XCity Magazine 2014

For Journalism Alumni of City University London

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Genius or loudmouth?

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ow has your job changed since you left City? New technology is reshaping everything we know about the media, and its impact on journalists runs right through this year’s issue of XCity.

When you hear the word “drone” the image of a deadly robotic predator hovering over Afghan wastes probably pops into your head. But on p80 Emma Powell explores how new unmanned reporter-bots are revolutionising video journalism.

Jennifer Chattaway has been investigating how the demand to produce 24 hour content for digital platforms is affecting our health. On p57, she speaks to those at the coalface to hear how they cope with the stress and exhaustion that working around the clock is causing.

Viral content, or “churnalism” as some call it, is probably older journalists’ greatest bugbear. But Julia Richardson, writing on p59, says there’s all sorts of benefits to new reporting techniques. From running rings round politicians to reinventing war dispatches, BuzzFeed, Vice, and other new media heavyweights have much to offer.

At UK newspapers the Evening Standard and The Independent, journalists are juggling notebooks with cameraphones, producing video for the new local TV station

London Live. Creative innovation or a take too far? I look into these developments on p61.

Some of the biggest scoops of the last few years have been data stories, from MPs’ expenses to the Snowden files. On p84 Max Benwell examines the future of the sector and why it matters.

Commentators say magazines printed on paper are on their way out, but the format has a descendant in the form of the tablet edition. Samuel Horti crunches the numbers and assesses who is getting this new medium right (and wrong) on p72.

Elsewhere, we have a beautifully crafted rant on the evils of Twitter from A A Gill (p21), analysis of the philosophy behind modern newsgathering from Alain De Botton (p20) and veteran newsreader Kay Burley tells of the pressure that comes with increased scrutiny from digital audiences (p36).

We’ve enjoyed putting together this bundle of dead trees, and we hope you find time between live blogging, data scraping, and piloting the newsroom’s satellite to enjoy it too.

Josh Lowe (editor)

STAFF LIST Editor Josh Lowe (@jeyylowe) Deputy Editor Kasia Delgado (@kasialdelgado) Managing Editor Eve Simmons (@EvieSimm) News Editor Oliver Griffin (@OliGGriffin) Deputy News Editor Katherine Landergan (@klandergan) Features Editor Eleanor Ross (@EllieRoss102) Deputy Features Editor Anna Matheson (@annamatheson) Listings Editor Jack Dutton (@jackvdutton) Deputy Listings Editor/ Advertising Manager Deborah Weitzmann (@debsweitzmann) Chief Sub-editor Samuel Horti (@Samuel_Horti) Deputy Chief Sub-editor Jennifer Chattaway (@JenniChattaway) Production Editor Barbara Speed (@bspeed8)

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Art Editor/ Deputy Advertising Manager Max Benwell (@maxbenwellreal) Deputy Production/Art Editor Suzie McCracken (@_suziemccracken)

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Staff Writers Peter Klein @Peter_Klein91

Lucinda Borrell @lucindaborrell

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CONTENTS NEWS 6. George Brock stands down 9. James Brown row as he tells students: “Drop out of City” 13. Sexcess for first-time novel 15. New data reveals top feeder universities for City MAs 17. Guardian defends axed MA

COMMENT 20. Alain de Botton

What the news is doing to us

21. A. A. Gill and Scott Bryan Debate: Twitter #love or #hate?

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22. Tales from the Lobby

What did Nick Robinson see in the loo?

Westminster secrets from political journalists

25. Rewriting the Script COVER STORY: The journalists starting a second act as scriptwriters

27. “The hated Peter Hitchens” 30. Brazil 1 Reporters 0 COVER STORY: Think covering the World Cup is a carnival? Think again

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34. Five of the best: Editors’ picks 36. Kay Burley

The Sky’s the limit for Britain’s longest serving female newsreader

39. News kids on the block

Five digital news sources to stay ahead of the game

40. My breakthrough photo 45. Must-have journalism gadgets 46. The Year of Moran

COVER STORY: Talking hangover cures, ABBA and social anxiety with Caitlin

50. The Fashion Edit

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Three fashion eds tell how they live their brand

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52. Subbing: A dying art?

54. Join the club

The best new haunts for hacks

57. 24/7 journalism: A hazard to your health 59. 2014: The year cats saved journalism

Viral news comes to the rescue

61. Hack of all trades

The rise of the multi-platform journo

64. The great escape

Great places to work away from the rush

66. Inflight mags take off

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67. Why should a baby ruin your career?

70. How to be a freelancer 72. Cracking the tablet

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Who’s finding digital difficult to swallow?

74. The untold story

The scandal of Brazil’s murdered small-town journalists

76. Breaking the code

Unencrypting the myths around coding

77. How far would you go?

How a young reporter’s struggle for a story ended in tragedy

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80. Here come the drones 82. Women at war: The battle for the front line 84. Data journalism by numbers

LISTINGS p86–145 “I waited around in an insanely hot city with Courtney Love for days before Cobain turned up” Turn to p106 for more gossip from alumni

146. Digital primitive or native Which are you? Play to find out!

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Brock stands down Department head moves to part-time position by Oliver Griffin PROFESSOR GEORGE Brock, head of journalism at City, will stand down from the position this summer.

