefront of UK music journalism. With a peak circulation of over 300,000, its early readers were religious about music, and its authors were worshipped with almost as much reverence as the bands they were writing about.

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15,850 and that, coupled with adding film, fashion and politics content, has been seen as the last nail in the coffin of the alreadyailing weekly music press.

But has it suffered incomparably to its counterparts? “The question [of the decline in print music journalism] is existential about magazines in general,” says Pat Long, the former NME assistant editor and author of The History of the NME. Yet to suggest that it is no more than the latest casualty in the print-versusdigital war is reductive and fails to account for sweeping changes occurring in music journalism.

The internet brought challenges unique to the subfield. According to former NME.com editor Anthony Thornton, “it

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shifted the balance of power”. Bar the letters pages, there was very little interaction between writers and fans in music criticism’s “golden years” in the 1970s. What writers penned to paper in that era was gospel, and the scope to challenge it was minimal.

A writer’s role was to pass down exclusive knowledge about records they had been scrutinising for up to six weeks before release. “There would be people who would say: ‘I think this, I think that,’” says Thornton, “but generally [the content] was very much right or wrong.

It was top-down.” The digital shift in music consumption began with file-sharing website Napster in the late 1990s, and prevails today with the likes of Spotify and YouTube. “This generation doesn’t need an intermediary

When you’ve got Adele at number one, how dull is that?

telling you to go and buy this single,” Thorton adds. “They can just get it online.”

Journalists no longer need to give an introduction, so what’s left is writing about established artists. “What bands need now is to have something to say… the worry these days is that they don’t tend to say anything compelling,” says Thornton.

Award-winning rock historian Jon Savage, one of the most prominent critics of the punk era through his work at Melody Maker and NME, agrees. “When you’ve got Adele at number one, I’m sorry, but how dull is that?” There will always be good writers, he argues, yet so mundane is the state of pop music that they’re clutching for things to say. “If there was a really hot band out there that was pulling everything together and creating a scene, then music journalism would become hot again.”

During Britpop, for example, the music press thrived. Mark Sutherland, now editor of the music industry’s frontrunning trade publication Music Week, remembers his time as features editor of NME: “It seemed that every week there’d be an exciting new band whose music was really good and populated by people who had something to say. With Oasis you just had to turn up and put your tape recorder on.”

The ultimate demise of the paid-for NME can be put down to these changes in the musical landscape, combined with the fact that their readership was traditionally a young one. “It was hard to get new readers in because it’s hard to persuade an 18-yearold to pay £2.50 for a weekly magazine,” Tom Howard, the magazine’s current deputy editor, argues. “Our readership [had become] quite old; people who had grown up reading the magazine and still saw it as their bible.”

When this readership was presented with new bands on the cover, Howard says, “no one bought it”. Older ‘retrospective’ cover features starring long-defunct bands, or artists that had been established for decades, sold much better to this demographic. “We were in this weird position with the old NME where if you put the biggest pop stars in the world on the cover, like Lady Gaga or Rihanna or Kanye, it wouldn’t sell as many

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copies as if you put Noel Gallagher on the cover.”

What’s more, this print-inclined readership is better catered for by the likes of monthlies Uncut and Mojo. “Our audience is a slightly older demographic, people who grew up with a real culture of reading the music press before there was the proliferation of information on the internet,” says John Mulvey, editor of Uncut.

With an ever-expanding raft of music blogs online, maintaining authority of voice is a persistent challenge for print publications, but it is also one that the monthlies seem to be rising to. “It’s our imperative as a monthly magazine to show our deeper engagement with things and work towards something that feels a little bit more definitive, rather than just this kind of rapid response or hot take,” says Mulvey. And it’s a method that seems to be working. While they have suffered some loss consistent with all print magazines, Mojo’s and Uncut’s circulations are stable at about 70,000 and 51,000 respectively.

For the rest of the mainstream music press, meanwhile, the landscape might seem bleak, yet by going free, NME may be the first to have found a solution. “I thought it was a stupid idea,” admits Savage, “but I’ve been proved wrong. It’s doing very well, isn’t it?”

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in print to what Mulvey calls the “Spotify generation”, a generation who expect their media for free. As a result, NME saw their readership increase from 15,000 to over 300,000. In addition, NME also remains a hugely significant brand. Music Week editor Mark Sutherland, for one, argues that “if you talk to someone in the music industry about whether the endorsement of the NME is still important, it’s still influential.”

As NME’s Tom Howard points out, by going free the magazine can now bring this authority to a much wider audience. “For bands, record labels and music fans, what the NME thinks of an album is still important to them. I think more people are reading it now, so it’s probably more important.”

How music journalism will look a few years down the line is unclear. The stability of premium monthlies, reliant on an ageing demographic, won’t last forever, but the burgeoning free weekly press could afford music journalism a greater level of accessibility to the masses.

It is telling that NME’s circulation reached almost 308,000 in February 2016, surpassing a record that had stood since 1964 – an era led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in which music ruled the world.

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Can you guess whether a writer is a bot or not?

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t sounds like a dystopian nightmare.You wake up to find that your job can be completed quicker and more efficiently by a robot that doesn’t take coffee breaks or need to eat lunch.

As well as being an extremely competitive industry, journalism is a craft.Yet, software and algorithms are increasingly being used to write news articles that are error free and at such an exceptional speed that even the best journalists would struggle to keep up.

Programs like Wordsmith and Quill are fed data and taught to distinguish what it shows, in order to generate informative stories.

The software adheres to the tone, audience needs and the style of the publication. Some algorithms can already produce word-perfect poetry, throw in informal phrases and generate film reviews.

Narrative Science, the company behind Quill, constantly develop the program’s language. In a few years time, it may even have mastered sarcastic jabs and insults.

Forbes now churns out earnings reports with Quill, Google uses Jetpac to generate over 6,000 visual city guides, and The Associated Press now publishes over 4,000 quarterly finance reports using Wordsmith.

“Bot journalism” has become so sophisticated that a 2014 study at Sweden’s Karlstad University showed almost half of readers cannot tell the difference between software generated content and stories written by human reporters.

So now that you’re sufficiently worried about becoming obsolete, see if you can tell the difference between extremely talented journalists and Wordsmith in our anxietyridden quiz.

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Southwark council is repeatedly failing to enforce the 35% affordable housing rule. For developments with over 10 housing units, at least 35% should be relatively cheap. An FOI revealed that last year 63% of 1,789 planned properties cost too much which is an increase from the previous year when it was 48%. Developers paid £26m to ignore the rule.

Marc Higginson, Alexis Sanchez’s 76th-minute equaliser kept senior broadcast Arsenal in the title race and denied secondjournalist, BBC placed Tottenham a crucial victory in a thrilling Sport Interactive north London derby at White Hart Lane.

Aaron Ramsey had given the Gunners the lead, but the hosts fought back after Francis Coquelin had been sent off for two yellow cards.

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by Sanchez drew the North London Derby game in the 76th minute, a fair result.

No surprises here! Leonardo DiCaprio took home the Best Actor Oscar last night, 23 years after his first nod for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The actor took home the prize for his role in The Revenant, following six nominations since 1993. Despite a successful career, DiCaprio has had little luck in the Oscars department. But it looks like all those online jokes about Leo never winning anything will have to come to an end now.

David Roper, managing director, Heavy Entertainment After a lifetime of drifting on treacherous seas, Leonardo DiCaprio’s ship finally docked last night at the Oscars. His Best Actor trophy was won, ironically, for his lead role in The Revenant, in which he also froze almost to death. Fans have been waiting 23 years since his first nomination as Gilbert Grape for the Academy to recognise that his heroic stature in Hollywood finally deserved that heroic statue.

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Figures show developers paid a total of £26m to the council in 2013/14 to escape building affordable homes on schemes.

The proportion of unaffordable homes increased over the same period to 63%, up from 48% the previous year.

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Only 15% of sports presenters are women, while just 1% of guest contributors on sports shows are female. Lucy Alderson asks why more women aren’t pursuing sports broadcast journalism

ou’re standing at the players’ entrance, waiting for your signal to walk out onto the pitch. Today, you’ll be covering a non-league football match broadcast live for Setanta Sports.You hear the roar of 500 fans, singing in one voice, stamping to one beat.

The noise is intense, but you’ve done this a hundred times before. Putting your earpiece in and picking up your microphone, you’re ushered onto the field.

Walking to the pitch’s centre circle where you’ll be presenting, you’re prepared for a few catcalls from the rowdier parts of the crowd. But as you reach the middle,

what you experience is much more than just “banter”.

Around 500 people are chanting: “Does she take it up the arse?” And they’re singing at you. The camera starts rolling and you can barely concentrate, knowing that thousands will be watching you try, unsuccessfully, to present over the sexist hurls of the crowd.

It’s intense. It’s embarrassing.

This is exactly what happened to BBC Sport presenter Natalie Pirks in 2009. Pirks wrote about her experiences in a feature for BBC Sport on sexism, recounting how a whole football stadium started chanting “what Victoria Beckham would often hear

when watching her husband David play against Arsenal” at her.

Seven years later and attitudes like this toward women are still commonplace in sports broadcast journalism – and these attitudes persist just as often off the pitch.

A study into sexism in UK television programmes commissioned by Channel 4 in January revealed that sports was the worst performing area across the whole of the television sector for employing female presenters and pundits. >> Above: Boys club: sports pundits commentating on the UEFA Champions League Final, 1997

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Kait Borsay, a freelance sports broadcaster for ITN and Thomson Reuters, says the main problem is that sports reporting is considered a “man’s game”. “Men are used to hearing men talk about football, and ultimately, they probably prefer hearing from a man. You don’t often see a female footballer on a match analysis team covering a men’s game. In fact, it’s a rarity.”

Getting in front of the camera is just the first hurdle faced by female presenters and pundits. Sonya Thomas, a committee member for Women in Journalism (WIJ) and a freelance sports broadcast journalist, says that even if women are given the opportunity to present, they are subject to yet another sexist stigma.

“Only women of a certain ‘allure’ are invited to be in front of the camera – they have to be pretty,” she says.

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because there is an assumption that they had to have done something more to get in front of the camera. It’s a double-edged sword. It means that they’re not taken seriously.”

Judgements on the appearance of female presenters also slide the other way – not only can women be “too pretty”, they can also be not pretty enough. “When I was doing the newshead reviews for the BBC, a well-known sports broadcaster made me feel very uncomfortable for the way I looked,” says Thomas. “I hadn’t put any lipstick or makeup on and was made to feel like I hadn’t ‘made an effort’.” Even established sports presenters face enormous pressure to look a certain way from their bosses. Gabby Logan was asked if she would wear high heeled boots for “washing dishes” for one 2012 Olympic Games live broadcast. Borsay recounts how she was once told to “show a bit more

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cleavage because that is what the audience would appreciate”.This can go the other way too. German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, the first female presenter of BBC’s Top Gear in 15 years, was told her appearance was too sexy for the cameras after she wore what was described by the show’s bosses as a “Bavarian barmaid” outfit to the show’s launch event.

However, things seemed to be looking up in 2012, when the Olympics placed female sports journalists firmly in the public eye.

The ratio of male to female presenters, commentators and pundits at the London Games was roughly equal, making them an important opportunity for these women to showcase and prove their talent.

Broadcasters also gave equal coverage to both the men’s and women’s events throughout the course of the Games. The 2012 Olympics was described afterwards as the “women’s Games”, and for UK sports broadcasting, this term can be applied both on and off the field.

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But the variety of female presenters for the Olympics was limited to bankable household names like Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Sue Barker. The rest of the primetime presenting slots for the Olympics were given to men.

“The quality of screen time women are given cannot be ignored,” says Thomas. “Clare is great – but there are loads of other female journalists that should be given a chance too.”

However, these advances were shortlived. The relative equality present in the Olympics coverage was only a 16-day phenomenon, before male presenters and men’s games dominated our screens once

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again. Glenn Moore, football editor at The Independent, says: “The Olympics was a major step regarding Clare Balding being one of the main presenters. But you don’t really see women over the age of 45 on most sports channels.”

At present, the UK media devotes only 7% of its airtime to covering women’s sports, even though 60% of its audience wants to see more on their screens.

However, things are improving, according to Moore. “There are now women’s cricket and tennis being broadcast. BT are showing more women’s football – and the BBC are giving good coverage too. But they aren’t being shown on prime time television slots.”

I want to hear people talking about the presenter – not the fact that they are a woman

Demand for women’s sports is there – so how do we get this coverage on our screens? According to WIJ’s Sonya Thomas, the first step is a change in attitude towards women on the studio floor. “Women are denied the opportunity of sharing their knowledge of the pitch and this needs to change. Broadcasters need to say that they know women are under-represented and let it be known that they genuinely want to improve this gender imbalance. Women need to feel included.”

Not only do female journalists face discrimination in the workplace, they face a whole added level of abuse online.

This February, BT sports presenter Lynsey Hipgrave received a barrage of sexist comments over Twitter from football fans after tweeting her opinion about a “disrespectful” penalty made by Lionel Messi in a Spanish league game this February.

“Honestly no one cares what you think cos you have a pair of tits” and “This is why we don’t hire any females unless we need our dicks sucked or our food cooked” were just some examples of the comments she received.

Where was the support from Hipgrave’s bosses at BT sports? The public call-out against this abuse? A comment to the national newspapers who covered the abuse she received? Not one tweet was made

by BT Football in response to the incident.

The lack of response indicates a much broader issue in sports. Some broadcasters seem to accept that sexism is just a part of their industry.

But things are changing, slowly, according to Sophia Heath, former news editor at Horse & Hound and now online destinations editor for Boat International magazine. The rise of female super-journalists like Clare Balding means that women are being recognised for their talent, rather than for their gender. “Clare is a good role model because she is a good journalist. There are female figures within the field like this who are making it easier for more and more women to come through.”

Kait Borsay agrees that it is time for broadcasters to get over gender and focus on talent. “I want to hear people talking about the presenter – not the fact that they are a woman. People need to stop noticing they are a woman, and notice the work they are doing. Women need to be given a fair crack.”

Women have been around for millions of years. Roughly the same time as men. When sports broadcasters finally get over this shock, perhaps we’ll finally see Gabby Logan presenting Match of the Day 2.

1. Clare Balding interviews Leeds Rhino’s Paul Burrows after the match 2. Gabby Logan and Emile Heskey presenting the Emirates FA Cup, 2016 3. England’s Fran Kirby during the FIFA Women’s World Cup, 2015

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Hero hacks unmasked Low pay, high pressure and few bylines: news agency reporters are journalism’s unsung heroes

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ews agency journalists rarely get the glory of a byline, or even know where their story ends up. Pressure is high as they race their competition to the next breaking news story. Accuracy and speed are essential. So, what drives the agency reporter?

The answer isn’t financial reward.

Minimum wage is not uncommon for news agency reporters in the UK, with annual earnings of between £10,000 and £15,000, according to a Press Gazette survey from October 2015. Even the average newspaper journalist, who is notoriously strapped for cash, earns £22,250 annually, according to the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ). While journalism is never a nine-to-five operation, correspondents working at news agencies reported nine-hour shifts, sometimes for 12 consecutive days.

Katie Strick (Newspaper, 2015), did a six-week stint at the news agency South West News Service (SWNS). It was part of her training scheme for the Daily Mail, where she is now a news reporter. While at the agency she worked 12hour shifts and she explains that one of the biggest pressures involved is speed, which is “absolutely crucial – because that’s what the papers are paying you for”. Another trainee on a northern-based news agency says most

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of his time was spent doing door knocks and driving between events.

Due to diminished staff, publications are becoming reliant on news agencies for stories instead of finding news themselves. Strick believes that working for a news agency could be an easier gateway into journalism. “I’m surprised that newspapers don’t recruit more people from news agencies. If you can work at a news agency you can almost definitely work at a newspaper because you are really well trained.”

Daphne Papadopoulou (International, 2004) wanted her first job after graduating to be at a news agency because of the “rigorous training” on offer. She works at Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) and says that one difference from a commercial operation is that, as a statefunded news agency, the pressure comes from the government. If Papadopoulou were to unearth a story about the president, she says her copy would have to be read by two editors.

“When this happens, the editors tend to hassle us more than usual to make sure that what we write is correct,” says Papadopoulou.

The nature of the job very much depends on which news agency you work for, Papadopoulou explains. She has worked at Reuters, which she describes as “stressful” due to the pressure for speed and accuracy, but says that at AMNA, “the main objective is to publish articles that are written in a balanced way, rather than written quickly”.

Online subscribers have meant that agencies need to provide regular updates.

Maxime Denis, news editor for The Canadian Press’ radio content producer Nouvelles télé-radio in Montreal, says there is more emphasis on fast, hourly deadlines for online subscribers. “Our clients, like Huffington Post Quebec and Metro, are all online. We have to stop thinking about newspapers’ daily deadlines,” he explains.

However, the push for more content is being hampered by cutbacks. Denis, who works from 6pm to 1am on Fridays and at weekends, says Nouvelles télé-radio used to have a dedicated sports section, employing 30 people, but it has had to close. “Each day is a miracle,” says Denis. “I’m alone after 10.30pm so I have to do the job of 10 people, writing text for the radio and making sound clips.”

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Agencies come into their own when a big story breaks. The death of David Bowie caused a frenzied press storm in the UK. Eleanor Bley Griffiths (Magazine, 2015), a showbiz reporter for Press Association, describes that day as “manic”. She started work at 7am, taking over from her colleagues who had worked the overnight shift covering the Golden Globes. Griffiths was working with a small team and had to contend with the time difference between the UK and the US. “Everyone in the US that I needed to talk to was asleep and people in the UK weren’t awake yet,” she says.

But a small showbiz team doesn’t spell bad news for the agency. Their online strategy is helping to move them forward, says Bley Griffiths. The agency launched Snappa, offering informal multimedia content in late 2014, to cater for their online clients like Yahoo and BT. “The future is in diversifying and, with Snappa, Press Association has diversified what it does,” she says.

Bley Griffiths believes news agencies have a strong future in the media landscape.

“While newspapers are strapped for cash, it still makes sense that they all invest in a news agency that can pour its resources into things like talent and trainees,” she says.

“This still feels like a healthy place to be.”

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Ethical campaigns and LGBT activists: fashion is more than high-heels and hemlines

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hampagne-fuelled lunches in glitzy hotels, writers dripping in neon fur, editorial meetings filled with fluff, frivolity and freebies. The life of a fashion journalist. Right? Well, not exactly.

Fashion journalism often gets a bad reputation, with Absolutely Fabulous and Zoolander painting a lurid picture of a vapid industry. But as Patsy prepares to sashay back onto our screens in July with the release of the Ab Fab movie, British Vogue is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It is a birthday that marks a century of Vogue’s cultural and social influence, in an industry a thousand miles away from what Patsy would have you believe.

This grandiose and sometimes extravagant world is more influential than you might imagine. Increasingly, fashion journalists are tackling society’s much larger issues, such as body image, diversity and ethical manufacturing. And they’re driving real

changes. When the industry is so powerful and influential, fashion journalists do more than just give their opinions on heels, hemlines and handbags.

Last year, the fashion industry was worth £26bn to the UK economy, up 22% from 2009 and more than six times what the music industry is worth annually. Lucy Siegle, an ethical fashion and lifestyle journalist for The Guardian argues that the clothing industry is at the heart of today’s consumer economy.

“Fashion is so often cast off as an irrelevant sideshow when it comes to talking about global issues,” she says. “But it is an industry that involves millions of people, from those growing and processing raw fibre to workers in the vast sewing factories and the employees and shoppers in millions of retail outlets worldwide.”

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Despite fashion’s popularity and clear economic importance, those who report on it still face accusations that their work is trivial. In December last year, Pandora Sykes, fashion features editor of the Sunday Times Style magazine, wrote a blog post entitled “Sometimes I feel guilty for writing about clothes”. The post discussed the wave of criticism she received on Twitter whenever she wrote on subjects outside of fashion.

The comments suggested that as a fashion journalist she did not have the right or ability to write about topics beyond shoes and clothes.

“Stick to wardrobe mistress. Or go spend a year in Syria,” read one tweet. “F***ing wardrobe mistress pinhead,” read another.

Those who critique her social commentary may consider fashion to be somewhat alien, but Sykes argues that it is inextricably linked

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to the society in which we live. “Fashion is responsive,” she says. “It’s not like the designers sit there and say, ‘Oh, maybe I’ll do some flowers this season’. Everything is interconnected, whether you choose to engage with it or not.” As a result of this connectivity, the best fashion journalists can often be arbiters of social change, influencing our culture, how we live and even how we perceive those around us.

Dr Carolyn Mair, subject director of the Fashion Psychology MA at London College of Fashion, believes that one of the most explicit ways this manifests is through the perpetuation of damaging ideas of body image. “Because of its ubiquity, it becomes the norm to which many aspire,” she says.

“The effects include negative body image, eating disorders and marginalisation of large groups of the population. There is endless striving for the ‘beauty ideal’ promoted in fashion.” Images of stick-thin models and minute sample sizes from designers have flooded the media for decades, promoting a very specific and dangerous image of what is the “correct” size for a woman to be.

In May 2012, fashion writers began taking steps to counteract this. Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue, along with 12 other international Vogue editors signed an agreement to stop the use of underweight models. Each editor vowed not to use models considered to be medically underweight. They also petitioned for designers to stop sending tiny sample sizes and set up a mentoring system to provide guidance and support to vulnerable models.

Four years later, and the campaign started by fashion writers has become law. Italy, Spain, Israel and, most recently, France has introduced legislation banning “excessively thin” models from catwalks. The law faced much resistance from the designers themselves and the Vogue campaign forced a great deal of media scrutiny and pressure onto those resisting the act, bringing the issue into the public realm.

Nick Carvell, associate style editor for British GQ, agrees.

“Our fashion team try and reflect the diversity of the UK within the pages. As with anything, from politics to business, fashion journalism should reflect the people and the audience it caters to. If it doesn’t then questions need to be asked.”

Tamsin Blanchard, freelance fashion journalist for The Observer and The Telegraph, also agrees that fashion journalists play an important role in holding the industry to account and driving change within it. “It’s important 1

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on a critical level to question what designers are doing, how they see women and how they portray body image,” she says.

Conversations around issues like body image affect everyone, regardless of whether they choose to interact with the world of fashion, and increasingly fashion journalists are focusing on issues equally as wide-reaching. In the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, where over 1,000 workers died when a Bangladesh clothing factory collapsed, journalists have focused more closely on the ethics of the industry.

“Fashion journalism has a role in questioning the entire process,” says Blanchard. “From the chemicals used to treat the cotton and their effect on the cotton pickers, to who makes our clothes and how much they’re being paid.”

“As it stands, someone is forever exploited by mass fashion consumption,” says Orsola de Castro, co-founder of Fashion Revolution, a charity raising awareness about the garment production process. Fashion Revolution encourages people to ask brands “who made my clothes?” and much of its campaigning relies on the support of fashion journalists to publicise its message.

De Castro believes that change cannot happen unless consumers understand the reality and demand brands act. “We must have knowledge throughout the field,” she says. “It’s no good us teaching techniques and processes unless the storytellers and thinkers understand the issues just as well.” The press is an integral part of driving the change they seek.

Journalists including Blanchard, as well as Vanessa Friedman, fashion director for the New York Times and Suzy Menkes, international Vogue editor, have all pushed Fashion Revolution’s message into the mainstream media.

“We’ve had lots of help from the press and some powerful supporters over the years,” says de Castro.

This campaigning aspect of fashion journalism means that rather than simply holding up a mirror to society, it often reshapes it. In recent years, fashion’s progressive approach to the LGBT+ community has led to transgender models being embraced by the fashion world. Andreja Pejić began her career in 2011 and recently landed the March 2016 cover of Marie Claire Spain. Other transgender models such as Hari Nef and Lea T are fast becoming veterans on the fashion week runway, appearing in campaigns for Gucci and Givenchy.

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The use of transgender models in magazines and on the catwalks could be dismissed as headline grabbing. But trans and cisgender (where gender identity corresponds to biological sex) models now appear side by side in campaigns, and companies such as Sephora and Tresemmé are putting their money where their mouths are, using trans models to appeal to the mass market consumer.

Fashion journalism is at its best when responding to trends and successfully shifting the way our society works.

While sequins and clashing prints can be distracting on the surface, don’t be fooled into thinking that fashion journalism is all about showmanship. In the end, it is no different to any other kind of journalism. It takes the data, research and analysis and presents it to the reader in an intelligent, engaging way. There’s just a few more feathers than you’d find in war reporting. Now, someone fetch the Champagne.

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For online journalists, the temptation to use clickbait can be hard to resist. Ian Donegan asks whether sensationalist headlines can ever be a good thing

magine there has been an oil spill.

Many people and animals are about to lose their livelihoods and homes in the disaster. The world should know. Let’s also pretend that two years ago, Kim Kardashian tweeted, “Oil spills are bad for the world”. This tweet has nothing to do with the current situation. Do you: a) Run the story about the oil spill on its own, knowing your readership will only be 1,000 people? b) Ignore the fact that Kardashian’s tweet has nothing to do with the story and sneakily work it in?

The second option will result in a readership of 10,000 people and give a serious issue the platform it deserves. This does, however, mean being disingenuous to your reader. You will have enticed them to read an article based on a sensationalised headline: you have used clickbait.

While this is a hypothetical example, journalists are having to decide daily whether or not to use clickbait to hook their readers in.The desire to have your story read makes clickbait appealing. But it becomes even more difficult to resist when your professional success is measured by individual click or hit targets.

Publications are starting to move away from this tactic. In March 2016, The Sun told its online writers not to use deceptive headlines that don’t fairly reflect an article.

And in January 2016, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) forced Trinity Mirror to

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do a U-turn on its proposal to introduce individual online targets for journalists, citing fears that the news would dissolve into clickbait journalism.

Trinity Mirror’s digital publishing director, David Higgerson, still believes that individual targets could be implemented without content suffering. “Our challenge as journalists is to take what we’ve always done and make it reach as many people as possible. But there’s no point having a headline that isn’t backed up in the story.

That’s basically what clickbait is.”

If targets are realistic, Higgerson says they could be a great motivator in a newsroom, so long as “you aren’t beating people around the head” with them.

Higgerson thinks that readers will punish publications that try to cheat the system and rely on misleading headlines.

He says: “If you use it correctly it can improve the audience’s experience.

It means you get to as many people as possible. Used incorrectly, you may get short term hits out of it, but at the same time you have damaged your reputation.”

The notion that individual targets can be introduced without journalism deteriorating into clickbait has been described as naive by its critics, including Roy Greenslade, The Guardian’s media commentator.

Greenslade thinks Higgerson’s comments on individual targets are sincere. “My problem is that I don’t think the publishers,

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the owners, the people who want to make the money, are as sincere as he is,” he adds.

He argues that always focusing on the amount of hits you’re getting is a slippery slope for journalists. “The great danger is if you start apportioning your editorial appreciation purely thorough numbers.

“If you’re a reporter or a feature writer and your editor says, ‘We’ve only got 1,000 clicks for that investigative piece, and that guy over there, he’s clever, he got 3,000 clicks for an entertainment article’, you start to go for quantity over quality.”

It is fair to assume that an advertiser will be more likely to support a publication if its site has a lot of hits. But are advertisers only interested in the number of readers that an article or website attracts?

Lucia Adams, smartphone and web launch editor for The Times and The Sunday Times, argues that merely getting random people to look at your site is appealing to fewer and fewer advertisers.

“The race for eyeballs online is a zero-sum game. If you are doing nothing to distinguish your brand you are literally just facing online traffic. You are up against Twitter, Facebook and all the other channels,” she says.

Adams believes that a steadfast relationship with readers is more attractive to advertisers than a huge – but random – number of hits. Advertisers are interested in publications with a firm grip on reflecting their readers’ habits and interests in their stories. It means more targeted advertising.

For online publications who rely entirely on advertisers, individual targets must seem tempting. But for the time being the NUJ has taken a firm stance against it, asserting that the risk of clickbait is too great.

However, many newspaper executives believe that it is only a matter of when, not if. As Higgerson says, “The bigger risk of not implementing individual targets is if we don’t hit our targets. Then we don’t generate the revenue in order to stay in journalism.”

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You’ll NEVER believe what Kim Kardashian said in this article about clickbait!

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The power of the internet and an increasing interest among philanthropists to fund investigative journalism are helping it to innovate and stay relevant

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id you know that the contract for organising the upcoming street party for the Queen’s birthday celebrations was awarded to her own grandson’s events company? And that he was a trustee of the charity set up to handle the money raised from the event and pass it to the Queen’s charities?

If you didn’t, it’s probably because you don’t read BuzzFeed for hard-hitting news.

In February Peter Phillips resigned his role at the charity to avoid claims of a conflict of interest. According to a lawyer representing the charity, the Charity Commission was informed of this potential conflict.

You may have read about this on the BBC website or in the Daily Mail in February. But

before the story was picked up by traditional outlets, it was reported by BuzzFeed News.

Investigative journalism in the UK is as relevant today as it ever was. Meirion Jones may have lamented the BBC’s limited investment in investigative journalism in February, and Panorama and Dispatches documentary filmmaker Kevin Toolis may have said in 2010 that it was “dying a death”, but we may be entering a golden age for investigative journalism.

Philanthropists including journalists David and Elaine Potter are increasingly interested in funding this crucial form of journalism.

Others are using the internet to share knowledge of investigative techniques, and communicate longform investigations to readers in innovative and exciting ways.

In the last five years alone, not-for-profit organisations The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) and Request Initiative – which sends out Freedom of Information requests on behalf of charities – were set up, as well as the Bellingcat website for citizen investigative journalists, crowdfunding platform Byline, BuzzFeed’s investigative unit and Vice News.

Despite only being established in 2014, Vice News has already published several hard-hitting investigations, including a documentary released in January this year, which found evidence of IMSI-catchers being >> Above: New media is innovating how it communicates investigative reports to its readers

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used at parliament, an anti-austerity protest last June and at the Ecuadorian embassy.

The portable surveillance devices, which are capable of intercepting calls, text messages and emails, are typically used by state law enforcement. The police, however, have neither confirmed nor denied this on the grounds of national security.

Vice is also catching the interest of a younger audience through its investigations.

“What sets us apart from traditional media is that we’re all young. At Vice News we have an average age of 28 or 29,” says reporter Jenna Corderoy. “We have young hosts, young producers and a young camera crew. There’s more of a willingness to experiment with the production style, which appeals to younger readers.” In March, it posted a 360-degree video of the frontline of the Ukrainian crisis in Marinka on Facebook, allowing the reader to view the destruction as if they were at its centre by clicking on different sections of the video.

This desire to experiment is also evident at BuzzFeed News, which established a fourperson investigations team in February 2015.

In January this year, it published a report in collaboration with the BBC, alleging that match-fixing in the world of professional tennis has been ignored for years by the authorities. The Tennis Integrity Unit has since published a statement in which it strongly denies any such allegations.

BuzzFeed’s report was accompanied by an “investigif”, featuring data reporter

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John Templon. The series of gifs, which see Templon don tennis whites, a headband and wristband, are accompanied by an explanation of how he analysed betting data over the course of 15 months to find the story. “We want to make our journalism accessible to everybody,” explains investigative reporter Tom Warren. “BuzzFeed is vibrant and exciting. That makes it a very good place to do investigations.”

New media outlets such as Vice and BuzzFeed may be changing the way that investigations are presented to readers, but their critics argue they lack one key attribute that the legacy media has in spades: credibility.

“National newspapers have such established readerships,” says George Arbuthnott, deputy editor at The Sunday Times’ Insight team. “A lot of the movers and shakers in the world read them so it’s easier to get a story to fly.”

BuzzFeed’s collaboration with the BBC on the tennis match-fixing investigation, which saw them branded as “curious bedfellows” by The Huffington Post, has been viewed by many as an effort to address this perceived lack of credibility.

At a time when a disrupted industry is struggling financially, collaborations are an efficient way of using resources, says Arbuthnott. In August last year, The Sunday Times published an investigation about alleged widespread doping by professional athletes at the Olympics and World Championships between 2001 and 2012 – which the International Association of

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Athletics Federations (IAAF) has since strongly rejected. It was accompanied by a documentary produced by German TV network, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).

“The German journalists we were working with had some terrific information but didn’t have the numbers or resources to really make the most of it,” explains Arbuthnott about the decision to work together.

Joint investigations are something we can expect to see more of from The Times’ Insight team in the future. “We’re actually very open to collaborations, particularly with TV programmes,” he says. “With dwindling resources across different media, it makes sense to work together.”

The need for journalists to share resources and know-how is also why Eliot Higgins set up Bellingcat. He began writing his famous Brown Moses blog in 2012, which used open-source information to provide coverage of the Syrian conflict. “So much being reported in the news didn’t seem to reflect what was being reported on social media,” he says. Bellingcat was born in July 2014 because Higgins wanted to teach others how to conduct investigations using the internet as a source of information.

The website – with its tagline “by and for citizen investigative journalists” – has a niche audience interested mainly in arms control, government and the military. On it, journalists can learn how to verify YouTube videos, and use social media to identify bombers in terrorist attacks and assess environmental damage in areas of conflict.

“The internet is completely underused,” Higgins says. “I really don’t think people get quite how much information is out there.”

In 2015, Bellingcat secured funding from

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Google that will see it through to the end of this year. But it was a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, raising £50,891, that helped bring it to life.

Byline, a crowdfunding platform specific to investigative journalism, was set up in July 2015. At its core is the belief that it is essential to tap into the power of citizen funding if independent journalism is to have a promising future. “We think we’ve demonstrated so far that there is enough goodwill in the public to fund investigative journalism,” says managing editor, Nick Mutch. A good example is their 11-part investigation into Amnesty International’s report on Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip in 2014. It was conducted by the US political scientist, Norman Finkelstein, who crowdfunded $108,000 (approximately £70,000) for this project.

But the problem with crowdfunding investigative journalism is that it tends to work better for well-known journalists. People are more likely to trust an experienced journalist who has the skills to complete the investigation. “It’s harder for journalists who don’t have a large

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public profile,” says Mutch. But by widening its net of backers, who are mostly based in London, Byline hopes to solve this problem. “We need more awareness about the fact that journalism is a public service and needs direct public funding.”

There is also a lack of awareness among grant-giving organisations about how investigative journalists, such as Higgins, are using the internet to share knowledge.

This makes it harder to secure funding for websites like Bellingcat, instead of for a specific investigation.

Not-for-profit journalism is another model which succeeds at overcoming the lack of funding for investigations. Already a common model in the US – there were 76 such organisations in 2013, including Pulitzer Prize winner ProPublica – it is now gaining popularity in the rest of the world. The self-styled “first nonprofit investigative newsroom in the German-speaking world”, CORRECT!V was launched at the end of 2014 in Essen and Berlin, while the Centre for Investigative Reporting in Islamabad, Pakistan was founded in 2012.

In the UK, David and Elaine Potter founded the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) in 2010. Of its countless investigations since then, it published research in 2011 showing that since the Conservative Party came to power in 2010, more than half of its donations came from the financial services industry based in the City. A spokesman for the party later said that there is no proof that donors are influencing policy.

Also based in London, the not-for-profit Request Initiative was co-founded by investigative journalists Brendan Montague and Lucas Amin in 2011.“I was trying to solve a lack of investment from mainstream media in more complex, longform journalism,” says Montague.

But while philanthropic funding is what gave these organisations life, it can also be a limiting factor. Montague says that because

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Request Initiative doesn’t make a profit, they can’t secure a bank loan for the organisation, which means that growth is always a problem.

Resources have also been stretched at national newspapers and broadcasters – the media that has traditionally spearheaded investigative journalism – as a result of the 2008 economic recession. But none of them actually disbanded their investigative teams.

Despite the 20 redundancies announced at The Times and The Sunday Times in 2013, the Insight team has actually expanded from two to three people since then. The Daily Telegraph has also maintained a four-person investigative team despite 55 editorial jobs losses in 2014, while the Daily Mail set up an investigative unit just last year.

The recession didn’t stop these titles from publishing groundbreaking investigations. In the last seven years, Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake investigated alleged illicit payments in the bidding process for the 2022 FIFA World Cup for The Sunday Times; Andrew Norfolk exposed the widespread child abuse in Rotherham for The Times; and Nick Davies published his story about phone hacking at the now defunct News of the World for The Guardian. Add to this the wealth of investigations published by new media outlets, and the industry appears to have proven false Kevin Toolis’ dire prediction from five years ago – that it was “dying a death”.

Investigative journalism is even on the film industry’s radar. The documentary Attacking the Devil, about The Sunday Times’ struggle in 1972 to expose the dangers of the morning sickness drug thalidomide, was released in January. And Spotlight won best picture at this year’s Academy Awards for its portrayal of The Boston Globe’s investigation into the statewide child abuse

by Catholic priests.

Investigative journalism isn’t dead. And new models for funding and collaborations are adding to the pool of journalists able to spend time and money on it. But the means don’t matter when the common goal is and always has remained the same: the story. As Arbuthnott says: “What we all want is to break an iconic story that causes massive ripples across the world.”

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From tales of human trafficking to documenting the Syrian refugee crisis, a new type of illustration is proving that comics aren’t just for kids

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hat comes to mind when you think of comics? A lycra-clad superhero? A satirical cartoon? Syrian refugees? If the latter comes as a surprise, then think again.

Comics are increasingly being used as a powerful tool in humanitarian reporting.

Over the past five years, comics journalism, which uses journalistic techniques but produces news stories in comic book format, has proven the medium to be more than just light-hearted illustrations.

In 2013, the rapid proliferation of comics journalism blogs, such as The Nib and CartoonMovement, led to the BBC using the form to report on human trafficking in Nepal. Since then, comics journalists have found themselves taking commissions from the BBC as well as from The Guardian, Vice, Huffington Post and even NGOs. Most recently in February, the Overseas Development Institute, an international development think tank, commissioned the British comics journalism company PositiveNegatives to produce ‘Fleeing into the Unknown’, based on the Eritrean refugee crisis and published in The Huffington Post.

The piece comprised a series of black and white images which followed the journey of one young Eritrean girl, Mehra, as she fled her home country to come to Europe. “We try to portray the individual struggles behind

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the story,” says Benjamin Dix, founder of PositiveNegatives.

As well as his work for The Huffington Post, Dix recently produced three comics for The Guardian called ‘A Perilous Journey’, exploring the Syrian refugee crisis. The series looks at the stories of three men: Mohammad, Khalid and Hasko. But far from being a comic book fantasy, each work recounts the story of a real person.

While researching the piece, Dix travelled to Norway, Denmark and Sweden to record the testimonies of Syrian refugees.

While the turnaround on interviews in the nationals can be just a day, Dix will spend at least two months meeting, interviewing and building relationships with his case studies. When researching for ‘A Perilous Journey’, Dix spent six months conducting interviews and fact-checking his work. Dix believes this considered approach allows empathy to cut through the statistics. “People don’t really see themselves in these huge stories,” he says. “But when you draw things as a comic and it’s simply pen and ink, suddenly people see that it could be them.

It’s much more relatable.”

Dix describes his work as a cross between journalism and ethnography, a systematic,

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immersive form of anthropological research.

“I always go back to the people I speak to and check that I’ve got everything correct,” he says. “These stories aren’t interpretations.

They’re as accurate as possible.”

Martin Rowson, cartoonist for The Guardian, argues that this accuracy is no different to traditional reporting. He believes comics are just another medium through which journalism can be reported: “We are holding witness to what’s happening, but through a comics lens.” Comics are being manipulated by journalists aiming to capitalise on their emotional and empathetic potential, bringing the stories to life.

In April last year, the BBC created an illustrated, interactive quiz entitled ‘Syrian Journey: choose your own escape’, in which readers faced the same choices that Syrian migrants have. The quiz does more than put the viewer in someone else’s shoes – the viewer becomes a refugee, making life and death decisions.

While this is one way of engaging the reader, comics journalism is also looking to the future.

Brooklyn-based tech company, Empathetic Media is bringing the form firmly into the 21st century, combining comics journalism with virtual and augmented reality. Dan Archer, the company’s British founder, describes its work as “immersive” journalism. The company creates animations and comics for virtual reality headsets in which the viewer becomes part of the stories behind the headlines. Its work so far includes ‘Ferguson First Hand’, based on the 2014 police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown that sparked riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and ‘I survived – The Colombia Conflict’, a first person, civilian account of the conflict in 1960s Colombia.

“Virtual reality like this allows you to put the reader into situations they wouldn’t ordinarily be able to get into,” says Archer.

“You slow down and sit with someone’s story. You experience that environment with them and that’s what fosters empathy.”

Rather than focusing on the immediate impact, Archer looks at the long-term response, preventing readers from becoming desensitised by overwhelming statistics and dramatic headlines. He describes virtual reality storytelling as “a contemporary update of a feature-length magazine article.”

The idea of losing yourself in a 10-page comic may seem strange initially, but the visual impact provides instant access to important stories that may otherwise be overlooked.

While typically associated with kids and superheroes, illustrative reportage shows it’s time we took comics seriously. “Comics aren’t inherently humorous or infantilising,” says Archer. “They are just a different and powerful way of telling a story by combining words and images.”

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Regional resurgence An onslaught of cuts from big publishers has left local news in crisis. But across the UK, citizen journalists are fighting to bring it back from the brink

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n 11-day strike. This was the response last June by journalists in south London to the announcement that Newsquest was making cuts to staff on their regional titles. The industrial action, which was supported by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) was to protest at poor pay and redundancies.

It was in the same month that the Press Gazette published research that showed more than 300 local titles in the country have closed in the last 10 years.

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revenue from print advertising, journalists are laying the foundations for a more sustainable future. And one way of doing this is by creating a sense of loyalty and “ownership” among readers.

This is what David Prior, formerly a sports journalist at the Liverpool Echo and the Press Association, is doing with his hyperlocal blog, Altrincham Today. Based in Manchester and launched in 2014, the website is “mobile first”. This means that most of the content, including video, can be uploaded and edited on a smartphone. Prior is using his website to cover unreported issues in Altrincham and also to build a large online community that values the website as a source of

news. In this way, he hopes to ensure the sustainability of his project. “I’m using local news to create a community and then drive that community to a place where businesses can advertise,” he says.

Despite the city’s population of just 45,000, Altrincham Today has 80,000 unique visitors a month. Its success encouraged Prior to launch Hyperlocal Today, a network of mobile-first hyperlocal blogs based on the same model. Since October 2015, Prior has been reaching out to journalists across the country to encourage them to license the website to cover areas not reported on by the established press. According to the agreement, the site editor is only responsible

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for content, while hosting and design are looked after by Prior. Six sites have already been licensed, in West Kirby, Stockport, Heswall and Burnley, among others.

Community is also at the heart of The Bristol Cable. A media co-operative with 825 members, it was launched by three graduates from the University of Sussex in 2014. The Cable comprises not only a website but also a monthly print magazine and a quarterly newspaper.

Founders Alon Aviram, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alec Saelens believe that print is essential to ensure the sustainability of their media outlet. “Building a community is a core way of getting people to support us,” Saelens says. And its success in doing so is evident from its circulation. In just over a year, The Cable has quadrupled its distribution points – from 150 to 600.

Distributing the newspaper and magazine across high streets in Bristol gives the team a chance to meet readers in person. And as a cooperative, every member is entitled to attend editorial meetings.

Engaging with its audience in this way is something the established regional press cannot match. Saelens explains: “We believe The Cable is really empowering people.

They are able to decide what information is needed and is not available, and The Cable is addressing that.” Its investigation into Bristol University’s portfolio of investments last June, for example, exposed dealings with companies guilty of ethical violations.

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Membership fees for The Cable start on a sliding scale at £1, and are currently the main source of income. Although it does have print advertisements, Saelens says it does not rely on them, but instead upon “those who value what The Cable is bringing to the community and want to sustain it by contributing to it”.

Sustainability is a core issue for new forms of local journalism, according to Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette. He feels very uncertain about the future of local news and says that although the online scene is hopeful, “most people do not make a living out of it”.

Both Hyperlocal Today and The Cable are voluntary operations. “We are far from being able to deliver a living wage for everyone who gets involved,” says Saelens. But they are working on a budget to ensure that everyone involved on a weekly basis is paid.

However, hyperlocal blogs can also be profit-making enterprises. Richard Sambrook, director of Cardiff University’s Centre for Journalism, cites the profitable Brixton Bugle and Caerphilly Observer as examples of hyperlocal sites that make money.

Sambrook has been leading the university’s free online course in hyperlocal journalism since 2014, which is taught by nine other faculty members. Since then, 35,000 people have registered for Community Journalism: Digital and Social Media. During the fiveweek course, students are taught the basics of reporting and verification, how to set up

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Building a community is a core way of getting people to support us

a website and Facebook page, attract and engage an audience and – most importantly – ensure its sustainability.

Hyperlocal blogs that have been set up as a direct result of the course include East Grinstead Online, which launched in 2014 and now has 50,000 unique visitors a month.

The Star & Crescent in Portsmouth and the Grimsby Spotlight in North East Lincolnshire, set up in December 2014 and February 2015 respectively, are other successful examples.

Sambrook believes that online, hyperlocal, community-driven journalism is one of the main forms in which local journalism will survive in the future.

Local television stations could be another key form. In Brighton, Latest TV was only launched in 2011 but already has 210,000 local viewers and 3.6 million online viewers across the UK. The channel was founded by film director and composer, Bill Smith, and broadcasts a mix of news, entertainment and sport from Brighton.

Through Latest TV, Smith hopes to provide coverage for less reported parts of the UK and democratise the media landscape, which he thinks is “very London-centric” right now.

Some £1m in funding for the channel came from Smith and his partners, the writers Peter James and Mike Holland, and Brighton & Hove Albion FC. The station has a team comprised of 20 paid journalists and funds itself solely on advertising revenue, which has doubled in the last two years, the current turnover is £500,000. National advertising interest is increasing, as well as a demand for the station’s internally produced advertisements.

To give publicity to good local journalism, Dominic Ponsford started a blog on the Press Gazette’s website in January this year, where he lists the six best regional stories published each week. “Local newspapers do an incredible amount of good journalism and don’t often get the credit they deserve,” he says. The Wigan Evening Post’s report about children carrying weapons and the Halifax Courier’s coverage of the floods in January are two featured stories.

Local stories like these are important. As Ponsford wrote in his introductory blog: “Local newspapers are where news begins.

Without their thousands of news gatherers finding stories, our industry would rapidly find it was built on sand.”

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ay proudly: ‘I’m in f***ing radio and it’s great!’ Deliver it when you’re washing the car or making love. Be bloody proud,” booms LBC presenter Nick Ferrari, red-faced and excited.

Radio is in rude health. A staggering 90% of the UK population tune in for an average of 21 hours a week. Revenues grew by 4% in 2015 and 8% the previous year, giving Ferrari and his fellow radio luminaries good reason to shout. In 2015, Global Radio, owner of the commercial stations Heart, LBC and Capital FM, reached 24.1 million weekly listeners.

Meanwhile, BBC Radio 2 remains the UK’s most listened to station with an audience of over 15m. Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph’s seasoned radio critic, asserts that now is “undoubtedly the golden age of radio”.

Despite this success, radio presenters still feel overlooked. Ferrari says: “If radio was invented again tomorrow, everyone would say ‘this is bigger than Google’.” BBC radio stations face biting cuts, despite only getting £2.30 of every £12 spent on the licence fee.

Sue MacGregor, veteran broadcaster and presenter of The Reunion on Radio 4, believes this discrepancy is evidence that radio is undermined by the media, warning that she and other presenters “won’t stand for salami slicing” of “the best radio service in the world”.

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Five years ago, BBC Radio 6 Music faced closure due to cutbacks. In 2015, it became the first digital-only radio platform to pass two million listeners. In addition to digital broadcasts, radio is reaching new audiences via their mobile or laptop, with 41.7% of all radio listening taking place via a digital platform in the last quarter of 2015, up 16.7% from the same period in 2010.

Reynolds credits radio’s digital success to downloadable podcasts, which make it “much nimbler” than other mediums. With 1.5 million listeners per episode, the audiodocumentary Serial shows how podcasts can revive the conversation around radio. It is the fastest, most downloaded podcast in the history of iTunes, proving a growing appetite for audio storytelling. Jonathan Wall, controller of BBC 5 Live, believes podcasts have taken off because they allow broadcasters to “deliver something very specialist to hit a dedicated audience”, resulting in large download figures and a cult following.

Digitisation also means popular stations and shows are increasingly using visuals to accompany online and red button broadcasts.

BBC Radio 4 now requires all pitches to be accompanied by a video, as does Radio 1, which targeted younger listeners by offering vloggers Dan and Phil a fully-filmed show in 2014, featuring YouTube stars like Zoella.

If radio was invented again tomorrow everyone would say ‘this is bigger than Google’

Mary Hockaday, controller of BBC World Service English, thinks stations thrive when they pay equal attention to digital methods as broadcasts, adding that “all the boundaries are blurring”. Wall agrees: “You have to think about your digital strategies.” For example, ensuring that football commentaries with good graphics are available through the red button on TVs. Although digital strategies are used to enhance radio’s assets, it is the intimacy that keeps listeners tuned in. Paul Gambaccini, dubbed “The Professor of Pop”, has worked across BBC and commercial radio since 1962. He says the rapport between the listener and broadcaster is why radio “always survives and transcends”. Ferrari describes it as an “honour” to host a show listeners play while getting ready, establishing an “utterly intense” relationship. “We have no right to be in your bathroom,” he jokes.This intimate bond once inspired a Holocaust survivor to call in to share her experience with him, despite having never discussed it with her grandchildren. “She said she told me because she knew I would listen,” says Ferrari.

Whether they are phoning in, following online or tuning in on their drive to work, radio has a devoted following. With its capacity to conveniently deliver quality content, radio broadcasters remain optimistic about the future. “There is no match for the creativity, imagination or intellect of radio personalities,” laughs Gambaccini. “You can have a much longer career in radio.”

STARS SOUND OFF These motormouthed broadcasters are loved for their strong viewpoints. Here they voice their opinions about the current state of the media.

Jonathan Wall “Anyone can shine and be a star and make YouTube videos – there’s no excuse. I feel like [young people] are all a bit passive.”

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Paul Gambaccini “They’re so superficial that you’ll wonder what the fuss was about. Sorry, but a beautiful youth won’t be beautiful in 10 years.”

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Nick Ferrari “I’ll defend my views until the last fight and if you don’t like it then don’t live in the West.”

ON FREE SPEECH

Sue MacGregor “If something doesn’t make money then it’s not worthwhile, this is this government’s ethos [towards the BBC].”

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Radio is enjoying a golden age, bucking troubling trends affecting other mediums.

Industry experts tell us why they feel the need to broadcast this impressive triumph

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A day in the life of a motor reviews editor

Vicky Parrott is one of the few women in motoring journalism. She talks test driving Lamborghinis and getting paid to burn rubber in Miami

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t’s a bitterly cold day in Feltham, Surrey.

In the dreary car park the only flash of colour to be seen is a bright yellow Porsche Cayman GT, roaring into life. I am outside the offices of Haymarket Media Group, home of AutoCar and What Car magazines. Vicky Parrott, the deputy reviews editor, is behind the wheel. At 31, she has tested more cars than most can name and, right now, she has a small baby bump.

Most days, Parrott wakes up at 7.15am to walk her dog and leaves her house at 9. After a 30-minute drive, her working day starts at 9.30am with compiling her to-do list. This can include ringing up PRs to check facts, confirming road test bookings and writing news stories. Most of her time, however, is spent out in the field completing road tests for a wide variety of cars, including the Lamborghini Huracán LP-610 4 Spyder that costs about £189,000.

Parrott recently got the opportunity to test drive this particular Lamborghini in Miami, Florida. “It was a really euphoric moment to be handed a Lambo on an all-paid weekend to Miami.The roads are terrible for actually trying to test a car as they’re all dead straight and very smooth – as far from UK roads as you can expect. But it was really fantastic in the brilliant sunshine.”

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One of the most expensive cars she has ever tested was a Ford Fiesta World Rally Car, which costs around £500,000. “It was still an active competition car, so was incredibly valuable,” she says. If she had crashed it, it would have cost Ford valid World Rally Car points and would lower them in the rankings.

Her favourite car? It changes constantly.

“Today I’ll go for the Porsche Carrera GT, tomorrow it might be the Ford Fiesta ST or the Ariel Atom V8.”

A busier week at work can include a trip to Millbrook, a testing centre in Bedfordshire.

Acceleration tests are extreme, from 0 to 60mph, but rarely dangerous as long as the driver has complete control.

Another driving test is done between 30 to 70mph just in third gear; the speed drivers will usually be travelling between. At lunchtime, she and the editorial team go out to eat together when they have the time.

The job does, however, come with the occasional occupational hazard. “Someone ran over my work laptop once. It ended up banana-shaped. The last thing I do before going home is back all my files up!”

Parrott has always been a fan of cars, but wasn’t sure what she wanted to do

Someone ran over my work laptop once. It ended up banana-shaped

for a living. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

“I dabbled with the idea of becoming a tabloid newspaper journalist. One day I was driving along and realised I could name all of the cars I saw, so decided to do work experience at AutoCar.” She started as a picture editor and from there moved up the ranks.

Parrott is one of the few women in motoring journalism. “Women are often less interested in cars, so it doesn’t appeal to them,” she says, “Whereas there are masses of blokes who want to do something with cars.” More women are entering the industry, though, as “a lot of motoring media outlets are now wanting to get a female journalist on their staff to bring more balance”.

The working day finishes at around 6pm and Parrott goes home to her husband Jason, a carpenter and fellow car enthusiast, before going to bed around 11pm. As she is now four months pregnant, she will soon be working part-time, but has her sights set on becoming editor. “I’m still ambitious. Having a child won’t change that.”

As Parrott drops me back at Feltham station and I catch the train home, I wonder if you can fit a child seat in a Porsche.

Above: Vicky Parrott driving a Lamborghini Huracán LP-610 4 Spyder in the Miami sunshine

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Where in the world is it most dangerous to be a journalist? Five seasoned reporters talk corruption, checkpoints and censorship The Guardian

Simon Mundy,

The general advice is to smile and cooperate. The best addition to any journalist’s kit is a glove puppet – I had a squirrel until I lost him, later a badger. At a checkpoint, you wind down the window.

When the soldiers gather to ask for IDs you produce the glove puppet and make one of his arms wave.The puppet would always get a laugh and the tension is defused.

War reporting is enjoyable. It’s an adventure. When you’re a kid you don’t play at being chartered accountants, you play at being Libya astronauts or going to war.

Financial Times

I’ve been to North Korea only once during my time in Seoul, from August to September 2014. I was invited to a wrestling tournament by the North Korean government, to see Pyongyang and the outskirts of the city. Everyone was assigned their own personal minder who accompanied you whenever you were outside the hotel.

What I tried to do was look for things that were shown to me by mistake. At the hotel I saw a very brown, incredibly old looking newspaper, almost like parchment. It was that day’s paper, the Rodong Sinmun official newspaper of North Korea. The guard immediately came over to me and snatched it away, but with a smile.

But something they were very keen

to show off is the state Munsu water park, with several pools and big slides.

My guide didn’t want to highlight that the government aren’t doing their job for the cash economy. In state shops there should be things at very low prices, but I saw they were selling burgers at 10,000 won (£5.80) which is three to five times the typical monthly wage. It showed they are passively accepting the black market – and want to access the money from it.

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Oliver Holmes, The Guardian We were advised to take our press badges off in Syria. There are militant groups who try to kidnap journalists for ransom. If their governments don’t pay, they are killed as publicity for Isis.

In 2013, the kidnap risk was much higher, so we had to plan every detail of our trip. Militants won’t believe that you haven’t organised anything. You need to have people who can vouch for you and say: “He is a journalist.”

We wore helmets, bulletproof vests and gas masks in case chemicals were dropped. One of the times when I 102

felt most in danger was driving around in Aleppo.

Syria A helicopter just started shooting at our minibus.

We tried to get cover but all the doors were closed. All of a sudden, a rebel fighter came out near us and started shooting back at the helicopter with an AK47. This is what happens every day in a war.

Eva Hartog,

Moscow Times

There is a lot of bureaucracy in Russian journalism. You usually send a list of questions by email then the politicians decide if it’s a topic they would like to discuss. Lots of politicians here won’t take your calls.

The interesting thing about Russia is dissidence. Political activists are keen to have their voices heard.

It’s part of your job to balance the story, but you almost never get to represent the government’s side. They just don’t feel like they owe it to people to explain what they do and how. That’s the main difference to the west.

There’s more than a little bit of paranoia.

Once the government realises you’re a foreigner, they won’t comment.

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Alex Duval-Smith, The Guardian The new nationalist government in Poland called Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) has passed a media law that damages press freedom Poland by replacing public broadcasting bosses with government loyalists.

A number of laws have been rushed through, such as the new surveillance law, which gives the police enhanced snooping powers. We all expect our phones to be tapped now.

In early February of this year, the justice minister said that the constitution is going to be amended to make it an offence to “harm the good name of Poland”. There will be five year prison sentences for use of “Polish concentration camps” instead of the Nazi prison camps.

I have a critical eye on a European Union member that is showing signs of turning its back on democratic principles. Informed criticism is very important.

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Chris Stephen,

The scariest of the nine wars I’ve reported from was the Libyan revolution in 2011. I was based in Misrata (187 kilometres to the east of Tripoli). Both sides were amateurs, very wild. Gaddafi’s side fired hundreds of huge rockets. They landed everywhere because they weren’t aimed.

Libya is like Mad Max – the militias customise 4x4s, making them into these funky battle wagons; different armour fittings, different slogans, different colours.

They have the same attitude – sex and violence and money.

I think I’m one of the most careful war reporters. Certain people go haring off to find every new battle. I decided a while ago not to look for danger, it’s just too risky.

Worldwide, an estimated 150 million girls have experienced sexual violence.

Much of it takes place in school.

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Platform alteration Leaving print for broadcast

Four City alumni who succeeded in print, radio and broadcast reveal how to get out of your comfort zone and expand your skill set

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oice training, video editing, relying on technology, understanding tech speak and a 24-hour news cycle.

These are just some of the challenges that you can expect when changing media platforms. But the solution is: conquer some and avoid others. These four City

University alumni took the plunge and left print for TV or radio.

Instead of finding them exhausted from never-ending obstacles, XCity catches them thriving from the transition, and owning it. Alongside learning new tricks, they have learnt that some of their editorial skills are as invaluable on TV and radio as in print.

Shelford’s biggest surprise so far is that the transition from print to broadcast has been relatively seamless. As an editor, she Sally Shelford, 38, focuses entirely on content, and doesn’t have to worry about the former editor of technical side of things. The best advice she has received was from celebrity magazine her director, who said that every minute in TV equals a page in Now, current editor of print. “If it’s a lighthearted funny story, you’d give it one or two ITV’s Loose Women. minutes. If it’s a meaty subject you may want to give it four or (Periodical, 2000) five minutes.”

Just like interviewing for tabloids, Shelford has to get presenters to “bare their souls”, even encouraging Loose Women panelist Nadia helford had spent Sawalha to talk about her problem with binge eating live on air. her entire career in During the show, the website for Overeaters Anonymous, a support tabloid newspapers group for people suffering from binge eating disorders, crashed due and magazines. Before to the huge number of people accessing it at the same time. working at Now, she was assistant features editor at the Daily Mirror and With a live show, Shelford explains: “You can never be completely entertainment editor at The Mail on Sunday. Five months ago, she made wedded to a plan.You have to think about it as an ever changing the leap to become editor of ITV’s Loose Women. She says she was flatplan especially if a guest is particularly open.” She compares it to terrified, but her credo is that “we should only take jobs we can’t do”. her newspaper days when they were going to print constantly.

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Ali Plumb, 28, former film editor at Digital Spy and film writer at Empire, current broadcast film critic for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

(Magazine, 2008)

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lumb first began his career in radio by making podcasts for City University’s student magazine, Tell. Despite working as a writer at Empire between 2009 and 2015, he shared his love of broadcast by introducing podcasts while he was there. He then worked as film editor for Digital Spy before he landed his dream job as BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s film critic in December 2015.

Plumb says that in a multimedia age, experience in print and broadcast can open a lot of doors. “The more you can do, the more indispensable you can be. When I was at Empire, I founded and produced the Empire podcast which was a big deal.” The Empire podcast is now celebrating its 200th episode.

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If you write for a big publication before you go into radio, it will look very impressive during a job interview, Plumb says. “When people ask you, ‘Why should we consider your opinion?’, then you can say, ‘Do you know what? I’ve earned my stripes - I’ve worked in print and Empire is a big name.’”

While studying at City, Plumb and his coursemate, Jesse Whittock, made a podcast called Newsdump. Each episode involved them both coming up with five news stories – three real and two fake ones. The aim of the game was to guess whether the other person’s news story was real or not. “I don’t think my professors were blown over by it, but it was good to show that we could make more than a print product,” he says.

Plumb thinks print no longer exists on its own. “The Economist isn’t just print. Look at how well that’s doing on iPad,” he says.

The Economist’s iPad app is so successful that they are considering launching it on Android.

“Nothing that calls itself print and just print should still exist.”

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Kate Ironside, 52, former broadcast political correspondent for the BBC and reporter for the Daily Express, current senior broadcast lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire.

(Newspaper, 1985)

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ronside joined the Radio Evening Post in 1986 and worked for Central Press Westminster as a broadcast political correspondent from 1988 for national and regional TV. She then wrote for the Daily Express before joining BBC Westminster in 1996 as a radio

David Adams, 54, previously bureau chief of Reuters Miami, is currently the English content director at the biggest Spanish broadcaster in the US, Univision.

(International, 1984)

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dams started his career in journalism when multimedia was a thing of science fiction. At Univision, it is quite the opposite with the aim being to embed text, video, pictures and infographics in every single story. That means that a lot of stories involve teams rather than single journalists. In order to cover Obama’s visit to Havana, Adams and his team decided to do stand-

journalist. She won the 1999 Press Gazette award for Columnist of the Year for her column in the Western Morning News that ran for 17 years from1995 to 2012.

With 26 years of experience in the industry, Ironside says that media platforms have always evolved quickly in journalism and every time new software is introduced, deadlines come around more quickly: “I can remember reporting on the 1992 General Election with a phone the size of a brick. I got my first laptop in 1988 which I used to file to the Bristol Evening Post but I was still filing to other newspapers via phone. When I joined the BBC, they still had the old razor tape radios but we moved fairly rapidly onto digital editing.”

The way people access news keeps changing, she says. “Very few young people buy newspapers now. The first person to tell me about the Paris attacks was my 12-year-old son. He heard what had happened on Facebook.”

Ironside thinks the key to success is to follow the audience. “If the audience is changing platforms, you’ve got to change with them. This means that you can be so much more creative as well. The amazing ways you can tell stories online now are just incredible. There are some brilliant audio slideshows on the Litvinenko public enquiry for example.” The BBC commonly uses audio slideshows and The Guardian has an entire section of their website dedicated to them.

alone pieces that were either broadcast on TV, or published as live blogs, breaking news stories, photo slideshows, and text based stories with news of the day and features.

Adams also works on his own. Usually he writes the copy, just like he used to do during his print career, but in addition he embeds videos from the Univision digital database of videos. “The analytics show that it’s video, more than anything else, that drives clicks and eyeballs,” says Adams. “If you don’t have video, you won’t succeed.”

But he thinks the main challenge now is social media. In the past, his job ended when the story got published. “It used to be that reporters were very much discouraged from engaging with people who called on the phone or emailed. Now it’s a huge mistake not to engage with difficult commentary.”

What’s the next challenge journalists may expect? “Kids – and not just people in Silicon Valley – learning how to code, designing their own software and more of their own smaller scale social media platforms.” Journalists may then find it even more difficult to reach young audiences than they do now, through centralised platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

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merica doesn’t have a royal family. Instead it has presidents – and Oscar nominees. Or so Adam Benzine was told when his first film, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary short. However, Benzine wasn’t too rattled by the prospect of sharing the world’s most famous red carpet with cinematic royalty.

“I go to many film festivals and have been surrounded by celebrities for a long time.

I’ve interviewed Robert Redford, Naomi Campbell, Annie Lennox... So I’m not really fazed,” he reveals from the poolside of the Hollywood Hilton. “But just because I wasn’t dazzled by these people, doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it – I was watching everything as a film fan.”

A mere 12 hours before, Benzine, in a custom-made JS Vann blue velvet tuxedo, was

taken from the Los Angeles Four Seasons Hotel to The Dolby Theatre in a stretch limo. Accompanying him was his associate producer, Kelsey Irvine, and the subject of his film, 90-year old Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah – widely regarded as the most important Holocaust documentary of all time.

“Claude said it was just like Cannes, but I don’t think even he was prepared for the sheer scale,” Benzine admits. Lanzmann, who flew from Paris for the event, did a handful of interviews, but eschewed the 500-foot long carpet for the bar, leaving Benzine and Irvine to their own devices.

As a journalist being interviewed by journalists, Benzine couldn’t resist testing the clickbait climate and threw in “a little floater” to the soundbite-hungry press. His rather zealous claim of “I’m gonna ask out J-Law”, as he predicted, made its way to the

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top of The Guardian’s coverage of British nominees. Clickbait box ticked.

Yet the Toronto-based journalist didn’t triumph on every front. Goodie bags – reserved for only the main acting and directing categories – were this year rumoured to include a $15,000 trip to Japan and a $31,000 lifetime supply of skin cream.

Even American comedian Louis C.K. joked to the nominees in Adam’s category that whoever won would be “taking their Oscar home in a Honda Civic”.

What Benzine lacked in freebies, he made up for in Oscars party vignettes. Meeting Rachel McAdams at the nominees’ luncheon sent him “a bit weak at the knees” and Minnie Driver tweeted him her pre-ceremony well wishes after they crossed paths at the British pre-Oscars party. Jazz singer Jamie Cullum, meanwhile, admitted he had seen Shoah not just once, but twice – amounting to almost 20 hours’ worth of viewing. Email addresses were exchanged.

Sitting through any awards ceremony is a rollercoaster of emotions, and the Oscars is a long ride: 2016’s was almost four hours in total. Benzine lost out to A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen ObaidChinoy’s story of honour killings in Pakistan.

“I can’t lie, it massively sucks to lose when you’re considered the frontrunner,” he sighs.

“But you can’t feel bad when you lose to a film like that. Sharmeen is an extremely worthy winner.”

Commiseratory champagne was sipped at the Governor’s Ball before Benzine and his crew returned to the Four Seasons in the early hours. The next day passed in a blur, spent fielding what he calls “an overwhelming bombardment” of goodwill from fellow documentary makers, family and friends.

As it turns out, attending Hollywood’s grandest gala is exhausting. Or rather, everything involved in making an Oscarnominated documentary is exhausting.

Benzine set up three companies in order to make Spectres of the Shoah, as well as financing and promoting it almost single-handedly.

He may be feeling deflated as he reclines on that sunlounger, but this feeling won’t last forever. “They read my name out and played a clip of my film in front of 80 million people.

And today, I feel pretty good about that.”

My night at the Oscars Benzine gives a few choice words to waiting journalists on the red carpet

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Jane Adkins (née Farrow) Press officer, Laings Construction; senior account director, ADPR; managing director, A Head for PR Richard Alcock Reporter, Yorkshire Evening Press; deputy editor, Bradford Star; reporter, sub-editor, Yorkshire Post; deputy chief sub-editor, North West Times; freelance sub-editor, Fleet Street; sub-editor, business production editor, The Guardian David Brindle Society editor, public services editor, The Guardian; chair, National Development Team for Inclusion; Board member, Richmond Fellowship Nikolaus Creutzfeldt Unknown Jaqueline Cuthill Unknown Lucilla Deane Unknown Laura Dixon (née Pasternack) Richmond & Twickenham Times; tutor, freelance Pamela Glover Book centre managing Director, Resource and communication director, Resources manager, All Souls Church Alex Graham Editor, chief executive, Wall to Wall Media; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Television Society; visiting fellow, Bournemouth University Ian Graham Deputy editor, Which

Video?; Freelance; Author Caroline Handley (née Thompson) Woman’s Own; freelance; ghost writer Askold Krushelnycky Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty (Prague); foreign correspondent, The Independent, Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times.

Adam Mayers TV commentator, senior editor, thestar.com; investment and personal finance editor, Toronto Star, AKIN Corporation Mary Moloney Surrey Advertiser; Irish Times; Evening Press (Dublin) Diana Muir Media training consultant, University of Leeds; training consultant, Thomson Foundation; tutor, University of Leeds.

Ian Nash Assistant editor, The Times Education Supplement; member, The Policy Consortium; senior partner, Nash & Jones Partnership Michael Rank Translator (Trade Marks Directory Service); freelance (The Guardian, Asia Times, BBC Wildlife magazine, North Korea Economy Watch), Freelance journalist/ Chinese-English translator Nicholas Tester Education Magazine; Report Magazine; died 2000 Alan Travis Northampton Chronicle Echo; Birmingham Post; home affairs editor, The Guardian

1979 DIPLOMA Gillian Bates South Western Star; Balham & Tooting News; media trainer and marketing officer, BBC Radio Nottingham; marketing manager, Nottinghamshire County Council; owner, GKB Marketing; columnist, Arts Professional; communications manager, City Arts Nottingham; director, Chronicle Arts Joanna Blythman Citizens Advice Bureau; freelance (Tonight, BBC Breakfast, Sunday Herald, Evening Standard, Observer Food Monthly, Daily Mail,The Guardian, Olive,The Oldie,The Grocer); author Anne Cadwallader Christian Science Monitor; author; caseworker, The Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights and Social Change Ray Chalmers Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership; Interim Head of Communications, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Head of Communications and Strategic Engagement; South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group Nick Fielding editor, Circling the Lion’s Den blog; freelance; author Richard Gillespie JP Morgan; Bear Stearns International; senior supervisory analyst, research director, SociétéGénérale Alastair Guild Asian Building & Construction; freelance Mark Ivory South West London Weekly; executive editor, Community Care; policy and communications manager, The College of Social Work Sara Jones journalism tutor, Sheffield Hallam University; freelance media consultant, BBC World Service; University of Sheffield; communications consultant Julia Kellaway Teacher Vicki Leonard Hayes Programme, LBC; teaching; freelance (2020TV); Schools TV Michael Lloyd Big Issue; Inside Housing; PhD awarded Glasgow University (2015); freelance Janice Macfarlane Portsmouth Evening News; Prima; sub-editor, The Herald; student, community learning volunteer, John Wheatley College; student, Moray House

Mairi McGhee Paisley Daily Express; Peeblesshire News & Borders Telegraph; Glasgow Court Press Agency; postgraduate studies, Strathclyde; freelance Bart Milner Offshore Engineer; teacher; freelance; online development manager, Citizenship Foundation; online development manager, Go-Givers Martin Pritchard Unknown Kate Purcell (née White) Kingsway PR; associate editor, British Journal of Cardiology; website editor, Arrhythmia Watch Binda Rai (née Randhawa) communications manager, NHS Direct; head of Global Media and Public Relations, University of London International Programmes; Ealing Labour councillor Myra Reid Glasgow Evening Times; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Glasgow Barjinder Singh Sahota Commission for Racial Equality; Sahota Solicitors; libel-law.co.uk Lucy Tennyson yoga teacher; event organiser, Green Party; freelance writer/ editor Colin Veitch SVP Marketing; Princess Cruises; CEO, Norwegian Cruise Line Corporation Carol Ward design sub-editor, Gazette Media Company; died 2010 Sally Whitman Social worker; freelance; theatre critic; social worker Nick Wigzell North Western Evening Mail; Australian Broadcast Commission; West Sussex County Times; Wiltshire Times; furniture maker; web designer; desktop publisher

1980 DIPLOMA Peter Aspden Cambridge Evening News; Times Higher Education Supplement; arts writer, Financial Times Nick Assinder Market Harborough Advertiser; Western Mail; Daily Mail; Daily Express; Microsoft News Service; political correspondent, BBC News Online; editor, PoliticsHome; visiting lecturer, political journalism MA, City University London; freelance (Gallery News, Time); political editor, International Business Times Tina Baker Northampton Chronicle & Echo; BBC Nationwide; TV AM; BBC TV; GMTV; freelance (TV Times, UK Living, BBC Radio 5 Live); presenter, GMTV; presenter; writer, Woman’s Own; writer, Woman’s Weekly; freelance (Objective Productions, ITV, BBC); fitness coach Linda Campbell (née Ponce) Reporter, Fort Worth Star Telegram; reporter, The Texas Lawyer; legal affairs reporter, The Washington Times; legal affairs correspondent, Chicago Tribune; instructor, Texas Christian University; writer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; director of communications, Tulane Law School David Finlay Enfield Gazette; Aberdeen Evening Express; court reporter, United News Services (Edinburgh) Vaughan Freeman Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Newcastle Journal; Industrial correspondent, The Sun; Today; freelance (The Times, Tatler, Evening Standard); editor, Automotive Insight; copywriter, 2Cs; features writer, The Institute of the Motor Industry; copywriter, Pier Marketing; writer, Velocity Marie-Theresa Frost Ealing Gazette; freelance Nigel Gabriel South Wales Argus; Celtic Newspapers; chief sub-editor, Gulf Mirror;

chief features sub-editor, Gulf News; PR, Gabriel & Associates; director, PG Public Relations; manager, Nick Lewis Trust Clare Gabriel (née Standering) Northampton Chronicle Echo; Bath Evening Chronicle; Gulf Times; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Wales Sharon Golden Reporter, The Fairmont Times; press assistant to Member of Congress, US House of Representatives; reporter, US News & World Report; PR, Golden Communications; director of communications, The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) Sean Hillen Belfast Telegraph; United Nations Media Center; reporter, Scripps Howard Broadcasting (Kansas); medical and science correspondent, The Kansas City Times; editor, general manager, Bucharest Business Week; foreign correspondent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times; media trainer, Anamcara Media Group; media relations coordinator, Democrats Abroad Ireland; media trainer, FIOS; editor, worlditineraries.com; international travel writer, justluxe.com, examiner.com; trainer, Ireland Writing Retreat; Editor of seanhillenblog.com David Holmes Sheffield Morning Telegraph; BBC Radio Sheffield; journalism lecturer, University of Sheffield Penny Kenway Freelance radio (Aberdeen); teacher (Italy); development worker, Save the Children; head of primary strategy, early years team, Islington LEA; Head of Early Years, London Borough of Islington Alison Le Breton Middlesex Advertiser & Gazette; Medical News Daily; government press officer, Associated Newspapers; English solicitor / legal assistant, Steven Slater John Lynott Cpntent producer, orangetoday.co.uk; ananova.com; sub-editor, Yorkshire Post; production journalist, Country Publications Ltd Jinny McDonald-Matthews Surrey Mirror; Brighton Argus; PR manager, Sterling Public Relations; Rediffusion; associate director, GCI London; assistant general manager, Toyota UK; head of communications, Toyota UK; special advisor, Semta; corporate communications & PR manager, Semta Jean McLeish Southern Evening Echo; North Sound; Aberdeen Evening Express; radio producer, BBC Scotland; communications specialist, Bread PR Guy Morgan Rotherham Advertiser; BBC External Services Simon Pia Freelance; The Herald; Sunday Standard; Scotland on Sunday; freelance (NUJ, Sunday Herald); diarist, The Scotsman; broadcaster, Talk 107/Sport; freelance David Poyser executive producer, London Gifted & Talented;director, educational video company; writer, producer and consultant, Poyser; councillor, Islington Council Julie Shrimpton corporate affairs, SmithKline Beecham; communications manager, Sainsbury’s; teaching assistant unknown Michael Towers Kensington Post; London Newspapers; London Daily News; freelance unknown Zara Tracy Estates Gazette; Investors Chronicle; died 1985 unknown Toni Turner Melbourne Herald; freelance, Nursing Times, Community Practitioners & Health Visitors Association unknown Anna Umbima presenter, Everywoman; consultant, producer, BBC World Service; freelance consultant; facilitator & leadership development, AU Associates Vicky Viotti Writer, editor, Sun Press; staff writer, editorial writer, Honolulu Advertiser; adjunct instructor, Hawaii Pacific University; blogger, FYI Honolulu; editorial writer, Honolulu-Star Advertiser Anne Byrne (née Watson) local

1981-1983 government reporter, Exeter Express & Echo

1981 DIPLOMA Julie Bailey Unknown Bea Ballard Radio Times; BBC; LWT; Clive James Programmes, BBC; senior producer, executive producer, creative head of entertainment events, BBC, chief executive, 10 Star Entertainment; co-owner, J.G.Ballard Estate; executive producer, ITV; CEO, executive producer, Unlimited Dreams Ann Carroll BBC Television (South) unknown Basil Comely Director, producer, The Media Show; director, producer, Moving Pictures; Barraclough Carey Productions; producer, arts editor, arts features, BBC TV John Coulter Grangemouth Gazette; Falkirk Herald; Scotland on Sunday; Evening News (Edinburgh); died 2000 Michael Dembinski Director of communications, CBI News; general manager, Polish Cable TV; chief advisor, British-Polish Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw) Richard Evans presenter, BBC Radio 5 Live; presenter, BBC Radio Wales; journalism senior lecturer, London Metropolitan University; senior lecturer, City University London Alison Fisher Writer, Surrey Mirror unknown Nick Goodway reporter, Investors Chronicle; reporter, The Observer; reporter, London and Financial News; city reporter,Evening Standard Robin Jarossi sub-editor, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail; freelance, HELLO!; content editor, Daily Mail (iPad edition); editor, CrimeTimePriview.com Tracy Jeune series producer, director, DIY SOS; executive producer, What Not To Wear; executive producer, BBC documentaries Karen Johnston Radio Northsound; BBC Radio Scotland; BBC 9 O’Clock News; BBC TV Scotland; senior location producer, NCA Scotland; managing editor, BBC Scotland Carol Lamb Hull Daily Mail; Falmer and Company unknown Tricia Leishman Printing company unknown David Lewis Acton Gazette; Bradford News Agency; BBC Leeds; producer, BBC Manchester; producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs Jane Lewis (née Holland) Enfield Gazette; Bradford Star; Bradford Telegraph & Argus; senior communications officer, communications and media relations manager, Bradford Council Steve Matthews Hendon Times; Radio Times; English lecturer (Pisa, Italy) Heather McGlone Arts editor, Daily Mail; editor of Weekend magazine, Daily Mail; arts and entertainments editor, Daily Mail Jim Mclean Health and science correspondent, Scottish Daily Record; Sunday Mail; art’s correspondent, The Herald , Glasgow; novelist Phil Murphy special advisor to the Prime Minister; head of public affairs, vice-president & global head of government and public affairs, BG Group; board member, Kazakh-British Centre for Competitiveness Catherine Pepinster Sheffield Morning Telegraph; Acton Gazette; The Eccles Journal; The Observer; Time Out; executive editor, The Independent on Sunday; editor, The Tablet

Mark Perrow Surrey Advertiser; local radio (York); BBC Newsnight; BBC (New Delhi); assignment editor, BBC World News Leigh Sharpe Insurance Age; The Scotsman; Financial Times; Hill + Knowlton Strategies; PR, Square Mile Communications; Lanson PR; retired Steven Walker author;Youth Enquiry Service, Systemic Psychotherapist; external examiner, University of Essex; freelance; feature writer, The Morning Star Newspaper Gail Whitfield News agency; PR, Burson-Marsteller unknown

1982 DIPLOMA Coral Beadle London Daily News; Auckland Star; Wellington Evening Post; OUCH (New Zealand); disability and human rights activist Haro Chakmakjian Daily Star (Beirut); Deutsche Presse Agentur (Hamburg); Middle East correspondent, Agence France Presse; freelance Michael Coren Presenter, The Michael Coren Show, CFRB radio; presenter, Michael Coren Love, Crossroads Television; host of The Arena, Sun News (Canada);Columnist (religion); author of Epiphany Ian Cowie Kilburn Times; Morning Advertiser; personal finance editor, The Daily Telegraph,The Sunday Telegraph; columnist, The Sunday Times Steve Crawshaw London Directory, UN advocacy director, Human Rights Watch; international advocacy director, office of the Secretary-General director, Amnesty International; visiting fellow, London School of Economics James Cusick London and Westminster editor, Sunday Herald; senior reporter, The Independent; political correspondent, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday Peter Davies Freelance (health) Jane Dowell writer, newspaper (New Zealand); researcher, iHug.co.nz website; researcher, Education Services (New Zealand) Carmel Fitzsimons Cambridge Evening News; The Observer; freelance Harriet Gaze assistant producer, producer, BBC Disability Unit; producer, Mental Health Media; freelance journalist and video producer Unknown Cecil Hedigan Freelance filmmaker; craniosacral therapist and acupuncturist David Keen lecturer, development studios, Institute of Development Studies; Professor of Conflict Studies, LSE; Professor of Complex Emergencies, London School of Economics Catherine Kristiansen Wire service reporter, Unicom (Paris, Chicago, Washington); editor-in-chief, Endocrine News; newsletter editor, Global Health Matters Valentine Low Sheffield Morning Telegraph; Evening Standard; The Times Fiona Mallon freelance; regional media officer, Diabetes UK; media relations specialist, Fiona Mallon Media and PR Cathy McNab Sheffield Morning Telegraph; House Journals Agency Belinda Nenk Pulse; Extel Alex Sutherland Executive producer, National Geographic Channel; executive producer and consultant, Outsider Television; Executive Producer at Blast!

Films & October Films Robert Winder Euromoney; Granta Books; freelance (The Independent on Sunday, New Statesman); literary editor, The Independent; author

RADIO Richard Bailey BBC Radio Stoke; BBC Parliamentary Unit; executive editor, BBC Question Time; deputy head of political programmes, chief political advisor, BBC Emily Buchanan Developing world correspondent, religious affairs correspondent, world affairs correspondent, BBC; freelance Everard Davy BBC Radio London; Radio Hallam/HallamFM/Classic Gold; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Sheffield, South Yorkshire & North Midlands; cartoonist, Sheffield Telegraph Unknown David Heald Unknown Brian Milligan BBC News South East; business reporter, BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World; personal finance reporter, BBC News Bill Morris Trustee, National Centre for Circus Arts; managing director, Morris Major Ltd; expert adviser, International Olympic Committee

1983 INTERNATIONAL Aslam Abdullah American Islamic College; author; director, Islamic Society of Nevada Waheda Al-Mikdadi London correspondent, Oman Daily; London correspondent, Al-Sabah Daily; media director, website editor, Iraqi Cultural Centre (London) Demetrius Danas Polis TV (Greece) WahFoon Ho Law student; editorial consultant, Smart Investor;The Edge Malaysia Rowena House (née Whelan) Postgraduate student, rural economic development, University of Plymouth; postgraduate student, creative writing, Bath Spa University; author Ebrahim Moosa lecturer in religious

studies, Stanford University; professor of religious and Islamic studies, professor of Islamic studies, Duke University; professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame Cindy Polemis Freelance arts fundraiser; student, history of art, Birkbeck, University of London; consultant, Fernandez and Wells Martin Portus Senior policy advisor to Lord Mayor of Parramatta (Sydney); executive manager, partnerships and communication, Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Sydney); communications and arts consultant Selda Ulanclar West Sussex County Times; freelance (The Doctor)

NEWSPAPER Sharon Binns The Practitioner Richard Bunning Diverse Productions; Future Media; creative director, ADVAL Group Tom Collins Director of communications, Queen’s University Belfast; director of marketing and development services, University of Strathclyde; professor of communications, media and culture, University of Stirling Penny Farmer Woman; Oxford Mail and Times; freelance, Swimming Pool Publications; partner, Talk2PR Ken Ferris Euromoney; Financial Times; Reuters Financial Television; chief subeditor, sports production editor, Reuters Phil Gordon Evening Times (Glasgow); Daily Record; freelance (The Independent on Sunday, The Times, Northern Echo, Scottish Football Times, Reuters) Amanda Harlow language teacher (Japan); author; English teacher (Japan); owner/teacher, Imagine English School (Japan) Michael Jeffree Freelance; editor, Timber Trades Journal and Timber & Sustainable Building; communications consultant, European Timber Trade Federation Michael Jess deputy editor/art director, Black Media Journal; media studies lecturer, Lambeth Sixth Form College; media studies teacher, Parliament Hill Sixth Form

ALAN TRAVIS

Home affairs editor, The Guardian, Diploma 1978 Your advice for anyone starting at City?

It’s just as important to go to the pub as it is to sit through the lessons. Get to know the people on the course, because you’ll meet them again and again throughout your working career.

Your biggest scoop?

A leaked MI5 document, which is very unusual. It was about four years after 9/11, and was on paths to radicalisation in Britain. The single most important conclusion was that there is no single path for a potential jihadist.

The most important journalistic skill?

The ability to listen, accuracy, and a dash of imagination.

Role model in journalism?

Tony Bevins, political editor of The Independent in the 1980s.

He had the F R Leavis approach to political journalism, which means close textual criticism.

Few people actually read the documents that government departments put out. If you do, you’ll find out a lot more than you might think.

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Political reporting tutor at City University, 1980 Diploma

Your biggest scoop?

My final scoop was for the International Business Times.

I revealed that had Labour won the election in 2015, they were going to abolish police and crime commissioners.

There had been a big controversy surrounding them and no one had noticed.

What made you want to become a journalist?

I had a conversation in a café with a journalist on my local newspaper when I was 14 or 15. I asked him what he did and what his day was like.

When he explained it to me, I thought that sounded wonderful. It just got me from that moment.

Angella Johnson The Guardian; Johannesburg Weekly Mail; freelance (Mail on Sunday) Roddy McDougall editor, editor-inchief, Cantos; adviser, Trinity Management Communications; director, Clackmae Ltd Mark Mitchell Editor, BBC TV News; freelance photographer; training manager, BBC Justine Picardie The Observer; author; editor-in-chief, Harper’s Bazaar Margaret Rooke Woman’s Own; communications manager, press officer, Liberation Foods; author Susan Ryan Newsfront Jon Steafel Coventry Evening Telegraph; deputy editor, Daily Mail Kevin Toolis Freelance (Force10, The Guardian, The Observer); director, Many Rivers Films; playwright Dorothy Wade Reporters International; The Daily Telegraph; The Sunday Times magazine Sarah Wason The South Bank Show, Sky Arts; freelance TV producer; head of visual arts, Arts Council

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Sarah Barclay Public Eye; freelance (BBC Panorama); director, The Medical Mediation Foundation Stephen Burke Director, Daycare Trust; chief executive, Counsel and Care; director, United For All Ages; director, Good Care Guide Peter Cann Doctor; Reading Post; subeditor, Oxford Times Andrew Davidson freelance (Management Today, Financial Times); business desk, The Sunday Times; author Peter Davies Public Finance & Accountancy; editor, Health Service Journal; senior energy adviser, Department for International Development Sarah Davies Video retailer; freelance Joanna Deakin Goldcrest Film

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

When I was working at the Daily Express, Edwina Currie was food minister and said that every egg in the country had salmonella in it. This resulted in a huge scare and the Daily Express ran story after story about how Edwina should resign. The day she did, we printed out t-shirts with the words “Edwina is innocent” and I was asked to take some of them into the House of Commons to get MPs to wear them.

The biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

Journalism has become increasingly dominated by people from a particular social background. In the old days you could start out as a tea boy and work your way up to political editor. This has been a change for the worse.

Hiba Mahamadi

International; film script and development consultant; own radio company Valerie Dennis Unknown Nick Fletcher Birmingham Post; Daily Express; city news editor, columnist, The Guardian Ian Grant freelance, GBNB; managing director, Newzeye; editorial director, Brownfield Briefing Deborah Gudgeon Byeline, Saloman Brothers; director, Gazelle Corporate Finance; Independent Non-Executive Director, Evraz plc Anna Healy Special adviser, DETR; special adviser to Lord Macdonald, minister for the cabinet office; parliamentary assistant for MP Daniel Herbert Big Farm Weekly Imre Karacs BBC Monitoring Service; correspondent, Bonn, Berlin, Budapest, The Independent; foreign night editor, The Times Fred Hunter Journalism historian; retired Jeannie McDougall Yours David Wighton Financial news editor, US news editor, bureau chief, Financial Times (New York); business editor, associate editor, The Times; city editor, Wall Street Journal

RADIO John Alcock Reporter, Independent Radio News (IRN); producer, ITN; HTV (Bristol); news editor, ITV West Country Piers Duncan Political lawyer; BBC West Midlands; director, science external relations, Department of Defence (Australia) Richard Ewart Producer, presenter, AM Newstalk; News Radio 938 (Singapore); TV & radio news producer/reporter, current affairs presenter, ABC Australia Kathryn Harvey BBC TV News

(Bristol); BBC Parliamentary Unit; director of Oxford Executive MBA, Oxford University Saïd Business School Jeremy Lindsay GLC Press Office; barrister James Thomas World Television News; Reuters Television (Hong Kong); chief technology officer, Reuters Lindsay Williams Freelance producer, CNBC Europe; freelance writer/ broadcaster/producer; managing director, Media Coach International

1984 INTERNATIONAL David Adams editor, Page One Media; bureau chief for South-East US and Caribbean, Thomson Reuters; freelance Atamurad Aimaq Voice of America (Bahrain) Anna Ballis Office administration manager, Grubb and Ellis Services Odesse Elzubeir Hamad Sudan News Agency; mass communications lecturer (Khartoum); freelance Erin Hennessey Photo District News (New York); freelance (Vancouver); news director, KPLU Public Radio (Seattle) Keith Hong Sing Tao UK; Westminster UK; social work (China) Lai Kwok Kin Reuters (Singapore, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur); Merrill Lynch (Singapore); managing director, Peninsula Research Malaysia; managing director, WeR1 Consultants Anton La Guardia African & Middle East correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; European Union correspondent, “Charlemagne” columnist, middle east/ africa editor, deputy foreign editor, The Economist Fuad Nahdi BBC; Associated Press; LA Times; The Guardian; Far Eastern Economic Review; director, Centre for Muslim Policy Research; founding editor, Q News; director, Radical Middle Way CIC Duen Otsuki (née Monkolsmai) Ministry of Information (Bangkok) Sackey Shikwambi South West Africa People’s Organization Information Department (Lusaka); deputy director of treaties and agreements, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Namibia); retired Michal Schwartz Challenge (Israel); editor, Al-Sabar (Israel) Sona Sewnundon Unknown Ernesto Silva Bielecke Hamburger Abendblatt; Deutsche Presse-Agenteur (Hamburg); Tribuna Alema (Hamburg); author Sur Gul Speen The Mujahideen (Peshawar) Soon Beng Yeap assistant vice president for marketing communications, Seattle University; chief marketing officer, Regis University; Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Karen Zagor CBS News; Financial Times (New York); health and education editor, National Post (Toronto)

NEWSPAPER Guy Ashworth communications, Key Communications; corporate communications, Surrey House; managing director, HCK Communications Jonathan Bird Eastern Counties Newspapers; South London Press; Press Association; sub-editor, Daily Mirror

Christopher Brooke Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Devon News Agency; writer, Daily Mail Martin Brown Freelance journalist, PR consultant and sub-editor; activist, National Association of Local Government Officers; PR officer, assistant general secretary, Equity Emma Burstall Plymouth Western Morning News; freelance (BskyB, Woman, Family Circle); novelist Ray Clancy news editor, Mail on Sunday; founder, News in Normandy; head of news and features, Property Wire Mark Gay correspondent, CNBC Europe; programme editor, Reuters Television; freelance writer and producer Roger Hearing Foreign news, BBC radio; producer, World Television News; presenter, BBC World Service Juliana Koranteng AdAge Global; founder, JayKay Media Inc; editor and chief creative director, MediaTainment Finance Alison Kreps Series producer, BBC; series producer, Lucky Day Productions; series producer, Boundless Productions Clive Lindsay The Herald (Glasgow); reporter, BBC Sport Interactive (Scotland); senior broadcast journalist, BBC Barry McIlheney chief executive, EMAP Elan; consultant, McIlheneyBovis; chief executive, PPA Alison Moore Course leader, West Kent College; freelance health writer and editor; freelance journalist, specialising in health and public sector Dermot Murnaghan Business Programme, Breakfast Programme, ITN; breakfast presenter, BBC; presenter, Sky News Anne Peacock First Edition, BSkyB; assistant producer, Watchdog, BBC One; senior producer, Any Questions, Any Answers,Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 Sue Rylance Freelance editorial consultant; commercial and editorial director, Global Listings; consultant, Sue Rylance Consultancy Suruchi Sharma Freelance reporter (Metro; 3Fox International;Newsquest North London) freelance PR officer, (Israel Zohar, Resco results) senior copy editor, High Tech Web solutions Angela Smith Producer, The Big Breakfast, Planet 24; producer/director, Tiger Aspect; CEO, Turn On Television

PERIODICAL Karina Bliss Hilal International; author Louise Bromley (née Coyle) Freelance PR consultant, Chandler Chicco; account director, Ruder Finn; Independent PR and Communications Georgina Brown (née Simon) The Magazine; The Independent; theatre critic, Mail on Sunday Alejandrina Catalano Contributing editor, Estates Gazette; freelance Simon Crompton Freelance, The Times; freelance health writer; feature writer, Cancer World Stephen DiBiasio Knight-Ridder Financial News; Bridge News; deputy head of media, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Richard Evans Euromoney; presenter, BBC Radio Wales; freelance Nicholas Fisher Agony uncle, Just Seventeen; film critic, The Sun; fishing correspondent, Shooting Times; columnist, Country Life; freelance broadcast presenter and script writer (BBC1, Channel 4, ITV); author; scriptwriter, Holby City Christopher Giles Recorder Group; West Sussex County Times; sports editor,

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Arop Madut-Arop visiting fellow, City University London; Member of National Assembly, Republic of South Sudan; author; Sudan Tribune Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Namibian Broadcasting Corp; media liaison desk, SW Africa Broadcasting Corp; control information officer, ministry of foreign affairs, Information and Broadcasting; special projects editor, contributing editor, New Era Stalin Mau-Mau Boxing promoter; Zanu-PF candidate; distribution company Donald McRae Postgraduate study; NME; freelance; sports interviewer, The Guardian; author Kasra Naji Stringer, The Guardian, CBC Canada, ABC Australia; correspondent, CNN; Special correspondent, BBC Persian TV (Tehran) Farah Nayeri Editor, Agence France Presse; bureau chief, senior arts correspondent, Bloomberg News; freelance arts and culture writer Frederic Niel Le Figaro (France); Reuters (Paris); news editor, Phosphore; news reporter, Bayard Presse Titti Nordberg Author; artist Chinye Nwosu Lagos Life Christiane Oelrich BBC German Service; bureau chief Geneva, deputy bureau chief Washington, bureau chief Southeast Asia, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) Rita Ojomoh Nigerian Television Marie Omofoma Nigerian Television Fotini Papatheodorou Political science PhD student, Queen Mary University of London; senior lecturer, London College of Printing Cari Reixa EFL (Spain) Mary (Miriam) Rosewood (née Sliwoski) Technical editor, Microsoft; freelance (Los Angeles, Seattle); freelance editor, law books, Oxford University Press Roshin Varghese The Mail on Sunday; TV Today (Delhi) Unknown Olive Vassell Lecturer, University of the District of Columbia; Freevoice; managing editor, Euromight.com Ariana Yakas Researcher, Thames Television; freelance consultant; associate lecturer, Open University Jiaping Zhang China Radio

INTERNATIONAL

NEWSPAPER

Farhan Bokhari Program anchor, Dawn News TV; analyst, CBS News; Pakistan correspondent, Financial Times Leyla Boulton (née Ertugrul) special reports and ebooks editor, special reports editor, Financial Times Heidi Egede-Nissen Business Daily (Oslo); Journalist, Today’s Market; Communications manager, Ventelo; Communication manager, Broadnet; Communications, Ministry of Government administration, reform and church affairs Muhammed Hassan Self-employed Walaa Hawari Al Nahdah Philanthropic Society for Women; Al Mnahil Centre; Al Riyad Daily Newspaper; Kulenas Arabic magazine; freelance Unknown Anwar Iqbal The News; UPI (Islamabad, Washington DC); Washington correspondent, Dawn Ghazali Khan Impact; Islamic Foundation; translator, Islington Council; part-time editor, Radio Asia; freelance journalist and translator Olga Kokkinou Cyprus Mail; Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation; Foreign Broadcasting Service of the US Shutian Li Unknown Jonas Lihnell PR Manager, Ericsson

Tracey Allen (née Tobin) Gloucestershire Echo; Woman Focus, MoD House Journal, training department, MoD; features editor, RAF News Ian Birrell Daily Mail; deputy editor, columnist and foreign correspondent, The Independent; contributing editor, The Mail on Sunday Thomas Gordon Boreland Nottingham Evening Post; UK News; PR, Miles Communication Group; director, Altisidora Peter Craig Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; assistant news editor, crime reporter, Grimsby Telegraph Susan Crawford Features editor, Daily Express; deputy editor, Sunday People; freelance and author Sarah Crewe Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press; Gloucester Citizen; freelance Debra Davidson Producer, editor, This Morning, Granada TV; consultant, BowTie Television; freelance consultant Philip Daws Exeter Express & Echo; BBC Radio Devon; PR, Image Makers Elizabeth Grindrod Sheffield Star; freelance PR; deputy director, international office, University of Sheffield; freelance writer and marketing consultant

Brighton Evening Argus Ed Gorman News correspondent, freelance, sailing correspondent, deputy foreign editor, The Times; The Daily Sail Jacqueline Macdermott Entertainment & Arts Management; city desk, Evening Standard; chief sub-editor, The Observer; sub-editor; The Independent Joanna Newson Kitchen Magazine; managing editor, BCS Publishing; freelance (Traditional Homes) Laura Phillips Jewish Music Institute; director/marketing consultant, Hanthum Films; marketing and PR manager, Prospero Teaching William Shaw Freelance (GQ, Blender); columnist, The Observer; author Elizabeth Tuley Food Manufacture International; PR, Leatherhead Foods Research Association; freelance Alexandra Watson Business Magazine; Aberdeen Evening Express; Press and Journal

RADIO Peter Brill press officer, head of public relations, RAC Motoring Services; managing director, Net; director, Red Ferry Philippa Colton Freelance; farmer Richard Cooke TV AM, Granada Television; sports producer, ITN; senior sub-editor, Sky Sports News Jane Dodge On the Record, BBC; Midlands correspondent, Channel 4; freelance Michael Gillings Freelance; BBC; ITN Audrey Green Oakes Communications, Amnesty International; internal communications manager, Cabinet Office; head of internal communications, investigations and TV producer, special correspondent’s producer, BBC Abdul Jawad Professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies, Duke University Malcolm Shaw LBC/IRN; Radio Mercury; County Sound; correspondent, ITV Meridian

Timothy Heritage Reporter, Reuters; deputy editor, Political and General News, Reuters; bureau chief Russia, CIS and Central Europe, Reuters Stuart Jeffries TV critic, Friday review editor, The Guardian; Paris correspondent, The Guardian, The Observer; features writer and columnist, The Guardian Melanie Jennings (née Knight) Coventry Evening Telegraph; teaching assistant, Just Teachers; freelance Justyn Jones Environment correspondent, ITN; producer, Sky News; director, Small World Productions Donald Leggatt Editorial consultant, The Money Channel; associate editor, Cantos Communications; founding partner, Wildflower Video Communications; editor in chief, Share Radio James Meek Religious affairs editor, science correspondent, feature writer, The Guardian; novelist; contributing editor, London Review of Books John Mullin Executive editor, The Independent; editor, Independent on Sunday; referendum editor, BBC Mike O’Sullivan Sheffield Star; broadcast journalist, BBC Nottingham, Derby; reporter, BBC East Midlands Today John Ogden Freelance Ed Oldfield Assistant head of design, assistant chief sub-editor, production editor, Exeter Express & Echo Rachel Royce Reporter, ITV West; radio reporter, BBC Wiltshire; reporter, director, producer, BBC Inside Out South East Scott Smedley Croydon AdvertiserHounslow Recorder; BBC; Channel 4 News; died 2004 Christopher Sparrow Sub-editor, The Argus (Brighton); sub-editor, Cyprus Today; freelance sub-editor Tony Trueman Press Association; International Relations MA, University of Cambridge; head of communications, St Mungo’s Homeless Charity

PERIODICAL Lisa Armstrong Contributing editor, Vogue; fashion director, The Telegraph; author Lucy Ash East London Advertiser; BBC South East; Eurofile, BBC Radio 4; presenter, BBC Radio Current Affairs Gillian Bowditch Money Marketing; The Scotsman; Daily Express; The Times; columnist and features writer, The Sunday Times Fiona Cumberpatch Editor, Hodder & Stoughton; Editor, Nene Valley Living; freelance Elaine Fogg Wimbledon News; Hampstead & Highgate Express; freelance news reporter Rachel Gardiner (née Simpson) Marketing Magazine; The Mail on Sunday; PR Kate Graham Freelance, Two-Can Publishing, Disney Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph; project manager, GE Fabbri; group editor, Egmont UK Jo Grobel Director, Exact PR Norma Harris Yellow Advertiser; Social Work Paper; Printing World Vanessa Houlder Accounting; Investors Chronicle; tax correspondent, Financial Times Rustom Irani Eyewitness LWT; poet; businessman unknown Jolyon Jenkins BBC Radio 4; freelance producer; radio producer, BBC Radio 4 Out of the Ordinary Richard Klein Senior commissioning executive, BBC Documentaries; controller, BBC 4; director of factual, ITV Kirsty Lang Channel 4 News; presenter,

The World, BBC 4; presenter, Front Row, BBC Radio 4 Audrey Mindlin press officer, CVCP; communications manager, Equality Challenge Unit; freelance Andrew Moore Television South West; Reuters TV; Sky News Lisa O’Kelly Studio5; review editor, writer, The Observer; literary editor, The Observer Sylvia Pleasant Weekend Recorder; Bristol Press & Picture Agency; Prison Service News Carmen Pryce Intranet producer, BBC; technical project manager, BBC, Chem@ Cam; Digital consultant and Editor Mark Shillam Lynn News; Yorkshire Evening Press; chief sub-editor, deputy night editor, The Times Janet Simpson (née Noble) documentary maker, Channel 4; columnist, Arena; freelance Emily Smyth BMA News Review; producer, development executive, BBC Social Affairs Unit, BBC Panorama; freelance David Stewart ITN Liverpool; BBC documentaries; broadcast technical support, Red Bee Media Eric Tingley New media contents editor, Press Association; sports sub-editor, Sunday Mirror; sub-editor, Sunday Mirror Susan Watts The Independent; science editor, BBC Newsnight; conference speaker and communications adviser

RADIO Miti Ampoma Business consultant, FTSE 100 companies; director, Miticom Limited, InTuition Languages; Communication and English Language skills trainer and tutor Elaine Arthur BBC Radio Derby; BBC Bristol David Gibson Today, BBC Radio 4; news editor, senior editor and broadcast journalist, BBC Radio; deputy police commissioner, Hertfordshire Kay Holmes Hounslow Recorder; Morning Star; Unison; freelance Iain Nicholson BBC Radio Oxford; PR, Nicholson Associates; town centres specialist, Oxfordshire Susanne Reber Deputy managing editor, NPR Investigations; senior coordinating editor, director of digital media, Centre for Investigative Reporting Jenni Russell Deputy editor, BBC Current Affairs; editor, BBC Radio 4 World Tonight; political columnist, The Times, The Sunday Times, Evening Standard

1986 INTERNATIONAL Peter Alleyne Training and development editor, The Nation (Barbados) Linda Anazonwu African Guardian (London) Abdullah Baowain Oman Daily Observer Susan Betts Democratic Party Press Pramod Bhatnagar Indian Information Service (Delhi); Press Information Bureau Leda Bouzali Radio producer, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation; reporter, Kathimerini (Athens); radio producer, BBC World Service Bill Brown Lecturer, University of Kansas; consultant and teacher Rana Budeiri Mercantile Discount Bank (Jerusalem) Elizabeth Camp Automobile

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Association; Cash Vending Systems; PR, E=MC2 Karen Dabrowska London correspondent, Jana News Agency; editor, New Horizon; author Hugh Davies Middle East Economic Digest; Hill + Knowlton PR; corporate affairs director, Three UK Petros Diplas Greek newspaper foundation; CEO, Kathimerini; Channel 7 TV Malin Foster Letters editor, public forum editor, Salt Lake Tribune Valerie Gauriat Stringer (Paris), LBC; Euronews (Lyon); producer and reporter, Europeans, International Affairs, Euronews Rizwana Hamid Freelance (BBC, Channel 4) Kyriacos Lacovides Sports editor, managing director, Cyprus Mail Lawrence Joffe COI Press Office; The Guardian; editor, Foreign Investment Network Sirr Anai Kelueljang Editor, Heritage; died 1999 Nicola Knipe Editorial assistant, assistant editor, Princeton University Art Museum Publications; senior writer, Princeton University Office of Development; freelance journalist Sidonie Leone Advertising agency Neil Lewis South Africa Press Association; KZN/Mpumalanga legal aid board; senior manager, Marketing & Communications, merSETA Ira Mathur The Guardian; documentary producer, Trinidad Express; TV presenter, Cleaning Up the Mess Marta Molina-Cox Spanish teacher, UK schools and universities; Head of Modern Foreign Languages, British International School Shanghai Puxi, China; modern foreign languages teacher, Aylsham High School Zodwa Mshibe Died 1987 Wolfgang Munchau The Times (Washington, Brussels); Financial Times (Frankfurt); associate editor, columnist, Financial Times (Brussels) Colleen Murrell (née Johnson SBS World View radio; PhD, Melbourne University; senior lecturer, Deakin University Alli Mutasa BBC Swahili Service; public broadcasting (Uganda) Abel Ayazika (Zik) Nakwagala JFK School of Government (Harvard); communication officer, project officer, UNICEF; freelance PR consultant Sivagami Natesan (née Subbiah) Unknown Kalli Plainos Unknown Sajid Qaisrani Freelance development consultant; executive director, Sungi Development Foundation; member of Board of Directors, Human Accountability Partnership International Manoraj Rajathurai Publicist and marketing manager, FPSO Friday Caroline Repton Economics/political correspondent, Agence-France Presse; sub-editor, Thomson Financial News; copy editor, Dow Jones International; receptionist, Ambitious About Autism Radwan Sammak Unknown Raka Sinha Bal Society (Delhi); Life Review; general secretary, Angaja Foundation Baria Slaibi Media Services Syndicate; teacher Julie Taras-Semchuk BBC Current Affairs; teacher Kristin Thorsteinsdotti Reykjavik Daily Newspaper; Icelandic Service Broadcasting; publisher, 365 Media Rukee Tjingaete University of Leicester; PhD, African Studies (Michigan); The Namibian Frank van Vliet Postgraduate studies; USA and Canada correspondent, De Telegraaf; foreign desk chief, De Telegraaf Etan Vlessing Islington Health

Authority; Jewish Herald; Canadian bureau chief, The Hollywood Reporter Prince Woboroma Postgraduate studies; Nigerian Television (Port Harcourt)

NEWSPAPER John Brotherton Derbyshire Times; Sheffield Star; employment law consultant, AP Partnership unknown Denis Campbell Sports correspondent, social affairs correspondent, The Observer; health correspondent, The Guardian and The Observer Clare Fermont Tottenham Herald; editor, Middle East Economic Digest; senior editor, Amnesty International Angus Finney Screenwriter; author; lecturer; course leader, MA International Film Business, London Film School Tony Gallagher Deputy editor, editor, The Daily Telegraph; deputy editor, Daily Mail, editor-in-chief,The Sun Tracey Harrison Freelance (Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, the Guardian, The Sun); head of news, Twelve Thirty Eight Ltd; freelance journalist and PR consultant Kate Heathman (née Roberts) Freelance media trainer, Data TV; owner, Kate Heathman Media Consultancy; freelance business journalist, Comment magazine; senior lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University Gareth Hewett East Anglian Daily Times; National Student; Money Marketing; South China Morning Post; media relations, HSBC (Asia) Nick Holdsworth Eastern Europe correspondent, Times Higher Education Supplement; The Hollywood Reporter; Moscow correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance foreign correspondent based in Moscow and Prague Jane Holligan Editor, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator; sponsorship and funding team leader, Higher and Further Education, the Scottish government, Human Trafficking Lead, The Scottish Government Kate Ironside EU columnist, Western Morning News; journalism lecturer, senior lecturer, course leader for Broadcast Journalism, University of Bedfordshire Rose Lloyd South London Press; FACTS; director of volunteer services (Paris) unknown David Mason Head of editorial development, news, BBC Worldwide; head of communications, Forum for the Future; associate, Do The Green Thing; consultant, Greenhouse PR Joan McAlpine Assistant features editor, The Sunday Times Scotland; journalist and commentator, McAlpine Media; MSP, Scottish National Party Janet McEvoy European Report (Brussels); Reuters (Brussels); Agence France-Presse (Paris, Warsaw) Susan Mitchell Yorkshire Post; senior producer, BBC Radio 4, unknown Mandy Norrish Gloucestershire Echo; freelance writer, editor and photographer unknown Sarah Poland freelance; RSPCA unknown Kate Rankine Money Marketing; reporter (New York);deputy city editor,The Daily Telegraph; headhunter, partner, JCA Group Anthony Snape CEP-Research; Environmental Expert; freelance; MRM Worldwide; journalist and translator, Acciona Reports Aileen Taylor Aberdeen Press and Journal; freelance (GMTV, BBC Radio 5 Live); reporter, producer, GMTV

Katharina Tyldesley South London Press; The Late Show, BBC Newsnight Morwen Williams News organiser, BBC; UK assignments editor, BBC Newsgathering; UK news editor, BBC; deputy UK editor, BBC Paul Wilmshurst ITV; HBO; NBCUniversal; award-winning freelance TV director

PERIODICAL Mark Battersby Money Marketing; law degree; Money Management, unknown Stephen Bealing People in Pictures; director, Landmark Media Karen Brown Freelance; Euromoney Heather Harris (née Capel) Country Magazine; PR, British Airways; worldwide PR director, Hyatt Hotels; freelance Simon Cartledge Pagemakers; China Daily; The Economist; publisher, owner Big Brains (Hong Kong) Peter DaCosta Inter Press Service (Gambia, Harare); senior communication advisor, UN Economic Commission for Africa; independent consultant; PhD, SOAS Lindsey Darking Learning and Skills Council; PR and screenwriter; director, Impact Writers; freelance Julia Dodds Editor, Planned Savings Magazine; trainee solicitor, Eversheds; associate, Reed Smith; associate, Hill Hofstetter Ltd Susan Ellicott RCGP; freelance (Daily Mail,The Times, Lancet Oncology, Marie Claire); contributor, European Society of Cardiology Reports; freelance medical journalist Sally Gethin Airport Support and Air Traffic Management; Freight Management International; press officer, New Jersey Senator; publisher and editor, Gethin’s Inflight News Alison Gordon (née MacDiarmaid) Uxbridge Recorder; The Watford Review; Reading Evening Post; The Mail on Sunday; died 2011 Izabel Grindal Financial products editor, managing editor, head of news and data strategy, head of content integration, Reuters; change and programme manager, IZG Diana Henry Food writer, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance (Red, House & Garden, Olive, Delicious, Real,Waitrose Food Illustrated); author; columnist, The Sunday Telegraph Janet Lawrence (née Dix) Foreign correspondent, Agence France-Presse; world desk editor, Reuters; chief desk editor, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Reuters Sam Lennon Medway Today; senior reporter, chief reporter, Medway Messenger; senior reporter, Kentish Express Megan Lloyd-Laney (née Jones) Communications consultant, World Bank, UNDP; journalism lecturer; consultant, Communications and Information Resource Centre Miranda MacAlister Penguin Books; freelance copy editor Emma Mason journalist, Southern Evening Echo; press officer, Imperial Cancer Research; freelance PR consultant and journalist (specialising in medical sciences); communications and stakeholder relations manager, Queen Mary University of London Glenn Moore Hayters Sports Agency; The Post; Reuters; football correspondent, football editor, The Independent Jason Nisse City editor, Independent on Sunday; director of media relations, Barclays; director, Fishburn Hedges; director, Newgate Communications

John Perlman Presenter, AM Live and The Round Table, SABC3; Today with John Perlman, Kaya FM (South Africa) Lucy Pilkington Commissioning editor specialist factual, Channel 4; executive producer, commissioning, BBC Worldwide; executive producer, LPT Films Richard Preston Tatler; The Independent; features editor, news editor, comment editor, assistant editor, foreign editor, The Daily Telegraph Mark Raymond User Magazine Keiron Root Money & Family Wealth; editor-in-chief, What Investment; consulting editor, Treasury Management International; editor-in-chief, Charterhouse Communications; died 2009 Sally Rowlands Marketing Magazine; The Late Show (BBC) Nicholas Sack Owner, Nicholas Sack Photography Lindsey Sharpe Southern Daily Echo; freelance; director, Impact Writers Ltd; freelance (Ealing Gazette, Teacher magazine, Southern Daily Echo); screenwriting MA Adrian Sibley BBC; freelance director, Director and co-founder; Bright Yellow Films Deborah Thornton Technology reporter, sub-editor, Building; freelance writer and facilitator Paola Tich Enfatico; co-owner, Tutti Communications; owner, Park & Bridge; owner, SipSwooshSpit Joanne Waters Freelance health writer and editorial consultant, freelance writer; Daily Mail Good Health;Yours Magazine Helen Weathers Richmond & Twickenham Times; Wales on Sunday; Daily Mirror; reporter, Daily Mail Louise Webster Hockney The Guardian; The Independent; artist management; author Roy Wilkinson The Guardian; The Independent; artist management; author Elizabeth Wilson Medical magazine Lucie Young Design; freelance (New York Times, Marie Claire US,The Daily Telegraph, ES, Metropolitan Home); freelance (Telegraph Saturday Magazine, Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, Four Seasons magazine); blogger

RADIO Maria Coyle Central television; Carlton News; press officer, media relations manager, University of Oxford Rachael Davies BBC Radio 1 Jackie Garriock (née Lidgard) BBC Parliamentary Unit; news and current affairs, BBC; BBC Radio 5 Live; studio manager, BBC Radio News unknown Ian Gregory CBS News; BBC Radio Finance Unit; Swiss TV; producer, BBC World Service TV Antonia Hastings Sound Radio; Thames TV; Meridian TV; freelance Vidar Hjardeng Carlton; executive producer, regional programmes, ITV Central; diversity manager, ITV Claudia Josephs Launch producer,The Economist, E-Vision programme; current affairs producer, BBC; freelance Michael MacFarlane Producer, World at One, BBC Radio 4; executive editor, BBC London; deputy controller, England, BBC Pamela Hiles (née Toppin) CBC (Canada); BBC Belfast; Ulster Orchestra; owner, editor, director, Hiltop Publishing Joanne Williams TV AM; BBC (GNS)

1987 1987 INTERNATIONAL Millie Adisa Concord (Lagos); freelance unknown Katherine Arms Communications consultant, UN Women; editorial consultant, International Development Law Organisation, UNECA, The World Food Programme James Boothroyd Writer HIV/ AIDS department, World Health Organisation; consultant writer and communications specialist, James Boothroyd Consulting; director public affairs and communications, David Suzuki Foundation; Principal, James Boothroyd Consulting Sam Buyungo-Katwere The Star (Kampala); deputy director, communications department, Bank of Uganda Pratap Chatterjee KPFA Radio (USA); managing editor, executive director, CorpWatch; Bureau of Investigative Journalism; freelance (The Guardian, Financial Times,The New Republic,The Independent) Vera Eckert Metal Bulletin; commodities correspondent, senior power correspondent, Reuters Nada Fadda English instructor, American University of Beirut; English instructor, July Kaye Foicik PR, NHS; BBC TV; novelist; tour director, Kaye Foicik Tour Management Sylvester Hanga SportsScene; Workers Newspaper; Life Magazine (Dar es Salaam) Kelly Hawke-Baxter Founding executive director, board of directors; The Natural Step (Canada); vicechair, The Natural Step International; member of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, the Green Living Advisory Board, and the Distinguished Advisory Council of the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs Mary Heaney Co-founder, Futurelex; Editor-in-Chief, European Lawyer; editorial director, managing director, The Global Legal Post ChangYong Kim Associated Press; Dow Jones (Seoul); professor of journalism, Inje University unknown Nanke Kramer Press officer, communications consultant, KLM; marketing and communications, owner, Kramer Communications, Network Associator: Projob Communication Kathryn Lainoff (née Kincaid) Senator’s press officer; president, Lainoff Family Foundation Myrto Markidou-Selipa Financial journalist, Phileleftheros (Greece); Selides (Cyprus) non-executive director, Kronos Press Distribution Agency Public Company Ltd; chief executive officer, Phileleftheros Ejor Ndifon Postgraduate studies; chief executive, Granonee Nigeria unknown Sophie O’Neill BBC TV; health magazine (Paris); died 1989 Ruby Ofori Women’s Focusing; police press officer, UN peacekeeping mission (Ethiopia, Eritrea); editor, All Africa; documentary production; public information officer, UN mission in Liberia Clare Ogilvie-Turner The Province (Vancouver); senior reporter, CanWest; senior reporter, The Province; editor, Pique News magazine Savvas Paritsis Cartoonist and film researcher; film editor; online editor, PostWorks NY; assistant professor of cinema and interactive media, DePaul University

Prasanna Probyn Freelance (Asian Times, Hansib Publications); film researcher; marketing officer, Middlesex University; homoeopath and writer Jose Fernando Rodrigues Economics editor (Sao Paulo); foreign correspondent (New York, Tokyo, Washington); political analyst, Radio Jovem Pan-SP; political analyst and blogger, UOL (Brazil) Howard Rombough Creative Review; editor, Voyager; PR director, Campbell Gray Hotels; PR director, One Aldwych Hotel Diego Santos Director, Eltiempo.com, Portafolio.co, Cambio.com.co (Colombia) Linda Sills Researcher, assistant producer, CBC; senior producer, BBC World News; series producer, BBC TV JohnWani Simon Radio Juba (Sudan), writer Sven Gunnar Simonsen Book review editor, Journal of Peace Research; senior researcher, International Peace Research Institute; Fulbright scholar, U.C Berkley; independent analyst, international reporter, reporting officer, UNICEF Yemen Alhaji Tanko Ghana News Agency; managing director, Al-Tatma Enterprise Ulf Thorsson Analyst (Sweden) unknown Sebastian Usher Freelance (Saudi Arabia); correspondent, BBC World Media; Middle East editor, BBC World Service Ioannis Zografos Athens News Agency; Europe People’s Party, European Parliament; press officer, European Parliament; managing producer, European People’s Party (Web TV)

NEWSPAPER Kevin Allison San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times; global resources columnist, breaking views columnist, Reuters Xana Antunes Executive editor, CNNMoney.com; editor, Crain’s New York Business; executive editor, vice president, CNBC Digital; new initiatives editor, Quartz Michael Bennett Katherine Advertiser (Australia); senior account manager, Staniforth Public Relations; managing consultant, Clark & Company (PR); managing director, Pelican PR

Jason Bennetto Plymouth Evening Herald; Western Daily Press; Independent on Sunday; crime correspondent, The Independent; senior lecturer in journalism, City University London Jennie Brookman Correspondent, Times Higher Education Supplement; sub-editor, Deutsche Presse Agentur; freelance; senior editorial manager, Standard & Poor’s Farzana Cheema Croydon Advertiser Jeremy Clifford Publishing manager, Leicester Mercury; editor, Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph; editor, The Star (Sheffield); editorial director, Yorkshire Post Eleanor Edwards BBC; freelance Richard Galpin Coventry Evening Telegraph; BBC World Service (Dakar, Islamabad); world affairs correspondent, BBC (Jakarta, Athens, Moscow) James Hamilton Surrey Advertiser Judy Henry Channel 4; producer and director, Wall to Wall TV; MSc, Tavistock Centre; family therapist, NHS Geraldine Holden Chief sub-editor, British Medical Association; content editor, BBC Health, BBC Parenting; associate editor, Mumsnet; senior web editor, Wellcome Trust Christian Jenner PR, National Family and Parenting Institute; international communications manager, NHS Suffolk; Governor NHS Suffolk, communications officer, Suffolk community healthcare Rosemarie Magee Birmingham Post; BBC Norwich; Anglia TV Maureen McAlpine International marketing manager, director of communications, director of strategy implementation, Scottish Enterprise;communications manager, East Renfrewshire Council; marketing and PR consultant, McAlpine Communications and Interim PR manager at CHAS (Children’s Hospice Association Scotland) Andrew Napier Southern Evening Echo; chief reporter, Southern Daily Echo; chief reporter, Hampshire Chronicle Nicola Naylor Clinical herbalist; travel writer; The Scotsman; author; physiotherapist John Parrish Portsmouth News; Enfield Gazette; Today, LWT; The Sun; freelance (Australia) Ben Preston Bristol Evening Post; education correspondent, The Times; Press Association; home news, deputy editor, The Times; editor, Radio Times Denise Shaw Newham Recorder; health

press secretary, Scottish office; freelance; Department for Education Philip Sherwell Liverpool Echo; The Daily Telegraph; Daily Express (New York); chief foreign affairs correspondent, US editor, The Daily Telegraph,The Sunday Telegraph Janice Turner Editor, That’s Life; editor, Real Magazine; freelance, The Guardian; columnist, feature writer, The Times Giovanni Ulleri Real Story, Panorama, BBC; partner, Popkorn Films; owner, Genius Media; producer, director, Wall to Wall Michael Williams World at One, BBC; Newsnight, BBC; foreign affairs correspondent, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; freelance, BBC Radio

PERIODICAL Douglas Amrine editorial director, Editions Didier Millet; freelance English teacher, Brazil; writer of teaching materials, Off2Class.com Tom Aston Channel 4 Daily;Visnews; Gemini; Sunday Express; freelance; researcher, Free Tibet campaign unknown Joanna Bale reporter, The Times, Times Online; media consultant, Local Government Association; senior press officer, London School of Economics Neil Bennett Investors Chronicle; The Times; city editor, The Sunday Telegraph; PR, vice chairman, chief executive, Maitland Peter Capella Freelance (The Guardian); Swiss Radio International (Geneva); freelance (The Economist,The Guardian,The Times, New Statesman); Agence France Press; editor, Rolex Daloni Carlisle Clinical news reporter, Nursing Standard; news and features writer, Nursing Times; freelance features and news writer (Serbia and Kosovo); information delegate, ICRC; information delegate, International Red Cross; contributor (Health Service Journal, E-Health Insider); senior associate/writer, Salix Consulting; freelance (health policy) Beverley Cohen Freelance (Australia); Design Week; yoga teacher; freelance senior press officer Elizabeth Coldwell Editor, Forum; author, editor, Xcite Books Martin Cottingham Regional campaigns manager, Oxfam; marketing director, Soil Association; freelance; head

HEATHER McGLONE

Political reporting tutor at City University, 1980 Diploma

Funniest thing you’ve heard on the features/news desk?

One thing that happened, not on my paper, was the chief sub’s nervous breakdown which manifested itself in him cycling into the newsroom, circling the news desk wearing a sombrero.

Your biggest scoop?

In about 2002, I was editor of the Mail’s Weekend Magazine, we got the first interview with Prince Charles that he’d done

since Diana had died. Our writer went up to Highgrove, and she had been warned not to ask about Charles’ relationship with Camilla, so right at the end of the interview, she asked if he’d consider marriage again. He said: “Who knows what the future will bring,”, basically saying yes.

It led all the news bulletins that day, it was very exciting.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

At the Western Morning News in Devon I ended up having to take a pair of goats into a showring. I was getting the details of two winning goats at the Royal Cornwall show and the owner was suddenly called off to get something and left me holding

the collars of these two white goats. The judges called for the goats to come forward to get their rosettes and I had to walk them into the ring. I was quite proud of them.

Role model in journalism?

Lynda Lee-Potter who was a Daily Mail columnist. She had an extraordinary knack of managing, in a few paragraphs, whatever the topic was, of hammering the nail right on the head and encapsulating what so many felt about it in words. She was also an amazing interviewer.

Emily Clark

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1987-1988 of communications, Islamic Relief UK Melanie Fanstone Assistant editor, World at One, PM, BBC Radio 4; assignments editor, Social Affairs Unit; assignments editor, BBC Newsgathering Camilla Finn Freelance Shirley Giles Davis Career accountant; Health Service Journal; The Daily Telegraph Caroline Hinton International Financing Review; BBC TV News; IFR; Project Finance International; freelance Fiona Hook Freelance; Big Issue; book reviewer, The Times,The Independent; adult literacy tutor, ESOL; english teacher, Universitaria Populare Stephen Hounslow Reporter, Marketing; trainee, BBC; producer, senior producer, BBC World TV, BBC News 24 Richard Johnson TV Guide; Radio Times; New Woman; Men’s Health; The Sunday Times; BBC Radio 4; freelance; author Dean Jones Herts & Essex Observer; football writer, Sunday People; football insider, Bleacher Report Michael Kavanagh Financial Adviser; Marketing; Marketing Week; deputy news editor, FT.com Margaret Keenan Editor, Drive Time News; producer, Sunday Supplement, BBC Radio Wales; Westminster producer, BBC Cymru Wales Anne Kelly Woman Options; Country Homes & Interiors; novelist; freelance (Ideal Homes, BBC Good Food) unknown Sharon Kelly Fulcrum Productions; TV producer; freelance TV and radio scriptwriter (BBC) Nicholas Kenton Today; Lithoweek; Oracle Teletext; researcher, After Dark (Open Media); BBC Radio 4; executive producer, series producer, head of development, edit producer; series producer, Channel 5 Helen Kitchen PR; events manager, Cardiff Council; director, Toucan Promotions; lecturer, Cardiff and Vale College and University of Glamorgan Keith Lockhart Freelance (The Independent) unknown Richard Marsh independent consultant, Holdsworth Communications and Fleishman Hillard; director, Market Access; independent consultant, Government Relations; head of market relations, Allergan Alison MacDiarmaid-Gordon Freelance Anthony Meenaghan Eastern Counties Newspapers; Reading News Agency; The Mail on Sunday; director, Solent News Agency Sarah Moore London Portrait Magazine; Harpers & Queen; freelance

Fiona Murray Birmingham Post;Yorkshire Television; freelance; adult literacy teacher, Wandsworth Prison unknown Shaun Phillips Deputy editor, ZM magazine; features director, Esquire; associate features editor, The Times Susannah Price UN correspondent, BBC; chief of communications, UNICEF Somalia; head of development, Lightbox Wendy Robbins Panorama,Watchdog, Here and Now, Public Eye, BBC; 20/20 Television; development executive, BBC Factual Department; executive producer, BBC World Service, BBC1 Peter Smith Barnet & Finchley Press; sports writer,Yorkshire Evening Post Tilly Suadwa BBC External Services; freelance (BBC World Service) Nick Swingler Freelance artist and poet Sheila Webb Women’s Realm; Social Work Today; The Independent; sub-editor, Financial Times unknown Sarah Womack Political correspondent, social affairs correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; deputy foreign editor, Daily Mail; senior external relations manager, Priory Group

RADIO Nana Anto-Awuakye Researcher, producer, BBC Radio; United Nations (New York); UN Radio Mission (Kosovo); senior media officer, head of world news, CAFOD Sally Arthy Senior news producer, Associated Press Television News; senior news editor, acting head of online Sky News Penelope Boreham BBC Radio Bristol; BBC Bristol; senior producer, BBC World Service; series producter, Pikin to Pikin Tok Alison Dawes ILR; Hereward Radio; CNFM Radio (Cambridge); radio intake editor, BBC; assistant editor; BBC Radio Cambridgeshire; news editor, BBC Radio Oxford Roger Few, Dr Orbis Publishing; social science researcher, University of Leicester, South Bank University; senior research fellow, University of East Anglia Owen Gay Executive producer, BBC Factual Department; commissioning editor, The One Show; executive producer, Icon Films Jane Grant Freelance Mark Handscomb Reporter and researcher, BBC Radio 4; BBC World Service; The Independent; documentary producer, True North Productions; senior lecturer, University of Huddersfield;

senior lecturer in online journalism, University of Teesside Beatrice Rubens Senior producer, BBC Radio 4 Alasdair Sandford Europe reporter, Radio 1; reporter, Radio Netherlands; freelance (BBC, The Guardian, Paris); senior journalist, Euronews Dale Templar (née Hayhurst) Managing director, One Tribe TV; series producer, Zig Zag Productions; executive producer, ITV; freelance travel writer, Daily Telegraph Jo Whiley Researcher, WPFM, presenter, BBC Radio 1; presenter, BBC Radio 2

1988 INTERNATIONAL Hossein Ali Afkhami Research fellow, Leeds University; associate professor of communication, Allameh University (Tehran) Jonathan Ames US News and World Report; editor, Law Gazette; editor, The Brief; editor, The European Lawyer; editor, Leaders in Law Review; consultant, MBR legal; freelance legal journalist Sylvie Basley Freelance communications consultant; publicist, Radio-Canada Ferry Biedermann Business correspondent, Europe correspondent, The National (Beirut); Middle East correspondent, Elsevier magazine, IHS Jane’s; freelance feature writer, Financial Times Jim Boothroyd Writer, HIV/AIDS department, World Health Organisation; communications specialist, James Boothroyd Consulting; director of public affairs and communications, David Suzuki Foundation; principal, James Boothroyd Consulting Ellen Boyle The Register Star; PR, Merseycare Corporation; Wragg & Casas; VP, Scarlett Medical Company; territory manager, Orthofix Karen Davis Lecturer, University of Guyana; Guyana diplomatic service; Canadian International Development; teacher, School of the Nations; sociology lecturer, University of Guyana unknown Gabriella Gamini Freelance (Sri Lanka); South America correspondent, The Times; Brazilian Embassy in London; Brazil correspondent, Paris correspondent, The

LAI KWOK KIN

Founder of tech PR firm WeR1, International 1984

Role model in journalism?

I grew up in the world of Reuters. My mentors in the early 80s were mostly men for whom the written word was sacred. Men like Ian McDowall (Asia editor in the early 80s) and Keith Stafford (Singapore bureau chief in the 80s and later training editor) imbued in me the importance of news.

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Your biggest scoop?

In 1987 I secured a one-on-one interview with the Dalai Lama at his palace in Dharamsala, India.

That was before he became famous and before he won the Nobel Prize.

Advice you would have given to yourself after finishing City?

If possible, start working in an unfamiliar milieu away from home.You learn a different culture and independence, in addition to honing the craft.

What made you want to become a journalist?

From a young age I developed a love of, and fluency in, English.

It was not my native tongue, although it has now become my first language. I found comfort in the written word and imagined a career in which I could use this skill.

The most important journalistic skill?

A combination of tenacity, the ability to intuit why an audience would be interested in a development, and the skill to be able communicate that in an engaging manner, preferably at high speed.

Yashi Banymadhub

Times; freelance (The Times) Imran Gardezi Press minister, Pakistan Embassy (Washington); press attaché, Pakistan Consulate (London); principal information officer, Pakistani government; director general, External Publicity Wing, Pakistani Ministry of IB&NH Angelina Grasso BBC External Services; Cambridge Community Television (Boston); scheduling editor, BBC Russian Service; community interpreter, CITAS and TheBigWord.com Mike Hall Tokyo bureau chief, Bloomberg News; lecturer, Macquarie University (Sydney); owner, Jasmine Hall; founder, Secret River Pty Ltd Melinda Ham Freelance (Malawi); freelance (Lusaka); SBS Radio (Sydney); Sydney Morning Herald; publicity consultant (Mumbai, India); freelance (Bauer Media Sydney) David Irwin Airline pilot; died 1989 Valgerour Johannsdottir Radio journalist, parliamentary correspondent, deputy head of news, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service; head of journalism programme, University of Iceland George Kouvaras Chief editor in politics, Columnist, Eleftheros Typos (Athens); Daily morning political talk show, NET television; Star Channel; editor, Athens Macedonian News Agency Mui Khi Lim Associated Press, Dow Jones (Singapore); Southeast Asia correspondent, Bridge Information Systems; editor, Singapore General Hospital Patrick McDowell Asia-Pacific chief editor, Associated Press (Bangkok, Thailand); assistant bureau chief, Associated Press (Chicago); Southeast Asia bureau chief, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires (Jakarta, Indonesia) Estela Moreno-Bosketti Unknown Mojalefa Moseki The Sowetan; postgraduate studies (London); chief information officer, State Information Technology Agency (South Africa); IT and telecoms policy specialist; chief information officer, State Information Technology Agency Chizuko Muranaka Staff writer, The Daily Yomiuri; senior research specialist, Fujisankei Communications International; managing director, Integral Media William Nyadru-Mia Parish priest (Kampala); died 1991 Fokke Obbema Quote Magazine (Amsterdam); financial reporter, media editor, Paris correspondent, chief economic editor, China and Europe correspondent, de Volkskrant Jerry Okoro PR and communications (Lagos) Jon Palmer International Financing Review; Risk Management; freelance illustrator and graphic designer, The Guardian; creative director, Textline (Munich) Gareth Pownall Unknown Christine Pulvermacher Chief editor, Swiss Quality Publications (Lausanne); managing editor, Derivamag; site editor, Gold Avenue; director communications, JT International; communication officer KM, World Health Organisation; freelance communications consultant (South Africa) Yungjoo Rhee Unknown Chris Simpson Africa Service; stringer, BBC (Angola, Rwanda, Senegal); project co-ordinator, West Africa Radio; regional co-ordinator, IRIN Radio; freelance (Senegal) Siu Ling Tse Hong Kong Standard; South China Morning Post; employees’ benefit consultant, Manulife Financial Nicholas Vafiadis BBC World Service (Greece); chief international correspondent, foreign editor, Antenna Pay TV Maria Zaharea Avghi Radio 90.2 (Athens); Epikerotita; political correspondent, Mega Channel TV

1988-1989 Aliaa Zayed London Oil Reports Winston Zulu Evelyn Hone College (Lusaka)

NEWSPAPER Sarah Borchersen-Keto Staff reporter, AFX News (Amsterdam and Washington); staff writer, Wolters Kluwer; associate editor, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust Jon Boyle Reporter, Birmingham Post and Mail; correspondent, Agence France Presse (Paris, Moscow); Reuters (Moscow, France); senior world editor, deputy head of EMEA desk, head of EMEA desk, Reuters (London) Katharine Capocci (née Everitt) Food and drink editor, The Journal (Newcastle); Loved Up; Luxe Dolly Chadda News reporter, Pulse; Kentish Times; BBC World Service; deputy news editor, Health Service Journal; editor, Physiotherapy Frontline; freelance Vivek Chaudhary The Voice; chief sports correspondent, The Guardian;The Independent Jennifer Cripps Pearl Insurance; subeditor, Peterborough Evening Telegraph; associate editor, Yours Douglas Cumming senior reporter, Blackpool Evening Gazette; editor, Rangers News; sub-editor, Scottish Daily Mail Alastair Dalton news reporter, science and transport correspondent, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday Matthew Eltringham assistant editor, interactivity and social media development, BBC; executive editor, BBC College of Journalism; editor, BBC College of Journalism website and events Suzanne Gamble (née Swan) Primary school teacher, Shire Foundation (Luton); Teacher, Luton Sixth Form College Christine Holt The Journal (Newcastle); Northern Echo; freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, Sunday Express, Monsun, Marie Claire); director, Trade Justice Movement; writer, CAFOD Rosalyn Jones Freelance Tony McDougal national account manager, Natural England; communications and stakeholder engagement lead, The Campaign for National Parks; Deputy Editor, Poultry World (Reed Business Information) Anna-Marie McFaul media trainer, Nua Media; radio news producer, BBC NI; editor of radio news and news online, BBC NI Michaela Miller head of publications, RSPCA online; web consultant; director, owner, Mqueste Communications George Parker Western Morning News; UK news editor, Brussels bureau chief, political editor, Financial Times Pratap Rughani freelance film producer, director (BBC, Channel 4); course leader, MA Documentary Film, University of the Arts London Stephen Sheppard news editor, ftyourmoney.com; editor, Fund Strategy director,Vanburgh Financial Communications; director, Citigate Dewe Rogerson John Speck Dow Jones; economics correspondent, Thomson Reuters; landlord Daniel Stanton reporter, West Country TV; senior producer, London Tonight; news editor, Irish News; assistant programme editor, Channel 5 News; programme editor, ITN; reporter, BBC News Caroline Sutton social media trainer; Picnic Media; blogger-in-residence, Brighton Pavillion and Museums Robert Tait Washington correspondent, The Scotsman; Turkey correspondent, Iran

correspondent, The Guardian; Middle East correspondent, The Daily Telegraph Sally Trelford deputy editor, associate editor, Meetings & Incentive Travel (CAT Publications); special editions editor, Intellectual Capitals (CAT Publications) Richard Warry Doctor; health editor, BBC News Online; Assistant Editor, Insight and Analysis, BBC News

PERIODICAL Simon Aldous chief sub-editor, Building Design; freelance sub-editor; Deputy production editor; Architects’ Journal Helen Brown Redwood publishing; community manager, associate editor, Mumsnet; deputy editor, Parenting Digital, Immediate Media Phyllida Brown Freelance (New Scientist, BMJ, WHO, UNICEF); MA studies, University of Exeter; freelance (New Scientist, BMJ) Kevin Buckley National Student Extra; freelance football writer (FT.com, The Guardian,The Observer,The Telegraph) Caroline Bullough chief sub-editor, BBC Clothes Show Magazine; director/managing editor, Harlyn Publishing; freelance (House and Garden); Managing editor, House & Garden Ed Buscall farmer; chairman, Country Land and Business Association (Norfolk branch); Chair, Hastoe Group Marti Colley-Illueca UNEP (Nairobi); freelance translator Stephen Duffy South Wales Echo; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News Online; presenter, The Jazz House (BBC) Paul Dunt producer, director, Inside Out; BBC TV Norwich; BBC Current Affairs; Freelance Journalist, Flying Boat Productions Jemima Gibbons author; lecturer; social media strategist, Claremont Comms; Freelance, Social Media Strategist/ Associate Nick Gibbs editor and publisher, British Woodworking; Living Woods; Smallwood Richard Handford freelance (Financial Times,Wall Street Journal); content editor, Mobile Money Live and Mobile Health Live; editor of health and money channels, Mobile World Live Christopher Histed co-founder, public sector advisor, principal consultant, Publitas Consulting LLP; non-exec advisor, Public Technology Ltd; Co-founder, Publitas Consulting Nigel Holtby Studio photographer; yoga teacher; photographer Ricky Kelehar Head of factual entertainment and US formats, IWC Media; senior commissioning editor, BBC America; Optomen Television Kathryn Kirby Lawyer; course manager, CILEx Law School Tom Loxley Maxim Fashions; editorial consultant, IPC media; associate editor, executive editor, Radio Times Caroline Merz Oral history consultant, King Street Community Voices; counsellor and psychotherapist, Mind (Norfolk); counsellor and psychotherapist, PF Counselling Service Caren Morrison (née Myers) Freelance; federal prosecutor (New York); acting assistant professor, New York University School of Law; assistant professor of law, Georgia State University Sue Nelson European Space Agency; The Biologist; producer, voiceover artist, ESA TV David Pilling Tokyo bureau chief, Asia editor, assistant editor, Financial Times Business; author Mike Power New Times; senior campaigns officer, TUC; communications and marketing, Unionlearn

Nick Pyke The Independent on Sunday; freelance (The Independent on Sunday, Times Educational Supplement, The Tablet); deputy features editor, review editor, Focus editor, The Mail on Sunday Caroline Smith Harlyn Publishing; freelance sub-editor, acting production editor, Easy Living; acting managing editor, chief sub-editor, Condé Nast Robin Stummer Staff journalist, The Independent on Sunday; founding editor, Cornerstone; commissioning editor and writer, Quintessentially Caroline Sweetman Unicef; West Side (London); editor, Journal of Gender and Development, Oxfam UK Frances Tennyson Sounds; NME Audrey Thompson Acting Editor, FSA News, Food Standards Agency; media officer, St Mungo’s; senior digital communications officer, London Borough of Hounslow Jane Tyler Bristol Evening Post; Wolverhampton Express & Star; senior reporter, Birmingham Evening Mail Hilary Wood Nun

RADIO Carolyn Atkinson Leicester Sound; Radio Trent; BBC Radio 1, You and Yours, BBC Radio 4 Gillian Baxter BBC TV Leeds; journalist, BBC Worldwide Charlotte Blofeld BBC Radio 1; Atlantic Productions; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Millennium History Project; project executive; BBC Learning Andrew Chetham Telecom specialist, South China Morning Post; producer, presenter, BBC News; Managing VP, Gartner Mia Costello BBC; programme leader, BBC College of Journalism; freelance journalist, media consultant and trainer Jonathan Dobbs GWR Radio (Bristol); reelance (Australia); agricultural engineer, director, Boston Tractors Giselle Green (née Finlay) Siobhan Benita for Mayor Campaign; media consultant; director of campaigns and communications, National Health Action Party; media coordinator, NCVO Miles Harrison BBC Radio Sport; rugby union commentator, Sky Sports; author; ghost-writer Neil MacDonald Channel 4 Business Daily; BBC Business Breakfast; economics producer, Channel 4 News Sarah Oloway BBC Radio Julie Osborne Office manager, Strikeward; office manager, CoverVersio; director, Holiday Heat Simon Wilson Senior producer, BBC (Brussels); senior producer, BBC Middle East; editor, BBC Europe Bureaux Penny Wrout Home affairs correspondent, community’s editor, BBC London; project manager, producer, Elbow Production; arts, media and events producer, LandSky CIC

1989 INTERNATIONAL Anne Augustine Microsoft; head of sustainability, Edelman; founder and director, Convergency Partnership; author Banu Avar Avar/Onuk Productions; producer, TV8; documentary maker (TV8, TRT 1); author Gladys Ayache Freelance (Paris); global

assets, Bankers Trust; director, France News Economy.com Clarence Boom Unknown Philippa Bourke Freelance (USA, Japan); Japan Times; journalist, reporter (Los Angeles) Beth Burnard Unknown Magali Christol Unknown Sof Efuk BBC Africa Service Everest Ekong Died 2008 Beth Frankl Television Trust for the Environment (Boston); editor, Shambhala Publications Alemu Getachew Freelance Nazi Hashmi Postgraduate studies Alfred Hermida BBC World Service (North Africa); technology editor, BBC News Online; associate professor, University of British Columbia Vusi Khumalo Died 1993 Penelope Koufopoulou Newscaster, Tele-City; teacher Franz Kruger Journalism.co.za; novelist; adjunct professor of journalism, director, Wits Radio Academy Liliane Landor BBC World Service; head of programmes, BBC; controller of language services, Global News, BBC Evridiki Makariou Lecturer, faculty of Communication and Mass Media, Panteion University of Athens; head of publicity department, Hellenic Heart Foundation; head of foreign news desk, ERT (Greek public TV) Hilifa Mbako Council of Churches in Namibia; head of radio, Namibian Broadcasting Corporation; news and current affairs controller, corporate & public affairs manager, Namdeb Diamond Corporation; general manager, Allianz Insurance Namibia Rashid Meer Died 1995 Xiao-Shu Meng Bromley Times; China News;Yanhuang Chunqiu; CMK & P&G Omer Mohamed Freelance Adam Mwakang’ata Died 2011 Ellen Nakashima Quincy Patriot Ledger (Boston); Hartford Courant; Southeast Asia bureau co-chief, national security reporter, Washington Post Patricia Odita-Sarumi Frankcom; Nigeria Merchant Bank Marketta Ollikainen IPS (Helsinki); freelance Marlan Padayachee Freelance (Durban); The Sunday Times (Durban); Independent Newspapers (South Africa); managing editor and publisher, GreenGold Africa Communications Ali Qassim Marketing Week; freelance (Spain, Latin America) Margaret Roberts Health News; nonprofit consultant; senior consultant, JVA Consulting; Principal, Margaret J. Roberts Consulting Matthew Roberts Speaker, Parliament of St Lucia; resident tutor and head, University of the West Indies Jeff Silverstein Producer, Global TV; RADIUS Communications; assistant, RepRisk AG; Senior Associate, Sussex Strategy Group Barbara Smit The Daily Telegraph; freelance writer; novelist, author, Heineken biography; editor, Fitness News Europe Kayode Soyinka Editor-in-chief, publisher, Africa Today Yann Tessier Reuters (Milan, Rome); correspondent, senior producer, senior editor, The Day, Thomson Reuters Sandy Trivieri (née Iafrate) Freelance; Canadian Business Life; visual artist Anne Vander Zijl Haague Post; HP/De Tijd BV (Amsterdam) Jenny Verster ReSource (South Africa); Frameworks; Barker McCormac Advertising; sales and marketing consultant, Educational Publishing Rosy Voudouri ET3 (Greece); SKAI TV; BBC World Service; Makedonia (Thessaloniki); BBC World Service;

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1989-1990 journalist, Cedefop Suzi Wells Macau University; research, Griffith University; visiting lecturer, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Laurence Zavriew Senior broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; editor, BBC Newshour

NEWSPAPER Peter Allen Freelance, Daily Mail; freelance (Paris) Andrew Atkinson Associated Press; Dow Jones; economics correspondent, Bloomberg Matthew Brand Nuneaton Evening Tribune Beatrice Bray Western Morning News; freelance Alison Cameron Press Association; Daily Mail Susan Campbell The Scotsman; freelance; editor, The Illeach Sergio Casci Lennox Herald; BBC Glasgow; BBC Scotland; freelance scriptwriter; Bard Entertainment Robert Cole Evening Standard; deputy business and tempus editor, leader writer, The Times; assistant editor, Reuters Breakingview Antony Dore BBC London News; assistant editor, 6.30 News, BBC; editor, London News, BBC Andrew Gilgrist Design Week; Menswear; editor, RJ Magazine; business editor, Leicester Mercury; director, House PR Marie Irvine Series producer, BBC Northern Ireland; production team, 4thought.tv, Waddell Media Ltd; freelance TV producer/fixer and media consultant Catherine Jackson (née Short) Hull Daily Mail; teacher, Ackworth School Tim Jotischky The Sunday Telegraph; head of business, deputy editor, Daily Telegraph; senior consultant, PHA Media Tim Knowles Woverhampton Express; Daily Mail; news editor, assistant editor, Scottish Daily Mail John Lawrence Daily Mail; editor, Femail.co.uk, Daily Mail; editor-in-chief, SPG Media Jason Lewis Mail on Sunday; investigations editor, Sunday Telegraph; freelance; managing director, K2 Intelligence Linda McLean London news agency; freelance Ryan Mills Sports reporter, Bloomberg News; production journalist, ITV Anglia Natasha Narayan The Observer; The Independent; children’s author Rahiel Nasir What Hi Fi; PR consultant; freelance, deputy editor; BBC Focus magazine; editor, Kadium Limited Debbie-Sue Nicholls Birmingham Post and Mail Patrick O’Flynn Hull Daily Mail; Birmingham Post; deputy political editor, chief political commentator, Daily Express; director of communications, 2015 candidate for Cambridge, UKIP Gabrielle O’Neill BBC Radio News; producer, The Today programme, BBC Radio 4; BBC, The Record Europe (Brussels) Tim Prizeman PR, Touche Ross; head of PR, Arthur Andersen; managing director, Kelso Consulting Daniel Shaw BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; BBC Radio 5 Live; The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; home affairs correspondent, BBC News Valerie Small Hospital Medicine; GP (Jamaica) Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas Daily Mail; news reporter, deputy editor, Insight; focus writer, senior news reporter, chief reporter, The Sunday Times

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Roland Watson Sunday Mirror; chief political correspondent, Washington bureau chief, leader writer, The Times; foreign editor, The Times Sarah Wilson ITN; journalist, Christian Aid; senior media specialist, World Vision; communications manager for Ebola response, World Vision Sierra Leone

PERIODICAL Piers Alder Euro RSCG Circle; head of copy, Dutton Merrifield; freelance copywriter, business writing consultant, Wordbrain.com Christine Alsford Southern Daily Echo; Bristol Evening Post; reporter, social affairs correspondent, Meridian Television, producer, correspondent, ITV Sarah Bailey Elle Girl; deputy editor-inchief, Harpers Bazaar; contributing editor, Harpers Bazaar (US); editor-in-chief, Red Sarah Bancroft (née Wright) The Independent; sub-editor, editorial production, The Independent on Sunday; freelance editor and writer Fiona Beckett Beyond Baked Beans; author and food journalist; columnist, The Guardian; contributing editor, Decanter, Fork; Founder, Matchingfoodandwine.com Adrian Brown Agence France Presse; producer, editor, BBC World Service, senior broadcast journalist, BBC Online; assistant commissioning editor, BBC Ian Byrne The People; sub-editor, The Sun; deputy night editor, Daily Mirror, Associate night editor The Sun Tanith Carey Daily Mail,The Sunday Times; author, Clio Media Ltd Sarah Courtenay Living; FCO William Dunn Editor, Liv magazine; editor-in-chief, content director, Redwood Publishing; editorial director, AMV BBDO Martina Hall Elle; freelance TV researcher; documentary producer, BBC History Unit; freelance producer and director Helen Halls Shell; promotions officer, Redditch Sure Start; media and communications officer, Redditch Borough council; campaigns officer, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Douglas Hayward Techwire online service; research analyst, Ouum; research manager, IDC; research manager, Accenture Paula Hubert Design Week; BBC Leeds; Points of View, Here and Now, BBC; Channel 5 Rebecca Jones Trainee, BBC; Anglia TV; reporter, arts correspondent, Berlin correspondent, BBC Catherine Kirk (née Beaumont) Leisure News; Nottingham Building Society; PR manager, Barclays Bank; freelance, PR Sarah Knibbs Bookwatch; VSO (Cambodia); deputy representative, UNFPA; Save the Children Thomas Lappin List Magazine; Scotland on Sunday; sports writer, The Scotsman; freelance Moyette Marrett Trainee, BBC; News Network (Budapest); author Andrew Moore Islington Chronicle; Wigan Observer and Reporter; Lancashire Evening Post Polly Neate Editor, Community Care; executive director of external relations, Action for Children; chief executive, Women’s Aid Francesca Nelson Mail Online; Country Living; The Sunday Times; freelance Catriona O’Shaughnessy The Independent; Time Out; deputy chief subeditor, Daily Express Jill Parsons Daily Mail; Mail on Sunday; freelance; editor, Cirencesterpeople.co.uk Mamta Patel GP; European Chemical

News; Environmental Data Services; editor and co-founder, Chemical Watch Richard Pendry Freelance, TV producer; lecturer, University of Kent Ian Pollard Public Eye, BBC producer, BBC Watchdog; died 1998 Lynn Power London Newspaper Group; producer, Carlton Television; features researcher, BBC Ajax Scott Music Business International; editor-in-chief, Music Week Group; publisher, Music Week Group Rhonda Siddall Pulse; Channel 4; managing director, Patient Central Jane Silley Video Trade Weekly Deborah Sawyer Nursing and law student; doctor; Nursing Times; teacher Andrew Thomas British printer; Cowise; managing editor, Labels and Labeling magazine, Tarsus Group Audrey Thompson Freelance; editor, Hounslow Matters Jim Valentine Transportation and shipping; director, Jayhawk Andrew Wilson The Independent; biographer, writer, Night and Day, Mail on Sunday David Wood Evesham Journal Series; Redditch Advertiser sub-editor, Newsquest (Worcester); editor, lovingthecotswolds. com

BROADCAST Sarah Barclay BBC Scotland; film maker, BBC Panorama; founder, Medical Mediation Foundation Flora Botsford BBC World Service; Madrid correspondent, Sri Lanka correspondent, BBC; visiting lecturer, City University Nicholas Clitheroe KCBC Radio (Kettering); Devonair; sports reporter, editor, BBC Midlands Jonathan Crawford Essex Radio; BBC Essex; assistant editor, editor, BBC Radio 5 Live Rebecca Dare Sky Sports; Chrysalis Productions Deirdre Devlin Specialist factual editor, manager of production, BBC; executive producer, BBC Claire Doole BBC World Television (London, Brussels, Geneva); head of media, WWF International; director, ClearViewMedia (Video production and training) Tessa Duggleby Digital UK; communications manager, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; senior communications specialist; Sanofi Richard Forrest Chiltern Radio; BBC World Service; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News Serena Gay BBC Essex; newsreader, Deutsche Welle TV; freelance voiceover artist Gavin Grey Central TV; presenter, north editor, Meridian Tonight; freelance presenter; occasional relief presenter, BBC News Dominic Groves Radio Orwell; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Westminster Susan How BBC Radio Kent Emma Howard BBC Radio 1; news correspondent, BBC; broadcaster, journalist, conference host, Corporate Training Plus Kimberley Littlemore (née Jenkins) BBC TV director of production, Littlefox Communications Ltd Sharon Maguire Channel 4 Media Show; Wall to Wall Television; director, Bridget Jones’s Diary; filmmaker Melanie Mauthner Radio Fox; Oxford researcher, University of London; lecturer, Open University; novelist Lawrence McDonnell IRN (Moscow); ITN (Moscow); founder, Pravda PR

Elizabeth Mead Press officer, Lord Chancellor’s Department, Department of International Development Daniel Nathan Unknown Karen Van Vuuren News, Superchannel (Germany) Annabelle Waller Freelance; lecturer in media production University of Salford, Beverley Webb Eurosport TV; Sky News Sean Webster BBC Radio York

1990 INTERNATIONAL Jan Herman Baas Brabants Nieuwsblad (Breda); Gooi en Eemlander; freelance; Dutch teacher, MBO College (Hilversum) Sandra Baptiste Freelance; marketing and sales specialist; consultant marketing and communications specialist, Tourism and Hospitality Assignments, Nadia Bilbassy Senior US correspondent, MBC TV; senior correspondent, MBC Group; senior correspondent, Al Arabia Washington Bureau Anne Borganetti Busisiwe Chaane Medical magazine Jennifer Caven Media manager, A4e; PR and public affairs manager, Slimming World Raffaele Dellagiacoma Colomboni Missions (Sunningale) Matroni Dikeakou Hellenic TV; Zoofilia ke Fissiki 201; Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia; NET/ET-1 (Athens); ERT/ NET International Marta Escotet Director of communications, MTV Networks (Latin America); international communications, AVINA Foundation; teaches mass communications at the University of Miami Fernanda Godoy-Fonseca National news deputy editor, O Globo (Rio de Janeiro); correspondent, editor, Infoglobo; collaborator, Fohla (Sao Paolo), Mayssoun Hachem Radio journalist; correspondent, LCI news network; TMC Monte Carlo Abigail Haworth BBC World Service; The Japan Times; senior international editor, Marie Claire (US) Signe Hotvedt (née Arntsen) Project manager, multimedia journalist, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation; project manager, new media trainer, NRK; reporter, Norskrikskringkasting Thalia Kartali Foreign news desk, ET (Greece); foreign news desk, Katherimini Amina Khairy Sawt Al Kuwait (London); Al Hayat (Cairo) Trish Knight TKC Communications; senior manager, Property Services at Carrera Management Corporation (Vancouver); public and media relations consultant, TKC Communications; senior manager government and media relations, WorksafeBC, Jane Kokan Financial Times TV; video journalist and director, Cross Border Productions; freelance journalist, camerawoman and director (Vancouver) Pearl Lee Communications lecturer Marla Levy Writer, owner, Brave New Worlds (Vancouver) Maritza Luque de Gonzalez Bloomberg (Lima); teacher, English for business and English for journalists, Universidad Del Pacifico (Lima); lecturer, Universidad Del Pacifico Nicholas Lyne Words and Pictures; EFE (Madrid); managing editor, English language edition, El Pais; author; freelance

1990-1991 Paulo Lyra International advisor, WHO; communications director, Pan American Health Organisation; staff engagement advisor, Pan American Health Organisation, Andrew Marshall Tokyo Journal; freelance (Tokyo); Time; author; Southeast Asia special correspondent ,Reuters Anita Mielewczyk CBC Radio; Fifth Estate; producer, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Kulbir Singh Natt Radio (Netherlands); BBC World Service; BBC worldwide Television (Hindi Department) Maria Panagiotopoulou Sky TV (Athens); head of the press office for Athens and Epidaurus, Hellenic Festival SA Sofia Polhammer Financial, political reporter and assistant news editor, Nyhetsbyrån Direkt Grazia Romani Marketing Week; Il Picolo (Italy); European Commission Geraldine Sartin ALiberation; Courrier International; teacher; InfoMatin; Les Echos; Ivry My City; editor, A Bagnolet (Paris); author; translator; freelance Rainer Schmidt MAX Magazine; deputy editor, Park Avenue Magazine; editor-inchief, Rolling Stone, Musikexpress, Sounds; author Samuel Serwanga Head of human resources and editorial manager, New Vision (Kampala) Elana Shap Editor, Essence Magazine; Haaretz International Herald Tribune; style coach Georgios Terzis Media programmes director,Vrije University; chair of communications, European Center for Common Ground; associate researcher, Global Governance Institute; senior associate researcher, Institute for European Studies,Vrije Universiteit Brussel Dominique Thierry Media programme co-ordinator, French Embassy (Belgrade); project consultant, Beta Press News Agency; project co-ordinator, Radio Television Serbia Muhammad Umar Assistant editor, sports section, The News (Lahore)

NEWSPAPER Samira Ahmed BBC News 24; presenter, reporter, Channel 4 News; freelance; presenter, BBC News Matthew Bigg Press Association; Good Shepherds Mission; senior producer, sub-editor, Reuters (Ivory Coast, Nairobi, London, Indonesia); bureau chief, Reuters (Ghana) Melanie Birch Bournemouth Evening Echo; editor, Scripture Union; freelance, Christian Press Rachel Borrill Irish Times (London); Ireland on Sunday; Irish Examiner Yossarian Brain Coventry Evening Telegraph; Bolivian mountain guide and travel author died 1999 Yolanda Brooks (née Day) Hobson Publishing; resources editor, commissioning editor, deputy editor, Times Educational Supplement; freelance, Daily Mail Severin Carrell Scotland On Sunday; home news journalist, Independent on Sunday; Scotland correspondent, The Guardian Robert Chote The Independent; economics editor, Financial Times; The Times; speechwriter and adviser, International Monetary Fund; director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility Mandy Garner BBC News; features editor, deputy editor, Times Higher Educational Supplement; editor, Working

Mums Alexandra Goodwin Eastern Daily Press Michael Harvey Communications director, Google; board director, head of content, Bite Communications; head of strategic communications, Web Summit, Alex Hunt Gloucester Echo; Liverpool Echo; politics editor, BBC News Online Emma Jones Producer, The Money Programme, BBC; entertainment reporter, BBC Breakfast; blogger, Huffington Post Karl Lindemann Associated Press (Warsaw, Bonn) Marianne Macdonald The Independent; The Observer, Life; The Mail on Sunday; features, The Sunday Telegraph Vincent Moss Mail on Sunday; freelance, Sunday Mirror, The People, House of Commons; political editor, Sunday Mirror; freelance Heather Prentice Agence France Presse (London); correspondent, Reuters (Milan); contributing editor, Sportswear International (Milan); Hearst Lifestyle Media Gillian Sanders Southern Evening Echo; Childline; Oxford University Press Darius Sinai Gold, Escape, editor-inchief, contract publications, editorial director, Condé Nast; editorial director, Baku Lesley Thomas Deputy editor, Sunday Times News Review; consulting editor, columnist, The Daily Telegraph; editor, Weekend (The Times) Alice Thomson The Times; associate editor, columnist, The Daily Telegraph Tessa Williams Lively Times; Woman’s Journal

PERIODICAL Stephen Armstrong Evening Standard; London News Radio; freelance, Wallpaper, The Face, Sunday Times, GLR, GQ, BBC Radio 4 Simon Aughton Online editor, Macuser. co.uk Angela Bell Media and Communications lecturer, West Kent College; Journalism and Communication lecturer, Southampton Solent Institute Richard Benson Contributing editor, Evening Standard; GQ; cultural consultant, The Face; freelance, (The Observer,The Daily Telegraph,The New York Times,Vogue, GQ); author Karen Benveniste TV producer, Capricorn; series producer, BBC Crimewatch; director,Vanilla Film Production Julian Blake Editor, London Bulletin; corporate communications manager; commission for architecture and the built environment; editor, TechCityInsider; freelance Jane Bruton Editor, Eve; editor, Grazia; director of lifestyle and deputy editor, Telegraph Media Group Christina Bunce Course leader, MA Professional Writing, University College Falmouth; head of continuing professional development at Academy of Innovation and Research, University College Falmouth; founding director, Professional Writing Academy Ltd Leigh Chambers Press officer, British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering; head of communications, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; freelance PR and writing Catherine Cooper Freelance, (The Sunday Times, Financial Times,Times Higher Education Supplement); senior reporter, Merger Market Robert Crampton Columnist, The Saturday Times Magazine; interviewer and columnist, The Times Sophie Davies Features editor, features

director, Elle Decoration; editor, Mr & Mrs Smith (Asia-Pacific); editorial director, DesignFizz; resident editor, Luxe City Guides Kathryn Godfrey Nursing Times; freelance health writer and editor; clinical editor, practice and learning editor, Nursing Times Siobhan Gonzalez (née Bullick) Features, arts and music, BBC (London, Cardiff, Bristol); freelance (Brussels); freelance communications consultant, British Council, Michele Hart Director, Michele Hart PR Russell Hodson Unknown Tim Hollis Elle Decoration; Sky TV Guide; owner, Tim Hollis Photography Sarah Jarvis (née Anderson) AA Guide to France; freelance Prudence Jeffreys Teacher; Harper Collins; publicity manager, senior press and PR manager, Transworld Geraint John Editor-in-chief, Supply Management; editor-in-chief, Redactive Media Group; senior vice president, research, SCM World James Kingsland Editor, Inside Science; editor, New Scientist; freelance; science production editor, The Guardian; executive consultant, State of Flux Ltd Lee Kynaston Online grooming editor, Men’s Health; lifestyle and grooming editor, Niven & Joshua; columnist, Harrods Magazine; freelance Amanda Linfoot Deputy chief subeditor, House Beautiful; chief sub-editor, Marie Claire; the Guardian; chief subeditor, The Times Magazine Claire Maloney William Reed Publishing; freelance, Hello!, British Council, Ink; freelance; editor bilingual education, OUPE, Maria Manning New Statesman & Society; freelance Lindsay McClintock Copywriter; Ulster Grocer; The Grocer; retired Richard Miles Deputy personal finance editor, investment editor, The Times; director of communications, Fidelity; The Times; director of corporate communications, M&G Tracy Mourant (née Audrain) Jersey Consumer Council; private sector PR agency; communications officer, executive officer, Jersey Communications Unit; communications manager, sport & culture, Jersey Education John Mulvey Music reviews editor, deputy editor, Uncut; Wild Mercury Sound Amy Raphael Feature editor, Elle; freelance, (The Observer, the Guardian, Financial Times); editor-at-large, Esquire; author Clark Siewert American Banker; lawyer Miriam Stoppard John Thompson Local London paper; founder, owner, managing director, Mousetrap Publishing Services; publisher, journalism.co.uk; Mirror Tim Turner Senior account director, content director, Wardour; freelance editor, Kraken Sport & Media; content editor, Wardour

BROADCAST Suzanne Balaban (née Levy) Publicity director, William Morrow, Harper Collins; director of publicity, Scribner, Simon & Schuster; co-founder, president, BMM Worldwide Malcolm Brown News Direct; correspondent, Feature Story News Agency; multi-skilled broadcast journalist, Feature Story News Emma Coker (née CannonBrookes) Freelance; BBC Radio 4; property manager

Emily Curtis BBC Radio; freelance Anne-Marie Drozdz Clerical work Tom Feilden BBC Radio Oxford; BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; science and environment correspondent, Today programme, BBC Radio 4 Gordon Fudge Head of BBC Radio Cross Trails; head of BBC Pictures; head of creative production BBC Sarah Gorrell Isle of Wight Radio; BBC Radio Cornwall; presenter, BBC Southern Counties Radio Andrew Guy Red Dragon Radio; insurance Andrew Harding Channel 4 Moscow correspondent, East African correspondent, Africa correspondent, BBC Georgina Johnson Voice of Peace Radio Tessa Mayes Investigative reporter, Renegade Pictures; writer and filmmaker, Tessa Mayes productions Lainy Malkani (née Bridgelall) BBC London; BBC News 24; public affairs officer, Commonwealth Secretariat; freelance journalist and curator Paula McCann BBC Bedfordshire; producer, BBC Belfast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live Becky Milligan BBC Radio Surrey; World at One, BBC Radio 4; politics reporter, BBC Radio 4 Niels-Ole Rasmussen Producer, Scansat; director, Copenhagen film and TV company Robyn Read BBC Northampton; senior producer, Kaleidoscope; producer, editor, Front Row, BBC Radio 4 Camila Reed Packaging News; Metal Bulletin; UK Equities correspondent, commodities editor, Reuters; digital media director, MD communications James Westhead BBC South East; health, education, family, Washington correspondent, BBC News; director of external relations, Teach First Sally White Trainee producer, BBC; BBC World Service TV; BBC Nine O’Clock News; producer, broadcast journalist, BBC News Online; freelance Lynne Wilson BBC Northampton; community editor, assistant editor, acting managing editor, BBC Essex Caroline Wyatt Bonn correspondent, defence correspondent, BBC; religious affairs correspondent, BBC

1991 INTERNATIONAL Soraya Abdullah Family business; Melewar Spex Sdn. Bhd Oma Amurun Unknown Nii Asare-Addy Data processing company supervisor, London Press Service; PhD student, lecturer, Westminster Business School Adriana Barentsen Deutschlandfunk; freelance translator Giuseppe Bertoncello Knight Rider News Agency (Rome); Moneyland Telerade; news editor, Telerate Italia; freelance Ilona Biro Senior editor, AOL Huffington Post; freelance; senior account manager, Pulse Communications, Filomena Avelina-Bomfim Green Press; professor, Universidade Federal de Sao Joao Del Rei Chien-kuo Chang China Broadcasting Corporation Cherif Cordahi Director of corporate and government affairs, Mondelez

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1991-1992 International (Middle East and Africa) Robert Conway Unknown Vanessa Chen Hong Kong Trade Margaret Evans Middle East correspondent, CBS News Elisabeth Hansen Editor, Egmont Publishing Ayesha Haroon Apecial correspondent, op-ed section editor, resident editor, editorial assistant, The Nation; died 2013 Siv Haugan Natur Og Ungdorn/ NRK (Oslo); information editor; Maritim Records; senior adviser in communication, Research Council of Norway Frank Huetten Postgraduate studies; Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg); editor for EU affairs, Dow Jones Tabasim Hussain Reuters (Tanzania); TV researcher Madeline Jenkins-Millard Operations manager, Da Vinci Quartet; Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation; freelance Mandy Kibel Deputy director, head of communications, United Nations Millennium Campaign; senior media advisor, UN Populations Fund; strategic communications consultant Maritza Luque de Gonzalez Lecturer, Universidad del Pacifico; lecturer, ESAN (Lima) Kyriacos Kouros Head of Middle East department, Foreign Ministry of Cyprus Virginia Marsh The Economist; Australia-Pacific correspondent, Financial Times; freelance Elisabeth Mitsani Foundation for Hellenic Culture Christine Mordret Freelance (Paris); Hommes et Migrations Valerie Msoka Radio Tanzania; Swahili unit, news, BBC World Service; executive director, Tanzania Media Women’s Association Leone Ross Novelist; teacher; freelance (The Guardian,The Independent On Sunday, BBC) Camilla Rossak Freelance (Mexico); NORAD (Oslo) Frank Schopman Unknown Mercedes Silva Centro de Informações (Sao Paulo); Gazeta Mercantil Robert Slagt Freelance; journalism teacher; news editor, Het Financieele Dagblad, Daan Van Lent Senior editor, Reed Business Information; investigative reporter, NRC Handelsblad; arts and culture reporter, NRC Jules Van Os Storms Factory; journalist, editor, NOS Nieuws; senior press officer, Oxfam Novib Annajet Van Der Zijl HP/De Tijd; author Maria Vassiliou Unknown

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Kamal Ahmed, group director of communications, Human Rights Commission; business editor, Sunday Telegraph; business editor, BBC Topaz Amoore business and pleasure editor, Sunday Business Magazine; acting editor, The Sunday Times News Review; foreign editor, The Sunday Telegraph John Arlidge Senior writer, The Sunday Times (London); Conde Nast (New York); The Independent; news and feature writer, The Observer; freelance (Evening Standard, The Observer,The Sunday Times, Esquire) Christopher Bennett honorary professor, De Montfort University, director, Foundation of the Preservation of Historical Heritage, author, Bosnia’s Paralysed Peace Grace Bradberry The Sunday Times; Los Angeles correspondent, The Times; Daily Mail (Los Angeles); deputy Saturday

editor, editor, Times 2;The Times Anna Brown Teacher Dollan Cannell Walden Show; London Weekend Television; Juniper TV; series producer, Twenty Twenty television Ion Dagtoglou Executive director, Goldman Sachs; director, Tinkoff Credit Systems; chief operating officer, Candlewick Asset Management Vikram Dodd Daily Awaz; freelance (BBC Radio 5 Live,The Observer,Today, Euronews, Evening Standard,The Voice); senior reporter, The Guardian Caroline Doughty (née Smith) Reuters (London, Amsterdam, Zagreb); editor, Justgiving.com; web editor Imogen Edwards-Jones Live TV; BBC Radio 4; Punch; arts writer, The Times; freelance; novelist; scriptwriter Jasper Gerard-Sharp columnist, The Observer, author, The Clegg Coup, Liberal Democrat MP for Maidstone and Weald Tania Glyde freelance, New Statesman, The Guardian,Time Out London; writer; counseling therapist, writer, The Lancet Richard Good producer, Euronews; Business Development Manager, regional sales director UK, Ireland, France, Morocco, tuOtempO Simon Greenberg assistant editor, Evening Standard; executive member, management and standards committee, global head of rights, News Corporation Martin Hennessey Mail on Sunday; comedy and drama writer; freelance web journalist; managing director, The Writer, founder and CEO, Machido.com Meg Hillier freelance PR; Mayor of Islington; member, London Assembly; Home Office minister; shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch Shelley Jofre BBC Scotland; BBC Newsnight; BBC Frontline Scotland; reporter, BBC Panorama, presenter, Scotland 2016 Saeeda Khanum New Statesman; Inside Housing; producer, Channel 4; director, Faction Films Timothy Lawrence A Week in Politics; Financial Times; BBC Newsnight; freelance (New York); PhD, University of Surrey; author, professor of cultural studies, co-director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London Jane Martinson South Wales Echo; Financial Times; media writer, New York correspondent, city news editor, media editor, women’s editor; head of media, The Guardian Yvonne McKenley PR Joanna Nicholls (née Ralphs) Western Morning News; feature writer, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance; marketing director, Nicholls & Co Rebecca Pike Mail on Sunday; Wolverhampton Express & Star; The Daily Telegraph;Today, BBC Radio 4; BBC News 24; business presenter, BBC Radio 2 Drivetime Andrew Robson Charter 88; NOSBOR; principal consultant, Eworking; principal editor; director, Media Arm, director and editor, medConfidential Ltd. Simon Rogers online data editor, The Guardian; data editor, Twitter, data editor, Google Kate Watson-Smyth The Independent; senior press officer, Railtrack; The Guardian; freelance (The Financial Times, The Independent) Rhys Williams The Independent Graeme Wilson political correspondent, Daily Mail; deputy political editor, The Sun; press secretary, 10 Downing Street

PERIODICAL Eleanor Bailey, freelance, The Guardian, ES Magazine,The Sunday Times,Vogue, She,

The Express and The Telegraph; novelist Briony Barnett (née Sergeant) ; clothing company; freelance business editor of Simon and Mayo Show, BBC Radio 2; casting director, United Agents Anna Borzello stringer, BBC; Agence France Presse (Uganda); producer, BBC World Service (Africa); Nigeria correspondent, BBC Adam Boyle 90 Minutes; Homes and Gardens; freelance Francesca Buckroyd Theatre Magazine; press officer, Sotheby’s; freelance Patricia Burgess Black Britain; freelance Leo Burley Freelance; South Bank Show; series producer, London Weekend Television; series producer, arts films, ITV; producer and director, South Bank Show; TV producer and journalist Robert Carruthers Freelance consultant; deputy news editor, Drapers; freelance, Associated Press, Sky News Lucy Cavendish columnist, celebrity interviewer, Evening Standard; columnist, Stella Magazine; novelist Michael Cooke deputy editor, Rutland and Stamford Mercury and Citizen; editor, Melton Times; owner, Melton Sports Kristina Cooper Coventry Telegraph; Hansard;Wokingham Times; lobby correspondent, Northcliffe Newspaper Group; producer, Today programme, BBC Radio 4; parliamentary programmes, BBC Maria Cooper Reporter, Today programme, BBC Radio 4; parliamentary reporter, line producer/production manager, BBC Caroline Ellis New Statesman; Charter 88; Sense; UK parliamentary manager; RNIB; Disability Rights Commission; freelance Fiona Wilkins (née Gammie) Editor, Astronomy Now; freelance, Nature, New Scientist; researcher, Horizon, BBC; The Bulletin; marketing and communications manager, Ernest Bevin College Rebecca Gardiner Freelance; What’s On In London; The Independent; The Big Issue; education correspondent, deputy editor, comment and analysis, family editor, comment editor, The Guardian Elizabeth Ayling content and web consultant; founder, theredbistro.com; founder, managing editor, Maltainsideout. com; director of communications, Strategy Works Trish Griffiths (née Goode) Macmillan Nurse Appeal; publications officer, Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund; freelance reporter and photographer, Chiltern & Thames Rider; freelance Justine Hancock health editor, Daily Mail; commissioning editor, The Times; editor, Good Health section, Daily Mail Lee Harpin showbiz editor, News of the World; freelance showbiz reporter; deputy news editor, news editor, The People; head of news, agenda editor, Sunday Mirror Amanda Harrison PR consultant, Amanda Harrison Media Ashley Heath Fashion Weekly; The Face; Arena; editorial director, Ema Will Lewis group general manager, News International; chief creative officer, News Corp, CEO, Dow Jones Maria Maguire Research assistant for Jeremy Corbyn MP; solicitor Diana McAdam weekend section, gardening writer, The Daily Telegraph; chief foreign affairs commentator, comment and analysis production, Financial Times Tina Merrifield communications, Lloyds TSB; senior communications officer, University of Saskatchewan; corporate communications manager, Affinity Credit Union Gabrielle Mullarkey Girl About Town; launch team, Reveal; novelist; freelance Kate Naqvi (née Barnett) senior development editor, De Agostini UK; consultant, De Agostini/Phoebus Editions,

freelance copywriter, content provider, writer and publishing project manager Ndidi Nkagbu Freelance; producer, LBC Eleanor Phillips Jane’s Defence Weekly; Equity; Channel 4 Rebecca Sillis (née Main) Journalist, Linguist Haznews; teacher, Northolt High School; PR Stefan Stern management writer, Financial Times; director of strategy, Edelman, director, High Pay Centre Catharine Utley Satellite TV; own business Simon Wardell Arts Listing Agency; Listings Limited; freelance, The Guardian Simon Warr PR, Ford Europe; global news manager, Cologne; communications director, NATS

BROADCAST Misbah Alvi Freelance; BBC Pebble Mill; Central TV; GMTV; executive producer, Entertainment Today; freelance executive producer and series editor Primaljit Bath Postgraduate studies; GLR; history unit, BBC Richard Bee Caprom Productions; freelance producer; lecturer, London College of Fashion; series producer, director, BBC Rosalind Childs VNU Business Publications; Financial Times TV Donna Cooper-Cliftlands director of media curriculum, principal moderator, professor, Thomas Adams School, Teacher of Media and Film, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, Principal Moderator, Media Studies, OCR Marie-Louise Dutt On the Record, BBC; BBC Breakfast Patricia Fairbrother PR Louise Fenby (née Hird) BBC Schools Radio; In the News; Press Association Radio; programme producer, GMTV; producer, ITV Helen Ffitch BBC Radio (Essex, Surrey, Kent); producer, BBC Radio news; planning editor, BBC business and economics centre; producer, Good Morning Britain, ITV, media consultant, ffitch media Marc Goodchild director, Syncscreen; freelance (digital consultant), converged media strategist, chief product officer, cofounder and director, Gingersnap Studios Nigel Gregory Producer, Media Trust; website manager,VT editor, head of post production and channel management, Community Channel Sarah Hardcastle (née Holden) BBC Hereford and Worcester; Radio New Zealand; senior producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior producer, BBC Radio; producer, Lime Green Media Gillian Joseph presenter/reporter, BBC London; BBC Network Breakfast; BBC News 24; anchor, Sky News Andrew Preston Freelance; BBC documentaries and features; feature writer, Daily Express; feature writer, Mail on Sunday Philip Smith Freelance producer and director, BBC, Channel 4, Oxford Films Dixi Stewart senior producer, executive producer, deputy editor, BBC Radio 4; executive producer, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live Lesley Taunton BBC Berkshire; Reuters Radio; BBC Radio 4 France International; Euronews; Radio Nacional de España Mathew Tucker producer, director, South Bank Show, London Weekend Television; freelance producer/director, journalist, camera operator, music

1992 consultant Simon Watkins VNU Business Publications; markings and banking editor, city editor, financial, Mail on Sunday Caroline Wilson Radio Derby; lecturer in media studies, University of Central England; lecturer, DeMonfort University

KAE MATUNDU-TJIPARURO

Journalist, New Era Newspaper (Namibia), International 1985

1992 INTERNATIONAL Hadyat Abiola BBC Newswatch Tesfaye Alemu managing director, Ethiopian Insurance Corporation, managing director, Joshua Social Development PLC, Joshua Insurance PLC Efi-Eftihia Alexandridou PR, Thessaloniki John Amoateng-Kantara freelance filmmaker; editor, freelance reporter, ZDF TV (Germany); author; Collective Intelligence Filomena Maria Avelina Bomfim Professor, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei Marc Bertola World Entertainment News Network; Reuters; Journalistes Associes de la Mediterranee; teacher Ian Bray Head of public affairs, Oxfam; head of public affairs, IDTG; senior humanitarian press officer, Oxfam (Oxford) Mary Brazier Press and media relations officer; press officer, foreign affairs, council of the EU Philippe Brodeur (née Greystones) lecturer, Digital Marketing Institute, founder and CEO, Hot Air Media, founder and CEO, Overcast Chizuko Broinowski (née Muranaka) author, freelance journalist, translator, (Lausanne); Managing Director at Integral Media, managing director, Integros sarl Axel Bugge Bureau chief, Thomson Reuters; Associated Press (Oslo); freelance, The European; Associated Press, Dow Jones; Bloomberg; Reuters (Buenos Aires, Brasilia) (Lisbon, Portugal) Bronwyn Cosgrave Director at Cosgrave Global Media; Contributing Editor,Vogue India; freelance Helen DeGraaf Beursdata (Utrecht); Omroepvereniging Vara (Hilversum); Dow Jones (Netherlands) account director, Stampa Gillian DeHaan Freelance; CNN, World Business Today; editor, Lehman Brothers Catherine Delgado Freelance; Platform; staff writer, LA Tribune Chetan Dhruve Consultant, Cisco Systems (UK, India); editor, NRIOL.com; VP business development, Rrap Software; Founder and Editor, Kwack.in Michael Dumiak executive editor, Thomson Media; deputy editor, US Banker; freelance; writer and reporter for science, technology and business magazines (Berlin, Germany) Conleth Eleanya Unknown Frank Esser assistant professor, Johannes Gutenberg Universität; assistant professor, University of MissouriColumbia; professor of international and comparative media research, University of Zurich Nina Hanssen features writer, Aktuelt Perspektiv; features writer, Medieforum (Oslo); journalist, Lo Media Nanna Hepke Bloomberg Business News; Reuters Financial TV Atsuko Kato Freelance, Eikoku News Services; freelance (London); NNA (Japan); freelance translator, journalist,

What made you want to become a journalist?