Brock led the department for five years and will continue to help the School of Arts and Social Sciences develop their short courses.

He said: “I’m stepping down on a parttime basis. I’m going to work two days a week and remain as a professor in journalism – so I won’t lose touch with the department.

“What I am intending to do is stop heading what is a pretty big journalism school [that] requires a lot of full-time attention.”

He said he would not miss his daily two-and-a-half-hour commute or the committee meetings. He intends to spend his free time with family and updating his blog more frequently.

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Brock believes that City should play to its strengths in the fields of business, informatics and, of course, journalism.

“We really ought to be able to look at journalism innovation and digital strategy, and be able to help teach people in those areas – not necessarily at entry level only.”

Before joining City in 2009, Brock was managing editor of The Times and had also worked for The Observer. He chairs the British committee of the International Press Institute and also sits on the World Editors Forum.

He wrote Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age, a book published in September 2013.

Brock was unwilling to suggest who might replace him as head of department and said he “dare not disclose” his thoughts on suitable candidates.

UP Magazine MA students nine for nine at top industry awards p9

Losing your virginity former student writes sexploits novel p13

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Brock plans to spend his free time updating his blog

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Students China and USA-bound FINANCIAL JOURNALISM students from City will study in the United States and China this year as part of a new exchange programme.

Short classes will aim to teach students about financial journalism within a global context. The Financial Journalism MA has partnered with journalism departments at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai, and New York University (NYU) in New York City.

Professor Steve Schifferes, head of City’s Financial Journalism MA, said: “We look at China and the US in our course, but you don’t get quite the same knowledge as when you’re actually there. We want our students to understand how the financial centre fits into the economy, and how news outlets cover these issues.”

Although the course is not compulsory, most students from City have chosen to participate. The Marjorie Deane Financial Jour-

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Lairy lecturers editor James Brown tells students to get on up p9 Tsinghua University, Beijing

nalism Foundation has donated £500 per student to help cover the cost of flights.

Students will study in China from 19 April to 2 May – the first week in Beijing and the second in Shanghai – and for one week at NYU in June. In China, students will meet with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and learn about media regulation. In New York, they will study Silicon Valley and visit news outlets including The Wall Street Journal.

Schifferes said: “We want students to make contacts and to understand the issues they’d cover as a financial journalist in these areas.”

NYU students will come to City in early June to learn about the eurozone crisis and other topics, Schifferes said. Chinese students are unable to participate because of the high cost, but Schifferes said he hopes this will change in the coming years.

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Amsterdam: Only airport visited Budapest: Centre of city not reached within time limit

SARAH WARWICK bought a postcard in Paris, ate a cheese toastie in Bratislava, and drank a cold beer in Prague. She also visited Amsterdam, Vienna, Brussels, London, and Budapest – all within 24 hours.

The former City student (Magazine, 2005) set a Guinness World Record in late September for the most capital cities visited in 24 hours.

Warwick, deputy editor of in-flight publication easyJet Traveller, said she was driven to beat the record because “I really do relish a challenge”.

She set off on the adventure with her younger sister from King’s Cross in London at 10am and finished in Budapest the next morning. The hectic itinerary included the capitals of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

Warwick said Guinness has strict criteria of what counts as “visiting a capital city” – the participant

must reach a certain landmark in each capital. Although the sisters visited eight cities in total, only six were considered valid.

Warwick’s sister Lucy added to the fun by bringing along a pair of animal onesies to wear during the trip.

“When we got to Vienna early in the morning, we ended up jumping off the overnight train still wearing the animal onesies. Lucy was a lion and I was a rabbit. All the Austrian commuters looked very confused,” Warwick said.

All journeys were by train and bus, apart from one easyJet flight between Amsterdam and Prague.

The trip went smoothly, and only the train ride from Vienna to Bratislava was delayed.

But breaking a world record isn’t quite as simple as it sounds. “Guinness World Records have a massive legal department. Everything has to be independently

ratified,” Warwick said. “We had a log book full of witnesses, and had to take videos and pictures and have two separate stop watches that had to be synchronised together to time us.”

Despite her lack of sleep, she said she did not need much caffeine to enjoy the trip.

“We drank a bit of coffee, but I think you just learn how to watch the world go by.”

When the sisters arrived in Budapest – their final destination – they even managed to muster up the energy to party in the Jewish district.

Warwick said: “I would definitely consider doing it again. I’m always looking for new challenges. If I were to break another record, it’d probably be something to do with competitive eating.”

Jack Dutton Infographic: Suzie McCracken

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Carrot redesign binned WHAT’S ORANGE, green, and not digging a makeover? City’s trusty carrot mascot.

The root of the problem lies with the student body.

The University asked students to introduce a new visual identity for the carrot to represent the Students’ Union in the 21st century. However, due to a complete lack of interest, it decided to squash the project.

Head of alumni services Sue Rees, who promoted the contest, said: “We only actually got one entry for the competition and it was a member of staff. We decided not to change it.”