I’ve known since my school days.

At that time Namibia wasn’t independent so being a journalist was one way I could liberate my country. Journalism was my weapon. consultant; translator/ kimono specialist Janet Kerlin Web Writer, Bryant University; Writer/Editor, Johnston & Wales University (Providence), English instructor, Community College of Rhode Island Marie-Alvere Loyau-Kennett Freelance (Paris); administrator, Sheltered Housing Project Francisco Machado Audacia (Lisbon); freelance (Toga, Zaire); priest and missionary, Catholic Mission Malia Mattoch News reporter, Hawaii TV; news anchor, KHON (Honolulu), author Andrew McEvoy Executive director, Tourism Ballarat; deputy chief executive, marketing general manager, South Australian Tourist Board; director, Tourism Australia Adla Moukarzel Massoud Director and producer, Flying Hands Production Stephen Percy BBC World Service; Panos; FAZ (Rome); Deutsche Welle Radio (Cologne); deputy bureau chief, Dow Jones (Mumbai, London) Richard Tompsett Baltic Times (Estonia); Nation (Kenya); WENN; Haymarket Publications; WTN; senior producer, Associated Press TV News Catherine Waugh Press officer, UN; public information officer, UN Mission (South Sudan) Peter Weekes The Advocate (Barbados); deceased 1995 Shiang-Tze Yeh Daily Express; financial controller, Sabah Publishing House (Malaysia)

NEWSPAPER Kate Alderson The Times; died 1996 David Anderson Chester Chronicle; Deeside Chronicle; South Wales Echo; football writer, Associated Press; boxing and football correspondent, Daily Mirror James Bethell head of New Business, Capital Radio; campaign director, Nothing British; managing director, Westbourne Communications Matthew Brace freelance, The Independent,The Guardian,The Times,The Observer, Sunday Express, Geographical Magazine; corporate communications officer, Abu Dhabi Government; director of communications, Lifestyle Retreats (Singapore) Rachel Cooke freelance feature writer, Evening Standard;The Observer; writer, The Observer; TV critic, New Statesman Amy Cooper deputy editor, Cleo; editor, Pure; managing director, Bars March

Role model in journalism?

There were very few African journalists when I was at school.

There was a South African photographer, Richard Ngubane, and I liked his work. In Namibia we had a community newspaper by black people but that was before my time.

The biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

Gradually people are becoming familiar with the importance of newspapers. Even people who can’t read will look at the pictures.

(Sydney) Ruth Davis executive producer, The Weakest Link, BBC; entertainment editor, Tiger Aspect Productions; director, Countryfile, BBC Sharon Dempsey (née Copeland) consultant writer, Paediatric Oncology Research Team; freelance, Huffington Post, creative writing facilitator, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland and Queen’s University Belfast James Gardner french dubbing, translation and subtitling; author; researcher; head of strategic communications, Tony Blair’s Office; teacher Lucy Jones Moscow News;Yomiuri Shimbun; freelance (Vladivostok and New York); Reuters (Central African Republic); broadcast journalist, BBC Online; news editor, online journalist, WFAA Channel 8 James Landale assistant foreign news editor, The Times; political reporter, chief political correspondent, BBC News; deputy political editor, BBC News Julia Llewellyn-Smith The Times;The Sunday Telegraph; Daily Express; freelance, The Sunday Telegraph,The Sunday Times; author, feature writer, The Telegraph Christopher Lloyd author; founder and director, What on Earth Publishing Ltd, columnist, CNN English Express Magazine (Japan) Timothy Lusher columnist, ES magazine; editor, Guide; deputy features editor, G2, the Guardian; deputy features editor, The Guardian Natalie Meddings freelance, Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, Real, Eve, Cosmopolitan, She, Marie Claire; birth yoga teacher; cofounder, Tell Me a Good Birth Story Esther Oxford documentary maker, October Films; Mentorn Documentaries; founder, Oxford Media + Medicine; producer and director, Dispatches, Panorama, Unreported World Christopher Parker Liverpool Echo & Post; Daily Post; Daily Mail Weekend magazine; scriptwriter, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Bedlam Mark Rowe foreign desk, Daily Mail; staff reporter, Independent on Sunday,The Independent; freelance Sanjay Singhal series producer, BBC documentaries; managing director, Dragonfly Film and TV Productions; chief executive,Voltage TV Alex Smith bureau chief, news, television, Reuters; financial industry editor, global financial services editor, Reuters Lucy Smy editor, foreign desk, Financial Times; consultant, Media Compass, senior lecturer in journalism, Kingston University Harriet Swain freelance, The Guardian,

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

In Africa there isn’t the realisation of the importance of journalism.

If you want to interview people, they run away. There is no freeflowing information, and limited understanding of the importance of communication. There is also no culture of advertising; people don’t recognise the importance of space in newspapers. But that is something that can change.

Natasha Turner

The Independent,Times Higher Education Supplement; visiting lecturer, City University London; freelance, The Guardian Rajeev Syal The Sunday Times; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; reporter, The Times; Whitehall reporter, The Guardian Lauren Taylor Political correspondent, newsreader, news correspondent, ITN; news presenter, Aljazeera English Kate Townsend freelance director, producer, BBC; executive producer, BBC Storyville; commissioning editor, BBC Storyville Andrew (John) Verity business presenter, Wake Up To Money, BBC Radio 5 Live; personal finance reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live, economics correspondent, BBC News Tessa Walsh Yorkshire Post; International Financing Review; vice president, Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation; global loan editor, Reuters (London) Ben Webster Nottingham Evening Post; Irish News; The Scotsman; night news editor, transport correspondent, environment editor, The Times

PERIODICAL Amanda Cameron (née Armstrong) Writer’s Monthly; New Kent Shopper; Reporter Series; freelance Patrick Chalmers Reporter, deputy bureau chief, Reuters (Brussels, London, Kuala Lumpur); author, Fraudcast News Nicholas P Compton Freelance, The Observer,The Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday; features director, Wallpaper; owner, Another Pickled Egg Production Ltd Michael Day Health correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph; Italy correspondent, The Independent; Author Sharon de Botte (née Beesley) Editorial manager, Medical Education Network; editorial manager (Europe), Rogers Medical Intelligence Solutions; senior editor, Health Press Nick Edwards Deputy editor and features editor, editor, Health Service Journal; editor, Construction News; general manager, Steel, CRU Group Charles English Deputy editor, Saturday Guardian, head of international news, The Guardian; author, The Snow Tourist Harriet Green Features director, deputy editor, Harpers and Queen; deputy editor, Harper’s Bazaar; Family editor, The Guardian Michael Hogan Editor, Sky Magazine; freelance, Heat,Time Out, FHM, Marie Claire,The Guardian,The Face; editor at large, EMAP news magazine; editor, Zoo;

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1992-1993 freelance Elliot Lane Head of Media Relations, CII; group PR director, Gallagher Heath; managing director, FWD PR Harriet Lane Tatler; feature writer, The Observer; freelance; author, Alys Always, Her Adam Legge Freelance, Nursing Times, General Practitioner, Doctor, Hospital Doctor, British Medical Journal; editor, Equinox Nursing Magazine; communications consultant; Editor A-Z of Health, NHS Choices Miranda Levy Contributing editor, Grazia; freelance, Daily Mail, Glamour, Eve, Parenting; editor, Mother and Baby; freelance Nyta Mann Political correspondent, BBC News Online; assistant editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; political adviser, House of Lords Robert Morgan Senior producer, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; news editor, assistant editor, BBC Newsnight Pelle Neroth Freelance; The Economist; author; teacher; journalist, European Voice; EU correspondent, Engineering & Technology Magazine Laura Noble Third Sector; UK Social Investment Forum consultant, FishburnHedges; freelance Helena Pozniak Reuters (Lisbon); Reuters Television; producer, BBC World News; freelance, The Independent,The Times,The Daily Telegraph,The Guardian Timothy Smart Engineer, Cabot Speciality Fluids Ltd; Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer, Kemtech Ltd; Senior Mud Engineer, MI Gulf Services Damon Syson Screen International; TV Quick; More!; freelance, The Guardian,The Times Axel Threlfall Anchor, Market Watch, CNBC Europe; media director and partner, ECD Insight; editor at large, Reuters Lucie Tobin Deputy editor, Woman’s Own; deputy editor, Essentials; acting editor, deputy editor, Essentials Adrian Turpin Editor, ECOSl Ecosse; The Sunday Times; freelance, Scotland on Sunday,The Scotsman,The Independent on Sunday,The Sunday Times, Independent, Financial Times Magazine; director, Wigtown Book Festival Maxton Walker Daily Awaaz; Newsagent

Weekly; freelance, The Independent,The Guardian; entertainment editor, features sub-editor, The Guardian Fiona Watson Teacher; proof reader; freelance, The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Olive, The Guardian; Contributing Editor, Andalucia.com Martin Wood Deputy editor, One Football; sports desk sub-editor, freelance, Daily Mail; group legal adviser, Associated Newspapers

BROADCAST Amanda Baker Freelance Julia Bicker BBC (Bristol, South East); BBC (Birmingham) Malcolm Brown Presenter, News Direct 97.3FM; Broadcast journalist, Feature Story News Claire Cox Star FM; London News Network; Reuters; News Direct; Classic FM; LBC; producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; grants officer, public sector Will Daws Executive producer, Cooking in the Danger Zone; producer, BBC Panorama; managing director, Plum Pictures Catherine Drew BBC Dorset FM; bureau chief, Feature Story News (London) John Escolme Producer, presenter, BBC World Service; presenter, BBC 1; history manager, BBC History and Heritage Suzanne Glass The Guardian; contributing editor, Frank; novelist, The Interpreter; columnist, Financial Times Peter Gilbert Copywriter; freelance Nina Harrison-Bell Head of production, ITN; partner, h2glenfern; Head of Film, Bladonmore; Chief Operating Officer, Videojug Networks Patrick Johnston Mercia Sound (Coventry); Head of Music UK and Ireland, MTV; Business Development, EMR Digital; Head of Business Development, J2.

Sally Johnston A Week in Politics (BBC); On the Record, BBC; BBC Newsnight; Independent producer Sandra Khadhouri Strategic

Communications Adviser, IGAD Ceasefire Monitoring & Verification Mechanism; Deployable Civilian Expert, UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit, Strategic Communications Adviser, NATO. Ronit Knoble Freelance development producer, CBeebies, BBC; owner, producer, director, Fantastic Films; director, Top TV Academy Natalie Maynes Corporate finance, BBC Belfast, BBC News; reporter, documentary producer, TV series producer, director, BBC Northern Ireland Rebecca Milligan Reporter, BBC Radio 4 Paul O’Keeffe Institutional investor; producer, BBC Business Unit; producer, current affairs producer, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live; partner/director, Thomas Tosh/Boulder Group Sophie Raworth BBC Radio Manchester; BBC (Brussels); presenter, BBC News Lisa Sanders (née Jacob) Researcher, Watchdog, BBC; BBC children’s TV; freelance TV producer (Israel); producer, El Sash TV Productions; author Natalie Savona English National Radio (Bangkok); postgraduate student; nutritionist; author; TV presenter, Freaky Eaters; PhD research at LSHTM Pauline Smith Producer, Country Focus, BBC Radio Wales Franca Tranza PR, Survival International; PR, Marie Stopes; press officer, British Medical Association; head of communications, Multiple System Atrophy Trust Rachel Watson broadcast journalist, BBC Look East; short story author, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph

1993 INTERNATIONAL Sandra Akhtar ABC News; freelance Hassan Arouni Presenter and producer,

TONY GALLAGHER Editor, The Sun, Newspaper 1986 job. After that, you make your own luck. Don’t be crushed if you don’t make it to a national newspaper graduate recruitment scheme. There are plenty of very fine regional newspapers where you can learn your trade.

the complete newspaper man.

Also Paul Henderson, associate editor of the Daily Mirror. When I was a reporter, Paul was the perfect role model, inspiring me and many other young journalists at the Mail.

Your biggest scoop?

Playing my part in the MPs’ expenses investigation at The Daily Telegraph.

Any unusual hobbies?

I am a keen cook and often claim credit for my wife’s recipes on Twitter.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

Getting shoes heeled for the news editor and babysitting his hamster.

The most important journalistic skill?

There are many: clarity of thought, curiosity, persistence, cunning, a brilliant phone manner. Realising it is not a nine to five job.

What made you want to become a journalist?

Working for the student newspaper at Bristol University - within three weeks of my arrival.

Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

Don’t worry about a pile of rejections, you only need one

Role model in journalism?

Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief at the Daily Mail, is the most gifted journalist of the age,

What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

I would have learned faster shorthand and focused more on the fact journalism is a trade and not a profession.

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BBC World Service, Focus on Africa; senior producer, Talk About Sierra Leone Stetson Babb Senior vice president, Barbados Tourism Authority; director, SIB Consulting; Manager of News and Public Affairs, Starcom Netqwork Inc Dan Bindman News editor, Law Society Gazette; freelance; associate editor, Legal Futures Jorg Burger Reportage editor, Tempo (Germany); lifestyle and reportage, Leben; editor, Zeitmagazin Andreas Cremer Market News International; economics and politics, automotive correspondent, Bloomberg News; correspondent, Bloomberg Businessweek Glynis Crook Freelance lecturer, University of Cape Town Media Studies Department; Researcher, Shadow Pictures Ltd; Freelance writer, UNESCO Trevor Cullen Author, Vatican Radio; press officer, Catholic Bishops’ Conference; Queensland University; head of journalism, Edith Cowan University (Perth) Stephan Finsterbusch Far East business correspondent, business editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Chloe Fox Member of parliament; parliamentary secretary; deputy speaker, South Australian Parliament; minister for transport services, Australian Government; lifetime support authority, Department for Education and Child Development Naglaa Ghali Business reporter, author; Arabic Grammar Unravelled Irena Gjuzelova Privatisation International; Associated Press; Bloomberg News Gilles Guillaume BBC World Service (France); Business FM; Reuters Catherine Guilyardi BBC World Service (France); freelance, BBC, Radio France International, MK2 Productions; Journalist, BBC News; Producer, BBC & Culture France; Author Jan Gunnar Bru Sandnesposten (Norway); teaching, Hart Publications; editor, European Offshore Petroleum Newsletter; news editor, communication leader, Statoil Jane Hamilton (née Hencher) The Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario); Alumni Quarterly Magazine; president, See Jane Run Communications Angela Hennersdorf Editor, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt; financial correspondent, Energy Editor Wirtschaftswoche Marian Hens foreign news editor, El Mundo; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News; Global Communications manager, Amadeus IT Group Lukman Lyiola Concord Press; African Concord magazine; media consultant, Citigate Communications James Kanter EU reporter, Dow Jones; business reporter, International Herald Tribune (Paris), EU correspondent, International New York Times Miranda Korzy Australian Associated Press; freelance Solomon Kotane Industrial Forum for Electoral Education (Johannesburg); South African Communications Service Mette Kramer Freelance, Politiken; lecturer, University of Copenhagen Jette Kristiansen BBC; Reuters (Copenhagen); press officer, Carlsberg; Owner, Big Tree Communications Alberto Letona Basque Television; freelance, Washington Post; Associated Press; Director of Communication, Department of Education, Universities and Research; Creativity Consultant, Communications, and Public Relations, Zeppelin Communication Jorn Madslien Reporter, Derivatives Week; reporter, European Business

1993-1994 News, Dow Jones; freelance TV producer; reporter, video journalist, business features editor, BBC News 24 Michelle Mason Assistant producer, archivist, CBC Washington; assistant art director, Disney; documentary filmmaker; coordinator, documentary programme, Capilano University Zandile Mbele South African Associated Press; corporate affairs general manager, Sentech; MBA student, Durham Business School; executive partner, IBM Global Business Services (Johannesburg) Lucy Szablewska (née Smout) Darlington and Stockton Times; BBC North; BBC Radio Newcastle; freelance; PhD student, Durham University Olivier Thibault Basque country correspondent, Agence France Presse (London, Paris, Milan, Madrid) Alexandra Zavis News editor, Associated Press (Africa); foreign desk, Editor, Los Angeles Times

NEWSPAPER Samina Baig Freelance writer, author, director; BBC Writer’s Academy; writer, Eastenders, Holby City, Doctors; screenwriter, Century Films, Emerald Productions; playwright, Radio 4 Joanne Ball Freelance (South Africa) Sarita Bhatia Eastern Eye; news editor, Emmawards Anindya Bhattacharyya editor, Derivatives and Risk Technology; Waters Information Services Julie Cohen The Mail on Sunday; creative writing tutor; author, Where Love Lies Faith Collier Sky News; Associated Press TV; producer, BBC TV; producer, Pearson TV; media relations consultant, APCO Nancy Ella Daniel PC User; Microscope; Investors Chronicle; freelance Gareth Davies Hampstead and Highgate Express; sub-editor, Highbury & Islington Express; deputy chief sub-editor, assistant editor (production), The Daily Telegraph Owen Dyer Freelance and columnist, British Medical Journal Jane Flanagan Oxford Mail; National News Agency; Daily Express; The Daily Telegraph; Southern Africa correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph (Johannesburg); editorial consultant, United Nations Development Programme Rachel Ford Granada TV; associate producer, producer/director, executive producer, LWT Factual; News Producer, BBC Faith Jennings Integrated Communications Lead, Aerospace and Defense; Head of International PR, Marketing and Trade Shows, Aerospace and Defence; Director, Northrop Grumman Corporation Matthew Lawton Western Daily Press; Daily Express; football writer, The Daily Telegraph; Chief Sports Reportert, Daily Mail Edward Luce Speechwriter; Delhi correspondent, South East Asia correspondent, US correspondent and Washington columnist, Financial Times Harriet Martin Reporter, Al Jazeera (Khartoum) Stephanie McKeown Oxford Mail; IT Consultant, Logica; project manager, AMT-Sybex Jojo Moyes The Independent; South China Morning Post; arts and media correspondent, The Independent; author James Munro Sports reporter, Sky News; sports correspondent, BBC; communications director, Lawn Tennis Association; associate director, InVision Communications Sara Naylor News editor, Daily Mirror; associate director, Geronimo

Communications; director, Ravenhill communications Claire Oldfield Financial correspondent, The Mail on Sunday; city news editor, Daily Mail; editor, City A.M; deputy editor-inchief, Metro; director, head of customer publishing, managing director, Wardour Publishing Michael Paterson Human Resources Manager, Tokio Marine Kiln; Head of Human Resources, Munich Re Underwriting LTD; Head of Human Resources, Hampshire Trust Bank Emma Peacock BBC; Rapido; Dan Films; Langham Productions; Atlantic Productions; Chapter One; owner, Maitreya Meditation Centre Nicola Price Nottingham Evening Post; deputy news editor, Plymouth Herald; press officer, Scotland Yard Randeep Ramesh The Sunday Times;The Independent; city editor, feature writer, South Asia correspondent, social affairs editor, The Guardian Leslie Reid political reporter, Hampstead and Highgate Express; political correspondent, Coventry Evening Telegraph; freelance, The Guardian Gillian Smith Chester Chronicle; Sunday Mirror Boris Starling Control Risks; novelist, Messiah, Storm,Vodka,Visibility, Soul Murder, City of Sins,White Death; screenwriter Nick Thorpe Author; freelance, The Sunday Times,The Scotsman,The Daily Telegraph,The Guardian,Third Way, BBC Radio 4; Head of Communications, Fathers Network Scotland.

Nicholas Walker The Independent; PHASE Magazine Ken Wiwa Editor at large, ARISE Magazine; Special Assistant on peace, conflict resolution and reconciliation, Nigerian government; senior special assistant on civil society and international media, President Goodluck Jonathan Gary Younge New York correspondent, feature writer, columnist, The Guardian (US)

PERIODICAL Gary Allden Corporate director, corporate marketing director, Hewlett Packard; communications emerging markets, Cisco; director of corporate marketing and communications, Caterpillar Inc Richard Arnold Freelance, Inside Soap, BBC Radio 5 Live, GMTV; DJ, Radio Liberty; freelance, TV Quick,TV Times, More!, Bauer Publishing; presenter, GMTV; entertainment editor, Daybreak, ITV, Good Morning Britain Susie Boone deputy editor, Top of the Pops; deputy editor, Tomorrow’s World; editor, BBC Parenting Magazine; editorial director, Parenting, Immediate Media Co Paola Buonadonna Head of press, UK Information Office of the European Parliament; media director, British Influence; EU affairs commentator and Communications consultant, The Telegraph, The Guardian.

Mark Campanile Halesowen Chronicle; Edinburgh Herald & Post; deputy chief sub-editor, chief sub-editor, Edinburgh Evening News Tamsin Constable PR, RSPCA; BBC Wildlife Magazine; WENN; editor, Glamour, section editor, BBC Wildlife Magazine; freelance; Jennifer Cook Freelance James Corrigan South Wales Echo; Independent on Sunday; associate sports editor, The Independent; sports writer, golf correspondent, The Independent on Sunday Kathryn Dale Sales Promotion magazine Deanna Delamotta Express Series; Derby Evening Telegraph; women’s editor,

Shropshire Star; features editor, Manchester Evening News Sharmila Devi Sub-editor, Jerusalem correspondent, Financial Times; freelance, The Lancet, Rudaw; Regular Contributor, Financial Times Joelle Diderich Market News Service; Reuters (Madrid, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Paris); freelance, Associated Press; Art and Living magazine; business news editor, Women’s Wear Daily Philippa Gant Live TV; Dead Pan; Sky Sports; solicitor Victoria Harper Daily Express;The Mail on Sunday; Elle; features director, acting editor, deputy editor, Red; associate editor, Grazia Iqbal Hussain LSE; Two-Can Publishing; Young Telegraph Rael Martell Nursing Standard; Therapy Weekly; medical writer, Health News Agency; Frontline; freelance Deborah McLauchlan Manchester Evening News; vintage bookshop owner (New York) Mendora Ogbogbo Parliamentary officer, Age Concern; director, Parliamentary Contacts; managing director, Parli-training Stephen Overell freelance, The Guardian,The Independent, Financial Times, Evening Standard; head of media, The Work Foundation Jonathan Paterson Senior broadcast journalist, BBC; senior producer, BBC Newsnight; assignment editor, world deployments editor, BBC Debora Robertson Acting food editor, associate food editor, Waitrose Food Illustrated; food editor, Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall; freelance food writer, associate food editor, Red Lina Saigol The Guardian; Sunday Business; mergers and acquisitions correspondent, special correspondent Middle East crisis, investigative correspondent, Senior Reporter, Financial Times Daniel Sevitt Director of Corporate Communications, EyeView; Marketing Manager, Autodesk Israel; Director of Marketing, Idomoo Elisabeth Shackleton Hong Kong correspondent, Asia editor, Screen International; founder, CHIME Consulting; Asia Programmer and Producer, BAFTA Jonathan Sides Granada TV (sports); video producer, managing director, Paul Doherty International Lydia Slater Contributing editor, Evening Standard; columnist and editor-at-large, Style, The Sunday Times; contributing editor, ES Magazine; Deputy Editor, Harper’s Bazaar Kate Stewart British Medical Association; VIP relations manager, The Prostate Cancer Charity Jason Solomons Daily Express; freelance, film critic, The Mail on Sunday; The Observer; BBC London 94.5FM; Heart FM; Channel 5; freelance, The Mail on Sunday, The Observer, BBC London 94.9 FM, LBC 97.3 FM; film critic, Sky Arts Simon Stephens Design Week; freelance, The Art Newspaper; deputy editor, Head of Publications and Events, Museums Journal Simon Targett Assistant editor, Financial Times; associate editor, FT Reports; editorin-chief, Boston Consulting Group Paul Twite Reporter, Leisure Week; editor, Leather Times; Asia and Pacific business and travel news, Hong Kong Now!; promotions and incentives, Conference & Incentive Travel; marketing manager, Netvoyager; managing director, eDesigns; publisher, Haymarket; sales director, managing director, Toluna Kate Wardley Building Kate Williams Press officer, British Medical Association; deputy health editor, The Sun; head of media and public affairs, The Prostate Cancer Charity

BROADCAST Robert Ambrose Media production senior consultant, Siemens IT Solutions & Services; media and entertainment industry director, Oracle; Strategy and Business Development, FADEL; Tanya Arnold Sports reporter, Look North, BBC Leeds Elizabeth Ayto GMTV; owner, NCI Management; managing director, Media Ambitions Public Relations Sarah Boxhall BBC West; economics unit, Business Breakfast, Working Lunch, BBC, unknown Helene Bradley Project manager, Unilever; business communications consultant, HBR Consulting; communications director, Brakes Group Vicky Candlin BBC Radio (Kent, South East); reporter and producer, BBC, unknown Patrick Collerton BBC Manchester; director, film maker, Yipp Films; director, Thomas Fredericks Freelance media consultant; senior producer, BBC News; director, Picture Power Media Claire Gibson News editor, BBC Southern Counties Radio; regional network producer, BBC News Southern England; producer, BBC News Rachel Gravesen (née Curtis) BBC Radio Sussex & Surrey; presenter and editor, CNBC Nordic; senior vice president, investor relations and communications, Genmab Rachel Hermer Director, BBC TV (Wales); editorial policy advisor, BBC; TV producer and director, unknown Lisa Hinton BBC Newsnight; The Digital Village; senior researcher, Health Experiences Research Group Miranda Holt Editor’s assistant, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; assistant news editor, Newsnight, BBC; assistant editor, Daily Politics, BBC News, Christine Huff BBC Radio Sheffield, unknown Kate Linderholm BBC Radio Sheffield; district producer, BBC Doncaster and Rotherham; district producer and journalist, BBC Radio Sheffield Natalie Maynes Producer, director, BBC Northern Ireland Susannah Osborne Unknown Scott Solder Editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; deputy editor, Current Affairs, BBC Salford; self-employed, Communications consultant and media trainer Tiffani Spira (née Cave) BBC Radio Gloucestershire, unknown Christopher Whipp Reading and Cornwall Express; reporter, BBC Radio Devon Tracy Williams Beacon Radio; freelance; assistant editor, BBC 5 Live

1994 INTERNATIONAL Paula Adamick Toronto Star; The Evening Standard; owner and managing editor, The Canada Post Furat Al Jamil Information officer, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq; scriptwriter; filmmaker and artist, Buranunu Animation Studio Roberta Almeida Unknown Rukhsana Aslam Assistant professor, Fatima Jinnah University; Hamdard Univeristy; chair, centre for media and

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communication studies, International Islamic University; Asian journalism fellow, Auckland University of Technology Alison Barber Editorial coordinator, agricultural journalist, Rural Press; senior water policy officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Australia); freelance (Currie Communications, Lonely Planet) Shadrack Bulimo Civil servant; business owner; author Brian Carroll Deputy editor,The Irish Examiner; freelance documentary maker, RTE; investigative feature writer, Irish Daily Mail Kit-Yi Chan Public information officer, Legislative Council Hong Kong; student, Evangel Seminary (Hong Kong) Alejandra Conti Co-editor, supplement subjects, La Voz del Interior (Argentina) Hua Dai STV; IBS News (Shanghai); director, International Broadcasting Service; Shanghai Broadcasting Network (SBN); vice president, managing director, Walt Disney TV International (China) Lucia de Barros Unknown Clare Dowdy Features editor, Design Week; intelligence news editor, architecture news editor; freelance, Wallpaper, Phaidon Press Thomas Eckert Mexico correspondent, Radio Canada; owner, CrossCultures Media Elizabeth Elder Consolidated Communications Management; Nexus Public Relations; PR, Elder Catering and Hospitality Organisation, unknown Alexander Fenby CNBC Asia; Lonely Planet; inSing; director, strategic digital initiatives, SingTel (Singapore) Carlotta Gall The Economist (Russia and Central Asia); reporter, Moscow Times; Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent, North Africa correspondent, The New York Times Armelle Giraud Assurance Maladie (Lyon); Equilibre; Arbonne de Laurencin; freelance, webmaster, Grand Lyon Technopole Billy Giwa Focus magazine Claire Grant Editor, The Star (Jamaica); marketing and sales manager, Television Jamaica; general manager, Television Jamaica and Television Jamaica Sports Network Lucy Hawking The Daily Telegraph,The Times, Radio 5 Live Ayesha Ikram unknown Donna Kuin (née Varrica) PR, Concordia University (Montreal); head of public relations, SNC-Lavalin Group; director of public relations, Dawson College Frank Kuin Canada correspondent, NRC-Handelsblad (The Netherlands) Leiv Lie Freelance, Rogalands Avis; communications advisor, University of Stavanger Anne Ligner Unknown Tosca Looby Freelance documentary maker; ABC, 360 Degree Films, Gertrude Films Simonetta Nardin Reuters (Rome); press officer, International Monetary Fund (Washington) Hiroshi Otabe Supervising photo editor, Associated Press (Tokyo) Katja Pantzar Author; freelance broadcast journalist, Yle (Finland); author Milica Pesic Consultant, European Centre for War; European consultant, Peace and the News Media; executive director, Diversity Media Institute Moyna Sen Basu Freelance, The Daily Telegraph (India) Malcolm Shearmur Investing reporter, Bloomberg (Geneva); chief editor, ABB (Zurich);Vice President, ABB (Zurich) Zeng Shuping Publishing office, International Department of Ministry and Labour; editor, Chinese Trade Union, unknown Yvette Sitten Media Corp TV; producer, Wayward Media; Founder, Aurora Alchemy

Astri Sivertsen News editor, Statoil ASA; web editor, Norwegian Polar Institute; journalist, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Santhra Somanath Freelance, unknown Mineko Takiguchi Lecturer, Tsuru University Pemra Ulkumen unknown Sandra Wolf unknown Yuan Zhang Freelance; language training for business teacher; foreign language assistant, Asian Studies, Edinburgh University

NEWSPAPER Anjana Ahuja Crewe Chronicle; feature writer, science columnist, The Times; freelance science writer and events chair Kausar Butt The Journal (Newcastle); freelance researcher, Channel 4; Children’s Express Charity, unknown Thomas Chesshyre Condé Nast Traveller; travel writer, The Times; travel book author Glenda Cooper Freelance journalist; PhD researcher, Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University London; columnist, The Daily Telegraph Warren Deutrom Cricket events manager; development head of events, International Cricket Council; chief executive, Cricket Ireland Alex Dick-Read Reuters and Associated Press (Caribbean); editor, The Surfer’s Path; freelance Sarah Ebner Features correspondent, Associated Press; editor, The School Gate, The Times; sports news editor and reporter, The Times Jeremy Ettinghausen Digital publisher, Penguin; creative director and partner, BBH Sian Evans Metro; freelance, unknown Julia Gallagher London Correspondents’ Service, Foreign Office; teaching fellow, SOAS; lecturer in International Politics, Royal Holloway Stephen Gee ITV Studios (Los Angeles); author; director/producer, Clear Sky Films, LLC Victoria Graham Mizz magazine; subeditor, The Daily Telegraph; sub-editor, The Guardian Sebastian Hamilton Deputy news editor, The Sunday Telegraph; news editor, The Mail on Sunday; editor-in-chief, Irish Daily Mail and Irish Mail on Sunday Paul Harris Reuters; Associated Press (Cape Town); The Daily Telegraph (Nairobi); reporter, news correspondent, US correspondent, The Observer; senior executive producer, Al Jazeera America Allister Harry TV editor, feature writer; freelance, New Nation, unknown Annabel Hobley Series producer, BBC/ Betty TV; executive producer & writer, Betty TV; freelance Luke Jacobson ITN training; news editor, Channel 4 News, unknown Jenny Johnston Liverpool Post and Echo; features, Daily Mirror; senior writer, Daily Mail Thea Jourdan The Scotsman; freelance, The Daily Telegraph,The Economist, Harpers & Queen,The Sunday Times Magazine,The Scotsman, Daily Mail; managing director, The Jourdan Agency Dan Kelly Assistant editor, BBC Six O’Clock News; assistant editor, BBC Newsnight; assistant editor, BBC Today Ian King City editor, The Sun; deputy business editor, The Times; business and city editor, The Times; business presenter, Sky News Victor Kremer Derivatives Week; London bureau chief, executive editor,

Euromoney Institutional Investor; co-owner, SparkSpread (New York) Caspar Llewellyn Smith Assistant arts editor, The Daily Telegraph; editor, Observer Music Monthly; head of culture, The Guardian, The Observer James Moore City desk, The Times; city desk, finance service editor, The Daily Telegraph; deputy business editor, The Independent Alasdair Murray Deputy director, Centre for European Reform; director, Centreforum; director, Quiller Consultants Danny Penman Feature writer, Daily Mail; author; owner, FranticWorld Samantha Roberts Metro; Stafford Chronicle, unknown Sarah Shannon Private Eye; Evening Standard; Daily Express, unknown Christine Smith TV editor, The Sun; celebrity interviewer, Daily Mirror; freelance celebrity interviewer Enver Solomon Assistant director of policy and research, Barnardo’s; director of policy and public affairs, The Children’s Society; director of evidence and impact, The National Children’s Bureau Rupert Steiner The Sunday Express; The Business; chief city correspondent, Daily Mail Clare Sumner Private secretary to Tony Blair; performance and communications director, Her Majesty’s Court Service; executive director for civil service reform, Cabinet Office

PERIODICAL Jane Barber Assistant director of communications and marketing, Colorado State University; freelance; Events and Development Coordinator, Larimer Humane Society Nicholas Barber Rock critic, film critic, Intelligent Life, Economist, Metro Alison Baycock Business Opportunity World; Retail Newsagent; senior writer, The Inside Page; director, consultant, Alison Baycock Communications Katharine Braham Wharfdale and Airedale Observer; unknown Frances Brierley Commissioning editor,You; Pravda Advertising; freelance Elaine Carlton News city desk, Evening Standard; producer, Tonight with Trevor McDonald; freelance development producer, ITV1 Jeremy Case Freelance, (NME); Walthamstow Guardian; Sky; Ministry; More!; Icons; author; assistant editor, Elle Girl; sports sub-editor, Sunday Mirror; editor, Wallpaper City Guides Matthew Coppock Walthamstow Production editor, Sky; production editor, More!; chief sub-editor, OK!; unknown Andrew Duck Freelance contractor, August Media; PR and communications manager, Active Sussex; marketing and communication manager, Bruynzeel Storage Systems Ltd Celia Duncan Head of special projects, National Magazine Company; acting associate editor, Vogue; deputy editor, The Times magazine; unknown Jonathan Evans Editor, Jaguar Magazine; automotive group editor, Haymarket Media Group; managing editor, What HiFi? Sound and Vision Tania Hershman PhD student in creative writing, Bath Spa University; Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2014-15), Bristol University; co-editor, Writing Short Stories Jeremy Hunt Head of communications, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority; country manager, Regester Larkin (Qatar); internal communications manager, The Global Fund Adeline Iziren Editor, Smaart Advice;

communications and editorial specialist, Rise Media (Limelight Magazine); Content editor and proof reader.

Isobel Jacobs Shopping editor, fashion editor, Metro; editor, Hot Style and Metro focus; editor, beljacobs.com Andrew Johnson Reporter, The Independent on Sunday; editor, Islington Tribune; assistant news editor, The Independent, i Newspaper Gemma Mitchell (née Heggs) Daily Express; The Times; FHM Collections; unknown Samantha Oakley (née Clark) Freelance (Today, She, Cosmopolitan); exhibition organiser, Hermitage Development Trust; freelance exhibition organizer; unknown David Parsley Business editor, Sunday Express; editor, City AM; founder, chief executive, Parsleymedia Morag Preston Cosmopolitan; US correspondent, The Times; freelance (US) Nicholas Rushworth Euronews TV; France 3 TV; France 24 TV (Paris) Lorna Russell Assistant editor, deputy editor, Big Issue; MA in social work, University of Sussex; mental health social worker; unknown Emily Shamma Retail analyst, equity analyst, West LB Panmure; head of local sourcing, director of non-food planning, Tesco; director, clothing online, Tesco, unknown Joshua Sims The Independent,The Hackney Courier); editor, Viewpoint Vanessa St Clair Web journalist, British Airways Hi Life; freelance, (Tatler, the Guardian, Red,Thelondonpaper); author Nicki Symington Commissioning editor, Food and Drink; associate food and travel editor, The Daily Telegraph; freelance (The Observer,The Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveller); marketing lead, Forty Hall Vineyard.

Marshall Thomas Freelance PR consultant and journalist (The International Tennis Federation); disability tennis press officer, The Tennis Foundation; freelance press consultant (Melt Communications) Alex Wijeratna The Times; food rights campaign co-ordinator, senior campaigner, Action Aid; consultant and writer Sharon Wilkinson (née Speller) Cycling Today; organiser, Labour Party Havering and Redbridge; antique shop and pizzeria owner Sarah Woodhead Creative director, OSOYOU; director, Delightful Media; director, Jones & Jones Media Marianne Young (née Darch) Head of external political section and deputy high commissioner to the Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland, British High Commission Pretoria; British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia; Head of Climate Diplomacy Unit, Deputy Head (Climate) of Science, Innovation and Climate Change Dept, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

BROADCAST Victoria Breakwell Head of news, Severn Sound & Wyvern; deputy programme controller, news editor, Wyvern FM; deputy head of news, group head of news, Orion Media Susan Cain BBC Radio Leeds; BBC Look North Tanya Cohen ITV Anglia; freelance producer (Juniper TV); series producer, Maverick Television Simon Coss Freelance television director; freelance video journalist, Agence France Presse; BBC Lisa Costello Broadcast journalist, BBC Three Counties (Belfast); senior

1995 reporter, General News Service; London correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland Elizabeth Davis Metro;Virgin Radio; broadcaster, Traffic Link Joanne Episcopo BBC World Service (Spain); World Update, BBC; development executive for global languages, BBC Louise Evans Press officer, Shelter; media relations manager, British Airways; director, Loop PR Catherine Gluckstein Board director, Stocksy United; board of advisors, Graymatics; advisor, Coach.me Susan Haley BBC Radio Jersey Trevor Hodder Reuters Adam Holmes Journalist, producer, breakfast show, BBC Radio York Catherine Misry (née Jones) IRN; ITN; health correspondent, Channel 5 News Wendy Jones Meridian Broadcasting; researcher; freelance journalist and communications consultant Joanne Littlehales Severn Sound Sharon Mascall-Dare (née Mascall) Writer, managing director, Making Sense Communications; communications director, Spatial Scientific Technologies; military public affairs officer, Australian Department of Defence Jeremy Monblat BBC Four launch; producer, BBC; head of digital, Royal Botanic Gardens Lisa O’Sullivan Head of production, Jibba Jabba Productions; newsreader, sports reporter, talkSPORT; producer, WRC Live Radio Rachel Ward Political producer, Channel 4; political correspondent, Sky News; correspondent, GMTV

1995 INTERNATIONAL

Cristina Armondi Unknown Maria Armondi Unknown Sebnem Arsu Producer, Associated Press Television News; TV producer, Thomson Reuters; reporter, New York Times (Turkey) Oliver August Bureau chief, The Times; novelist; Africa editor, Europe editor, The Economist Maxim Avdevich Moscow Times Sandrine Bates-Blanc Central Press; Discovery Channel; teacher Olga Betko Presenter, Moscow-on – Thames, BBC World Service; freelance broadcaster, media trainer, voice-over artist; producer, Rich, Russian and Living in London, BBC Two Maria Benevides Head of communications, British Embassy (Brazil); consultant, ANDI (Brazil); owner, Quartz Communications Henriette Lockwood (née Borch ) PR manager, Text100; corporate communications manager, Cisco Systems; director of marketing and communications, Tideway Systems Kenneth Borgenholt Reporter, TV2 (Denmark); reporter, Ritzau (Denmark); editor, reporter, Danish Broadcasting Corporation Yevgenia Munro (née Borisova) Reporter, St Petersburg Times; reporter, Moscow Times; freelance journalism trainer, New Zealand Jayson Carcione Reuters (New York); reporter, The News, (Mexico City); chief sub-editor, deputy night editor, deputy production editor, The Irish Examiner Maria Cardournie Unknown Maria Conti La Nacion SA Ana Cordeiro London correspondent,

Publico; reporter, Radio France International Suzette Ebanks Chief information officer, Cayman Islands Government; broadcast journalist (Cayman Islands) Emmanuel Georges-Picot Chief of political services, Associated Press (Paris); director of information and political communication, Conseil Régional Ile-de-France; press and digital advisor, L’Association des régions de France Christiane Groner Unknown Kelly Hawke-Baxter Executive director, The Natural Step Kate Heathman Owner, Kate Heathman Media Consultancy; freelance, Comment magazine; senior journalism lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University Virginia Hristu UNICEF (Romania); Piata Financiara (Bucharest); product marketing, editor, Siveco Romania Chia-yun Hsu Unknown Pav Jordan Commodities correspondent, Reuters (Mexico, Central America, Chile); mining reporter, The Globe and Mail; senior manager, media and public relations, BMO Capital Markets James Kanter Business correspondent, International Herald Tribune (Paris and Brussels); editor-in-chief, Cambodia Daily; EU correspondent, The International New York Times Michelle Knapp Communications manager, Calgary United Way; FSW Group; The Writing Group Maryke Kolk Freelance (Utrecht Newspaper, Rails, Marie Claire, Beau Monde, Flair Magazine); editor-in-chief, Flair Magazine (Holland); founder, Marijke Kolk Journalism Training Jette Kristiansen Journalist, photographer, owner, Big Tree Communications (South Africa) Dominique Le Roux (née McClarty) Media and communications specialist, Wildlife Conservation Society (Laos); information and communications trainer, Oxfam; user experience and documentation consultant, PhotoShelter Zita Lichtenberg Duluth News Tribune (Minnesota); Japanese TV; external affairs associate, strategic communications officer, World Bank; died 2011 Alexandra Lin Coach, Schraff Group Writing; teacher Jonas Lindgren Communications officer, government migration board (Sweden); communications officer, government insurance agency (Sweden); senior public affairs advisor, government (Sweden) Victoria Llosa Intake editor, Associated Press Television News Mary Longmore Freelance (New Zealand, Australia); communications manager, Philanthropy New Zealand; creative non-fiction student at Victoria University Laura Lui Thomson Reuters; freelance translator, European Parliament Serguei Lukianov Editor, Reuters TV (Moscow); Moscow Times; producer, BBC World Service (Russia); Petroleum Argus Laetitia Mailhes Campaign manager, nourish9billion.org; west coast correspondent, Radio Television Suisse; freelance editor and writer, GreenBiz Group Fazal Malik Broadcast journalist, BBC (Birmingham, Leicester, UK); graduate programme chair, Culture and Creative Industries; associate dean, applied communication division, Higher Colleges of Technology (UAE) Karine Mayer TV producer, Globo International (Brazil); freelance TV producer, Sky News, Reuters TV, Globo International; South America news editor, Latin American bureau chief, Sky News Marina Michalopoulou Foreign editor, Copy Magazine; foreign news editor, NET TV (Greece); foreign news editor, Athens

News Agency Kayoko Miyamoto Unknown Natanya Mulholland Deputy editor, Fair Lady; publisher, Jonathan Ball Illustrated Books, Sunbird Publishers; editor, New Media Publishing Samuel Obbo Copy editor, deputy editor, The Sunday Monitor; editor, director, media consultant, Alpha Media; Institute of Corporate Governance Hiroshi Otabe Photo editor, Associated Press (Tokyo) Joakim Palmkvist Sports reporter, sub-editor, reporter, Barometern (Sweden); reporter, Sydsvenskan Dagbladet Snällposten (Sweden) Enzo Pelosi Unknown Dorien Pels Local radio (Amsterdam); news reporter, Trouw (Holland) Sigrun Rottmann Freelance journalist and consultant, ActionAid; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; freelance journalist and trainer, TU Dortmund University Inger-Johanne Saeterdal Freelance translator and editor; advisor, Armed Forces; special consultant, Oslo Municipality Despina Taxiarchi Sales manager, Real Consulting; owner, managing director, King’s Properties George Terzis Aristotle University Basis Advertising Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud Freelance (Vancity); communications manager, British Columbia Medical Association; policy manager, International Chamber of Commerce (Paris) Karijn Van den Bossche Senior account manager, Bone Advertising; senior project manager, Proximity; client services & operations, Pool Worldwide Pekka Vanttinen Freelance (Bisnes. fi, Northern Enterprise, Theatre); contributing editor, Image Publishing, Helsinki Happens; contributor, A4 Media John Walenga Indigenous People’s Business Council Andrew Webb-Vidal Latin America correspondent, Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review; Columbia correspondent, Financial Times; chief executive, Latin iQ (Columbia)

NEWSPAPER

John Aglionby Indonesia correspondent, Financial Times; world news desk editor, Financial Times; senior reporter, live news desk, FT.com Decca Aitkenhead Author; columnist (The Guardian, Evening Standard); freelance, (The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph); interviewer, The Guardian Lucy Bannell Deputy consumer features editor, deputy food and interior editor, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance project editor; cookbook editor Elizabeth Baxter (née Searle) Communications manager, Natwest Bank; head of internal communications, Willis Corroon; consultant, Synopsis Peter Bennett Equity research editor, product marketing, Credit Suisse First Boston; head of European merchandising, Goldman Sachs; equity research product management, Macquarie Bank Zoe Brennan Lobby reporter, The Sunday Times; media consultancy; feature writer (The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph) Dominic Casciani BBC Westminster; senior reporter, producer, community and social affairs correspondent, BBC News Online; home affairs correspondent, BBC News Adrian Dalingwater Reporter, BBC

Online; sub-editor, Sharecast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Sophia Riley (née Ewen) Senior reporter, Investment Week, freelance committee writer, DeHavilland; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Humberside Carlos Grande Editor, Creative Business; senior companies correspondent, marketing correspondent, Financial Times; editor, thecreativeindustries.co.uk James Harding Washington bureau chief, Financial Times; editor, The Times; director of news and current affairs, BBC News Emma Hartley Associate editor, The Daily Telegraph; inventor, 24hourlondon. co.uk; freelance, Guardian News & Media Liam Heagney Sports editor, The Roscommon Herald; deputy sports editor, Irish Mail on Sunday; rugby correspondent, Associated Newspapers Ireland Rebecca Hopkins Hull Daily Mail; Anglia TV; BBC Look North; freelance producer, BBC Breakfast News Mark Jagasia Evening Standard; showbusiness editor, Daily Express; playwright Adam Jones The Sunday Times; consumer industries correspondent, Financial Times; business life editor, Financial Times Leyla Linton Assistant foreign editor, Americas desk editor, The Independent; North America desk, Associated Press (New York); solicitor, Mishcon de Reya Angharad Lynn (née ap Gwilym) Freelance, (Daily Express,The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Prima Baby, Junior, She); solicitor, Buss Murton Law LLP; family and private client solicitor, Belmont & Lowe Rifat Malik East; freelance, Eastern Eye; Ministry John Maslen Content director, Bauer Media; brand director, Sewells Research & Insight; editor, Automotive Intelligence and Consulting Jenny McCartney Prospect; columnist and film critic, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph Barry Mcllheney Editor, Smash Hits, Empire; chief executive, Periodical Publishers Association Geraldine Murray Scotland on Sunday; The Scotsman; The Sunday Times (Scotland) Daniel Norris Senior payments officer, welfare rights officer, Camden Council Megan Nurse Assistant director, Greater Manchester Police; head of policy, assistant executive director, Tameside Metropolitan Council; non-executive director, Calderstones Partnership, NHS Foundation Trust Kathleen Nutt Deputy news editor, Greenock Telegraph; reporter, political correspondent, The Sunday Times (Scotland); freelance, The Glasgow Herald, The Times,The Tablet, The National Leala Padmanabhan Political researcher, Anglia/Meridian TV; political producer, BBC World Service, BBC World TV; senior producer, BBC Philip Pank Agence France-Presse (London); foreign night editor, assistant foreign editor, transport correspondent, The Times; associate partner, Bell Pottinger Geraint Price Night news editor,The Mail on Sunday; director, photographer, Initial Editorial Ltd Simon Quicke Deputy editor, features editor, editor, Microscope Timothy Reid The Sunday Telegraph; The Sunday Times; news reporter, correspondent, The Times (Washington); national affairs reporter, Reuters Julie Stewart Edit UK; assistant editor, BBC TV North East & Cumbria John Weaver Senior writer, Bucks Free Press; senior writer, news editor, BMA News Review; desk editor, Asia deputy sports editor, Agence France-Presse Matt Wells Media editor, audio

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PERIODICAL

Katie Agnew Columnist, Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, Cosmopolitan; commissioning editor, features editor, Marie Claire; author Phil Baty Chief reporter, The Times; editor-at-large, Times Higher Education Supplement; editor, Times Higher Education World University Rankings Michael Broad Deputy editor, Personnel Today; editor, Hospital Doctor; group editor, Community Care Matthew Brown English language communications expert, SL&C (Geneva); copy editor, World Health Organisation, Geneva; press officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Mark Cantrell Author, Inspired Quill; PR, Pristley Centre for Arts; LMI Publishers; journalist, Excel Publishing Sarah Caplan Medical Information Systems Anne Cuthbertson The Sunday Times Magazine; property editor, home and living editor, life editor, The Sunday Telegraph; editor, The London Magazine Lucy Davies Contributing editor, Flavorpill Productions; features writer, deputy editor, bambinogoodies.co.uk; director, BG School Johnny Davis Contributing editor, Elle, Q Magazine; brand consultant; deputy editor, Esquire Tamsin Douglas Miller Macmillan Publishers; editor, HarperCollins; freelance; Friends Office; Royal College of Music Bridget West (née Dray) Production editor, Plastics & Rubber Weekly; primary school teacher; freelance, Church Times Edward Eadon-Simpkins Belgravia Estates Gazette; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; associate partner, Finsbury Financial PR Lucy Farndon News business reporter, chief city correspondent, deputy city editor, Daily Mail; senior external news editor, managing news editor, HSBC Alice Fisher Freelance, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer; deputy editor, Carlos Magazine; style correspondent, The Observer Magazine Kerry Fisher-Swayne Presenter, Granada TV; freelance (Essentials, Family Circle, Bella and Junior); novelist Alexander Griffiths DJ Magazine; deputy music editor, burnitblue.com Jessica Hodgson UK media companies reporter, Dow Jones; media officer (finance), The Church of England; consultant, Consilium Strategic Communications Ellie Hughes Editor,Top Sante; acting deputy editor, Zest Magazine, editor, Healthy Magazine Lee Kynaston Online grooming editor, Men’s Health; columnist, Harrods Magazine, lifestyle and grooming editor, Niven & Joshua Susan Mansfield (née Lumsden) Big Issue; lifestyle editor, Press and Journal; features writer, The Scotsman Heather Martin Business Voice; London Business; In Business; Business Issues; subeditor, reporter, managing editor, Kemps Publishing Alex Mayhew-Smith News editor, Electronics Weekly; freelance, English editor, Story Boulevard David McComb Freelance (Bizarre Magazine, Smash Hits); editor, Bizarre; director, Blackthorn Communications James Mclean Correspondent,

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Thomson Reuters (Bangkok); city reporter, business news editor, Evening Standard; deputy business news editor, foreign news editor, The Times Patrick Neate CD Online; Toifund; novelist Alexis Petridis Head rock critic, The Guardian; music editor, GQ; head rock and pop critic, The Guardian Catriona Richardson Communications manager, St Thomas’ Hospital; external relations manager, NHS; head of communications, NHS Partners Network Helen Sage Sky TV; BBC Science; producer and director, BBC documentaries Ursula Seymour (née Biggs) Information Week; reviews editor, managing editor, PC Advisor; freelance Catriona Smith Everywoman; The List; freelance Christopher Taylor Group head of PR, IPC Media; head of communications, Future; director of corporate marketing and communications, Immediate Media Co Stephanie Testaferrata Moroni Viani (née Apap Bologna) Editor, International Money Marketing; freelance, International Herald Tribune; freelance Sian Tichar Editor, Boutique 1 Group (Dubai); editorial director, ABCD Publishing and Communications; marketing director, Harvey Nichols (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

BROADCAST Jack Baine Deputy editor, Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra Newsbeat; assistant editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior broadcast journalist, BBC World News Nina Bhagwat Head of short courses, National Film and Television School; trainer, BBC Academy; diversity executive, Channel 4 Sarah Brooks Series producer, Sarah Brooks TV Production, director, LoveToPresent; director, Showcase Training Sinead Casey Unknown Matthew Cornell Candidate assistant, Labour Party Tim Durrans BBC Leeds, BBC Radio Solent; sports editor, BBC Sussex, BBC Surrey Conrad Evans Broadcast journalist, BBC News; freelance newsreader, Premier Christian Radio; communications consultant, Diocese of London, Environment and Sustainability Henrietta Harrison Freelance; producer, reporter, BBC Radio Michael Hollingdale Public communications, International Committee of the Red Cross; communications consultant, World Radio Switzerland; communications manager, UNAIDS Joanna Kelly Euronews; Babel TV (Lyon); freelance production journalist; broadcast manager, World Curling Federation Adam Livingstone BBC TV (Bristol); producer, Newsnight; broadcast consultant Rebecca Lovell Firstsight (BBC); reporter, assistant producer, Liquid News (BBC); video producer, guardian.co.uk Elizabeth McCabe Assistant news editor, broadcast journalist, Sky Sports Harriet Saxton RDF Television; Reuters TV; freelance Samantha Simmonds Reporter, Breakfast (BBC); BBC London; presenter, news anchor, Sky News Alastair Wanklyn Moscow correspondent, London correspondent, Feature Story News; field producer, Fox News; Europe correspondent, Asia correspondent, Fox News Radio

Paul Wilson Unknown Sarah Wood Executive producer, BBC; series edit producer, ITV Studios; series producer, Objective Productions

1996 INTERNATIONAL Alfonso Abagnale Freelance; business and financial news reporter, ANSA news agency Sujata Assomull Sippy Comms and PR head, Reliance Brands; editor, Harper’s Bazaar India; consulting fashion editor, The Khaleej Times Daniel Bellamy Sub-editor, The Myanmar Times; news writer, Amnesty International; broadcast journalist, EuroNews Lars Bevanger Senior broadcast journalist, BBC News; freelance broadcast journalist, (DW, BBC, NRK, Monocle 24, Radio Netherlands, Radio Sweden International, ORF, ABC); translator, copywriter, Bonvik AS Arian Braha European Community Monitor Mission (Tirana) Henriette Lockwood (née Borche) PR manager, Text 100; corporate communications manager, Cisco Systems; director of marketing and communications, Tideway Systems Nadia Damouni Senior reporter, deputy editor, editor, dealReporter; correspondent, M&A, corporate board correspondent, Thomson Reuters Luigi del Prete Member of regional parliament Pierre-Henry Deshayes Chairman, Foreign Press Association; correspondent, Agence France Presse; The Daily Star (Lebanon) Paulo Dias Freelance; assistant editor, O Estado de Sao Paul; Reuters Kyra Dupont Troubetzkoy Head of international news, 24 Heures; novelist; project manager, French Business Council of Dubai and Northern Emirates Monika Evans Unknown Lisbert Fagerberg TV Denmark Faridul Farinordin Editor, New Straits Times Paulos Gebremariam Haddas Eritrea; head of radio, head of quality control, Ministry of Information (Eritrea).

Anna Gerschenson Clarin, La Prensa, (Buenos Aires); political reporter, El Cronista Jakob Hoyer Head of press, Danish minister of Culture; culture editor, Berlingske Tidende; head of communications, Danish Football Association David Jones Editor, associate producer; developer and producer AP CBC Radio (Vancouver) Jorge Rolon Luna Representative, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; chief of department, Human Rights Direction, Supreme Court of Justice; Commissioner, National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture Nancy Maksud Press officer, communications manager, AMREF; director, Namazone Business Centre (Tanzania) Nabeela Malik Concept writer, R. Lintas; content editor, Pakfree; associate creative director, Channel 7 Valentin Nuham Piata Financiara; Goodrich Capital Canada; financial analyst; executive director, Salsi S.A. Hilde Nyman Naeringslivets Ukeavis; digi.no; Dagens Naringsliv; Mintra as; scriptwriter; deputy editor, Kampanje Magazine

Volodymyr Oleyko Lecturer, Ukrainian Institute of Great Britain Tsemaye Opubor Marketing manager, Snowcrash (Sweden); communications consultant Eric Pape Spin; freelance, Foreign Policy; deputy editor, Honolulu Civil Beat Ruta Pels Foreign Editor, ETA Interactive; President, Weekly Den za dnjom; People to People; freelance Francisco Penayo Unknown Alexandra Pizot Alliance Atlantis; Splendid Television (New York); marketing; head of operations, Classic Media; senior programme assistant, GAVI Alliance Anne Putz Bloomberg News; spokeswoman, head of corporate PR, Adidas Benjamin Quenelle Freelance; London correspondent, Le Soir (Belgium); La Croix (France); Les Echos (Moscow) Georg Ransmayr TV political journalist, ORF-TV Vienna Knut Rorbakken Director of electronic stock trading, group CSR officer, Nordea Norde Asa; senior communications advisor, Directorate of Health Celia Sankar Associate editor, Trinidad Express; The Globe and Mail; The Vancouver Sun; college teacher, White Mountain Academy of the Arts (Ontario); executive director, global networker, DiversityCanada Foundation Inger Sethov Associated Press; Dow Jones (Oslo); Reuters (Oslo), information director, Hydro; SVP communication, Norsk Hydro Ee-Waun Sim Consultant Jade Communications; Appetite Magazine; cofounder, SimplyFabulicious.com Kittipong Soonprasert Senior policy officer, Netherland’s Embassy (Bangkok); program development officer, US Aid; political specialist, US Department of State Mando Stavridou Freelance (Cyprus); PR & marketing, Phileletheros Haralambos Tsirimonakis Super Sport Channel (Athens); died 2003 Karine Vandenhove Freelance Marianne vanden Zaag Unknown Kristin Hulaas Sunde Press officer, various roles, Amnesty International; reporter, editor, Save the Children; senior editor, global content producer, Amnesty International Hege Talsnes Information officer, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority; senior communications advisor, Directorate for Nature Management; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Environment Agency Tijen Tanyel Unknown Mariya Zhuk European Media Institute (Ukraine); communication, Credit Agricole CIB (Ukraine) Diana Zileri Freelance; BBC World Service (Latin America); journalist, communications officer, Revista Caretas, GVEP International

NEWSPAPER Martin Anderson Newcastle Evening Chronicle; Irish News; BBC; reporter, Leader Group Ltd; digital media manager, CFA Muniya Barua Senior press officer, corporate communications manager, head of news and social media, corporate communications director, CBI Melanie Bien Press officer, head of media relations, Savills Private Finance; director, Private Finance Ltd; founder, director, Bien Media Christopher Bunting Freelance, (The Independent, Times Educational Supplement; Times Higher Education Supplement); freelance, (Tokyo), senior press officer,

1996-1997 University of Leeds Fiona Callister Media consultant, MS Society; London Chamber of Commerce; Media Relations Lead, WaterAid Suzanna Chambers Freelance, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, The Sun; director of marketing and communications, Top Marques (Monaco) Kate Connolly Prague News; The Guardian (Prague); Germany correspondent, Berlin correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Berlin correspondent, The Guardian,The Observer Zoe Dare-Hall (née Dare) Deputy travel editor, features writer, Daily Express; arts editor, Sunday Express; freelance; editor, Property Club Anthony Dovkants Senior reporter, Magazine LatAm; managing director, Financial Dynamics; managing director, PR Consulting Brasil Susan Emmett Deputy property editor, Bricks and Mortar (The Times); freelance; director residential research, Savills Jack Enright BBC News (Belfast); BBC Current Affairs (Manchester); assistant producer, BBC Panorama Henry Fitzherbert Daily Express; gossip columnist, film critic, feature writer, Sunday Express Peter Foster The Times; news feature writer, South Asia correspondent, US Editor (Washington), The Daily Telegraph David Garfinkel Editor, managing editor, Totally Plc. (London Jewish News); head of internal communications, BAA; head of internal communications, TUI UK&I; head of internal communications, bwin.party Digital Entertainment Amelia Gentleman Deputy foreign editor, Paris correspondent, The Guardian; India correspondent, International Herald Tribune; social affairs writer, The Guardian Graham Harvey Freelance; Cambridge Evening News; Hounslow Chronicle; subeditor, Evening Standard Joanna Hill (née Snicker) Le Shuttle Magazine; Derby Evening Telegraph; assistant news editor, deputy news editor, Nottingham Evening Post Andrew Holt Portfolio International; New Hampshire Publishing; MSM International Sri Jegarajah CNBC Asia TV; Associated Press, Dow Jones (Singapore) Anchor/ Correspondent, CNBC Stephen Lyle BBC Sport, Grandstand; producer, BBC sport; commissioning editor for sport, Channel 4 Maurice Mcleod Director, Snow Media; director, Marmoset Media; executive editor, Engage Stuart Millar News editor, guardian. co.uk; assistant deputy editor, Guardian US; head of news, Buzzfeed UK Fraser Nelson Political editor, The Scotsman; The Business; editor, The Spectator; columnist, The Telegraph Cherry Norton The Independent; Tokyo correspondent, The Sunday Times; freelance, (New York), The Times Hannah Pool Commissioning features editor, The Guardian; freelance; author Caroline Ryan BMA News Review; Pulse; Nursing Times; health, BBC News Online Jeremy Scott-Joynt Associate, senior associate, Financial Services Authority; head of compliance investigations (Europe), deputy head, anti-bribery and corruption, Standard Chartered Bank; Europe criminal risk officer, Bank of Montreal Ava Soe Senior reporter, news editor, Middleton and North Manchester Guardian; freelance; died 2013 Nicole Veash Head of strategy, consultant, Home Office; deputy director, organisation development, Financial Ombudsman Service; senior development consultant, Deutsche Bank Kirsty Walker Political correspondent,

JEMIMA GIBBONS

Social media consultant, Periodical 1988

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

I think an increasing amount of content will be written by algorithms and robots and livestreaming will become the norm.

We’re seeing the beginning of that with apps like Periscope and Facebook Livestream.

Any unusual hobbies?

I run a blog called A Beach With Wifi, which encourages people to re-think how and where they work. I’m trying to produce a definitive collection of the best places to work so one day I can emigrate.

Daily Mail; associate director, iNHouse Communications; co-founder, HerSay Thomas Whitewell Head of digital, The Times, The Sunday Times; co-founder, digital mission China; freelance product development consultant, senior consultant, Fluxx Media

PERIODICAL Ronke Adeyemi Blogger, Ondo Lady; tech blogger, Hello! Magazine; editor, brownbeautytalk.com Neil Armstrong Commissioning editor, Daily Mail; acting executive features editor, Telegraph Media Group; freelance Karen Brown Unknown Emma Creamer Producer, Daybreak; producer, Good Morning Britain; freelance Marianne Curphey Freelance financial reporter, (The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times); freelance, Look; director, Curphey Media Marie Dill Freelance, Pomp Magazine, The Goldsmith Magazine; freelance editor, LCR magazine; company director, iCandy Media and Communications Kate Finnigan Senior features writer, Elle; style director, Stella; fashion columnist, fashion features director, Stella, Telegraph Media Group Olaf Furniss Editor, Fono; freelance (Billboard, Music Week, i-D, Under the Radar); columnist, The Scotsman; director, Born to be Wide Claire Handley Talkback Productions; freelance producer, BBC; assistant psychologist, The Priory Colette Harris Author; creative communications director, Atlantis Healthcare; interim head of health promotion/advice, AsthmaUK Andrew Higgins Sub-editor, deputy production editor, production editor, Weekend Financial Times Emily Humphries Producer, The Wright Stuff; editor, producer, Loose Women; live producer, The One Show Georgina Kalzoe-Card PR, London Millenium Party; Kensington & Chelsea Times; Good Hotel Guide Lucinda Kemeny Director, Hogarth Partnership Limited; managing director, head of private equity, MHP Communications; managing Director and head of professional services, FTI Consulting Darron Kirkby Music News Asia; Travel Trade Gazette; freelance sub-editor Stuart Wallace Bahrain Tribune; Agence France Presse; executive editor, managing

What made you want to become a journalist?

When I was about 15, my English teacher Anne Barnes said I’d make a good journalist.

It seemed like a good idea - so I stuck with it.

The most important journalistic skill?

Being able to pull a story out of a complex mass of facts and data.

Role model in journalism?

I love opinionated columnists like Caitlin Moran, Allison Pearson, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Laurie Penny. We need editor energy & commodity markets, Bloomberg Victoria McCulloch Editor, Innergy; editor, Thorsons website; yoga teacher and freelance journalist Nicholas Mcquade The Voice; Press Association; Irish Independent; The Scotsman; chief sub-editor, The Scottish Sun Jane Morris Editor, Museums Journal; freelance (The Guardian, Art World); editor, The Art Newspaper Akin Ojumu Neon; music editor, commissioning editor, The Observer; freelance; acting arts editor, The Observer Ben Osborne BT Rich Media; head of programming, Dela Ware; director, Noise of Art Christina Pishiris Televisual; TV trade press; Televisual; C21 Media James Plouf Owner and publisher, Marco Polo Publications (Travelwriters.com, BikerOrNot.com, ChopperExchange.com) Bronwen Roscoe Editorial consultant, Accenture; senior strategy advisor, BBC Trust; lead adviser public strategy, BBC Fiona Sandiford Senior features writer, features editor, Cleo; freelance (Daily Mirror, Associated Press, More, B, New Woman); commissioning editor, Top Sante James Snodgrass Tomorrow’s World Stuff; consulting editor, Top Gear Special Projects; NME; Haymarket Alison Laferla Laferla Consulting; UnitedHealth Group; senior consultant, Atkins Management Consultancy Christopher Taylor Director of corporate communications, head of media relations, IPC Media; director of communications, Future PLC; director of corporate marketing & communications, Immediate Media Co Catherine Tillotson Institutional Investor; Global Private Banking; FX Week; managing partner, Scorpio Partnership Harriet Hanmer Reuters, The Independent, Red Pepper, Africa Analysis; probation officer, National Probation Service; director, Equilibrium Equine Guided Learning

BROADCAST Stephen Baker BBC Essex; Press Association; The Independent Joshua Bassett Executive producer, Bloomberg (Turkey); executive producer, Bloomberg (Arabia); executive producer, TV partnerships, Bloomberg LP Robin Brant Political correspondent, BBC Radio 1; Newsbeat; Malaysia

strong women writers but it’s all too tempting to keep your head under the parapet. This is especially true now as it’s so easy to come under attack via social media. But women who speak out make it easier for others to follow.

Manpreet Boora correspondent, political correspondent, Shanghai correspondent, BBC News Sally Bundock (née Jackson) Presenter, Bloomberg TV; presenter, BBC World Business Report Mark Chapman Announcer, BBC; sport and breakfast DJ, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 5 Live; presenter, BBC Final Score, BBC Radio 5 Live, Match of the Day 2, BBC Rugby League Colette Cooney Producer, CNN; BBC Northampton radio; lecturer, City University Anne Dawson BBC Radio Ulster; senior press officer, Federation of Small Businesses; media and communications manager, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland Channah Durlacher Reporter, producer, RTL (Amsterdam); producer, 2Vandaag; research journalist, AVRO (General Association of Radio Broadcasting) Rachel Harries Channel One TV; video journalist, ITN; reporter and presenter, Meridian Emma Jefferson BBC World Service; producer, British Forces Radio; presenter, freelance Beth Jones Liquid News; Newsround; BBC Radio 5 Live; Kiss 100; BBC News 24 Joanna Kean BBC Southern Countries; freelance (Sky TV); senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Louise McMullen 2-Ten FM; Thames Valley Television; consultant: media & representation, Affinity Club Lloyd’s Trade Union Kath Melandri London College of Communication; continuity announcer, Red Bee Media; freelance lecturer and broadcaster Stephen Mort Arts host, producer, WUCF-FM; reporter, videographer, editor, Rocky Mountain, PBS; Orlando bureau chief and multimedia journalist, Feature Story News Sean Napier News editor, Westsounds; freelance Rishaad Salamat Anchor, Bloomberg TV (Hong Kong) Oonagh Smyth IFJC (Paris) Nigel Stevenson Producer, presenter, Bloomberg; founder, JNS Media; news desk editor, online editor, Reuters Rachelle Walton Southern Counties Radio; presenter, CNBC; freelance (BBC News 24, BBC World Service)

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1997-1998 1997 INTERNATIONAL Rezwan ul-Alam Assistant communication officer, UNICEF (Bangladesh) Rebecca Abecassis Executive editor, RTP International; Cable News Channel; international news editor, producer, SIC TV (Portugal) Mohammed Al Harthi Editor-in-chief, Sayidaty; editor-in-chief, Al-Jamila; managing director, editor-in-chief, Arab News Gayle Alleyne Medical relations officer, corporate communications officer, Twenty20 West Indies 2010; communications manager, London Olympics; communications manager, Badminton World Federation Haroon Ashraf Senior editor, The Lancet; executive editor, Nature Iben Augusten Reporter, DR News; financial, foreign desk, DBC News Jerry Brahm Associate regional editor, AOL; regional editor, Patch.com; operations manager, Klunk & Millan Advertising Irene Bwire Assistant press secretary to Prime Minister (Tanzania) Angela Chitkara Producer, CNBC Asia; producer, NBC & MSNBC; founder and chief executive officer, US-India Corridor Hayden Coppin Corporate sales manager, LIME; sports marketing consultant, sales and marketing professional, Barbados Tourism authority Claudia Coumans School of Journalism (Utrecht); National Dutch Television; writer, Euroviews Christine Cowern Director and writer, Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc; account manager, Iris Communications; sales representative, Keller Williams Referred Urban Realty Stanislas Dembinski News editorin-chief, Reuters; editor, Paris Premiere; author and freelance journalist Alejandra Falkinhoff CNN Spanish; correspondent, Monitor (Mexico); director, Ona Polo Maria Falkinhoff Radio correspondent monitor, Mexican Radio; director, The Argentine Trading Company Ltd Vincent Fournier Journalist, Multimédiapress; press officer, Hotwire Public Relations; producer, Dragway Productions Akiko Funamoto (née Kamimura) Assistant manager, International School of Communications Jennifer Furmidge Product manager, JP Morgan; product development, Challenges Worldwide; product development access

manager,VocaLink Marie Gunnarsson Artsworld.com Jean van der Spuy (née Haggerty) Reporter, LFR; adjunct professor, Marymount Manhattan College; freelance (Haggerty Publishing) Vincent Hoburg Unknown Benjamin Holst Editor and co-founder, DanWatch; editor, Kommunen Kristin Hulaas Sunde Freelance; editor, Save the Children; senior editor, global content producer, Amnesty International Rosalind Isaacs Unknown Pirkko Juntunen Financial News; Fidelity Investments; freelance (IPE) Chris Kaklamanis Attorney,Vgontzas & Associates David Katz Unknown Sarita Khajura Children’s News (Channel 4); died 2003 Rosemary Konkola Radio and TV controller, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Nasia Koutra Ethnos Daily Newspaper; attorney Annegret Loges Freelance, NDR; editor, head of online editorial team, Hans Boeckler Foundation Anna Mathews Editorial, Corporate Publishing International; senior account exec, Cor; sub-editor, The Week Jemma Melville News reporter, NBC Radio; First FM Radio; information officer, Agency for Public Information Thabo Motlamelle Public Eye; chief executive officer, TM Media Solutions (Lesotho); died 2008 Carol Nahra One World Media UK; Foundation for International Education; consulting faculty, Syracuse University London Sebastian Naidoo Managing editor, Médecins Sans Frontières; communications specialist, UN; global media director, Arcus Foundation Eric Pape Contributor, Foreign Policy; deputy editor for special projects and innovation, Honolulu Civil Beat Enzo Pelosi Financial Times (San Francisco); business correspondent, Agence France Presse E. Job Rajan Unknown Haroon Rashid Pakistan correspondent, BBC; Reliefweb Unit; Pakistan editor, BBC Ayako Saito Saiphon Sarabutra Unknown Hege Talsnes Press officer, Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival; senior communications advisor, The Norwegian Directorate of Nature Management; information advisor, Norwegian Environment Agency Costas Tsindas Radio Institute for Cyprus Gareth Vaughan Dominion Post; The New

Zealand Herald; editor, interest.co.nz

NEWSPAPER Rebecca Allison Night news reporter, assistant news editor, web news editor, deputy national editor The Guardian Mark Austin Unknown Chris Ayres Correspondent, Monitor (Mexico); author, War Reporting for Cowards; freelance Joanne Beaney Unknown Colin Blackstock Freelance (Independent on Sunday, Daily Mail); night news editor, The Guardian Jon Brodkin Contributor, deputy sports news editor, The Guardian Emma Burstall Features editor, Family Circle; freelance journalist; novelist Tanya Datta Researcher, producer, BBC Radio 4; freelance (Channel 4, MTV, BBC2) Jamie Doward Social affairs editor, religious affairs correspondent, diarist, The Observer Andrew England Middle East correspondent, East Africa correspondent, Southern Africa Bureau Chief, Financial Times Sally Whittle (née Flood) Freelance (The Guardian,The Independent,The Times, Telegraph, ZD Net); professional blogger, Who’s the Mummy; founder, Tots100.co.uk Blogging Network Laurence Frost Business writer, Associated Press (Paris); transport reporter, Bloomberg (Paris); European automotive correspondent and team leader, Reuters (Paris) Julian Guyer Hayters Sports Agency; cricket and rugby reporter, Agence France Presse (London) Mark Henderson Science editor, The Times; head of communications, The Wellcome Trust Amelia Hill News reporter, education correspondent, The Observer; senior reporter, The Guardian Chris Hughes Financial markets correspondent, EMEA editor, columnist, Reuters Andrea Hunt (née Von Der Banck) European PR manager, Xerox Europe; freelance Michael Leventhal Director, Greenhill Books; publisher, Frontline Books; founder and director, Gefiltefest David Lewis BBC Radio 4; writer, director, culturenorthernireland.com Malik Meer Assistant editor, NME; guide editor, G2 features editor The Guardian Matthew Mezey Freelance digital

MARLAN PADAYACHEE

Managing editor, GreenGold Africa Communications, International 1989

Your biggest scoop?

Travelling with Nelson Mandela to India for his state visit in 1995. It was historic on all sides for me because I am of Indian origin and was funded by the British government to complete my studies.

Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

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Any unusual hobbies?

I collect branded glasses for beer or whiskey, for example Johnnie Walker or Heineken. I have 50 to 100 of them.

network with other students. I was studying with students from Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia – City was really the crossroads of everyone’s issues.

Role model in journalism?

All the journalists who have died in the line of fire, in the line of duty, who have died for causes and been persecuted. They stand out to show other journalists the danger of journalism, to be a real journalist you have to go out to the front line.