The mascot dates back to 1912, when City’s cricket matches took place at Palmer’s Green, north Lon-

don. The horse drawing all of the equipment became increasingly reluctant to cooperate and carrots were dangled in front of its nose. The vegetable was seen as the saviour of the sport.

The carrot appears on the Students’ Union website, in brochures and on certificates for the Carrot Awards.

Dating back to the 1935, the awards are given to those who, in the opinion of the Grand Council of The Most Noble Order of The Carrot, have rendered outstanding service to the Students’ Union.

So, despite plans for a proposed change, this carrot is sticking around for the foreseeable future.

Deborah Weitzmann

Student apathy scuppers plans for mascot change

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Change of heart Groundbreaking documentary brings together donor’s dad and transplant patient

by Barbara Speed

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A FORMER City student paved the way for a landmark television programme in which the father of an organ donor met the young man his son had saved.

Tonight: The Greatest Gift aired on ITV on 18 December 2013 and was the first-ever UK televised meeting of an organ donor’s family with the organ recipient.

City graduate Elaine Carlton (Periodical, 1994) arranged the meeting.

Will Pope received his heart transplant on New Year’s Eve 2012 during filming for Waiting for a Heart, another ITV documentary. His 20-year-old donor, Tom Ince, died when his car crashed into a tree.

Tom’s father, Steve Ince, contacted Will via Facebook with the message: “I am the father of the donor of the heart you received.”

In making the programme, Carlton hoped to draw attention to the importance of organ donation by showing how “donating can change lives”.

After visiting the Ince family, she consulted psychologists to plan the best way for the two to meet.

She used remote control cameras to avoid inrtrusion.

Steve’s wife, Sue, supported his decision to meet Will, but did not attend the meeting as she felt it would be too upsetting.

Will Pope meets Steve Ince on Tonight: The Greatest Gift as producer Elaine Carlton looks on

Carlton said her priority was to ensure both parties were happy with the meeting and that it would “work out positively” for Will and Steve.

Will, who studies Classical Civilisation at Bristol University, shook hands with Steve and thanked him for his son’s donation. Steve told Will about his son’s life and explained how he and Sue decided to donate Tom’s organs.

Steve said: “If we had wavered, there would be people who weren’t alive today.”

Carlton said: “For me, the most moving moment was when Steve told Will that he shouldn’t feel he

owes Tom anything – that he should just go on living his life how he wants.

“It definitely felt like it was the most important thing I’ve done.”

After ITV’s coverage of Will’s experience, the rate of registrations to the organ donor register increased, according to the NHS. Anthony Clarkson, Acting Director of Organ Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant said: “ITV’s Tonight has done a fantastic job of driving home the importance of organ donation.”

Sexual violence in India exposed assment. It was an eye opening experience for sure.”

AN INVESTIGATIVE film produced by a former In December 2012, a 23-year-old woman was City student that exposed sexual violence towards gang-raped while travelling on a bus in Munirka, women in India achieved one of BBC3’s highest ratNew Delhi, and later died as a result of her injuries. ings for foreign affairs documentaries.

The incident sparked international press coverage The documentary, India: A dangerous place to be a and public protests woman, received calling for increased 677,000 viewsecurity for women ers when it was in India. first broadcast on The hour-long BBC3 last August. film follows Bedi as It was also shown she travels to India on BBC Worldand talks with vicwide, with reruns tims of sexual vioin December. lence, including the Radha Bedi family of the gang(Broadcast and Currape victim. rent Affairs MA, After the success 2007) has worked of the documentary, as a freelance inBedi has been invitternational investied to pursue investigative journalist for Radha Bedi talks to the father of a victim gative projects with the past four years BBC Inside Out and Channel 4’s Unreported World. She and uncovered the story while holidaying in India continues to freelance for national newspapers such in October 2012. as The Daily Telegraph.

She said: “We met an array of victims including people who have been victims of acid attacks and Eve Simmons those who are victims of milder forms of sexual har-

NEWS IN NUMBERS

4,816 students have signed up for Cardiff University’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in community journalism, as of 25 March 2014.

Students will use online resources to learn about the rise of hyperlocal journalism and how to start their own local websites.

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James Brown storm: ‘Drop out of City’ Row as editor swears at and ‘insults’ students at City talk by Deborah Weitzmann £9,000-a-year course and tweeted abusive remarks. Brown said: “See, she’s taking my good advice on board,” as one student excused herself from the lecture hall.

He repeatedly swore, and told two students who were whispering to stop talking “or if you want to, f*** off and do it outside”. His tweets “really twisted the knife”, said TV Journalism MA student Gemma Perlin.

“Not only was James completely unprofessional, using the ‘F’ word every two seconds, he was sexist and macho, showing off about all the ‘Oscar winners’ he had slept with and all the drugs he took as a young journalist.

“He was invited to speak to us about his job but what he said and tweeted was patronising and pessimistic. It is unfortunate that the money we pay City to bring in distinguished speakers was wasted.”

But Magazine MA student Eleanor Ross said she enjoyed the talk.

“He was saying a load of rubbish

and trying to be funny. People should take it with a pinch of salt.”