Megan Carnegie Brown

outreach consultant; engagement specialist, Medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency; community relationship manager, The Health Foundation Lucie Morris-Marr Editor, Crystal; freelance; senior writer, Herald Sun Stephen Morris Unknown Amanda Newman Smith The Wharf; product reporter, features writer, Money Marketing Glen Owen Diary, education, The Times; political journalist, Mail on Sunday Georgina Pattinson Features, Associated Press; senior broadcast journalist, political reporter, BBC News Online Raekha Prasad Foreign correspondent, The Guardian,The Times,The Independent, BBC; freelance Richard Price Senior reporter, Daily Mail Scotland; general reporter, features, Daily Mail; owner, Richard Price News & Features Ltd Rosa Prince Political correspondent, The Mirror; US correspondent, assistant political editor, The Daily Telegraph Job Rabkin Washington producer, social affairs producer, investigations commissioning editor, Channel 4 News Nandini Sukumar European news reporter, Bloomberg; chief administrative officer, The World Federation of Exchanges Sophie Walker Author; ambassador, National Autistic Society; leader, Women’s Equality Party

PERIODICAL Lucy Aitken Author; staff writer, senior staff writer, Contagious Howard Baker Senior content producer, BBC; commissioning editor, BBC Jam; editor innovations, BBC Hannah Baldock Freelance (RIBA Journal); freelance Latin America correspondent (The Sunday Times); freelance Celine Bijleveld Production editor, Financial Times Business; production editor, mediaguardian.co.uk; network production editor, The Guardian Emily Booth Special Projects Editor, EMAP; special projects editor, The Architects’ Journal; executive editor, The Architectural Review David Brooks Deputy editor, senior vice president, American Metal Market; publisher, Euromoney Institutional Investor Penney Byrne (née Tapp) Producer and assistant producer, SmallWorld Productions; freelance (Fitness First) Hannah Shannon (née Crabtree) Head of media, head of communications, Macmillan Cancer Support; head of communications, Claire House Children’s Hospice Emma Elms Editor, The Graduate; deputy features editor, Marie Claire; freelance Livvy Fernandes Nursing Leukaemia information officer, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research; professional engagement officer, Parkinson’s UK; presenter, Croydon Radio Emma E. Forrest Global travel editor, overnight web editor, Metro International; freelance (Wings Magazine) Noam Friedlander The Daily Telegraph; script writer (LA); freelance (The Daily Telegraph) Alex Gatrell Digital publisher, HarperCollins; senior Product Manager, Rated People; senior product manager, Beamly Anita Hall Runners World; freelance (Men’s Health) Emma Hayley Sub-editor, Spain; MediaSolutions; managing director and publisher, SelfMadeHero (Metro Media

1998 Ltd) Kaspa Hazlewood Managing director, Candour; sales and marketing director, Lomax Books; new business director, ContactEngine Dorian Lynskey Music critic, The Big Issue; author, A History of Protest Songs; freelance (Guardian) Alison Macarthur Freelance feature writer (Focus); health editor, Now; freelance Sasha Mansworth Wales Audit Office; news and media officer, Action For Children; media officer, FFT Education Ltd Victoria Millar Book editor, associate editor, Bloomsbury Publishing; lecturer (publishing), Bath Spa University John Mullen Editor, mojo4music.com; People Management; freelance (Select) Faith Penhale Development executive, head of TV development, Kudos Film and TV; head of drama, BBC Cymru Wales Warren Pole Deputy editor, Ride; freelance journalist and TV presenter (Superbike) Shaun Pye Freelance comedy writer (Never Mind the Buzzcocks); series creator (Monkey Dust); program associate, Have I Got News For You Steve Ranger Freelance; business editor, silicon.com; UK editor-in-chief, ZDNet and TechRepublic Francesca Syz Travel editor, Sainsbury’s magazine; columnist, Telegraph Magazine, & freelance (Conde Nast Traveller) Anthony Thornton Digital director, Southbank; IPC media; head of digital content, British Film Institute Victoria Thornton (née Rees) Production editor, Financial Times; deputy production editor, production editor, Investors Chronicle (Financial Times) Robert Waugh Editor, We Live Security; Mail Plus; freelance (Mail on Sunday) Dominic White Connected editor, communications editor, The Daily Telegraph; media editor, The Sydney Morning Herald,The Age, Financial Review Martin Worster Director, microgroove. com; author; CTO, Canonbury Antiques

BROADCAST Paul Adabie Social worker Nandini Banerjee Researcher, BBC Watchdog; school volunteer Zoe Bloomfield Senior broadcast journalist, BBC South; senior producer, GMTV; senior producer, ITV Liza Ravenscroft (née Booth) News reporter, France 24; Brazil correspondent, CBS Interactive; press officer, British Airways Katie Breathwick Global Radio; BBC; presenter, Classic FM Nick Cosgrove Reporter, business presenter, BBC News; director, partner, Brunswick Group Miranda Eeles Project manager, BBC Media Action; researcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; public health strategist, Hackney Council Al Eykyn Sports editor, IRN; freelance (BT Sport) Theo Fairley Trainee, senior broadcast journalist, BBC 10 O’Clock News Jo Fitzgerald (née Pitt) Pineapple; BBC; TV Producer; freelance Vassos Alexander Giorgiadis Producer, TransWorld Sport; sports reporter, 5live Breakfast Programme; sports reporter, BBC Jon Hughes Camera operator, BBC Moscow; head of visual content, ActionAid UK; managing director, shootme.camera Limited Alison Kirkham Executive producer, BBC Daytime; commissioning editor for

features and formats, acting controller of factual commissioning, BBC Suzy Klein Producer, BBC Television; host, In Tune, Radio 3; presenter, BBC Radio Cordelia Kretzschmar Reporter, BBC London; senior news correspondent, Good Morning Britain; head of public relations and artist liaison, Oxfam UK Elma Maxim Reporter, GMTV; arts producer, BBC Bridgid Nzekwu Amnesty International TV online; presenter, ITV News; head of media training, Press Association Siobhan Connor Director of media and PR, Fleetwood Owen; PR director, Taylor Herring Public Relations; freelance PR consultant Steve Palmer Producer, BBC London Live; trustee, Charity Comms; press and public affairs manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence Colin Paterson Big Breakfast, Channel 4; reporter and host, Liquid News; Arts & entertainment correspondent, BBC Tom Pfeiffer North Africa correspondent, senior desk editor, acting editor (company news, Europe, Middle East and Africa), Reuters David Shanks Brand manager, Glasgow Housing Association; board member, Glasgow Print Studio; team member, D8

1998 INTERNATIONAL Mi-Kyoung Ahn Unknown Fareena Alam Editor, Q News Maria Anguita Acting editor, British Journal of Cardiac Nursing; publications and digital communications officer, Tommy’s; freelance Barbara Arvanitidis Online producer, ITN; assistant producer, CNN; correspondent, BBC; assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; producer, CNN Agnes Banda Senior feature writer, The Times of Zambia; public relations officer, LCC (Zambia) Doina Basca Media consultant, director, Top Audience Kerry Benefield Reporter, The Shreveport Times; political correspondent, sports columnist, Press Democrat Chris Brauer Course leader, online journalism, City University; director creative industries, Clarity Capital; senior lecturer and director, MSc Management of Innovation at Goldsmiths, University of London Christiane Buehler Press officer, DeTown; press agent, Dertour; travel consultant, Sprachcaffe and Languages Plus; flight attendant, Lufthansa German Airlines Helen Castell Reporter, Derivatives Week (Hong Kong); senior reporter, Travel weekly; freelance (Devex, Shares Magazine, TXF News, Trade Finance Magazine, Global Trade Review, Newsbase, Global Mining Finance) Clare Cheung ICM; Hong Kong Standard; Hong Kong i-mail; journalist, Bloomberg LLP; associate partner, Troutman Sanders Marina Chichua Freelance, BBC World Service; Image magazine (Georgia) Stavroula Chorinou Investment manager, Bluehouse Capital; managing partner, Gem Partners; financial and investments consultant Elena Cosentino Associate producer, producer, CNN; producer, director, Lion

Television; producer, director, BBC Television; freelance Luigi Del Prete Unknown Paulo Dias Projecto Bandeira Cientifica; Revista Carta Capital; a2amedia; reporter, CartaCapital Ranjeeta Dutt Senior financial journalist, Lloyds Shipping Economist; vice president, SanSail Capital; chairman & chief executive officer, Trinity Natural Gas Private Ltd Job Eliazer Publisher, editor, Dallas Monthly News Victoria Stagg Elliott Reporter, Out There News; weekend editor, Cambodia Daily; Senior research associate, technical writer, American Medical Association Leslie Esparza Senior external relations strategist, South American Cities Network, Bogota Mayoralty; digital content and social media strategist, Conexion Cartagena; senior communications advisor, Bogota mayoralty Stephanie Fontenoy US correspondent, La Libre Belgique; reporter, Grazia/ Bauer media; author, editions nomades Gidon Freeman News editor, executive editor, PR Week; political and media consultant, Lexington Communications; vice president, head of government and regulatory affairs, NBC Universal Miki Garcia Intern, Reuters; reporter, SNL Financial; freelance Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Voice of America, APTN Colombia; radio correspondent, Associated Press (Jerusalem, London); international correspondent, NPR (Brazil) Julius Gittens JPAGmedia; associate, Right Angle Imaging Inc; freelance Helene Gram Producer, project manager, Boxer Technologies; information architect, Melvær&Lien; producer and designer, University of Stavanger Kim Gurney Reporter (South Africa); FT Business (London); freelance journalist and research associate, African Centre for Cities, Research Centre at University of Johannesburg Myria Hadjimatheou Reporter, Must; VAT officer, Ministry of Finance (Cyprus) Jennifer Hanawald Health and wellness liaison, Montclair Public Schools Health and Wellness Partnership; freelance writer, McMahon Group; freelance integrative health coach Jessica Hasslen Freelance, the National Geographic Society; freelance documentarian and photographer; missionary, Nomadic Chameleon, Globe International (Kenya) Valerie Herczeg Freelance (Paris); copy editor, translation manager CNRS International Magazine Jennifer Irwin Bloomberg Krisztina Katona Series producer, TigerAspect; Open Data Implementation Manager, Transparency Team, Cabinet Office; senior policy advisor, Open Policy Making Team, Cabinet Office Nelly Kelzi BridgeNews (Sydney); news reporter, AFX Asia; freelance (Australia) Titia Ketelaar Americas editor, foreign desk, internet & media desk, deputy editor, NRC Handelsblad; deputy editor, editor, nrc.next; UK and Ireland correspondent, NRC Handelsblad Roshan Khadivi Communications specialist, media and external relations, UNICEF; communications officer - PBSO, UN; founder and CEO, Citizen Global Natalie Williams-Knight (nee Natalie Knight) Head of news, One Caribbean Media; editorial consultant, FAO regional office for Near East and North Africa; freelance (Egypt) Birgit Kolboe Bohemen Sportspub; Nettsport; Football 247; reporter, Aperitif; freelance Itaru Konno Editor, NNA

Delphine Liou (née Liou-Brugeilles) TV journalist, Bloomberg (London, Paris); presenter, chief of information, BFM Business Antoine Lokongo Freelance (Congo) Nabila Malick (née Zar) Presenter, Pakistan TV; script writer and translator, BBC World; director of advocacy, Family Planning Association of Pakistan Karen Mahabir Crime reporter, The Bergen Record (New Jersey); digital products producer, Associated Press; managing editor of news, The Huffington Post Gilbert Manda Contributor, Wikio Experts; financial columnist, The Washington Examiner; financial services professional, New York Life Insurance Americo Martins Dos Santos; senior producer, online editor, head of Brazilian sector, executive editor of the Americas, BBC World Service; general director, chairman, Brazil Communications Company Miki McDonald Cambodia Daily; Business Day; freelance Farah Mohamed Fahmy Software developer, BBC Interactive TV Anne Myrjord EU affairs advisor, Norwegian Embassy (London); senior executive officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway); embassy secretary, diplomat, Royal Norwegian Embassy (Sweden) Janet Ong Dow Jones (Singapore); bureau chief Bloomberg LP (Taiwan) Agnes Phiri Director of consumer and public affairs, Energy Regulation Board Bernd Radowitz Freelance, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Focus (Rio); correspondent, Dow Jones (Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid); Germany correspondent, Recharge Simone Ramella Press officer, Italian Minister of Family Affairs; press officer, AMREF Italia Onlus; news editor, Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority Anna Sansom Freelance, Time Out (Paris); Harpers & Queen; Radio France International; SBS Sydney; EuroBusiness; freelance Habhajan Singh Business Times; Berita Harian (Malaysia); section editor, Malaysian Business; group editor, The Malaysian Reserve Karin Sitalsing Regional news reporter, Friesch Dagblad; correspondent, de Volkskrant; freelance journalist and author Somporn Thapanachai Bangkok Post; senior reporter, Post Publishing Plc Bennett Thomas Freelance; library technician, University of Calgary; library technician, Environment Canada Guillaume Thomas Institutional investor (London); French furniture assistant, Sotheby’s (Paris); trainee, valuer, auctioneer, Thomas Auction House Ioana Veleanu Owner/co-founder, Exberliner; art director, Philly Weekly; director, marketing and brand strategy, daSILVA architects Margrethe Vika Dagens Naeringsliv Online; social performance advisor, external affairs advisor, Norske Shell Exploration and Production; responsibility for corporate communications, leader communications Norway, SKAGEN Funds Doreen Walton Independent Radio News; Newshour; senior broadcast journalist, BBC William Wareing Head of English, senior master, Notting Hill Prep School; deputy head, St Christopher’s School; deputy director of education, The Girls’ Day School Trust David Wasswa Freelance; owner, Safeways Tour and Travel Sissel Wessel-Hansen Reporter, Nordlys Natalie Williams Senior producer, anchor, Caribbean Communications Network; producer, presenter, BBC

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James Ashton Financial journalist, The Scotsman; Daily Mail; city editor, media and telecoms editor, The Sunday Times; head of business, executive editor, The Evening Standard Bill Bows Senior editor, Platts; writer, Investors Chronicle Companies; director, BBW Communications Tania Branigan Reporter, Manchester Evening News; reporter, political correspondent, China correspondent, The Guardian Ian Broad Freelance, Daily Star; freelance journalist and editor, duty editor, Teletext; MailOnline Ann Chambers European auto correspondent, Reuters Madeline Chambers Dow Jones (Vienna); Reuters (Frankfurt); lobby correspondent, senior correspondent, Reuters (London); correspondent, Reuters (Berlin) Lisa Cockrell Reporter, Colchester Evening Gazette; freelance Kathryn Cooper Money reporter, Daily Express; deputy money editor, money editor, economics correspondent and consumer affairs editor, The Sunday Times Janet Coull Deputy director of communications, Department for Education; director, senior communications professional, Chilli and Spice Ltd; media spokesperson, House of Commons Niall Couper Press officer, Amnesty International UK; director of innovation and marketing, BE Training and Communications; head of media, PR and supporter care, Amnesty International UK James Debens Freelance writer, subeditor; sports desk, Daily Mail; head of production,Vigour Magazine Jennifer Duddy Evening Herald (Plymouth); London News Network; freelance, London Tonight; BBC NI Victoria Fletcher Consumer correspondent, Evening Standard; health editor, Daily Express; freelance Ashley Grossman Head of operations and planning,Virgin Media; director of product and operations, Sanona Ltd; TV personalization, Liberty Global Linsey Hakansson (nee Wynton) Assistant producer, Granada Group Plc; ITV; freelance David Hytner Sports reporter, Daily Express; football correspondent, The Guardian Sam Jary Assistant winemaker (New Zealand);Vigneron (Burgundy, France); business development manager, Independent Lakeland Breweries Lucy Marsh Content editor, Sticky Content; associate editor, content editor, The Higher Education Academy; communications officer, NNFCC Nicole Martin News reporter, media correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; associate director, MHP Communications Lucy McDonald Freelance media consultant; food blogger; correspondent, CBS News Joseph McHugh Deputy news editor, Public Finance; ministerial speechwriter, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; director, executive speechwriter, Deutsche Bank

Lucy Miatt (née Rollin) The Sunday Times; freelance; horse trainer Naga Munchetty Producer, CNBC; producer, ITN; economics anchor, presenter, Bloomberg; presenter, BBC World and BBC Breakfast Sara Nathan Showbusiness editor, Daily Mail; US showbusiness editor-at-large, MailOnline; news director, People.com Clara Penn BBC Radio Devon; Inside Out, BBC South West; freelance (The Observer, the Guardian,The Mail on Sunday) James Pickard Business reporter, Western Daily Press; West Country correspondent, assistant UK news editor, property correspondent, chief political correspondent, Financial Times Helen Rumbelow News reporter, comment writer, political correspondent, features writer, The Times Deepa Shah Freelance; senior press officer, Department of Health; senior speechwriter, Department for Education Adam Sills Sports editor, The Guardian; sports editor, The Daily Telegraph; head of sport, Telegraph Media Group Sophie Tweedale Freelance, Century FM; reporter, Granada; freelance Sharon van Geuns Reporter, Night and Day,The Mail on Sunday; features writer, Sunday Mirror; director, SVG Publicity Burhan Wazir Editorial manager, Doha Film Institute; editor, Qulture.com (Quatar); opinion editor, Al Jazeera Eleanor Jary (née Wilson) Freelance sub-editor, The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand); freelance journalist (Burgundy, France); journalist, CN Media Georgina Wintersgill Features editor, Prima Baby; features editor, Immediate Media Co; freelance Linsey Wynton Documentaries, Granada TV; assistant producer, Tonight With Trevor McDonald; freelance (Carbon Media, Channel 4 News, True Vision)

PERIODICAL Simon Burnton Sports desk, The Observer; freelance, Arena; sub-editor for sport, sports writer, The Guardian Justine Cadbury Barrister Susie Chun Production editor, Arena; contributing editor, Zoo; production director, Elle Decoration Fleur Clackson Personal assistant, communications director, John Frieda; freelance, (Marie Claire,Vogue, Cosmopolitan) Paul Croughton Editorial consultant, writer and editor, Croughton & Associates; editor, Robb report Uk; head of digital, Brave New World Elena Dalrymple (née Ghiringhelli) Editor, Mother & Baby; editor, Boots Health Club; editorial director, TheSchoolRun.com Joanne Faragher Features editor, Personnel Today; magazine editor, editor, Times Educational Supplement; freelance Lavinia Fernandes Professional engagement and education officer, Parkinson’s UK; press office assistant and journalist, Leukaemia Research Fund Michael Fletcher Editor, cameraman, Sky News; freelance content provider and photographer Charlotte Greggains Law student; trainee solicitor, Crockers Oswald Hickson; solicitor, Farrer & Co Ed Grenby Commissioning editor, features editor, Maxim; editor, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine Olivia Gunning MA Linguistics; teacher; freelance, Elle Decoration; English teacher and freelance Catherine Heaton Freelance, Shooting Times; British Association for Shooting and Conservation; investment

management Jennifer Hicks Senior production controller, Macmillan Publishers Limited; freelance project manager, Pearson Education; production controller, Oxford University Press Nina Hytner (née Chatterjee) Researcher, assistant producer, associate producer, director, BBC; producer, Strictly Come Dancing, BBC; producer, Discovery Networks Maebh Jennings Publications editor, head of communications, World Cancer Research Fund; freelance sponsorship programme manager, Eircom; freelance Tess Lamacraft Features editor, Daily Mirror; Look; deputy news editor, TV editor, Closer; freelance Joanne Lewis Deputy practical’s editor, Woman; features editor, What’s on TV; features editor, IPC Media David McLaughlin Special project editor, FHM; director, junior creative director, Guerilla Productions; owner, Red Rock Creative Katy Migiro (née Salmon) Africa Analysis (London); Christian Aid (London); OCHA (Kenya); East Africa correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation Annalisa Miller Unknown Christina Moller Consultant solicitor, Scott-Moncrieff, Harbour & Sinclair; barrister, 1mcb; barrister, Alexander Chambers Chris Mooney International editorial director, FHM, Arena; editor-in-chief, Men’s Digital; editor, Topgear.com Matthew Munday The Face; managing editor, Arena; freelance, (The Times,The Sunday Times Magazine,The Daily Telegraph, Idler); writer, sub-editor, The Sunday Times Magazine Kerry Potter Features director, Elle; freelance and contributing editor, Elle; books editor, Glamour Catherine Rapley Deputy editor, New Woman; commissioning editor, The Observer magazine; freelance Katy Salmon Freelance TV producer and writer Jonathan Saul Freelance, (Caribbean Profiles, IFR, Reuters, Corporate Africa); EMAP; Parliamentary Monitor; copy editor, London correspondent, Tel Aviv correspondent, Jerusalem correspondent, Reuters Concetta Sidoti Sub-editor, senior sub-editor, website editor, deputy chief sub-editor, Building; freelance sub-editor, RIBA Journal; freelance, The Sunday Times Amy Sohanpaul Staff writer, Wexas; deputy editor, editor, Traveller; director, & Publishing Caspar van Vark Emap Finance; production editor, Revolution magazine; freelance (The Mail on Sunday, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald,The Times, Evening Standard, Social Enterprise,Traveller, the Guardian) Imogen Wall Global communications, United Nations OCHA; freelance communications consultant; policy director, IRIN

BROADCAST Shariq Ali BBC Thames Valley; BBC Radio 1; BBC Asian Programme Unit; BBC Consumer Unit; BBC Events Unit; Carlton TV; BBC News & Current Affairs; assistant producer, Granada Television; assistant producer, BBC Arif Ansari Freelance, City FM, BBC Radio; reporter, BBC Radio Stoke; political reporter, BBC Westminster; North West political editor, BBC Phil Battley Unknown James Blake Home affairs reporter,

home affairs producer, Channel 4 News; freelance reporter (Channel 4 News, ITN, STV); lecturer in journalism, Edinburgh Napier University Melanie Bromley European bureau chief, West Coast bureau chief, Us Weekly; freelance, (Top Santé, New Woman, Grazia, Heat, Red, More, Daily Mirror,The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express); chief news correspondent, E! Entertainment Television (Los Angeles) Alice Ceresole Producer, Imperial Leisure; freelance producer (Territory Studio); studio manager, The Light Surgeons Nicola Christie Presenter, Through the Night, BBC Radio 3; freelance (The Times, The Daily Telegraph,Vogue,The Guardian,The Independent, Financial Times); editor, Jewish Quarterly Dan Davies Development executive, director, series producer, Banyak Films; writer, BBC; playwright Elspeth Daya Unknown Craig Eason Freelance (BBC News, Euronews, Anglia Television, Meridian); deputy editor, Lloyd’s List Carolyn Gammon Unknown Pia Harold Intern ITN; head of copy, Dutton Merrifield; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News Frank Harvey Journalist, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service; editor, producer, ITV News; freelance producer (GMTV, ITV, BBC, Sky, BBC Radio 4) Natalie Jamieson Presenter, oneclick/ future, BBC Radio 1; entertainment reporter, BBC 5Live; entertainment news presenter, Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1 Emma Jordan Newsreader, 107.8 Arrow FM (Hastings); Swedish editor/ listings writer, Red Bee Media Katie Flamman (née Keward) Deputy executive producer, Sky News; evening news programme editor, BSkyB (Channel Five News); freelance voiceover artist and scriptwriter Gudrun Lawyer Freelance (GLR, Five Live); broadcast journalist, BBC London Live 94.9; senior broadcast journalist, BBC London News Mark McCleary BBC Ulster; home affairs producer, BBC; freelance Nicholas Minter-Green Chair, TVC Group; president, Economist Films, The Economist; MS student, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Birkbeck University Amanda Parr BBC Breakfast; MA student, historical archaeology, University of Bristol; presenter, BBC West Kavitha Prasad Production journalist, ITV News; broadcast journalist, BBC World News; output editor, BBC News Jonny Saunders Commentator, BBC Radio 5 Live; English teacher, St Edwards School; English teacher, Bradfield College Louise Tornehave London correspondent, TV3 (Sweden) David Wareham Producer, BBC News 24; news traffic manager, BBC; broadcast journalist, BBC News

1999 INTERNATIONAL Azamat Atadjanov Web editor, National News Agency of Uzbekistan; Scandinavia correspondent, Central News Sector Charlotte Vestergaard Beder Journalist , Berlingske Tidende (Denmark); business reporter, political reporter, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (Denmark); finance reporter, presenter, TV 2

1999 (Denmark) Billi Bierling Journalist, Swissinfo (Switzerland); desk officer for Libya, media consultant, communications expert, Swiss Development Agency (Switzerland); freelance journalist and climber Esmera Bilal Reporter, Oslobodjenje (Bosnia and Herzegovina); media monitor and analyst, senior media analyst, UNMIBH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Bente Bjorndal Finance journalist, AFX News; oil/offshore journalist, Offshore Media Group; freelance Anthony Blackman Senior reporter, Barbados Advocate (Barbados); journalist, Nation (Barbados); public affairs specialist, US Embassy (Barbados) Fernando Botero Strategic Alternative Investments Bagila Bukharbaeva Editor, BBC Monitoring; correspondent, Associated Press (Uzbekistan) Tobias Bungter Editor, Disney Channel (Germany); writer and producer (WDR, Germany Radio); freelance journalist, director and author Carolina Chagas Jornal da Tarde (Brazil); Ultimo Segundo IG (Brazil); Prima Pagina (Brazil) Francesca De Chatel Media consultant, UN-ESCWA, BGR (Beirut); PhD, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University; freelance journalist, editor and author Melina Demetriou Astra Radio (Cyprus); parliamentary correspondent and feature writer, Cyprus Mail; press and information officer, Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office Estelle Doyle Media trainer, BBC World Service Trust (Morocco); freelance producer, (BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live); broadcast journalist, producer, BBC Trending Larry Fan Lawyer Kerstin Fischer Producer and broadcast journalist, BBC Berlin Maurice Frank Business manager, managing director, owner, ExBerliner.com (Germany) Georgios Georgakopoulos Press officer (Greece); English section editor, Parikiaki; UK correspondent, Eleftheros Typos (Greece) Alison Gibson Personal finance writer and sub-editor, The Times; freelance Julius Gittens Executive member, Association of Caribbean Media Workers; associate, Right Angle Imaging Inc. (St. Lucia); freelance media and communications specialist Christoffer Guldbrandsen Owner, Guldbrandsen Film (Denmark); executive editor, DR2 (Denmark); CEO, The Why Foundation (Denmark) Angela Hachmeister News editor, AOL Germany; journalist, NDR (Germany) Ghida Hamadeh Unknown Jennifer Hanawald Health and wellness liaison, Montclair Public Schools Health and Wellness Partnership (USA); medical journalist, McMahon Group (USA); health coach (USA) Karin Kamp Radio producer, WYNC (USA); director of digital strategy, The Story Exchange (USA); senior digital producer, Moyers & Company/Public Affairs Television (USA) Mariko Ando Katsumura News reporter, Asia Business; correspondent, Reuters (Tokyo); freelance translator (Paris) Marie-Cécile Kleinveld Freelance photographer; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines; general manager, Hillswood (Spain) Ofira Koopmans Correspondent, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Israel) Birgit Kolboe Journalist, Nettsport Media og Fotball247 (Norway); freelance sports and food journalist and translator

BRONWYN COSGRAVE

Freelance fashion journalist and historian, International 1992

Your biggest scoop?

I did a big story on Eric Clapton for People magazine. It was a profile of him in the early 1990s. I am a very well-connected person; I just end up in the right place at the right time. I would just walk up to people, City just made you fearless; it just sent you on the streets to find stories.

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

Technology will keep changing.

I went off to write two books between 2003 and 2006 and when I came back to journalism it was all so new - blogging and Facebook had appeared. I hope that people will be more discerning because there’s a lot of hot air at the moment.

The most important journalistic skill?

Listening and don’t make it about yourself.

The biggest change you’ve seen in journalism since you began your career?

The immediacy of journalism, and the furious speed at which articles are written has jeopardized the quality of journalism.

What made you want to become a journalist?

Just reading the newspaper. My father always subscribed to Time, National Geographic, and Vogue.

I grew up in the golden age of magazines, the 70’s and 80’s, and got exposure to the finest kind of print journalism.

Paula Erizanu

(Norway) Alpana Lath Sawai Senior feature writer, chief sub-editor, editor, junior assistant editor, Sunday MiD Day (India) Katrine Schousboe Laursen Reporter and news editor, ANR (Denmark); journalist, Nordjyske Medier (Denmark) Pei-Hsuan Lee Formosa TV (Taiwan); PR administrator, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Ivette Leyva Martinez Head of news and front page,Yahoo! (USA); Metrocitizen (USA); founder, cafefuerte.com (Cuba) Alison Lin Research assistant, National Kaohsiung Normal University (Taiwan) Eugenia Maia Deputy editor, Adrenalin (Brazil); fashion coordinator, Index Assessoria (Brazil); communications manager, L´Oréal Brazil (Brazil) Eddie Malone Football365 website; football journalist, Trinity Mirror; journalist, Yahoo Sports Supa Mandiwanzira Chief executive officer, Mighty Movies Limited (Zimbabwe); chief executive, founder, ZiFM Stereo Limited (Zimbabwe); communication and technology and courier services, Government of Zimbabwe Emma Mattei Freelance scriptwriter; programme director, Kinemastik NGO (Malta); founder, executive editor, Uncommon Guide Books Dara McLeod Producer, BBC World Service; producer, As It Happens, CBC (Canada); director of communications, Refugees International (USA) Sarah Murphy Freelance; South East correspondent, The Irish Independent; commercial manager, The Irish Post Sharif Nashashibi Freelance journalist (The Guardian,The National, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera English, Reuters); personal trainer; DJ Anna Nelson Deputy media service manager, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Switzerland); editor, International Committee of the Red Cross (Switzerland); editor, head of communications and public affairs, International Committee of the Red Cross (USA) Francois Oulai Unknown Shiraz Paracha Dean of students and journalism professor, KIMEP University (Kazakhstan); government media advisor and spokesman (Pakistan); chairman, Department of Journalism and Communication, Abdul Wali Khan University (Pakistan) Irene Peroni Freelance reporter

(Radiotelevisione svizzera, Italy); freelance journalist and translator (Norway); BBC Monitoring; freelance (Norway) Katie Pisa (née Anderson) Stringer, PEOPLE magazine; digital features supervisor, CNN International; freelance journalist and producer Jessica Robertson Freelance (Island FM, Dupuch Publications, BBC Caribbean); radio news director, online editor, The Tribune News Network; director of marketing, Doctors Hospital (Bahamas) Gibril Samura Sierra Leone High Commission; MA, International Relations, University of Warwick Helin Sari Ertem Freelance, NTV, CNN (Turkey); political science and international relations lecturer,Yildiz Technical University (Turkey) Olivier Shaw-Latimer Editor,Vodafone UK; group product manager, Monitise; head of fintech, JustGiving Daniel Sheldon Media planner and buyer, Universal Mccann Vedat Spahovic Freelance (Balkans) Sofianni Subki PanPac Media; Life & Times; New Straits Times; senior writer, The Malaysian Reserve Jonathan Summerton Swiss Radio International; Eurosport (Paris); presenter, Radio France International Natasha Szaniecki Novak Innova Group Miami; communications, XPress PR Agency; director of marketing and communications,Viacom Brazil Grace Tagoe Presidential correspondent, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation; special correspondent, Radio Ghana; director of communications, Judicial Service of Ghana Samantha Tonkin Web editor, Swiss Radio International; associate director communications, World Economic Forum; lead, social media, pharmaceutical division, Novartis (Switzerland) Monika Unsworth Reporter, Irish Times; press officer, NI Civil Service Nadege Vancauwenberghe Unknown Jonathan Waddell Special assistant, Minister of Environment (Canada); freelance journalist (Canada)”eric Rebecca Webb Reuters (Wellington) Erica Wells Cox News editor, Jones Communications; managing editor, The Nassau Guardian; managing editor, Dupuch Publications Hao Wu International Development Centre; translator; community settlement counsellor, ISS settlements services; citizen service officer, Service Canada

NEWSPAPER Esther Addley The Australian; senior news writer, The Guardian Lisa Baxter Evening Star (Ipswich); producer, Today, BBC Radio 4; assistant editor, BBC World Geraldine Baybutt Senior reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; senior reporter, Lancashire Evening Post; professor of German David Brown Unknown Ciar Byrne Press and publishing correspondent, Media Guardian; arts and media correspondent, The Independent; freelance, (The Guardian,The Daily Telegraph,The Lady, Press Gazette) James Cadman Duty editor, Teletext; head of tablet editions, Metro; production editor, HSBC Shamim Chowdhury Deputy foreign editor, Sky News; news editor, Al Jazeera English; blogger, Huffington Post Jonathan Clements Showbiz editor, crime correspondent, Daily Mirror; correspondent, ITN; director of communications and campaigns, Crest Advisory Indira Das-Gupta Senior news reporter, Third Sector; PR and communications manager, Back Up; coowner, North London Yoga Studio Finian Davern News, Metro; Travel Trade Gazette; reporter, Metro; Solicitor, Knocker & Foskett Guy Dennis Freelance PR consultant (Business for New Europe); interim head of PR, founded; contractor, HSBC James Diamond Cambridgeshire Times Peter Elliott News editor, Crosby Herald; news officer, Liverpool City Council Dominic Fifield Football reporter, London football correspondent, The Guardian Stephen Foley Market reporter, investment column, North American business reporter, The Independent; US Investment Correspondent, Financial Times (New York) Dipesh Gadher News editor, Eastern Eye; chief investigative reporter, The Sunday Times Katherine Griffiths Daily Express; Wall Street correspondent, The Independent; banking editor, The Times Nerys Hairon The Wharf; Meat Trades Journal; assistant practice editor, Nursing Times Tom Kelly Reporter, Press Association (Dublin, London, New York); reporter, Daily Mail Anthea Lawson Freelance, The

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Chief Sports Reporter, Daily Mail, Newspaper 1993 survive and remain a must read publication. It’s no longer enough just to do straight reporting.

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

In sport there’s been a real upsurge in investigative reporting. The only way for newspapers to keep going is if we keep breaking agenda setting stories and get under the skin on issues like sport. Newspapers have to set the standards to

Observer,The Times; researcher, Amnesty International; deputy campaigns director, Global Witness Luke Leitch Diary section, news desk, arts reporter, Evening Standard; deputy fashion editor, The Daily Telegraph; freelance (Vogue, WSJ, Intelligent Life, The Times) Catherine Mayer Author; editor at large, Time; co-founder, Women’s Equality Party Donna McConnell Assistant channel editor, TV & Showbusiness; showbiz editor, Mail Online Gabriel Milland Head of press, Policy Exchange; head of news, Department for Education; head of external communications, Ministry of Justice Emma Morris Features editor, Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms; style writer, Living Etc; chief sub-editor, Health and Fitness Joseph Mouzo St Albans Observer; multimedia editor, Agence France Presse (online) Sherna Noah News reporter, showbusiness editor, showbusiness, arts and media correspondent, Press Association Ben Perry Online, newsdesk, head of English language business desk, Agence France Presse Karen Rice Author; news and feature writer, Ireland on Sunday; investigations editor, Irish Daily Mail Mark Sellman Assistant head of news, Times Online; deputy home editor, The Times Meera Selvananthan European correspondent, The Business; freelance, (The Independent, New Zealand Herald); reporter, Associated Press Deborah Sheldon News of the World; National News Agency; Daily Mirror Zoe Smith Sub-editor, The Age (Melbourne); sub-editor, journalist, Sydney Morning Herald; online news reporter and producer, News Corp Australia Michelle Stanistreet Books editor, Sunday Express; general secretary, National Union of Journalists Sarah Evans-Toyne Finance writer, The Sunday Times; business reporter, BBC; executive director, Broadgate Mainland PR Tim Webb Industrial editor, The Guardian; energy editor, The Times; senior communications manager, Ofgem Cathy Winston (née Mayer) Head of premier showbiz, Press Association; lifestyle editor, Fabulous; editor, 101 Singles Holidays

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The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I managed to become the story when I performed a citizen’s arrest on a couple of teenagers on a train. They had thrown out a bicycle, half a dozen fire extinguishers and cushions out of the train while it was moving.

I grabbed two of them and dragged one of them down the carriages until I found a railway police officer. The news editor at Kent Today decided it was a great story and I suddenly

PERIODICAL Elisabeth Attwood Reporter, photography, Alice Springs News (Australia); chief sub, FOXTEL magazine (Australia); entertainment editor, Discovery (Hong Kong) Leo Bear Freelance sub-editor, (Property Week,Travel Trade Gazette, Daily Mirror, FBX magazine, BBC Worldwide); deputy editor, Disney Bigtime/Comic; freelance, (The Sunday Times, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller,TV Hits, Brides,Total Film, OK!) Shaoni Bhattacharya Trainee, Daily Express; Pulse; news editor, New Scientist; freelance, New Scientist,The Mail on Sunday, Psychologies Ursula Biggs Unknown Jeanette Blair Unknown Tracey Boles Chief reporter, The Business; business reporter, The Sunday Express; editor, ReputationInc Dom Brookman Homepage editor, MSN UK and Online Seller; homepage editor, MSN UK; content producer, AEG Europe Huria Choudhari Producer, BBC News Online; editor, Life & Soul Magazine; spiritual life coach, Life & Soul Creatives Claire Coe (née Smith) The Lawyer; deputy editor, Legal Business; writer and researcher, Claire Legal Jane Crowther Movies editor, Sky Magazine; freelance (Total Film,The Yorkshire Post, Men’s Health, First Magazine, Company, Sky, Sky Movie); editor, Total Film Emma Dent (née Forrest) Features reporter, Construction News; features editor, Health Service Journal; editor, L; freelance Ben Falk Hollywood bureau chief, Press Association; journalism tutor, London Metropolitan University; online editor, journalist (Yahoo Movies, BAFTA, DAD. info, Daily Telegraph, Us Weekly, Empire, Huffington Post) Jennifer Farrar (née Currie) Deputy editor, Lawyer ZB; teacher training; English teacher Jill Foster Commissioning features editor, Daily Mirror; commissioning editor, associate editor, Femail, Daily Mail; features commissioning editor, Daily Mirror; freelance Rachel Hamada Munro Editor, Mambo Magazine; freelance journalist (This Is Africa); media and communications officer, Scottish Refugee Council

became the subject of a have-a go hero news story.

What made you want to become a journalist?

I was a distance runner and had rather ambitious aspirations to be a sportsman. But when I was in my early teens I found out you could also get to things like the Olympics by being a reporter.

Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

I would have actually attended the shorthand lessons every morning. My short hand is crap to non-existent.

Charlotte Whistlecroft Tamsin Hargrave Production editor, Nintendo Magazine; production editor, Smash Hits; chief sub-editor, Cosmo Bride; chief sub-editor, Top Santé Kathryn Jackson Screenwriter and producer, Heart Beat Productions; freelance, screenwriter, Nightingale Films Simon Jeffery Trainee journalist, chief reporter, guardian.co.uk; story producer, deputy web news editor, assistant foreign editor, deputy web news editor, The Guardian Pete Jenson Parliamentary Review; Revolution magazine; telegraph.co.uk; Sunday People; sport reporter, Mail Online Selina Julien Showbiz writer, showbiz editor, assistant editor, Now; managing editor, Hello! Middle East, Editor-in-chief, Hello! Middle East James Keighley Travel editor, Open Interactive; content editor, Sky Interactive; freelance (Online News Reader, wsj.com, Wall Street Journal Europe); copy editor, assistant news editor, Dow Jones; wsj. com Derren Lawford Commissioning Exec at London Live TV, Evening Standard; creative director, Woodcut Media Ltd; advisory committee member, Sheffield Doc/Fest Chris Leadbeater Senior writer, Cut; FHM; thisistravel; Daily Mail; freelance, (The Independent, Daily Mail) Lucy Maggs Account director, Geronimo Communications; Campaigns, Prime Ministers Office and Cabinet Office; head of media, Smart Energy GB Sara Manuelli Freelance journalist and press officer, Interaction Design Institute; writer,Via della Trinita dei Pellegrini; The Guardian Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Freelance (inniverse.com, Shoot!); staff writer, associate editor, Skin Cancer Foundation; editor, Quality Health/ Sharecare Hubeena Nadeem Writer, Newsquest Media Group; senior reporter, Inside Housing; freelance (Inside Housing,The Guardian, Nursing Standard, Save The Children) Sarah Obermuller-Bennett Historian Vanessa Pawsey European Legal Business; writer, finance editor, news editor, Legal Business; CEO, Jeego Ltd Edward Reeves Editor, Ford; copy editor, House & Garden, Brides; owner, Drive Albania Joel Rickett News editor, deputy editor, The Bookseller; editorial director, Penguin books

Estelle Shirbon Ha’aretz (Israel); Agence France Presse; senior correspondent, Reuters (Paris, London, Italy, Madrid, Nigeria) David Smyth Editorial assistant, music critic, arts desk, The Daily Telegraph; chief rock and pop critic, Evening Standard Zelda Turner Non-fiction commissioning editor, Hodder & Stoughton; editorial consultant, Hodder & Stoughton; freelance editor, author Jane Verhelst Freelance Sarah Wakely Sub-editor, production editor, AutoCar magazine; deputy editor, Practical Motor Home; freelance Sarah Warwick Deputy editor, H2Open; deputy editor, easyJet Traveller magazine; editor, N by Norwegian magazine Louise Wilson Director, BBC Children in Need; director, BBC The One Show; senior editorial producer, Children in Need Jenny Wood Features editor, LOOK magazine; lifestyle editor, Buzz magazine (The Sun); freelance (Cosmopolitan, Closer, Top Sante, Mother & Baby, Fabulous, Red, Glamour, Chat, Notebook (The Sunday Mirror),TV Magazine (The Sun), Daily Mail) Clare Zinkin (née Lister) Project editor, senior editor, Dorling Kindersley; freelance editor

BROADCAST Andrew Bailey Head of news, sport and entertainment,Virgin Radio UK; head of news and Breakfast news presenter, Absolute Radio; senior news editor, Sky Zoey Bird Producer, Channel 5 News; presenter, At The Races Mark Cotton Markets reporter, CBS Market Watch; PR manager, Jupiter Asset Management; senior corporate communications manager, Jupiter Asset Management Sarah Deech Senior producer, BBC News 24; senior broadcaster, BBC News TV; freelance Paul Egan Producer, efdex TV Hilary Fox Entertainment reporter, BBC Radio 1; freelance broadcast journalist; senior reporter, Unique Enterainment News; TV chief writer, Associated Press Entertainment Carolina Gasiorowski Content provider, simplymoney.net; senior sports reporter, Al Jazeera English Farhana Haider Broadcast journalist, BBC TV News; South East Asia regional editor, BBC World Service Mark Jacques BBC Breakfast with Frost; broadcast assistant and reporter, BBC Ulster; freelance, reporter, BBC Wales; broadcast assistant and freelance, BBC John-Paris Kent Channel 5 News; showbiz reporter, producer, Sky News; freelance producer Merriem Matthew Dubai TV; Swiss Radio International; reporter (Zurich) Sonya Mayet Broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; freelance screenwriter Matthew Neylan Account director, director, London Communications Agency; freelance communication consultant; director, London Communications Agency Anna O’Neill Broadcast journalist, BBC London; BBC Essex; radio reporter, BBC London weekend Barbara Serra Broadcast journalist, BBC London Live; reporter, Sky News; newsreader, Al Jazeera Julian Shea Freelance sub-editor, BBC Sport England; editorial content provider, deltatre; freelance editor, AOL International Karishma Vaswani Business correspondent, BBC World News (Mumbai); correspondent, BBC Indonesia;

2000 Asia business correspondent, BBC News Georgia Webber Broadcast journalist, GMTV; broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; reporter, Granada TV Ceri Whitby September Films; assistant producer, Celador Saritha Wilkinson Television producer, Rockchopper TV; director, Mike Birkhead Associates Esme Wren Producer, BBC Newsnight; head of politics, Sky News (Westminster)

2000 INTERNATIONAL Annex Achieng Editor-at-large, Sheeko magazine; foreign correspondent, The East African Newspaper; owner, Gigicucina Sahar Al-Amri The Saudi Research & Publishing Company Caroline Al-Faraj Manager and editor, US Dubai TV; manager and editor, CNN (Dubai); chief operations director, Arabic editor, Digital services Arabic director, CNN Michael Andindilile, Dr Chief sub-editor, Daily News (Tanzania); PhD, Fordham University; teaching fellow, associate dean and senior lecturer, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Dar es Salaam Maria Anguita Acting editor, British Journal of Cardiac Nursing; freelance (Madrid), publications and digital communications officer, Tommy’s; freelance content designer and editor Farhod Arziev National News Agency of Uzbekistan; senior reporter, international affairs, News Agency (Uzbekistan); deputy clinical features editor, GP magazine Jacopo Barigazzi Freelance columnist, The National; contributor, Nova; reporter, POLITICO Europe Mallika Basu Director, corporate, management board, The Communication Group plc; senior associate director, author, corporate PR director, MSL London; specialist partner, Pagefield Christina Blaagaard Editorial project manager, Berlingske Media; digital director, Benjamin Media; chief digital officer, Bonnier Publications Andreas Bondevik US stringer, Norwegian News Agency; Europe correspondent, Norwegian News Agency; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security Christina Charalambous Cyprus News Agency; public image consultant, Epopsis Communications Hopewell Chin’ono Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University; journalist, ITN, ITV News; foreign correspondent, The New York Times Natacha Crnjanski Reuters (Paris); news editor, Travel Security Services; regional information manager, International SOS Pham Tran Dinh Communications and external affairs co-ordinator, BP Exploration & Operating Company (Vietnam); marketing manager, ANZ Bank (Vietnam); branch manager, Philips Electronics Singapore (Hanoi) Lely Triana Djuhari Associated Press; communication specialist, Unicef East Asia Pacific Julie Donnelly Healthcare reporter, Boston Business Journal; freelance; contract writer,Veeva Systems; Consultant, Donnelly Health Laura Dowrich-Phillips Assistant

editor, Caribbean Beat; editor, Metro Magazine; content manager, looptt.com Luz Echeverri Film project, author Farrah Esmail Rogers Television; news writer (Ontario); anchor, Al Jazeera and Quatar News Dinah Gardner News writer, CNN Hong Kong; freelance reporter (China); Tibetan language student (Shedra, Kathmandu) Alison Gibson Journalist and sub-editor; freelance Lilian Githungo Court reporter, Nation Newspaper; humanitarian affairs officer/ Head of Sub Office; UN (Somalia) Anne Harenberg FT Marketwatch; reporter, n-tv (Germany) Tom Hennigan Freelance (Buenos Aires); São Paulo correspondent, The Times; South American correspondent, The Irish Times Gisela Henriques Sub-editor, Activa Magazine Merete Jebsen (née Bergeland) Communication manager, corporate communication, Norway Post; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications Mamiko Kawamoto Senior executive international development and marketing, Yoshimoto Entertainment USA Inc; producer’s assistant, OZLA; project manager, Bellrock Media Ragnhild Kjetland Freelance (Norway); Dow Jones; technology/media reporter, Bloomberg; freelance photographer and writer Yannis Krontiras Military service Christine Lai Vice executive director, China Times Katarina Limkjaer Screaming Media; CNN (Norway) Anouk Macchetti Bloomberg TV Kennedy Makambira Sport correspondent, BBC World Service; sports marketing executive; sports coach; English editor, Confederation of American football; project specialist, UEFA Glaieul Mamaghani News assistant, Digital Business Globe; Reuters (Paris) Nonofo Mankhi MA Television, Westminster University; secondary school teacher; educational broadcaster; media studies lecturer, The University of Botswana Nicole Mannix Contributing writer, Maranatha News; contributing writer, 29secrets.com; freelance (Canada) Mpho Mantjiu Researcher, writer, Laing & Buisson; producer, Poppylands Productions; production journalist, The Times Ulrica Marshall Restaurant reviewer, www.wcities.com; derivatives section, International Financing Review; freelance Helly Minarti Associate editor, BAB Books; freelance research consultant; programme head, Jakarta Arts Council Maria Ntavou Communications manager, Hellenic-American Arts Centre; account director, Solid PR Agency; senior digital copywriter, Solid Digital Agency Oyvind Nyborg Dagsnytt NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corp Lise Olaussen Political reporter, Aftenposten; political reporter, Kanal 24; journalist, political journalist; Daily Dagsavisen (Oslo) Angeline Ong TV producer and reporter, CNN (London); presenter and producer, Reuters Zak Osman Founding Somali newspaper; freelance Charlotte Pearson Newsweek International; Reuters (London) Bruno Pires-Saboaa Freelance Zehra Raza Community projects manager, Tameer Microfinance Bank (Karachi); associate producer, GEO News;

teacher, The Lyceum School Tatiana Reis Editorial co-ordinator, Impact Media; Portuguese TV channel; Portugal Diario; event manager, Silva Carvalho Catering Denise Resende News editor, foreign correspondent, NetDoctor; freelance, Latin American correspondent, ananova. com; beauty and fashion editor, AnaMaria (Brazil) Azer Sawiris Scandinavia correspondent, Central News Sector; financial correspondent, Egyptian TV; Egyptian TV Correspondent, AFX News Joao Tordo Freelance Roula Tsoumita European football analyst, Premierbet; PhD, sports and media management; European football analyst, Blue Lizard Dominic Tunon Assistant producer, AOL Europe; online consultant Ruwan Wijewardene PA, Wijeya Newspapers (Sri Lanka); executive director, RS Printek; director, Freudenburgh Training Company Saskia Wirth Group publicity manager, features and daytime, Channel 4; director of communications, NBC Universal international TV production; director of corporate communications, Sony Pictures Television Eylem Yanardagoglu Visiting scholar, University of Westminster; lecturer, Bahcesehir University; assistant professor, Kadir Has University Helen Yates Deputy editor, UK Excellence Magazine; freelance insurance journalist, Helen Yates Media; editor, Insurance Times – The Knowledge Amelia Zaher Journalist, Exhibition Bulletin; freelance, diving magazines

NEWSPAPER Jim Bruce-Ball Sports reporter, The Guardian; sports reporter, football editor, deputy sports editor, The Sunday Telegraph; associate sports editor, Saturday sports editor, The Daily Telegraph Sarah Bruce-Ball (née Gerlis) Stock markets reporter, UK Invest.com; deputy news editor; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4; editor, This Is Our Town Richmond Julia Cahill Reporter and feature writer, senior reporter, deputy news editor, The Lawyer; news editor, deputy editor, associate editor, Estates Gazette James Clench Trainee, assistant news editor, news reporter, The Sun Pippa Crerar Press Association; Daily Record; political correspondent, Evening Standard Elizabeth Crudgington Chief reporter, Kent Regional News; office administrator, Canterbury Conservative Association James Daley Governor, Wandsworth borough council; blogger, The Daily Telegraph; managing director, Fairer Finance Graham Diggines Editor, The Sharp End; channel manager, Royal Mail; lead content and channels specialist, Old Mutual Group Laura Elston News desk, royal correspondent, Press Association David Fickling Commodities reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, consumer reporter, Bloomberg; Bloomberg gadfly columnist, Bloomberg Oliver Finegold Media relations manager, General Medical Council; senior communications and media relation consultant; chief communications officer, Wales office, UK government; head of corporate communications, CIPFA Jodie Ginsberg Deputy director, Demos Finance; editor, Chime for Change; CEO, Index on Censorship

Emma Gosnell Deputy editor, Seven Magazine; freelance Will Green Surrey Mirror; chief reporter, Rail News; transport correspondent, political correspondent, Yorkshire Post Faisal Islam Economics correspondent, The Observer; business reporter, economics editor, Channel 4 News; political editor, Sky News Sam Lister Trainee, staff reporter, health correspondent, news editor, health editor, The Times; Director of communications, UK Department of Health Martel Maxwell Freelance columnist, broadcaster and novelist; entertainment reporter, Sky News, This Morning, ITV; author; freelance Louisa McLennan Press officer, Mary’s Meals; assistant digital editor, Herald & Times group; freelance Dan Milmo City desk, Daily Mail; Media Guardian; city desk, media business correspondent, media business editor, transport correspondent, industrial editor, deputy business editor, consumer editor, The Guardian James Palmer China Daily (Beijing); foreign desk, special project editor, The Independent; deputy chief sub, freelance writer and editor, The Sunday Times Magazine Rosalind Ryan Reporter, news.com. au; reporter, Guardian Unlimited; deputy editor, Healthy; freelance Ben Sheppard Trainee, news reporter, Daily Express; freelance (Athens) Laura Smith Reporter, The Evening Standard; reporter, The Guardian; freelance journalist and communications consultant, (mydaily, The Guardian, The Independent, Marie Claire) Julia Snoddy Business desk, The Independent on Sunday; freelance, (Sky News); business producer, BBC Radio 4 and 5; freelance Preti Taneja Freelance, Evening Standard, BBC Radio; Children’s Express; postdoctoral research fellow, Jesus College Cambridge Lucy Warwick-Ching Business reporter, Financial Times; consumer industries reporter; editor, FT.com money editor, Financial Times Bob Williams Reporter, thelondonpaper; Scottish sports editor, The Daily Telegraph; sports desk copy editor, The Daily Telegraph Charlotte Williamson Freelance, (Elle, Harpers & Queen, The Observer); commissioning editor, editor, news review and comment, The Sunday Telegraph; features editor, Woman and Home

PERIODICAL Michael Bird Associate editor, www. ak13.com; editor, The Diplomat; editor, The Black Sea Hannah Booth Deputy news editor, features editor, Design Week; Zitty Magazine; deputy editor, editor, Space, Guardian Weekend Chris Brock Editor, Mulberry Publications; editor, Tileywoodman; freelance photographer Abigail Cattell Freelance, deputy editor, Marks and Spencer; global editor, Aviva plc; editorial senior manager, Coca-Cola Enterprises Martin Clark Content manager, community manager,Yahoo Europe; Head of community and analytics, State; Director of community and insights, Citymapper Isabel Connet (née Pitman) Freelance, (Country Homes and Interiors, ES Magazine, Time Out, French

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newspaper); teacher; English teacher, French/English translator (France) Suzy Cox Grazia; associate editor, Fabulous; deputy editor, Cosmopolitan; editor, Cosmo on Campus; editor, Heat Sally Shelford (neé Eyden) Showbiz editor and columnist, Reveal; editor, Fabulous; editor, Now, editor, Loose Women Leon Forde Features editor, Screen International; freelance, (Screen Daily); associate director, Olsberg SPI Adam Gold Launch publisher, GoThinkBig.co.uk, Bauer Media, Empire, FHM, Kerrang!, MOJO, Q and ZOO; freelance launch publisher (Unbound, Factory Media); director, BlueJam Media Lucy Gordon Assistant producer, Granada TV; assistant producer, Hewland International; freelance assistant producer, BBC factual Justina Perry Group account director, G2 marketing; client director, Geometry; director, Mama Baby Bliss Anne-Celine Jäger Freelance, (The Times magazine, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, beme.com, The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph magazine, Die Zeit, Neon, Wallpaper); author Christian Koch Senior writer, Smash Hits; Commercial editor, FHM; freelance (Evening Standard, The Guardian, Q,Metro, Stylist) Victoria MacCallum Communications, 10 Downing Street; head of communications, Cabinet Office; head of museums and galleries, Department for Culture, Media and Sport Sarah Mason Production editor, First Magazine; assistant editor, Fabulous; senior communications manager, News UK Andy McCue Editor, Climber Magazine; freelance, (CBS Interactive UK, silicon. com, greenbang.com); freelance; content director, Collective Content Kate McGeown Philippines correspondent, BBC; world duty editor and senior writer, BBC News online; head of factual, BBC Media Action Eve McGowan Freelance, (Cosmopolitan, Metro, The Sunday Telegraph); deputy property editor, The Mail on Sunday; freelance (Daily Mail, Metro) Rebecca McQuillan Reporter, features writer, deputy features editor, The Herald (Glasgow) Daniel Melunsky Writer, Mobile Magazine; Kingston Council; black cab driver Caroline Millington Showbiz editor, Woman’s Own; assistant editor, acting deputy editor, acting deputy editor and social media manager, Now Zoe Murphy Assistant editor, AOL News Channel; broadcast journalist, BBC News Interactive, world desk; social media editor, Outside Source, BBC World Service Katie Reich-Storer (née Reich) Special projects editor, Absolute Publishing; associate editor, ABTA; editor, Spa Secrets, Absolute Publishing Susan Riley Features director, Sugar; features director, More!; deputy editor, Stylist Paul Rincon Freelance, (Empire Online, Broadcast, produxion.com); senior staff writer, PC Advisor; science reporter, senior broadcast journalist, science journalist, BBC News online Gerard Russell Web editor, interactive media editor, digital communications editor, oxfam.org.uk; self-employed, freelance editor and copywriter Nic Scott Freelance, (OK!, Hello!, Citrus Publishing, Forward Publishing, 7 Days, consumer magazines); production editor, Junior; freelance Ben Spriggs Homes editor, ELLE Decoration; associate editor, Sunday Times Style magazine; PR manager, Maybourne Hotel Group

Jon Webdale Commissioning editor, Interactive TV; senior reporter, C21 media.net; editor, Future Media Ben Westwood Freelance travel author, Rough Guides; author, Ecuador, Galapagos, Peru and Machu Picchu guidebook; journalism lecturer, University of Brighton Sarah Willcocks Freelance (The Independent, The Scotsman, The Moscow Times, Literacy Review, The Erotic Review, Time Out, The Oldie, The Stage); playwright; freelance

BROADCAST Lee Baker Broadcast journalist, BBC Wiltshire Sound; independent music producer; BBC, Media and Communications Manager Mike Bovill Producer, Sky News; head of content and rugby show presenter, talkSPORT Radio Katherine Boyle Hereward FM; newsreader, producer and presenter, BBC Three Counties Radio Alex Bushill BBC; newsgathering; freelance reporter, BBC News 24; BBC London; south west correspondent, BBC News Nick Cavell Assistant producer, TalkSPORT; news editor, Sanyu Radio (Uganda); producer, African Sports, BBC World Service David Cheng Reporter, News Direct 97.3FM; researcher, producer, BBC Business; broadcast journalist, BBC Business and Economics News Ellie Crisell Reporter, presenter, Channel 5 News; presenter, BBC Newsround; senior broadcast journalist, BBC; Presenter, South East Today Jatinder Dhillon Trainee, BBC News; broadcast journalist; field producer, BBC Network News; reporter, CBC Radio (Toronto) Abbie Dobson Broadcast journalist, producer, BBC Six O’Clock News Kate Evans Broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; freelance producer, ITN; producer, Channel 4 News; Marketing Publications Officer Tannaz Fazaipour ITN Digital Radio Channel; producer, ITN News; producer, Powerhouse at ITN; reporter, First Edition, ITN; freelance producer, producer, Channel 4 News Shona Fraser Euronews; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; associate producer, RTL (Germany) and MTV; RTL2,Vice President Entertainment & Development Melanie Grant Broadcast and online journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat and 1Xtra News; reviews editor, MadeForMums.com; freelance, Ready Steady Go Kids UK Nina Harrison-Bell (née Harrison) Producer, ITN; Partner, h2glenfern (Investor Communications); Head of Film, Bladonmore Will Inglis Kick FM; news editor, Kick FM; freelance, (BFBS, CBC TV, GWR, Jazz), broadcast journalist, ITN; broadcast journalist, Global Radio; Afghanistan correspondent, business reporter, BFBS Julie MacDonald Broadcast journalist, Radio 5 Live; producer, LBC; broadcast journalist, Liquid News, BBC 3; freelance reporter, GMTV; news anchor, Al Jazeera; Managing Director, Clanmac Media LTD Gareth Mason Broadcast journalist, RTE Westminster; sub-editor; contributor, Irish National Radio; freelance, writer, editor, subeditor, copywriter, reviewer, broadcaster, and trainer; Psychotherapist Zonia Mason Trainee, BBC News (Tunbridge Wells); producer, presenter, reporter, ITV Meridian East Esther McWatters Researcher, BBC

Newsnight; researcher, BBC, Kenyon Confronts; current affairs producer, BBC Radio 5 Live Ben Moore ITN Radio; trainee, BBC News; video journalist, BBC North; Bradford reporter, BBC Yorkshire; TV reporter; BBC, TV news reporter Keme Nzerem Producer, ITN; producer, sports correspondent, Correspondent, Channel 4 News Juliette Parkin BBC Three Counties Radio; presenter and reporter, BBC South East Pritha Sarkar Broadcast journalist, tennis editor and senior sports correspondent, Thomson Reuters Victoria Scott (née Milne) Monocle 24; columnist, Expat; editor at large, Doha News; freelance multimedia journalist (Doha, Qatar) Anton Sensky BBC Solent 96.1FM; BBC Inside Out, BBC South Today; producer, BBC Sport; senior producer, sport, Al Jazeera English; freelance producer, (BBC, ESPN, IMG, S & V, SIS, BT CSI, Eurosport, HBS, OBS) Avi Silverman Print journalist, Bale Net; MA, International Relations, Cambridge University; policy manager, Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile Katia Tanousis Freelance, BBC Radio Suffolk; assistant producer, Grand Designs Tori Taylor BBC News South East; broadcast journalist, BBC London; senior producer, SPJ; Network News Stuart Tinworth Q103; newsreader, FOX FM; BBC Oxford; video journalist, BBC South Today Katie Walmsley Producer, reporter, Thomson Reuters; producer, reporter, writer, ABC News; producer, reporter, CNN Suzannah Wander Broadcast journalist, BBC; researcher, Channel 4; researcher, Thames Television; producer and director, South Bank Show, ITV Camilla Wilkinson Newsreader, Active FM (Romford) Claire Winter Producer, Princess Productions; press and publications officer, Slough borough council; blogger, BBC; editor and owner, Families Thames Valley East Magazine

2001 INTERNATIONAL Alex Arampatzis Edge Hill College; editor in chief, Ser-Free; editor in chief, Serraikon Tharros; CEO, WIN; owner, Arampatzis Media Malene Arboe-Rasmussen Freelance journalist (Brussels, Copenhagen); communications officer, NATO (Brussels); communications and external relations officer, UNFPA Marie Barraud News analyst, Dehavilland; reporter, Groupe Afrique; foreign correspondent, La Croix; RFI radio, Independent Newspapers Professional Sophie Besse Agence France-Presse Elisabeth Brun Reporter, NRK P1 (Norway); Kulturnytt; NRK P2; documentary director, producer, NRK; freelance journalist and film director Andrea Cairola Freelance (Italy); programme specialist for the UNESCO Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace of the Communication and Information Sector; communication and information adviser, UNESCO (Beijing) Sonila Cela Researcher, BBC

documentaries;Vice President, Basel Andrea Crossan Producer, BBC London; senior producer, The World; radio news producer, BBC Boston Zeynep Demirbilek Managing director, Pearl Linguistics Peter Dinkloh Correspondent, Bloomberg (Frankfurt); European unities correspondent, Reuters Gustavo Arnizaut Freelance (Information and Development, 4 Saints); media specialist and project manager, GIZ Proklima Montreal Protocol Unit, HEAT GmbH (Frankfurt/Brazil); Key Communication and MatchMaking Expert Minelle Fernandez Communications officer, Commonwealth Secretariat; Colombo correspondent, Al Jazeera; director, Media Matters Violet Gonda Producer, presenter, anchor, SW Radio Africa James Gooder Online journalist, Al Jazeera; deputy editor, Argus European Electricity Report; business development manager, Argus Media Miriam Gressli Producer, MTV News (Norway); Coordinator, Apeland Michelle Hakata Customer services advisor, lastminute.com; programme executive, Commonwealth Business Council; features editor, Africa Practice; consultant, HMD Marianne Hartz-Thomas Læreanstaltenes Fælles Formidlingskursus; partner, Livingwords Communications; senior communications advisor, Operate Communications; head of press, head of communications and press, TryghedsGruppen Emma Kambangula Personal assistant, Southern Africa Broadcasting Association (Windhoek); executive director, Cancer Club of Namibia Joseph Kithama African Medical and Research Foundation; bureau chief, East African Procurement News; lecturer, Dar es Salaam University Sara Lomberg Acting news editor, employment and careers editor, Svenska Dagbladet Näringsliv; reporter and web editor, Chef; project manager, Spoon Publishing Sebastian Lopez Unknown Kristine Lowe Online journalist, journalisten.no (Norway); founder, Norway’s Online News Association (NONA); communications advisor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences Marta Machado-Gooder Reuters Foundation; freelance, Al Jazeera English; CNN Africa; project co-ordinator, Reuters Foundation; programme manager, Journalism & Media Training Isaac Massaquoi Senior news editor, head of news and current affairs, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service; lecturer, programme co-ordinator, University of Sierra Leone; Filming, Gothenburg Film Studio Brian McGee Editor, bmcnews.com; reporter, Bloomberg; freelance, writer and editor Elodie Mialet Freelance (Match TV, France 5, Canal J); TV reporter, M6 (France); freelance, France 2 Charalampos Nikolakakis Press officer, Ministry of Rural Development and Food Zandi Nkuta The Sowetan; online journalist, Reuters; spokesperson, executive mayor of Johannesburg Ingvild Paulsen Rogalands Avis; Stavanger Aftenblad; freelance, Dagens Naeringsliv Angela Pok Business Wire; PA to CEO and team administrator, London Sustainability Exchange; senior executive, corporate communications division, National Council of Social Service; communications officer, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Singapore) Miguel Rato Ogilvy PR (Lisbon); deputy

2001-2002 director, Diario Economico; partner and founder, Cupido Comunicacao; managing director, Ogilvy and Mather; Senior Director, Communications and Strategic Initiatives, Teach For All Scott Reeves John Kay’s Financial Times column; producer, Powerhouse, Channel 4; producer, Channel 4 News; Executive Producer, CNN International World Sport Friedel Grant (née Rother) Freelance (Financial Times radio, Associated Press Radio); financial journalist, Financial Times, Reuters; PR and editorial assistant, Europeana, communications officer, LIBER Europe Shirin Sadeghi Producer, reporter, BBC World Service; producer, reporter, for Al Jazeera English; columnist, Al Jazeera; freelance (The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast) Diego Santos Sports foreign correspondent, El Pais; news editor, Associated Press; eltiempo.com; portfolio. com.co; cambio.com.co Payal Sharma Unknown Muriel Signouret Freelance (Eurostar Magazine, Telerama, @pplications); La Lettre du Cercle; editor, Société Textuel Magazines; reporter, Le Nouveau Detective; The Magazine; budget controller, Ministry of Defence; General secretary, public senate Elisavet Sotiriadou Freelance (BBC News 24, BBC World Service, Sveriges Radio) Maria Stammati Assistant editor, GQ.com (Milan); assistant editor, deputy editor, GQ.com; glamour.com; executive editor, Condé Nast interactive Serena Sterling PhD, clinical psychology; freelance, Spirituality & Health ; sports performance coach, Sterling Peak Performance Corinne Touze Freelance (Radio Europe 1, Radio Orient, Europe 1 France, Radio Canada, Radio Suisse Romande); news anchor, writer, Radio Mediterranee Internationale; freelance senior financial and corporate communications consultant Vanessa Viola Market reporter, Argus Media; oil broker, E A Gibson Shipbrokers Dan Wallis Intern, Reuters (Nairobi); deputy foreign editor, Press Association; Tanzania correspondent, Uganda correspondent,Venezuela correspondent, Reuters Barry Wilkinson Cricket correspondent, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation; cricket presenter, ESPN; managing director, Line & Length Network

NEWSPAPER Kate Allen Inside Housing Magazine; editor, Social Housing; director, The Financial Information Company; statistics journalist, property correspondent, political correspondent, The Financial Times Simon Baker Trainee regional reporter, Press Association; politics editor, Times Higher Education; news editor, Times Higher Education John Bingham News trainee, reporter, chief reporter, Press Association; news reporter, social and religious affairs editor, The Daily Telegraph Harcharan Chandhoke Nottingham Evening Post; Channel 4 Cricket magazine; assistant news editor, Daily Mail Neil Chatterjee Energy desk, senior energy correspondent, deputy bureau chief, Reuters (Singapore); President, Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club Helen Fretter Health news reporter, Netdoctor; sub-editor, deputy editor,

Yachts & Yachting magazine; freelance journalist, editor, true-angle.com Herpreet Kaur Grewal Home news reporter, The Times; reporter, London Voice; reporter, Eastern Eye; freelance, Guardian Society; reporter, Regeneration & Renewal; freelance, (The Guardian, The Observer) Charlie Hamilton Reporter, Associated Press; senior reporter, The National (Abu Dhabi); assistant news editor (National desk), The National; English desk editor, Courrier International (Presseurop) Kate Haywood IFR; senior reporter, Thompson Financial; reporter, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones; executive director of media relations, J.P. Morgan Matt Hughes Freelance, (The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, uefa.com); sports writer, sub-editor, guardian.co.uk, The Observer; sports reporter, Evening Standard; deputy football correspondent, The Times Humfrey Hunter Evening Standard; freelance, (Mail On Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph); account manager, Ian Monk Associates; literary agent, Hunter Profiles Scott Hussey Communications and public outreach officer, International Organisation for Migration, Kabul; communications specialist, International Relief and Development, Afghanistan; communications specialist (elections project), United Nations, Afghanistan Roland Jackson Multimedia editor, business reporter, Agence France-Presse Aidan Magee Agence France-Presse; head of London office, The Wardle Agency; football writer; Manchester correspondent, News of the World; reporter, Sky Sports News Ashok Malhotra PhD, Indian history Helen Williams (née McCormick) Personnel Today; acting features editor, Contract Journal; deputy features editor, Estates Gazette; content editor, Personnel Today; freelance Luisa Metcalfe Deputy women’s editor, Daily Express; acting women’s editor, acting health features editor, digital lifestyle editor, Daily Express; UK assistant femail editor, MailOnline Laura Milne Trainee, feature writer, health features editor, Daily Express Meilyr Morgan Aylward Marine Publishers; current affairs journalist and researcher, HTV; Welsh language policy officer; Duke of Edinburgh Awards Jane Mulkerrins News reporter, The Sunday Times; features, Daily Mail; freelance, (The Sunday Times, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian) Laura Newland (née Borg) Trainee,

news reporter, Press Association; network services, Winmark; senior events manager, Fast Track James Nursey Sports reporter, The Argus; sports writer, Birmingham Post; freelance, sports reporter, Daily Mirror Dan Rookwood Columnist, ES Magazine; columnist, GQ; US editor, Mr Porter Natasha Salari Features, The Mail on Sunday; reporter, Community Care Rebecca Smith Sunday Express; features trainee, news reporter, The Mirror; reporter, Sunday Mirror Annabelle Steggles Trainee, news reporter, The Scottish Sun; Sunday Mirror; news reporter, The Scottish Sun Thomas Teodorczuk Deputy editor, Wicked Whispers; reporter, Daily Mail; arts reporter, Evening Standard; freelance writer, researcher and editor Rachel Williams Features writer, The Guardian; freelance, online columnist, Cosmopolitan Alex Wynne Deputy editor, Beauty Business News; deputy editor, Cosmetic News Weekly; freelance (Women’s Wear Daily, BW Confidential)

PERIODICAL Matthew Adey Editor, Key; writer, Sky; English teacher, Loustan School Chei Amlani Reporter, Red Pepper magazine; freelance writer, Squaremeal Food; sub-editor, deputy sports editor, sports editor and London Olympics correspondent, head of digital publishing, Telegraph Media Group Al Chan FOI compliance officer, TFL; information governance manager, Greater London Authority; Information compliance manager, SOAS Marissa Charles Freelance (Pride, Closer, Zest); features reporter, Splash News & Picture Agency; freelance, Marissa Charles Media Catherine Clarke Editor, AnOther Magazine; freelance (Dazed & Confused, the Guardian, Time Out, Arena Homme Plus); deputy film editor, TimeOut London Matthew Cottingham Assistant producer, BBC Panorama; assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; director, BBC Watchdog; director, The One Show Sarah-Jane Cutting editorial assistant, production editor, Australian Business

Online; editor, WorkplaceInfo; business journalist, The Australian Sophy Dale Sub-editor,VNUnet.com; sub-editor, senior subeditor, Computing, research editor, Carnegie Investment Bank Rebecca Evans Reporter, chief reporter, news editor, Inside Housing; deputy editor, Health Service Journal; deputy editor, editor Construction News Mernie Gilmore Freelance, Company; commissioning editor, Your Life; reporter, columnist, features writer, women’s editor, Daily Express Ben Grant Deputy editor, The Drinks Business Jessica Gunn Features editor, BBC Online; features editor, Olive; deputy editor, Waitrose Kitchen magazine Phil Hebblethwaite Junior editor, assistant editor, Adrenalin, Bogey Magazine; editor, publisher, The Stool Pigeon; Freelance (The Guardian, NME, Vice and The Quietus) Dominique Hines Showbiz reporter, Daily Mail; Daily Star; New; news editor, Heat; life and style journalist, Daily Express Claire Garcia (née Kilner) Freelance, PHAM Magazine; advice and information manager, BME services; policy and planning manager, General Medical Council Ellie Levenson Freelance (New Statesman, The Guardian, The Observer); lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London; author, freelance; director, Fisherton Press Fiona Macdonald Sub-editor, feature writer, features editor, editor, Home and Commuter, Metro; feature writer, BBC Culture Debbi Marco Celebrity features editor, Full House; deputy editor, very.co.uk; freelance Louie Purday Feature writer, Take a Break; features editor, Full House; freelance Heather Sadtler PA to editor, writer, GQ; director, FiestaSol (Spain) Annabel Short Freelance (The Ecologist, Faber & Faber); corporate social responsibility consultant, Context; senior researcher, program director, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (USA) Geoffrey Spiteri News editor, Mergermarket, investment writer, M&G, senior investment editor, BNY Mellon Amy Taylor Community Care; freelance Daniel Thomas Reporter, Marketing Week; assistant news editor, Property Week; property correspondent, telecoms correspondent, Financial Times

SHARON MASCALL-DARE Public affairs officer, Australian army, Broadcast 1994 coverage of a local gymkhana and I just had no idea what it was.

Any unusual hobbies?

I do ultra-marathons — I’m currently training for a 56km run through the Adelaide Hills.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I did the news bulletins for Sounds Great Radio in Colchester every Saturday morning. Every week we did

Your biggest scoop?

In 1997 I was covering the European parliament in Strasbourg. I got the scoop that John Hume had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for securing peace in Northern Ireland.

Role model in journalism?

Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma. He is a campaigning journalist and he has done a lot of social justice work. He’s an amazing writer.

He goes about journalism in a thoroughly ethical, decent way.

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

Journalism will increasingly be practiced by the general public. There are advantages — it gives a voice to the underrepresented and it can be a force for democratic and open expression, but there’s a real risk there in terms of accuracy, ethical responsibility and balance.

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2002 Gaia Vince Editor, Ergo; news editor, Nature; freelance Natalie Williams Communications manager, Safer Hastings Partnership; communications consultant, Hastings Community Trust; communications director, New Ground

BROADCAST Suad Ali Unknown Claudine Altmann Jazz FM; broadcast journalist, Bloomberg Radio; news editor, Talksport Gurvinder Aujla-Sindhu Broadcast journalist, BBCAsian Network; freelance; lecturer, De Montfort University Lucy Boast Producer, broadcast journalist, BBC Vanessa Buschschlüter Washington producer, broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; Washington reporter and producer, BBC; Americas editor, Latin America editor, BBC World Service Rebecca Dimyan Reporter, BBC Radio Wales; reporter, producer, BBC Radio 5 Live Hilary Fraser Sales manager, IDEAglobal; consultant, Rogen International; consultant, Fraser Communications Victoria Holden Broadcast journalist, senior broadcast journalist, BBC Leigh Jennings Unknown James Josephs Production journalist, ITN; Setanta Sports News, producer, Perform Group Ragnhild Kjetland Banking reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; technology reporter, Bloomberg; freelance photographer and writer Jude Landau Producer, Feature Story News; freelance producer, NTR; trainee hypnotherapist Jonathan Leleu Senior producer, BBC Six O’Clock News; BBC Breakfast; senior producer, UK affairs, BBC Benjamin Lowings News reader, Radio New Zealand International; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service, producer, BBC World Service Christina Mackay Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC, broadcast journalist, BBC Scotland Naomi McCafferty Broadcast journalist, BBC Northern Ireland; political broadcast journalist, BBC; Ireland producer, BBC Abi McLoughlin Assistant producer, Watchdog and Rogue Traders; press

and communications officer, The Bat Conservation Trust; agent, The Voiceover Gallery Shahab Mossavat Reuters (Iran); medical student, University of London; freelance, Middle East analyst Melanie Parry BBC news sponsorship scheme; producer, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC Six O’Clock News Ewan Petrie Reporter, newsreader, Radio Wave 102 Dundee; BBC Politics (Millbank); production journalist, Scottish TV Sohail Sahi Football reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; breakfast sports reader, Adil Ray Show, BBC Asian Network; football commentator, BBC Local Nishita Sharma Presenter, producer, Aliot Asian Arts show, Break FM; freelance (BBC World Service RadioNet) Laura Sheeter Stringer BBC Baltic (Riga); broadcast journalist, BBC newsgathering; freelance reporter, producer, translator and copy editor (New York) Anna Thomas Presenter and reporter, Granada; news reporter and presenter, GMTV Louise Tickle BBC World Service; Everywoman; freelance Jonathan Wald Assignment editor, CNN (London, New York); executive producer, Piers Morgan Live; executive, CNN Monica Zilouf Freelance producer, ITV News

2002 INTERNATIONAL Sherine Abdel-Razek Economics journalist, Al Ahram Weekly; head of economy desk, Al Sharouk (Cairo); deputy managing editor, Al Ahram Weekly Akram Al-Hendi Presenter,Yemeni Satellite Channel; teacher, Specialized Institute (Yemen); head of English news and programmes department,Yemeni TV Linda Charles Ambrose Secretary, Clapton Football Club; adjunct professor, Monroe College Nouna Andersson Editor, Fastzbeck Travel Guides (Sweden); freelance photographer, web editor and sub editor Vilma Anusaite Freelance (ABC News); UK correspondent, Newspaper LT; freelance assistant producer (ABC News,

NBC, Alpha Grid, CNBC) Asad Asad UK Gold Circular; Asian Telegraph; publisher, editor, Okhla Times Neeraj Bali Trainer and field producer, Internews Network (Sri Lanka); public affairs and outreach officer, local governance and community development project (Afghanistan); deputy chief of radio, UN Amba Batra Bakshi Senior reporter, Indian Express (New Delhi); senior reporter, Indian Express (Bangalore); senior reporter, outlookindia.com Elisabeth Behrmann Market reporter, Dow Jones; commodities industry reporter, automotive reporter, Bloomberg News Ginanne Brownell Researcher and producer, CNN; editorial manager, Newsweek (London); freelance (International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Financial Times) Ratchada Chitrada Producer, AsiaWorks Television Milly Clark Advertising, OK! Jelena Culum PR and marketing manager, Home-Deq; information officer, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College; head of international visa office, University of Law Limin Dai Reporter and copy editor, editorial director, editor-in-chief assistant and business development director, 21st Century Weekly; senior business development manager, University of Exeter Nadia Damouni Financial reporter, dealReporter; corporate board correspondent, Reuters; senior vice president, Edelman Sasha Damouni Reporter, assistant editor, Mergermarket; global editor, Pharmawire; healthcare reporter, Bloomberg News Paola Desiderio Assistant producer/DV Director, BBC Perrine Faye Correspondent, basemetals.com; deputy chief correspondent, head of physical reporting, FastMarkets Ltd; deputy editor in chief and head of physicals, FastMarkets Ltd Camille Fournier Elle (Paris); psychology student, clinical psychologist, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades Jessica Frommer Freelance (Cambodia); managing editor, Institute of Cambodia; media and communications manager, EMRC International (Brussels) Dimitra Gaidatzi Senior fashion writer, Vogue (Greece); freelance (Financial Times, UK Vogue,The Daily Telegraph, People)

JOHNNY DAVIS

Editor, Esquire, Periodical What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

The advice I would give to everyone is be as pleasant as you can to each other.Your peers will be there for your whole career because you are the future of journalism.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I did an internship when I was at City on a magazine called The Face. I had to do things like go to Camden market and buy a jester’s hat. It was brilliant though, a great laugh!

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The biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

The internet emerged when we were in our first year at City and we didn’t really know what to look up. When we did celebrity interviews we would have to get in touch with a lady who kept lots of editorial cuttings in her house. We would ask her for information on David Beckham and she’d give us everything she had on him.

Role model in journalism?

A writer called Chris Heath who is amazing. He started off at Smash Hits and he currently writes for American GQ. He

does lots of celeb and real life stories.

The most important journalistic skill?

Listening to what people say, and not butting in when someone answers your interview questions.

Tori Halman

Joanna Gasiorowska Senior sports presenter, Al-Jazeera English Dwayne Gordon News editor, entertainment editor, The Star; editor, The Gleaner; editor, The Star (Jamaica) Emily Gray Researcher, BBC Manchester Harun Maruf Hassan Trainee, BBC; director, Somali Media Centre; senior editor,VOASomali (Washington) Alex Holliday Associate, Thomas Weisel Heather Hugley Administrative assistant, KSTP-TV Elena Rathgeber Freelance; research analyst, Romeike; researcher, International Institute for Strategic Studies; research analyst and assistant, Independent Conflict Research & Analysis Matiullah Jan Media law advisor, Internews (Pakistan); senior correspondent, Dawn News TV; court correspondent and anchor, Waqt News (Pakistan) Brjann Jonasson Journalist, Morgunbladid; journalist, Frettabladdid; head of public communications, Cohn & Wolfe Íslandi Charlotte Kan Equity sales/research, North Square Blue Oak; freelance; cofounder, Fabrik.digital Gulender Karabiyik Editor, ATR Communications Peter Kimani Writer, senior writer and columnist, Daily Nation (Kenya); senior associate editor, The Standard Group; doctoral candidate, University of Houston Lila Kountourioti News presenter, Alter Channel (Athens); Novasports Julian Kramer Editorial assistant, Open Democracy; Senior marketing manager; PPC manager, Kaplan International, eCommerce paid search manager, RS Components Solana Larsen Editor, Conflicts and Media; commissioning editor, director, Open Democracy; managing editor, Global Voices (New York) Charlotta Larsson Freelance Celia Li News presenter, editor, Phoenix Chinese News Constance Libert Communications, Weber Shandwick; press department, Euro RSCG; press and communications advisor, Minister of Foreign Affairs Kwangu Liwewe Freelance, (Positive Nation Magazine) (London); MA, human rights, ULU; co-ordinator, PAMODZI; West Africa Bureau chief, ENCA Fernando Lucena Current affairs, BBC; producer, Electric Sky Productions; producer, director, Fernando Lucena Films Mukela Mangolwa Senior producer, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation; IEC specialist, Teveta Zambia; publicity and education manager, Road Transport and Safety Agency David Manley Marketing assistant, Universal Studios; product manager, Rockstar Games Alexandro Martello Economics reporter, Portal G1 Joana Mateus Journalist, Diario Economico; journalist, Associated Press; freelance (Vogue); senior Europe TV producer, Associated Press (London) Richard McColl Global Traveller Magazine USA; author, The Michelin Green Guide to Colombia; freelance contributor and defence correspondent, Diologo-Americas (Colombia) Nathalie McDermott Freelance trainer, City University; project officer, Radio for Development; director, On Road Media Mike McIlvain Reporter, LareDOS; adjunct professor, Texas A&M University; lecturer, United International College Pilar Medrano-Dell Secretary, Ebullient UK Limited Anthony Mills Press freedom and communications manager, International

2002 Press Institute (IPI,Vienna, Austria); deputy director, International Press Institute; emergency communications advisor, SOS Children’s Villages International Edetaen Ojo Executive director, Media Rights Agenda (Nigeria) Dora Papagianni Unknown Theodoulos Papavasiliou Lecturer; newspaper editor; chief editor, Weekly; editor-in-chief, M. Pitsilidis SA Renee Louise Paul (née Chow) TV control room, ABC News; UK correspondent, Associated Press Radio; correspondent, BBC Caribbean Sarah Pozzoli Economic editor, ItaliaOggi; financial editor, A&F of La Repubblica; editor-in-chief, nostrofiglio.it Synnove Prytz Berset Journalist, Skarland Press AS Dong-Fang Qiu Executive editor, CCTV news Kovuuri Ganapathi Reddy media advisor, consultant, content producer, Government; special correspondent and columnist, The Hans India; professor, Bangalore University Martin Ritchie Freelance, BBC Online; correspondent, The Scotsman; The Russia Journal (Moscow); reporter, Western Gazette; reporter, Asia Editor, Metal Bulletin (China) Yenia Rivarola Medina MA in global journalism, University of Orebro Rocio Rodriguez-Fernandez account manager, Getty Images; events manager, Italian Secrets Catering; events manager, Venturi’s Table Corporate Cookery School Roee Ruttenberg Assistant news editor, Al Jazeera (Washington); freelance (Tel Aviv); correspondent, CCTV Aliza Samorly Unknown Hirotada Shimura Reporter, openDemocracy.net Shaima Shobokshi Unknown Anastasia Kavada (née Siniori) Kathimerini; media PhD student, Westminster University; senior lecturer, Westminster University Maria Sitaras-Yiangou Lecturer and managing director, evening school; programme manager in media; lecturer; teaching and learning inspector Fiona Skenderlis (née Kallis) Production director, Cinematic Soundscapes; post coordinator, Twofour Group; post production coordinator, ITV Studios Marina Suponina Deputy editor, Travel Magazine, PR and press director,Rising Star Media; programme manager, Frontline Club Ian Talley Power and gas reporter; Norway correspondent; energy policy reporter, Dow Jones; international finance reporter, Wall Street Journal (Washington) Zoe Telegraphou Group marketing manager, Baker Tilley Cyprus; freelance journalist, The Write Formula; journalist, KANALI 6 Rawle Titus Anchor, sports show; talk show host; PR officer, National Disaster Management Agency; freelance Natasha Twal Freelance (Jordan Times); media researcher, Arab Advisors; reports, Jordan Daily Times; Al Jazeera; founder, Tynes Media Group Tom Watson Jane’s Sentinel Security Assessments; researcher, BBC News; October Films; assistant producer, BBC; producer, director, Tiger Aspect; assistant producer, BBC; series producer, Sky Sandy Wilheim Broadcast assistant, BBC World Service; search engine marketing, content partner, associate, strategic partner development manager, Google Ashley Williams Assistant reporter, reporter, People; editor, ESPN magazine; senior editor, The Oprah Magazine; editor, Accenture’s Outlook journal

Christina Wu Copywriter, freelance Nicole Young Producer, 60 Minutes/CBS Evening News Heng Yue Unknown Bertrand Yvernault Reporter, La Montagne (Montlucon, France); Le Journal de l’lle (Saint-Pierre, La Reunion); La Montagne (Clermont-Ferrance, France); Le Journal de Centre (Nevers, France); author Irene Zournatzi Vogue (Greece); reporter, Liberis Publications

NEWSPAPER Kirsti Adair Trainee reporter, Liverpool Echo; current affairs, ITV West; broadcast journalist, BBC Look East; freelance, BBC Newsround Rebecca Meehan (née Barr) Reporter, Money Marketing; reporter, European transport reporter, US technology reporter, Europe reporter for TV, Bloomberg; presenter, CNBC; presenter (North West Tonight, BBC Radio 5 Live), BBC Katrina Lloyd (née Baugh) Features and news, Fund Strategy; reporter, professional advisor, deputy editor, SM international; editor, ifaonline.co.uk; Incisive Media; editor, Investment Week Stefania Bianchi Freelance, reporter, Africa Analysis; EU correspondent, InterPress News Agency (Brussels); copy editor, transport and real estate reporter, Dow Jones; gulf finance reporter, Bloomberg News Adam Blenford News reporter, Evening Standard; freelance (Jerusalem); senior broadcast journalist, BBC World, Europe Deputy Editor, Bloomberg Daniel Bushell HTTP Technology; business presenter, RT; host, The Truthseeker Riazat Butt Reporter, Al Jazeera; freelance, China Daily; news editor, Agence France-Presse Gemma Calvert Feature writer, News of the World; acting assistant editor, Fabulous!; freelance celebrity interviewer, Grazia, HELLO!, OK!, Closer, NOW, New!, Star, LOOK, Reveal Emma Clipp Reporter, Harrow Observer; sub-editor, chief sub-editor, Metro; subeditor, Daily Mail; night editor, Metro Angharad Couch Reporter, Bloomberg; financial PR advisor, Citigate Dewe Rogerson Anna Davis Reporter, education reporter, Reading Evening Post; reporter, education editor, deputy campaigns editor, Evening Standard Monidipa Fouzder Senior reporter, Buckinghamshire Advertiser; Buckinghamshire Examiner; sub-editor, senior sub-editor, Trinity Mirror; sub-editor, reporter, The Law Society Gazette Sam Green Freelance sports sub-editor and football writer, Olympic News Service (Vancouver Winter Olympics); freelance; English website editor, Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Angela Henshall Oil market reporter, energy report, Dow Jones; Wall Street Journal; deputy editor, BBC Worldwide; deputy editor, BBC Capital Wesley Johnson Trainee reporter, North America correspondent, Press Association; home affairs correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; chief news editor, Press Association Jon Kelly Trainee, Daily Mirror; broadcast journalist and reporter, BBC News Online; senior broadcast journalist, feature writer, commissioning editor, BBC News Magazine James Kilner Editor, Almati Herald (Kazakhstan); reporter, Reuters; editor,

The Conway Bulletin Serena Kutchinsky Editorial assistant, Food & Travel Magazine; digital editor, The Sunday Times Magazine; digital editor, Prospect magazine, digital editor, Newsweek Europe Gareth Law Trainee, The Sun; sports reporter, The Scottish Sun Harry MacAdam Reporter, feature writer, The Sun; director; Autokey Squad Roddy McDougall Editor-in-chief, Cantos; partner, Trinity Management Communications; director, Clackmae Ltd Natasha McDowell Writer, Nature Magazine Caroline Meehan Freelance (Financial Times); reporter, Financial News; medical student, University College London Shafik Meghji Trainee, Evening Standard; freelance news and sports journalist; novelist; travel writer, Rough Guides Ryan Mills Sports reporter, Bloomberg; production journalist, ITV Anglia Sonia Oxley Trainee, senior sub-editor, sports desk, Reuters Lilly Peel Reporter, Brighton Argus; associate director, Perfect Relations PR; The Statesman (Kolkata); features editor, Panos (London); communications officer, Christian Aid Emma Pryer Trainee, 3am Daily Mirror; news and TV reporter, The People; reporter, Bizarre The Sun; news and celebrity editor, More; travel columnist, The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney); showbiz reporter, The Sun; TV editor, The Sunday Mirror Louise Redvers Trainee, health reporter, chief reporter, Evening Chronicle; news editor, Aberdeen Evening Express; freelance reporter (BBC, AFP, Monocle, the Guardian, The Economist, The EIU, The Africa Report, The Mail, the Guardian, Africa Confidential, South Africa); freelance journalist, South Africa; IRIN Rachel Richardson Showbiz reporter, News of the World (Scotland); feature writer, TV reporter, TV editor, showbiz editor, News of the World; associate editor, editor, Fabulous; head of editorial content, Snapchat.

Ryan Sabey Reporter, News of the World; political correspondent, The Sun Mark Scodie Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Jewish Chronicle; trainee solicitor, associate, litigation and dispute resolution, assistant solicitor, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP; corporate counsel, TripAdvisor Sam Sheringham Trainee, Press Association; sports reporter, Bloomberg News; Setanta Sports News; journalist, BBC Sport Interactive; producer of ‘Stumped’, BBC World Service Nyree Stewart Senior reporter, features editor, Investment Advisor Christopher Tryhorn Trainee, The Times; city correspondent, Media Guardian; freelance; associate, Demos Andrew Walker Reporter, Camden New Journal & Islington Tribune; MA in development studies, SOAS; Daily Trust (Abuja, Nigeria); reporter, BBC News Online; freelance Victoria Ward Trainee, China Daily; trainee, Ireland correspondent, US correspondent, Press Association; news reporter, Daily Mirror; senior news reporter, The Daily Telegraph Georgina Wykes PR and marketing officer, Spelthorne Borough Council

PERIODICAL Laura Atkinson Editorial assistant, arts and style editor, Independent Magazines; freelance (More,The Sunday Times, Sneak); features editor, Sneak; deputy news editor, news editor, Heat; features editor,

Grazia; features editor, deputy editor, Style Magazine,The Sunday Times Mark Beveridge Reporter, Housing Today; researcher, International Criminal Justice Celeste Biever Intern, Red Herring; technology new editor, deputy news editor, online news editor, chief news editor, New Scientist; chief news editor, Nature News and Comment Tim Bradshaw Assistant, Lucas Alexander Whitley; intern, Ellie; staff writer, senior staff writer, Information Age; companies editor, Investors Chronicle; digital media correspondent, Financial Times; San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times; SF tech reporter & Personal Tech columnist, Financial Times Tom Campbell Sub-editor, Press Association Weather Centre; subeditor and reporter, production editor, Regeneration & Renewal; author; subeditor, SciDev.net Manfreda Cavazza Freelance (The Independent on Sunday, Reuters Health, telegraph.co.uk); writer and sub-editor, AFX News; news reporter, Retail Week; business correspondent, Sunday Express; freelance Victoria Chow (née Worsley) Subeditor and feature writer, The Stage; freelance (Health & Fitness,Women’s Health); features sub-editor, Metro; freelance copyeditor and proofreader Michael Deacon Sub-editor, More; junior writer, J17; reviews editor, Zoo; feature writer, The Sun Online, TV features editor, The Daily Telegraph; parliamentary sketchwriter, writer on TV and books, The Daily Telegraph Priya Elangasinghe Staff Writer, Kultureflash.net; production assistant, Carlton Television; freelance (Q, Ink, Seve, TOTP, Girl About Town, kultureflash.net, Bleedmusic, Smash, Hits, Zoo) Abigail Frymann Creative project manager, web editor, Tearfund; foreign news editor, online editor, The Tablet; freelance reporter (Mail Online, The Guardian,The Independent,The Tablet); doing an MA in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College Dafydd Goff Sub-editor, In Style; writer and sub-editor, The Month, The Sunday Times; music editor, Time Online; online music sub-editor, culture sub-editor, The Guardian; died 2014 Naomi Greenaway Staff writer, M Celebs, Sunday Mirror; features editor, associate editor, assistant editor, Glamour (South Africa); freelance (Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, Glamour,Top Sante, Woman&Home, Mail Online) Gareth Jones Freelance; University of Cambridge; BBC Worldwide; Electoral Commission; Footstep Productions; freelance; product development manager; head of information, Dr. Foster Research; Victoria Kennedy Reporter, Catchline News; showbiz reporter, Daily Express; celebrity writer, Reveal; features writer, assistant features editor, Daily Mirror; Deputy content director and digital editor, Now James Knight Editor, Web Watch; The Sunday Times (Food & Travel); Bradt Travel Guides; freelance (Reuters, The Economist, The Sunday Times, BBC Online, African Business, Africa Investor) Laura Kyle Copy editor and host, China Radio International; copy editor, China Central Television International; freelance, That’s Beijing, Beijing Review, Metrozine; copy editor, reporter, voice-over, China Central Television International; producer, reporter Al Jazeera (Kuala Lumpur), presenter at Al Jazeera Darren Lazarus Staff writer, Faversham House Group; deputy news editor, senior reporter, reporter, Estates Gazette; deputy online editor, online editor, executive editor, Financial News

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Kerry McCarthy Freelance features writer (More, New Woman, Men’s Health, J17); features writer, acting associate editor, Woman’s Day (Australia); associate editor, Glamour (Australia); acting associate editor, Woman’s Day; wellness/ careers editor, Marie Claire; freelance (Pacific Magazines) Ruth McCarthy Editorial assistant, Global Listings; freelance (Bella, More); PR executive, Rocket PR; beauty writer, HairFlair & Beauty; commissioning editor, Full House; news and features editor, Take 5 (Sydney) Laura McCreddie Freelance (Asda, Vitality, Zembia); features director,Yoga; deputy editor, Salon Therapist; managing editor, Professional Beauty and Retail Jeweler; editor, Eve’s Watch Iain Noble Assistant editor, Marine Engineers Review; deputy editor, Landrover World; sub-editor, Pick Me Up; sub-editor, Nuts; sub-editor, Zoo Weekly (Sydney); sub-editor, NW Magazine (Sydney); deputy chief sub-editor, NW magazine (Sydney); freelance Olivia Richwald Freelance (China Daily, The Sun Online; education reporter, Evening News, Norwich); reporter, Northern Echo; video journalist, BBC Yorkshire Gregor Ridley PR account executive, senior account executive, account manager, Colette Hill Associates; freelance consultant, Blue Rubicon; media relations manager, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; assistant director, global advisory PR leader, EY, Head of UK Marketing and Communications, Oliver Wyman Stephen Russell Marketing PR, copywriter, City and Islington College; sub-editor, Big Issue (Scotland); freelance (Sunday Herald); staff writer and web master, Big Issue (Scotland); freelance (Oz Magazine, Citysearch, DNA, Artisan, Fairfax Community Network, Time Out Melbourne) Elena Seymenliyska Freelance (The Bookseller, The Daily Telegraph, Belgravia Magazine); sub-editor, The Daily Telegraph; book reviewer, the Guardian; sub-editor, arts & books, The Daily Telegraph; freelance editorial consultant; sub-editor, Aeon Magazine Graham Smith; Freelance (France, Investis, World Entertainment News Network); wire editor, editorial special events manager, Los Angeles editor, World Entertainment News Network; news editor, online editor, MailOnline; editor, BusinessTraveller.com; Deputy Online News Editor, Newsweek Europe Chloe Stothart Reporter, finance editor, deputy news editor, Housing Today; freelance (Children, Now, New Star, Young People, the Guardian, Third Sector, Construction News, Inside Housing) Deborah Stowe Copy editor, reporter, Bucharest Business Week; freelance (Business Review,Vivid, Holidays in Romania, New Bucharest Express, The Daily Telegraph, Bucharest in your Pocket, The Times,The Independent); journalist, Business Review (Bucharest); author, Thomas Cook Publishing; freelance, copy editor and journalist, Business Review Magazine Matthew Thompson Trident Communications; account executive, journalist, account manager, Citigate Publishing Daniel Uglow Staff writer, Motor Caravan; features reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; freelance travel writer (Australia); managing editor, editor-inchief, editorial director Travel Weekly Australia; co-founder and editorial director, The Misfits Media Company Eleanor White Listings editor, Galaxy Out There; freelance (Catchline news and features agency, Cosmetics International

magazine, More J17, The Bookseller); assistant editor, Community practitioner and Mental Health Nursing; lifestyle editor, ITV teletext; health writer, feature writer, The Sun; freelance (The Sun,The Evening Standard, Closer, new!, Now, OK!, that’s life!, Chat, Pick Me Up, Bella); editorial and content strategist, Weber Shandwick Health Peter Wilson Freelance (Ski guide, Telegraph Weekend,Telegraph Motoring, Ski and Board, Metro, Rugby World, The Field, Daily Mail); assistant editor, Mazda magazine; writer, BAR Pure Racing, motoring supplements; editor, MoneyPlus, feelFord; section editor, Fabric magazine; editor, Forward; editor, managing editor, Specialist Adam Withrington Writer, sub-editor, HOT magazine; staff writer, Harperson-trade; sports sub-editor, Telegraph Online; contributor, Flavour; news reporter, drinks editor, head of features, the Publican; communications manager, Carlsberg UK; European PR and events controller, Accolade wines; senior PR manager, Treasury Wine Estates Kate Woodward Wire editor, World Entertainment News Network; ITV soap column; freelance (Inside Soap, All About Soap, ITV.com, Sugar, Sun TV magazine, Soaplife, Closer, Reveal, What’s on TV); news editor, Inside Soap; the Crime Writers’ Association

BROADCAST

Munier Abdalla Broadcast journalist, Downton Radio; PM Editor, Cool FM; broadcast journalist, UTV Edward Adams Freelance (IRN, LBC sports); broadcast journalist, multimedia producer, head of production, ITN; Output Producer, ON; video consultant, video news editor, head of video, Telegraph Media Group Adnan Ahmed TV producer/director, Steadfast TV; researcher, Juniper TV; Wall to Wall TV; production runner, Diverse production; Forbidden Fruit; shooting assistant producer, Who Rules The Roast; director, Mirror Signal Manoeuvre; assistant producer, BBC; producer, director, Steadfast TV; series producer, director, CNBC; director of photography, F&ME; producer, Moonbeam Films; director/camera, Objective Productions; producer, Al Jazeera English; producer/ director, Mandrake Films; series producer, Screenchannel Television Eve-Marie Akers BBC World Service, BBC TV London Anna Bailey Presenter and producer, Liberty Radio; newsreader, Club Asia Radio; freelance broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1xtra & BBC World Service, reporter; BBC Radio 2; reporter BBC Radio 4 Edward Baran Broadcast journalist, ITN Radio; reporter, producer, Calendar News (ITV Yorkshire); news reporter, presenter, North East Tonight (ITV Tyne Tees); freelance; news reporter and presenter, ITV; reporter, producer, GMTV; reporter, producer, BBC News; video journalist, AFP; PR and communications consultant, Kingston University; reporter and television news producer, Reuters News Agency Melissa Barham News editor, Kestrel FM; drive time newsreader, BRMB; freelance (The Eagle); reporter, ITV Granada Sian Bundred Associate producer, Lion TV, Channel 4; producer, Radio 5 Live; associate producer, Be Good Films, Channel 4; associate producer, BBC Millbank; associate producer, Juniper TV, Channel 4; head of development, Mentorn (Oxford); researcher, Brook lapping; freelance TV current affairs producer

Antony D’Angelo Freelance (City AM); associate producer, football reporter, senior producer, associate producer, talkSPORT; athletics producer, BBC5 Live Oliver Dearden Kick FM; broadcast journalist, drive time presenter, BBC Radio Wiltshire and BBC Radio Swindon; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5; producer, Morning Edition, line producer weekend edition, National Public Radio (Washington DC) Jodie Fielder Sports broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Kent; TV journalist, BBC Look North; senior broadcast journalist, BBC North West Tonight Kate Fisher BBC 3; freelance (Radio 1, 1Xtra, BBC London); reader, reporter, Beacon FM; broadcast journalist, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire; broadcast journalist, BBC Midlands Today, freelancer, FJ Productions, filmmaking tutor, City College Brighton and Hove Adam Fleming Presenter, reporter, BBC Newsround, Sportsround; political reporter, BBC Jenny Gimpel European news editor, edie.net; Political reporter at the BBC on the Daily Politics, Sunday Politics and Politics Europe.

Kirsten Hills Assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; reporter ITV Central South; journalist, ITV Central West; journalist, BBC News; reporter, Lorenzo de Medici (Florence); journalist, filmmaker, The Florentine; freelance ; founder, HillsFilms.com Rachel Horne (née Gibson) Runner, BBC Breakfast with Frost; researcher, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; breakfast radio reporter, BBC Essex; presenter, BBC Newsround; reporter, BBC Working Lunch Sonja Jessup Senior broadcast journalist, Hereward FM; broadcast journalist, BBC Essex, BBC Look East; senior broadcast journalist, BBC London TV; Reporter & Presenter BBC London News Julie Kangisser (née Hayman) Broadcast journalist, BBC TV News Planning, BBC News 2, BBC London News; network producer, BBC TV News; communications consultant, Fishburn Hedges; Department for Work and Pensions; director of corporate marketing and communications, Middlesex University; director, Think Communications Limited Anna Lee Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Cleveland; reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat Kasia Madera Broadcast journalist, BBC News; BBC Asian Network; senior broadcast journalist, presenter, BBC News; presenter, BBC World News Joel Mapp Broadcast journalist, Radio Suffolk; video journalist, BBC Spotlight TV; Northamptonshire reporter, BBC Look East; Radio Suffolk; Look East; Spotlight; producer/director, BBC Inside Out; director, BBC Watchdog Christopher Mason Trainee, ITN; BBC Radio 5 Live; Radio Newcastle; political reporter, Europe correspondent, BBC; political correspondent, BBC Rhiannon Mills Northants 96; breakfast news reader, GWR; deputy news editor, Northants 06; news trainee, ITV; ITV Yorkshire; freelance (ITV, Sky, Sky Sports, BBC); royal correspondent, Sky News Sarah Mills Producer, reporter and anchor, senior reporter, morning show reporter, host, The Sarah Mills Show; senior reporter, 980 CJME and 650 CKOM (Rawlco Radio) Rachel Muir Assistant producer, BBC Newsround, Boys & Girls, Sex and British pop, The Princess & Panorama; ITV; Daily Mirror Jonathan Norman Sports producer, Talksport Radio; producer, IMG Media; cricket reporter, LBC & Setanta Sports

News; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 live; freelance (IME Media); freelance broadcast journalist; football commentator, UEFA; talkSPORT Cricket Correspondent & Executive Producer Jessica Parfitt Production co-ordinator, BBC Georgia Peters Freelance (Metro, Unique, BBC 7); breakfast show co-host and news editor, Radio Static; breakfast show host, 107 Star FM; producer, LBC; BBC; blogger, Before The Big Day; Newsreader for ARN. Jim Reed Assistant producer, CNBC Europe; reporter, BBC Newsnight; reporter, BBC Radio 4; reporter,Victoria Derbyshire programme.

Saria Rees-Roberts Freelance (BBC); press office, Amnesty International Nishita Sharma Reporter, presenter, features writer, Wish Hard Production Company Ann Smith BBC Radio Essex; broadcast journalist; production journalist, ITV Border Yean Tang Unknown Amanda Walker Breakfast reporter, drive time reporter, LBC 97.3 and Heart 106.2; news reporter, LBC Radio; reporter, ITV Border; US Correspondent, Sky News

2003 INTERNATIONAL Baptiste Aboulian Freelance (20 Minutes France SAS); managing editor, Ignites Europe Tareq Al-Arab Correspondent, Deutsche Welle; financial journalist, Financial Times; deputy head of press, German Embassy London; senior communications consultant, Siemens Fareena Alam Editor, Q News; freelance (The Guardian, Newsweek International) Anna Albien Unknown Vilma Anusaite contributing editor, Bon Vivant Concierge; freelance (CNBC, NBC, Alpha Grid, ABC); Commercial Partnerships & Sales Development Manager, Thomson Reuters Tunde Asaju Head of press and public affairs, British High Commission (Abuja); consultant, Enable Media Project; chief operating officer, Africa Passion Radio Zalina Azman Managing director, Maxmedia Sdn Bhd Neha Bal Reporter, Dow Jones; Unknown Mark Bhagwandin Website moderator, MSN; senior education and media officer, LIFE; chairman, Oxford East Conservative Association Ruben Bicho Deputy editor, Economico TV; senior associate, The Boston Consulting Group; Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group Daniela Bluth Goldfarb Cultural pages, Trés; reporter, editor, chief sub-editor, Galeria; Unknown Eva Rey Botana Correspondent, Basque Country Radio (London); presenter, news anchor, RCN TV Semanario Busqueda Freelance Nikolaos Broumas Account manager, Rascal S.A.; account manager, OgilvyOne Worldwide (Athens); account director Laura Brown Freelance associate producer, Metro Morning; associate producer, senior producer, CBC Radio Toronto; Writer/ Editor, Flying Feathers Productions, (Toronto) Olga Budarova Broadcast assistant, BBC Radio 4; freelance

2003 Amandine Cauchy project manager, Groupe Alain Ayache; digital project manager, Ciclic; freelance digital project manager Gabrielle Chatelain-Moor Producer, Associated Press; TV reporter, Agence France Presse; Deputy Coordinator, AFPTV France, Victoria Chimbwanda (née Massimo) Internal communications, Plan UK; communications manager, Kessben Group of Companies; Private university, Communications and Public Relations Officer Jana Ciglerovß Presenter, Radio Express & Czech TV; editor, MAFRA; Unknown Ryan Coopamah Writer and subeditor, senior journalist, editor, Brave New Words; head of communication, The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd Elodie Cuzin Freelance; online editor, Discovery Channel; freelance (Spain), Le Monde, Libération, L’Agefi, Rue89, Le Télégramme, Statégies, Les Inrocks, Marianne; journalist in Madrid, Agence France-Presse Veronique Deiller News assistant, Canal Plus; Le Journal des Femmes; section editor, Psychologies; editor-in-chief, MagicMaman.com Yanik Delvigne-Jean freelance (Ecuador) News, motor supplement, The Sunday Times; researcher, reporter, producer, Insight SBS TV (Australia), journalist, ABC; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Supervising Producer, Breakfast Eduardo Escorial Head of development, Shine Iberia Behzad Farsian Stringer, The Daily Telegraph (Iran); freelance; owner and managing director, AutoGlass Middle East Mathieu Fournier Journalist, researcher, public affairs, Télé Quebec; Ludicatif Present, CBC; journalist, presenter, Radio Canada Jennifer Furmidge Freelance consultant (Challenges Worldwide) Dwayne Gordon Editor, The Jamaica Star Sergiy Grytsenko Media and communications officer (Ukraine), United Nations Development Programme; press advisor, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; communications analyst, The World Bank Silvia Guzzetti Freelance (Avvenire, Famiglia Cristiana, Club 3, Letture); Italian teacher, University of Leicester Samantha Schneider (née Hays) Pre-comp coordinator, proofreader, Anthology; event coordinator, Stitch Together Events; marketing specialist, Encore Packaging Christine Hoffmann Freelance; associate editor, Getty Images Jan Hromadko Translator; reporter, Dow Jones; reporter, Wall Street Journal; senior consultant, Charles Barker Corporate Communications Heather Hugley Administrative assistant, KSTP-TV Helena Iveson China Central Television; newsreader, anchor, CCTV International; freelance (South China Morning Post, Asia Weekly,The Australian,The Independent on Sunday,The Guardian); freelance Jingjing Jiang China Business Weekly Marit Borud Kamark Freelance (Eva, HSMAI travel business, Insero, Hotell Restaurant OG Reiseliv); senior associate, Korn Ferry (Norway); Flensby & Partners, Partner Njoki Karuoya National project professional personnel, KEMEP/UNFPA; senior communications officer, UNFPA Kenya; Keroche Foundation, Chief Executive Officer Ruhi Khan UK correspondent, Hindustan Times; senior correspondent, Mumbai Mirror, Times of India; principal

JOB RABKIN

Commissioning editor for investigations for Channel 4 News, Newspaper 1997

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

At the moment there are so many different outlets and there is such a plurality of voices that for journalists to stand out, their correspondent, NDTV; editor, Newsletter: Life & Times, 5E Ltd Sunanda Kumar Senior sub-editor, reporter, HindustanTimes.com; principal correspondent, Times Internet Limited; AVP- Talent Marketing & Employer Branding, Genpact Jeremy Landor Unknown Leslie Ann Lee Freelance, BBC Forward Maisokwadzo Communications officer, Mediawise; coordinator at EJN Dalia Martinez Freelance Joana Mateus Vogue (Portugal); Atlantico Magazine; reporter, senior TV producer, Associated Press Isaiah Mbuga Communications consultant, Promoting Media; lecturer, Uganda Christian University; Uganda communications and advocacy specialist, Research Triangle International; Unknown Yan Mei Research fellow, marketing and business strategy, University of Westminster; London coordinator, external relations executive, China Policy Institute; programme coordinator, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Unknown Elodie Mialet Freelance, France 2; broadcast journalist, France TV; producer, Canal Plus (France); Unknown Sara Yasmine Mohamed Assistant manager, vice president, corporate communications, CIMB Investment Bank; Vice president corporate affairs, Citibank Berhad Sandra Nyaira Website editor, coeditor, ZimbabweJournalists.com; English editor, Voice of America; Public Information Officer, United Nations Alan O’Sullivan Reporter, Trinity Mirror South; banking correspondent, This Is Money,The Mail on Sunday; reporter, Daily Mail; Unknown Filipa Parreira Reporter, sub-editor, Lusa News Agency (Portugal); Unknown Alicia Peyrano Researcher, reporter, Time Out; producer, Reef Television, producer, Waddell Media; owner, Little Citizens Boutique Isabelle Porter Freelance reporter, La Gazette des Femmes; cultural correspondent, Le Devoir (Montreal); Unknown Doreen Rietentiet Producer, Deutsche Welle; external relations, TV21/CNBC (Germany); PR consultant at DRW Eco (Germany) Matthew Robinson Radio B92 (Serbia); Balkans correspondent, South Caucasus correspondent, Balkans chief correspondent, Reuters Maria Sarafoglou International news

journalism has to be different and exclusive. A lot of media organisations are realising that and hopefully we are seeing a little revival in investigative journalism.

and watching TV news. When I was at college I wrote an article that somebody unbeknownst to me sent into The Guardian which was reprinted and that’s where it all started.

Your biggest scoop?

I am in the middle of one at the moment which is one of the biggest things I have ever worked on. It is a Channel 4 News investigation into Conservative Party expenses.

Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

Don’t aim too high. Go for a job where you actually get a chance to cut your teeth and learn to make mistakes. The journalists that I know that worked on regional newspapers were in the end better journalists.

What made you want to become a journalist?

My father was a journalist and I always loved reading newspapers reporter, NET and ETI; news anchor, ERT (Greece); political correspondent, news anchor, Mega TV Nicola Scevola Scriptwriter, travel documentaries, Rai (Italy); freelance (Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Casa Vogue, Myself, Io Donna, Amica,Tu Style, SkySport24, Reuters, La Stampa, Il Foglio); Freelance Patrick Schleisman Unknown Amanda Scott CNN International; web news editor, NBC 10 News (Philadelphia); multimedia journalist,Voice of America Sunil Shetty The Times of India; Executive director, Alpha Amega Services; Cofunder & CEO, Askfunding Shamillia Sivathambu Vice president, corporate communications, PIMCO; communications, Labuan IBFC; Head, strategic communications, United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Tor Ketil Solberg Advisor, EURES (Norway); course instructor, Folkeuniversitetet; City of Refuge Coordinator, Stavanger Cultural Centre Jugoslav Stojanov Industry analyst, (Automotive); Datamonitor plc; Unknown Carolina Stupino ANSA; Il Messaggero (Italy); Unknown Gonzalo Suarez Redondo Freelance, (MTV magazine, Capital, Fortuna Sports); reporter, La Razon (Madrid); reporter, El Mundo newspaper (Cronica - Sunday features supplement); Unknown Kiryl Sukhotski Host, BBC Russia Ian Talley Energy policy reporter, international finance reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; International Finance Reporter, The Wall Street Journal Yogita Tahilramani Communications consultant, CIFOR; political and security analyst, Hill & Associates (Jakarta); Unknown Emre Temel Producer, BBC World Service (Turkey); senior web editor, Al Jazeera Turk; Unknown Luciana Teshima Unknown Line Hassall Thomsen Press department, ITV News; Channel 4 News, PhD in Newsroom Studies, Aarhus University; journalism lecturer, Aarhus University Arturo Torres Unknown Julien Toyer EU correspondent, Thomson Reuters; senior correspondent, Reuters News (Spain); Bureau Chief, Reuters (Spain) Johanna Treeck Journalist, production manager, Chambers & Partners; senior correspondent, Thomson Reuters; senior European Central Bank correspondent, MNI News/ Deutsche Boerse Group Admore Tshuma, Dr The Children’s Mutual; PhD, lecturer (Poverty and

Alex Berry

International Development), University of Bristol; course leader, South East Essex College Rosalind Tunnicliffe Freelance, Associated Press Radio Christine Wambaa Reporter, bureau chief, East Africa correspondent, SABC, Nation Media Group (Nairobi); public information audio visual productions, UN; Unknown Isabell Witt Fcredit reporter, Thomson Reuters; freelance; senior editor, LCD News, McGraw Hill Financial Fabienne Wydler Proofreader, Merrill; spokesperson, humanitarian aid (Switzerland); media coach, Patrick Rohr Kommunikation Yacine Yala Reporter, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (Beirut); HR and administration director, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Algérie; Unknown Jennifer Zausch Senior producer, Associated Press Television News

NEWSPAPER Kerry Beadling Entertainment reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; senior reporter, Coventry Telegraph; head of communications, UHCW NHS Trust Emily Beament News trainee, general reporter, environment correspondent, Press Association Kara Griffiths (née Bradley) Account manager, Central Office of Information; communications officer, Amey; media relations manager, communications and stakeholder engagement manager - estates development, University of Birmingham Jaymes Bryla Trainee sub-editor, Press Association; news sub-editor, Daily Mail; news sub-editor, associate night editor, The Sun Timothy Burroughs China Daily; editor-in-chief, China Economic Review; managing editor Asian Venture Capital Journal (Hong Kong); Unknown Margaret Clothier Reuters (Russia) Tom Collomosse Sports reporter, Press Association; sports reporter, cricket and football correspondent, Evening Standard Lorraine Cushnie Online editor, Asiamoney; editor, EuroWeek Asia; editor, GlobalCapital Asia Anna Ford (née Farley) News reporter, Press Association; media manager, Save The Children; head of PR, CAFOD

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MATT MUNDAY

Writer and sub-editor, The Sunday Times Magazine, Periodical 1998 What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

I’d be tempted to say I should have done the online course, given what has happened to print journalism — but I still love print. I’m clinging on!

Advice you would have given to yourself after finishing City?

Don’t worry if you screw up, because you will. Just make sure you learn fast from your mistakes. And always pause to reflect before sending irritable emails.

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

If the current vogue for craft and artisanal values continues, then it would be nice to think there will be a renewed appreciation for the subeditor’s skills. If you scrimp on production, the end product always suffers.

Your biggest scoop?

Landing a one-on-one interview with Fabio Capello while he was manager of the England football team. It was my first Sunday Times Magazine cover story, though it lost its lustre a bit after our disastrous performance at the 2010 World Cup. The most important journalistic skill?

Rat-like cunning and good grammar, though the latter may not be necessary if you possess enough of the former.

Moya Crockett

Charlotte Ronalds Assistant editor, Junior Education; deputy editor, Child Education; freelance travel writer Hayley Shedden Celebrity writer, Woman; brand solutions editor, BBC Worldwide; creative solutions editor, Immediate Media Sebastian Skeaping, Dr Piano tuner and restorer; owner, Thornhill Pianos John Stepek Writer, Sunday People; finance writer, Teletext; website editor, deputy editor, editor, Money Week Natalie Stevenson Features reporter, Property Week; technology editor, deputy features editor, Retail Week; teacher Rachel Tompkins Features, Take a Break; senior writer, deputy features editor, features editor, head of features, Pick Me Up and Chat, freelance Esther Walker Features writer, The Independent; freelance (The Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, The Guardian, Easy Living and Tatler); author Charles Williams Editorial manager, British Red Cross; head of external affairs, Business in the Community; content manager, Marie Curie Cancer Care

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Jane Fryer Writer, GQ; trainee, feature writer, Daily Express; staff feature writer, Daily Mail John Harrington Senior reporter, deputy news editor, Morning Advertiser; associate editor, M&C Report: deputy editor, PR Week Meyrem Hussein Reporter, Ipswich Evening Star; reporter, Islington Gazette; Unknown Caroline Iggulden Feature writer, features editor, The Sun; features editor, senior feature writer, News International (New York); Features editor, News International (London) Mark Meadows Sports writer, European stock market correspondent, sports subeditor and reporter, Reuters; freelance sports and travel journalist, Reuters; Berlin tour guide Brian Moher Staff writer, Reuters; SelfFly Safaris (South Africa) Caroline Muspratt Reporter, Financial News; business reporter, city reporter, The Daily Telegraph, business reporter, Sunday Express; investment writer, Capital Group; senior investment writer, T. Rowe Price; senior writer, RBS, Corporate & Institutional Banking Sachin Nakrani Sports reporter and sub-editor; sports features editor, The Guardian; Writer & Editor,The Guardian Arabella Newnham Researcher, BBC; freelance series producer, assistant producer; Producer Svenja O’Donnell Reporter, economy and politics correspondent, Bloomberg News; Uk politics/ treasury correspondent, Bloomberg News Sarah Ogden Senior marketing executive, Improve; campaign manager, communications manager, content marketing manager, Aviva; Unknown Lisa Parry Reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; freelance, Times Educational Supplement Kiran Randhawa Reporter, Daily Mail; senior reporter, Evening Standard Chloe Rhodes Features assistant, commissioning editor, The Daily Telegraph; Unknown Matthew Roper Feature writer, Daily Mirror; freelance; founder, Meninadança Jessica Shepherd Reporter, The Birmingham Post; reporter, Times Higher Educational Supplement; education correspondent, news editor (planning), The Guardian Primrose Slater (née Skelton) Editor, Lovestyle.com; online Editor, Motivate Publishing (Dubai); freelance PR

executive; Seven Media (Dubai) Bobby Stansfield News reporter, Daily Mirror; Press officer, Department for International Development; Private secretary, Department for International Development Mark Stevenson Reporter, The Scottish Sun; news reporter, The Sun; television scriptwriter Steven Swinford Reporter, The Sunday Times; deputy news editor, senior political correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Deputy political editor,The Telegraph Louise Thomas Reporter, assistant news editor, WMN; assistant editor, Daily Mail

PERIODICAL Anushka Asthana Reporter, education correspondent, policy editor, The Observer; political reporter, chief political correspondent, The Times; political correspondent, Sky News Antony Barton Assistant editor, deputy editor, Electrical Review, Electrical Times; news editor, Supply Management; freelance travel writer Julie Bieles Visiting research associate, King’s College London; physiotherapist, London Scottish RFC; PhD student, King’s College London Sarah Bush Marketing director, UK country manager,Vestiaire Collective; UK country manager, Pinterest; consultant, LVDY Consulting Nick Clark Freelance, staff writer, section editor, Financial News; reporter, arts correspondent, The Independent Caroline Corcoran Freelance editor, Heat; editor, 3am Online; freelance (Stylist, Grazia, Look, Cosmopolitan, Fabulous) Adrian Cornell Citigate Publishing; subeditor, The Daily Telegraph; PhD in History at Lancaster University; teacher Joanna de Mille (née Grobel) Reporter, Convenience Store; feature writer, Morning Advertiser; Lime PR; director, Exact PR Anthony Dhanendran Senior producer, BBC Global iPlayer; product manager, BBC Good Food; Digital product lead, BBC Top Gear Maria Englund Correspondent, Dagens Nyheter and Goteborg Posten; feature writer, Expressen; freelance; CEO, Asia at Better Business; international PR and branding consultant, Inema PR; co-

founder and director, Style by Asia Paul Isaacs Associate editor, Designlines, (Toronto); reporter, British Red Cross; freelance critic; writer, Eye Weekly; freelance, senior digital editor, UNICEF UK Vanessa Jolly Features researcher, Daily Mail; assistant editor, The Sunday Times; families and sexes editor, The Times; deputy editor, Times2; Unknown Anna Kierstan News and features writer, Drapers; freelance editor, Worldwide; chief sub-editor, Which?; Unknown Helen King (née Down) PR manager, The Mill; copyrighter, consultant, owner, Treacle PR Rebecca King Researcher, food and interiors, The Saturday Times Magazine; senior writer, The Sun; Femail commissioning editor, Daily Mail Chris Lines Editor, Host City; deputy editor, Gambling Online; editor, Gambling Insider; publications officer, City University London Jonathan Lipsey Deputy editor, editor, Men’s Fitness; co-founder, IronLife Alex Marshall Sub-editor, China Daily; reporter, investigations editor, senior reporter, politics reporter, online news editor, ENDS Report; freelance, (Flux,Vision China Daily, Stool Pigeon, BBC, The New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent); author, Random House Books Kate Maxwell Deputy health editor, Daily Mail; senior editor, contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller (US); editor-inchief, Jetsetter; Europe editor, contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller; editorial director, Soho House Group Andrew Morris features editor, arts editor, contributing editor, GQ; editor, Gigwise; Acting Deputy Editor BA High Life Lisa Murch Freelance, The Sunday Telegraph, Ubiqus Sean O’Connell Product and technology director, Weve; chief product and marketing officer, Skrill; Chief digital officer, Plexus Rose Parfitt Research executive, Voodoo; freelance, Your Life!, Blues & Soul, Mix,The List, Dr. Foster; PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies Caitlin Pike Editor, Mid-Sussex Matters; editorial assistant, broadcast reporter, Press Gazette; freelance Peter Robins Production journalist, The Daily Telegraph; sub-editor, The Guardian; production editor, The Spectator

Candice Allen-Olson Sky News; internal communications manager, ArcelorMittal; freelance video producer, director and editor Kate Atkinson Reporter, producer, ITV Local News; assistant programme editor, ITN Claire Bridge researcher, Sky News; broadcast journalist, 2-Ten-FM (Heart Berkshire); chief sub-editor, Sky News Digital Jonathan Bithrey Freelance (BBC Radio Solent, BBC Hereford and Worcester); broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Jersey; business reporter, editor, presenter, BBC World Service Abigail Brown Researcher, The Sharp End, Ten Alps, Brook Lapping; producer, Julian Worricker Show; BBC Radio Five Live Peter Denton Broadcast journalist, Mix 96 Aylesbury; drive time presenter, Mix 107; presenter, Spirit FM Edith Djin Reporter, Mail on Sunday; junior account executive; PR account executive Clair Duff Researcher, associate producer, Channel 5 Ayesha Durgahee Freelance, BBC Radio 1Xtra News; freelance associate producer, CNN International; presenter, Bloomberg Alison Earle Showbiz reporter, ITN; freelance producer/reporter (CNBC, BBC News, Getty); video journalist, London Live ESTV Ian Edgar Transmission controller, BSkyB Adam Fleming Presenter, reporter, Newsround, BBC; political correspondent, BBC News; reporter, Daily Politics Rachel Fowell Broadcast journalist; BBC Lincolnshire; senior press officer, Department for Transport Claire French Producer, BskyB Elizabeth Hill Bulletin journalist, RI:SE, Channel 4; news editor, ITV London News Naomi-Jayne Holland senior producer, Eventful Management; executive, NPire Ltd; AM bulletins editor, Cool FM and Downtown Radio David Jerman Freelance reporter (BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire); sports producer, BBC Radio Lincolnshire; assistant editor, senior broadcast journalist, BBC Look North Loveday Kitto video journalist, BBC Look North; reporter, GMTV; producer,

2004 ITV Christopher Landau religious affairs correspondent, BBC; Anglican trainee priest, Ripon College Cuddesdon; curate, Church of England Adrian Larkin senior music journalist and digital producer, BBC 6 Music and Radio 2; head of music, AudioBoom, Freelance Robert Lawrence Senior producer, Newsbeat; senior producer, Jeremy Vine Show; assistant editor, editor, BBC News Helen Ledwick Broadcast assistant, BBC; assistant producer, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Benjamin Lowings Web producer, Fairfax Interactive; news reader (Europe correspondent), Radio New Zealand International; producer, BBC World Service Theo Luke content partnership associate,YouTube, Google; head of digital, SYCO; partner developer EMEA, Twitter Rachel Lynch Senior broadcast journalist, BBC Nina Manwaring BBC Nottingham; Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 Julius Mbaluto Attachments (Carlton TV, Alamo); freelance Darren McKenzie Radio New Zealand; newsreader, BBC WM; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live Francis Mensah Producer, Channel 4 Lorna Milton Reporter, BBC Three Counties Radio; strategic communications specialist, MWH Global; senior PR and media advisor, New Zealand Inland Revenue Ramita Navai documentary maker, Channel 4 Unreported World; freelance foreign affairs journalist; author Tom Parker Reporter, BBC Radio 4; photo editor, Condé Nast Traveller (India); freelance photographer Josephine Parry Unknown Kawser Quamer Channel 5 News; senior broadcast journalist, duty producer, BBC; weather presenting attachment, BBC Scotland Hayley Radford Presenter, producer, The Gallery, Channel 4; presenter, Bizarre podcast, The Sun; director of marketing and co-founder, Authoright Luke Robinson media officer, House of Commons; head of media, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts; deputy director of communications and external affairs, Southbank Centre Max Rushden presenter, Sky Sports; presenter, BBC 5 Live; football podcast presenter, The Guardian Oliver Rogers BBC Look East; action desk producer; BBC Essex, freelance film maker (England Hockey, Helen Rollason Cancer Charity); communications advisor, corporate responsibility advisor, corporate affairs executive, Northumbrian Water Group Peter Thackrey Teacher, Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys; head of modern languages, Bedales School Daniel Whitworth Producer, LBC; freelance (BBC Sheffield and York); reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC London, Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 1 Mark Worthington senior broadcast journalist, BBC Northern Ireland; east of England reporter; BBC; partner, managing director, Bell Pottinger (Singapore)

2004 INTERNATIONAL Rasha Abu Baker Programme analyst, United Nations Development Programme; national reporter, The

National (Dubai); executive news editor, Emirates News Agency John Odey Aduma publisher, vigilancesecuritymagazine.com; author; director, UK Magazines Ltd Despina Afentouli, e-mentor, City University; professor and social work lab assistant, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; professor/instructor, Institute of Vocational Training (Athens) Natalya Baigozhina Foreign editor, Express-K; creative director, Gorod Roddy Batchasingh Reporter, Trinidad and Tobago Express; senior lecturer in communication and journalism, College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago Motez Bishara Investment manager; freelance reporter, CNN World Sport content producer; author, Cecile Bridel communications officer, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative; communication coordinator, Novartis Consumer Health; communications specialist, IMD business school Rory Byrne Freelance (Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Sunday Telegraph); radio/TV correspondent, Voice of America; associate producer/ cameraman, APTN (Associated Press Television News) Veronica Cancio De Grandy Freelance; director of communications, European University; managing director, EU Business School Maya Canfield Unknown Sara Carbone corporate communications officer, Institute of Physics; publishing and digital communications manager, Tommy’s; communications manager, Mind Kabir Chibber Copy editor, BBC News; founder, Pitch Me; deputy news editor, Quartz Elizabeth Choppin editor, Onoffice magazine; editor, ALTO magazine; codirector, Astrid Media Charlotte Coulon Case worker, Refugee Council; Eurovision editor, deputy news editor, Associated Press Television News, freelance Stephen Cummins editor, NME Ireland; contributor, Irish Independent, freelance (Irish Times, NME), digital media and entertainment editor, The Irish Post Enda Curran money and policy reporter, Wall Street Journal; economics and politics reporter, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones (Australia), Asia finance reporter; reporter, Bloomberg LP Khushnuma Dadachanji Assistant producer, special projects, senior writer, Hindustan Times; freelance (CNBC, The Times of India) Jerome Demare brand marketing manager, Europcar; PR and digital marketing manager, LG Electronics; social media specialist, Emirates (Dubai) Felicity Devonshire Freelance, Insight News Television Limited Peter Eisenberg Producer, Eurovision editor, intake editor, deputy news editor, APTN (Associated Press Television News); programming consultant, UK Jewish Film Festival; director of video, Newzulu Ltd Stella-Maris Ekpene Director, Ardyss International; PMO analyst, tesco.com; assistant programme manager, Marks & Spencer Hamed Eqbal communication specialist, Afghanistan National Development Strategy; technical advisor, Ministry of Commerce and Industries; language expert, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Zaida Espana Editorial foreign desk assistant, The Independent; European equities reporter, loans correspondent, energy correspondent, Thomson Reuters, freelance Maria Galvez-Penttinen Trade finance,

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Maya Garg producer, Riz Khan, Al Jazeera International; director of PR, Surge for Water; producer, The Stream, Al Jazeera Andreas Grigo trainee, Electronic Media School; editor, RBB Public Radio; advisor and lecturer, German Development Service, Royal University of Phnom Penh Naomi Gunasekara presenter and translator, BBC Sinhala; Sauve scholar (Canada); London correspondent, The Daily News (Sri Lanka); MSc Social Policy & Planning (LSE); partner, Jade Law solicitors Kashish Gupta Reporter, senior correspondent, NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited); principal anchor, NDTV Taneli Heikka Political correspondent, head of political news, Aamulehti (India, Finland); co-founder, Avaja Open; cofounder, Avaja Open Oy James Herron oil and gas reporter, EMEA Energy News; editor, Dow Jones Newswires and Wall Street Journal; energy news editor, Bloomberg Luminita Holban Director, The Mihai Eminescu Trust; translator, The Ancient Tree Forum; head of grants, The Greenwich Foundation for The OId Royal Naval College Katharine Houreld Freelance (The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Reuters, The Times, Africa Confidential, Marie Claire); East African correspondent, Associated Press; Afghanistan/Pakistan correspondent, Reuters Sukaina Jaffer Freelance Saira Jaffer Production assistant, CNN; deputy news editor, producer, journalist, senior producer (Pakistan Bureau), Al Jazeera English Sofia Kannas press officer, UK Ministry of Justice; secondment, Prime Minister’s Press Office; senior press officer, Defra Chie Kawada Research analyst, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; business planning and research for MENA, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UF Tania Rohan (née Khadder) Manager of content and community, WilliamsSonoma; freelance writer and editor; copywriter, Bulldog Solutions Trine Knudsen Translator, researcher, BBC GMR; freelance (Kanal 24, NRK Norway, Kommunikasjonshuset Renomme); director PR and social media, Strategene Harshita Kohli freelance journalist (BBC, Al Jazeera); associate research fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; intelligence analyst, Facebook Konstantinos Koulaxis MSc, MRes European Politics and the European Union, Birkbeck College (London); UK correspondent, Adraxe (Greece), freelance Sarin Kouyoumdjian-Gurunlian MA in Political Studies, American University of Beirut; journalist, press manager, Marcus Evans Wilfredo Laboren Unknown Shrikesh Laxmidas documentary producer, Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal); reporter, Angola correspondent, Reuters; Reuters news bureau Lisbon Stephanie Lochner Project assistant, Radio for Development Kevin Massy; reporter, The Economist; associate director, The Brookings Institution; director of International Affairs, Statoil Olivia McGill output producer, Reuters; digital producer, Sky News; PR and media manager, Slack Communications Viviana Mendoza Media and audiovisual programme, Amnesty International UNICEF; execution backup

and marketing assistant, QW Capital Chryssa Michalopoulou Unknown Vaishali Mishra project coordinator, Institute for Development and Communication, World Bank; regional communications officer, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe; associate vice president of communications, Microfinance Institutions Network Arnau Monras freelance scriptwriter (Barcelona); redactor, Zoopa; redactor, Media 3.14 Felipe Moreno consultant, De Kanel Consultores; senior consultant, Accendi, professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; assistant professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Aidan Muller digital engagement advisor, UK Ministry of Justice; account director, Edelman; freelance PR consultant Yoriko Nabeta Producer, researcher, TV Asahi; risk management division, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Dean Naidoo sports editor, Sunday Tribune; sports director, Independent Newspapers; senior lecturer in journalism, Leeds Trinity University College Thuy Quynh Nguyen PR; Transerco Daphne Papadopoulou translator, Thomson Reuters; journalist, Enikos. gr; journalist, Macedonian News Agency (Athens) Emily Persse (née Gordon) Freelance; press and communications, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Ilgin Pinar Assistant director, Babar Ahmed documentary; freelance, news editor, (CNN, Turk TV) Mathoo Pokane Freelance Andrea Powell North County Times Loriane Sena Waite Production manager, CineLook; account manager, Decipher, Inc Elisha Sessions producer, presenter, Resonance FM; webmaster, Red Bee Media; content producer, BBC Sajid Shaikh Freelance (The Guardian, BBC Wildlife); The Times of India; production editor of Environment, The Guardian Christopher Sheppard copywriter, J Walter Thompson New York; freelance (Dunne Public Relations); Port Magazine; writer and project manager, JWT New York Mohini Suchanti development officer, Child Advocates of Silicon Valley; communications manager, TiE Inc; online marketing specialist, Sinclairs Hotels & Resorts Oystein Samson Tjentland senior research associate, Maven Partners; senior consultant, Boyden; senior consultant, Tjentland Executive Research Shu Chun Trainee solicitor, James Tsang & Co; paralegal, Fragomen Yoko Toda (née Kono) The Asahi Shimbun; executive assistant, J.P. Morgan; bilingual assistant, Bank of TokyoMitsubishi Catherine Townsend columnist (The Independent, Marie Claire, Fabulous); field agent, DGA Detectives & Bail Bonds; owner, The Townsend Detective Agency Despina Trivolis editor, editor in chief, LIFO; journalism fellow, Thomson Reuters Institute of Journalism; head of life and culture, Huffington Post Gina Valcke London correspondent, Revista Semana; course developer, CWC School for Energy; research and development manager, CWC Group

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2004 Rui Videira copy editor, Dow Jones News Wire; associate producer, CNBC Europe; associate director, Gutenberg Communications Josefine Volqvartz Senior producer, Al Jazeera English; head of international content, Make Sense Film og Tv Dan Wang Unknown Chao Yan Xinhua News Agency Qin (Yvonne) Yang Unknown Ting Zhu Page editor, 21st Century China Daily; analyst; reporter, Bloomberg

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Mohammed Abbas Trainee reporter, Islamic finance correspondent, Baghdad general news correspondent, London news correspondent, Reuters; multimedia editor, Agence France Press (UK) Kevin Allison investment banker, UBS; global resources columnist, Reuters; founder, Cultivate Industries Rachel Belton Freelance; feature writer, Evening Standard Jon Boone Education correspondent, Wall Street correspondent, Afghanistan correspondent, Financial Times; freelance Afghanistan correspondent, Pakistan correspondent, The Guardian Daniel Box Business section, The Sunday Times; news reporter, The Australian; author; freelance Thomas Braithwaite Energy Trade; Washington correspondent; US banking editor, Financial Times; lex writer, Financial Times Heather Browne Feature writer, The Sun; English teacher Michelle Fyrne (née Byrne) editor, SoGlos.com; director, So Publishing; global editor; So Publishing Robbie Collin News of the World; chief film critic, The Daily Telegraph Catherine Devlin Sub-editor, medical correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Westminster correspondent, The Herald Daniel Drillsma-Milgrom Business desk, The Sunday Times; political editor, deputy editor, acting editor, Local Government Chronicle; principal policy and project officer, London councils Richenda Broadbent (née EvansFreke) Leadership consultant, Corven; leadership network manager, leadership development consultant, Oliver Wyman Matthew Falloon Graduate trainee, politics and economics correspondent, Reuters Neil Fisher Editorial assistant, classical music writer, classical music opera and dance editor, deputy arts editor, The Times Samantha Haque Reporter, Finance Week; reporter, Channel 4 News; producer, ITV News; producer, BBC Newsnight; producer of Today, BBC Radio 4 Jens Harder Sub-editor, 21st Century China Daily; media correspondent, Argus Media Amy Marley (née Iggulden) Trainee sub-editor, reporter, The Daily Telegraph; news editor, Evening Standard; assistant editor, MailOnline; assistant news editor, Evening Standard Soriebah Kajue Sports trainee, Press Association; freelance (Skysports.com, Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, The Voice) David Marley Reporter, Nottingham Evening Post; deputy news editor, news editor, Times Educational Supplement; weekend news editor, The Daily Telegraph Michael McGrath Sports journalist, football reporter, Press Association; football reporter, Wardles Agency; football reporter, News UK Robert Nutbrown Sub-editor, Teens Junior Edition; 21st Century China Daily; defence industry analyst,Visiongain Ltd

Tariq Panja Manchester Evening News; reporter, Associated Press; football correspondent, Bloomberg Sam Peters Trainee, PA sport; sports writer, Hayters Teamwork; rugby union and cricket correspondent, News of the World; media and PR director, Row2Recovery; sports writer, The Mail on Sunday Rachel Porter Feature writer, Daily Express; feature writer, Daily Mail; freelance (Daily Mail, Daily Express, the Guardian,The Independent, Metro, Grazia, Stylist, Fabulous, Cosmopolitan,Women’s Fitness); content editor and scriptwriter, Scriberia Thomas Price Reporter, Daily Express; reporter, Daily Mail Jerome Starkey Trainee news reporter, The Sun; Sada-e Azadi (Afghanistan); Afghanistan correspondent, The Times; Africa correspondent, The Times Vandna Synghal Financial writer, TimesOnline; reporter, Bloomberg; researcher, Chatham House; communications manager, National Campaign for the Arts; researcher, The Independent on Sunday; freelance

PERIODICAL Sebastian Burford Freelance (Creative Review, Big Issue, Jockey Slut magazine, i-D, The Stool Pigeon,Time Out, Music Week, Metro, Good For Nothing, Media Guardian, Six07,The P.I.X Fanzine); PR, Island Records; head of Digital PR, Anorak London; founder and CEO, Worldwide Friendly Society Communications Ben Cardew Trainee reporter, CMPi; reporter, news editor, Music Week; freelance Lucy Cohen Researcher, Divers Production; freelance assistant producer (Blast Films); freelance documentary director and producer Anna Cook Feature writer, Closer; features writer, editor, Northern and Shell; commissioning editor, features editor, IPC Magazines, features writer, Closer; acting deputy features editor, Daily Star; acting deputy features editor, commissioning editor, Woman’s Own; features editor, Woman; features director, Woman and Woman’s Own Fiona Cowood Senior features writer, B magazine; features editor, Bliss; features director, Cosmopolitan; assistant editor, Grazia Helen Costello Deputy editor, Condé Nast online; deputy editor, Every Living website; freelance Simon Crawshaw Pulse; trainee, CMPi; reporter, Cabinet Maker; senior analyst, RAB Capital; associate fund manager of RAB Capital, sector analyst, HSBC Jonathan Dean Production assistant/ stage writer, news editor, features editor, Total Film; online culture editor, The Sunday Times Ash Dosanjh Trainee, CMPi; writer, Music Week; reviews assistant, NME; freelance Bruce Douglas Editor, Latin American Newsletters; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; broadcast journalist, BBC World TV; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4, freelancer (Brazil); Brazil correspondent, Latin American Newsletter Richard Fisher Reporter, The Engineer; feature editor, deputy news editor, careers editor, New Scientist; deputy editor, BBC Future Murray Garrard Features journalist, Daily Express; student, MA Creative Writing, UEA; communications officer, TCEB (Thailand); editor, Lifestyle + Travel (Thailand); editor, Time Out (Bahrain);

editor and co-publisher, Ink (Singapore); communications officer, senior communications officer, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (Switzerland) Yasmine Gibson The Observer; researcher, Channel 4; sub-editor, editorial assistant, feature writer, Grand Designs; sub-editor, freelance, health columnist, health editor, OK! Michael Haydock Sub-editor, Legalese; sub-editor, The Bookseller; production journalist, Trinity Mirror Group PLC; production editor, The Week Kaye Holland Broadcast assistant, BBC Sport online; researcher, BBC Newsround; features editor, Fresh Direction; deputy editor, Time Out (Middle East); editor, RealLIFE (Cayman Islands); special projects editor, Time Out (China); London online city editor, Haute Living Magazine; editor, CD Traveller; London curator, Haute Couture Magazine; freelance editor, Student365; co-founder and director of media and communications, Talk of the Town London Ria Hopkinson Sub-editor, The Bookseller; production editor, Charlton Athletic Football Club; online freelance football writer, The Telegraph; freelance sub-editor, Great Ormond Street Hospital; media advisor, Awards for Young Musicians; managing editor, The Art Newspaper Martha Housden Researcher; freelance (the Guardian,The Observer); producer, Maverick TV; head of development, Twenty Twenty TV Benjamin Hunt Sports journalist, Hayters Teamwork; sports journalist, Wardle Whittell Limited; Formula One correspondent, Formula One and football correspondent, The Sun Christopher Kanal Freelance (Financial Times,The Sunday Times,The Observer, Metro,Wallpaper); editor, the LEAF review; editor, Progressive Digital Media, Civilian Global; filmmaker and writer Eleanor Keymer Armed Forces research analyst, armed forces editor, features editor, IHS Jane’s; project coordinator, Frontier – The Society for Environmental Exploration; marketing web manager and editor, IHS Aerospace and Defence Simon Kurs Commissioning editor, The Sunday Times; features editor, Arena; deputy editor, Shortlist; editor, easyJet Traveller Tom Lamont Food writer, freelance, deputy editor, Time Out; editor, Time Out Student Guide; London for Londoners; commissioning editor, The Observer New Review; freelance, The Guardian Roland Lloyd Parry Reporter, Agence France Presse (Madrid then Montevideo) Oliver Mann Freelance (The Observer, the Guardian, The Independent,The Sunday Independent ); consultant systems editor, The Observer; part time visiting lecturer, City University; freelance designer, editor Semtam Magazine (Czech Republic); marketing strategist, Leadership by Heart; co-founder and partner, NextKickoff Stuart McGurk Freelance; associate editor, Books, The Times; film and TV editor, deputy arts and entertainment editor, thelondonpaper; film editor, NME.com; commissioning editor, senior commissioning editor, GQ Kit McHenry Department for Education and Skills; assistant policy and bill manager, DfES Vikki Miller Senior reporter, Building; assistant editor, Regenerate; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; development, assistant producer, Dispatches, Channel 4; current affairs producer, Channel 4; assistant producer, BBC; producer, The Garden Production; development producer, Lightbox; development producer, Arrow Media; producer, Lightbox Claire Sparks (née Mitchell) Editorial

assistant, web editor, Country Living; content producer, BBC Lifestyle; editorial manager, Primelocation.com; web editor, Hji; senior editor of Lifestyle Group, Yahoo!

Ellie O’Mahoney Feature writer, deputy features editor, Good Housekeeping; commissioning editor, ES magazine; contributing editor, associate features editor, Marie Claire; lifestyle editor, acting deputy editor, Fabulous, deputy editor, Fabulous Mienke Retief Events manager, IQPC; writer, Corporate Citizenship Briefing; researcher, Homebrew Films; production manager, iMaverick (South Africa); head of media and public affairs, South African Institute of Race Relations Eleanor Snow Freelance (The Independent, Big Issue, Housing Today); freelance content editor (Latoral); feature writer, Housing Today; content editor, Lateral; web manager, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; freelance digital content producer and project manager; consumer rights digital producer, Which?

Sonia Soltani Supplements editor, commissioning editor and writer, Absolute Publishing Ltd; editor, Eretz Group; head of content, MiniTime.com; freelance

BROADCAST Harry Anscombe Broadcast journalist, reporter, ITN; digital producer, The Economist; presenter and producer, Channel 4 News; consultant media director, New Century; CEO, Beagle Media Emma Bondor Trainee researcher, Channel 4; senior researcher, Witness; media planning producer, Amnesty International; Corporate and Public Affairs Consultant, Blue Rubicon; Head of Members’ Events, Chatham House; director, Emma Bondor Communications Helene Cacace Researcher and reporter, BBC 3 News; producer, director, More4 News; news producer, Channel 4 Tom Cheal Producer, LBC News 1152; broadcast journalist, Heart and LBC; political, correspondent editor, Global Radio News; deputy managing editor, political editor, LBC Lucy Collingwood Assistant producer, BBC Radio Drama Stephen Douglas Reporter and producer, Border TV; North of England correspondent, ITV News; reporter Sky News; senior consultant, associate director Blue Rubicon Clair Duff Researcher, Channel 5; associate producer, Milkshake!

Ian Edgar BBC Night Network; BBC Radio (Sheffield,York, Humberside, Cleveland); Network Director, BBC TV; senior transmission controller, BSkyB Tom Esslemont Journalist, BBC Radio Essex; reporter, BBC World Service; reporter, Washington correspondent, BBC News; Investigative Correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation Annabel Falk Newsbeat, Radio 1; freelance Laura Fogg Rogers BBC Science and Environment Unit; BBC Radio Five Live; The Today Programme; You & Yours; BBC Radio 4; BBC Radio Lancashire; Imagine FM; Reading107; BBC Radio Berkshire; BBC Radio Cambridge; reporter, Channel M TV; BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Countryfile; communications and liaison manager, The University of Auckland; Science Communication Research Fellow, University of the West of England Rose Foley Broadcast journalist, ITV Central South; broadcast journalist, BBC Scotland; advocacy officer for girls’

2004-2005 education in Rwanda; freelance, journalist, CBC News; Senior Media Officer, Plan UK; Senior Media and Communications Manager, media specialist, UNICEF UK Cristo Foufas Presenter, Purple Radio; researcher, Big Breakfast; presenter and producer, The Dating Channel; freelance reporter, presenter, LBC Helen Fry Freelance (ITV, BBC Election Programme, Time FM); political researcher, Sky News; producer, BBC Newsround Chloe Gott Researcher, Leopards Films; assistant producer, Crunch TV; assistant producer, Lion TV; agent, KBJ Management Ben Gray Freelance (IRN, BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Broadcasting Company); text producer, BBC News 24 Benjamin Green Producer, Early Breakfast Show, LBC 97.3; senior multimedia producer, Guardian.co.uk Ihuoma Izundu Freelance (Virgin Radio, Sky News Radio, BBC London 94.9, ITN, Radio 1); entertainment reporter, BBC Radio 1 Bethan James BBC Radio Cymru; Five News; reporter, producer, presenter, BBC Wales Political Unit; parliamentary reporter and producer, BBC Nicola Jones Journalist, Central News South Julius Mbaluto London correspondent, NTV; editor, Africa Exclusive News; freelance broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; London correspondent, News Punch; Broadcast Journalist and Political Analyst, UK Mainstream Channels Lucrezia Millarini Freelance, Time FM; head of music, ITN ON; entertainment correspondent, ITN London Tonight; presenter and reporter, ITV News Charles Murray Freelance, Time FM; assistant producer, BBC Newsround, digital content producer, BBC Katherine Murrells Sports reporter, sub-editor, The Guardian; BBC; Talksport; LBC Moronke Owoborode Writer/ Filmmaker Josephine Parry Journalist, OBE; presenter, Choice 107.1 FM; producer, CSV Action Desk; BBC Radio Berkshire Robert Ridgwell BBC Radio Bristol; BBC World Service; BBC Radio 4 Food Programme; editorial trainee, reporter, Sky News; producer, BskyB; correspondent, Voice of America; director, Suntrap Media Oliver Rogers Producer, BBC Thea Rogers Producer, Sunday AM; producer, BBC Newsnight; special adviser to George Osborne Max Rushden Presenter, BBC Radio Cambridge; broadcast journalist, BBC London; presenter, BBC1; presenter, 5Live; presenter, talkSPORT; presenter, Soccer AM; presenter, BSkyB; freelance podcast presenter (The Guardian,The Times) Saba Shaukat BBC News 24 (Business Today,World Business News, Breakfast News); broadcast journalist, Economics & Business Centre, BBC News; global head of product marketing, planning and operations,Vodafone Group; director, Sagitta Global; marketing director, Paypoint; chief marketing officer, ECO Capacity Exchange Jessica Shiddell Freelance, Kestrel FM; Kick FM; deputy news editor, news editor, Essex FM; news editor, Heart Radio Jamie Smith Trainee reporter, producer, ITV Central; trainee producer, Channel 4 News; co-ordinator, Reveal Scotland Kerry Davies (née Taylor) Win FM; Kestral FM; freelance; SGR Colchester; Essex FM; press officer, Home Office, PR and communications manager, John Lewis; PR, Waitrose Emike Umolu ITN Multimedia; director, Embellie Ltd; presenter and producer, Al Jazeera English Hugo Ward BBC Radio 5 Live; producer,

Sky News; producer, director, Raw Cut TV; producer, Halo Films; producer, director, October Films; producer and director, Channel 4 Unreported World; producer and director, Blakeway Productions; documentary maker, Economist Films Antony Whincup Freelance, GWR, CNN

TV CAJ Emma Ashcroft Freelance Claire Burton Freelance; showbiz reporter, ITN Multimedia; reporter, ITV Tyne Tees; presenter, BBC Channel Islands Edward Cowley BBC Moscow Robert Dersley BBC Breakfast; programme editor, Five News; producer, director, Sky; edit producer, October Films; producer, director, Middle Table Productions; edit producer, director, Leopard films; edit producer, series producer, Reef Television Daniel Glyde BBC Breakfast; assistant producer, BBC TV sports news; assistant Producer, director, BBC Sport interactive Rose Hughes (née Gretton) Researcher, reporter, producer, senior planning editor, Sky News Claire Heffron Reuters Television (London); Multimedia producer, Times Online; broadcast journalist, Russia Today (Moscow); producer, director, Press TV Documentaries; CNC World reporter and producer, Xinhua News Olivia Hill Reporter, presenter, ITN; owner, E-fit Katie Inman Political researcher; BBC Politics Unit (Southampton); journalist, Today Programme BBC Radio 4 Emma Ketteley Freelance; assistant producer, Blakeway Productions Julia Kirby-Smith Researcher, Sky News Business Unit; producer, Channel 4 News; producer, MAKE World Media Ltd; Deputy Programme Editor, Sunset+Vine; producer, ITN Productions; producer, Blakeway Productions; associate producer, Fresh one productions; producer, Al Jazeera; series producer, head of Asia office, MAKE Productions Pte Ltd (Singapore); managing editor, Newzulu; co-founder, Make Waves Tom Lumley Researcher, BBC Westminster; producer, BBC Newsnight; senior broadcast journalist, BBC World News; producer, Sky News; producer, senior producer, BBC News; Americas programme editor, Americas news editor,

Al Jazeera English; senior producer, NBC News Alex Micklewright New media journalist, ITN Elena Mourey Researcher, The Wright Stuff; Objective Productions; 12 Yards Productions; assistant producer, TDD productions; development researcher, Leopard Films; CTVC; assistant producer, Betty Television; producer, Firecracker Films; producer, Dragonfly Film and Television; producer, BBC Factual London Beverley Munoz News journalist, CNN Janelle Oswald Columnist, The Voice; assistant editor, New African Woman; showbiz reporter, BBC Radio London; presenter, PlayVybz Radio; reporter, GV Media Group Jenny Parks Political researcher, Jonathan Dimbleby, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC Question Time; freelance producer (BBC); producer, BBC Newsnight James Pozzo Researcher, Politics Show; researcher, Channel 4 Political Awards; question writer, The Weakest Link; news researcher, Richard and Judy; film researcher, assistant producer, Have I Got News For You Emma Pyne Researcher; ATIT Productions; producer, Sam Brick Productions; Transparent TV; actor (LA) Anna Richey Intern, CNN; freelancer; researcher Natalie Shelton Production manager, Richard Sambrook Productions; production co-ordinator, Objective Productions, freelance production manager (ITN, Sting Media, Pacific) Annabel Solomon Trainee researcher, BBC; researcher, BBC Crimewatch Daisy Thirkettle Researcher, UK Food; Prospect Pictures Emma Thomas Acquisitions; Community Channel; reporter, ITV; reporter, BBC Channel Islands News; producer, director, reporter BBC Amy Youssefian Reporter, assignment editor, CNN

2005 INTERNATIONAL Samantha Alleyne Senior reporter, Stabroek News Ali Amar Consultant, Doha Centre for

Media Freedom; journalist, Slate Magazine; guest writer, The International Cities of Refugee Network Spencer Anderson Assistant editor, JEC Composites Magazine; deputy editor, Financial Times; senior reporter, International Financing Review, Thomson Reuters Ruben Andersson Researcher, Reuters NewsAlert Catarina Anjos Unknown Gifty Dansoa Anti Host, The Standpoint (Ghana); president and founder, The Girl in Need Foundation Giulia Ascoli Administrator,Victoria & Albert Museum; personal assistant, Victoria & Albert Museum; personal assistant, capital campaign coordinator, editorial assistant, director and communications coordinator, Design Museum; corporate communications manager, Sadler’s Wells Jérôme Bonnard Freelance TV reporter and film maker (Public Sénat, M6, Arte, France 24, Itele) Jennifer Bragg Russia Today TV; line producer, The Stream, Al Jazeera English; news editor, international assignment editor, editor of Closer to China, CCTV News; line producer, CCTV Africa; deputy news editor and producer of The Stream, Al Jazeera Media Network Magali Brutel Freelance, Marche à Londres; French teacher, International School of Luxembourg Morgane Campioni Senior content coordinator, executive producer, head of online channels, director of online channels, UTV Priyanka Chaturvedi Junior associate producer, CNN-IBN (India); advocacy and communication specialist, UNICEF Sapna Chowdhary Correspondent, producer, Al Jazeera International; freelance (Al Jazeera English) Jennifer Cunningham Reporter, Daily Record, Exclusive Content Manager; Moguldum Media Group Annie Evangeli Editor, Exodus; account executive, Adventis Group; senior associate, Capital Link; EMEA marketing communications manager, FTSE; PR and communications officer, GS1 UK Mimi Fawaz News desk assistant, London Tonight, ITV News; sports journalist, news presenter,Vox Africa; freelance sports journalist Maria Galvez Penttinen trainee, trade finance, BBVA; The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Associate Trade Finance Gina Gavala Reporter, Ethnos Newspaper; reporter, Beautiful World In

SHARIF NASHASHIBI

Co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch, International 1999 Your biggest scoop?

I interviewed the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, who was imprisoned in 1986 for revealing details of Israel’s nuclear weapons.

Despite being in jail for 18 years (11 of them in solitary confinement) he was so coherent, eloquent and rational.

I felt honoured to interview him.

The most memorable thing you learnt at City?

My most important memory was not a thing but a person, the late Colin Bickler (who used to teach the Ethics module).

a journalist, I’d like to think that he knew.

Any unusual hobbies?

I have two other careers: personal training and DJ’ing.

He took me under his wing, which meant a great deal to me particularly because he had a reputation for being grumpy. I miss Colin, and although I never got to tell him how much he impacted my formative years as

What made you want to become a journalist?

I was aware from a young age of the shortcomings of the British media’s coverage of the Arab world. I always felt a strong need to address this from within the industry rather than as an outsider.

Yashi Banymadhub

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FIONA MACDONALD

Feature writer, BBC Culture, Periodical 2000 scientists, who track events that are often hidden from the world and piece together a story. They used 22 seconds of footage recorded on a mobile phone as the basis for a reconstruction of a drone strike in a Pakistani frontier region. They find out what has happened using grainy shots of ruins and animating shadows.

Your biggest scoop?

When I was doing work experience on the Richmond & Twickenham Times, I was sent to cover the local magistrates’ court. Purely by accident, I ended up being the only person reporting on a case in which a horse was being sued for damages by a pub.

Role model in journalism?

I admire the work of Forensic Architecture, an agency of designers, film-makers and The Morning; reporter, War Zone, Society at Eight O’Clock, Mega Channel; reporter, Mega Channel Giulia Gencarelli Web project manager, Aegis Media Gareth Gore Staff writer, Incisive Media; Madrid correspondent, Bloomberg News; senior reporter, associate editor IFR, Thomson Reuters Dana Gornitzki Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; freelance; creative handler, MIEN Magazine; founder and brand strategist, mAnic inc Svetlana Graudt Deputy editor, Pulse UK; copywriter, Staff Creativel; research analyst, Penumbra Partners; associate, GPW Daniela Gross De Almeida Author Mahtab Haider Lecturer, Brac University; senior assistant editor, New Age (Bangladesh); communications manager, UNDP Bangladesh Matthew Hall Editor, The Windsor Times; managing editor, Sonoma West Publishers; editor-in-chief, Santa Monica Daily Press Judy Terrell-Hamilton (née Hamilton) News director, Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas; Nassau Guardian; corporate communications manager, Public Hospitals Authority, Bahamas Ministry of Health; director, GDC Grand Bahama Development Co. Ltd Ruth Hetherington Russia Today TV; Broadcast Journalist, France 24; Chef d’edition/Producer Alexander Holliday Marketing manager, Philips Electronics; senior manager, Majid Al Futtaim Properties Radek Honzak Deputy foreign editor, Lidove Noviny; Europe correspondent, Hospodarske Noviny; spokesman, Czech Representative to EU; communication officer, European Commission Roza Ibragimova Russia Today TV; broadcast journalist, France 24; senior producer, reporter, writer, line producer, CCTV America Ivi Imamoglou Staff reporter, The London Planet Atsuko Iwasaki Freelance; director, NHK (Japan) Thomas James Book promoter; freelance investigator (CHF International,

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Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

To go and try to find the stories myself, instead of waiting for the right job to come along. And to trust my ideas more.

Any unusual hobbies?

I used to collect corks, so I could build a really big corkboard one day. They’re still in jars.

Tori Halman New York); editor, Sewage Treatment Weekly unknown Amanda Janis senior editor, director of Special Investment Networks, Group Managing Editor, PEI Media Anne Kaiffer press officer, Utopia SA; presenter, Radio ARA; freelance journalist, RTL Daniel Kalinaki Uganda bureau chief, The East African (Kampala); managing editor, Nation Media Group, Author Shyaka Kanuma Media and information consultant, UNHCR (Kigali); executive editor, chief editor, The Rwanda Focus Lars Karlsson Broadcast journalist, Russia Today TV; presenter, France 24 unknown Lucy Kearney Associated Press (Bangkok); editor, head of bureau, Associated Press TV News (Beijing); founder and director, Sparkle Darling Rashi Khilnani Associated Press, freelance; writer/broadcaster, CBC; media fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Suzanna Koster Pakistan correspondent, Trouw (Netherlands); correspondent, OneWorld; Netherlands correspondent, France24 Robert Kyei-Gyau Freelance; assistant registrar (PR), Kumasi Polytechnic Jessica Le Masurier New York correspondent, France 24 Francesca Liberatore Reporter, The London Planet; yoga teacher Weitao Liu World news editor, The London Globe; deputy editor, China Daily Konstantina Marneri Client services manager, Electronic Solutions SA unknown Feroza Mehta (née Master) TV News Reporter, Citytv; freelance reporter; corporate development chair, Autism Speaks Elaine Mills European gas markets reporter, European emissions market reporter, editor, deputy editor, Argus Media James Mills Unknown Ljiljana Mitevska Journalist, deputy editor of culture, Utrinski vesnik (daily newspaper) Gillian Murdoch Freelance (New Zealand); Beijing reporter, copy editor, 21st Century; correspondent, Reuters

Asia Odamah Musa Translator; freelance assistant documentary producer; broadcast journalist, Business and Economics Unit, BBC Radio Harun Najafizada Producer, reporter, BBC Persian TV; head of Afghanistan Bureau, BBC Persian TV Pendael Omari Mentor, principal journalist BBC Media Action Tanzania Abdi Osman-Adan London correspondent, Nation Television (Kenya); freelance reporter (Sky News); associate editor, Citizen TV Kenya unknown Pimmi Pande-Jones Freelance writer; freelance TV producer; founding director, Ethique Ltd; owner,Vocalise Communications; business owner, Radhieka Pandeya reporter, Hindustan Times Mint; senior manager, Tata Communications Payment Solutions; Director Revenue Management, DigiVation Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd Emilie Reymond Researcher, Blakeway Production; journalist, group communications manager, Haymarket Media Group; interior stylist and blogger, Stella + the Stars Rachel Romano Assistant editor, Rise Magazine; author Malgorzata Romanowicz Freelance business writer, Entreoom (Paris); assistant producer and translator, Radio Catholique (France) Blessing Ruzengwe PhD student, Roehampton University Precksha Saksena-Sood Managing director, Telematics Updates Maria Salvador Unknown Gwladys Savery reporter, Bloomberg; reporter, France24; correspondent, AFP; assistant director, PZNZ Media; journalist, Ligne de Front; digital strategist, PromoAlert.com Martin Stabe Online reporter, Press Gazette; online editor, Retail Week; interactive producer, head of interactive news, Financial Times Ikuko Tatsuta Editor, LondonZok Lea Teuscher The Independent; subeditor, Wallpaper; blogger, Londres Calling; sub-editor, Time Inc. UK Nina Tietzel Freelance (APTN); staff news producer, APTN London; foreign editor, producer, Network Ten Sydney; Australasia producer, AP; journalist and content producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; multi-platform reporter, Special Broadcasting Service Hjalmar Tjan Editor and media analyst, Precise Media, senior reporter, The Financial Times; editor, Euromoney Institutional Investor; reporter, MEED; HT Services; standup comic Sara Trioni Writer, Nickelodeon (Italy); store manager, events manager, Rococo Chocolates; communications and marketing manager,Venchi; freelancer, UP! Strategy to Action; deputy director, UK Pavilion, EXPO 2015 S.P.A Lucie Tvaruzkova Reporter and deputy of business desk, MF DNES; EU correspondent Hospodarske noviny (Brussels); head, IHNED & Hospodářské noviny; business innovator, CreativeDock; CEO, Zonky.com Nicholas Underdown Freelance report writer and researcher Joost Van de Loo Freelance strategist, The Sustainable Sunshine Company B.V.; founder and creative director, Sunshine Steak B.V. (Netherlands); impact producer, KeyDocs B.V. Wei Xing MSc international relations, London School of Economics Ipek Yezdani Freelance journalist and producer (APTN Turkey); diplomatic correspondent, Milliyet; reporter, TRT Turk; senior foreign news correspondent, Hurriyet Giselle Zado editorial assistant,

Glamour; features editor, SOHH, editor, URB Magazine; freelance; author Weiling Zou TV reporter; Europe TVB

NEWSPAPER Devika Bhat Researcher, foreign desk, home news reporter, online education editor, foreign news editor, Washington correspondent, Washington online news editor, news editor, The Times Sophie Borland Reporter, The Mail on Sunday; features writer, health reporter, Daily Mail Sri Carmichael Multimedia journalist, reporter, Press Association; consumer affairs reporter, royal reporter, Evening Standard; trainee barrister, barrister, Hardwicke Mark Cobley Graduate trainee, fund manager correspondent, pensions editor, asset management editor, Financial News Katie Davies Chief reporter, Hampstead and Highgate Expess; reporter, The Mail on Sunday; news editor, Hampstead & Highgate Express; assistant news editor, The Independent; assistant editor, MailOnline Anna Davis Education correspondent, education editor, Evening Standard Helia Ebrahimi Reporter, leisure correspondent, women’s editor, The Mail on Sunday; chief correspondent, Financial Mail Women’s Forum; senior city correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; UK business editor, CNBC; business correspondent, Channel 4 News Andrew Gill Sports journalist, deputy social media and communities editor, sports social media editor, BSkyB; sports social media editor, Sky p. 68 Anna Hodgekiss Senior reporter, Property Week; associate editor, Daily Mail Good Health; health editor, MailOnline Ali Hussain Reporter, The Sunday Times Laura King Editor, Equestrio; producer, presenter, Dubai Racing Channel Helen Lewis Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail; assistant editor, deputy editor, New Statesman Rob Ludgate Reporter, The Mail on Sunday; documentary filmmaker Chris Marshall Reporter, Aberdeen Press and Journal; education correspondent, home affairs correspondent, The Scotsman Donna McConnell Online news reporter, Daily Mail; showbusiness editor, MailOnline; freelance Haili McHugh Reporter, News of the World; reporter, The People Gary Meneely Reporter, The Irish Sun Sebastian Morton Freelance (The Sunday Times,The Observer); commissioning editor, video journalist, Financial Times Aaron Pan Senior reporter, Asiamoney; public relations manager, Mayer Brown JSM; corporate communications manager, Nomura Jonathan Parker Online editor, The Lawyer; editor, EGRmagazine.com; freelance Gary Payne Sports reporter, The Sun (Scotland), deputy sports news editor, The Guardian Aisha Phoenix PhD student (Sociology), Goldsmiths University of London; media and advertising reporter, Bloomberg Daniel Pimlott Project Manager, Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative; senior manager, principal manager, Adam Smith International Laura Roberts Associate director, Pleon Ketchum; head of press, head of press and public affairs, ITN Genevieve Roberts Freelance (The Independent on Sunday, Psychologies, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian);

2005-2006 co-founder, Roberts & Some; brand editorial consultant, Unity Christopher Roberts Production trainee, sub-editor, Daily Mail James Rose Graduate trainee, CMPi; reporter, Building Design Joseph Sinclair Multimedia journalist, reporter, Press Association Claire Vivyan Global head of social media relations, EY; head of employment news, head of employee communications, Santander UK Damon Wake Deputy bureau chief, Pakistan-Afghanistan news editor, EuropeAfrica desk editor, Agence France-Presse Sarah Weaver Press officer, Department of Health; producer, BBC Watchdog; freelance producer Alan White Freelance (The National, Aeon Magazine, New Statesman); breaking news reporter, senior news reporter, Buzzfeed Pan Yuk Reporter, journalist, Financial Times

MAGAZINE Amy Abrahams Freelance (She, Conchango, ThreeWeeks,Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Time Out, The Big Issue); deputy chief sub-editor, Star, OK! Hot Stars; deputy chief sub-editor, Glamour; Freelance Flora Bagenal Reporter, The Sunday Times; producer, Channel 4 News; videojournalist, Reuters; reporter, The Sunday Times; freelance writer, producer (The Sunday Times, Channel 4 News, Christian Science Monitor) Adam Benzine Graduate trainee, CMPi; reporter, online editor, Music Week; senior reporter, factual editor, C21 Media; associate editor, online editor, Realscreen; producer, director; Canadian bureau chief, C21 Media Victoria Bentley (née Heath) Reporter, sub-editor, China Daily; assistant editor, editor, Caravan; senior editor, Caravan and Motor Caravan; chief sub-editor, Wedding and Wedding Flowers; acting deputy editor, Practical Motorhome; features editor, Time Out Kids Dubai Jonathan Clegg Staff writer, GO; sports editor, sports writer, Wall Street Journal Miranda Collinge Editorial assistant, arts editor, features editor, Esquire Jen Crothers Freelance; editorial assistant, sub-editor, Period Home and Traditional Living; newswire editor, World Entertainment News Network; news reporter, features writer, deputy features editor, Heat; deputy entertainment editor, Heat Colin Crummy Reporter, Press Gazette; assistant editor,Attitude, acting features editor, contributing editor, Esquire; writer, Men’s Health; film editor, i-D; contributing editor, Men’s Health, Esquire Kelly Ellis Features writer, acting deputy features editor, Full House; commissioning editor, senior commissioning editor, Ebury Publishing Jamie Fullerton Deputy editor, Caravan; staff writer, Loaded; reporter, assistant news editor, news editor, features editor,NME; deputy editor, Time Out (Shanghai), freelance (The Times, The Independent,Vice, NME, Buzzfeed,The Sunday Times Travel, roughguides.com) Richard Heap Research manager, Sunday Times Fast Track; community editor, UBM’s Future Cities; editor, A Word About Wind Martin Hemming Sub-editor, The World of Interiors; deputy editor (travel), The Sunday Times David Jenkins Deputy editor, Little White Lies; staff writer, Time Out; reviews editor, editor, Little White Lies

Naomi Leach Columnist and feature writer, Cyprus Mail; Travel Trade Gazette Middle East and North Africa, senior journalist, LS:N Global; travel news editor, MailOnline Lottie Lumsden S howbiz reporter, features writer, News of the World; news writer, assistant news editor, deputy news and entertainment editor, news and entertainment editor, Grazia; entertainment director, Cosmopolitan Ben Machell The Yorkshire Post; freelance (Mojo, Time Out, The Knowledge, T2, The Times); feature writer, interviewer, The Times Laura Markey Freelance features writer, The Lawyer; owner/director, Laura Markey Acupuncture Christina Martins (née Franks) Graduate trainee, CMPi; novelist; copy editor, Steak UK; copy editor, 360i; consultant writer, Radley Yeldar Rebecca Miles Staff writer, Daily Mail; Ski and Snowboard; editor, natives; website editor, MetroSnow; freelance editor and writer (IPC Media, Show Media, Sunday Publishing, Zone and VOS Media), production editor; Motor Boat & Yachting Sarah O’Meara Freelance (The Independent); feature writer, Cambridge Evening News; deputy features editor, Press Association; acting lifestyle editor, lifestyle editor, The Huffington Post UK; freelance Elaine Okyere Editorial assistant, junior sub-editor, Cosmopolitan Bride; freelance (The Guardian, Star, Metro); reporter, The Harrow Observer; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1, BBC London, BBC News, BBC London Online Zoe Paxton Editorial assistant, Financial Times; books assistant, The Times; senior press officer, Home Office; chief press officer, Cabinet Office; deputy head of news, Department for International Development Thomas Pearmain; Freelance (Touch Africa Confidential, The Africa Report) Monisha Rajesh Features assistant, She; sub-editor, The Week; author, Around India in 80 Trains; freelance (The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, NYTimes) Adrian Sandiford Freelance, Proms; back section editor, Little White Lies; sub-editor, Latin American Journal; staff writer, sub-editor, Esquire; 21st Century China Daily; features editor, editor, editor at large, Time Out (Beijing) Laura Silverman Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail; arts writer, The Times; content editor, assistant iPad production editor, Lifestyle editor, The Daily Telegraph Toby Skinner Freelance, Collings Sport Agency; editor, Time Out (Shanghai), editor n by Norwegian; Creative Director, Ink Laura Topham (New Woman, Daily Mirror, Cosmopolitan, Evening Standard); features writer, Daily Mail; freelance, deputy health editor, The Mail on Sunday; commissioning editor, Daily Mail Anna Wakeford Site editor, OSOYOU; web manager, Dorothy Perkins; international platforms manager, operations lead-order management, Marks and Spencer Charlotte Walsh Graduate trainee, CMPi; news reporter, online editor, Travel Trade Gazette; communications officer, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home; freelance, TGT, ABTA Golf Magazine Helen Warrell Freelance reporter (Institute of War and Peace Reporting); Sander Thoenes Fellow; interactive reporter, Asia page editor, UK news reporter, political correspondent, public policy correspondent, Financial Times Sarah Warwick Freelance travel writer (TNT, Tiger Tales, South China Morning Post, Kindred Spirit); deputy editor, H2Open; deputy editor, easyJet magazine; Editor, N Magazine Emily Wright Features editor, Building

Magazine; features and comment editor, features and global editor, Estates Gazette; freelance (Evening Standard, Travel Trade Gazette Luxury, British GQ,The Sunday Times,Tatler) Nick Yates Features writer, The Publican Morning Advertiser; media officer, The Association of Train Operating Companies; editor, Xinhua News Agency; freelance writer and sub-editor (Time Out Beijing, City Weekend, City Weekend Parents and Kids,That’s Beijing,Travel Trade Gazette, Promo,Television Review) Nicola York Editor, Global Financial Strategy; head of marketing and content, Cicero Group; co-founder, writer Congo Connect; account director, Cicero Group

BROADCAST Emma Baker TV journalist, London Tonight; production journalist, correspondent, ITV Anglia Paul Barber Producer, BBC World Service; senior TV news editor, correspondent, Agence France-Presse; producer, CCTV-America Marianne Barriaux Reporter, City AM; business reporter, Guardian Media Group; correspondent, deputy news editor, social media editor, France correspondent, Agence France-Presse Nicholas Beake Reporter, BBC London TV News; news correspondent, BBC News; home affairs correspondent, BBC London Jacob Brown National digital inclusions officer, The Campaign for Learning; digital communications officer, The University of Brighton Faculty of Arts; product communications specialist, Mazda Danielle Codd TV business producer, BBC New York Bureau; TV and radio producer, BBC Business; radio producer and reporter, BBC World service Matthew Cole Line editor, reporter, Club Call; presenter, newsreader, BBC Radio Kent; Europe correspondent, politics reporter, BBC Sarah Dembitz Business development manager, RPMC Europe Ltd; founder, SEED Consulting; founder, CEO, Saviour Snacks; director, UN Women, U.K. National Committee Reuben Easey TV journalist, France 24; senior monitoring journalist, BBC Monitoring; video journalist, Agence France Presse Marcus Edwards Freelance (Channel 4 News, BBC Radio Derby); Midlands researcher, Midlands producer, home affairs producer, senior producer Channel 4 News Georgette Ginn Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Essex Amanda Haire Financial reporter, breakfast news producer, Sky News Adrian Hieatt Video manager and journalist, Absolute Radio; video manager, Bauer Media; visual services development manager, Transport for London Summer Hurwitz Freelance (ITN, CNN); broadcast journalist, CNN International; Olympics producer, BBC; journalist, BBC London News Nabeel Irshad Special adviser, senior political adviser, head of political research, The Conservative Party; management consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting; procurement manager, Metro Bank UK James Isola Broadcast journalist, senior producer, Bloomberg TV; director, Cubitt Consulting; associate partner, Maitland Consultancy John Jelley TV producer, programme editor, multimedia editor, executive producer, commissioning executive, editorial director, senior product

research manager, Sky News Thomas Knapp Property developer broadcast journalist, The Radio Network; broadcast journalist, Radio Works; media assistant, NZ Football; media and web producer, Football Federation Australia; development manager, JMK Property Development & Rental Co Meredyth Lewis TV journalist, London Tonight Suzanne Levy Unknown Christine Liu Broadcast assistant, BBC News; TV journalist, Russia Today; output producer, Al Jazeera English; freelance associate producer, Bloomberg; TV journalist, London Tonight; freelance assistant programme editor (Al Jazeera English); freelance producer (Sky News, ITN) Elizabeth McCabe BBC; assistant news editor, broadcast journalist, Sky Sports Lynoon Musafer Newsroom assistant, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, business and economics unit Maryam Nemazee TV journalist, Russia Today; news anchor, Bloomberg Television; news anchor, Al Jazeera English Charlotte O’Brien Freelance radio journalist (Virgin Radio, Time 106.8FM); news editor, Global Radio; presenter, journalist and Breakfast Show host, Heart Chris Page Freelance journalist, BBC Radio Ulster; senior broadcast journalist, political correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland Geeta Pendse Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; presenter, journalist, arts reporter, BBC East Midlands Today Rhona Pinkerton Radio newsreader, kmfm; video editor, Kent Messenger Krishan Ramakrishnan Broadcast journalist, BBC Economics and Business Unit; press officer, British Retail Consortium Laura Shirley Radio journalist, Capital Gold London Rebecca Spong Freelance radio journalist (kmfm); editor, Exporta Publishing; trade, transport and logistics editor, banking and finance editor, MEED Laura Sullivan Trainee, ITV West News; assistant press officer, Clarence House; press officer, assistant press secretary, Clarence House Amanda Thompson Runner, Darrall Macqueen; executive assistant, TBWA; brand management executive assistant, executive support coordinator, business support officer, business analyst, NSPCC, EA to Executive Director, Marketing, Fundraising and Communications at Save the Children UK Michelle Uwins Broadcast assistant, BBC World Service Radio Hugo Ward Raw Cut TV; producer, director, October Films; producer, director, Dispatches and Unreported World, The Economist; series producer/ director Victoria Whall Freelance (Washington, D.C.); stringer, BBC (Mongolia) Erica Witherington Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast

TV CAJ Thomas Adamson-Coumbousis More 4; Channel 4 News; ITN; journalist, presenter, France 24 Imogen Anderson Researcher, BBC Governance Unit; producer, foreign news producer, BBC Annabel Archer Broadcast journalist, ITN Multimedia; producer and writer, CNN International Wale Azeez Producer, Freelance online ethnographer (Push); founder, CanVerse; freelance (Wall Street Journal, Canvas, Push Insights), POLITICO; freelance

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2006 writer Helen Babbs Animations Online; writer, The Guardian, The Observer; copy editor, Greenpeace; freelance journalist, (New Statesman, Guardian, Telegraph, Time Out) Jenny Berglund Freelance researcher; consultant, Cambridge Strategy Centre; social media business strategist, Bug Zoe Brooker Co-ordinator, Teacher TV news; researcher, Brook Lapping Productions; production manager, Many Rivers Films Alistair Bunkall Freelance; reporter, defence correspondent, Sky News Emily Burns Broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast; producer, Five News, Sky News; features producer (Lorraine), ITV Sunita Butterworth Self-employed Serge Cartwright Russia Today (Moscow); journalist, Associated Press; Sky News; head of newsgathering, Newsflare Kristina Cooke researcher, The Economist; journalist, CNN; correspondent, investigative reporter, Reuters Jennifer Evans Channel 4; producer, BBC; producer and director, The Garden Productions Benjamin Farey Bloomberg News; LNG broker, ICAP, editor-in-chief, Fertilizer Week Ben Gallagher Researcher, The Wright Stuff; founder, Ben and Andrew Osama Javaid Researcher, Brook Lapping Productions; United Nations University; producer, senior duty editor, Dawn News (Pakistan); broadcast journalist, Al Jazeera English Jennifer Marcus Brighter Pictures; Endemol; teacher Julie Maritz CNBC Europe; TV producer, Carte Blanche Francis Miles Researcher, Zenith North; producer and editor of non-profit videos, Feba Radio UK; digital communications officer, video producer Ranadeb Mitra Researcher, Dispatches, Channel 4 Catherine Norris Trent; The Dimbleby Programme, ITV; journalist, international reporter, France 24 Archna Pandya Assistant producer, Central TV; journalist, BBC Worldwide David Peter Researcher, broadcast journalist, BBC Current Affairs Nazanin Sadri Al Jazeera English; press officer, London 2012; account manager, Bolton & Quinn, Merchant Cantos; senior producer Shiv Sharma Broadcast journalist, Russia Today; media and outreach officer, OSCE Toby Strutt Arrow Media; DV director, Special Edition Films; producer/director, Channel 5, Pegasus Academy Trust; teacher Abdulrahman Abdullah Investigative Journalism department, City University London; freelance producer, Al Jazeera English (London); director, Iraqi Cultural Centre (UK)

2006 INTERNATIONAL

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Gulden Banu Aktas TOBB University; journalist and communications director, ETUC; communication director, UNDP; corporate communication generalist, Alacer Gold Company Ali Amar Freelance; news editor, Le Journal Hebdomadaire (Morocco); author, Graphic Factory Morocco; owner Charlotte Angela Senior producer, Al

Jazeera International; freelance (Truthout, Alternet, The Nation,VICE, In These Times, Jacobin) Catarina Anjos Unknown Jessica Au Abu Dhabi Media Company; multimedia editor, Agence FrancePresse; account manager, PLUG Public Relations; communications manager, CLSA Sarah Barden Thomson Reuters; output producer, Al Jazeera English; writer and reporter, CCTC America; consultant, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (Rome) Diego Bivero-Volpe (née Bivero) The Committee; managing director, These Guys; senior executive, Atlantic & Pacific Partners, Cake Technologies; CMO, Gesha at Ramusake, Rolly Milton Bragatti Assignment editor, NBC News; reporter, DW World; freelance (NBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle) Lola Constantini Freelance Rebekah Curtis Reporter, sub-editor, Thomson Reuters Brenda Da Silva Marques Unknown Victoria Darves-Bornoz Researcher, Yalla Films; journalist, France 24; freelance director Iryna Demchenko Unknown Clara Denina Correspondent, FastMarkets Ltd; reporter, S&P Capital IQ; precious metals reporter, Reuters News Javier Espinosa Forbes.com; features writer, Wall Street Journal; Asia correspondent, El Mundo (Spain), Telegraph Media Group; education editor Thomas Fessy BBC World Service; Congo correspondent, West Africa correspondent, BBC James Fontanella-Khan, FT.com; Delhi correspondent, Financial Times; Brussels correspondent; Financial Times; US M&A correspondent, Financial Times Jennifer Forsyth Assistant producer, Dr Keith Ablow Show, Warner Brothers; deputy chief, Wall Street Journal Investigations Omar Fouad Researcher, Al Jazeera Carolina Galvani Freelance; researcher, Borealis Center (Amsterdam); campaign manager, Humane Society International Svetlana Graudt International copywriter, Start Creative; research analyst, Penumbra Partners; copywriter, Start Creative Padraic Halpin Editor, raggedwords. com; editor, bandstandbusking.com; sports desk, correspondent, chief correspondent, Reuters Marie-Christin Hansen Senior industry campaigns manager, EMEA at Oracle Irshadul Haque Editor, naukarshahi.in Stanislava Ivancheva Features co-ordinator, Impact Media Group; correspondent, Press TV Frank Johannsen News reporter, dpaAFX news agency; news reporter, Leipzig Volkszeitung Haider Al Safi (Kadhum) Freelance producer (APTN); BBC Worldwide; producer, BBC; head of project, BBC Media Action Anne Kaiffer Broadcast media (Luxembourg), Radio ARA James Kenny Financial Times; reporter, Estates Gazette; special projects editor, Emap; Europe and Africa editor, features editor, Partners Bulletin Thedoroa Kermeliotis Unknown John Kjorstad Renewable energy reporter, features editor, Infrastructure Journal; Global Services’ Infrastructure Hub Leader, KPMG George Kyriakos Chief sub-editor, Financial Times Business; production editor, Financial Times Yumei Liu Unknown Yu Liu Editor, overseas editing centre, China News Service

Halima Migari Unknown Aikaterini Maltezou Correspondent, Reuters (Athens) Maayan Manela Intern,Yigal Arnon & Co; capital markets correspondent, money and careers editor, Calcalist Megan McCormick Unknown Thomas Muirhead Writer, Breast Cancer Care; director, Whosit & Whatsit; head of digital & CRM, Leukemia & Lymphoma Research; managing director, Kenyan Orphan Project, Child.org; managing director Zipporah Musau Managing editor of magazines, The Standard Group; director, Zen Media; communications specialist, UNHQ Catherine Neilan (née Herne) The Bookseller; deputy news editor, Broadcast; news editor, Drapers; social media editor, CityAM Aliyu Odamah Musa PhD researcher, part-time tutor, Liverpool Hope University; freelance (Al Jazeera International, Radio France International); peace campaigner Jyotika Oberoi Radio Mirichi TOI Group, UK media representative, India Today Deborah Odumuyiaw Freelance editor and reporter, efinancialcareers. com; University of the United Nations; international production officer, Amnesty International Chitra Panjabi Sewall-Belmont House & Museum; administrative assistant, South Asian Americans Leading Together; membership and development manager, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum; fundraising manager, Colon Cancer Alliance;Vice President Membership, National Organization for Women (Washington), Out and Equal Workplace Advocates Konstantina Papanikolaou Reporter, SKAI.gr and SKAI Rama Parajuli Chief sub-editor, Kantipur (Nepal); senior producer, BBC World Service Trust; correspondent, BBC Nepali Service Amra Pasic Researcher, deputy news editor, news editor, Al Jazeera English Isel Pizarro Rosemont College; personnel and content development coordinator, The Saylor Foundation; publishing and technology specialist, American Bar Association Safura Rahimi Co-founder, Stylehopper Ahmad Shuhaib Sharif Radio producer, BBC World Service (Afghanistan) Neha Singhwi Unknown Alessandro Speciale Religion News Service; consultant, NBC News; contributor, Time; ECB correspondent, ECB economy reporter, Bloomberg News Diana Davis (née Stech) News assistant, intake client producer, APTN; editor, PEXNetwork.com Uzma Sulaiman Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research; reporter, Global Arbitration Review; fundraising, communication and campaigns manager, Lifeline Energy (London, Cape Town) Carlo Svaluto Moreolo Investment and Pension Europe (IPE); intern, consultant, African Development Bank; reporter, International Rugby Board; communications manager and copywriter, Openview Communication & Technology; senior staff writer, IPE Ahmed Taha Freelance (NBC News); reporter, Sharqiya News TV Sumaa Tekur (née Bangalore) Assistant editor, Daily News and Analysis; editor, lead editor, CEB Iconoculture Consumer Insights (India) Judy Terrell-Hamilton (née Terrell) The Nassau Guardian;VP corporate development and marketing, Bahamas Supermarkets Ltd; corporate communications manager, Public

Hospitals Authority/Bahamas Ministry of Health; director, GDC Grand Bahama Development Co. Ltd. Jennifer Trak IPC Media; copywriter, Fab.com; online writer, Selfridges; freelance senior writer and editor (Wax Lyrical ltd.)