Brown told XCity that he was trying to provoke a “reaction”. He said: “A lot of students were talking at the back, texting, eating their dinner or engaged in social media. If you really want to do [journalism], you’ve got to really want to do it and be very focused.

Don’t toss it off.

“You are going to come out of university and enter an industry that has

gone through a fairly savage decline in terms of job opportunities. I thought I might have more impact if I explained what it is really like in the real world.”

Newspaper MA student Natasha Clark wrote an open letter of complaint to City. She said: “I was fuming.

Many agreed James was out of order, rude and inappropriate. He was very pessimistic about our future and us.

“He was just one bad egg in the Entrepreneurial Journalism basket, which is generally great.”

Jane Singer, professor of Entrepreneurial Journalism, said she prepped Brown but it is hard to control what happens when a speaker reaches the podium.

“We lost the takeaway point because of the way he delivered his speech. I did think he had a valid point, which is that you can go out there and innovate and take the initiative. You don’t really have to have the blessing of the industry or the academy because you can do it on your own.”

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GUEST LECTURER James Brown outraged MA students by boasting of his drug and sex exploits and telling them to drop out of City.

The editor of online magazine Sabotage Times, and former editor of Loaded and GQ, was invited to speak as part of an introductory Entrepreneurial Journalism lecture in February.

Instead of inspiring students to be innovative he advised them to “drop out” of their

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Disease doc honoured City fails to fix Mind gives the award to reporters A LECTURER at City has won a who document neglected mental Mind Media Award for her BBC health issues.

Newsnight film on a disease that affects Some 30 to 40 calls were made to one in 1,000 pregnant women. the helpline that was set up after the Postpartum psychosis, often confused film aired, and women who had not with postnatal depression, is a severe realised they were suffering from the mental illness that can begin suddenly disease sent letters to Newsnight. in the days or weeks after childbirth.

The programme has since been used Symptoms can include depression, halby BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, BBC lucinations, and delusions.

World, and The Sunday Times. It is also beOn making the film, visiting lecing used to train midwives. turer Tina Stallard said: “It was apStallard and her team were up palling and very hard persuading against competition from BBC any broadcaster to dedicate Scotland, Channel Four, time to showing women and three other BBC who had had babies Newsnight films. and were thinkShe said: “It ing about killing was so fulfilling, them. It is just such a special not cheerful thing to happen viewing.” because it had Stallard won been the most the Ian Wilkinchallenging proson News and gramme I have Current Affairs made in my career Award in Novemand it was lovely to see ber. The award was it acknowledged, and that named after Ian Wilkinother people thought it was son, who committed suicide in June 2013 after battling The illness can start worthwhile.” anxiety and depression. after childbirth Emma Powell Mental health charity

gender pay gap

CITY HAS failed to cut the pay gap between male and female professors, new figures reveal.

Last year XCity found that female professors earned almost £17,000 less than their male counterparts. At the time, City said it was aware of the gap and was working to address it. However, new statistics show little has been done.

The data, obtained via a Freedom of Information request, shows that across all City schools male professors earn 22% more than female professors for the 2013-2014 academic year.

On average, female professors earn £79,088, whereas male professors earn £96,602. Last year’s figures found the average female salary was £72,409 while men earned £89,310.

Heather Brooke, professor of journalism, said: “Sadly, I’m not surprised.

I am disappointed that more attention and effort hasn’t been made to try and equalize the pay. It doesn’t seem to be a priority.”

In 2010, male professors earned 12.9% more than female professors.

This figure rose to 15.2% in 2011,

18.9% in 2012, and fell only slightly to 18.1% in 2013.

A spokesperson for City said: “The university is committed to continuing its work to address this sector wide issue. In the last year alone, a scheme has been introduced which will make it easier to identify and control any gender anomalies in pay at professorial level.”

Keith Simpson, President of City University & College Union (UCU), said: “The UCU is extremely disappointed that the gender gap has not closed and the university has failed to make any significant difference to gender inequality.”

Professor Brooke also said there is a sense that female staff members are “underappreciated” at City.

“If one of the values of the university is to give people equal opportunities and it being a meritocracy, you want people to be rewarded on the basis of their work, not on gender issues or any other kind of prejudice.”

Julia Richardson

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From bylines to brewing AFTER A drastic career change, a former journalist has something brewing – his own beer.

Daniel Tapper (Magazine, 2010) set up The Beak Brewery in the Yorkshire Dales in September.

Tapper, who worked at Waitrose Kitchen as features editor, came up with the idea two years ago and bought premises for the brewery last year.

He was inspired by the people he was writing about as a journalist: artisan cheese makers, farmers, wine makers, and chefs who made him want to “get his hands dirty” and start doing what he was writing about.

Six months after setting the brewery up, he made his first batch.

He said: “I’m currently making a light hoppy pale ale and a darker, more full-bodied rye beer. I’m happy with both but you’re only ever as good as your last batch, so I’ll let my customers be the judge of that.”

SO, HOW DOES IT TASTE? “A fruity, amber-coloured IPA with a peppery hit of toasted rye, fermented over cascade hops for a lingering piney finish.”

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Journos should challenge false info NEWS ORGANISATIONS should challenge interviewees who have “spouted nonsense” about proven scientific facts, according to leading experts who attended a debate hosted by City.

Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change, referenced a BBC Radio 4 Today programme in which Lord Nigel Lawson argued against climate change.

At the 25 March event, Ward said Lawson “does not have the right to make up facts”, and faulted reporters who “aren’t briefed well enough to pick up on it”.

Steve Jones, a geneticist and broadcaster, said that news organisations must recruit more journalists who have a strong background in science.

He said: “The solution is to have more specialist correspondents who are briefed in broadcast.”

Mike Hanlon, former science editor of the Daily Mail and Ceri Thomas, head of news programmes at the BBC, recognised that inaccurate reporting is a problem that is not exclusive to science journalism.

Thomas said: “I do accept that we need to improve science literacy and recruit science graduates, but if I have a presenter reporting on immigration, they are equally as vulnerable.”

Hanlan agreed, and said: “The best hope is that we don’t lie to people or deliberately pull the wool over their eyes.”

Lucinda Borrell

A well deserved drink - Daniel Tapper pours himself a cold one The brewery is waiting on a licence before it can sell ales commercially, but a few batches have already been tested. Michael Tait, a foodie and multimedia editor for The Guardian’s Life and Style section, was lucky enough to try a sample.

Tait said: “Dan has added rye to his beer. It delivers an appealing toasted cereal complexity to a brew that unusually retains a lovely, refreshing acidity. I was surprised that such an inexperienced brewer had made something so delicious straight out of his first keg.”

Tapper created the recipes, sourced the ingredients, and brewed, bottled, and marketed the beer all by himself.

He said: “All the beer is hand bottled and labelled, and all the used grain is recycled –I donate it to a local farm. The pigs go crazy for wet malt.”

Tapper has not completely abandoned writing – he has just finished a book to complement the Channel 4 programme Food Unwrapped. The book is due out on 5 June.

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Visa troubles cause enrolment to drop New conditions make it harder for international students to study in the UK by Simon Gwynn TOUGHER VISA conditions are believed to be partly responsible for a sharp drop in the number of International Journalism MA (MAIJ) students coming to City. Only 62 students took the course this year, compared to 98 in 2012-13. The figure is down by half from 2010-11, when there were 124 students.

However, the number of applications has increased, from 230 last year to 266.

Non-EU students wishing to study in the UK require a Tier Four visa. Before they can apply for one, they must receive a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies from their chosen university.Changes to the terms of the Tier Four visas, introduced in April 2012, make it harder for international students to work in the UK

after graduating – making it less attractive to study in the UK. Professor George Brock, head of journalism, said he believed the changes contributed to the drop in students.

“The decline has to be linked to the very bad publicity that the new visa requirements have had.”

He added that the department was “pushing hard” to bring up the level of international students.

In addition to the 62 students enrolled this year, 15 paid a deposit, but deferred their places. A further 10 paid a deposit but did not show up.

Martin Chivers, programme administrator for the MAIJ, said: “I am of the firm opinion that the government’s policy to massage immigration figures by changing Tier Four visas has had a direct impact on the numbers.”

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MA Specialisms slashed EU rules blamed for drop from 19 to 10 City MA specialism options by Chloe Hay THE DEPARTMENT has cut the number of specialisms offered to MA students by almost half.

Previously Magazine, Newspaper, and International MA students, as well as third year BA journalism students, could choose from 19 specialisms.

At the start of this academic year, only 10 options were available.

Jason Bennetto, director of specialisms at City, said: “It was really tough to lose those nine courses because they were run by terrific tutors, all of them working journalists.”

“They did a great job helping students to become specialists and helping them with their careers.”

Among the cut specialisms were Home Affairs, taught by BBC News home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw, and Development, taught by The Guardian‘s Sue Branford.

Also cut were: Environment (taught

by Bibi van der Zee), European Affairs (Harry Schneider), Reporting the Middle East (Dr Zahera Harb), Music (Stevie Chick), Science and Health (Toby Murcott), Technology and New Media (Shane Richmond), and World Faiths (Pratap Rughani).

The university recently decided to take part in the Bologna Process to create an EU-wide education standard. As a result, undergraduate and postgraduate students can no longer be taught together at City.

This meant there were not enough students to guarantee an average of 15 per specialism.

The BA course now runs its own specialisms, including Business, Arts, and Envirnoments.

The most popular specialisms in the existing MA courses, including Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Sport, and Humanitarian Reporting, were retained.

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EUROPEAN Specialisms that made the grade and those thatAFFAIRS flunked out

The poster was part of gay rights organisation Stonewall’s “Some people are gay. Get over it!” campaign. A City spokesperson said the incident, in February, was likely a “one-off ”.

In a university-wide email on 27 February, Bolton said: “City University London is committed to maintaining an environment that is free from discrimination. We strive to build an inclusive and supportive culture which values the diversity of our students, our staff and our wider community.”

Bolton also asked students and staff to report offensive and discriminatory behaviour to their local HR manager or Student Union. His statement came after the Student Union issued a petition on Change.org, calling for the administration to take a stance against “hateful and discriminatory acts on campus”.

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Gay rights poster defaced UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have launched an investigation after a gay rights poster was defaced with offensive language.