Gabriela Vieru Limelight Sports; e-communications officer, A2Dominion; content producer, researcher, The Guardian Digital Agency; producer, Graphic Digital Agency Taslima Viljoen Senior TV news reporter, South African Broadcasting Corporation; deputy news editor, Business Day Newspaper Kimberly Vlach Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; assistant editor, WUSF (NPR member station) and HealthyState.org; teacher, evolation yoga; freelance Nkosazana Zuma MA student, SOAS; researcher, G3

NEWSPAPER Issam Uddin Ahmed European Science Foundation; staff reporter, Dawn (Pakistan); Pakistan correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor; desk editor, Agence France Presse Kelly Allen Daily Express; deputy news editor, Look; news editor, assistant editor Star; freelance (Daily Mirror, Heat, Now, Reveal, Best) Heidi Ancell Reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; public relations manager, The Kennel Club Emily Ashton Political reporter, chief parliamentary reporter, Press Association; Whitehall correspondent, The Sun; senior political correspondent, Buzzfeed Eleanor Barham Research, LSE Andrew Barker Construction News Alex Barker Economics correspondent, EU correspondent, Financial Times Laura Barnett Junior books editor, The Daily Telegraph; commissioning editor, Arts, The Guardian; freelance (The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out); author, The Versions of Us, self-employed Ruth Barnett Press Association; social media correspondent, political reporter, Sky News; head of communications,VP of global communications, SwiftKey, Second Home Catherine Boyle The Business; business reporter, The Times; staff writer and correspondent, CNBC Christopher Bryant Financial Times; central and eastern Europe business correspondent, Financial Times; Financial Times (Washington and New York bureaus); Frankfurt correspondent, Financial Times, Bloomberg Gadfly; columnist Andrew Bryson Sunday Express; BBC Business & Economics Unit; producer, BBC; producer, (Today) Radio 4 Simon Cable Showbusiness correspondent, Daily Mail; Freelance Alexander Carnwath Reporter, Wandsworth Borough News Frank Dalleres Sports editor, City A.M.; freelance, sports editor, City AM James Doughty Policy officer, Department of Health; policy manager, Appointments Commission; policy manager, Department of Health Helen Dowd The Mail on Sunday; media relations officer, British Red Cross; English teacher, Teach First; lead English teacher, Delamere School – Crown Woods College; English coordinator, Chesterfield High School Emily Dugan Freelance, The Independent; reporter, The Independent on Sunday; social affairs correspondent; social affairs editor The Independent, i and The Independent on Sunday; author

2006-2007 David Firth Trainee sub-editor, features sub-editor, features assistant chief subeditor, The Sun Sharon Flaherty Financial Times Business; head of content and PR, confused.com; group head of PR, MoneySuperMarket.com; managing director, BrandContent Tom Harper Reporter, Evening Standard; investigations reporter, The Independent, home affairs correspondent, The Sunday Times Ryan Harrison Pensions Week; chief business reporter, Emirates Business 24/7; deputy editor, Commerce, The Brief; freelance financial journalist (A.T Kearney, Efinancialcareers, Gulf Business, The Islamic Globe, Global Finance, Gulf Marketing Review) Nico Hines Reporter, US Reporter,The Times; London editor; Newsweek; London editor, The Daily Beast Kerry Hopkins KTB; associate director, Ogilvy Broadcast; director, Hopkins Communications, Contact Book; managing director Rhiannon James The Sunday Times, property section Urmee Khan The Daily Telegraph; freelance (Daily Mail, Time Out, Al Jazeera English, BBC, Huffington Post); producer, BBC News; interview producer, Al Jazeera; lead producer (Leading Women) CNN Andrew MacDowall Editorial manager, Oxford Business Group (Bucharest and Sofia); analyst and columnist, OBG (Istanbul and Sofia); freelance correspondent, analyst and consultant (Financial Times, CS Monitor, Business New Europe, The Independent; Oxford Business Group, Business Week, The Christian Science Monitor, Cityscape Intelligence, World Politics Review, BalkanInsight.com, businesstoday.com; Vagabond) Sara McCorquodale Sutton Guardian; freelance (The Guardian, The Scotsman, Suffolk magazine, Professional Beauty); senior editor, digital editor, Tatler.com; editor, MyDaily, Huffington Post Style UK Marina McIntyre Trainee sub-editor, The Sun; deputy production editor (web), The Guardian Rachel O’Brien Press Association John O’Doherty Trainee scheme, reporter, defence industries correspondent, Financial Times Isabella Piasecka Metal Bulletin; trainee solicitor, associate solicitor, Travers Smith; solicitor, Carter Ruck Emma Rowley Reporter, Press Association; business journalist, acting deputy features editor, The Telegraph; associate editor (features), Daily Mail Robin Stringer, Breaking financial news editor, editor, Bloomberg News Richard Suchet Newsreader, Sky News Radio; news reporter, arts and entertainment correspondent, reporter, Sky News Carlene Thomas-Bailey section editor and senior features writer, Company; commissioning editor, Men’s Health; contributor, Hearst Empowering Women Stephen Wilkinson Sub-editor, Brentwood Gazette; Essex Chronicle Media Group

MAGAZINE Tessa Andrews Senior consultant, Hay Group; board member, Sussex Housing & Care; director, Loxley England Caroline Atkinson (née Tosh) Social media editor, Safe World for Women; editor, Christian Aid; editor, International Development Agency

MAX RUSHDEN

Presenter, Sky Sports, TalkSport Broadcast 2005

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I had to do a five minute report on Peterborough’s oldest lamppost. I didn’t have any guests to interview and Peterborough’s oldest lamp-post was quite like all the other lamp-posts in Peterborough, it wasn’t even a special lamp-post.

Your biggest scoop?

I was the only reporter inside Heathrow when they it shut off when there was a terrorist threat, in the wake of 7/7.

The BBC were getting me to do reports with an American radio station. When I got back to the radio car - which was a big white Renault Espace with a big antennae sticking out, Thomas Atkinson Online editor, BT Digital Music Awards; editor, Hot TV, The Daily Star; TV editor, N&S Supplements, Express Newspapers Mark Bridge Freelance (The Times, The Sunday Times); personal finance reporter, deputy money editor, The Times Laura Canning Features writer, Siam Map (Ko Samui); content manager, Pitchup.com; freelance (The Telegraph, The Guardian, Mindful Money, pitchup.com); author Sophia Cottier Account manager, PR4; account manager, Profile Press and Public Relations; account manager, Portrait Communications Eleanor Goodman Deputy editor, Bizarre; production editor, Kerrang; features editor, Metal Hammer Gareth Iacobucci The Publican; news reporter, senior reporter, chief reporter, Pulse; news reporter, BMJ Philippa Jacks Managing editor (features), managing editor, editor, Travel Trade Gazette Ellen E Jones Hollywood correspondent; deputy editor, Independent Voices, TV critic, The Independent; contributing editor, Little White Lies Lee Jones Features writer, Money Marketing; copywriter, Wells Fargo Bank; PR specialist, One Simple Plan (Minneapolis) Neon Kelly Deputy editor, Pro-G Media; content editor, Human After All; commissioning editor, Telegraph Spark Daily Telegraph Laura Kenworthy (née Fergusson) Freelance (Dominion Post); writer, Redhouse Lane Communications; freelance (The Tablet, Sightsavers International, Economist Intelligence Unit, Wiley-Blackwell) Mishaal Khan Writer, Femail, Daily Mail; news reporter, 7 Days; freelance (United Arab Emirates) Andrea Leebody Fashion and beauty assistant, Love It!; junior writer, Pick Me Up; film content editor, Orange.co.uk Jo Mattock Editor, Dive; freelance (Dive, snowmagazine.com, active-traveller.com, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Fitness, Health and Fitness, Harrods Publishing); senior subeditor, Harrods Magazine Leah Milner Reporter, news editor, Money Marketing; money reporter, The Times; freelance blogger at mentalwealth. info

think the real skill is coming up with stuff on a day when bugger all is happening, and being creative. Breaking news takes care of itself.

pretty conspicuous - it was surrounded by armed police.

In the ensuing panic after apologising, I reversed into a massive bollard, wrecking the back of the car.

The most important journalistic skill?

I suppose really good journalists are brave. Also I Paul McNally News editor, Radio; editor, The Bulletin, presenter/reporter, FM Brussel 98.8 Sorrel Neuss Editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; editor, Times of Central Asia; freelance (New Nations, TCoL, Future Publishing) Amanda Nicolas (née Smith) Freelance (Time Out); digital editor, Channel 4 Food; group editor, Zone Eimear O’Hagan Writer, Femail, Daily Mail; senior features writer, features editor, contributing editor, Fabulous; freelance writer and editor Hugh Reilly Acting editor, London Planner Magazine; web editor, public affairs digital campaigner, social media community coordinator, digital community manager, Unicef UK Nicki Saunders Senior journalist, editor, content strategist, The Engage Group; marketing communications manager, Thomson Reuters; head of proposition marketing, Legal UK & Ireland Thomson Reuters Alistair Smart Features assistant, Seven; arts editor, chief art critic, arts editor, The Sunday Telegraph Daniel Stewart Architectural correspondent, Building; assistant web editor, senior editor, The Week (US edition); deputy editor for breaking news, TIME.com; continuous news editor TIME. com Katie Toms Freelance (The Guardian, The Observer, atcornwall.org, Drowned in Sound); press officer, Southbank Centre; freelance (The Guardian, The Observer, artcornwall.org, Drowned in Sound) Daniel Trilling Freelance writer, researcher (Plan B, New Statesman, Bad Idea, Bremner, Bird and Fortune); deputy arts and books editor, assistant editor, New Statesman; editor, New Humanist Katy Ward Editor, Macmillan Cancer Support; editor, Wardour; editor, business and finance division, Seven Gemma Ware Feature writer, reporter, Professional Fundraising; editorial assistant, assistant editor, The Africa Report (Paris), commissioning editor, The Conversation Media Group Wesley Yin-Poole Trainee reporter, Cmpi; deputy editor,VideoGamer.com; news editor, deputy editor, Eurogamer.net Tom Young Writer, Computing Magazine; shipping/freight reporter, editor Argus European Emissions Markets, Argus Media

What made you want to become a journalist?

Well I think inherently I was lazy and I wanted to do a radio show for two hours a day because I thought that was a short amount of work. Then when I started I realised that no one got anywhere without working incredibly hard.

By Ben Allen

BROADCAST Thomas Almeroth-Williams PhD student, University of York; communications officer, The Goldsmiths’ Company; communications officer, education and access, University of Cambridge Kate Arkless Grey (née Arkless) Editor, Audioboo; digital communities editor, Wellcome Trust; freelance; Researcher, BBC William Barkway Production journalist, group internal communications manager, ITV; consultant, Able and How; manager, senior manager, PwC UK Hannah Barnes Broadcast journalist, newsreader, Mercury FM; radio reporter in current affairs, BBC Ben Bland Reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; political reporter, reporter, BBC Essex/ Look East/Cambridge; reporter, presenter, BBC World News Paul Burge Multimedia journalist, Telegraph Media Group; managing editor and media analyst, PRIME research; freelance (ADP, Puig, The Digital Report) Kathleen Byrne Freelance Lucy Clark Freelance (Sky Sports News, BBC Radio Norfolk); broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Norfolk Elisa Colton Freelance, BBC Radio (Cumbria); reporter, BBC Newsgathering; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live Christina D’Costa Business producer, news producer, Sky News; senior producer, Bloomberg LP Tolu Doherty Unknown Gamal Fahnbulleh Reporter, Sky News; correspondent, ITV Daybreak; presenter and reporter, Sky News Rachel Foley Broadcast journalist, BBC North West Tonight; broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast Adam Fowler Reporter, Channel Television; reporter, ITV (Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire); election reporter, ITV Calendar (north patch) Laura Francis Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; freedom of information researcher, BBC News; political reporter, BBC Gloucestershire Seth Goolnik Head of development, Raw Television; senior vice president

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2007 development and current, Twofour Group (Los Angeles); President, Press Start Rowan Grace Evans (née McKinnon) Columnist, MyStreetChic; digital editor, Ernst & Young; head of social media, head of creative content and engagement, Greenlight Davina Hagan Broadcast journalist, ITV Border; senior producer, BBC London News Jamie Harvey Executive producer, Snoveo; director, Falcon Scott; producer/ director, Terra Nova Nashreen Issa Trainee TV journalist, reporter, ITV Meridian (Kent, Sussex) Amanda John, Unknown Becky Johnson Radio reporter and newsreader, Fox FM (Oxford); reporter and presenter, ITV Central; correspondent, Sky News Lillian Kennett Researcher, Dispatches (Channel 4) Rosalind Levine Producer, Global Radio; producer, Poppyfield Productions; producer, Crackit productions Naomi Lloyd Broadcast journalist, The West Country Tonight, ITV; freelance (Exaro News, BBC Radio Bristol, EuroNews) Alexander Maple Unknown Sarah Marshall Senior reporter, Johnston Press; technology correspondent, technology editor and training manager, journalism.co.uk; social media editor, social media editor, EMEA, Wall Street Journal (London) Selena Masson Researcher, Lexis Nexis Golnar Motevalli Correspondent, Reuters; freelance (Turkey); Iran correspondent, Bloomberg News Joanna Newsholme Part-time student, City University; BBC Chetan Pathak Presenter and reporter, daily news programme, BBC Asian Network; presenter, weekly news and music programme, BBC Three Counties Radio; communities reporter, BBC Look East and BBC 3CR Ayden Peach Radio reporter, Time FM; freelance researcher (GMTV) Miriam Rowe MCR assistant, catch up television editor, ITV London Studios; offline editor, NHK World; freelance editor Vishva Sodhi (née Samani) Broadcast journalist, BBC London TV; freelance reporter (BBC); communications officer, VSO, freelance, BBC Jagjeet Singh-Sohal ITV Regional News; specialist researcher, BBC; author & filmmaker, Dot Hyphen Productions;

producer, Sky News Kathryn Stapley Consultant, Search for Common Ground; broadcast journalist, France 24 television; Egypt correspondent, France 24 Kim Townsend Radio station tutor, Brixton Prison; community outreach manager, Media Trust; public engagement coordinator, UCL Alex Waez Music promoter Chloe Walker Afternoon radio producer, 702 ABC Sydney; drive producer, BBC Radio 5 live; freelance (BBC Radio 5 live, LBC, BBC World Service) Emmet Ward Editorial assistant, Teachers Isabel Webster Reporter and presenter, BBC Points West; News Correspondent, BBC News; West of England correspondent and presenter, Sky News

TV CAJ Chloe Curwen Brown (née Corbin) Press officer, Survival International; real estate photographer, Curwen Photography; Customer Services Manager, Alp Leisure Ltd Kate Chambers Researcher/ Trainee, The Andrew Marr Show; producer, Frost Over The World, Paradine Productions; broadcast journalist and producer, BBC News Nicholas Francis Managing director, creative director, owner, Casual Films Limited James Martin Freelance (Jewish Chronicle); PR and communications officer, Board of Deputies of British Jews; head of fundraising and marcomms, University Jewish Chaplaincy Warren Nettleford Presenter, reporter, Channel 5 News, ITN; founder, Right Thing Films

2007 INTERNATIONAL Mario Alemi Head of business intelligence, aNobii; head of data products, Mopapp; partner, SecurecoPro;

EMILY WRIGHT

chief data officer,Your.MD Jacques Aristide Broadcaster,Voice of America Mattia Bagnoli Freelance (La Stampa); correspondent, video journalist, political reporter, bureau chief correspondent, ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Italy) Joanna Barrett Communications manager, RedR UK; climate change press and communications officer, CARE; communications manager, Committee on Climate Change Lauren Bedsole Senior editor, NewsCore; executive assistant, Hyperion Insurance Group; freelance (US) Ambika Behal Editor, Lonely Planet (Hong Kong); managing editor, Salwan Media; director, Baobab Tree Consulting Ltd. Julian Bohne Freelance Boudet Boudet Unknown Leticia Camargo Digital marketing analyst, TV Globo; product and solutions specialist, digital sales executive,TV Globo; member of video advertising committee, IAB Brasil Laëtitia Chaucesse Journalist, Radio France; consultant, Netcast Conseil; associate project manager, SCOP Cultures Trafic Nadine Clarke Content editor, social media producer, DraftFCB; senior content strategist, Dare; content strategist, Tangent Snowball Rowenna Davis Councillor outhwark Council; parliamentary candidate, Southampton Itchen; freelance (The Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, The Independent, The Economist) Daphne Dimopoulou Unknown Quoc Do Unknown Helen Dritsa Owner, Goldmum.gr Unknown Judith Enriquez-Sarano Media officer, Oxfam Natalia Farr Lantero Training officer (communications), Pivotal Mona Hussain Freelance Daniele Ihns Fraud investigation and dispute services, Ernst & Young; FIFA world cup team, The Coca-Cola Company; Rio 2016 Olympics hospitality, The Coca-Cola Company Azlira Jamaluddin Marketing manager, Tune; editor, TM Media; web and special projects editor, Marie Claire Amy Judd Reporter community manager, NowPublic.com; sports editor, Maple Ridge Times (Canada); online web

Features and global editor, Estates Gazette, Magazine 2005 What made you want to become a journalist?

I love writing and I remember thinking that it was very fortunate that there was a job out there that directly reflected what I enjoyed doing. Lots of people don’t have that luxury.

Advice you would have given to yourself after finishing City?

Not to equate being good at what you do with success. If you are a good writer it is very easy to think “I’m going to be fine because I am good at this.” But actually it is just as important if not more important - to have the acumen to realise when opportunities are coming your way and to grab them.

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Role model in journalism?

I was always a massive fan of John Diamond, the deceased husband of Nigella Lawson.

He used journalism as means to express his struggle when cancer left him unable to speak.

Writing about his experiences became his only outlet in the end, which is why it was so moving and inspiring.

The biggest change you’ve seen in journalism since you began your career?

Since I left City in 2004, those 10 or 12 years have probably been some of the biggest in terms of that move from print to online. Seeing that has been exciting and scary in equal measure. I think it has been a useful position to be in because you can see people that have been in the industry a lot longer who are reluctant to change and it is so apparent that not changing is suicide.

Alex Berry

producer, Global BC (Canada) Angelica Jung Woo Writer, presenter, KBS World Radio; production coordinator, Cartoon Network Europe; programming scheduler, Disney Channel Georgios Kallinis Unknown Natalia Kannas Press officer, Leonard Cheshire Disability; media relations officer, General Medical Council Vasileios-Vlasios Katsardis Press officer, SYRIZA (EU); intake and night editor, Associated Press; chief press officer, European Parliament Loan Khong Sub-editor, Tuoi Tre (Vietnam); founder, New Media Company; reporter, Ba Ria Vung Tau (Vietnam) Ronley Kirwan Corporate communications assistant and researcher, Pearson Plc; press assistant, Which?; communications and education researcher, Pearson UK Miyako Kobayashi Freelance translator; bilingual investigator, Amazon Web Services; broker/realtor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Neha Kumar Associate director, SPARX International (Hong Kong); associate partner, Brunswick Group Dan Liu Unknown Ajay Menakuru Unknown Alyssa Morrisey Editor and publisher, The Hercules Express; founder, BoldBusinessCoach; creative director and chief video alchemist, Alyssa Morrisey Media Alice Moura Online editor, Time Out, (Rio de Janeiro); CNN Shadha Muheissn Baghdad correspondent, BBC Nadia Nanji CNBC news assistant, communication specialist, Nestlé Professional Omid Nikfarjam Unknown Jyotika Oberoi UK media representative, India Today John O’Donoghue Unknown Barbara O’Donovan Editor, Metal Bulletin; editor (non-ferrous), special projects and overseas editor, product owner, American Metal Market; product owner and managing editor, Industrial Minerals Toni Oyry Project manager, Batoota Films; producer / director, Ballistic Content; instructor of journalism and digital media, American University of Beirut Akshata Pai Unknown Simeon Paterson Freelance broadcast correspondent; broadcast journalist, BBC World News Channel Cristina Pittelli Media assistant, The Stroke Association; senior media officer, Shelter; media and communications manager, Unicef UK Eric Polaud Unknown Wenjing Qin Unknown Sacranie Sacranie Unknown Melissa Saic Unknown Amiko Sato Tokyo MX News Daniela Silberstein Stock market reporter, Bloomberg News (Zurich); chief operating officer, Les Mills, Swiss Academy of Fitness and Sport Takeshi Sobukawa Unknown Namrata Tanna Director, Imageworks Productions; communications, Concern India Foundation; co-founder & Mumbai lead, Creatives Against Poverty Suma Tekur Assistant editor, Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai) Ahmed Tweirsh Unknown Smriti Vidyarthi News anchor, Nation Media Group Yulianna Vilkos Deputy editor, Debtwire David Wall Unknown Sabine Wolf Assistant editor, Rhinegold Publishing Ltd; deputy editor, international affairs, Chatham House Aylin Yazan Foreign affairs correspondent, CNN TURK (Istanbul);

2007 Washington DC reporter, CNN TURK; producer, Al Jazeera Turkey; broadcast journalist, BBC Turkish Gaini Yussupova Unknown Giselle Zado-Wasfie Author; freelance (VIBE, Vice, Black Book, Teen People, CosmoGirl); editor, URB

NEWSPAPER Sarah Bloch Press Association; multimedia journalist, The Times; producer, senior producer, BBC Thomas Calverley Trainee sub-editor, sub-editor, Daily Mail; senior sports reporter, TV3; news editor, Midlands News Association; freelance output producer, Sky News; assistant news editor, ITN; producer, BBC Radio 2; Freelance producer (C4 News / ITV News/ ITV London) Julian Cheatle Trainee sub-editor, The Sun Max Colchester News assistant, reporter, correspondent, Wall Street Journal Jeananne Craig Features writer, Press Association Laura Crowley Reporter, Decision News Media; communications and media officer, WaterAid Kate Day Communities editor, social media and engagement editor, director of digital content, The Daily Telegraph Alex Delaney Chair, British Youth Council; community outreach manager, Media Trust; community governor, Stamford Hill Primary School; trustee, Bright One; mentor, Friendshipworks; communications manager, Matter&Co Elena Egawhary Freelance (New Statesman,The Guardian,The Independent Television Magazine, BBC News Online and Focus on Africa); BBC Panorama; corporate investigator, Kroll Jane Fulcher Digital editor, Show Media Alistair Gray Bloomberg News; insurance correspondent, Financial Times.

Fiona Gray Reading Evening Post; reporter, Scotland on Sunday David Green China Daily; freelance (China); correspondent, Market News International; editor, Beijing Cai United Consulting; editor, The World of Chinese; china regulatory correspondent, International News Services Ltd. Chris Green The Independent Elizabeth Gyekye Materials Recycling Weekly; news editor, Packaging News; editor, Local Authority Waste & Recycling (LAWR) Peter Hutchison The Daily Telegraph;The Independent Clementine Jackson-Stops Scriptwriter, researcher, CNBC Chloe Lambert Reporter, Wandsworth Borough News; commissioning editor, The Times; assistant editor, Good Health, Daily Mail; feature writer, copy editor, freelance Rosamund Lavan Online business writer, The Times Felix Lowe Shifts, The Daily Telegraph; contributing writer and editor, LondonTown.com, London Marketing; cycling expert, FRANCE 24; chief cycling contributor / author, Blazin’ Saddles blog, Eurosport; columnist, Cyclist Magazine; freelance, ProCycling Thomas Lowe Press Association; reporter, The Independent; freelance editor European Commission; journalist, The Times; producer, Greenpeace Andrew Macaskill sub-editor, Times Online; China Daily; reporter, Bloomberg.

Richard Milne European business correspondent, Nordic and Baltic correspondent, Financial Times Ronan Murphy Business, Press

Association; assistant editor, Satellite Finance; editor - clean energy pipeline, VB/Research; reporter, Argus Media Rupert Neate City reporter, The Daily Telegraph; business and finance reporter, The Guardian,The Observer.

Anh Nguyen The Engineer; features editor; deputy editor, Computerworld UK Cordelia O’Neill Press Association; The Scotsman; online production journalist, STV Group; freelance Dominic O’Neill Euromoney; features editor, LatinFinance Alex Ogle Freelance (New York); Americas desk editor, Agence France Presse (Washington DC); Asia Pacific desk editor, Agence France-Presse (Hong Kong); photojournalist, Agence FrenchPresse Laura Oliver Reporter, editor, Journalism.co.uk; community coordinator, social and community editor, The Guardian.

Celia Paul The Independent;The Scotsman; Senior Broadcast Journalist, Press Association Rachel Rouse Reporter, Daily Express; senior account manager, account director, Tetra Strategy Helen Roxburgh Senior multimedia reporter, Estates Gazette; multimedia editor, CoStar UK; group online editor, Progressive Customer Publishing Jessica Salter reporter, The Daily Telegraph; features and interviews, commissioning editor, The Saturday Telegraph - Magazine Ravender Sembhy Freelance (GG2 Life); freelance (Scotland on Sunday, Sky Sports, New Media); business reporter, Press Association; business correspondent, deputy City editor, Sunday Express Harriet Shawcross Multimedia, Press Association; assistant producer, BBC Newsround; producer, BBC4; multiplatform producer, BBC Panorama; producer BBC World; edit producer, BBC Josh Spero Arts blogger, the Guardian; web sub-editor, The Independent; art critic,Tatler; editor, Spear’s; Freelance (The Guardian,The Independent,The Times,The Sunday Times,The Economist,Tatler and Time Out) Rosalind Stewart The Guardian Joanna Sugden Online reporter, education reporter, The Times; contributor, Editor India (Real Time), Wall Street Journal Jon Swaine Reporter, The Daily Telegraph; New York correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Washington correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; reporter (US), The Guardian Judith Townend The Australian; Al Jazeera English; senior reporter, Journalism.co.uk; PhD student, City University; research associate, University of Westminster; lecturer, City University; Director, Centre for Law and Information Policy, University of London Brian Turner Capital markets reporter, Financial News; Dow Jones.

Andrew Wander Freelance, (The Sunday Times,The Daily Telegraph,The Observer); emergency media manager, acting head of news, Save the Children; media campaigner, Avaaz Pamela Welsh Salford Advertiser; senior political reporter, MEN Media; media and communications specialist, Northwards Housing Alice Wright Features writer, Medavia; digital publisher, Northcliffe Digital; Freelance (Artists and Illustrators, Homes and Antique, Cosmopolitan, Now,The Mirror)

MAGAZINE Charlotte Bailey News shifts, The Bookseller; editorial assistant, staff writer, Weight Watchers; features editor, SuperYacht World; marketing coordinator, Y.CO Yacht Company, Monaco Lalayn Baluch Reporter, The Stage; freelance features writer; content editor, Digital Communications Manager, RLSB (The Royal London Society for Blind People).

Henry Barnes Multimedia production assistant and film & music blogger, The Guardian, editor, www.guardian.co.uk/film Catherine Bennion-Pedley Features assistant, senior features writer, Company; entertainment editor, more!; in-house freelance writer, editor, Stylist magazine; freelance deputy news editor, LOOK magazine; in-house freelance writer / editor, OK! Magazine; deputy lifestyle editor, Fabulous Magazine Melanie Bezalel Writer, BBC Magazines; reporter, The Jerusalem Post; researcher, assistant producer, Fresh One Productions; Olivia Boyd Graduate trainee, CMPi; senior reporter, reporter, Building; assistant editor, deputy editor, Chinadialogue Stuart Brumfitt Freelance (i-D, ACNE PAPER, BEAT); contributing editor, Wonderland; assistant editor, Attitude; freelance (i-D, Dazed & Confused, The Guardian, Esquire and W Magazine); digital news editor, i-D Victoria-Anne Bull Reporter, Daily Mail; freelance Laura Chubb Reporter, People Management; books and film editor, Time Out (Dubai); travel editor, TNT; freelance writer, editor, sub-editor (Daily Mail online, Stylist, CNN.com, The Express Saturday Magazine, Bluffer’s Guide, Tatler Travel Guide) Richard Clare Content editor, The Daily Telegraph; senior writer, Match of the Day; deputy editor Horrible Histories and Mega magazine Timothy Clark Freelance (Mail Online, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, Travelfish); Editor, SuchSmallPortions.com Aaron Davies Digital manager, web consultant and journalist, Redactive Media Gwynne Dixon Staff writer, TotalVideoGames.com; content editor, copywriter, The Pixel; online assistant, Organic Marketing; freelance copywriter, web developer, Magdoos Media; content editor, Amnesty International; digital engagement coordinator, Amnesty International Claire Dodd Freelance (Travel Trade Gazette); features writer, deputy features editor, The Publican; beauty news editor, myfashionlife.com; Freelance (Zest, Channel 4 Food, Travel Trade Gazette, The Independent, The Guardian, The LondonPaper, Drapers, TNT, The Good Food Channel, ABTA Magazine, Inapub, Vandal, Radius, On-Trade Preview, Construction News, DVD Monthly, Imbibe, Theme, Building) Nicholas Duxbury Reporter, senior finance reporter, Property Week; deputy features editor, news editor, Inside Housing.

Catherine Everett Editorial assistant, Cosmopolitan; features and health assistant, Good Housekeeping; commissioning editor, LOOK; features editor,Top Sante Holly Falconer Picture editor, editorial assistant, DIVA; editorial assistant, Gay Times; freelance photographer Mary Fitzgerald Assistant editor, online editor, senior editor, Prospect; freelance (The Observer,The Guardian, New Statesman, Sight & Sound); editorial

campaigner, Avaaz; editor-in-chief, openDemocracy Lucy Foster Staff writer, news editor, features editor, associate editor, ShortList; features editor, Stylist; features director, Stylist Clare Geraghty Features assistant, Elle; features writer, commissioning editor, You (The Mail on Sunday).

Thom Gibbs Graduate trainee, CMPi; Travel Trade Gazette; freelance (The Guardian; NME; Dazed and Confused) deputy digital sports editor, The Daily Telegraph Leigh Shaerf (née Gower) Editorial assistant, mydeco.com; assistant lifestyle producer, web producer, UKTV; digital content producer, Really, senior shows editor, MTV Catrin Griffiths Editorial assistant, feature writer, features editor, Saturday (Daily Express) Eleanor Harding Freelance (Building); senior reporter, Wandsworth Guardian; news reporter, Daily Mail Will Henley Features writer, Money Marketing; reporter, Building Design; news writer, Commonwealth Secretariat; deputy editor, Global Financial Strategy; communications officer, Commonwealth Secretariat Georgina Hobbs Intern, CMPi; freelance (Little White Lies); account executive, senior film publicist, Substance001, publicity manager for comedy & entertainment, Channel 4 Jessica Holland Editorial assistant, thelondonpaper; acting assistant books editor, The Observer; senior writer, Urban Junkies (London); Freelance Matthew Hussey Staff writer, ShortList; news editor, editor, T3; tech blogger, The Huffington Post; contributor, AskMen. com; columnist, Business Weekly; founder, Apowl.co; co-founder, Project Provenance Apowl.com; co-founder, Project Provenance Simon Jennings Features writer, China Daily; international justice reporter, Africa editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting Fiona Kerr Staff writer, deputy supplements editor, Brides; word of mouth editor, Conde Nast Traveller Joanna Kerr Project manager, Algiz Media; web editor, Boudiche; project manager, tictoc; website manager, Action on Hearing Loss; digital manager, vInspired; head of digital communications, Girlguiding Hugh Montgomery Editorial assistant, The Observer Review; arts editor; The Independent on Sunday Alex Olorenshaw Sub-editor, web production assistant, sub-editor, deputy night web production editor, The Guardian Zoe Smeaton Reporter, news editor, Chemist & Druggist; communications manager, head of communications and public affairs, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee Kay Smith Writer, features editor, Touch; publicity assistant, Sony Music Entertainment; publicity co-ordinator, The Outside Organisation; Freelance writer / communications officer (Company Magazine, MTV, Radio 1, BBC, The Stage, Island Records); creative copywriter, COUCH Laura Swinton News editor, Shots; deputy editor, global editor, Little Black Book Luke Tebbutt Online production assistant, The Guardian; features editor, Grand Designs; freelance (Living etc, Grand Designs magazine, Icon, Ideal Home, Alto); sub-editor (part time), WGSN Matt Turner Journalist, Engage Group; online reporter, capital markets reporter, Financial News; mergers and acquisitions reporter, investment banking editor, US editor, Financial News

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2007-2008 Caroline White Games editor, news writer,The Times; assistant editor, associate editor, Boat International Josh Widdicombe Freelance (the Guardian); staff writer, sports desk, The Jewish Chronicle; editorial assistant, arts desk, thelondonpaper; night editor and reporter, sports section, sub-editor, The Guardian; stand up comic Anna Winston Graduate trainee CMPi; reporter, Building Design; editor, bdonline. co.uk; digital consultant, freelance; head of digital, Building Design; editor, Dezeen Louis Wise Freelance writer, production assistant, The Guardian; Culture (The Sunday Times); online culture planner, assistant editor, The Sunday Times

BROADCAST Brandice Alexander Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel Lila Allen Multiplatform producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs; fixer, producer, reporter (freelance), BBC; video journalist, Ipsos MORI; documentary assistant producer, TVN; assistant producer, Blakeway Productions Emma Boon Broadcast journalist, CN Radio (Rugby FM, Warwickshire); broadcast Journalist, Global Radio (Heart/Gold, Suffolk and Essex).campaign Director, The TaxPayers’ Alliance; public affairs, Brunswick Group Chris Broughall Freelance (9ITN); broadcast assistant, account executive, Weber Shandwick Mariam Caulkett (née Abu-Hejleh) Freelance (BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio London, BBC News online); researcher, BBC 2 current affairs; multiplatform researcher, BBC Watchdog Harry Crawford Broadcast journalist, 2CR FM; presenter, reporter, BBC Radio; match day host, AFC Bournemouth; press officer and coaching assistant, Virginia United Football Club; broadcast journalist, Global Radio; communications officer, Defra; reporter; BBC; reporter, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; media officer, Brisbane County Council Joe Crowley TV presenter, BBC Inside Out South Ellie Davis Broadcast assistant, assistant producer, BBC 6 Music; audio producer, The Guardian; broadcast journalist (arts and entertainment news), BBC; producer, BBC Radio 2 Nick Drake Unknown Luke Ellis Text producer, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Humberside, Look North (Hull); media co-ordinator, BBC Newswire; researcher, BBC; operator, assistant editor operations, operations organiser, BBC North TV News Clare Fernyhough Reporter, ITN Eleanor Garnier Broadcast journalist, Leicester Sound; political reporter, BBC Radio Leicester; video Journalist, BBC East Midlands Today Louise Goss Broadcast journalist, ITN; freelance (Sydney NSW); editorial director, BitScan Pty Ltd Charlotte Grant Assistant news editor, ITV News; reporter, ITV Central Martha Housden Head of development, BBC Three; head of development, Twenty Twenty Joe Inwood Assistant producer, BBC London Politics Show; video journalist, BBC; reporter,Video Journalist, BBC Look North (Yorkshire) Sukhjeet Johal Unknown Sabina Khalid Project co-ordinator, Global Radio; assistant producer, trade marketing manager, Stardoll; head of customer happiness, Osper

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Joanna Lester Freelance; news assistant, assistant producer, freelance assistant producer (BBC Sports News); media officer, Harlequins Rugby Club; producer and video journalist, Associated Press TV News (Sydney); producer and video journalist, Associated Press (Australia); reporter, presenter, producer, Living Black Radio (Australia); video journalist, Fairfax Digital; reporter, Olympic News Service (ONS) Sochi 2014; reporter, ABC Radio Cordelia Lynch reporter, presenter, ITV West Country; reporter, Channel 4 News Fiona Macpherson Freelance (Ivel FM, Fire FM); broadcast journalist, BBC News Ada Oraedu Researcher, Maverick Television; materials co-ordinator, All3Media International Susannah Orchard Freelance; producer, Five News; BBC News 24; ITN On; BBC London Radio; producer, BBC Breakfast; research producer, Go to fig.2; producer (US), Sky News Julian Perkins newsreader, The Coast; broadcast journalist, The Breeze; broadcast journalist, Jack FM Southampton; broadcast journalist, Celador Radio; Breakfast news reader, Radio Jackie; presenter, Susy Radio; broadcast journalist, Time 106.6 Dom Reynolds Producer, ITN On; producer, Sky; reporter/producer (Daybreak); ITV; senior producer, Beagle Media; presenter, monocle; reporter, ITN, 5 News Sam Rigby Freelance broadcast journalist; news editor, Time Radio; broadcast journalist, BBC; Brewer Gil Roberts Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; BBC South East Today Katie Rowlett Broadcast journalist, BBC Midlands Today (Birmingham); freelance (BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Nottingham, BBC WM); BBC East Midlands Today; journalist, ITV (Bristol); health correspondent, ITV Ben Samuel Researcher, Who Do You Think You Are?; associate producer, Twenty Twenty Television; associate producer, Silver River TV; television producer, BBC History; deputy head of development, Ten Alps; head of development, Minnow Films Colletta Smith Production journalist, telegraph.co.uk; producer, researcher, BBC Politics Show North; broadcast journalist, business reporter, BBC Northern Ireland Dino Sofos Freelance (PM, Women’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live); broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Sheffield; producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior broadcast journalist and political producer, BBC Radio 5 Live Shona Somerville Freelance (ITN, ITV News); assistant foreign news editor, ITV News; producer (Washington Bureau), ITN; producer (US), Sky News Kathryn Stanczyszyn Breakfast journalist, XFM South Wales; freelance (BRMB, Kerrang!, BBC Radio 2, BBC West Midlands); broadcast journalist, BBC; breakfast newsreader, reporter, BBC WM; London breakfast reporter, Global Radio (LBC, Classic FM, Heart, Capital); newsreader, BBC Radio 5 Live; political reporter (West Midlands), BBC Hermione Stephenson Output producer, ITV News Simone Stewart Unknown Sarah Walton Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Newcastle; BBC Politics Show, North East and Cumbria; BBC Midlands Today; reporter, BBC Radio Newcastle; presenter, BBC Look North Matthew Warren Broadcast journalist, BBC; group communications, BT; broadcast journalist, France 24; head of brand strategy, BT Katy Watson Radio producer, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; BBC Radio 5 Live; freelance (Prison Radio Association, The Sun); freelance producer, Electric

Radio (Brixton); presenter, Time FM; Middle East business reporter (Dubai), BBC; Washington reporter, BBC News; UK reporter, BBC News, South America business reporter, BBC News; Mexico and Central America correspondent Adam Westbrook Freelance newsreader (Oxford FM 107.9); broadcast journalist, news gathering, 102 Touch Radio Midlands; freelance multimedia journalist; online journalist, studio.fu; freelance multimedia producer & journalism lecturer; founder, director at video.fu; lecturer in journalism, Kingston University; video essayist, delve.tv Siobhan Wornell Broadcast journalist, Sunrise Radio and TV; freelance (BBC, BBC Radio 4); journalist (Today Programme), BBC Radio 4 Pascale Yasmine Captioner, BBC Parliament; freelance (BBC, Associated Press TV News); unknown

TV CAJ Warda AlJawahiry TV producer, Thomson Reuters (Dubai bureau); Social Entrepreneur (Cairo, Egypt); video producer, UNHCR Roshni Amin digital media designer, Fusion Universal; assistant producer, The Open University; sound and vision producer, The Open University Perjit Auja development producer, Darlow Smithson Productions; development producer (features), Maverick Television; development executive, Full Fat Television Charlotte Banks website manager, head of group communications, Klesch and Company Limited; PR manager, UK Intermediary Schroders Radha Bedi Freelance (BBC Asian Network, Channel 4); broadcast assistant, BBC; Associated Press (Delhi); freelance producer and presenter of factual and current affairs documentaries Michael Blair producer, Sunrise, Sky News; arts and entertainment editor, Sky News; social affairs & education producer, Sky News Joanna Blundell BBC News; producer, Al Jazeera; senior Producer, Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar); assistant programme editor (news), Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar) David Brookes Head of creative productions PHA Media; senior PR strategist, PHA Media; director, Thinking Hat PR Anna Cavell South Sudan correspondent, Al Jazeera Celine Chan Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills; associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Rayhan Demytrie Field producer, Reuters; producer, BBC World TV; Central Asia correspondent, Southern Caucasus correspondent, BBC Fred Fenoulhet newsdesk producer, GMTV; producer, Channel 5 News, ITN; executive producer, Channel 5 News, ITN; unknown Megan Gerrie senior PD (news, shooting AP, documentaries), ITN Productions; producer/ director, ITN Productions; broadcast journalist (news and documentaries), ITN Natalie Hall Senior account executive, Kaper; account director, Kaper Emma Chandra (née Jenkinson) reporter, BBC London; producer, BBC 6 & BBC News; senior broadcast journalist, BBC 6 & BBC News Rhiannon Jones Spain correspondent, CCTV News; senior presenter, Real Madrid TV; freelance sports anchor, reporter, CNN Jordan Kenny press and communications officer, University of

Bolton; freelance feature writer, Viva Magazine; consultant, Communications Management Sadia Khan researcher, Halcyons Heart Production Company; assistant producer, Al Jazeera (Doha); broadcast journalist, BBC News.

Kamali Melbourne producer, Channel 4 News ITN; digital field producer, Bloomberg business; presenter, TRT World Hannah Mitchell Senior Celebrity Liaison, British Heart Foundation; publicity manager, Universal Pictures (UK) Mary Nash October Films; unknown Clara Nissen Production assistant, Juniper Communications; editorial assistant, BBC Proms; broadcast assistant, BBC Lucas Ochoa Head of Development, Pulse Film; head of film and scripted television, Pulse Films Tom Rayner Middle East editor, Sky News (Jerusalem); Middle East bureau chief, Sky News (Jerusalem); South East Asia correspondent, Sky News Natalie Rose edit producer, The X Factor, FremantleMedia; edit producer, Gogglebox, Channel 4; editor producer, The Jump, Channel 4 Louisa Sellon Producer, lead producer,?What If! Innovation; marketing manager, ?What If! Innovation Bushra Siddiq assistant producer, Dispatches; assistant producer, Panorama; assistant producer, Caravan Media Tim Stokes Researcher, Channel 4; broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast; unknown Nicholas Westwood executive producer (Got to Dance,The Gleekly), BSkyB; Executive Producer, Sky (I Heart Glee); head of development (digital and broadcast), Sting Media Xinmin Yan Writer, Outside; TV producer, Travel Channel; China Representative, OC Sport Group; owner, Beijing theONE Sport Event Management

ERASMUS Bakyt Azimkanov Global Debt Capital Markets Reporter (IFR), Thomson Reuters; freelance Managing Director (Communications Central); senior associate, global media relations, Ernst & Young Dan Clifford Chief Copy Editor, Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review; contributing writer, The Oil & Gas Year Alvino Mario Fantini Editor, speechwriter, OPEC (Vienna); Secretary General, The Hayek Institute; editor-inchief, The European Conservative Christian Hudtwalcker Pinilla Unknown Arthur Patnaude Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal Khatira Shikhiyeva Unknown Martina Topic co-founder and research associate, Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (Zagreb); coeditor, Journal of Culture and Religion; faculty member, Faculty of Business & Law, Leeds Beckett University Renfeng (Frank) Zhao Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; partner, managing partner, Kreab Gavin Anderson

2008 INTERNATIONAL

2008 Salam Abdulmunem Communications officer, UNICEF (Iraq); communication officer, UNICEF Lebanon Ibrahim Adwan Reporter, editor, producer, Reuters TV (London); acting head of overseas operations, Thomson Reuters Lei Ai Unknown Harriet Alexander-Orr Foreign affairs reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; unknown Carlos Aparicio Senior sales (international), MFS Investment Management; freelance (World Investment News); CMC Markets; unknown Fidan Bagirova Novelist Edward Bally video consultant, UNICEF; Broadcast Journalist, Babel Media (Miami); freelance reporter and director Larissa Belyaeva Unknown Cecile Bonneau Broadcast journalist, M6 Metropole Television (France); journalist director, Soda Presse; freelance journalist; journalist, Jardins d’ici and d’ailleurs, Bo Travail Lisa Botter Staff writer, Criticaleye; deputy editor, Pensions Weekly, (FT Group); associate editor, Agenda Financial Times David Calonico Unknown Ana Cavalcanti Freelance; teacher Mann Chung Unknown Federica Cocco freelance; journalist, Daily Mirror; journalist, The Times Sebastian Cure Unknown Sarah Dahan Unknown Daniel Sunday Unknown Julia de Laurentiis Author, Maclean’s magazine Solange Deschatres freelance, creative marketing consultant and strategist; creative marketing consultant & strategist, The Independent; global senior manager, content marketing strategy, storytelling, Symantec Marie Dhumieres Reporter, The Beirut Daily Star; Belgrade correspondent, Le Courierre Des Balkans; freelance Antonio Fabrizio Reporter,VRL Financial News; Leasing Life; European reporter, InfraNews/Mergermarket (FT Group) Charlene Ferguson Unknown Camille Fevrier Freelance, (Le Monde, France 24, The Sunday Times) Jing Fu journalist, China Daily Nathalie Gentaz Journalist (France 24, Agence Française de Développement, ActuaLitte, TV 5 Monde) Phivos Georgiades Unknown Anastasia Georgoupli Unknown Maria Gili (née Hanisch) London correspondent, Caras Magazine (freelance); editor, Televisa Chile S.A.; communications officer, ALNAP Ahmet Gormez Diplomacy and defence correspondent, ATV (Turkey); unknown Syed Hamad Ali Freelance, (The Times, The Guardian) Llana Hart Editor, writer, The Jerusalem Post; marketing project manager, BeginSadat Centre for Strategic Studies; PR manager, NICE systems Iman Hassan Unknown Jonathan Heffer head of mission, Médecins Sans Frontières (Russia); head of mission, Médecins Sans Frontières (Yemen); health programme manager, Cordaid Inutu Himanje Head of television operations and production, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (Zambia) Vina Hiridjee documentary filmmaker, France Televisions; video producer, Agence Francaise de Developpement (Cambodia); multimedia consultant and video producer, World Bank Group Juliana Holanda Author

FELIX LOWE

Published author and freelance writer, Newspaper 2007

Highlight of your career so far?

I was asked to go to the diamond mines in South Africa, where I was able to go on a safari and use my photography too. When you get to do things like this you remember why you are in this industry.

Olivia Hottat trainee, Delegation of the European Union to the United States; lawyer, Stibbe (Brussels); associate, Intellectual Property, Stibbe Isabella Iliaskou Owner, izou.gr Jaclyn Jacobsen Junior editor, Maghrebia.com; reporter, managing editor, Central Asia Newswire; unknown Cristina Jaleru Freelance (Associated Press Television Network); entertainment producer, Associated Press; founder, editor, Life of Venus Rashi Khilnani Host, Indo-Canadian Report; presenter, Radio Canada International; freelance communications, strategy, marketing and project management consultant George Kyriakos Chief business subeditor, production editor, head of digital and magazine production, Financial Times Zoe Lamazou Unknown Sarah Leduc Journalist, France 24 Josephine Hojean Lee Desk assistant and production assistant, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (New York); consulting associate & senior coordinator, Sucherman Consulting Group Xiaoxun Lei middle east bureau chief, China Daily (Xinjiang) Dan Liu Unknown Anouk Lorie Founder, editor, Nocamels.com Natalia Lutz Unknown Michael Makau Unknown Marie Mathieu ARTE Joseph McCullogh Unknown Camilla Menezes Unknown Aindrila Mitra national editorial advisor,The Times of India; managing editor, Lifestyle & Luxury Response,The Times of India; brand communications and marketing, MUJI India/Diesel Coralie Modschiedler Copy editor, acting editor, commissioning editor, special projects editor, World Travel Guide; editor, Columbus Travel Media David Mugonyi Deputy news editor, Nation Media Group; Communication Secretary, Deputy President of Kenya Elizabeth Mupfumira Corporate communications manager, Native Investments Africa Group; communications officer, United Nations Development Program (UNDP); communications specialist, UNICEF (Harare) Shannon O’Meara writer, billabout. com; Online editor InStyle Australia; strategy and tactics lead, Mamamia Women’s Network Viktoria Peitchev Unknown Eric Polaud Unknown Angeliki Psaila Trainee, To Vima (Athens); unknown Cristina Ranieri Unknown

Advice you would have given yourself straight after finishing City?

It’s very important to be on good terms and keep in touch with previous employers by sending them articles – be persistent and don’t be afraid of sounding pushy. As a freelance, it’s important to say yes to everything, even when you feel like you are drowning in work because there will be some weeks where you have absolutely nothing.

The most important journalistic skill?

Networking is really important

Tony Renda General manager, Renda broadcasting Michel Rose Unknown Matthieu Serpaggi channel coordinator, Discovery Communications; content operations supervisor, Discovery Communications (Southern Europe); programming associate, Discovery Networks International Victoria Serpis Unknown Mypho Smart Unknown Deborah Sterescu reporter, The Times, The Independent, The Economist; equities reporter, Proactive Investors (Toronto) Iselin Stronen PhD student, City University; PhD Student, Michelsen Institute (Norway); postdoctoral researcher, Michelsen Institute; associate professor, University of Bergen Ahmed Tweirsh Unknown Rosalind Upton Unknown Yana Uralskaya Fashion columnist, New Style; international fashion correspondent, Vogue (Russia); social life correspondent, Russian Hour TV (London); New Style; unknown Marco Woldt Freelance, CNN International; independent filmmakerm, Deutsche Telekom, Eventbrite, Evernote, City of Berlin; co-founder and managing director, Gallereplay (Berlin) Duncan Woodside East Africa Correspondent, France 24 TV (English); producer, France 24 TV (French); freelance journalist and TV news producer Tamara Zein Trading operations, Naftomar Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd. Joseph Zeitlyn Assistant editor online, Dhaka Tribune; freelance (The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Tehelka.com)

Matthew Bolton Lonely Planet; unknown Jonathan Browning Journalist, Bloomberg News (Hong Kong) Kaya Burgess news reporter, religious affairs correspondent, The Times; deputy editor, Times Diary Gurminder Chahal Sales promotion; Promotional Marketing Magazine; Marketing Week; unknown Kevin Coulson Sub-editor, sports and travel journalist, Daily Mail; senior digital editor, Eurosport Kevin Crowley UK finance reporter, Bloomberg (London); mining reporter (South Africa), Bloomberg Alexander Davis senior staff writer (Asia Risk), Incisive Media; reporter (Commodities North Asia), Bloomberg; freelance journalist Christopher Dean Sub-editor, assistant night editor, Daily Mail; unknown Kara-Jane Dolman Deputy features editor, Evening Standard; senior features writer, The Sun; Associate Head of Features, The Sun Peter Dominiczak Reporter, Evening Standard; political editor, The Daily Telegraph Thomas Drew Unknown James Edgar Journalist, Press Association; reporter; Telegraph Media Group; news and planning editor, Press Association Sonia Elks journalism fellow, Alfa Fellowship, Reuters (Moscow); night editor, TimesOnline; freelance night editor and report (The Times) Nicola Evans Editorial assistant, BBC Food Online; news and online editor, Square Meal Alan Gardner Freelance, (Guardian. co.uk); freelance sports journalist; assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo.com Jasmine Gardner Features assistant, writer and researcher, Evening Standard; features writer, Evening Standard; deputy features editor and technology editor, Evening Standard Eleanor Green Energy markets reporter, Argus Media; deputy editor (European Electricity Report), Argus Media; Editor, Argus European Electricity Report Laura Harding Reporter, correspondent (Los Angeles), Press Association Josh Loeb reporter, Evening Standard; news editor, Hackney Citizen; reporter, Police Oracle James Lloyd Reporter, The Sun Charlotte McCathie Journalist, Press Association; broadcast journalist, BBC Ronan Murphy Assistant editor, SatelliteFinance; reporter, Argus Media Rachel Rickard Straus Correspondent, The Times of India;

NEWSPAPER Ashley Armstrong reporter, Financial Times Group; M&A reporter, retail correspondent, The Telegraph Benedict Bailey Reporter, Associated Newspapers (Daily Mail,The Scotsman); online reporter, Evening Standard; unknown Katherine Baker Reporter,The Publican; news editor, Employer’s Law, news reporter, Personnel Today; unknown Lucy Barton Unknown David Bartram journalist, South China Morning Post; senior reporter, eGaming Review; account manager, Square in the Air Esther Bintliff assistant Europe editor, Financial Times; digital & communities editor, Financial Times Comment & Analysis; deputy editor, Financial Times Weekend Magazine

Any unusual hobbies?

Cycling and photography. I’ve written a book called Climbs and Punishment, which is about my experiences cycling from Barcelona to Rome, tracing the footsteps of Hannibal. I also do a lot of cycling reporting for Eurosport and Cyclist Magazine.

Celia Lloyd-Jones

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2008-2009 consumer affairs editor, personal finance editor, This is Money (MailOnline) Tessa Roberts Reporter,Jewish News; freelance; teacher Elizabeth Robinson Multimedia journalist, Press Association; digital producer, ITV News Fay Schlesinger Manchester Evening News; trainee reporter, Daily Mail; reporter, home news editor, The Times Andrew Shepherd News reporter, South West News Service, Masons News, Trainee Financial News Reporter; Bloomberg, Senior Energy and Renewables Analyst; BMI Katharine Slowe CEO, Middle East (Dubai); media relations and communications officer, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Media officer; Department of Energy and Climate Change Kiran Stacey Reporter, political correspondent, Financial Times, Energy Correspondent; Financial Times Nicola Trup The Australian; freelance (The Independent); deputy editor, Absolute Publishing; deputy travel editor, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, i and Evening Standard Kylie Walker China Daily Patrick Whyte reporter, Evening Standard; assistant sports editor, The Huffington Post; news reporter, senior reporter, Travel Trade Gazette

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India Aldridge Intern, Purple Gemma Aldridge Feature writer, First Features Press Agency; feature writer, Love It!; features reporter, The Sunday Times; features reporter, Sunday Mirror James Ball Journalist, Wikileaks; data journalist, The Guardian, Special Correspondent, BuzzFeedUk Emily Benammar Sports online editor, The Daily Telegraph; homepage and weekend editor, DailyTelegraph.com. au; digital sports editor, DailyTelegraph. com.au Muireann Bolger Freelance travel writer, Our Man on The Ground; features editor, Redactive Publishing, Editor, writer and content marketing specialist (Freelance); Hitchin Katherine Calder Policy development intern, Cancer Research UK; policy consultations officer, policy and research officer, Royal College of General Practitioners, Senior Policy Officer; Diabetes UK Jennifer Campbell Freelance (The Sunday Times,The Big Issue, Daily Express, The Herald,The Perthshire Advertiser); writer, editor, NGO.media; freelance, (Action Aid, WWF, Bowel Cancer UK) Abigail Challenor Ski & snowboard writer; Daily Mail (Vos Media); Web Editor, Metrosnow.co.uk, VOS Media; Digital editor, VOS Media; Special Projects Editor, TTG (UBM) Rebecca Clark Event coordinator, Hotel San Carlos; events preview writer, Arizona Republic; public relations, Phoenix Suns (NBA) Jon Cook Editor, Trap; digital content producer,Timeout, General editor Timeout Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bristol Victoria Gallagher Junior reporter, reporter, The Bookseller; senior reporter, Drapers, editor, Bridal Buyer Tom Goodwyn Freelance (NME, Shortlist, Loud & Quiet, Fresh Direction); web editor, HMV Sophie Griffiths News reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; deputy news editor, Travel Trade Gazette; News Editor, Travel Trade Gazette

Lucy Halfhead Features assistant, Marie Claire; contributing features and travel assistant, Harper’s Bazaar; assistant editor, Harpers Bazaar and Town & Country Sophie Haydock Arts editor and staff writer, Leeds Guide; sub-editor, The Sunday Times; food writer, Sunday Times Lucy Higgins Production editor, Apptitude Media Ltd; senior sub-editor Pacific Magazines (Australia); deputy chief sub-editor, Pacific Magazines (Australia) Tom Howard Staff writer, FHM.com; associate editor, FHM; reviews editor, deputy editor, NME Caomhan Keane Columnist, The Sunday Independent; senior theatre writer, entertainment.ie; reporter, assistant editor, NewsFour, Radio producer and presenter, Radiomade Katherine Levy Group PR director, VCCP; marketing and new business director, Portas; Head of PR, Marketing Agencies Association, Owner and Director, Furious PR Kate Livesey Leasing Agent, Stuyvesant Town; Social Media Manager, Angel Feet Reflexology; Brand Management Consultant, Perry Street Reflexology Christopher Lo Senior features writer, NRI Digital Morag Wilson ( née Lyall) Freelance copywriter, Pine Solutions; Life Lasting PR; Content editor, Adfero; group editor, H2O Publishing Jodie Mablin Writer, Black Card; features assistant, You; sub-editor, Global Legal Group, Legal editor Chloe Markowicz Reporter, PR Week; reporter, The Jewish News, writer, deputy editor, Contagious Communications Tim McAtackney Intern, CMPi; press officer, Crown Prosecution Service Maisie McCabe Freelance (The Independent, Evening Standard); news editor, Campaign; news editor, Media Week; deputy editor, Campaign Andrew Mickel Journalist, British Association and College of Occupational Therapists; editor, Such Small Portions/ UniFM, H20 Publishing, Media Officer, Diabetes UK Lydia Mossahebi Online producer, Channel 4 Kirsty Nutkins Editorial assistant, writer, Daily Express Saturday magazine; freelance writer, Family Traveller; features editor, supplement magazines, Express Newspapers Sarah Riches Author, London Almanac 2010; deputy editor, Time Out (Abu Dhabi); Editor, Abu Dhabi Week Robyn Rosen News reporter, Hampstead & Highgate Express; reporter, Jewish Chronicle Brian Semple Intern, Prospect; news and media manager, Rethink Mental Illness, Press Manager, Centre for Cities Benjamin Sillis Reporter, Electricpig. co.uk; associate editor, Republic Publishing, Group Editor, Text100 Jenny Stocks trainee writer, features writer, Femail, Daily Mail Ruth Styles Journalist, Holy Moly; TV and Showbiz Journalist, Express Newspapers; Journalist, Heatworld Miranda Vinall Copywriter, Wellbeing Escapes Ltd; head of content, Wellbeing Escapes Ltd, Content and Social Media Editor, C2C Rail Limited Audrey Ward Assistant editor, Sunday Times News Review; features editor,The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Georgia Warren Digital communications strategist, Blue State Digital; senior strategist, Blue State Digital; head of digital engagement, Labour Party Victoria Watts Writer, Oh Comely; travel blogger, Bridges and Balloons; freelance writer and editor Laura Whateley Money and consumer reporter, The Times; columnist, The Times, Freelance journalist

BROADCAST Brandice Alexander Broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; journalist, Al Jazeera Kerry Alexandra (née Moore) Journalist, BBC News; producer, UGC Hub & Social News Team, BBC News, freelance Helen Allman Freelance producer, staff, Associated Press TV News; producer (freelance), Channel 4 News, ITN Gemma Ashcroft Scriptwriter, Trafficlink, Global Radio Stations, BBC South East Katie Baneth News producer, BBC News, Sky News; chief sub, news producer, Jeff Randall Live, Ian King Live Ivor Bennett Correspondent, Russia Today (Moscow); reporter, Reuters Alan Bone Editorial assistant, Sky Sports Cricket; assistant producer, Sky Sports Rebecca Bowring Editor-in-Chief, Startup Monthly; Founder and Chief Storyteller,Videographer and Correspondent, Founder Stores; Storyteller, Matter.

Paul Brand Reporter, news editor, ITV Wales and ITV Fast Track; political correspondent, ITV Eleanor Bury Assistant producer, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC Radio 3; Producer, The Cultural Frontline, BBC World Service Rebecca Butler Unknown Olivia Case Producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; managing director and co-founder, SmartEye Productions; digital marketing, Diode Digital Ltd, Director of Client Services Emily Dollman Freelance television producer, Development Producer, BBC Will Edwards Broadcast journalist, France 24; video reporter, Agence FrancePresse, Video Correspondent, Agence France-Presse, NYC Phoebe Frieze Quest Means Business, CNN; News Producer, BBC Radio 5 Live, Digital Video Producer, BBC News Sophie Glass Freelance broadcast journalist (BBC); broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Marie Hagen Desk editor, NBC News Foreign desk (freelance), NBC News; deputy news editor, planning producer, freelance, Al Jazeera Media Network; press officer, The Home Office Dan Johnson Reporter, Toby Foster Bigger at Breakfast, BBC Radio Sheffield; Moneywise TV; interactive investor; reporter, BBC Look North Anna Jones Broadcast journalist, BBC Look North; news editor, chief sub, producer, Sky News; Media Relations Manager, Associated British Foods Plc Zoe Kalus Producer, BSkyB; reporter, news reader, Sky News Radio; deputy news editor, ITV Edward Knowles Producer, Sky News; broadcast journalist, ITN Productions (Online); producer, SNTV Jack Lamport Producer, Newsnight; producer, BBC News on Demand; producer, BBC News Channel Kevin Larkin Producer, BBC News; news editor, Minster FM; Doncaster Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield Ana Lockerbie Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; social media producer, BBC Breakfast; senior producer, BBC Breakfast Ramzan Karmali Senior broadcast journalist, BBC; business journalist, BBC Richard Martin Broadcast journalist, BBC Essex; broadcast journalist, producer, BBC News; Consultant, Bell Pottinger Sasha Nicholl Producer, text producer,

Al Jazeera English; producer, Sky News; TV news journalist, Sky News Sarah Olaifa Resident Services A, The Hyde Group; Managing Director, Sarjuice Ltd; Income Officer, A2Dominion Group Julian Perkins Broadcast Journalist, Time 106.6; Broadcast Journalist, 107 Jack FM; News Editor, 107 Jack FM Zohaib Rashid Sports Editor, Eastern Eye; Official Reporter and Consultant, British Asian Sports Awards, Web editor, Operation Black Vote On a break Gilly Robinson Broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today; broadcast journalist, video journalist, BBC Breakfast Alex Sergent Manager, Catch21 Productions; researcher, BBC ; founder, Catch 21 productions Sumit Sharma Digital Communications, TES Global; Digital Marketing Manager, Protocol Education; Social Media and Digital Marketing Manager, Zoolz Lorna Edwards (née Shaddick) Broadcast journalist, ITN; broadcast journalist and presenter, France 24; video journalist, Feature Story News (Washington D.C) Jimmy Tam Production trainee, BBC (Newsround, You and Yours, Dragons’ Den, The One Show); assistant producer, Newsround; assistant producer, BBC; Multimedia Reporter, Radio 1/1Xtra Newsbeat Emily Tolloczko Online journalist, Fixers UK; online editor, Fixers UK; Communications Officer, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Letitia Valentine Journalist, newsreader, Swansea Sound; The Wave; company director, Surviva Ltd; self-employed, Business Development Consultant Mel Wallis Unknown David Weinstein-Linder Director, Quadrangle Management Company Limited; EMBA Student, CASS Business School; Senior Content Strategist, High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd Lara Whyte Digital output producer, ITN; Freelance journalist; Writer and Producer,VICE Media, Inc; Digital Editor, ITN; Freelance journalist Neil Wolfson Freelance researcher; production journalist Clare Woodling Breakfast news reporter, The Coast 106FM; broadcast journalist, Celador Radio; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Oxford

TV CAJ Hyder Abbasi Text producer, Al Jazeera Georgina Andrews Account executive, Four Communications; production co-ordinator, Silver River Productions; production coordinator, Maverick Television Osman Baig Producer, Sky News; producer, Al Jazeera English (London); programme producer, CNN (Hong Kong) Estelle Bingham DJ, BBC World Service Edmund Caldecott CEO, Spoken Ink Ltd Yao Chin Assistant news editor and Westminster producer, ITV News; news reporter, ITV News Sotira Christodoulou Unknown Simon Dedman Field producer, BBC News; producer, CNBC Europe & broadcast journalist, BBC News Anne Faber Freelance Reporter, RTL Group; Freelance TV Producer; Creator, TV Presenter and Producer, Anne’s Kitchen; Author, Anne’s Kitchen Jacob Greaves Freelance reporter, ITN; freelance reporter, euronews; Reporter, Reuters TV Max Hall Broadcast journalist, BBC Newsnight; assistant producer,

2009 World Media Rights; senior media manager, World Economic Forum Alexis Hood Current affairs programmes, The One Show, BBC; development producer, ORTV Joe Kassman-Tod Postgraduate studies Samuel Kingsley Researcher, BBC Panorama; Channel 4 News; Bureau of Investigative Journalism, City University Lewis Lintern Video editor, TVC; producer, TVC Group Annabelle Lupton ITV Daybreak; Freelance Arts Reports, Reuters; freelance broadcast journalist Matt Margrett Producer director, Windfall Films Ltd; producer director, Megalomedia; producer director, betty Caroline Marsden Producer, Ultramarine Films; assistant producer, Swan Films; producer, Swan Films Claire McCready Unknown Memona Mirza Broadcast journalist, researcher, BBC; freelance (UK); Science/ Health TV Researcher Nicole O’Callaghan Assistant producer, Thomson Reuters; AV editor, Bloomberg; social media, Bloomberg LP Atish Patel Broadcast journalist, Russia Today (Moscow); producer, Reuters; freelance, Wall Street Journal (New Delhi), freelance journalist Tom Peck Reporter, The Independent, Parliamentary Sketch Writer Antonia Peulevé Account manager, Murray Weir Willats; account manager, Caro Communications; press officer, copywriter, Native Union Laura Priestley Producer, Setanta Sports News; producer, Pendragon Productions; teacher, director of studies, MPW College Olivia Rowlands Producer, BBC World News Katherine Sheppard Library counter assistant, Hertfordshire libraries Christopher Simpson Unknown Genevieve Smith Media coordinator, BAFTA; digital marketing and projects manager, BAFTA; Marketing and Communications Manager, Harvey Nichols Mesha Stewart Producer, director, ITV studios Kate Stroud EMEA HR generalist coordinator, Exponential; HR, talent acquisition manager, Cheil Worldwide Inc; HR Manager,VML London Jessica Watts Researcher, assistant producer, Raw TV; producer, NERD TV Mariam Zaidi News anchor, Dawn News TV (Pakistan), journalist and presenter, EuroparITV

ERASMUS Isis Caroline Malta Almeida Soft Commodities; reporter, Bloomberg News Bamrung Amnatcharoenrit reporter, TalkVietnam.com Yining (Bonnie) Cao Unknown JoAnn De Luna Reporter, Euromoney; digital reporter, Direct Marketing News Emily Drew, producer, CCTV America; news producer, reporter, Al Jazeera America; reporter, MSNBC Maren Naess Olsen Feature journalist, Dagens Næringsliv; community journalist, Morgenbladet Alongkorn Parivudhiphongs Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University Emily Tan Insights editor, Campaign Asia-Pacific Ye (Juliet) Zhu Manager, Asia Pacific; managing director, ABI Europe Marketing Public Relations

2009 INTERNATIONAL Emilie Arlet Interactive production manager, Darjeeling; production manager, Kids Up Hill; production manager, Providences, Production Manager, Red Corner/ What’s Up Helga Arnardottir Stöd 2 Francois Aulner MEP Assistant, European Parliament; Journalist, Radio 100.7 (Luxembourg Public Radio) Razan Baker PhD, Sport Sciences, Brunel University; media coordinator, Union of Arab National Olympic Committee; UK Correspondent and Freelance Journalist, Saudi Gazette Claire Barthelemy Digital content curator and researcher, International Herald Tribune; digital content curator, researcher, archivist, The New York Times Eleanor Bell Unknown Marieke Breijer Assistant news editor, Law Business Research; news editor, Global Investigations Review; Deputy editor, Global Investigations Review Jose Calatayud Jimenez Central and East Africa correspondent, Efe (Nairobi); Subsaharan African correspondent, El País; India correspondent, International Reporting Project Camila Canocchi Press Relations Intern, Whitechapel Gallery; web journalist, This is Money, Mail Online Mary Colombel Assistant producer, France 24; producer, France 24 Emanuele Comi Assistant producer, Evans Woolfe Media; senior researcher, Renegade Pictures Sunday Daniel Deputy editor, Leadership Newspaper Karen Daly Business development executive, Field Fisher Waterhouse; EMEA Marketing Manager, Fragomen LLP Frederick Dawson Editorial assistant, Boston & Hannah publishing; deputy content editor, Pathfinder Business Limited; writer and editor, ECigIntelligence; Forbes Ludovic De Foucaud Reporter, France 24; news editor, France 24; presenter, France 24 Gabriele Discepoli Writer, newsreader, Euronews; reporter, Radiotelevisione Italiana Jessica Donati-Bourne Reporter, Argus Media; freelance, correspondent, Reuters; Afghanistan correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Nora Fakim Morocco correspondent, BBC; producer, reporter, Mixed Up Messed Up, BBC; broadcast journalist, BBC Worldwide Sandra Fernandes Reporter, subeditor, Talk Magazine (India) Anna Fortune E! Entertainment Nelly Gocheva Toronto Bureau Chief, Monocle; special projects/publishing editor, Monocole; editor, T Brand Studio International, The New York Times Melanie Gouby Eastern Congo multimedia producer, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; Eastern DRCongo correspondent, Associated Press; freelance reporter (Paris) Seher Hussain Journalist, Reuters; Asia editor, Globe Business Publishing; marketing and communications manager, Deacons Sarah Jones Editor-in-chief, P.S. Bearing Witness; deputy news editor, Al Jazeera America Maud Jullien Reporter, producer, BBC Afrique; reporter, BBC World Service Fatmata Kamara Producer, SLBS/TV (Sierra Leone) Kavita Kanwar Sub-editor, NDTV; PR consultant, PR Pundit Jaswinder Kaur Freelance writer and

editor Kedrick Keys Unknown Bobir Komilov Senior editor, National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan; public information associate, UN Information Office Tashkent Mizuho Kondo Translator, Jiji Press; project coordinator, Square Enix; online community manager, Square Enix Reuben Kyama Freelance, The New York Times; Nairobi bureau chief, Hoffman&Hoffman Worldwide; President, One World Public Relations Effrosyni Kyriazi Unknown Antonio La Cava Unknown Neha Lall Senior reporter, Times Now Broadcasting Ltd; India representative and editorial consultant, World Public Forum; manager, Jet Airways Kwame Laurence Digital editor, assistant sports editor, Trinidad Express Helen Livingstone News editor, London correspondent, Deutsche Presse Agentur Victoria Luckie Partner, Mad Monkeyz; Intern, BBC World Service; freelance Nawara Mahfoud Field producer, translator, filmmaker, The Light in Her Eyes; freelance, The New Yorker Emiliano Mellino Senior France correspondent, Dealreporter/ Mergermarket; Paris bureau chief, Mergermarket Group; EMEA correspondent, Reuters Michael Mumo Editorial director, Capital Group (Nairobi) Elizabeth Mupfumira Corporate communications manager, Native Investments Africa Group; Media liaison specialist, UNICEF Yoletta Nyange Researcher, INSI, The Reuters Foundation Edward Nyman Unknown Morten Øyen Jensen Journalist, Altinget.dk (Denmark) Maresa PatienceFreelance (Munich) Joyce Paul Freelance (Dubai) Jonny Payne Commissioning editor,

Columbus Travel Media; online editor, London & Partners; digital content editor, London & Partners Philip Pond Freelance; researcher and lecturer, course coordinator, RMIT University Kate Puhala DJ, BFF.fm; style editor, Brit+Co; senior style editor, Brit+Co Romany Reagan Global editor, ExchangeWire; executive editor, WatchMarvel; executive editor, ExchangeWire Ltd Lisa Reinisch Special projects editor, Al Bayan; freelance, Monocle; climate and energy communications consultant, EWS-WWF Kashif Riaz Reporter, Associated Press (Pakistan) Saleha Riaz Sub-editor, Express Tribune (Karachi); digital editor, Contentive; reporter, GSMA Sheena Rossiter Brazil correspondent, Monocle; creative director, Dona Ana Films; senior video journalist, PERFORM Britni Salazar Marketing communication manager, rivs.com; account manager, ClearEdge Marketing; managing director, ARA Priyal Sanghavi Social media strategist, Grey Group; senior creative strategist, Contract India; brand manager,Vinod Chopra Films Karolina Schismenou Freelance; parliamentary assistant, European Parliament Hetal Shah Corporate communications, Banyan Tree Events; PR consultant; consulting associate, Genesis BursonMarsteller Muhammad Shah East Africa producer, BBC Nairobi Lulwah Shalhoub PhD student and journalist, University of Westminster; broadcast journalist, BBC Arabic Network Abhilasha Sihag Media and political advocacy officer, Indo-Global Social Service Society; assistant editor, The Asian

ZOE KALUS

Deputy news editor, ITV News, Broadcast 2008

Any unusual hobbies?

I’ve cycled all over the world.

Whenever I’m free, my husband and I cycle in different countries.

You get to know people and find weird stories. We once went down the Danube from Switzerland to Romania and we’ve also done bits of America and Vietnam.

Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

Just do everything. Someone gave me good advice once, which is: just take any work at all and it’ll lead to something. Don’t be picky or too snobbish about the work you choose.

Your biggest scoop?

This year I was working on the refugee story in Germany with James Mates, the Europe editor at ITV. I’d heard rumours that, at the border of Germany and Austria, refugees were being sent back. We drove up and down the border all day. I was cold calling charities, any contacts I had, and eventually we found somewhere where loads of refugees had been turned back. They had been asked a trick question when they got to the German and Austrian border. They didn’t say “I want to claim asylum in Germany” and because of that, they were sent back to this horrible soulless tent in Austria. It was the top story of ITV’s News at Ten. What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

City was a bit of a panic. I was so aware of the lack of jobs at the end of it. I think I’d just calm down a bit, so I could focus on learning.

Karl Tomusk

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CHRIS JEFFERIES

News editor, Motor Boat & Yachting, Newspaper 2009 from. Unfortunately the Daily Mail beat me to that scoop!

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I was interning at People magazine. There was a picture of Helen Mirren in a bikini and people were going crazy about it. The editor said to me: “We need to know what that bikini is and where you can buy it from.” So I spent the day Googling to see where it was Age; features editor, Media Transasia Ishveen Singh English copywriter, Spark Middle East; English copywriter, O2 Network; senior writer, DP World Spriha Srivastava Online editor, Reuters; producer, Reuters; senior staff writer, Financial Times Amy Stillman Freelance multimedia journalist; correspondent, Brazil Confidential; correspondent, LatAm Confidential, Financial Times; reporter, Bloomberg LP Annabel Symington Founder and journalist, NewsExchange Americas; journalist and director, The Guarani Project (New York); reporter, Agence France Presse Balint Szlanko freelance Nicholas Thompson Co-founder, The Atavist; contributor, CBS News; editor, NewYorker.com Myrto Tsavalou Unknown Kelly Van Der Kwast Reporter, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep; editorial staff, OBJEKT International; digital showroom coordinator, Tommy Hilfiger Dominque Van Heerden Freelance production assistant, digital producer, CNN International Alex Wood Producer, Bloomberg (London); editor-in-chief, Tech City News; founder and editor-in-chief, The Memo; lecturer, City University London Xue Zhao Yoga instructor, M Yoga; researcher, Reading and Writing China Insight; copy writer, ISIS PR Beijing Stefano Zoja Videomaker, Insolito Cinema; freelance videomaker;

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Katy Barnato Assistant producer, CNBC International; assistant producer, CNBC International; deputy digital news editor, CNBC International Emma Barrow Newsdesk journalist, ITV; planning producer, Sky News; deputy news editor, ITV This Morning Alison Battisby Freelance social media consultant, Alison Battisby Consulting; social media consultant, LDL; director, Avocado Social Katrina Bishop Business producer, Sky News; deputy news editor, CNBC International; acting digital news editor, CNBC International Nathan Bleaken Ministry of Defence James Bray BBC Panorama;Watchdog; Rogue Traders; Storyville; BBC Newsnight Duncan Brown Director, Unreal

What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

I would spend more time learning about video editing, and shooting videos.

Your biggest scoop?

A couple of weeks ago I broke a story that one of Britain’s biggest boat builders was bid on and bought out by some Russian businessmen. We were the first website to find out and one of them actually sent me a photo of the signed contract to prove it was true!

City Audio; freelance web developer; developer, The Browser Laurence Cable Freelance technology writer; marketing content manager, IPL; freelance David Christopher SEO manager, OPUBCO (Oklahoma); senior inbound marketing manager, BigWing Interactive; director of inbound marketing, BigWig Interactive Morwenna Coniam Reporter, Bloomberg News (London); editor, Bloomberg News Chris Cutmore The Guardian; sport journalist, MailOnline; assistant sports editor, MailOnline Clare Dickinson Editor, Incisive Media; news editor, Hedge Funds Review; assistant online editor, Financial News Abigail Edge Group online editor, Midland News Association; technology editor, Journalism.co.uk; editorial and community manager, Shorthand Josie Ensor Reporter, Daily Star (Beirut); freelance, Jewish Chronicle; freelance reporter, Middle East Educator; Middle East correspondent, The Huffington Post; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph Katherine Evans The Independent Katherine Faulkner Manchester Evening News; assistant news editor, Daily Mail Patrick Galey Blogger, Huffington Post; reporter, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; reporter, Agence France Press (Paris) Hattie Garlick Online comment editor, The Times; blogger, Free Our Kids; writer, Talkingoffood; author Shona Ghosh Staff writer, Dennis Publishing; senior reporter, Marketing Magazine; technology editor, Haymarket Media Group Nicole Green Campaign director, Seven Hills; freelance PR consultant, The Supper Club; co-founder, Catch Communications Michael Haddon Web copy editor, property and support services reporter, banking reporter, agriculture reporter, Dow Jones Newswires Caroline Henshaw Editor, AMAZA Magazine; editor, Agence France Press (Paris); editor, Agence France Press (Hong Kong) Benjamin Hewitt Western Morning News; freelance (NME, The Quietus) Alice Hutton Reporter, The Cambridge News; senior reporter, Camden New Journal; broadcast journalist, BBC News Daniel Igra Reporter, Financial Times; legal associate, Reuters Christopher Jefferies Video presenter, producer,Vintra; news editor, Time Inc. UK; news editor, Motor Boats Monthly;

The biggest change you’ve seen in journalism since you began your career?

People reading on mobile phones. When I was at City, there was no talk about optimising content for phones, and tablets weren’t even a thing, but now at work we talk about it all the time because we have a mobile readership.

Rhiannon McGregor

news editor, Motor Boats and Yaghting Lara King Community publisher, Berkhamsted People; news sub-editor, Daily Mail; assistant night editor, sub-editor, Mail on Sunday; associate Femail editor, Daily Mail Elizabeth Kirkwood Assistant editor, Aeon Magazine; readers’ liaison assistant, The Independent, I, IoS, Evening Standard Patrick Loughran The Times Benjamin Martin Reporter, Bloomberg News; market reporter, city reporter, Daily Telegraph Beth Mellor Reporter, Bloomberg News (London); reporter, Bloomberg News (New York); deputy team leader, Bloomberg Simon Nevill City reporter, online reporter, showbiz reporter, Daily Mail; business reporter, The Guardian; retail correspondent, Evening Standard Victoria Raimes Reporter, Edinburgh Evening News; news journalist, Sunday Mail Ltd; news journalist, Scottish Daily Record, Sunday Mail Ltd Alex Ralph Business reporter, The Times; market reporter, The Times Matthew Robinson Consultant, Limelight Public Relations; senior consultant, Limelight Public Relations; senior account manager, Limelight Public Relations Faaez Samadi News editor, Global Competition Review; deputy editor, Global Competition Review; editor, PRWeek Asia Oliver Shah Chief reporter, Financial Times Business; reporter, City AM; business reporter, Sunday Times Saadeya Shamsuddin Freelance; journalist, BBC News Etan Smallman Features writer, The Times; reporter, The Australian; Trainee sub-editor, news sub-editor, Daily Mail; freelance Thomas Stubbington Bloomberg Iain Withers Freelance; reporter, UBM; senior reporter, Building; news editor, Building

MAGAZINE Joanna Abeyie Showbiz writer, Closer; director, Shine Media Ltd; senior showbiz and entertainment news editor, Beamly. com; senior entertainment and new journalist, BBC Mandy Barder Intern, Greenmystyle. com, Delightful Media; digital coordinator, the4mores.com; underwriting

assistant, Pembroke Managing Agency Daniel Bennett News reporter, T3.com; reviews editor, BBC Focus; editor, BBC Focus Martina Booth Freelance, Press Gazette; editorial, New Civil Engineer; fellowship services coordinator, Royal Society of Arts Jess Bowie Assistant correspondent, Jiji Press; sub-editor, Civil Service World; editor, Civil Service World Duncan Brown Director, Unreal City Audio; freelance web developer; developer, The Browser William Daunt Editorial assistant, Royal United Services Institute’s Journal and Prospect; campaign officer, Climate Week; musician, Zulu Winter Nicola Davison Staff writer, China Daily; film editor, Time Out (Shanghai); freelance (Shanghai) Stephen Eddie Sub-editor, Business Monitor International; content editor, Health Service Journal; news manager, Health Service Journal Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith Reporter, Marketing Magazine; reporter, PR Week: freelance, The Independent Joanne Ellul Editorial assistant, Retail Week and Drapers; reporter, Money Marketing; media and PR consultant, Lowes Financial Management Priscilla Eyles Online writer, Consortium of LGBT Voluntary and Community Organisations; freelance; marketing officer, Scope; communications coordinator, Catalyst Housing Ltd Phoebe Ferris-Rotman Operations assistant, Artis Education; co-founder, producer, Palindrome Productions; associate producer, Company of Angels Abigail Gliddon Freelance (Little White Lies,Total Politics,The Guardian); acting production editor, Architects’ Journal Rosie Gogan-Keogh Deputy editor, Mizzima.com (Myanmar); presenter/ producer, State of the Art; editor, Zahra Media Group Christopher Hall Assistant commissioning editor, Live, The Mail on Sunday; science and technology editor, Yahoo!; deputy editor, QP Magazine Hannah Hudson Editor, Virgin Retail Therapy; editor, Tesco Magazine Ireland; digital editor, The Club Katie Jacobs Staff writer, Haymarket Network; features editor, HR Magazine; editor, HR Magazine Gabrielle Jaffe Freelance; deputy editor, Time Out (Beijing); features editor, Coast Magazine Isabel Janner Editorial assistant, features writer, Take a Break Shelley Jones Deputy editor, Huck; producer, Finlandia; head of creative, TCOLondon Nick Johnstone Freelance (New Media Age, Clash); senior online reporter, deputy news editor, Property Week Anna-Marie Julyan Digital editor, The Artful Diner; digital editor, Seven; staff writer, John Brown Media Group George Kiley Agriculture investment consultant; new business manager, client relations, FC Business Intelligence; business development manager, One Connected Community Ruth Lewy Features assistant, commissioning editor, Saturday, The Times; features editor, Guardian Weekend Magazine Kirsty McGregor deputy news editor, Flightglobal; section editor, Community Care; news editor, Drapers Charlotte Middlehurst Reporter, Incisive Media; senior writer, features editor, Time Out (Shanghai); managing editor, chinadialogue Sally Newall Online lifestyle editor, The Daily Telegraph; writer, Zone; editor, IndyBest Rachel O’Neill Corporate finance

2009-2010 partner, BBC; head of business operations, Future Media, BBC; finance and business manager, myBBC and Distribution Rhian Owen Freelance; group editor, Meat Packing Journal ; group editor, Reby Media Sophie Payne Sub-editor, Good Homes; sub-editor, Ideal Home; deputy chief subeditor, Ideal Home Camilla Pemberton Reporter, beat editor, children’s editor, Community Care Ali Plumb Writer, Empire Online; movies editor, Digital Spy; film critic, BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra Tom Reid unknown Jennifer Ruby Freelance arts and entertainment writer, Daily Mail; deputy showbiz editor,Yahoo; entertainment reporter, Evening Standard Claire Rutter Editor, Giant Digital; director, Penny Press; celebrity night editor, Trinity Mirror Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Staff writer, associate editor, books editor, Time Out (Beijing); freelance (Sydney) John Sunyer Staff writer, Time Out (Shanghai); life & arts editor, Financial Times; commissioning editor, Financial Times Weekend Kagem Tibaijuka Assistant, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; owner, KT & Co (Tanzania); commercial director, LL Cosmetics Cian Traynor contributing editor, The Stool Pigeon; features writer, Irish Times Lauren Vanderkar Deputy editor, Lighting; researcher, BBC; researcher, Silver Research Productions Adam Welch Editor, Wonderland; senior editor, Spring Studios; deputy editor, Mr Porter Jesse Whittock Senior reporter and section editor, C21 Media; features reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; deputy editor, Television Business International Natalie Woolman Researcher, Leopard Films; assistant producer, Leopard Films; assistant producer, Oxford Film and Television

BROADCAST Jack Aldwinckle Video producer, The Economist; freelance producer, camera operator, editor, Al Jazeera (Bogota); Argentina and Uruguay correspondent, The Economist Lucas Atkin Assistant producer, SkySports; trainee solicitor, Hill Dickinson LLP; associate, Hill Dickinson LLP Ruth Banks Newsroom journalist, ITV Meridian; production journalist, London Tonight (ITN); journalist, ITV News Esther Boateng Reception, Curtis Brown (literary and talent agency) Gareth Bebb Assistant producer, Watchdog; interviews producer, Sky News; researcher, journalist, producer, BBC News Toby Clarke Digital producer, Inclusive Digital; account manager, Saatchi & Saatchi; global account director, Saatchi & Saatchi Conor Culkin Freelance; media and communications officer, Labour Party; account executive, H+A Marketing + PR Smita Chandrashekar Journalism Trainee Scheme, BBC; press officer, Zoological Society of London Holly Ellyatt Online and video producer, Inclusive Digital; assistant producer, CNBC; assistant news editor, CNBC Basmah Fahim Reporter and producer, Thomson Reuters; lead producer, Reuters Jo Fahy Broadcast journalist, World Radio Switzerland; Zürich correspondent, broadcast journalist, presenter at World

Radio Switzerland, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation; reporter, Swissinfo.ch Sarah Fleming Unknown Lyndsey Giles Unknown Thomas Greaves Junior assistant producer, European Tour Productions; assistant producer and reporter, European Tour Productions & Golfing World, IMG ; senior assistant producer, European Tour Productions Juliet Hofmann digital media assistant, Home Office; production coordinator, Oxford Scientific Films; assistant producer, Mongoose Pictures Joanna Impey Europe reporter, editor, Deutsche Welle Radio; freelance (BBC World Service); assistant producer, BBC World Service Henry Jones Breakfast programme producer, BBC 5 Live Holly Jones News reporter, Town 102 FM (Ipswich); broadcast journalist, Capital FM Nisha Joshi broadcast journalist, BBC Asian Network; video journalist, reporter, Sky (Tyne and Wear); freelance (BBC North East & Cumbria) Alexandra King Video journalist, UN; multimedia producer, UN James Labous Senior researcher, Arrow Media; development researcher, NERD TV; senior researcher, junior assistant producer, Freelance TV Production Zahid Lalami Unknown Katie Lamborn video producer, ITN; broadcast press officer, London Zoo; senior video editor (UK), Mail Online; reactive news editor,The Guardian Kate Lawrence Researcher, Channel 5 News; media production assistant, Espresso Education, Channel 4 Learning; assistant news editor, ITN Andrew Leitch Project manager, Leicester Comedy Festival; production manager, agent, corporate entertainment booker, Off the Kerb Productions Faarea Masud Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service (Bangladesh); broadcast journalist, presenter, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire; broadcast journalist, BBC News Darren McCaffrey News reporter, politics reporter, producer, Sky News; political correspondent, Sky News Steph Millar E-Communications officer, Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council; internal communications executive, LV= Archie Onobu casting assistant producer, KASH; assistant producer, Atomized TV; shooting assistant producer, ClearStory; associate producer N2K, ITN Rose Palmer Broadcast journalist, Russia Today; research and communications officer, University College London; deputy director, UCL Psychoanalysis Unit.

Victoria Park web producer, The Andrew Marr Show, BBC; broadcast journalist, BBC News; social news reporter, BBC News Amy Pickerill media relations manager, Royal Bank of Scotland; head of campaigns, press office, Royal Bank of Scotland Natalie Powell Assistant producer, France 24; producer, Sky News; reporter, video journalist, Feature Story News Melanie Ralph broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; reporter and producer, Reuters; presenter, Thomson Reuters Makez Rikweda producer, Associated Press; assistant Programme Editor, Al Jazeera; freelance filmaker Julia Ross Production co-ordinator, researcher, BBC; brief writer, Radio 4; producer, The World at One at 50, BBC Harsha Sharma board member, World Faith; digital communications, Portland Communications; group digital communications manager, GEMS

Education Jennifer Shaw; researcher, development assistant producer, Boundless Productions; producer-The health foundation short films, Lightbox; producer-24 Hours in police custody, The Garden Productions Adam Sich Production assistant, online content producer, reporter, producer, ITN;YouTube channel manager, The Guardian Victoria Sill researcher, broadcast journalist, home affairs producer, BBC London TV; producer BBC World TV News; senior broadcaster/presenter, BBC World Service Talitha Smith assistant producer, Love Productions; casting assistant producer, Wall to wall; development assistant producer, Pi productions Jessica Westlake Freelance radio producer (Global Radio); researcher, CNN International James Williams Broadcast assistant, BBC Wales Cymru; political reporter, BBC Wales

TV CAJ Rudabah Abbass Producer, CNN; producer, Channel 4; freelance (Al Jazeera) Antonya Allen; assistant producer, CNBC; programme producer, London Live ESTV; consultant, SCL Group Masha Akbarzadeh Unknown James Allnutt Freelance researcher and AP (BBC, Blast Films, Shine TV, Nutopia); researcher, BBC Television; assistant producer, Impossible Factual Ltd, Charlotte Bingham Producer, Sky News Georgina Brewer Royal producer, ITV news; news international affairs producer, ITV Natalie Campbell Co-founder and director, A Very Good Company, blogger, HowSheMoves.co.uk; Board Member, Big Lottery Fund Kate Collins media coordinator, BBC News; foreign affairs analyst, BBC; producer, The World at One, BBC; Westminster producer, BBC News Jennifer Conway Unknown Oliver Costamagna commentator, associate producer, PERFORM; producer, ITN; freelance broadcast reporter, London correspondent, Sky (Italy) Rayhan Demetrie Central Asia correspondent, BBC News; Caucasus correspondent Vicki Ferrar Broadcast journalist, Latin America producer, Associated Press; Deputy Regional Editor,Video, Europe & Africa, Associated Press Alexandra Fowle Unknown Alexander Frangeskides News assistant, assistant producer, CNBC Nick Gilbert Intern, CNN; production assistant, ITN; media officer, Druglink; researcher, Blakeway productions Rebecca Greig researcher, BBC; interviewer, Future First; producer, freelance researcher, Al Jazeera English; International editor, IBT Media Gayan Gunaratne Unknown Simon Keating Video journalist, managing director, Bitesize Films Sally Lockwood reporter, ITV Central; reporter, ITV Daybreak; reporter, presenter, 5News Hannah Macinnes Unknown Tobias Mews New media officer, Central Office of Information; freelance multimedia producer, Mews Multi-Media; adventure sports journalist and filmmaker, Tobias Mews Productions Edward C Prior Producer, BBC Breakfast; co-founder, host, Celluloid Heroes Radio; Consultant, Walter James

Nitya Rajan freelance (ITN, THE PIE & Beet TV); content editor, MSN; journalist, ITN; Tech reporter, Huffington Post Amy Salem Broadcast journalist, channel director, BBC Wales Trainee primary school teacher (PGCE) Emma Ward Owner, GA Productions; reporter, assistant producer, IMG Media Giles Winn producer, writer, programme editor, Channel 5 News; editor, Murnaghan, Sky News; interviews editor, Sky News Nabeela Zahir Assistant producer/ researcher, Channel 4, Waddell Media, September Films; producer, Newsnight, Channel 4 News; broadcast journalist, news producer, BBC World News TV

INVESTIGATIVE Pakinam Amer Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt); contributing senior editor, new media editor, Egypt Today; freelance writer (China); deputy editor-in-chief, Nature Publishing Group George Arbuthnott Intern, Associated Newspapers; investigative journalist, The Sunday Times; deputy insight editor,The Sunday Times Matthew Bardo Investigative researcher, Inside Out, BBC South; producer, BBC Eve Critchley Information officer, HemiHelp; digital officer, senior digital officer, digital community officer, Mind Alexandra Dimiziani Content director, director, Content Excellence, Coca-Cola; European marketing director, Airbnb Penelope East Project manager, outreach worker, CEMVO; communications executive, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust; media and marketing account manager, Comic Relief Sara Firth Broadcast journalist, Russia Today (Moscow); freelance TV correspondent & photojournalist George Grant Libya Correspondent, The Times (Tripoli); former Conservative parliamentary candidate, Bradford West,; Tempus Novo, Trustee.

Sarah Hiddleston Unknown Victoria Hollingsworth Co-producer, Starsuckers, Channel 4; assistant producer, BBC Worldwide Lucy Jordan stringer, Platts; researcher, The New York Times (Brazil); stringer, Anadolu Agency; freelance journalist Balihar Khalsa senior reporter, Broadcast; Dispatches researcher, October Films; assistant producer, Documentary Oliver Laughland researcher for investigative journalist Stephen Grey; The Guardian Australia; senior reporter, The Guardian (US) Anna Meisel Freelance researcher (BBC Inside Out); producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs; producer, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Rebecca Pritchard Reporter, Legal Business; reporter, Private Equity News Emma Slater Freelance (The Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian, The Independent); assistant producer, October Films; Assisstant Producer, ITV Elinor Zuke news editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit; news reporter, Insurance Times; director, Zuke Communications.

ERASMUS Arush Chopra Senior analyst, The Asian Banker; sales and product, Duxton Asset Management Larissa Haida Media Relations, Morgan Stanley; press officer, F& Srinivasan Jagannathan Chief news

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2010 editor, The Hindu Business Line Robin Kawakami Web editor, digital features editor, Wall Street Journal; Senior editor,Today Show Kseniya Oksamytna Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate: Globalisation, the EU, and Multilateralism Fuchun (Frank) Tang China metals analyst, North Square Blue Oak; moderator, Reuters Gold Forum; Senior Editor, Oil Price Information Service Jigme Thinley Chief editor, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation Zijing Wu intern reporter, Financial Times; reporter, Bloomberg; reporter, Asia Billionaires, Bloomberg LP (Hong Kong); investment manager, Meridian Capital

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Adwan Adwan Sports reporter, Abu Dhabi Sports; commentator, talkSPORT Nefeli Agkyridou Segment producer, Bloomberg TV; freelance assistant producer, Rueters Insider; associate producer, CNBC Kanika Ahuja Reporter, Zee News limited Yass Ajang Unknown Olamide Akintobi sub-editor, Nigerian Entertainment Today; producer/presenter, EbonyLife TV Arzu Aliyeva Unknown Arash Anghaei PhD student, innovation studies, University of East London; visiting lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London Kathrine Anker; features editor, Archant Imaging; deputy editor, Revo Media; editor, Lux Review Australia & New Zealand Chiara Albanese Reporter, FX Week; reporter, financial reporter, Wall Street Journal Arzu Aliyeva Unknown Morade Azzouz TV producer & cameraman, Thomson Reuters Stefanie Bainum News reporter, ABC News 4; Co-host/reporter Central Valley Today, KSEE24 Jelizaveta Belozerova Unknown Priyanka Boghani Freelance, CNN; senior reporter, Asian Private Banker Paola Bonfanti Reporter, B2B Marketing; editor, freelance reporter, BE-MA (Milan); special content director, 4IT group Anna Brunetti Italy correspondent, Incisive Media; financial services reporter, Mlex Market Intelligence; structured finance and FIG reporter, Reuters Sakshi Budhraja Unknown Anelise Chagas Unknown Indu Chandrasekhar SEO executive, Telegraph Media Group; audience development manager, Wall Street Journal; Head of audience development, Marketwatch Jessica Chesko Intern, Travel, The Sunday Times; reservation sales agent, Apple Vacations; sales associate, Massage envy Heather Christie Investment communications analyst, BlackRock;Vice President, BlackRock Ayesha Chundrigar Freelance (Asian Express, MenuOne); social media researcher, Cision Sergio Colombo Art director, 30G; freelance (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Rome); journalist, Lettera43 (Milan) Jaime Concha Associate editor, editor, International Coal, Platts; senior European natural gas reporter, Energy intelligance Kelly Cregg Unknown Milenna Da Unknown

Allya Davidson Researcher, assistant producer, Clover Films, documentary filmmaker; associate producer, The Fifth Estate, CBC Television; producer,Vice Canada Flora Desponts field producer, Al Jazeera Rijuta Dey Editorial assistant, associate editor, IntraFish Media; freelance, The Hindu Athina Dimitrakopoulou Press officer, National Bank of Greece; deputy editor, Paraskhnio.gr; online journalist, Bankingnews.gr; news writer, content editor, Newsbeast.gr, Prime Media Hau Dinh Cameraman, Current TV; producer, editor, scriptwriter, Associated Press Television; freelance producer, freelance cameraman, freelance fixer (AP Television, Bloomberg Television, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, CCTV) Nidhi Dugar-Kundalia (née Dugar) Sub-editor, Kindle Magazine (Kolkata, India); assistant editor, Kindle magazine Jorge Estevao Content editor, BetClic; web producer, Queen Mary University of London Niklas Fagerström Reporter, Finnish Broadcasting Company; national broadcast news reporter,YLE Lorena Fernandez Abdo Unknown Elisabeth Fischer Online feature writer, Progressive Digital Media Group; online reporter, IntraFish Media Daniele Fisichella lecturer, University of West London; international producer, TalkSPORT; station manager, Future Radio Maria Furtado Unknown Federico Gatti co-founder, London correspondent, L’Indro (Italy); presenter, Massimo Ascolto Radio (London); Middle East correspondent, conflict reporter, London TV correspondent, Mediaset Maral Gholampour marketing manager, Azad Training Company; creative producer, Marjan Television Network; member of directing panel, Ivaz Company Hanna Hauck Trainee, DAPD News Agency Natalie Higashi Digital editor, Sedai Legacy Project (Toronto); freelance (CBC, Toronto); founder, managing editor, Moringa Media (Toronto) Meredith Humphrey Staff writer, Audience Media; journalist, IQ Media; community moderator, community manager, Spotify Anthony Johnston Copy editor, proofreader, editor-in-chief, Metro World News Hitani Kaur Lifestyle writer, India Today Group; Travel writer, Times of India Dominic Kavakeb Freelance, Al Jazeera; political campaigns coordinator, Bahrain Justice & Development Movement; communications manager, Transparency international UK Atiya Khan News anchor, senior reporter, TimesNow Nimra Khan Unknown Marina Kim Executive Director, Pomp magazine; freelance (Quintessentially, Mayfair, JFW, Rendezvous, Russian UK); PR manager, Huntsworth PLC Soo Kim Travel writer, travel editor, The Daily Telegraph Alexey Kovalev International coordinator, assistant editor, Time Out Moscow Katharina Kruppa Communications manager, Evonik Industries AG Quentin Leboucher Video journalist, Agence France Presse; Middle East and North Africa video deputy coordinator, AFPTV Lillian Leclair Writer, photographer, Oyster.com; correspondent, Jetsetter.com Johannes Ledel Karreskog; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; reporter, Wall Street Journal; business reporter, Sverigas Radio

Geraldine Lennon Unknown Andre Lewis Freelance tribal recruitment, multimedia producer, SEARHC (Alaska); education video production intern, Democracy Now! Productions; freelance photographer (News 12 Networks) Meng Liao Vice president, global markets group, Bank of America Alice Lin Editorial intern, Chronicle Books; copy, content writer, Party City; copywriter, Tiny Prints Heng Lu Ethnography researcher, GMRA Ltd; research executive, Flamingo Michele Martinelli content executive, 4C Associates; content editor and copywriter, uSwitch.com; content strategist, Money advice service Rachel McGovern Reporter, Euroweek; reporter, Debtwire; editor, Private Debt Investor Pankti Mehta Feature writer, senior correspondent, Hindustan Times Mandana Mofidi Freelance associate producer (CBS, ABC News, PBS); producer, HBO; senior producer documentary unit, Fusion Zahra Moloo); reporter, producer, IRIN News; freelance documentary producer and videographer, CCTV; Africa press consultant, Right Livlihood Award Foundation.

Noha Morgan Live programming manager, OTV satellite channel; freelance TV and radio producer Ana Muhar London correspondent, Jutarnji list Samson Mujuda Deputy High Commissioner, Zambia High Commission (Namibia) Sneha Mundhra Senior writer, GoldOcean Communications India Private Ltd; freelance content strategist Saad Mustafa Sub-editor, Daily Times; senior communications officer, Department for International Development (DFID) Carlo Nassetti; editor, marketing assistant, Editorial Fundamentos; ebook and digital products manager, Ediciones Turner SL; digital content producer, Centaur Communications Ijeoma Ndukwe Freelance, (ITV, BBC, Channel 4) Emma Nilsson Video editor, Betfair; TV listings editor, Swedish editor/listings writer, Red Bee Media Yoletta Nyirakanyange Unknown Kirstine Nystrom News production intern, Bloomberg; producer assistant, SBS Broadcasting; web producer, Discovery Networks Denmark; law student Victoria Onofreiciuc Trainee, The European Commission; IBF International Consulting; public relations, EU Delegation to Moldova Fidelis Onyedikam Unknown Ilonka Oudenampsen Senior correspondent, Pageant Media; senior correspondent, Mena Insurance Review; assistant editor, Newsquest Specialist Media Ltd Kinga Papp Associate director MediaCom; creative strategist, senior brand planner, Saatchi & Saatchi London Maria Pappa Financial reporter, Star Channel (Athens News Agency) Kyriakos Penintaex Unknown Melesiana Phiri TV presenter/producer, reporter, assignments editor, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Sunniya Pirzada Freelance (Al Jazeera English, Qatar) Anna Pitton Marketing manager, Assinform/Dal Cin Editore; reporter, Messaggero Veneto (Italy); marketing services operator, Silca S.p.A. Afsaneh Rafii Deputy editor, Nico Magazine; associate publisher, Twin Magazine; freelance Martina Reinstadler Social media

researcher, Cision; radio presenter, Teleradio Vinschgau (Italy); journalist, hds Unione (Italy) Anna Reitman Freelance (The Trade); journalist, editor, Automated Trader Marcia Reverdosa News producer, RedeTV (Brazil); international broadcast sales, Casablanca Online Elizabeth Ridgeway Unknown Rémy Philomene Field producer, Channel 4; reporter, France 24; reporter, Canal+ Samar Saleh Relationship manager, head of development programmes unit, National Commercial Bank; head of marketing and deputy to the commercial attaché in Rome Priyanka Salve Online journalist, Start Intelligence; reporter, CapitalStructure Limited; senior correspondent, Cogencis Information Services Fiona Scott Editor, Crane.tv; head of production, i-D Magazine; senior producer, CNN Claire Sergent Journalist, Sud Radio Services; journalist, Europe 1 Megha Shah Lifestyle editor, GQ (India) Ayesha Shahabudeen Freelance Valerie Siebert Freelance (The Quietus, Vice, The Telegraph); digital content manager, Leisure Kicks; Femail writer, MailOnline Dustin Silgardo Senior staff writer, deputy editor, Man’s World Magazine; news editor, Mint Lounge Alissa Smith Reporter, Wisconsin Reporter; reporter, Daily Voice; corporate communications specialist, H.J. Baker & Bro., Inc Nektaria Stamouli Financial journalist, Dimokrati; Athens correspondent, reporter Wall Street Journal Julie Stewart-Binks Sports anchor, reporter, CTV (Canada); anchor, Fox Sports 1 Siri Svendsen Freelance; communications advisor, Jernbaneverket (National Norwegian Rail Administration); communication advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway Karolina Tagaris Staff writer, Associated Press (Athens); correspondent, text editor, Reuters Victoria Taylor Sports researcher, Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, LOCOG; researcher, assistant producer The Graham Norton Show, So Television Shawn A Thomas Talk show host, ABS radio and television (Antigua, Barbuda); producer, host, The Journal, ABS TV Agnes Valdimarsdottir Producer, Al-Jazeera; journalist, Iceland Magazine; English teacher, Fjölbrautarskólinn við Ármúla (Secondary School) Lena Vazifdar Staff writer, reporter, 33 Universal; freelance (Audrey Magazine, Eat Me, SOMA) Ines Ward Researcher, WagTV; researcher, Love Productions; researcher/ development, Blakeway Productions Aoife Yourell Managing editor, The First Pint; chief sub-editor, producer, Sunshine, Sky News Polina Zamorina Freelance Alexandra Zeevalkink Digital content manager, KFTV, Wilmington Media; founding editor, DocGeeks; publishing manager, KFTV and Production Intelligence Sarah Zerback Economics editor, presenter, editor, writer, Deutschlandfunk Yinou Zhou News broadcaster, Hong Kong Satellite TV

NEWSPAPER Olivia Alabaster Sub-editor, reporter, regional reporter, The Daily Star (Beirut) Francesca Angelini Researcher, The

2010 Times; feature writer, food writer and editor, The Sunday Times Tomar Brooks-Pollock Reporter, Central Office of Information; reporter, Manchester Evening News; freelance Szu Chan Researcher, FT Weekend; reporter, business reporter, The Daily Telegraph Lauren Evans (née Cockbill) Women’s Tennis Association; social media coordinator, researcher, BBC Caroline Crampton Total Politics; web editor, New Statesman Marion Dakers Deputy news editor, City AM; city editor, Herald & Times Group; financial services editor, The Telegraph Rhiannon Edwards Deputy features editor, Hampstead and Highgate Express; commissioning editor, Telegraph Travel; freelance filmmaker Peter Evans Intern, Bloomberg News; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal; leisure and pharmaceuticals reporter, The Sunday Times Emma Gatten-Mackinder Daily Star (Lebanon) Damien Gayle Freelance, Daily Express; science and tech reporter, MailOnline; reporter, The Guardian Patrick Gower Reporter, Construction News; senior reporter, Property Week; legal reporter, Bloomberg News Georgia Graham News reporter, The Sunday Times; political correspondent, The Telegraph; political correspondent, Channel 4 News Rob Hastings Reporter, feature writer and assistant news editor, The Independent Gregory Heffer Freelance, online news editor, political reporter, Express Newspapers Gregor Hunter Business reporter, The National (Abu Dhabi); markets reporter, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal Tom Jackson Reporter,Ventures Africa; Managing editor, HumanIPO.com; cofounder, Disrupt Africa Chris Kay UK reporter, Nigeria reporter, Nigeria Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News Soraya Kishtwari Shifts, The Observer; lobby assistant, The Times; parliamentary correspondent in the House of Commons Jennifer Lipman Comment editor, The Jewish Chronicle; research consultant, Lexington communications; freelance Anna Meisel Producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs; producer, BBC Radio 4 Arron Merat The Daily Star (Beirut);Time Out (Beirut) Ralph Miller Producer, Sky News; editor, Inness, Miller, Stadden; broadcast journalist, BBC Richard Partington Reporter, City AM; chief online reporter, Financial News; banking reporter, Bloomberg News Alice Philipson Reporter, China Daily; news reporter, Telegraph Media Group Alexa Phillips Editorial assistant, The Independent; communications coordinator, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam; web editor, The National Archives Sarah Rainey Reporter, The Belfast Telegraph; features writer, The Daily Telegraph; features writer, Daily Mail Alexander Ralph Editorial assistant, business correspondent, market reporter, The Times Alexander Richman News sub-editor, Evening Standard; sub-editor, Daily Mail; assistant night editor, Daily Mail Dina Rickman Associate editor, The Week; deputy news editor, i100.co.uk; head of social media, The Independent Hannah Roberts Bloomberg; trainee reporter, Daily Mail (Glasgow); secondment, MailOnline Arj Singh Press Association; Brooklyn Brothers; news reporter, political reporter, Press Association John Stevens News reporter, political

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reporter, Brussels correspondent, Daily Mail Martina Van Der Meer Digital marketing manager, St John Ambulance; e-commerce performance manager, business performance manager, Ageas Retail Alexander Walters Digital development, Financial Times; freelance (The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent) Lydia Warren Writer, Todaysthedayi. com; senior reporter, MailOnline (New York); managing editor, InsideEditions. com

MAGAZINE Cathy Adams Reporter, CityAM; associate editor, Square Up Media; deputy editor, Discovery Dolly Alderton Dating columnist, The Sunday Times; script assistant, Fresh Meat; dating columnist, The Sunday Times Style Jennifer Allan Reporter, electricpig. co.uk; online editor, The Wire; runs Arc Light editions record label Sarah Baldwin Features editor, LivingEtc; deputy editor, Homes & Gardens; associate editor, Livingetc Jessica Weinstein (née Baron) Digital content manager, Tudor Reilly Health; digital content manager, OAG Aviation; web editor, Jewish Chronicle Elinor Block Online writer, Shortlist. com; online writer, senior online writer, Stylist.co.uk Jessica Blunden Mid-weight copywriter, The Engage Group; marketing communications executive, Practical Law Company; senior marketing executive, Thompson Reuters Eleanor Broughton Features editor, Pulse; features editor, Hackney Citizen; digital production journalist, The Sunday Times Nicholas Carvell Social media and fashion writer, Mr Porter; fashion editor, GQ.co.uk Hollie Clemence Freelance reporter, The Sunday Times; reporter, news editor, The Week Online Lucinda Dunseath TV publicity team assistant, coordinator, media and talent relations, Sony Pictures Entertainment Guy Ferneyhough Senior reporter, TelecomFinance; senior reporter, assistant editor, SatelliteFinance Jonathan Garrett Sub-editor, Property Week; assistant editor, jamieoliver.com Caroline Gosney Freelance social media editor, strategist and copywriter (Agency Republic, Fleishman Hillard, Cubaka, BBH) Mike Kielty Reporter, TelecomFinance; junior reporter, dealReporter Lisa Kjellsson Sub-editor, Haymarket; features writer and supplements editor, Lockwood Press; freelance (AB Publishing, Wardour Communications and Travel Weekly Group, Boat) Anna Leach Writer, Time Out (Shanghai); Asia and Australia correspondent, Gay Star News; senior content coordinator, Guardian News and Media David Matthews Reporter, Building; reporter, Times Higher Education Supplement James McIrvine Freelance; features writer, Sports Direct catalogue,VW Vans, Motor Racing Ezine (Haymarket Network) Helen Nianias Freelance (Look, xojane. co.uk, Fabulousmag.co.uk); deputy editor, The Indy People online; freelance (Vice, Grazia,The Telegraph) Jasmine Phillips Staff reporter and subeditor, Tesco Wine Magazine; staff writer

Editor, Pure Beauty, Science 2010 host a beauty awards ceremony every year.

What made you want to become a journalist?

At the age of 14, I applied for a two-week work experience at teen magazine Sugar. I didn’t want to leave and that’s when I knew magazine journalism was what I wanted to do.

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

There is a growing trend for magazine publishers to run live events in association with their magazines or websites. Glamour is hosting a beauty festival this year and both my current magazine and my previous one and sub-editor, Ocadolife Jessica Pike Staff writer, The Chartered Quality Institute; education editor, managing editor, Intelligent Media Solutions Elizabeth Pook Junior writer, deputy features editor, Stylist; freelance journalist Alexandra Saggers PR consultant, Seven Hills; English and Drama teacher Moya Sarner Features and health writer, commissioning editor, Good Housekeeping Magazine; acting commissioning editor, The Times2 Rebecca Seales Freelance, The Sunday Times; news trainee, PoliticsHome.com; reporter, India editor, MailOnline Estella Shardlow Assistant editor, Stylus media group; freelance copywriter, Dalziel and Pow Designs Consultants; freelance (Escapism,Telegraph, Stylus, Apollo) Sarah Simpson Digital assistant producer, Good Food Channel; manager, Fortuna Enterprises; director MMC Bars Ltd. Rachel Smith Junior editor, Class magazine; editorial assistant, Reader’s Digest; online editor, www.souschef.co.uk India Sturgis Features writer, commissioning editor, Femail, Daily Mail; freelance Daniel Tapper Staff writer, Waitrose Kitchen; freelance food journalist (The Guardian,The Sunday Times,The Independent); author, Food Unwrapped Clare Vooght Sub-editor, British Journal of Photography and Computeractive; digital production editor, Incisive Media; freelance (Escapism, MailOnline, The Independent) Jonathan Watson Sub-editor, production assistant, The Stage; senior digital production executive at Incisive Media Sophie Wilkinson News writer, news editor, The Debrief; freelance (Vice,The Guardian, Grazia,The Independent)

BROADCAST

The biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

The battle between digital and print journalism has been a recurring theme at all of the organisations I’ve worked at since leaving City.

There still isn’t the income in most smaller media outlets to scrap print completely or have a separate digital team so journalists have to juggle both on a daily basis.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I was also asked to research eco-friendly sex toys for a Valentine’s Day feature on another internship and it still sits in pride of place in my early cuttings folder!

Alex Berry Jessica Banham Broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today Amy Blackburn Freelance producer (Channel 4 News, ITV); live subtitler, Independent Media Support; team leader, Red Bee Media Helena Carter Presenter, reporter, ITV; reporter, ITV News Lucie Charlton Producer, BSkyB; producer, Sky News Tonight; freelance journalist, producer Rachael Church Fundraising campaign manager, Compton Fundraising; senior development manager, Peterborough Cathedral Sarah Collinson Assistant producer, digital producer, Blakeway Productions; producer, Amos Pictures Tom Croasdell Freelance; broadcast journalist, Adventure Radio Group; freelance reporter (BBC Essex, BBC Radio Kent, Global Radio) Liz Emmett Account manager, Carat Enterprise; digital planner, digital account manager, OMD Australia Marvin Farquharson Unknown Sean Farrington Reporter, BBC News; reporter, presenter BBC Radio 5 Live Steve Gardner Digital producer, ITV News; editor,VPoint News; editor of news output, Sky News Hannah Gibbons Assistant producer, This Week; researcher, The One Show; researcher, BBC Current Affairs Helen Glancy Producer, editor, Broadcorp; opinions and leaders manager, The Times Jason Grant Freelance (Media for Development); facilitation and storytelling, Forgiveness Project Benjamin Guy Researcher, October Films; freelance broadcast journalist (BBC World Service, BBC London) Noreen Harewood Freelance broadcast journalist (Radio Jackie 107.8); producer, BBC World Service Antonia Harrison Press officer, Wild Card PR; account manager, Eulogy!; consultant, Blue Rubicon Hind Hassan International content producer, news producer, reporter, Sky

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News International Victoria Holland Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Derby; broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today; video journalist, BBC Look North Daniel Howells Freelance broadcast journalist and producer, ITN; northern news editor, ITV News Joanna Impey Broadcast journalist, Deutsche Welle; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; radio journalist, BBC Outlook Ruth Jacob Content assistant, content editor, IZMAYLOVA; primary school teaching assistant Robin James Digital and social media executive, NBC Universal; online producer, senior content producer ITV; freelance digital content producer Corine Jess Marketing manager, Harrow College; director, Jam Residential Ltd Aled John Producer, presenter, Monocle 24; programme manager, Guardian News & Media Caitlin Kennedy Freelance stringer, BBC News; shortform video researcher, BBC; production coordinator, WGBH Creative Kate Lawrence Media production assistant, Espresso Education, Channel 4 Learning; freelance assistant news editor, 5 News, ITN; assistant producer, Boundless Katy Lee Online editor, reporter, Asia-Pacific editor, reporter Agence France-Presse Christina Macfarlane Reporter, Sports Correspondent, CNN International Faarea Masud Sunrise Radio/ Litt Corporation; broadcast journalist, BBC News Francesca Mcleod Unknown Steffan Messenger Journalist, BBC Wales Felicity Morris Development researcher, BBC; development assistant producer, Raw Television; planning producer, Sky Datshiane Nayanayagam Journalist, BBC News; assistant producer, BBC Olivia Paterson Presenter/producer, ITV Anglia Nicholas Reed-Clarke Business broadcast journalist, BBC News John Regan Freelance producer (Sky News); producer, Al Jazeera; field producer, TRT World Oliver Regan Freelance sports journalist (Sky Sports News, BBC, ITN) Julia Ross Investigative researcher, Inside Out, BBC; planning, producer World At One, BBC Radio 4 Jennifer Shaw Producer, Lightbox; DV director, Channel 4; shooting producer Adam Sich Production assistant, online content producer, ITN;YouTube channel manager, The Guardian Jessica Stevens Speech and language therapist, Words First Ltd Charlie Thomson Senior football planner, Sky Sports News Frances Tillson Unknown Ayshah Tull Production trainee, assistant producer, presenter, BBC Newsround Micky Van Praagh Researcher, BBC; freelance producer (Endemol UK); producer, Celebrity Big Brother Timothy Wallace Banking reporter, senior reporter, City AM; banking reporter, The Telegraph Robert Watts Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Derby; early show presenter, BBC East Midlands radio; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live Joanne Whalley Producer, reporter, BBC Travel Show David Wilkinson Freelance broadcast journalist, assignment editor, producer CNN Rebecca Williams Reporter/presenter, BBC; broadcast journalist, reporter Sky News

TV CAJ Mahsa Akbarzadeh Development Coordinator, Darlow Smithson Productions Sophie Clayton-Payne Freelance assistant producer Kathryn Collins Unknown Stephanie Constantine Freelance producer, (Dubai Sports Channel, BBC Sportsnews, SNTV, BBC News); broadcast journalist & social media producer, BBC World News; social media innovation producer, BBC World Service Jennifer Conway TV journalist, BBC London News Catherine Corrett Freelance documentary filmmaker Vicki Ferrar Editorial planner, APTN Direct; producer, Associated Press Alexandra Fowle Unknown Nicholas Gilbert Media officer, Druglink; researcher, Blakeway Productions James Greene Unknown Gayan Gunaratne Unknown Caitlin Hanrahan Researcher, BBC; researcher, assistant producer, ITN Rebecca Hayman Assistant producer, Goodness Media; producer, October Films Jamil Hussein News editor, Weather Network UK Samuel Hunt BBC World; assistant producer and interview producer, Al Jazeera English; assistant producer, BBC Panorama Caroline Ingvarsson Production coordinator, Flood Projects (Australia); director, Glue Harbor Productions Sam Kirby Field producer, Westminster producer, assistant news editor, ITN Kelly Kerruish Studio manager, Pink Banana Studios; account manager, senior account manager, Halpern Josephine Kime Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC News at Ten, ITN; consultancy; UK and US host, Channel One Russia Worldwide Rachel Lucas Newsdesk producer, Channel 5 News, ITN; assistant news editor, ITN James Martin Freelance Camilla Millard Casting researcher, Ivory London; producer, Beagle Media Goldie Momen-Putrym Sky News Online Richard Mylles Political analyst, Absolute Strategy Research Jon-Paul Phillips Unknown Stephanie Prentice Presenter, producer, Channel 5 (ITN); broadcast journalist, presenter, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4; reporter, Reuters Emily Purser Business, economics & consumer producer, head of specialist producers & economics producer, Sky News Alison Rogers Unknown Karen Santi Unknown Anneka Sharpley Planning producer, news editor, Sky News Poppy Tullo Producer, Quintessentially Television; producer, Digit London; producer, Brand Union Ruairidh Villar TV producer and reporter, Thomson Reuters

INVESTIGATIVE Julia Bradshaw Senior reporter,

Financial advisor, Financial Times; companies writer, Investors Chronicle, Financial Times; business news editor, Daily Telegraph Rebecca Buchan Senior court reporter, The Aberdeen Press and Journal Sarah Clark Assistant producer, ITN; assistant producer, Arrow Media; associate producer, Nutopia Claire Cooper Press officer, Crisis press officer, BBC Children in Need; coalition media executive, Save the Children UK; PR Officer, The Royal British Legion Ross Halliday Documentary filmmaker, Docfactory; independent filmmaker; marketing communications and video production, INTERPOL Matthew Holehouse Reporter, assistant news editor (online), Brussels correspondent, The Daily Telegraph Carisma Kapoor Unknown Billy Kenber Graduate trainee, The Times; news reporter, investigations reporter, The Times Laura Klompenhouwer Reporter, Novum Nieuws; freelance; editor ‘liaison’, NRC Media Pierre Kley-Gomez Unknown Nicholas Lancaster Business development executive, Create Digital Media Simon Lewis Associate editor, The Cambodia Daily; business editor, The Cambodia Daily; freelance (South East Asia) Lidija Liegis Research associate, The Risk Advisory Group; journalist, BQ Baltic; freelance writer, Discover Benelux magazine Tim Maynard Assistant producer, ITN; assistant producer, On Assignment, Tonight Programme, ITV; producer/director, Tonight (ITN) Luke Oakeshott Intern, Lord Mayor’s Office; researcher, Transnational Crisis Project Natalie Peck Producer, National Union of Students; lecturer in investigative journalism, London South Bank University; Research and Evaluation Officer (Campus Cohesion, Faith and Belief), Press Officer, Press and Messaging Manager, National Union of Students Conrad Quilty-Harper Data mapping reporter, interactive news editor, The Daily Telegraph; data journalist, Ampp3d; news editor, GQ.co.uk Emma Slater Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Channel 4 Dispatches, October Films; assistant producer, ITV

SCIENCE Caroline Azad-Andish Contributing writer, Elements; foreign correspondent, RTL TVI Tushna Commissariat Freelance; reporter, Physics World Jennifer Green Web content manager, scheduling manager, ITV Julius Goldthorpe Content manager, Inspire Madrid; marketing and communications officer, recruitment manager, Accounting for International Development; operations manager, Enjay Training Ltd. Aine Gormley Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University; University College Groningen academic staff, University of Groningen Grace Howe Contributing writer, Elements Laura Husband Deputy online magazine editor, Progressive Digital Media; staff writer, P3; staff writer, Beauty Magazine; pure beauty editor, HPCI Media Louis Jagger Contributing writer,

Elements; full-time tutor, Keystone Tutors Charlotte King Junior scientific writer, Euro RSCG Life Medicom; copywriter, account manager, Cherry Advertising Hannah King Assistant producer, Children in Need; Researcher, Lab UK, BBC; North East reporter, BFBS Joseph Milton Intern, Nature; senior press officer for Mental Health, Science Media Centre; senior media officer, Australian Science Media Centre Smitha Mundasad Broadcast journalist, BBC News Christine Ottery News editor, MRW; deputy editor, Greenpeace Energydesk Smitha Peter Researcher, Survival International Achintya Rao CMS Science Communicator, CERN; PhD student, University of the West of England; science communicator, CMS Experiment, CERN Ian Randall PhD student, University of Auckland; lead DBA, Oracle Apps; website developer, IPPOG Paul Rodgers Production editor, business, The Independent; business and science editor, Jamaica Observer; science contributor, Forbes.com Tiffany Stecker Reporter, ClimateWire (US); agriculture reporter, Greenwire Gulnura Toralieva Head of journalism and mass communications, American University of Central Asia; Communications Director USAID Local Development Programme; Assistant Professor, American University of Central Asia Gozde Zorlu World Health Organisation; associate communications officer, Frontiers; senior media relations executive, BMJ

ERASMUS Jan Lepetun CEEMEA reporter, Debtwire (Financial Times Group) Zhiping An New Media editor, XInhua News Agency Guilherme Kfouri Team Leader, Biofuels and Gasoline Blending components, Platts; senior economist, International Sugar Organisation Weiyi Wu Unknown Beibei Yin Freelance (Financial Times Chinese) Sakshi Sharma Senior reporter, Infrastructure Journal; Americas Editor – IJGlobal, Euromoney Institutional Investor Roman Chlupaty London correspondent, investicniweb.cz; founder, editor-in-chief, GlobeReporter.org Isabella Cota Schwarz Stringer, Reuters (Costa Rica); online sub-editor, Thomson Reuters; Central America reporter, Mexico fixed income reporter, Bloomberg Matilde Mereghetti European reporter, senior reporter, editorial market engagement leader, ICIS Emma Godfrey Analyst, researcher, Alphametrics Ltd; consultant, Coffey International Bunly Meas National communication officer, Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP (Cambodia); communication specialist, UNICEF Cambodia Kimberly Peterson Associate news editor, European Union energy policy, Platts; energy policy and regulation reporter, coal market policy and regulation reporter, Argus Media Matthew Caruana Galizia Labs developer, Financial Times; developer, Assanka; developer, Grupo Nación; developer, ICIJ Andrew Hercules Web developer trainee, Makers Academy; front-end developer and UX/UI consultant, Deloitte Digital; developer and UX Strategist, University of London Christina Dillmann Writer/social

2011 media manager, Keep Working; website editor, Hidden Treasures Foundation; social media and marketing strategist, UC San Diego Health Sciences International

2011 INTERNATIONAL Jessica Abels Digital communications officer, Prisoners Abroad; communications officer, Gingerbread; communications officer, Citizens Advice Michelle Abrego Regulation and politics reporter, New Model Adviser (Citywire); deputy editor, Citywire Americas Carol Acquaye Chief editor, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Monica Ainley Fashion features writer, Avenue 32; Social Media Editor, JOSEPH Fashion; community editor, The NET SET (NET-A-PORTER) Ole Kristian Alsaker Video producer, The Guardian; output editor, Ruptly; journalist, Deutche Welle Laila Ali Freelance (The Guardian); spokesperson, World Food Programme; features writer, Al Jazeera English Najah Alotaibi Alosaimi Asharq Alawsat newspaper (London) Samah Altaweel Reporter, correspondent, Associated Press Middle East Service; anchor, broadcast journalist, Deutsche Welle TV Anna Anderson Keyworker, assessor, assessment team coordinator, Kids Company; family keyworker, London Borough of Bexley Tom Barfield Features intern, CNN; political officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; editor, The Local Germany Habiba Basiony Media production director, 3S Avenue; entertainment anchor and producer, Alhurra; presenter - Banafsej on Dubai TV, Dubai Media Incorporated Beatrice Bedeschi Associate editor, editor EMEA Oil, Platts (European Gas Markets) Nathalie Biancheri Assistant producer, researcher, BBC; writer/director, The Crossing; producer, Gibberish Clémentine Blayo-Nogret MA in translation, subtitling and dubbing for cinema (Nice, France); journalist, Non Stop People; author, translator, adapter for dubbing, Imagine Maria Bleeg Freelance (Dagbladet Børsen); producer, subtitler, SBS Australia; journalist, Ritzaus Bureau Caroline Bodin-Soufflet Senior TV producer, Bloomberg TV Africa; TV and multimedia producer, BBC; senior multimedia producer, The Sunday Times Alessandra Bonomolo Producer, Double Act Ltd.; producer, BBC Newsnight; development producer, BBC Alexandra Botines-Mora UK correspondent, Mundo Deportivo Marianne Bouchart Web producer EMEA, Bloomberg News; communications director, Global Editors Network Viola Caon Freelance (The Guardian, The Observer); Italy correspondent, Open Door Media Ltd; Italy and Iberia correspondent, web news editor, Investment Europe – Open Door Media Ltd Chiara Caprio London correspondent, Vita magazine; freelance (Al Jazeera, Corriere della Sera, Il Fatto Quotidia); video producer,Vice Media Marine Casalis Correspondent, France

24, RFI, Tribune de Genève, Radio Vatican (Tunisia, Libya); video journalist, France 24; correspondent, France 24, RFI, Le Temps (Libya) Paloma Casillas Baldres Press officer, Spanish Senate; junior communication consultant, accounts executive, Planner Media Arianna Catti De Gasperi Speaker, Vatican Radio; international admission coordinator, John Cabot University Adam Chidell English teacher, Merchant Taylors’ School Carlotta Comparetti Freelance (La Nouca Sardegna); editor in chief, Lollove Mag; content and social media manager, YESEYA s.r.l Alexander Court Digital producer, Sky News; digital features producer, CNN; digital editor, UNHCR Sara Custer Reporter, RHS Chelsea Flower Show; intern, Pageant Media; reporter, deputy editor, The PIE News Muhammad Darwish Freelance (TV news); video journalist, field producer, Bloomberg LP Ruchita Daswani Intern, News International; assistant manager-affluent banking, Citibank India Mirjam de Jong Director of corporate film (Amsterdam) Alessandra Stefani de Medeiros Reporter, Record TV; freelance (Vice, Perform, KissBank, 12speak, Rede Record); travel blogger and founder of www.perdidosnomundo.com Marleen De Rooy Web editor, Het Financieele Dagblad newspaper; business editor, NOS Angeliki Delagrammatica Unknown Caroline Demopoulos Video journalist, Olympic Broadcasting Services; assistant news editor, video journalist, ITN Source; executive assistant, Alfama Films Boyana Draganova Guest writer, simplifydigital.com; unknown Zaina Erhaim Media consultant, media trainer, Syria project coordinator, Institute for War and Peace Nikolaos Fatsios Unknown Mimi Flemming Post production coordinator, post production manager, Vice Media; content manager, The Project, Network Ten Veronique Forge Freelance, (French Media, L/onTOP magazine); founder, Business O Féminin Fabio Forin Intern, Grain Media; freelance (European Journalism Centre); freelance broadcaster/researcher, BBC 2 Mathilde Forissier Freelance (Altermind); journalist, Le Soldat Blanc Lorenza Frigerio Blogger, Linkiesta. it; photojournalist, Demotix; account manager, The 10 Group Annabel Fuller legal assistant, Chambers of Lake & Kentish; media and communications consultant, Island Living Investment Services Ltd.; Executive Assistant to Director / Registrar General Antigua and Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping Amira Galal Middle East analyst, Euromonitor International; monitoring journalist, Arabic media analyst, BBC World Service Group Riccardo Ghia EMEA industrial correspondent, senior reporter, Mergermarket Anna Gorszynska Reporter, Academy FM Ambra Guarnieri Freelance; PhD student, SOAS, University of London; teaching assistant, SOAS, University of London Rachel Hall Intern, Reporter, news editor, Law Business Research; public policy journalist, Research Katharine Helmore Freelance (The St. Petersburg Times); designer, Paul Smith; freelance editor, writer and designer

Sara Hemrajani Assistant producer, Bloomberg TV (London); freelance TV news reporter, DMA Media; freelance TV producer/reporter, Reuters Tim Hilhorst Keyword editor, senior marketing analyst, marketing operations manager Europe, ReachLocal Elizabeth Holliday TV journalist and weekend anchor, KOAM-TV; TV reporter, WTEN-TV; communications associate, College and Community Fellowship Zoe Holman Intern, Institute of War and Peace Reporting; freelance; PhD researcher, University of Melbourne Vincent Huck Staff writer, Pageant Media; reporter, Timetric Financial Services/Progressive Media Group; deputy editor, Timetric International Accounting Bulletin & The Accountant Petrus Iliadis Press officer, Fleet dispatcher, LOCOG; unknown Noemi Ivicsics Freelance fashion writer, Candid Magazine; freelance translator, VICE Media; online marketing executive, Fashion Eyewear Babbals Jamwal Freelance documentaries researcher (ITN Productions) Mridulika Jha Reporter, Dainik Bhaskar; online media consultant, Greenpeace India Aarti Jitender Associate Producer, Bloomberg TV (Hong Kong); assistant producer, CNBC TV18 Ole Kaemper Freelance editorial assistant (ZDF); freelance (Deutsche Welle); trainee, N24 Television Saeed Kamali-Dehghan Correspondent, The Guardian; producer, HBO; staff journalist, The Guardian Jelena Kensborn Producer, co-founder, Upstart Media Fawad Khurshid Senior producer, current affairs, Capital TV (Pakistan); director news, Neo TV Network Carmen Ka-Man Kong Sub-editor, MouthLondon; editor, Europe & Me; freelance marketing consultant Marco Leitão Silva Freelance radio producer; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Fangchao Li Page editor, 21st Century China Daily Austin Lindberg Online news editor, Car and Driver magazine (USA); general editor, ESPN FC Jonathan Lopez Research analyst, Intierra; reporter, Capital Structure; news reporter, ICIS Dalia Lourenco Communications trainee, European Commission Representation (Lisbon); communication officer, DG-MARKT; communications consultant, World Health Organization Megan Lucero Story producer, data journalist, data journalism editor, The Times and The Sunday Times Kabeer Mahajan Production manager, ESPN STAR Sports; freelance assistant producer TV sport news, BBC; freelance AP, CNN Carlos Martin Tornero Graduate scheme,VRL Financial News; voiceover artist, translator, Aparat Media; reporter, editor, Timetric Amit Masram HR Manager Europe, Infoplus Technologies; HR consultant, Accenture UK; head of HR International Business and HR Programs, InfoCepts Niall McDonald Producer, Sky News; producer, Associated Press; writer and producer, CNN Muazzin Mehrban Communications executive, Pfizer; communications associate, Aramco Overseas Company Gianlucia Mezzofiore Online journalist, senior foreign reporter, International Business Times UK; foreign news reporter, MailOnline Hamza Mohamed Freelance (SubSaharan, Africa); producer, Al Jazeera Media Network

Anuradha Mojumdar Lead analyst, Pelucid/Startup Intelligence; head analyst, Gorkana; communications coordinator, McKinsey & Company Lillo Montalto Monella Freelance (Linkiesta, Metro International); online editor, Juvewntus Football Club; author, Real-Time Journalism Eugenio Montesano Freelance, Associated Press TV; Italian reporter, Citywire Global; Italian editor, Citywire Nishit Morsawala Editor, Arab Today; Producer, Sky News Anastasios MpulassikisCommunications executive, Eurosif; Communications Officer, European Association of Public Banks Zayn NabbiAssociate sports producer, CNN International; Producer, CNN Reem NafieJournalist, Economist Intelligence Unit; freelance reporter, Arab issues; freelance documentary translator (Al-Jazeera English, OR Media, Ultramarine Films) Shuhei NakayamaResearcher, Euromoney; Production, cameraman, technical personnel, Fourex Sarah NoorbakhshRunner, researcher, production coordinator, Don Productions Ltd; marketing executive, QS Quacquarelli Symonds; freelance, translator Nicole OcranArts and literature correspondent, Entertainment News; senior researcher, Deputy head of events, Celebrity Intelligence Olushola Ojikutu Freelance; contributor, Times LIVE; blogger, MissOjikutu Sella Oneko German language press editor, Kantar Media Intelligence; online, radio and TV journalist, Deutsche Welle Annika Ostman Assistant producer, ITN; communications manager, Njema Helena; communications specialist, The World Bank; Communications manager, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation Eunae Park Deputy director, Planning and Cooperation Team, National Assembly (Seoul) Maite Perez De Nanclares International relations researcher, University of the Basque Country; freelance (Digital Publications); Coordinator, auditor, Kids&Us Maria Beltcheva (nee Petchenikova) London correspondent, BTV (Bulgaria); manager public relations, Kauza Communications; CIS correspondent, Kallanish; PR manager, Dynamica Consulting; Freelance (Petchingstone) Katie Poole Community manager, KashFlow; community manager, social media manager, TWM Unlimited agency Akshata Rao Assistant producer, Bloomberg TV; multimedia journalist, producer, The Times Meredith Ross Social media marketing coordinator, Lushli; news anchor, i24news Silvia Rothlisberger London editor, Express Media International; documentary producer, Community outreach and project manager, Latin Elephant Massimiliano Santalucia Assistant librarian, Mediateca Santa Teresa; blogger, France24; Library assistant,York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Kira Savcenko reporter, Bloomberg; Assistant Editor, Global Blue; Blogger, Kira Is Wearing; Editorial assistant, ASOS.com Rosanne Scammell Unknown Melanie Siekhaus Journalist, mediaflr. com; Junior Project manager, wirDesign Bongani Siqoko Deputy editor, Daily Dispatch (South Africa); Editor-in-Chief, Daily Dispatch (South Africa) Catinka Sjoberg Producer, Mindpool Creative; project manager, Bond Street Film Tineka Smith Reporter, Computer Business Review; Reporter, Progressive Digital Media; content and media

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NICK KWEK Producer, BBC Click, TV CAJ 2011

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

We’re going to see the equipment being used become much more mobile friendly.

There are new tools that the BBC is experimenting with, like mics that will clip onto your phone or using selfie-sticks as a sort of crane. Drones are quite an interesting new way of gathering footage as well.

Role model in journalism?

Louis Theroux. The way he handles sensitive subjects and the elegance in which he immediately establishes a rapport with contributors while also asking tough questions is inspirational.

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manager, Bite Amishta SohorayeHead of social media, Connect London; chief editor, The Student Press; Social media manager, lessthan10pounds,com; Marketing manager, Parcelly Jennifer SpainAccount manager, LinkShare Corporation; Paralegal, iLaw; Trainee Solicitor, iLaw Anja StrejcekReporter, News21 Silvia SuarezReporter, Lottarox Agency; freelance; Founder, CEO, Speed Sound Magazine, Digital marketing communications, Last Tour (Spain) Saravanan SugamaranHead media analysis, Gorkana; media analyst, Precise Media Roland SylvesterJournalist, KyivPost Devika Tandon Freelance, Al Jazeera English (Delhi); external staff, World Economic Forum; freelance Priya Thakral Screenwriting, London Film Academy; Information analysist, Global Rescue LLC Julie Hornbek Toft News reporter, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (Denmark); journalist, mediawatch.dk; financial journalist, Jyllands-Posten Eric Van Den Berg Markets reporter, Lloyd’s List; Internet Coordinator, PowNed; Head of Online, RTV NH (Netherlands) Gemma Van Der Kamp Freelance (Holland); editor, RTL iPad app; teacher, Crossmedia; journalist, Fontys Hogescholen; lecturer in innovative journalism, Fontys Hogeschool voor Journalistiek Caroline Van Soelen Freelance radio editor (Lives on Record); Researcher, Zuisenwind Filmproductions; Journalist RTL Nederland Polina Vezhan Editor and host, Europa Plus; international affairs reporter, Zvezda TV Channel; editor and presenter, Landlord League; editor and presenter, Radio Stream UK;Voiceover artist Jenna Voigt News reporter, Financial Times; investment and corporate content editor, FE Trustnet; Research analyst,

Any unusual hobbies?

The BBC Click team are the 15th best team in the world at Segway polo. The UK championships were a few months ago and we did a whole programme on the event so we learnt how to ride and play polo on them.

What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

I think I should have looked at it more as a learning experience rather than trying to reach certain grades. At City you’re encouraged to promote yourself all the time but I think that being humble is something that I had to learn when I came to actually working in the industry.

Rhiannon McGregor

Rathbone Brothers Plc Karin Wasteson Trainee, Metro International; Nordic reporter, Incisive Media; blogger, The Huffington Post; associate editor, The Sybarite; investigative journalist, Glammonitor.com; Financial journalist, Last World Media Ltd Elizabeth Wolfe News producer, NBC; digital news editor, Chicago Tribune Lantian Xu Unknown Yinuo Zhou Anchorwoman, HK Satellite TV; news broadcaster, HKSTV

NEWSPAPER Steve Anderson Video journalist, the Guardian; online editorial, digital homepage editor, The Independent Christopher Barker Freelance (London Restaurant Guides); writer, Environmental Graffiti; editorial assistant, William Reed Business Media (France); markets reporter, Reed Elsevier; Markets Editor, Reed Elsevier Benjamin Bryant Trainee, reporter, The Daily Telegraph; writer, Vice Ellie Buchdahl Freelance (the i newspaper); foreign sub-editor, 21st Century China Daily (Beijing), editor, Education and Society at the British Council Martin Caparrotta Executive editor, The Sport Review Thomas Clarke Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail; sports sub-editor, Daily Mail; analyst, BearingPoint Laura Cox Trainee reporter, deputy TV correspondent, Daily Mail Sam Cunningham Freelance football reporter, The Wardle Agency; trainee reporter, sports reporter Daily Mail Joseph Dyke PoliticsHome; The Independent; freelance, Press Association (Lebanon); acting Middle East editor, IRIN (Dubai); Reporter, Agence France Presse Ben Edwards Communications

manager, Sodexo, freelance Emily Fairbairn News trainee, The Sun; feature writer, The Sun David Goodman Reporter, Bloomberg news Francesca Holloway Freelance (The Times); blogger relations manager, Roost Online; digital senior accounts executive, Cirkle, senior account executive, We Are Social, Freelance social media advisor (BFI); Freelance content and social media (Sond); Freelance social media consultant (the tree), Edward Kemp Reviews editor, All Out Cricket; Writer and Editor, TriNorth Ltd; Features Editor, All Out Cricket James Lachno Freelance (The Daily Telegraph,The Line of Best Fit, Notion); writer, editor, commissioner, Telegraph Media Group Charlie Lankston Reporter, Telegraph Media Group; Editor, ArchLevel Report; Freelance writer (WITH PR); features assistant, Diary reporter, The Mail on Sunday; US femail editor, MailOnline Mario Ledwith News reporter, Scottish Mail on Sunday; trainee reporter, news reporter, Daily Mail Katie Linsell News reporter, corporate finance reporter, Bloomberg (Spain), Company debt reporter, Bloomberg News Caitlin Morrison Reporter, Insurance Age; Senior reporter Incisive Media; Reporter, City A.M; Night Production Editor, City A.M Sarah Morrison Reporter, The Independent on Sunday; human rights correspondent, The Independent Oliver Nieburg Reporter, William Reed Business Media (France); site editor, ConfectioneryNews.com Liam O’Brien Freelance (The Independent, Daily Mail, the i newspaper) Lucy Osborne Trainee Scottish Daily Mail, news reporter Daily Mail Michael Pope Unknown Rajvir Rai Trainee reporter, sports writer, Daily Mail; News Editor, Sky Sports News Alexander Sharp Reporter, Eurosport; reporter, Wardles Agency; freelance, Wimbledon.com, LTA, MailOnline and Livewire Emine Sinmaz Graduate Trainee, news reporter, Daily Mail Patrick Smith Bureau of Investigative Journalism; media editor, BuzzFeed; Senior reporter, BuzzFeed Jenny Stevens Freelance, The Independent; deputy news editor, NME; commissioning editor, culture desk, Guardian; Managing editor, Vice UK Alex Webb European transport reporter, industrials reporter, Bloomberg (Germany) Holly Welham Foreign expert, 21st Century China Daily; news reporter, FE Week; education writer, Guardian Ben Whitelaw Communities editor, head of community development, The Times Helena Williams News assistant, International News Safety Institute; freelance (Reuters, The Sunday Times,The Independent,Wired) Catherine Wylie Reporter, Press Association Charlotte Young Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail Dipal Acharya Intern, features associate, ES Magazine

MAGAZINE Katy Balls Staff reporter, Mandrake,The Daily Telegraph; diary editor, The Spectator Charlotte Barnes Editorial assistant, planner, Redwood Publishing

Jordan Bassett Sub-editor, web producer, PrintWeek; staff writer, Redwood Publishing; freelance (NME) Joseph Brothwell Intern, Love It!; assistant editor, real-life features, Press Association; Deputy Editor, Chat Monthly Magazine Ianthe Butt Editorial assistant, features editor, commissioning editor, British Airways High Life Katherine Button Media assistant, assistant press officer, HS2; Project Officer, Sustain Sophie Caldecott Editorial intern, section editor, Source Intelligence magazine; headline writer, Verily Mag; Founder, Editor-in-Chief, A Better Place Journal Sophie Charara Reviewer, Stuff magazine/Stuff.tv; features editor, Wareable Clare Conway Intern, freelance researcher, features writer The Sunday Times Magazine Elizabeth Davis Editorial assistant, staff writer, BBC Music Magazine; Programmes department, Royal Opera House; freelance music journalist Alys Denby Trainee sub-editor, subeditor, Daily Mail; Political researcher Emma Dibdin Freelance (Total Film, Little White Lies); Shots and Film3Sixty (The Guardian); Jazz FM, features editor, Digital Spy; Global Content Editor, HMI Digital Libby Galvin Reporter, Us Weekly; trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail; Freelance diary reporter and sub-editor, Mail on Sunday; sub-editor, Daily Mail; commissioning editor, Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Jemima Boost (née Gilbert) Editorial assistant, reporter, Square Meal Venues & Events magazine; production assistant and writer, Pomp Magazine; digital editor, The Resident Aleeza Khan Bradner (née Khan) Editor-in-chief, ION Magazine (Canada); Freelance journalist; office and events manager, Facebook Vancouver; content production specialist, Hoot Suite Michael Klimes Editorial assistant, Institute of War and Peace Reporting; assistant correspondent, Jiji Press; business journalist, International Business Times UK; correspondent, Professional Pensions Helena Lee Lifestyle writer, City AM; features editor, Harper’s Bazaar Katherine Lough Editorial assistant, August Media; Going Out online editor, Evening Standard; Digital lifestyle editor, Evening Standard Stevie Martin Staff writer, Bauer Media (Heat,The Debrief, GoThinkBig.co.uk); contributor, Company Magazine; LSC Publishing; Freelance, (Broadly); Freelance contributing editor, The Debrief Daniel Masoliver Writer, upgrade editor, FHM; features editor, contributing editor, Men’s Health Sophie Monks Kaufman Journalist, culture editor, deputy editor, The London Word; writer and researcher, Endemol; staff writer, Little White Lies Nicola Osman Intern, features writer, commissioning editor, Woman,Woman’s Own; Senior Commissioning Editor, Good Housekeeping Rakesh Ramchurn Editorial assistant, news, Architects’ Journal Jennifer Roper Features and supplements editor, Print Week; deputy editor, Airlines International and S&PA Professional; deputy editor, HR Magazine Ian Steadman Junior writer, wired. co.uk; junior staff writer, Wired; science and technology writer, New Statesman; Editor, How We Get To Next Helen Stuart Intern, freelance showbiz writer, Woman’s Own; Deputy celebrity writer, Woman

2011-2012 Miranda Thompson Junior writer, editorial assistant, August Media; staff writer, IKEA FAMILY; assistant editor, August Media; senior writer, Woman’s Weekly, Junior commissioning Editor, You Magazine Harriet Thurley Features writer, That’s Life!; features writer, Bella; features writer, Cosmopolitan; Researcher, ITV Loose Women Andrew Tweddle Project assistant, project manager, The Church of London; creative producer, McCann London; senior producer, Human After All Olivia Wakefield Intern, ES Magazine; editorial assistant, Porter

BROADCAST Sheun Adelasoye Writer, WhoisthatgirlUK; Journalist, House of Commons Philip AllenAssistant Producer, Bigger Pictures; video journalist, news producer, Telegraph Media Group; UK Assisant video editor, MailOnline Emily Archer Researcher, Walker George Films; researcher, Darlow Smithson Productions; researcher, Betty; broadcast team researcher, Comic Relief, Assistant producer, Comic Relief Ellen Arnold Campaign producer, Tiger Aspect Productions; researcher, Blast!

Films; story producer, senior producer, Blast! Films Vanessa Baffoe News trainee, ITV Anglia; video journalist, London Live; Reporter, presenter, London Live Caron Bell Traineeship, ITV News; newsroom journalist, production journalist, ITV West and Westcountry; Reporter, ITV West Country Rebecca Bell News assistant, CNBC; freelance producer, Sky News; broadcast producer, BBC News; freelance (Radio Forth,VistaBee, Kingdom FM); News Editor, Kingdom FM Harriet Bird Project manager, Rich Mix; researcher, Landmark Films; producer, Minnow Films; Producer, Blast!Films Samuel Bradley Account executive, London Communications Agency, Harriet Bradshaw Editor and reporter, Alexandra News; broadcast journalist, news reader, Radio Jackie; producer, director BBC (Jersey); Reporter, BBC Exeter, East Devon Robert Carragher Freelance subeditor, Sky Gauhar Chohan Editor, Template news; editor, Distant Echo Toby Coaker Unknown Emily Craig Freelance researcher (Talkback Thames); investigative researcher, BBC Current Affairs; political analyst, BBC Chris Creegan Producer and director, Sports Tonight Live; producer; Sky News for iPad, Journalist, Sky News Ross Cullen Text producer, world news producer, Sky News; Business news producer, Sky News Clare Davis Video producer, digital producer, Tesco; freelance, Guardian (Australia); Content producer, M&C Saatchi Australia Alex Dibble Newsreader, Radio City 96.7 FM Liverpool; newsreader, BBC Radio Merseyside Laura Ewen Intern, PR Matters; account manager, Freud Communications Catherine Farnsworth Unknown Umar Farooq Editor, NUFCfans.co.uk; TV producer, Sports Tonight; communities and social media journalist, The Times; news production journalist, ITV Hanna Flint Blogger, Flint Says; content and social media executive, Cherry

London; film blogger, The Huffington Post; assistant producer, LBC Radio; entertainment writer, Daily Mail; Acting entertainment editor, Metro Philip Georgiadis Researcher, The 10 Group; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal; researcher, Comic Relief; Reporter, Wall Street Journal Claire Gilmore Production assistant, Quicksilver Media; runner, ABC news; marketing executive, CUP; Communications Officer, Cambridge International Examinations James Glynn Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Julia Greenaway News editor, Time 107.5 FM Michael Greenfield Graduate scheme, deputy foreign news editor, specialist sports and technology producer, Sky News Lucy Hewitt Video producer, Future Publishing; video manager, ASOS Vanessa Holland Logistics co-ordinator, Deloitte; account coordinator, Socrates Communications; marketing manager, Socrates Communications; Marketing Manager, Hanover Private Office Riaz Jugon Features producer, journalist, Community Channel; production journalist, London Live ESTV; producer, Freemantle Edit Services Anisa Kadri Freelance broadcast journalist (Peak FM); broadcast journalist, Tindle Radio; community publisher, Associated Northcliffe Digital; freelance broadcast journalist; journalist, BBC Linzi Kinghorn Broadcast assistant, BBC Radio London; project manager,Vox Pops International; broadcast journalist, JACK fm/The Breeze (Celador Radio); broadcast journalist, Global Radio London Alexandra Lawton Presenter, 106.5 Riviera Radio; broadcast journalist and presenter, Radio France International and France24 Emily Lingard Public relations assistant, ITV London; editorial assistant, The Sunday Times; broadcasting assistant, BBC Leeds; account administration assistant, WITH PR; creative producer, Photosound; producer, All About Brands Plc; production manager CTN Communications Ruth Maclean Reporter, The Times (Africa) Kirsty Malcolm News assistant, STV News; video journalist, Scottish Television; video journalist, STV Commercial; broadcast producer, TNR Communications at Press Association Fiona Marley Paterson Junior researcher, Maverick Television; assistant news editor, ITV; broadcast assistant, BBC News; onscreen video journalist, ITV Kirsty Mcquire Freelance arts writer (The Londonist,The Hackney Citizen, Amelia’s Magazine); freelance broadcaster (BBC) Francesca Oldham Runner, Princess Productions; production, Channel 5; production, The Walt Disney Company; marketing executive, The Cambridge Education Group; marketing executive, BoilerJuice Jessica Parker Production assistant, BSkyB; freelance newsreader (Andover Sound Ltd & West Berkshire Radio Ltd); producer, Global Radio; broadcast journalist, Passion Radio Oxford Ltd; political reporter, BBC Joseph Pike Producer, assistant producer, LBC; political journalist, ITV News Border; author Isabel Sutton Researcher, Studio 9 Films; producer, BBC World Service; producer, Just Radio Rosanna Tennant Guest producer, Sky News; marketing and communications assistant, Oliver Sweeney; presenter, Pole Position

Sophia Thompson Production secretary, production runner, Princess Productions; gallery researcher, The Garden Productions; assistant producer, One Born Every Minute, Dragonfly Film and Television; assistant producer, 24 hours in A&E, The Garden Productions; Lucy Towers Press officer, The Gorilla Organisation; freelance broadcast journalist, Reuters; assistant news editor, ITN; producer, Middle East Extra, Associated Press Hugo Williams Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4; broadcast journalist and radio producer, BBC World Service; multimedia journalist, BBC Online Africa Francesca Wilski Account executive, DDB UK; account manager, Euro RSCG London; senior account manager, account director, Animl; account director, Fallon London; Freelance partners and sponsors lead (Project Everyone); Freelance (ITV Creative) Natalie Wright Reporter, BBC Gloucestershire; freelance (Sky News); assistant producer, ITN; producer, ITN news

TV CAJ Olivia Bolton Video news producer, The Daily Telegraph Anna Bucks Freelance TV journalist and researcher; freelance assistant producer (current affairs and documentaries); assistant producer, The Agenda, ITV Joshua Cheesman Office manager, coordinator, Pentacle The Virtual Business School Jil Dallmayr Editorial intern, Gala magazine; editor, Chesamel Communications; media consultant, MYO Swimwear; marketing consultant, London Management Company; Director, Truly Bespoke Ltd Rachael Davies Freelance (Firecracker Films, Prospect) Helen Doyle Freelance producer (Sky News); freelance producer (Al Jazeera Media Network); producer, Sky News, Al Jazeera Media Network Thomas Ellis Unknown Sandra Gathmann Gonzalez Video journalist, Feature Story News; news correspondent, TRT world.

Harriet Hamilton Assistant news editor, ITV News (Washington DC) Abigail Harper Unknown Caroline James Freelance (Associated Press Television News, Sky News); foreign desk news editor, Sky News Ian Kearney Producer, Sky News; producer, Daybreak (ITV); producer, Good Morning Britain; Board member, London Irish Business Society Hannah Keep Researcher, ITV; researcher, BBC; casting producer, The Garden Productions Nicholas Kwek Producer, BBC News Georgina Leggate Newsroom journalist, ITV West; producer, Daybreak, ITV; producer, Good Morning Britain; Senior News Editor, ITV Good Morning Britain Natasha Malcolm-Brown Reporter, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire; Papers Producer, The Andrew Marr Show, BBC One; Broadcast Journalist, BBC Berkshire Kingsley Steven Peiris Journalist, BBC Pinar Sevinclidir Researcher, monitoring analyst, BBC

INVESTIGATIVE Shaima Al-Obaidi Unknown Thomas Boadle Senior researcher,

Tessa Mayes Productions Ltd; Interviews producer, Sky News; Producer, Sky News Sunrise Dawn Burrows Unknown Mike Doherty Reporter, Travellers’Times; media officer, Irish Traveller Movement in Britain Janine Fotiadis-Negreponte Freelance; journalist and writer, Haymarket Sam Francis Researcher, BBC Parliament; Researcher, BBC Radio 4 Specials Jake Lofdahl Editorial assistant, Perform Group; Producer/editor, BT Sport Katherine Loweth Freelance (Channel 4, Guardian) Dale Mcewan Reporter, The Lawyer; Reporter, Kurdistan News Agency;Video Journalist/Producer/Presenter, That’s Solent TV, Portsmouth Sebastian Payne Data reporter, The Daily Telegraph; Online Editor, The Spectator; Digital Comment Editor, Financial Times David Pegg Researcher, October Films; Reporter, The Guardian Jasper Piddock Jackson Reporter, Mobile News; Editor, The Media Briefing Riah Pryor Editorial assistant, The Art Newspaper; Head of Development, Events and Operations, Focal Point Gallery Alice Ross Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Reporter, Times Red Box; Reporter, The Guardian Sarah Stewart Business reporter/ deputy web editor/web editor, Property Week; senior editor, Shelter Jamie Thunder Researcher, Westminster Education Forum; Policy and Communications officer, The Money Charity; Policy Analyst, Which?

SCIENCE Jennifer Appleton Recruitment consultant, PSR Solutions James Brooks Science editor, BioNews, Progress Educational Trust; Freelance Reporter, Research Rebecca Hill Genetics editor, Progress Educational Trust; Editor, Funding Insight; News Editor, Research Michael Jones PR & marketing officer (voluntary), Redbacks Baseball & Softball; Media Manager GB Lions (voluntary), Great Britain Baseball; Research Communications Assistant, Imperial College London Fareha Lasker Medical PR executive, Cohn and Wolfe; Senior Account Executive, Tonic Life Communications; Senior Account Executive, Proof Communication UK Ann-Kathrin Lindemann Research Assistant, University of Hohenheim Richard Masters Web content manager and designer (Singapore) Abigail Millar Features writer, Progressive Digital Media Debora Miranda Digital research officer, Alzheimer’s Society; Technical Communications Officer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Louise Ogden Web editor, British Science Association; Communications Manager, British Science Association Lorna Powell Freelance medical journalist John Serle English editor, AK News Djuke Veldhuis Editor, ResearchSEA; Researcher, Aarhus University

FINANCIAL Tanya Ashreena Writer, Pensions Week, Financial Times; Structured Finance, Capital

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2012 Tanya Ashreena Writer, Pensions Week, Financial Times; Structured Finance, Capital Structure Limited Odette Berg Producer, Bloomberg TV Emily Blewett Reporter, Citywire Manoah Esipisu Acting Head of Press, Commonwealth Secretariat; State House spokesperson (Kenya) Jennifer Francis Writer, Financial Times; Content Editor, the Mergermarket group; Marketing Manager, Thomas Reuters Ranjana Gupta European LNG and Gas reporter, Energy Intelligence; LNG specialist, ICIS-Heren Satheesan Kanady Deputy Business Editor, The Peninsula (Qatar) Huaiyuan Lu Researcher, FT China Confidential; Associate, Jade Invest Miyuki Seguchi Market reporter, Dow Jones Newswires and Wall Street Journal; Senior PR and Communications Executive, Robert Walters Darshini Shah Hedge funds editor, Bloomberg; Briefs Finance Team Leader, Bloomberg Maria Sovago Freelance (Financial Times) Conor Sullivan Trainee production journalist, sub-editor, news editor, Financial Times Danwei Zhang Freelance (BBC); business developer, SkyHi Media; vice director International Business, The Founder Magazine

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Elizabeth Bates Researcher for John Kay, Financial Times; Researcher, johnkay. com James Bloodworth Blogger, The Independent; Editor, leftfootforward.org; Author Andrew Bradley Marketing and Research Executive, BritainThinks; Broadcast Journalist, BBC; Producer, This Week, BBC Rosanna Cobb Research assistant for Don Foster MP; Research assistant for Ivor Gaber, University of Sussex Matt Foster Home Affairs reporter, ForesightNews; Assistant News Editor, PoliticsHome; Deputy/online editor, Civil Service World Nada Issa Al Jazeera English; Freelance (Touch Film); Producer/Director, Ronachan Films Tonje Iversen UK correspondent, P4 Norwegian Radio Panagiotis Katsaras Unknown Alexander Lawson Account Executive, Adam Kluger Public Relations; Public Policy and Communications, ISBA; Business News Editor, Evening Standard Sam Macrory Political Editor, The House Magazine; Editor, Total Politics; Broadcast Journalist, BBC Fahim Malyar PR, USAID Daniel Mcclendon Unknown Konstantinos Memmos Client executive, associate, senior associate Advocate/Burson-Marsteller; brand and communications manager, Athens Medical Group Daria Orlova Associate producer, Press TV; Associate Russian editor, Global Blue; Correspondent, Slon.ru Pavlina Papashimova Communications assistant, Marketing and Communications Manager, Murphy Group Paul Prentice News and features writer, assistant news editor, Rail; Member of the Editorial Board, Rail Technology Andrew Richards Unknown Sofya Shahab Afghanistan Research and Evaluation; Communications Officer, Afghanaid; Communications Manager, Afghanaid Andrew Tarrant Senior parliamentary

adviser, office of Gregg McClymont MP, Shadow Minister for Pensions; Adviser on the EU Referendum, Office of Pat McFadden MP, Shadow Minister for Europe Amie Tsang World News Desk, Financial Times; Reporter, The New York Times

ERASMUS Miko Cara Schneider Corporate responsibility co-ordinator, Lakehouse; internal communications officer, Family Mosaic; Unknown Ying Diao UK correspondent, China Daily Vitaly Pojarsky Freelance Stephen Robert Morse Head Copywriter, Seamless.com; Brand Strategist, resident storyteller, Quirky. com; Co-Founder, Head of Marketing, communications and advertising, Skillbridge.com Belinda Lopez Features executive producer of All the Best, FBi, Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Namitha Jagadeesh Staff writer, Mint (HT Media Ltd); Reporter, Bloomberg Sarka Halasova Credit and fixed income reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal Frederik Fischer Co-founder, CEO, Tazaldoo; co-founder of MundusMedia; Chief Editor, piqdGmbh Magdalena Kufrej Communication Assistant, European Commission; Media Officer, European Research Council Lasse Berg Sørensen Journalist, DR Nyheder (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Mads Stampe Hansen Media Project Manager, Danish Association for the Disabled; Communication and Press Officer, Danish Association for the Disabled Ilka Kopplin Trainee, Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche; reporter, Dow Jones News, Wall Street Journal; Automotive Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires Cassie Werber Assistant Online Editor, Financial News; Reporter, Wall Street Journal; Reporter, Quartz Ana Sofia Cerqueira Unknown Eeva Marjatta Eronen Writer, foreign news desk, HelsinginSanomat Mats Wedervang Reporter, TV 2 (Norway) Anders Lammers Freelance

2012 INTERNATIONAL Olajumoke Akiyode Journalist, Ovation International (Nigeria); Head ICT Correspondent, BusinessDay Media Sophie Anmuth Blogger, Slate magazine; Freelance (The Majalla; Search for Common Ground; Ouest France Media; Le Parisien); Correspondent, Libération Médias Katherine Anker Freelance writer (Politiken); Deputy Editor, Lux Magazine, Lux Review; Freelance Teodora Barzakova Runner, BBC World Service; Al Jazeera English; GRN Live; Freelance (BBC World Service) Andreas Baumann Project assistant, Ramboll; management consultant; journalist, Mandag Morgen (Copenhagen) Michele Bertelli Researcher,Videonews Mediaset;Video journalist, La Repubblica;

Freelance journalist and videoreporter Birce Bora Freelance (BBC World Service Turkey) Clea Broadhurst Journalist, FrenchCinema London; Freelance producer, TFI; Correspondent, Radio France Internationale Laurens Cerulus Freelance (The Independent, BBC, Monocle and Monocle 24, European Voice, Deutsche Welle, De Morgen, Mo*); News reporter and Assistant communications, EurActiv.com; Web Producer, Politico Carlo Cerutti Reporter, Editoriale Laudense; Reporter, Thompson Reuters; Reporter and Presenter, Class Cnbc Min-Huei Cheng Operations Director, IZEN Marketing Limited Nicolette Christian Freelance Helena Da Rocha Alves Unknown Marina Daras Freelance (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,VRL Financial News, Retail Banker International); European reporter, Financial reporter, Incisive Media; Freelance London correspondent (Radio France, RFI, RTS) Simon Day Reporter, Sunday Star Times (New Zealand); Freelance Journalist and Media Advisor, World Vision NZ Sara Delgrossi Trainee, European Parliament; Features Intern, CNN; Digital Freelance Associate Producer, CNN Ceren Deniz Intern, Foreign News Service, Hurriyet Media Towers (Istanbul); Researcher, DETAY/VTY Elena Dimama Egnatia TV (Greece); Editor, Precise Media Eva Dumontet Freelance (Le Monde; Al Jazeera; The Huffington Post); Advocacy Officer, Privacy International Steve Ercolani Reporter, The Tico Times; Contributor, Al Jazeera France Ewen London Correspondent, Freelance producer, Radio Luxembourg Lisa Fernandez Staff photographer, The Des Moines Register; Freelance Multimedia Journalist Chiara Francavilla Reporter, The Covered Bond Report; Senior reporter, Materials World Recycling; Researcher, Insight TWI Jeanny Gering Online editor, DLD; Project manager, Dog Ear Wrks; Program Assistant, Dart Centre Europe (Germany) Rajni Gill NewsX (India); Head Supervisor, SujiFastners Demelsa Gonzalez Ruiz Unknown Reena Gurung Freelance multimedia journalist (Thailand) Hanna Hauck Traineeship, dapd (Germany); Freelance Jo Healy Assistant producer, CNN; Sports journalist, DWM; Assistant producer, Life’s a Pitch; Assistant producer and presenter, Campbell Davison Media (BT Sport) Ivana Hindi Freelancer, BBC World Service; Editor, BOLD; Editor/Copywriter at Leo Burnett MENA Kristy Hutter Associate producer, CBC News Leonard Ibekwe Investigative reporter, NEXT newspapers; Senior Reporter, Premium Times; Freelance (Voice of America, Nigeria) Christiane Imdahl Freelance; journalist, ProSiebenSat.1 group Snigdha Jain CMO of Social Media Marketing, M.K. Gupta Tax Classe (India); digital editor, iFood Media Web Technology (India) Mikita Jhaveri Editorial Intern, GQ India; Editorial Intern, National Geographic Traveller (India); Mentor, OnCourse Global Qian Jia Unknown Dietlind Kendler Unknown William Kennedy Unknown Ntonia Kokkinou Unknown Kristian Krohg-Sørensen Ekko NRK (Norwegian radio)

Luisella Lastilla Unknown Anne Laurent Freelance (Mexico City) Brian Leli Freelance (The Morning News; The New Statesman; Gapers Block); Author; Photographer Victor Lepoutre Freelance correspondent (Le Petit Journal; Radio France; RTS; RFI; TravelBird; Booking.com); Unknown Audrey Letendart Deputy Editor, French Cinema London; Associate producer, Bloomberg TV Africa; Producer, AFP London Chris Liakos Reporter, Hellenic TV; Wealth Insight;VRL Financial News; Freelance, planning desk, business assignment editor, CNN Jenny Liljefors Soffel Freelance (Escape 360, CNN); digital producer, London Live ESTV; website editor, World Economic Forum Felix Lill Freelance journalist, Der Tagesspiegel, Die Zeit, L’Espresso, Periodismo Humano, Huffington Post Tatiana Lima Freelance (Brazil), IdeiasemRevista, Desiformémonos; RENAJORP; NPC Jinmei Liu Reporter, China Daily; unknown Melissa Paige Long Account manager, Moorgate Communications; Reporter, Risk, Incisive Media Julia MacFarlane Freelance field producer and camera operator (Lebanon);Video journalist (CNN; BBC World Service) Maria Malygina Unknown Meghan Mardon Intern, Dash; freelance (New York) Unknown Michele Martinelli Content executive, 4C Associates; Editor, copywriter, content strategist, uSwitch.com Vittorio Mauriello Intern, CRC Radio; digital marketing and content management, Borderline agency (Italy) Damini Nath Sub-editor, reporter, The Hindu Sheela Navaratnarajah Co-manager, director, dementia care home (South Wales) Tamara Novoa Alonso Freelance (BR Press); Editor, Pio Garcia Audiovisuais; Press office assistant, AsociaciónVidasana Artur Osinski Assistant Producer, BBC; Intern, Freelance news writer, Freelance production assistant, CNN; Freelance researcher, Al Jazeera Hege Otterholm Freelance (RomsdalsBudstikke; London); Norwegian content editor, Product manager, Secret Escapes Emmanuil Papavasileiou Intern, The Times and The Sunday Times; Intern, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Freelance researcher (Centre for Investigative Journalism) Mridulika Jha fellow, Ford Foundation; online media consultant, Greenpeace India; Unknown Karin Wasteson Associate Editor, The Sybarite; investigative journalist, Glammonitor.com; Financial Journalist, Last Word Media Ltd

NEWSPAPER Jessica Abrahams Production Editor, Prospect Magazine; Freelance writer, The Guardian and The Observer; Freelance writer, European Commission Tristan Barclay The Times; sub-editor, The Sunday Times; assistant editor, ESPN Susannah Butter feature writer, Evening Standard Thomas Clarke LOCOG; Milestone GRP (Global Investor’s Guides); management analyst, BearingPoint Kathryn Dobinson Content coordinator, The Guardian; section editor,

2012 Time Out (Abu Dhabi); freelance (The Independent,The Telegraph, Glamour Magazine) Josephine Forster sub-editor, Daily Mail; Snapchat Sub-editor, MailOnline; Commissioning Editor, Daily Mail Rachael Getzels Reporter, Hampstead & Highgate Express; freelance (TNT); features writer, Take a Break Olivia Goldhill Reporter, Telegraph Media Group; Features Writer, Telegraph Media Group; Weekend Writer, Quartz Tom Goodenough graduate trainee, staff reporter, The Sun; Online News Editor, The Spectator Ruth Halkon sub-editor, N London Newspapers series; reporter, National News; Online Journalist, Daily Mirror Charlotte Henley senior account executive, Account Manager, Cohn & Wolfe Clare Hill The Drinks Business; Online editor, Public Media Alliance; Digital Subeditor, The Sunday Times Alexander Horlock Sports reporter, MailOnline; community manager and copywriter, senior writer, Wunderman UK Sarah Johnson Freelance (The Sunday Times, Metro, Daily Mail); content coordinator, The Guardian Rebecca Lewis Yahoo News; content researcher, Barcroft Media; journalist, PA Real Life Georgina Lindsay-Watson Immediate Media Co; Features Editor, Metro; Bianca London MailOnline; Femail reporter, Senior Femail writer, MailOnline; Laura MacKenzie CNN; Truthloader, ITV; Senior foreign editor, The National Sarah Marsh The Guardian teacher network, China Daily; deputy editor, social and community editor for opinion, The Guardian Jaymi McCann Evening Standard; reporting scheme, Daily Mail; news reporter, Sunday Express Simon Murphy Mail on Sunday; reporting scheme, Daily Mail; reporter, Mail on Sunday Jack Rivlin Evening Standard; founder, The Tab Radhika Sanghani Press Association; Liverpool Echo; women’s writer, The Telegraph Kara Shadbolt Press officer, Coutts; communications executive, Shoosmiths Sarah Smyth Evening Standard; reporting scheme, news reporter, Daily Mail Heather Spurr Politics Home; reporter, Inside Housing James Titcomb Reporter, City AM; City reporter, Technology News Editor, The Daily Telegraph; Emily Wight Content coordinator, The Guardian; freelance (RNIB); Communications Exec, Refuge; Martin Williams Freelance (The Guardian, Private Eye); The Guardian Rhiannon Williams The Scotsman; reporter, The Daily Telegraph

MAGAZINE Thomas Allsop Reporter, Print Week; freelance Maria Hannah Bass feature writer, Woman’s Weekly; deputy editor, Women’s Health ME; Deputy Editor, Stylist Arabia Jennifer Bowden publishing assistant, Birlinn Books Ltd; Project Manager, Grange Communications; Editorial Assistant, Floris Books Erica Buist Travel editor, Citizen TV (Koh Samui, Thailand); digital journalism trainee, The Guardian; freelance (The Guardian features)

Madeleine Cuff Staff writer, assistant editor (consumer trends), Stylus; Senior Reporter, BusinessGreen.com Madlen Davies Reporter, Pulse; broadcast journalist, BBC Wales; UK health reporter, Mail Online Eleanor Donajgrodzki assistant editor of food, assistant editor, Stylus; deputy digital editor, Tesco Real Food Pete Ellender Production sub, Incisive Media Emma Featherstone researcher, writer, Which?; content coordinator, The Guardian Small Business Network Vesela Gladicheva trainee reporter, correspondent, senior correspondent, MLex (Brussels) Eleanor Griggs Freelance, The Quietus, EYPS Project Support Assistant, University of Chichester; information coordinator, University of Sussex Sophie Haslett freelance, The Times; freelance commissioning editor, Daily Mail; freelance (Sydney) Sophia Heath news writer, Horse and Hound; acting deputy news editor, Horse and Hound; Online Charter and Destinations Editor, Boat International Nadia Khomami freelance, (The Observer); News reporter, NME; Breaking news reporter, Guardian News & Media Jessica Lambert Features intern, Evening Standard; deputy editor, Evening Standard Londoner’s Diary Hugh Langley staff writer, news editor, associate editor, Tech Radar Helen Lawson Trainee sub-editor, features sub-editor, Daily Mail; features sub-editor, The Times Kate Lloyd digital writer, Grazia; social content producer, senior staff writer, Time Out Rebecca Lloyd News producer, ITV Daybreak; producer, Sky News Tonight Richard Martin freelance football writer, The Daily Telegraph; Freelance commentator/presenter, Gol Televisión; Spain reporter, UEFA.com Poppy McPherson news desk, The Independent; managing editor, Phnom Penh Post; editor, Coconuts Media Nicola Merrifield Reporter, The Stage; reporter, Nursing Times Krystena Petrakas Staff Writer, Dynamis Ltd; Copyeditor, Newsquest; Reporter, Ten Alps Plc Julia Rampen senior reporter, Mortgage Solutions, senior reporter, Investment Week; deputy editor, Daily Mirror Money Online Edward Randell Bass, The Swingle Singers Anna Reynolds Writer, Supply Management; reporter, Legal Week; senior reporter, PR Week Benedict Riley-Smith Graduate trainee scheme, political reporter, The Daily Telegraph Monique Rivalland online features assistant, The Times; production assistant, CNN; editorial assistant, The Times Magazine Thomas Shepherd Sub-editor, Building magazine Emma Spedding Freelance (Good Housekeeping); digital content manager, Graziadaily.co.uk; freelance fashion journalist Oliver Stratford Online editor, deputy editor, Disegno; head of editorial, Tack Press Sophie Tighe Online intern, Reveal; senior reporter, YLifestyleUK Zing Tsjeng digital news editor, Dazed & Confused; UK chief editor, Konbini; Broadly editor,VICE Media Laurie Tuffrey News editor, the Quietus; digital subeditor, News International; new music editor, the Quietus James Waldron Reporter, news editor, Chemist & Druggist David Woode Graduate trainee reporter, health features writer, The Sun;

casual features writer, Press Association Daisy Wyatt Intern, House & Home, FT Weekend; digital arts and entertainment news editor, The Independent; writer and editorial assistant, i paper Natasha Wynarczyk features intern, Marie Claire; showbiz writer,The Sun; features writer, Chat, Pick Me Up

BROADCAST Athar Ahmad producer (freelance), LBC 97.3 at Global Radio; news reporter, BBC Becca Attfield production management assistant, personal assistant, production management assistant, BBC Katie Barnfield Freelance production journalist; assistant news editor, production journalist, ITN Andrew Binner Account manager, ENS Ltd; assistant producer, Al Jazeera Media Network; sports journalist, Sport360 (UAE) Sarah Cox (nee Binning) studio graphics operator, Sky Sports; junior assistant producer, Sunset+Vine Yasmin Bodalbhai Freelance drive time broadcast journalist, KLFM 96.7; breakfast broadcast journalist, Eagle Radio; News trainee, ITV Charlotte Briere-Edney Writer, Running in Heels; Digital producer, Sky News; station editor, That’s Solent TV Charli Burden Reporter, Splash News; contributor, The Sport Review; senior account executive, Markettiers4dc Rebecca Burns Freelance (BBC,Voice of Russia); Community and Public Affairs Executive, British Land Vincent Carroll-Battaglino Councillor for Haringey Ed Challes Live text producer, producer, Sky News Sunrise, Sky News Lucy Clifford-Palmer Showbiz reporter, Splash news TV; runner, The Garden

Matt Clinch Online journalist, assistant producer, deputy digital news editor, CNBC World Laura Cress Development assistant producer, Sugar Films; broadcast journalist, INRIX; broadcast journalist, BOB fm Home Counties Kathryn Dowling Talent Pool, ITV; BBC Business and Economics, BBC News; portfolio development manager, British Airways Angus Dunsire Video Features Journalist, Telegraph Media Group; Co Founder, Pal.tv;Video journalist, Press Association Oliver Foster Script Assistant, Sky; Interviews producer, Sky News Laura Gray Researcher, BBC Current Affairs; brief writer, BBC World at One; researcher, PM & Broadcasting House Sarah Hatchard Intern, CNBC; broadcast journalist, BBC News Alice Hedworth Reporter, Content Producer, Presenter, Rangers Football Club Nicky Henderson Unknown George Hill Freelance, filmmaker; researcher,VixPix; freelance (BBC, M&C Saatchi, MTV, Bloomsbury) Rachel Humphreys Assistant producer, LBC, Global Radio; producer, Shelagh Fogarty Ikaba Koyi World affairs, news and production assistant, CBS News; desk editor, China Central TV International Tom Lowe Unknown Joel Massey Unknown Dinita Moore Digital intern, digital creative, Endemol; freelance digital media consultant (Freemantle media, Endemol, Wise Buddah Group) Tom Morris Trainee, PR, Fishburn Hedges; communications manager, Allianz Global Investors Nicky Nelson Unknown Rosario Ogbechie Client Services, Schroders; compliance analyst, Zea Consulting; Fatca client & remediation analyst, Tier 1 Investment Bank Esther Opoku Gyeni Researcher, Nutopia; Development Researcher,

RACHAEL GETZELS

Features writer, Take A Break, Newspaper 2012 What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

I would make sure that my work experience was directly relevant to the type of journalism I wanted to do.

What made you want to become a journalist?

I’ve always liked people’s stories – I loved listening to them and asking questions and I was endlessly curious. That’s why I wanted to be a features writer rather than working in hard news.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

When I was in Argentina working at a paper I had to interview a famous radio sex doctor… in Spanish. I’m not sure we ever fully understood each other.