Deputy vice-chancellor David Bolton called the vandalism “completely unacceptable” and said City is trying to find the perpetrator.

Reporting in the Middle East

Affairs tutor, said the cutting of his specialism was a loss for British media.

“Looking at the inadequate – at times abysmal – coverage of European Union affairs by our print and broadcast media, I remain convinced that this situation can only be improved if more young journalists are trained and motivated to apply their talents to this difficult but fascinating area of the profession.”

Hannah Ewens, Magazine MA student and aspiring music journalist, said: “When I was picking between City and Cardiff the main reason I picked City was because they had the music specialism. They didn’t tell us it was dropped until we were on the course. It was still advertised on the site.”

Several students have complained that the system of choosing specialisms is not transparent enough. Each student picks three options, each from a different list, though their preferred specialisms could be in the same list. Bennetto said this might be altered next year, but that this year more than 80% of students got their first choice.

Data journos talk numbers at Grapevine event at the Frontline club AN EVENTS company set up by a City student to promote talks with prominent UK journalists is expanding to include arts and politics.

Max Benwell, who studies the Magazine MA, launched Grapevine in 2013 with two sell-out events featured in The Guardian and the Evening Standard Benwell, 23, said: “Because the last one was so popular, we thought, ‘why not expand?’ We had so much fun doing it, we didn’t want to limit ourselves to one field.”

At a recent event, the editorial panel included Luke Lew-

is (editor, Buzzfeed), Pete Picton (deputy publisher, the Daily Mail), Merope Mills (executive editor, The Guardian) and Helen Lewis (deputy editor, New Statesman).

For an upcoming politics talk, Benwell hopes to attract a similar calibre of politicians. He wants to create a community of young people who are interested in politics and to give them access to those in power.

He said: “There is such a barrier between politicians and young people – it is important to level the playing field.”

Dominic Holbrook

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Obituary: Alumna was champion for social justice

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AVA SOE, a former City student who contributed her boss, and her copy convinced me she was on the to the investigation of MP Cyril Smith, has died right track.

“Her great ambition was to right the wrongs and from ovarian cancer.

Gerry Sammon, Soe’s former editor, said Soe to be a champion for the little person, the silent mahelped prompt a large-scale investigation that revealed jority. Ava excelled at putting those wrongs right.”

She entered journalism later in life, gradrecent sexual abuse allegations against Smith. uating from City in 1996 before joining Soe started the “ball rolling” on the Rochdale Observer as a reportthe investigation while she was a er. Throughout her career she reporter at the Rochdale Observer worked at a number of regional in Manchester, Sammon said. papers including the Accrington “Her investigations often Observer, the Rossendale Free got under the skin of local Press, and the Middleton & authorities.”

North Manchester Guardian.

Soe (Newspaper, 1996), Before entering journalwho was passionate about ism, Soe ran a beauty salon reporting on social justice and worked as an auctioneer. issues, died in October at After she was diagnosed the Marie Curie Hospice, with ovarian cancer in 2004, Liverpool. She was 59.

Soe mentored new reporters at While working for the Midthe Middleton & North Manchester dleton & North Manchester Guardian, Guardian and The North East ManSoe led a campaign to save a local chester Advertiser. She later worked as a school from closure. Of the paper’s family support officer with Liverpool success, Soe said: “We are very much a paper for the community and are deter- Ava Soe led a campaign to City Council.

Sammon said: “In many ways she mined to support the people fighting.” save a local school was the best of us in her professionSammon recalls Soe’s dedicated and persistent approach towards her work: “Ava was more alism and commitment to bringing justice to the go-getting than most younger reporters. She immedi- downtrodden.”

Lucinda Borrell ately laid down the ground rules, even though I was

Prof attacks ‘lazy reporting’ THE MEDIA oversimplifies its coverage of humanitarian disasters, Suzanne Franks, professor of journalism at City, said in her inaugural lecture in October.

Drawing on research from her latest book, Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media (Hurst, 2013) Franks said many journalists are “lazy” in how they report on the Syrian civil war.

She said journalists tend to create “goodie and baddie” roles and that “just saying ‘let’s boil it down to a simple story’ does not serve the audience”.

Franks, a former BBC journalist said during her lecture in October her advice to young journalists is to “ask awkward questions and try to tell a proper, nuanced, fully-fledged story”.

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Marking boycott threatens MAs

City academics may refuse to mark students’ work in protest against 1% pay increase by Peter Klein LECTURERS HAVE threatened a marking boycott in April as part of a pay dispute at City.

The move was made by the University and College Union (UCU) following recent strikes protesting against below-inflation wage rises. Lecturers will refuse to mark exams and coursework at one of the busiest times of the year.

Vice-Chancellor Paul Curran labelled the decision “a response to disappointing turnouts” in previous strikes.

He said: “The marking boycott is an extreme attempt at making inroads, but it’s a very small number of staff, so there will be ways around that.”

Since 31 October there have been three strikes lasting two days and another three lasting for two hours. Trade unions Unite and Unison have also undertaken day-long protests.

While 117 members of staff joined the October strike (4.4%), numbers have since dropped with 95 and 77 attending subsequent one-day actions.

Curran admits there may be concerns in the law school since “around 40%” of strikers operate in the department.

Freddie Nathan, a student on City’s Newspaper MA, said: “The main issue for me is that there are a lot of people on our course who are set to start jobs or internships right after finishing the degree. Will the fact that we can’t provide our grades get in the way of that?”

Despite the boycott, City University’s Student Union has renewed its support for the teaching staff.

James Perkins, SU vice-president and education officer, said: “Showing support isn’t about just protecting staff today, but protecting the quality of our educational offer for students who are still to come, and throughout the rest of their time at City.”

The protests come following the 1% cap placed on pay rises for most UK university staff last year. The average pay of vice-chancellors has increased by 5%.

Keith Simpson, president of City University UCU, said the marking boycott is necessary to show that staff will not accept the 1% pay increase.

He said: “There has been a 13% fall in real wages since 2009, but pay rises have been well below inflation. We hope that our actions show the staff are serious about wanting a decent pay plan.”

Simpson went on to criticise Curran’s tenure at City saying the vice-chancellor had “presided over an appalling deterioration in staff morale”. He highlighted that recent staff survey results were “pretty disastrous” showing that “confidence in leadership and how it has managed change is particularly poor”.

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Sexcess for virgin novel

Young author pens global bonkbuster in the course of a single month by Katherine Landergan

Buzzfeed big rival for WSJ SITES LIKE Yahoo Finance and Buzzfeed Business are now directly competing with The Wall Street Journal, the paper’s editor-in-chief said in a lecture at City.

Gerard Baker said he is confident the publication will remain a leading news source for the business sector.

“I have absolute faith that in the end, the need for what we do isn’t going away,” Baker said during a lecture called “Business Journalism in the Digital Age” on 24 March.

He joked that Buzzfeed Business and Yahoo Finance had “stolen some of our better reporters”. Baker said that despite its paywall, The Wall Street Journal has two million digital subscribers. Baker credited the publication’s unique online content and accuracy in breaking news.

“We at The Journal will continue to make a more significant push than we are now.”

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as she searches for men across London – from house parties to posh clubs.

“So many people think it can’t be hard for a young girl to lose her virginity, but my character doesn’t want to settle for some awful person,” she said.

Sanghani wrote the entire book in less than a month when she was recovering from a coach accident. While on a two-week holiday in February 2013, Sanghani was on an overnight coach that crashed and killed five people. She later learned that the driver was on amphetamines – the wheel exploded and he crashed into a tree.

She said: “I was concussed for half an hour. When I woke up I just saw smoke and lots of bodies around me.”

While being treated for back injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder, Sanghani wrote the book to cheer herself up.

“Instead of lying in bed crying all day, I went to Café Nero and wrote.

It helped me on a day-to-day basis to keep going.

“It started off as a project for myself, but then I started thinking this could be something bigger. This could be something people would actually want to read.”

One of the first few agents Sanghani sent it to agreed to take her as a client.

“I completely freaked out, I just cried nonstop,” she said.

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A FIRST-TIME book written in a month about a student losing her virginity is set to make a former Newspaper MA student a hit novelist.

Radhika Sanghani (Newspaper, 2012) said publishers have told her the book has “come at the right time”, as it is no longer taboo for young women to speak openly about sex.

“Feminism is having a resurgence – just the other day, Katy Perry said she was a feminist, even though a few years ago she said she wasn’t.

“TV programmes like Girls are showing a more realistic side of being a young woman in her 20s. People are now talking about these issues, even though this a story I’ve wanted to write for years.”

Her friends “mainly just laughed” when she told them some of their personal stories were in the book. Sanghani said she hopes the book will help young girls realise there is no rush to lose their virginity.

Sanghani, 23, participated in The Daily Telegraph’s graduate scheme, and now works full-time for The Daily Telegraph’s Wonder Woman online section.

Virgin will be published by Harlequin in the United Kingdom, and with Penguin in the United States. It will also be published in 10 other countries, and translated into 11 languages.

The book follows 21-year-old Ellie

Radhika Sanghani’s novel drew on the sexploits of her uni friends

During the summer Sanghani edited it, and by November she had finalised the offers from publishers.

She is also writing the sequel to Virgin, which will follow the main character, Ellie, as she struggles to resolve her identity as a feminist with her newfound sexual exploits.

Sanghani said: “It seems impossible that a dream I had as a kid could come true at such a young age. I’m so lucky.”

Virgin will be out in August. It is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

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Shorthand tutor an expert in hacking case CITY’S SHORTHAND tutor helped prepare evidence for the ongoing News of the World phone-hacking trial.

Journalists working at the paper are accused of conspiring to hack phones to acquire stories. The case, which includes former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, began at the Old Bailey last October.

Brooks’ reporters’ notebooks were scrutinised

by Ward

Richard Ward, who trained in Pitman shorthand, has taught at City for four years. Last November he was asked to transcribe shorthand notes to be used as evidence.

Initially he was the only teacher contracted to transcribe, but the amount of work meant two other shorthand teachers were later employed.