Your biggest scoop?

I did enjoy my scoop for a local paper on David Miliband and Sadie Frost playing kiss chase in the school playground.

Funniest thing you’ve heard on the features/news desk?

When I first started at Take a Break, everyone was talking about a story where a woman had hidden a 15-foot pet crocodile in her basement for years and one day her husband accidentally discovered it. We couldn’t verify it in the end but it was definitely a strange one.

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2012-2013 Brinkworth Films; Development researcher, BBC Jay Patel Broadcast journalist, BBC London News; assistant producer, Newsround Meera Pattni Press officer (sabbatical cover), Amnesty International; press officer, UK communications manager, VICE News,VICE Media James Pearson Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Merseyside; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester Costas Pitas Correspondent, Reuters News Agency (Athens) (London) Lucy Plint Producer, Sky News Rob Porter Broadcast journalist, Sunrise Radio News; assistant producer, multiproduct assistant producer, PERFORM Ed Prior journalist, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC; co-Founder and host, Celluloid Heroes Radio Kate Pumfrey Assistant Producer, ITV Studios; Assistant Producer, CPL Productions; Development Assistant Producer, Twenty Twenty Soraya Rahim Freelance (Entertainment News, LBC, Jackie News) Helen Regan Video producer, Democratic Voice of Burma; reporter, TIME Asia (Hong Kong) Danielle Robinson Media liaison executive, Markettiers4dc; writer, Entertainment Wise; freelance producer (BBC, London Live, Sky) William Roe Multimedia journalist, Lord’s Cricket Ground; freelance newsreader, Eagle FM; Assistant Digital Editor, MCC Charlotte Rose researcher, BBC Parliament; Freedom of Information researcher, BBC; broadcast assistant, BBC Parliament Nick Stylianou Chairman of the Trust, rhubarbTV; session producer, Edinburgh International Television Festival; Producer, Sky News Matthew Tyzack Video Journalist, Ford Motor Company; video journalist, PRISM Rozzy Unwin Freelance (Smooth Radio, Classic FM, Heart, LBC); Drive-time newsreader, LBC Louisa Wells Unknown Elie Whalley Video editor, friends1st; Content Producer,YouGov; Social Media producer, Thomson Reuters Jonny Williams Producer/evening presenter, Timeform Radio; audio & video producer, Perform Group Nigel Wilson Broadcast journalist, Press Association; business journalist, IBT

Media; freelance

TV CAJ Bunmi Akpata-Ohohe Writer, commentator, Africa Affairs, reporter and contributor, Rooms Magazine John Allison Producer, Rocktrap Productions Katy Austin Freelance Video Producer, Aldersgate Group; Broadcast journalist, BBC South Today; Mentee 2015-16, John Schofield Trust journalism mentoring scheme Kate Clifford Sales and marketing, Fundamental Software; assistant TV producer, Bloomberg; senior project manager, Siegel+Gale Ellie Cotter Broadcast assistant, BBC; Researcher, Assistant Producer, ITV Cara Dattani Shooting Assistant Producer, Facebook Football Awards; BT Sport, Boomerang Productions; Shooting Assistant Producer, Lemonade Money Samuel Dowson-Collins Assistant producer, Hardcash Productions Hannah Capella Interviews producer, Jeff Randall Live; deputy business news editor, Sky News; Producer, Sky News Tonight Charlotte Hawkins Broadcast journalist, France 24; researcher, BBC; researcher, RDF Television Kat Hayes Researcher, ITN; features video journalist, The Telegraph Alexandra Jeffries Production secretary, Princess Productions; Production Secretary The Search, Creative Resources Coordinator, Shine TV Sophie Kirby Producer, BBC; producer, Reuters; writer, Deutsche Welle Louis Lee Ray Broadcast journalist, BBC News Keely Lockhart Assistant editor, The Gateway; broadcast journalist, video producer, The Daily Telegraph Alexander MacDonald Producer, researcher, Islam Channel; multi-media journalist, Middle East Eye Ashley Mak Factual TV researcher, freelance; journalist and producer, Project TV Latida Mercedes-Fields Director, Global Billionaires Entertainment, unknown

Tara Mulholland Digital producer, Social media producer, Sky News Jess Omari Producer, Channel 5 News; producer and reporter, ITN; specialist producer, 5 News Robyn Owens Broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast; assistant producer, BBC; freelance broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel Lillie Revington Development researcher, Plum Pictures Danielle Spears Production talent pool, BBC; floor researcher, assistant producer, Garden Productions Hannah Stanton Production coordinator, Sportsbrand Media Group; production coordinator, Aurora Media Worldwide; assistant producer, Markthree Media Katie Storry Assistant Producer, Discovery Education UK; entertainment news producer and reporter, Splash News; Assistant Producer, ITV This Morning Rebecca Tyers Freelance (BBC, Sky, Press Association; ITN) Diani Vyas Assistant producer, BBC; assistant producer, Firecrest Films Ltd; assistant producer, BBC Melissa Wright Assistant news editor and producer; sports producer, ITN; production journalist, ITV

INVESTIGATIVE John Allison Freelance travel writer; independent consultant; health and wellbeing manager, Momentum Worldwide Sophie Barnes Editor, Springwise New Business Ideas; reporter, Health Service Journal; senior reporter, Inside Housing Isabel Camano Producer, Bloomberg TV Marika Cronnolly Reporter, Cambodia Daily; assistant producer, The Trews; journalist/researcher, Firecrest Films Ltd Alice Cuddy News reporter, Al Jazeera; associate editor, Cambodia Daily; reporter/ editor, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia) Tom Farmery Reporter, The Times; sports writer, Evening Standard; sports writer, Daily Mail Leila Haddou Intern, CIJ; digital journalist, The Guardian; freelance (The Guardian) Jack Hewson Multimedia consultant, Center for International Forestry

LIAM KIRKALDY

Journalist, Holyrood, Political 2013 very well.

Your biggest scoop?

I went to interview George Galloway MP in the build up to the independence referendum and it was meant to be a routine profile piece. But halfway through he started ranting on about what Scottish independence would mean for Catholics living in Scotland. He said some pretty inflammatory things, so I took the quotes to The Herald and the story did 162

Big trends in journalism we should expect to see in the next 40 years?

Things are already in the process of fracturing.You get a newspaper through your door but there’s no particular reason why all those pieces should be together in one place. Now that papers are moving online we’ll start to see dedicated sports blogs, politics blogs and society blogs.

The most important journalistic skill?

If you work in political journalism, being able to get on well with people and build

up trust with contacts is important. It can define how good you are at your job.

You’ll get a lot of information, sometimes off the record, based on your ability to foster a good relationship.

What made you want to become a journalist?

I was working the night shift at a media monitoring company and my job was to read the national news overnight and summarise it for clients. I was reading all these newspapers and thinking, “This is something that I can do.”

Carolyn Wickware

Research; broadcast journalist, GRNlive; journalist, Al Jazeera Media Network Johnny Houghton-Brown International country editor, editor, The Oil and Gas Year Eleana Kolovou Reporter (Lambrakis Press, Eleftheros Typos, Katimerini); pilates instructor Daniel Lanyon Reporter, data journalist, The Grocer Magazine; reporter, Trust Net Emily Short Promotions executive, senior promotions and loyalty executive, senior marketing executive, The Telegraph Camilla Swift Freelance (The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, Polo Times Magazine, InStyle); editorial assistant, reporter, The Spectator Katie Taylor Research for documentary filmmaker Tessa Mayes; press officer, MarketInvoice; senior account executive, Aspectus Tom Wills Freelance, The Mirror; senior data journalist, Which?; data journalist, The Times Matt Wrigley Unknown

SCIENCE Harriet Bailey Researcher, Darlow Smithson Productions; researcher, Wingspan Productions; assistant producer, Bigger Bang Productions Attilia Burke Freelance film maker; health journalist, Edra LSWR: freelance journalist (Milan) Jinan Harb Online news editor, Levant TV; reporter, Biopharm Insight; assistant good health editor, Daily Mail; Daryl Ilbury Freelance journalist and columnist (Business Day, Sunday Tribune, Leadership and Guru magazine, Sunday Times, Saturday Star, Financial Times); media co-ordinator, South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement; freelance senior journalist and science media communicator Greg Jones press officer (Health), Cancer Research UK; freelance subeditor, The Sunday Times; senior press officer, Cancer Research UK Alice Lighton Content developer, Science Museum; medical student, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Rafi Meguerditchian Commercial sales co-ordinator, Luxottica Group; associate accountant strategist, Google; Business Development and operations manager, Meg’s Gena Ng Producer, ChannelNewsAsia. com; assistant manager, Ministry of Information, Communications and The Arts Singapore Oluwafunmilayo Olateju Unknown Lisa Raffensperger Associate editor, DiscoverMagazine.com; wed editor, DiscoverMagazine.com Adam Smith Freelance multimedia science journalist (BBC, British Medical Journal, The Register, The Guardian, New Humanist, Scientific American); podcast producer, Pod Academy; reporter, Research Fortnight

FINANCIAL Joice Alves Dias Financial reporter, Financial Times; freelance financial reporter, Pageant Media; correspondent, InfraLatinAmerica Russel Dinange Freelance (Euromoney, FX News) Caroline Green Intern, Financial Times; account executive, RLM Finsbury Liza Jansen News producer, CNBC; De Standaard (the Netherlands); Founder

2013 Newspresso Chen Liang Intern reporter, financial advisor, Financial Times; intern reporter, BBC; reporter, MandateWire (Hong Kong) Xiao Liu Freelance (Financial Times, Scheme Xpert, Pensions Week, Money) Anna Lyudvig Senior correspondent, financial journalist, Africa Asset Management; Editor, Wall Street Letter; Founder, Africa Global Funds Victoria Maigrot International security intern, Bloomberg; Middle East and Africa sales analyst, Blackrock Asset Management; specialist sales, Berenberg Sarah Marquer TV producer, night editor, Bloomberg; media relations manager, HSBC Tom Metcalf Billionaires reporter, Bloomberg Anne-Louise Stranne Petersen Freelance (Weekendavisen, Africa Global Funds) James Poulter Account director, edelmandigital.com; freelance (Vice); lead developer, Given London Limited Maria Tadeo News producer, CNBC; web reporter, The Independent; news reporter, Bloomberg Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura Freelance (Paris, BBC, Financial Times, Agence France-Presse); staff reporter, The New York Times (London) Caroline Varin Reporter, Argus Media; reporter, Agence France-Presse; reporter, Commodities Ziyi Wang Reporter, Silu; news assistant, NRC Handelsblad; energy reporter, ICORP

INTERACTIVE Teodora Beleaga Digital analyst, edelmandigital.com; data planner, TMW Unlimited; data analyst,VCCP Kin John Burn-Murdoch Data journalist, The Guardian; data journalist, Which?; data journalist, Financial Times Antonia Kanczula Freelance (Scout Association, Healthy,TES, ELLEgirl, Runner’s World, Metro); content editor, growwilduk. com, health content manager, Asthma UK Timothy Owen Director, Own Words Ltd; technical author, Star Computers Neha-Tamara Patel Web analyst, digital analyst, Bauer Media; senior digital analyst, BBC Future Media; digital strategist, John Brown Media Group Rebecca Ratcliffe Content coordinator, freelance education journalist, The Guardian Ændrew Rininsland Freelance journalist, coder (The Economist; Graphic Alliance); creative technologist, Hackney Citizen; news developer, The Times; The Sunday Times Andrew Stuart Daily Post; mobile editor, Manchester Evening News Alistair Walker PR executive, IBA International; PR assistant, Blind Veterans UK; communications assistant, ARK Schools Lauren York Graduate trainee subeditor scheme, sub-editor, Daily Mail Abby Young-Powell Content coordinator, deputy editor students, The Guardian

POLITICAL

Abubakar Al-Sadique Lecturer (Nigeria); researcher, academic journalist and media consultant Aisha Gani Reporter, Total Politics magazine; digital journalism trainee, The Guardian Firouzeh Akbarian Reporter, Iranian TV channel based in UK Alisa Bala Reporter, UN (Geneva) Asa Bennett Reporter, London Means Business; business reporter, Huffington Post; assistant comment editor, The Daily Telegraph Chris Berkin Reporter, Construction News; regional correspondent, senior reporter, Estates Gazette; civil servant, Cabinet Office Mark Briggs Freelance; author of Entrepreneurial Journalism and Journalism Next Chizom Ekeh Campaigns officer, Age UK; director, Peace Brigades International UK; internal communications officer, British Red Cross Charlotte Jee Reporter, assistant editor, Government Computing; senior reporter, Computerworld; editor,Techworld Vincent Mcaviney Reporter, political producer, Sky News; field and package producer, ITV News at Ten, ITN Maath Musleh Information outreach and social media specialist, US Consulate General in Jerusalem; co-founder and CEO, 4D media services and production; freelance producer; lecturer, Al Quds Bard College Catarina Sousa Reporter (Portugal); PR Content Co-ordinator, Adagietto Harry Spencer Intern, Westbourne Communications; editorial assistant intern, Dods Parliamentary Communications; account executive, Edelman Max Tholl Editor, theeuropean.de; editor, The Idea List Naomi Westland Reporter, press officer, Amnesty International; freelance (London)

ERASMUS Elga Andreeva Journalist, Kultura; freelance photojournalist and producer, Freelance Services (Bulgaria) Alfonso Campo Financial PR assistant, Kinlan Communications; supervisor, assistant manager, Tragus Group; reporter, Private Equity Africa Peter Cernuta Reporter, sub-editor, new technologies unit, Slovenian Press Agency; chief communications officer, Chariyo Arin De Hoog Print journalist, editor, EMAJ Magazine; media relations specialist, Greenpeace Joyce Fernandez Editor-in-chief, Imagine Magazine; editor, Manila Bulletin Jan-Henrik Forster reporter, WirtschaftsWoche Sebastian Kirsch Business journalist (Germany) Raia Mihaylova Writer, EMAJ Magazine; language expert, NueroCog Trials; freelance (Bulgaria) Aljosha Karim Schapals Foreign correspondent, Eastern Europe n-ost; editorial assistant, Financial Times; visiting lecturer, City University London Anusha Sodavaram Marketing executive, Swanstaff Recruitment Limited; assistant manager – external communications and marketing, SunTec; marketing manager,Volt Simona Strimaityte Co-organiser, London New Finance; senior conference producer, Marcus Evans; events and marketing coordinator, Entiq Ning-Chih Teng Unknown

Zoe Thomas Campaign communicator, Fight For A Fair Economy; IFLR Americas reporter, Euromoney Institutional Investor; business reporter, BBC News Dobriyana Tropankeva International business developer, Savivo A/S; corporate communications manager, Kaspersky Lab UK; communications and events manager, Application Developers Alliance

2013 INTERNATIONAL Anjali Alappat Freelance writer (Inbox 1305); freelance sub-editor (Fair Observer); assistant content manager, Wordplay Saeed Al-Batati Yemen correspondent, Gulf News; freelance (Al Jazeera, New York Times,The Guardian) Jomana Alrashid Journalist, Alriyadh; communications coordinator, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Sandrine Amiel Freelance producer (CNN, The Paris Bureau Productions) Alexandra Anselmo-Khan Freelance (The Guardian); personal assistant, The Weinstein Company Rasmus Arvidsson Freelance (rekatochklart.se); online and content operator, Ladbrokes; content producer, editor, writer, Barometern Sofia Barbarani Freelance journalist and editor (The Times, Middle East Eye,The Economist,The Telegraph, Bas News English, Al Jazeera,Your Middle East) Michele Barbero Associated Press (Rome); producer (France24) Luisa Barbieri Media and PR director, Hangar Design Group Nicholas Barrett REDD+ researcher, Heart of Borneo Rainforest Foundation; blogger, Huffington Post; reporter, European University Institute Hanan Bihi Intern, Al Jazeera English; reporter and producer, London360; journalist, vlogger, London Live ESTV Annika Bohnenblust Freelance (NATT&DAG); journalist, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation; journalist, Mediehuset Nettavisen, intern, United Nations Regional Information Centre Serena Bronda Freelance (Italy); press officer, Abaton Top Business Niche; Masters in Emerging Media Studies, Boston University Mary Brouder-Murphy Unknown Ursin Caderas Multimedia journalist, CNN World Sport; associate producer, CNN International Ruoqi Cai Unknown Marta Castellani Freelance Angie Castillo Freelance Antonio Cavaciuti Journalist, Chiara Communications (Milan); contributor, Gli Stati Generali Aurelie Chassot Assistant web editor, French Radio London; live correspondent, Radio-Canada; content publisher manager, Rightster Lei Chen Intern, BBC World Service; trading and investment executive, Dentsu Aegis Network (China); marketing specialist, ABB (China, Canada) Radina Choleva Editor, International Coventry; video editor, Touch Surgery Elizabeth Compson Executive Assistant, Double Apex (Washington DC) Laura Coquereau Translator, transcriber, Welcome to Rio (BBC); translator, transcriber, Al Jazeera English; assistant producer, A Place in the Sun

Ilario D’Amato Games tester, quality assurance localization technician, Testronic Laboratories; video producer, assistant digital editor, Climate Group Alicia De Haldevang Media advisor, Gascony Locations; group events, marketing manager, Olive Group; marketing and communications manager, power and renewables, Atkins Pauline Den Hartog Jager Producer, RTL Television (London); video journalist, Monocle Films Muaro D’Errico Development assistant, Thaz Italia; demand and inventory manager, Diageo Brands B.V. Xiaoqing Ding Research assistant, translator, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; educational consultant, CNUK; editor, itTIME watch magazine Elisabeth Doehne Freelance (Discover Germany); PR and communication trainee, German American Chamber of Commerce Emma Egli Account executive, Principal Ingredient; marketing assistant, Nacro Julian Fritsch Freelance (Bayerischer Rundfunk); trainee, Oliver Wyman; communications trainee, AUDI AG Paolo Ganino Editor in chief, Altitude; freelance researcher, assistant producer, Al Jazeera English Randa Ghazy Freelance researcher,Vice Media; freelance contributor, Common Ground News Service; assistant producer, Al Araby Television Network Osman Gilani General manager of programming, Masala TV; programs director, Impassion Afghanistan; advisor civic education and communication, Giz Massimiliano Giuliattini Editor, Radio Insieme; collaborator, TV Prato Stefanie Glinski Freelance (BBC Travel, Spiegel,Time) Yulia Gromova Multimedia journalist, bdmotp.com; photo editor, Numero Russia Bettina Guirkinger Freelance (Amsterdam); Cambodia general manager, Leadapreneur Carla Hobbs Researcher, European Council of Foreign Relations Tetiana Iakovlieva Unknown Elisa Iannacone Journalist, Global Business Reports; Director, cinematographer, Just Focus Films Jakob Jessen Freelance, Weekendavisen m.fl Brooke Kavit Freelance contributor, Yuppee Magazine; associate programming manager, video programming manager, AOL Ahmen Khawaja Assistant researcher, Blakeway Productions; factual production runner, BBC Television; multimedia producer, BBC News Zairah Khurshid Freelance producer, CTV national news; digital video producer, The Guardian; head of marketing and business development manager, Proversity.org Dimitrios Koskeridis TV news producer, EbS, European Commission Laura Kramer Newscast writer, Cumulus Broadcasting; production assistant, researcher, Clover Films Christina Kronback Content editor, Ezimute.com; marketing manager, Fabrica de Startups Charlotte Kude Intern, SP Broadway; international political communications, Project Associates UK; political assistant, David Campbell Bannerman MEP Elizaveta Kuznetsova PhD, City University London; journalist (Moscow) Eunice Kwok Contributor, BC magazine Manuela Lanza Contributor, Al Jazeera; planning producer, freelance media coordinator CNN International; TV editorial support, Reuters Giuliano Levato TV researcher, Quicksilver Media; features editor, China Central Television; TV producer and

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director, CCTV News International Elizabeth MacHuca Section editor, Grupo Expansion (Mexico); Spanish translator, EF Education First; freelance business reporter, International News Services (Mexico) Danny McDonald Freelance reporter, VICE; reporter, Metro U.S; news producer, The Boston Globe Ian McDonald Opinions editor, David Douglas Highlander; news editor, copy editor, Pepperdine Graphic; freelance post-production for commercial film and television (Los Angeles) Charlotte Moerkerk Production editor, Sydney; European investment associate, Fisher Investments Europe Ihab Mohamed Presenter, writer, Al Jazeera Media Network; assistant dean for undergraduate studies, Sultan Qaboos University Karim Nasser Mokhtar Logistics manager, dsquares Brianne O’Brien Freelance radio presenter (Monocle) Anja Oliveira Unknown Malene Ørsted Freelance (The Copenhagen Post, GroupM); marketing and communication manager,Vinstuerne; PA to Susanne Bier, Zentropa Hege Otterholm Freelance (London); film programme consultant, Day for Night Films; Norwegian country editor, product manager, Secret Escapes Igor Pakovic Freelance (VICE); reporter, Citywire Italia Anna Pavlova PhD student, London Business School Antonio Peciccia Freelance; PhD student; reporter, Steel First; reporter, Argus Media Tiffany Pritchard Contributor, Londonist Annika Ranga Administrator, The London School of Economics and Political Science; IT project support assistant, London School of Economics Shreeja Ravindranathan Journalist (United Arab Emirates); junior writer, Friday Magazine, Gulf News Carlota Rebelo Freelance photographer, Paste; communications trainee, European Parliament; associate producer, Monocle 24 Kulsoom Rizvi Communications department, Counterpart International; associate digital editor, International Rescue Committee (New York) Sarah Rowland Contributing writer, Paste; sub-editor and culture writer, Fair Observer; freelance (The Oregonian, Esquire, Monocle, Rolling Stone,The Guardian,The Daily Beast, Esquire, NYLON) Olena Toernoos nee Rubanik Video engineer, Profit Production; filmmaker apprentice, Met Film School; junior PMO analyst, Credit Suisse Monika Schläpfer Unknown Laura Secorun Founder, Newsfreed; correspondent, OZY Natalia Semicheva Contributor; Russia-IC Dana Sklack Freelance (The Pittsburgh City Paper); communications specialist, McCormick Taylor Inc Michele Teodori Broadcast assistant, The Times; The Sunday Times; culture editor, Meridiani Relazioni Internazionali; video editor, The Times and The Sunday Times Nektaria Tserpeli Writer, Real Group; TV producer, SKAI TV; legal representative, Hellenic Ministry of Justice Liz Weiner Writer, audio producer, business operations coordinator, editor, communications manager, Peace Child International Sara Williams Freelance journalist (Amman); contributor (VICE News and Middle East Eye); Jordan correspondent, The Times

Loes Witschge Freelance (Netherlands); assistant editor, head of digital, Delayed Gratification Saad Zuberi Freelance researcher, associate producer (Channel 4, Al Jazeera English); field producer, ITN, ITV News; producer, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Films

NEWSPAPER Simon Bajkowski Manchester Evening News Nicola Bartlett Reporter, The Mirror Rachel Bayne Production assistant, News UK; night sub-editor, Sun Online; digital sub-editor, The Sunday Times Imogen Blake Reporter, Hampstead and Highgate Express; senior reporter, Ham & High Rae Boocock Freelance; political researcher, The Times; freelance contributor, sub-editor, Livingetc Eleanor Busby Senior reporter, Cambridge News; reporter, Times Educational Supplement Matthew Dathan Reporter, Politics Home; The Times; online political reporter, The Independent; online political correspondent, MailOnline Rachael Day Hull Daily Mail; graduate trainee, features sub-editor, Daily Mail Keval Dhokia Research analyst, Metal Bulletin Oliver Duggan planning editor, assistant news editor, Daily Telegraph; weekend live editor, The Guardian Ben Finch Reporter, Metro Alexandra Glynn Editorial assistant, Prospect; media and PR officer, Refugee Action; communication officer, ALNAP Sarah Graham Deputy editor, Feminist Times; freelance proofreader and copy editor, Incontext Communications; freelance (The Telegraph,The Guardian,The Independent,VICE, Broadly, Daily Mail) Emily Kent Smith Manchester Evening News; SWNS; reporter, Daily Mail Arjun Kharpal News assistant, assistant producer, technology reporter, CNBC Thomas Knowles Freelance scriptwriter, CNN International; online business reporter, The Times Nicolas Kostov Cambridge News; Financial News; reporter, Wall Street Journal Brett Leppard reporter, GQ; social media editor, Metro UK Thomas Little Editor of Middle East English Service, Sudan bureau chief, Agence France-Presse Antonia Molloy Reporter, Daily Telegraph; The Independent; inbound marketing content editor, Equinet Media Charles Morgan Freelance sportswriter (Rugby World, RFU, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph); staff writer, Sport Magazine Romil Patel Correspondent, associate producer, Bloomberg TV Africa; associate producer, Bloomberg; deputy night editor, International Business Times Callum Paton Reporter, editorial assistant, AfricaThinkPress; Libya Herald; foreign news reporter, International Business Times Alexander Penn PR, copywriter, TreeBox, Genesis Cinema, Hausman and Holmes Letting Agency; screenwriter, A&M Screenwriters; product copywriter, John Lewis Partnership Alina Polianskaya Sub-editor, Daily Mail; reporter, Camden New Journal; freelance editorial assistant, web production, The Sunday Times Nicholas Renaud-Komiya Online reporter, The Independent; reporter, Health Service Journal; freelance, C21 Media Charlotte Rettie Reporter, Edinburgh Evening News; investment associate,

Psigma Investment Management Michael Smith Reporter, Exaro; BBC Newsnight unknown Oliver Smith Reporter, CityAM; senior reporter, The Memo Lydia Symonds Reporter, Racing Post; sports journalist Alexander Taylor Freelance (I, The Independent, The Times,The New Statesman) Adam Withnall Reporter, The Independent Paul Wright Reporter, Ham & High; news report, International Business Times Alexandra Wynick Reporter, Mirror online; Oxford Mail

MAGAZINE Esme Anderson Online editor, Nota Bene Global; sub-editor, Guardian; senior content executive, Not Actual Size Eleanor Austin Features writer, drama commissioning editor, assistant features editor, Radio Times Thea Babington-Stitt Diarist, Mail on Sunday; deputy news and houses editor, Time Inc Unity Blott Features intern, features writer, Woman and Woman’s Own; journalist, Daily Mail Femail Eleanor Bothwell Senior reporter, deputy news editor, Publican Morning Advertiser; International and rankings reporter, Times Higher Education and THE World University Rankings Georgina Bradley Freelance, (The Guardian,The Daily Telegraph, Buzzfeed); editor, Woman This Month (Bahrain) unknown Chloe Cann News reporter, features reporter, senior features reporter,Travel Trade Gazette Claudia Canavan Editorial assistant, Esquire; digital food and interiors editor, Red; digital food and lifestyle writer, Huffington Post Eleanor Clayton Writer, Progressive content Abigail Davies Writer, Barcelona Metropolitan; journalist, Contentive; receptionist, Ogilvy & Mather Group UK Roisin Dervish-O’Kane Editorial assistant, staff writer, Healthy; freelance health journalist Isobel Finbow Digital journalist, Conde Nast Traveller; intern, Travel Weekly; writer, teleSUR English (Ecuador) Teresa Fitzherbert Freelance blogger, The Spectator; editor’s assistant, Harper’s Bazaar Natalie Hammond Web assistant, All About You; online fashion intern, The Telegraph; fashion assistant,The Times Antonia Hawken Reporter, British Baker; business development executive, Merge Eclinical Sarah Holmes Online Writer, Woman & Home; staff writer, August Media Jonathan Holmes Editorial assistant, Radio Times Sophie Hurcom News writer, subeditor, Cycling Weekly Edward Frankl iPad desk, The Guardian; writer and researcher, The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2015; freelance (The Stage, London Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday,Vice, easyJet Traveller,Wizz Magazine, N Magazine) Lucy Haenlein Unknown Alice Hancock Editorial assistant, staff writer, Homes & Antiques; theatre reviewer,The Independent Hanna Ibraheem Editorial intern, community coordinator, Get the Gloss; beauty and fashion writer, Good Housekeeping

Matthew Isard Account executive, senior account executive, 1000heads; account manager, Way to Blue Matthew Lambert Graduate trainee, sports sub-editor, Daily Mail Bronwen Morgan Senior writer, deputy editor, Impact; deputy editor, Research Live Charlotte Oliver Reporter, education editor, Jewish Chronicle Leonie Roderick E-communications writer, The Marketer; online writer, Redactive Media Group; news reporter, Marketing Week Hannah Shaddock Sub-editor, Radio Times Yara Silva-Tolliday iPad editorial, The Guardian; content assistant, Best; community manager, Hello!

Holly Stevenson Graduate trainee, subeditor, Daily Mail Hannah Thompson Editorial assistant, restaurants and hotels reporter, Caterer and Hotelkeeper Elizabeth Turner Chef, Tate Britain unknown Nina Zietman Associate editor, editor MPORA; editor, Cooler magazine, deputy editor, Mpora Daniel Zuidijk Freelance multimedia journalist; online intern, Pulse; community and social journalist, The Times

BROADCAST Char Bates Unknown unknown Alex Burd Producer, Pod Academy; newsdesk assistant, assistant news editor, PERFORM Rebecca Burrows 96.4 Eagle Radio (UKRD); broadcast journalist, Heart Radio; production journalist, ITV George Cochran Journalist, artrocker. com; press officer, DWL (NOT SURE WHAT DWL IS!) Amelia Cox Broadcast journalist, UBC Media Group; freelance; broadcast journalist, Free Radio Emily Dexter Freelance broadcast journalist (Channel 5 News); freelance reporter, Euronews; interview producer, Channel 4 News Jeremy Evans Founder, Explaain, communications strategy, Data Press, 30 under 30, Forbes Larry Ferguson Reporter, Lafferty Group Craig Ferriman Assistant Editor, Channel 4 News; interview producer, deputy news editor, Al Jazeera English Sarah Forster Senior audio engineer, IMG Media; deputy news editor and planning editor, Sky; news editor, Bloomberg James Francis Multimedia journalist, Thomson Reuters; press office executive, digital media executive, Juventus Football Club James Goldburn Guest producer, Sky News; newsroom assistant, broadcast journalist, BBC News Jennifer Graham Broadcast journalist, Global Radio; text producer, Sky News unknown Emma Greatorex News and programme intern, Al Jazeera Media Network; assistant news editor, ITN Steven Gyford, Co-editor, TalkingBaws. com; PR and marketing assistant, The Lotus Group Harry Hullah Freelance; journalist, CNN International Rebecca Hutter Intern, Classic FM; intern, WQXR Radio (New York); marketing assistant, Decca Classics Amelia Jenne Intern, Monocle; assistant producer, France 24, part time correspondent, The Independent Jessica King Reporter, Incisive Media

2013-2014 Ben Kirby Intern, freelance, planning producer, CNN Helen Kourpas Office runner, production assistant, production coordinator, Blink Films Kerry Kular Presenter, British Asian Hafta Awards 2013; digital media specialist, Be Fuelcards; Digital marketing accountant executive, Bayford Group; web trader, Tesco PLC Mick Le Mare Freelance (London) Stefan Levy Freelance assistant news editor, ITN;VIP host, The Roof Gardens; broadcast journalist, London Live ESTV Julia Lowes Production runner, BBC; production researcher, ITV; researcher, BBC Lindsey MacLean Assistant account executive, Weber Shandwick Joel Massey Unknown Christian May Head of media relations, The Institute of Directors, Editor, City AM Haxie Meyer-Belkin Assistant producer, France 24 Hannah Miller Newsreader, Radio Jackie; broadcast assistant, BBC Radio 4; news journalist, ITV Mashaal Mir Freelance news and sports video producer, The Guardian; foreign desk editor, NBC News; assistant producer, Channel 4 News Hannah Moore Freelance broadcast journalist, Radio Jackie; freelance assistant producer, BBC Radio 4; freelance broadcast journalist; Capital FM; researcher, BBC Radio Current Affairs Harry Moss Freelance researcher Isaac Munoz-Fernandez Contributor, Channel 4; journalist, BBC News Nichola Ntim Production trainee, freelance assistant producer, BBC Jay Patel Broadcast assistant, broadcast journalist, BBC; assistant producer, BBC Newsround Kath Pedersen Freelance, Thomson Reuters Adam-Lucas Pettit Production assistant, Special Edition Films; community volunteering officer, City University; international recruitment officer, Loughborough University Tom Platt Editorial assistant, Tech City News; producer, Sky News Anja Popp Dispatches; journalist, planning producer, Channel 4 News Caroline Radnofsky Interviews producer, UK producer, deputy news editor, Al Jazeera Chess Roberts Unknown Jessie Rodger Producer, It’s Nice That; assistant producer, France 24; assistant producer, Philharmonic Orchestra Lillie Rosenblatt Production assistant, Spirit Digital Media; talent coordinator, Optomen Television; recruitment coordinator, GAIL’s Artisan Baker Helen Smith Development researcher, Zodiak Media Olivia Stuart-Taylor Account executive, Abchurch Communications; senior accountant executive, Headland Consultancy; management consultant analyst, Accenture Alyssa Thomas Unknown Fern Tomlinson Text producer, planning producer, news editor (politics), Sky News Maxwell Ward Online sports journalist, Eurosport; freelance writer (Goal.com); digital editor, BT Sport Amy Westgarth Freelance (London); actress

TV CAJ Daisy Ball Freelance researcher (Nutopia, BBC, Fresh One Productions)

BARBARA SPEED

Tech writer, New Statesman, Magazine 2014

Your biggest scoop?

I have just done an investigation on paedophiles who operate through Facebook. They groom kids and share lots of photos.

It’s something that everyone has known about but it took a lot to back it up. The BBC did a similar investigation, which was helpful. With child abuse Theo Browne Unknown Holta Celmeta Intern, Al Jazeera; international researcher, Foresight News; freelance (Thomson Reuters,The Guardian) Julia Chapman Text producer, Sky News; freelance researcher, The Listening Post; freelance, (Reuters, Sky News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian) Briony Chappell Account executive, Bell Pottinger; journalist (London); account manager, Ogilvy Public Relations George Coote Assistant news editor, ITN Myriam Dijck Content writer, DocGeeks; editor, Discover Benelux Fayola Douglas Planning assistant, broadcast journalist, BBC; news producer, Splash News Clare Downey Broadcast journalist, Sunday Politics; business news producer, Sky; video producer, The Guardian Rhys Durham Freelance broadcast journalist (ITN, Al Jazeera); digital news editor and interview producer, Al Jazeera English Aisling Ennis Video journalist, Press Association Ellen Gainsford Assistant producer, France 24 Felicity Galt Trainee solicitor, White & Case; consultant solicitor, City Financial Investment Company Ltd Grace Herbert Presenter, Hoxton Radio; head of PR, Strictly Entertainment Music Poppy Hodgson Freelance broadcast journalist (BBC) Syed Kazmi Unknown Nicola Keaney Television producer, foreign news editor, Sky Phoebe Lanzer Wood Freelance broadcast journalist; journalist, France24 Nia Nguyen Assistant producer, BFBS Forces TV; assistant producer, National Geographic; casting associate producer, Nine Network Australia Kirsty Nichol Journalist,Video News PR; video journalist, Daily Mirror; arts and culture producer, Thomson Reuters Carys Notley Broadcast journalist, researcher, BBC Saskia O’Donoghue Media coordinator, broadcast journalist, BBC; freelance producer; Al Jazeera Anshu Pandit production assistant, Fox News Channel; television news producer, Sky Mike Richardson Unknown Catherine Robinson Freelance broadcast journalist; journalist, Global Radio Rebecca Smith Account executive, Propeller; reporter, Real Business; reporter, Management Today

images you can’t look at them without committing a crime. It came online last week.

dressed up as St George around Southampton and ask kids if they knew who he was for a local newspaper.

What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

Be less scared. I just remember being absolutely terrified by everything we had to do. It was helpful because it made me try harder, but having more confidence would have been good.

Advice you would have given yourself after finishing City?

Just be willing to try everything.

I’m now a tech reporter, which is something I would have never backed myself to apply for if it wasn’t for where I was working.

But I actually really enjoy it.

Don’t assume you know what you like doing.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

I had to escort a journalist Ellie Smith Diarist, Mail On Sunday; digital news reporter, The Sun Kalpna Tandon Account executive, Markettiers4dc; account executive, FRUKT Paul Traynor News assistant, producer, video journalist, Associated Press Roberto Valussi Researcher, The Sunday Times; multimedia journalist, Afreekyama; freelance multimedia journalist (Al Jazeera) Philippa Wain Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast

INVESTIGATIVE Miranda Atty Bloomberg TV Africa; assistant news editor, ITN Jessica Benhamou i24news Jaffa Port, Israel; investigative reporter, BBC Panorama Jenna Corderoy Researcher, Request Initiative; Action on Armed Violence; journalist and researcher,Vice News Adam Dobrik Reporter, assistant news editor, Global Investigations Review Daniel Douglas Book researcher for investigative journalist Steve Grey Margot Gibbs Reporter, Request Initiative; researcher, Greenpeace; freelance journalist (London) Gemma Goodman Media monitor, Cabinet Office; researcher, Wiretap Productions; press officer, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Sotiris Kanaris Intern, Timetric; digital marketing analyst, Trillion Fund; reporter, Timetric Meera Khosla Lawyer, J.P. Morgan Chase Daniel Martin Teacher Margi Murphy Intern, Pulse; reporter, IDG Media Sid Ryan Researcher, Request Initiative, Centre for Investigative Journalism Joe Smith Investigative trainee, Channel 4 unknown possibly https://www.linkedin. com/in/joe-smith-282b76103 Sara Spary Reporter, The Grocer; senior reporter, Marketing Magazine; news reporter, Buzzfeed News Camilla Turner Graduate trainee, reporter, The Telegraph Tom Warren Reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; investigative reporter, Buzzfeed Tom Webb Reporter, Global Investigations Review; assistant deputy editor, Global Competition Review

Helena Cartwright

SCIENCE Lou Del Bello Multimedia producer, Sci Dev net Di Xu Di Editor, State Grid Corporation of China Network Television Olivia Emms Further study Anastasia Fugger Researcher, ITN Productions Pip Hobbs Freelance (London) unkown Ryan O’Hare Deputy editor, Optometry Today; science reporter, MailOnline Kathy Portilla Solar energy consultant, Joule Solar Energy; change management analyst, NRG Home Solar; business analyst, MRE Consulting Patrick Russell Broadcast trainee, ITN; science and health producer; ITV News Rachael Stubbins Technical writer, National Physical Laboratory; campaigns manager, Cabinet Office Becky Summers Further study Theresa Taylor Reporter, The Star; writer, broadcast journalist, eNCA Rebecca Winkels Science web editor, editor, Helmholtz Zentrum für Infekionsforschung Branschweig; freelance, SWR; Verschiedene Auftagsgeber

FINANCIAL Arvid Ahlund Reporter, Asia correspondent, Central Banking Journal; Asia correspondent, FX Week Robert Allen Business desk journalist, The Irish Times; account executive, associate, Finsbury Jagdip Cheema Business programme editor, ARISE News; business reporter, Rudaw Media Network; business reporter, Thomson Reuters Elena Gonzalez Mataro UK correspondent, Antena 3; reporter, FX Week; public affairs officer, Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the UK and Ireland Valeriya Ivashchenko Intern, Bloomberg; relationship manager, Credit Suisse Morgane Lapeyre Journalist, EurActiv. fr; reporter, Bloomberg; reporter, Debtwire Shuangning Lu Unknown Verity Ratcliffe Reporter, Financial Times; middles east editor, Interfax Global Energy, freelance (London)

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2014 Luca Rossi Segment producer, Bloomberg TV EMEA; broadcast journalist, Arise TV; reporter, editor, Modern Investor at Citywire Shreya Sinha Unknown Jakob Villumsen International editor, Radio24syv; business reporter, TV 2 DANMARK Mi Zhang Freelance reporter, Financial Times

INTERACTIVE George Arnett Data journalist, Exaro; data journalist, The Guardian; teaching assistant, City University Elisabeth Ashton Social media executive, Sky; social media editor, head of audience, Manchester Evening News Sian Boyle trainee reporter, Evening Standard; graduate trainee, reporter, Daily Mail Samuel Creighton Sub-editor, The Times and The Sunday Times; graduate trainee, show business reporter, Daily Mail Jessica Denham Online editorial assistant, digital arts reporter, senior culture reporter, The Independent Mauricio Fernandes Savarese The Conteúdo; journalist, FourTwoFour, reporter, Associated Press (Rio de Janeiro) Robert Grant Data journalist, Trinity Mirror Nabeelah Jaffer Associate editor, Aeon; freelance (The Guardian, Financial Times, The Times) Henry Kirby Chief data journalist, Exaro; The Media Briefing; data journalist, Business New Europe Sarah Pilchick Online editorial officer, EBRD; assistant communications officer, UNHCR; social media specialist, UNICEF Henry Taylor Data journalist, Exaro; journalist, TheMediaBriefing; social media producer, World Economic Forum Henry Vane Law Business Research

POLITICAL Alexandra Wynick Reporter, Oxford Mail Trisha Andres Weekend Desk, Financial Times; travel and lifestyle editor, The Hideaways Club; travel commissioning editor, Telegraph Media Group Marie Bailey Unknown Joshua Franklin Correspondent, Reuters News Agency Huw Jordan Network Organiser, New Economy Organisers Network, Campaign’s Orgaiser, New Economy Organisers Network Sam Judah Freelance (BBC, Financial Times); Producer, BBC News Liam Kirkaldy Intern, Financial Times; reporter, Greenpeace; reporter, The Olive Press; environment correspondent, Holyrood Communications; online editor, Holyrood Magazine John Lindsay Unknown Tony McNulty Unknown Christopher Pitchers Intern, Politics Home; press officer, European Parliament Alexander Prowse Client communications analyst, Russell Investments Daniel Rosehill Communications, Vconnecta Ltd Laura Woolfenden News presenter, Al Jazeera English Karolina Zagrodna Energy Market Reporter, ICIS

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Jonathan Erridge Intern, MoneyWeek; freelance (MoneyWeek, City A.M.) Maria Gomis Sanz Conference reporter, Microfinance Focus Europe Hui Gu English teacher, New Oriental Education & Technology Group; Chinese news assistant, Ruptley News TV Berlin Dorothee Heymer Unknown Stephan Holm Lawaetz Casino operations executive, Unibet Melissa Hutsell Freelance (USA); contributing writer at 209 Magazine Thomas Kleinveld Freelance (Scholopendrae Communication, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands Worldwide); program manager, TRAC FM Sergio Matalucci Western Europe correspondent, Natural Gas Europe Francisco Perez Gonzalez Intern, The Copenhagen Post Lorena Ruibal Serra financial journalist (London) Simona Suciu Unknown Ning-Chih Teng Unknown Aiste Valiauskaite Journalist, Info TV Zhefeng Wang Unknown Mia Wecker Journalist, L’essentiel; Editor, PWC Luxembourg Weixin Zha Unknown

2014 INTERNATIONAL Mary Afxentiou Journalist, TheManatee. co.uk; journalist, Parikiaki Yuko Aizawa Political reporter, NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Ida Axling Journalist, MittMedia (Sweden); reporter, Incisive Media Andrea Baerland Freelance writer, Scan Magazine; freelance journalist, enerWE media production Monika Bagic Share Radio, London; tourist animator/animation team manager,Valamar Hotels & Resorts Claudia Bazdoaca Intern, Wise Buddah; broadcast assistant, Share Radio; freelance (London) Magnus Barsøe Bennetzen News editor, Toast Magazine; co-founder and contributing editor, 90mandater.dk; opinion editor, Finans Sofia Bettiza Researcher, BBC News (Belgium) Natasha Bowler Journalist, Iran Wire; editor of Journalism Is Not A Crime website; freelance documentary filmmaker (Middle East/Asia) Mary Afxentiou Journalist, TheManatee. co.uk; journalist, Parikiaki Yuko Aizawa Political reporter, NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Ida Axling Journalist, MittMedia (Sweden); reporter, Incisive Media Andrea Baerland Freelance writer, Scan Magazine Monika Bagic Share Radio, London Claudia Bazdoaca Intern, Wise Buddah; broadcast assistant, Share Radio; freelance (London) Magnus Barsøe Bennetzen News editor, Toast Magazine; co-founder and contributing editor, 90mandater.dk; opinion editor, Finans Sofia Bettiza Researcher, BBC News (Belgium) Natasha Bowler Journalist, Iran Wire; editor of Journalism Is Not A Crime website; freelance documentary filmmaker (Middle East/Asia) Filippo Brachetti Intern, Lonely Planet; freelance

Ludovica Brignola Video intern, Financial Times; co-ancor, CNBC International; Egypt correspondent; THE OIL & GAS YEAR Aia Brnic Reporter, energy markets, Argus Media Ingrid Brubaker Freelance (Oslo); comic book librarian; journalist, NTB (Norwegian News Agency) Christy Chamy Reporter, Stockholms Fria Tidning (Sweden); reporter, Sveriges Radio Elena Cherniavskaia Digital Marketing, Birmingham Made Me Expo 2014; advertising sales manager, Market-Radio Ryan Chua Reporter, Integrated News and Current Affairs, ABS-CBN (Philippines); program editor, CCTV News Jenny Ciochon Photographer and editor, Tunisia Live; freelance photojournalist/video journalist (Tunis) Davide Colombini Infographics, Class CNBC (Milan); freelance (Vice Italy); researcher, Corrado Passera Electoral Committee Mara D’Arcangelo Unknown Pascale Davies Video producer, Frontline Club Charitable Trust; researcher, Share Radio ; producer, TRT World; freelance newsreaders and video journalist (London) Alex Debellis Unknown Bernd Debusmann Senior Reporter, Khaleej Times (Dubai) Zi Fang Freelancer (London) Laura Fernandez Escritor colaborador, EDIT-PLACE; freelance journalist Felix Franz Head of communication and content, Hostwriter Laura Goehler Freelance (CNN International) Anna Hirtenstein Trainee reporter, Bloomberg; reporter, SNL Financial; country editor, The Oil & Gas Year; reporter, Bloomberg Valentina Ieri Intern, UN Agency (New York); intern, IPS News Agency UN Bureau Juliette Ihler Journalist, Slate (Paris) Katie Iorio Freelance assistant newsdesk editor, CBS News London; associate producer, CNN International Lyana Kazharova Unknown Lara Kunze-Concewitz Reporter, Deutsche Presse Agentur; editorial intern, Monocle Eugenie Lambert Freelance reporter (Le Metropolitain); news reporter, lepetitjournal.com de Toronto; planning desk, CNN International Daphne Lambi Journalist and blogger Daria Landal Content editor, FilmDoo; fashion intern, Hearst Shkulev Media Li Liu Unknown Vincent Manancourt Features writer, Law Business Research Federica Marsi Freelance, unknown Ali Millington Deputy editor, editorin-chief, toastmagazine.co.uk; freelance copywriter, Barnaby Benson Ltd; reporter, Marketing Week; digital fashion editor, Fenwick Kaely Monahan Freelance (East Valley Tribune,The Phoenix New Times); editor, GetOut! Magazine Elisa Murgese Freelance Alessandra Pacelli news editor for PetSubjects (Dogs Today and Dogs Monthly magazines).

Victoria Pease Contributor, Suitcase Magazine; food, beverage and hospitality researcher, Stylus Innovation & Advisory; online editor, American Express magazines; editor, Gestalten Marcelo Pellegrini Filho Reporter, CartaCapital; producer and reporter, NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Stefano Pozzebon Reporter, Business Insider; freelance writer, Mediaplanet; series researcher, Lightbox Entertainment Jinan Rahma Unknown

Sarakshi Rai Rai Reporter, Firstpost. com; reporter, Khaleej Times Fay Rajpar Unknown Sasha Raspopina Freelance Rosanne Roobeek Planner, CNN International Simone Sarchix Unknown; unknown Gloria Schiavi Contributor, Glocalnews; UN correspondent, IPS Inter Press Service Jonathan Shkurko Content writer, Editec UK; freelance Setsabile Sibisi Head of Programmes, Swaziland Television Authority Jaide Timm-Garcia Freelance; associate producer. CNN Jessica Tradati PR and communication, Helpling; editorial assistant, outdoortest. com; writer, The Kathmandu Post; India and Nepal correspondent, L’Indro Gian Volpicelli Freelance (Vice) Sanne Wass Freelance; journalist, IranWire/Journalismisnotacrime.com Phoebe Yu Writer, The Source

NEWSPAPER Michael Allen Intern, Vice; content coordinator, Guardian; freelance (Vice, Geodis); airfinance journal reporter (Middle East and Africa), Euromoney institutional Investor Christopher Arden Sub-editor, The Times Neal Baker News and web editor, The Drinks Business Tom Batchelor Freelance, i; political reporter, Politics Home Alex Binley Digital journalist, Express and Star Jemma Buckley Showbiz reporter, Daily Mail Sanya Burgess Digital editor, Royal Television Society; reporter and deputy online news editor, The Sunday Times Elliot Cass North Wilts reporter, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard; journalist, CHILDS RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK - CRIN Natasha Clark Reporter, PoliticsHome; digital production sub-editor, The Sunday Times;digital journalist – Red Box (The Times) Freddie Corb-Nathan Trainee, The Sun Harriet Crawford Trainee reporter, Mail on Sunday; radio and tv district reporter, BBC South West Richard Crook Sub-editor, The Times (tablet edition); journalism trainee, BBC; producer, BBC Radio 4 today Siraf Datoo Political reporter, Buzzfeed UK Daniel Do Rosario Researcher, Stylus. com; freelance James Dutton Freelance (Goal UK); editor, The False Nine; freelance writer, FourFourTwo, Eurosport and MailOnline Sam Fishwick Features writer and editorial assistant, ES Magazine Hannah Flint Reporter, Mail on Sunday James Gheerbrant Broadcast journalist, BBC Sport Natalie Gil Journalist and content coordinator, Guardian Students Frankie Goodway Trainee sub-editor, The Times Faisal Hanif Freelance; reporter, The Times Catherine Hardy Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail David Hughes Reporter, Press Association Josh Jackman Reporter, The Jewish Chronicle Sarah Karacs Reporter, South China Morning Post Joe Kavanagh Reporter, Airfinance Journal Katie Marston Freelance; civil servant,

2014-2015 UK Government Jacob Mignano Trainee sub-editor, The Sun Caroline Mortimer Reporter, Evening Standard; digital sub-editor, The Times; news reporter, West End Extra; online reporter, The Independent Roisin O’Connor Social media assistant, The Independent Marese O’Sullivan Sub-editor and iPad edition designer, The Guardian; online journalist, UTV Media Tom Payne News reporter and newsdesk forward planner, Daily Mail Alisha Rouse Trainee reporter, Daily Mail Rozina Sabur Trainee reporter, The Daily Telegraph; assistant planning editor, The Daily Telegraph Joe Sandler Clarke Journalist, Child Rights International Network; content co-ordinator, The Guardian Isambard Scrimshire Unknown Jonny Singer Freelance, Daily Mail, The Blizzard; sub-editor, The Sunday Times; sports reporter, MailOnline Hannah Skellern Sub-editor, The Times Georgia Snow Journalist and critic, The Stage Eleanor Steafel Reporter, The Daily Telegraph; Dan Tookey Strategy manager, newsfixed.com; sub-editor, Sidetracked; freelance (Vice) Oscar Williams Content co-ordinator, Guardian Media Network; freelance (Vice)

MAGAZINE Charles Allenby Editorial assistant at Forth Studio; staff writer, John Brown Isabelle Aron Intern, The Debrief; digital content manager, PRWeek; blog writer, Time Out Imogen Beecroft Editorial assistant, August Media Max Benwell Writer and commissioning editor, Independent Voices, The Independent Sarah Biddlecombe Lifestyle assistant, Daily Express Saturday magazine; features assistant, Stella Magazine Lucinda Borrell Health reporter, Cogora; business reporter, Ten Alps, freelance (Financial Times Group, Money Saving Expert) Kathryn Bromwich Contributor, Dazed & Confused, Little White Lies; commissioning editor, Observer New Review Jennifer Chattaway Celebrity intern, Reveal magazine; account executive, REACT Surveys Ltd. Annabelle Collins Reporter, Chemist + Druggist Kasia Delgado Writer/researcher, RadioTimes.com Jack Dutton Freelance; sub editor, Metro (tablet edition); intern, Business Insider; reporter, Airfinance Journal (EMEA and India) Hannah Ewens Paid intern,Vice; freelance (Vice, Noisey, Kerrang, The Debrief, The Daily Telegraph); news writer, Dazed Digital Huw Fullerton Writer/researcher, RadioTimes.com Jack Gilbert Freelance (Vice, Index Censorship) William Grice Freelance (Bauer Media, Redwood); features assistant, GQ; online news reporter, The Independent Oliver Griffin Contributing editor, The Culture Trip; web reporter, Economia; freelance (Colombia/Latin America) Simon Gwynn FMCG reporter, The

Grocer Chloe Hay Contributing editor, Total Women’s Cycling, Factory Media; contributing editor, The Culture Trip; product and shoot coordinator, IKEA Family Live magazine Dominic Holbrook Freelance, (Good Things Magazine, Institute for Optimum Nutrition, Men’s Health); senior staff writer, Amuseum Magazine) Alexander Horne Reporter, Estates Gazette Samuel Horti Reporter, Chemist + Druggist Ralph Jones Writer, StudentBeans; freelance (The Guardian,Vice, Jezebel, New Humanist, The Toast, New Statesman); writer, ShortList Christina Kenny Staff writer and editor, Sinfini Music Peter Klein Assistant features editor, Newsquest (North West); editorial assistant, Immediate Media co Katherine Landergan Correspondent and producer, Boston Globe, and digital producer, Bostonglobe.com; reporter, Politico Joshua Lowe Assistant digital editor, Prospect and editor, Prospector UK Anna Matheson Editorial assistant, features writer, Essentials and Good To Know Suzanna McCracken Associate editor, Total Women’s Cycling; freelance subeditor (Time Out, Inside Housing, Sinfini) Sarah Parsons Reporter, Retail Express and betterretailing.com; researcher, Firecrest Films Francesca Peak Managing editor, The Daily; freelance feature writer, T3; editorial assistant, Baku International Delia Piccinini Freelance; MouthLondon Emma Powell Online showbiz and lifestyle journalist, Evening Standard Laura Price Website and content editor, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Helen Pye Content editor, MSN UK; junior features assistant, Event magazine, Mail on Sunday; entertainment reporter, Press Association Julia Richardson Books assistant, Daily Mail Amber Rolt News reporter, Estates Gazette Eleanor Ross Content coordinator, journalist, The Guardian, and travel writer, Good Things Magazine, Food and Travel Magazine Emma Shone Features editor, Everything Theatre; marketing manager, The Espinosa Centre; reporter, Road Transport Media Eve Simmons Junior editorial assistant, FT; editorial assistant, The Female Lead Gwendolyn Smith Features assistant, Pulse; junior features assistant at Event at the Mail on Sunday Barbara Speed Staff writer, New Statesman/citymetric.com Deborah Weitzmann Managing editor, Jewish Quarterly; freelance diary reporter, Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday; account executive, The 10 Group

BROADCAST Rachel Anderson assistant news editor (freelance), Channel 4 News; assistant news editor (freelance), ITV News; output producer, Sky News Dylan Baker Data manager, Home Loan Internet Exchange; chief operating officer, Creative Agenda Group; business analyst, Haventrust Ltd Adam Barr Co-founder and senior reporter, Referendum Boys; earth hour officer, WWF UK; head of online video and podcasts, Frontline Club Charitable

Trust Olivia Bateman Unknown Fiona Belcher Unknown Katherine Boyce Unknown Ade Bradley News and media relations manager, Action for Children; freelance (ITN); broadcast journalist/assistant producer, BBC Charlotte Brehaut Assistant Producer, RT; BBC South Today. BBC News; Assistant Producer, France 24 Symeon Brown Freelance, The Guardian; reporter, Channel 4 Kris Brunt-Seymour Video desk, Press Association; freelance (Monocle); senior correspondent, Incisive Media Dominic Chase Assistant coordinator/ editor, The Teen Appeal Ashley Coates Trainee to CEO UK and EMEA, Weber Shandwick; parliamentary assistant to MP, House of Commons Harry Darkins Journalist, Radio France Internationale; output producer, Al Jazeera English; broadcast journalist, BBC News Sarah Dawkins Researcher (Home News Planning), text producer, Sky; planning producer, Sky Jennifer Deming Freelance producer, Made In Manchester; freelance assistant news desk editor, CBS News (London); general assignment reporter, KFYR-TV NBC North Dakota News/West Dakota Fox Vidhi Doshi News trainee, ITV; freelance (The Guardian, Delayed Gratification, The Observer, Narratively, The Atlantic, Love and Radio) Sarah Duffy Journalist, Sky; assistant news editor, Channel 5 News; freelance (Channel 5 News, Sky News, ITN Productions) Samuel Emden Head of network operations, NewsFixed Ltd; campaign researcher, British Red Cross; special advisor to the director general, Institute of Directors Niall Fitzmaurice Production assistant, Share Radio; freelance researcher, Newstalk 106-108, broadcast assistant/ freelance broadcast journalist, Radio Ireland T/A Today FM Nancy Fleming Researcher and shoot assistant, Juniper TV; political researcher, ITV News; journalist, Radio France Internationale James Galley Freelance (SeaMedia) Leigh-Ann Gerrans Freelance Ritika Gupta Segment producer, Bloomberg TV Chris Hackett Freelance (ITN; Time 107.5); assistant producer, ITN Christopher Hall Freelance Morgan Hammond Broadcast journalist, researcher, BBC Radio Wales Gregory Helmich Unknown Sophie Jamieson Freelance, ITN; reporter, The Telegraph Phoebe Janner Day runner, FremantleMedia; production runner, FremantleMedia Kimberley Johnson Unknown Shehnaz Khan Freelance multimedia journalist (Yahoo! Celebrity UK, Millward Brown, The Huffington Post) Will Leonardo Freelance news journalist (Associated Press, BBC London Radio) Joe Lord-Jones Graduate trainee, ITN; Washington producer, ITN Toyah Marondel Freelance features writer (Discover Benelux Magazine) Jess Martin Runner, BBC Countryfile Jamie McConkey Producer, BBC News Channel and News at One Tasha McDonald Unknown Alice McShane Unknown Celestina Olulode Reporter, BBC London News Haley Ott Deputy news editor, Al Jazeera Media Network; foreign editor, cbsnews.com; freelance

Lara Owen Freelance broadcast journalist (Radio Beijing) Andrew Papadopoulos Editorial assistant, Input Media Jesse Peacock Freelance Ryan Ramgobin Co-creator, The Referendum Boys; co-founder, Zbeckabee; video journalist, The Independent Dominic Roarty Assistant news editor and producer, ITV News, ITN; senior domain expert, Dataminr Inc. Gemma Saggers Sales manager, Harrods Natalie Salmon Junior development researcher, Love Productions; associate video producer and presenter, 90min James Savundra Assistant producer, talkSPORT Victoria Scholar CNBC Caitlin Sewell Freelance (Malaysia) Anishka Sharma Radio producer, Whistledown Productions Rose Slavin Media assistant, Royal Opera House; assistant content producer, Royal Opera House Bryony Waite Broadcast journalist, Celador Radio Max Walsh Production journalist, ITV West Country Alexander Wolfe Senior reporter, That’s TV Oxford; account executive intern, Brands2Life Charlotte Wright Reporter, Global Radio

TV CAJ Sunya Ali Researcher/assistant producer, ITN Alastair Ballantyne Digital team, RTS Media; EC parliamentary assistant, Parlement Europeen Greg Bianchi Co-founder, senior editor, Pandeia; communications associate, Ofcom Sara Crossley Account executive, Mindshare Gabi Darlington Video producer, ITN Mau Gris Filmmaker Natasha Hancock Freelance (United Arab Emirates) Sam Holder Production journalist, ITV Meridian Cass Horowitz Assistant news editor, ITV news; Andrew Marr show production team, BBC; researcher, Raw TV Greg Jacobs Reporter, Press Association Marie Kamprath Editorial intern, taz. de (Berlin); online editor, site and social media management, Cicero Online Hannah Levy Logger, Raw Television; junior development researcher, Liberty Bell Media LLC; community manager at Deliveroo Emerald Maxwell Researcher and runner, BBC Andrew Marr Show; freelance assistant producer (France24) Rosie Mercer Researcher, ITV; researcher, BBC; production journalist, ITV Nastja Pastor Kubrak Unknown Roshni Patel Video journalist, Big Centre TV Gemma Perlin Freelance (Novel, Raw, Vice); Diary and health editor, About Time; social media manager, KEO films Ellie Pitt Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Gloucestershire; reporter and presenter, Made in Bristol TV Monika Plaha Video journalist and presenter, Sheffield Live TV Leonie Puscher Freelance TV journalist, (RTL, Pro7, SAT1) Mathew Roache Unknown Philipp Sandmann Reporter, Citywire Germany; trainee journalist axel springer akademie Selina Seth Freelance journalist (ITV);

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2015 researcher, BBC; researcher at The Saturday Show, Princess Productions; financial researcher; The Martin Lewis Money Show Aqib Shaikh Digital reporter, Tech City Insider; television diversity manager, City University London; freelance journalist (ITV); multimedia journalist, Newedge Talks; lifestyle writer, Polarity UK; fashion writer, We Plug Good Music; news trainee, ITV Tashi Skervin Trainee sports journalist, BBC; marketing director, Sports Philosophy Rebecca Stewart Runner, ITN; researcher, Women in Broadcasting; digital multimedia producer, Royal Television Society;VT producer, Arise News; digital multimedia producer; Royal Television Society; assistant news editor, ITN; researcher, 7 wonder productions Lois Swinnerton Reporter, Citywire; assistant producer, ID2 Media Ltd.; reporter and presenter, Big Centre TV Georgiana Tudor Assistant videographer, Middlesex University; segment producer, Bloomberg TV Jessica Wakefield France24 English

INVESTIGATIVE Roddy Ashworth Freelance investigative journalist Tom Belger Feature writer, Liverpool Echo; coordinator, UpRising Liverpool Sara Beremenyi Intern, CNN; edit producer,Vital Television; researcher, FilmArt

Justin Cash Reporter, Legal Week chief reporter, Citywire Patrick Edwards Unknown Freya Findlay Trainee reporter, News & Star, Cumberland News Magdalena Gawlicka Freelance

journalist; project coordinator, The Centre for Investigative Journalism; reporter ITN Productions; researcher, Chambers and Partners Roger Hamilton-Martin Intern correspondent, intern Press Service, freelance (The Guardian) Luke Lythgoe Editorial assistant; Prospect, editorial assistant, Al Jazeera; staff writer; Press Association Richard Moran Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Philip Nye Contributor, Hackney Citizen; freelance journalist; Academies Week Ashley Pace Investigator, Children’s Law Center Navneet Pall Freelance videographer, photographer and editor Clare Pennington Freelance, The Sunday Times, online editor, Duty Free News International and Travel Retail International; editor, Agri Investor Alex Regan Reporter, The Oxford Mail; broadcast journalist at BBC News South Alix Robertson Staff writer, Funds Europe Olivia Rudgard Intern, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; editorial trainee, The Daily Telegraph Rachel Schraer freelance, TES; Community Care Saima Selim Unknown Kadhim Shubber Reporter, Financial Times Natasha Tsangarides Researcher, Medical Justice freelance Laura Wilkinson Freelance, The Independent; news and current affairs researcher at BBC Scotland

SCIENCE

Abby Beall Energy journalist, ICIS; freelance (NewScientist) market reporter, ICIS Shivali Best Account executive, Ogilvy CommonHealth UK; health information

ELEANOR BLEY-GRIFFITHS Showbiz reporter, Press Association, Magazine 2015

What would you do differently if you could go back to City?

I had a busted writing hand at the start of City, so I couldn’t take shorthand - but I wish I had been able to. It would make press conferences and telephone interviews much easier.

The weirdest thing you’ve had to do during an internship?

When I was 15, I was asked to sort out a couple of boxes labelled “badly dubbed porn”.

Your biggest scoop?

Harper Lee was such a private person that it was very difficult to get the news of her death verified.

I spoke to the mayor’s office in her native Monroeville, Alabama, phoned everyone I could think of. It paid off: we were - I believe - the first in the UK to report the death and the first in the world to obtain the family statement.

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What made you want to become a journalist?

When I was 10 I persuaded my teacher to sign the class up to write for a children’s newspaper. I wanted to write an article about our local McDonald’s, headlined: “The chips are down”. I didn’t get to write that, but I did get a chance to interview our local MP - Glenda Jackson. I was frustrated that she didn’t answer the questions properly, but I kept returning to the idea of becoming a journalist, and by the time I went to university I had decided.

Lucy Alderson

officer, Breast Cancer Now Ione Bingley Video content director, Dojo; intern Ambulante Documentary Film Festival Emma Bullough Unknown Misha Gajewski Science media officer, Cancer Research UK Cristina Gallardo Ortega Reporter, Research Europe Mi Hoang Unknown Richard Kemeny Intern, Economist Omar Khalil News editor, Otto Comms & PR Safya Khan-Ruf Reporter, Research Europe; Freelancer; The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Jenny Mccall Freelance (Al Arabiya News); freelance journalist and producer, Associated Press Lindsay Mckenzie Deputy editor, Catalyst Science News, reporter; Research Jack Millner Assistant communities’ editor, science and technology reporter, MailOnline Deborah-Fay Ndhlovu Unknown Vicki Parsons Editor-at-large, Festival Hunter; journalist, Bureau of Investigative Journalism Nam Perera Unknown Tom Rodgers Market reporter, ICIS Heren Rasika Sittamparam Unknown Keir Stone-Brown Editor-in-chief, Catalyst Science News; freelance (BMJ, Men’s Health Forum)

FINANCIAL Sarah Ainsworth Capital markets analyst/reporter, Euromoney Jack Aldane Trainee reporter, Bloomberg; Correspondent, Reuters; managing editor; Trade and Forfaiting Review Celine Aswad Investment strategy analyst, NCB Capital, business writer Al Arabiya News Channel; GCC equities market correspondent, Reuters Xuhuizi (Vicky) Chen Physicals reporter, FastMarkets Ltd Luigi Cipriani Staff reporter, La Freccia (Italy) William Clarke Argus market reporter, Argus Media Tom Davies Business producer, BBC News; freelance producer; CNBC tutor, IDK Tuition Patrick Ferguson Reporter, Law Business Research (New York); reporter LatinFinance; reporter, Argus Media Sean Gibson SEO executive, The Daily Telegraph; cofounder, Pandeia Network Bernard Goyder Reporter, Acquisitions Daily (Mumbai); reporter financial news Leandre Ibar Penaba Freelance (Spanish/Catalan press); reporter, Global Corporate Venturing Nora Juswar Presenter, Capital TV (Singapore) Sophie Lewisohn Communications director, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIM), editorial manager, OMFIM, journalist; ADE Faiza Malik Economist - World in 2015 Caroline Ping Reuters Singapore Bureau Toni Sekinah Reporter, Tech City Insider Jon Sindreu Larranaga Economics reporter, Wall Street Journal Sarah Squires Teacher, Kings College Mikkel Stern-Peltz Nordic Private equity reporter, Unquote; Nordic reporter, Unquote Rochelle Toplensky Lex columnist, Financial Times Susan Vende Public relations and communications, Public Sector

INTERACTIVE Rachel Banning-Lover Journalist and content coordinator, The Guardian Thomas Bayley News UK Zach Boren Digital journalist, The Independent, and energy journalist, Greenpeace EnergyDesk; investigative journalist, Greenpeace Laura Cantadori Editorial designer, BBC Visual Journalism Billy Ehrenberg–Shannon Data journalist, CityAM Joe Hall Daily Mirror; Online journalist, CityAM Sophie Murray Morris Social media, MSN UK; assistant social media editor, Metro.co.uk Anthony Organ Community development intern, The Conversation; gaming blogger; brand manager, Sales Superstar; marketing content writer, growth engineering Ltd. Daniele Palumbo Trinity Mirror; Data journalist, Property Week Patrick Scott Data journalist, Trinity Mirror Sarah Spickernell Science, healthcare and technology writer, CityAM client reporting associate, Insight Investment Nassos Stylianou CityAM; Data and interactive journalist, BBC News Chris Sutcliffe Journalist, themediabriefing.com Sophie Warnes Data journalist, ampp3d, Daily Mirror date strategist, Hill+Knowlton Strategies Aleksandra Wisniewska Trainee journalist, Financial Times; freelance data journalist, Import.io

ERASMUS Joshua Aden Radio host, Aarhus Lokalradio 98.7 Roop Gill Editorial manager at state. com, london Laia Gordi i Vila Assistant producer and Tariq Ali’s researcher, Dartmouth Films Limited, London Yao Guo Freelance commissioning editor (Lonely Planet, Beijing) Sofia Karadima Unknown Maximiliane Koschyk Editorial intern, Monocle; editorial trainee, Deutche Welle Jesper Lassen Unknown Hangwei Li Programmes director, 5fm Radio and Global Max Media Group; guest lecturer, University of Zambia Elsy Melkonian Journalist, Radio Al-Balad, Amman, Jordan; journalism and media outreach officer, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture Khac Nguyen Unknown Santiago Saez Moreno News producer assistant, CNBC International; freelance Anne Steinbach Web editor, Travelbird (Germany); trainee, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; editor, Blendle; coauthor, Lilies Diary Denghui Sun Reporter, Bloomberg BusinessWeek (Beijing) Karina Sventitskayte Food and drink Industry analyst,Visiongain Kristina Tashkevich Web editor, RFE/ RL

2015 INTERNATIONAL

2015 Olivia Acland Shifts at The Independent; freelance writer, The Guardian Lucy Adler unknown Akhil Arora Sub-editor NDTV Gadgets 360 Camille Ayral Contributor photographer, Rover Images; photographer, reporter, The Argentina Independent Octavia Bell Producer (freelance), Bloomberg Radhika Bhatnagar National Associate Officer, UNESCO Filippo Brachetti Intern, Lonely Planet Melissa Bradshaw Freelance (The Guardian, POP magazine, BBC Music, Red Bull Music Academy, The Quietus, Plan B); Communications officer, UCL Olivia Tsz Ling Chan unknown Caroline Chauvet unknown Katrine Bouschinger Christensen unknown Francis Churchill Freelance (The Guardian) Ingrid Cobben Researcher for Unreported World, Channel 4; broadcast journalist, NOS; media editor, WAN-IFRA Kate Cooper Volunteer, DRIP Uganda, Front of house staff, Off to Work Hugh Davies unknown Aditya Dhunna Supervisor for Pre Poll Survey, Taleem foundation; junior assistant producer; NewsX Naomi Omamuli Emiko Assistant market editor, MONROWE Magazine; co-founder and creative director, TheManche.com; freelance fashion stylist; editor, SHUMACHER GmbH Inês Fressynet Assistant, Saywho.fr Aristos Georgiou unknown Giles Gibson Freelance production assistant, CNN Giovanna Girardi Contributor, The Post Internazionale; Press Officer, Fondazione Cinema per Roma Marianna Giusti Freelance reporter, Share Radio; Researcher, BBC Annick Goerens Freelance reporter RTL; Broadcast Journalist and Presenter, RTL Laura Gozzi Features Writer, Upstart Magazine Charlaine Grosse-Lopez Junior researcher, Al Jazeera English; researcher/ AP at ITN Researcher, Al Jazeera English Productions, Elizabeth Jackson Production Runner, Al Jazeera Kate Johnson Researcher and writer Stylus Innovation and Advisory Helena Kardova Film apprentice, Monocle Shaheena Kassam Unknown Mica Kelmachter Unknown Hanna Kuchar Internship, RT Moscow Claire Lancaster Researcher, Monocle; writer, Progressive Media International Josephine Le Blond Freelance Xuefei Li Unknown Gisella Ligios Intern, Share Radio Nicole Lim Unknown Peter Lind Freelance correspondent (DR Danmarks Radio, The Independent, New Internationalist,Vice) Alexander Longley News editor, Upstart Magazine; summer news intern and reporter, Bloomberg LP Teresa López Editorial intern, BRIC Plus Magazine Barbara Loundou Unknown Michal Magusin Reporter, .tyzden Nicholas Marsh Radio news producer, BBC Mariangela Maturi Freelance, Il Fatto Quotidiano Amy Mcconaghy Journalist, The Frontline Club Morgan Meaker Freelance, Guardian Sara Meij Journalist, Fairfax Media Ragnhild Melbye Communications advisor, Kikkut

Akino Ming Unknown Sara Monetta Deputy news editor, TRT World James Nickerson Reporter, City AM Marianna Nicolaou Unknown Elena Nikulicheva Producer, Radio Baltika Isabel Nix Unknown Nessma Nowar Unknown Nina Olsen Journalist and TV producer, Metronome Zoe Paskett Freelance, Are We On Time?

Heenali Patel Planning producer and digital features, CNN Javier Pérez Freelance (Al Jazeera, Público, Funkhaus Europa, M’Sur) Gianluca Pezzuti Editor, The Overdub Rosanna Victoria Philpott Assistant producer, Thomson Reuters Anne Pouzargues Assistant editor, France 24 Lee Roberts Unknown Federica Romaniello Journalist, Monocle Julia Ronyai Intern, BBC Documentaries Alexandra Sarabia Broadcast news assistant, PBS Newshour Katharina Semke Staff reporter, Incisive Media; reporter, unquote” Shebani Shah Unknown Yingchang Shi Social media officer, CCTV news Lea Surugue Freelance web and radio journalist (Pourquoi Docteur, Fréquence M) Lina Törnqvist Journalist, Aftonbladet TV Friederike Trumpa Unknown Robert Van Egghen Intern, Investment Perspectives, Share Radio Marta Vigneri Junior expert, Landells Mills Ltd Dimple Vijaykumar Digital producer, Rory Peck Trust Ana Villa Sánchez Lifestyle and fashion reporter, Quién Magazine Anneloes Viskil Multimedia editor/coordinator, Reed Business Information William Worley Freelance (The Independent)

NEWSPAPER Jacob Burman Unknown Agnes Chambre Reporter, PoliticsHomes Emily Chan Trainee reporter, MailOnline Bryony Clarke Freelance and trainee sub-editor Jack Cummings Chief reporter, The Tab Poppy Danby Trainee reporter, MailOnline Samuel Dean Freelance Louis Dore Freelance online reporter, The Independent Siobhan Fenton Writer, The Independent Matthew Gilley Freelance Justin Guthrie Sub-editor and sports writer, Manchester Evening News Emily Hodgkin Reporter, Islington Gazette; freelance, Daily Mail Alice Johnston Sub-editor, The Guardian; freelance, Daily Mail Laura Lambert Trainee news reporter; Daily Mail Miranda Larbi Editorial fellow, BuzzFeed; social media journalist, The Times Benjamin Lazarus Trainee reporter, The Sun Tanveer Mann Reporter, MailOnline Jessica Mckay Trainee reporter, Scottish Daily Mail Mary O’Connor Reporter, The Sunday

Times Samuel Osborne Online news reporter, The Independent Thomas Ough Editorial trainee, Telegraph Media Group Fiona Parker Trainee reporter, National News Aaron Payne Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail Gabriel Samuels Digital sub-editor, Sunday Times; news reporter, MailOnline Nicola Slawson Journalist, The Guardian Robert Smith Trainee sub-editor; Daily Mail Katharine Strick Trainee reporter; Daily Mail Ben Stupples Journalist; Bloomberg Billionaire Index Alice Tchernookova Editorial assistant, Garage Magazine Christopher Tilbury Production editor, Prospect Magazine Benjamin Tufft Reporter, Herald Scotland Charlotte Wace Reporter, Mail on Sunday Alexander Ward News reporter, Caters News Agency Jessica Ware Reporter, Sunday Post and MailOnline Amitai Winehouse Grad scheme – Sports, MailOnline Tom Witherow Journalist, Daily Mail Matthew Atherton Science reporter, International Business Times Fiona Dennehy Press Officer, Caner Research UK Lindsay Dodgson Science journalist and energy feature writer, Progressive Digital Media James Gaines Freelance science journalist (Seattle) Caitlin Hamilton Communications officer, Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres (ECMC) Network Richard Hodson Supplements editor, Nature Publishing Group Sara Naraghi Editor-in-chief, Science 151 Ines Nastali Freelance, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, SciDev.Net, MIT Technology Review; Industry reporter, The Marine Professional Kevin Pollock Photo editor, writer, social media manager, Medical Research Council; freelance, SciDev.Net

MAGAZINE Bethan Andrews Editorial assistant, Archant Laurence Bartleet Freelance (NME) Victoria Beardwood Writer, Ink Global Henry Bird Trainee sub-editor. Evening Standard Helena Blackstone Freelance (The New york Times, The Independent, ES Magazine, The Sunday Times, Huffington Post) Eleanor Bley Griffiths Junior writer, Showbiz & Entertainment, Press Association Anna Cafolla Digital assistant, Dazed & Confused Mariana Cerqueira Digital editorial intern, GoodToKnow Lauren Clark Editorial assistant, Women’s Health Elinore Court Freelance, Cosmopolitan Thomas Cox Author Andrew Doherty Freelance, Now Magazine Sophie Eastaugh Digital assistant producer, CNN International Alexander Flood Freelance writer, Sunday Times Ellie Flynn Online news reporter, The Sun

Bethany Gault Intern, Woman/Woman’s Own Alexandra Genova Trainee reporter, MailOnline (New York) Salma Haidrani unknown Thomas Howells Online sub-editor and writer, Wallpaper Naomi Larsson Content co-ordinator, The Guardian Robert McCallum Staff writer, Loaded; freelance, Mixmag Katharine O’Malley Editorial assistant, Stylist magazine Ketsuda Phoutinane Freelance (UK and USA) Natasha Preskey Digital intern, Cosmopolitan UK; content coordinator, GoThinkBig; acting editorial assistant, Waitrose Food; staff writer, Hexjam Katherine Price Freelance digital editorial assistant, Gurgle.com Jessica Roseblade Lifestyle & features assistant, Brides magazine Kate Samuelson Trainee reporter, MailOnline Lia Sanders Unknown Reenat Sinay City desk correspondent, Boston Globe James Smurthwaite Junior writer, Cycling Weekly Francesca Specter Editorial assistant, Healthy Magazine Mona Tabbara Editorial assistant,Virgin Media, Redwood Harriet Thorpe Account executive, Pelham Communications Emily Wadsworth Writer, List for Life, TimeInc Sam Warner Freelance entertainment reporter, Digital Spy

BROADCAST Anthony Adeane Assistant producer, Mosaic Films Sophia Alipour Trainee production journalist, ITV News Tyne Tees Andrew Arthur Freelance text producer, Sky Rachel Bradley Broadcast assistant, BBC; assistant producer, Global Radio; News trainee ITV news Carys Brain Freelance journalist, Heart Radio East; freelance producer Sky News Digital; development researcher, Lightbox Media Amy Brawn Online marketing graduate, The Hut Group Cecile Brisson Digital content and commissioning editor, Incisive Media Ailsa Cameron Researcher – The Agenda ITV1 Catherine Cartwright Unknown Athena Clements Creative solutions executive,Vizeum UK Louis Degenhardt Freelance output producer, Sky News Vicki-Jane Edwards Broadcast assistant/reporter, BBC Charles Engwell Newsreader, BBC Radio Leeds Lloyd Evans Delicatessen supervisor, Macknade Barnaby Fry Production journalist ITV Jeremy Fullam unknown Hollie Goodall Broadcast assistant, BBC London 94.9; video journalist, Cambridge TV Adam Griffiths Broadcast assistant, BBC; production journalist, London Live ESTV Bridie Hawkins-Hyndley Account management executive, Sky James Hayhoe Freelance talkSPORT; Head of media and communications, Newport County AFC Emily Horler Freelancer, Create; reporter and video journalist, Finextra

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2015 Lucinda Horsley Freelance broadcast journalist (Eagle Radio, Media Sound Holdings, Spirit FM, Anglian Radio, Celador Radio, Global Radio) Christopher Humphris Producer and travel reporter, LBC Ashna Hurynag Trainee production journalist, ITV news Su-Min Hwang Video journalist/ producer, Press association Amelia Jenkinson Co-founder, London is Fem; Programme coordinator, CoachBright Waylon Johnston Freelance planning producer, Sky Oliver Kerry Editorial assistant, Perform Group Alice Key Freelance, ITV; news trainee ITV Cymru Wales Hannah Kings C5 News, ITN Thomas Larkin Researcher, ITN Productions; assistant news editor, ITN; producer, Sky Megan Lawton Snapchat Discover Team, Sky; programme assistant, Sky; freelance (ITV, LBC) Claire Linstead Broadcast journalist Mix96 Andre Lombard Freelance (Sky, BBC, Commonwealth Human Ecology Council) Leo Lord-Jones Producer evening output, Sky Mollie Malone Stand up be counted contributor, Sky; assistant producer, Sky; Producer, Sky News George Martindale Freelance, Planning Desk Sky; World of Sport writer, Sports Digest; Communications Assistant AFC Bournemouth Thomas Mason DJ/Producer, Tom Thunder; digital director, World of CEOs Hazel Morgan Freelance assistant news editor, Channel 5; freelance assistant producer, BBC Woman’s Hour James Murphy Researcher, BT Sport Rugby Jonathan North Communications officer, Watford Football Club Oscar Pearson Journalist BBC Larysa Semeniuk unknown Joceline Sharman News reporter, This is Global Oliver Sly unknown Tim Smith Video campaign director; Campaign for the NHS Reinstatement Bill 2015; Podcast Intern, The Guardian Rachel Stanton Freelance (Three Counties Radio BBC, LBC) Madeleine Trimmer Assistant news editor, Channel 5; news assistant, Associated Press; assistant producer – Washington Bureau ITN Alice Udale-Smith Producer Sky News Jessica Waite Broadcast Journalism tutor, Reach Cambridge; documentary editor, Postcode Films; researcher, Discovery Channel Gordon Watson Freelance broadcast journalist (BBC, Sky) Rosamund Wright unknown Yetunde Yusuf Broadcast journalist, BBC News

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Alexandra Aljoe Presenter, Chelsea TV; sports producer, reporter, ITV News; presenter, reporter, Real Madrid TV Giulia Aloisio News writer, researcher, translator,VICE Media, Inc.; assistant producer, Associated Press Television News (Rome); political blogger, Polinice. org; writer and editor, Britaly Post Charles Atkin Assistant producer, Racing UK; assistant news editor, ITV News; assistant video editor, The Independent

Michaela Aveline BBC London Patrick Baker Producer, Sky Alyx Barker Assistant news editor, ITN Stephanie Bosset Freelance researcher, Channel 4; freelance photojournalist Thomas Brada Freelance video journalist, Press Association Katherine Brantley Unknown Emily Canfor-Dumas Researcher, Crackit Productions; researcher, Channel 5; freelance, The Andrew Marr Show; researcher, CNBC Vieri Capretta PR Intern, Embassy of Italy UK; contributor, JN24.it; contributor, fiorentinanews.com; researcher, BBC News Anna Carlson Junior reporter, Timetric; video adviser, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Holly Collins Freelance, ON-Broadcast Communications; assistant news editor, ITV News; programme assistant, ITV Francesca Docherty Factual documentaries intern, CTVC Ltd; news trainee, ITV Jack Hillcox Researcher, October Films; freelancer, Sky; writer, State; researcher, Nutopia, intern, Spring Films Ltd; political commentator, BackBench; social media producer, Sky Simon Holmes general election logger, ITN; web editor intern, CBS News; editor, The Oil & Gas Year; web writer, teleSUR English Marija Jukneviciute unknown Conor Lane Intern, ESPN; freelance Francesca Lynagh Logger, ITV; video desk, Press Association; TV editorial support, Reuters News Agency Alexandra Marshall Production assistant, BBC; producer, Sky News Sunrise James Mitchell Unknown Alexander Morgan Unknown George Negas Video journalist, Press Association; production assistant, ITV News; production assistant, ITN; journalism technical instructor, City University; visiting lecturer, City University Thomas Newton Stringer, Sky; researcher, BBC; researcher, Sky; researcher, City University; producer, Sky News Daniel Pashley Intern, ITV Business News Desk; assistant news editor, ITV News Saleh Sadi Unknown Eleanor Spolton-Dean Client services, The House Sean Stanfield Research intern, UK Bureau news desk; Production runner, Sky Elaine Stroh Business development representative, Salesforce Sandrine Tabalo Digital media intern, Royal Tevlevision Society Terri-Ann Williams Intern, ITN

INVESTIGATIVE Elaine Allaby Unknown Anna Behrmann Journalist, Ham & High Tiziana Romana Buscemi Unknown John Casey Lex publisher, Financial Times Matteo Civillini Contributing writer, Calcio 2000; freelance (GOAL.com); intern, Centre for Investigative journalism; intern,VICE News Italia Hannah Cogan Travel editor, Trinity News; sales advisor, Mirabaud Capital Partners; freelance travel writer and

researcher Christian Eriksson Freelance (Private Eye, The Sunday Times) Rebecca Frith Unknown Neil Johnston Graduate trainee, The Times Emily Keen Editor, Prison Watch; researcher, Hardcash Productions Ekaterina Kravtcova Unknown Jonathan Mcnair Exposure analyst, Argenta Syndicate Management; analyst, Inspiratia Max Metzger Writer, Don’t Panic; freelance (Newsweek,VICE online, Canvas) Jordan Milne Trainee sub editor,YOU Magazine, Mail on Sunday Gesbeen Mohammad Unknown Alice Moore Campaigns and communications officer, Welsh Women’s Aid Elisabeth Perlman Freelance (How to Spend It Magazine) Niall Sargent Investigative researcher Victoria Seabrook Editor, Prison Watch UK; news editor, Hackney Citizen Neus Vidal-Marti Freelance (El Paìs)

SCIENCE Fathima Simjee Head of television unit, Health-e News (South Africa) Peter Stojanovic Staff writer, Hot Topics Jocelyn Timperley Writer, BusinessGreen Sylvia Tippmann Freelance researcher, BBC News Labs; freelance facilitator, Decoded

FINANCIAL Irina Andreea Deveau Managing partner, To The Top Manisha Jha News reporter, Bloomberg LP William Martin Markets reporter, Business Insider Chie Matsuki unknown Hannah Murphy Journalist, Financial Times Nidhi Pandurangi Market reporter, Argus Media Daniel Rzasa Reporter Citywire Michael Samueli Fixed income reporter, Debtwire Jonathan Stibbs reporter, ICIS Eilidh Wagstaff report, CNBC

INTERACTIVE Hamza Ali Staff Writer, Environmental Finance Douglas Bolton Tech/science report, The Independent Nicole Chang Lin unknown Mark Critchley Digital sports reporter, The Independent Jonathan Frayman Management Consultant, PwC UK Clara Guibourg Journalist, City AM Keila Guimaraes PR account executive, Giusti Comunicacão Edith Hancock Elections results taker, Press Association; Diary Editor, City AM Benjamin Jackson Trainee subeditor,The Daily Mail; Trainee sub-editor, Metro UK Ashley Kirk Online reporter, City AM;

data journalist, The Telegraph Rebecca Sentence Intern, Share Radio Emily Shackleton Elections results taker, Press Association; freelance social media producer, Metro.co.uk Krystina Shveda Data journalist, Greenpeace; digital media consultant, City University London Samuel Walsh Social content manager, Websays

ERASMUS Mariana Alves Campos Unknown Marianna Aragao Financial journalist, Reorg Research Inc Luis Barrueto Wittig Unknown Debora Dongo-Soria Saito Web content editor, CT Arena; senior analyst, SE Semana Económica Katherine Dunn Reporter, Wall Street Journal Ana Escaso Moreno Communication trainee, European Parliament Leo Gack Journalist, Martange Productions Joao Grando Reporter, Mergermarket Greta Jankaityte Correspondent, Verslo žinios Margaryta Kirakosian Reporter, Citywire Global Sofia Lotto Persio Reporter, Global Trade Review Bryan McLure Consultant, Centre for Investigative Journalism; director, Bryan McLure Consulting; development manager, University of Hertfordshire Dieu Phan Unknown Meimei Qin Unknown Viktorija Rinkeviciute Freelance global video journalist, AJ+; marketing assistant, LIFE Residential UK Magnus Scherman Debt reporter, Reorg Research Inc Raphael Schleuning Unknown Viral Shah Freelance, European Institutional Investor Yan Shi Marketing communications professional Søren Simonsen Associate reporter, Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc Yasmin Wolkow Intern, Hamburg University of Technology Hong Zhou Unknown

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