He said: “Imagine an A4 ring binder notebook with about 100 pages in each book – there were 35 of those that we had to try and transcribe as much as possible.”

The team worked in a solicitor’s office with a guard constantly present and no time for breaks.

“You were constantly focused in doing your work. It didn’t bother me, but I’m assuming it could bother other people, because you don’t have five minutes to make a phone call or anything like that.”

Ward said the three teachers transcribed 17 notebooks in two-and-ahalf months.

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GRADUATES OF City’s Magazine MA swept the board at this year’s Professional Publishers Association (PPA) New Talent Awards, taking all nine places on the shortlist for the Most Promising Student Journalist (Postgraduate) award.

Ellie Austin (Magazine, 2013), previous editor of XCity, won the award at the London ceremony on 4 March. Austin is editorial assistant for the features team at Radio Times.

She said: “I am thrilled to have won – it was incredibly tough competition. It’s a real tribute to the magazine course, and our tutors Barbara Rowlands and Jason Bennetto, that we were all nominated.”

The New Talent Awards recognise the most promising magazine journalists near the start of their careers.

Loraine Davies, director of the Periodicals Training Council and PPA training, praised City for its continued success. “City has an excellent reputation for delivering journalists with the diverse skills employers really need.

“The energy and dedication of Barbara and Jason – and their expectation that students will achieve incredibly high standards – means the course radiates passion for the craft. It was obviously a golden year for City.”

Former City students also triumphed in other categories. Lizzie Pook (Magazine, 2010) won New Consumer Journalist of the Year for her work at Stylist.

James Waldron from Chemist+Druggist (Magazine, 2012) was highly commended in the New Business Journalist of the Year category.

Magazine MA graduates were also shortlisted for New Editor of the Year and New Consumer Specialist / Customer Journalist of the Year.

Austin is the seventh City graduate in a row to win the Most Promising Student award. It is the first time that all of the shortlisted journalists were from a single college.

Barbara Rowlands, director of the Magazine MA, said: “They were a brilliant year so I expected to have a few names in there, but it was unprecedented for any university to have all of the names. It’s always a nail-biting evening waiting to see if we have won or not, but I didn’t have that anxiety this year.”

Nominated alongside Austin were: Georgie Bradley, Teresa Fitzherbert, Alice Hancock, Jonathan Holmes, Hanna Ibraheem, Matthew Lambert, Leonie Roderick, and Yara Silva.

Matthew Lambert said: “I’m very grateful for the recognition. What was so fantastic though was the clean sweep of nominations for the magazine course.”

A former newspaper student, Heather Spurr (2012), also won an award for New Business Journalist of the Year for her work with Inside Housing..

Left: Most promising post-grad, Ellie Austin. Below: Magazine students, left to right: Alice Hancock, Leonie Roderick, Hanna Ibraheem, Theresa Fitzherbert, Yara Silva, Matthew Lambert, Georgie Bradley, Jonathan Holmes and Ellie Austin

Building a name for himself property journo scoops award A JOURNALIST of the year award at the 2013 International Building Press (IBP) awards has been won by a City graduate.

Nicholas Duxbury (Magazine, 2007) won the IBP Housing & Residential Property Journalist of the Year award for his work with Inside Housing magazine.

Nominees were required to submit three articles for each category entered.

Judges praised Duxbury’s work, saying it was “of a standard that you would expect in a national newspaper”.

They said his writing had good style and colour, and addressed the specific needs of his audience.

Duxbury said he was pleased to have won and that his articles were able to cover a broad area of topics.

“You have to be more imaginative in Inside Housing’s Nicholas Duxbury

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how you present potentially mundane topics. The best features also break good news stories. It separates you from the pack a bit.”

Rebecca Evans (Periodical, 2001) is the current president of IBP. She emphasised the importance of variety in both the trade magazine market and the awards.

She said: “It would be a mistake to think that B2B journalism doesn’t need to be every bit as exciting, grabbing, and varied as any other kind of journalism.”

Duxbury also achieved success in the recent LSL Property Press Awards. Judges awarded him silver and bronze prize for his articles on the increasing number of homeless placements outside the capital and his work with Inside Housing.

AN AWARD that recognises up-and-coming media talent has been won by a City graduate.

Rhiannon Williams (Newspaper, 2012) was named as one of the “30 to Watch” in January by a pool of senior journalists.

The award, sponsored by public relations firm MHP Communications, is given to 30 promising journalists under the age of 30.

After graduating from City in 2012, Williams joined The Daily Telegraph’s graduate scheme. She then received training from Press Association and moved to The Scotsman in Edinburgh where she worked as a general news reporter from January 2013.

While at The Scotsman, Williams wrote on a range of topics, from the Scottish referendum to Edinburgh Zoo’s famous pair of pandas. She was later asked to work as a technology reporter for The Daily Telegraph.

Williams said: “I was absolutely gobsmacked. It was beyond flattering to be nominated among such high achievers, let alone win. City was a great starting point for my career, and the training I received at The Scotsman and The Daily Telegraph has been invaluable. It is them I have to thank for my award.”

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Maptastic: seven in new data book a big newsroom, it can be a one-man operation.

“Data journalism can often be used to turn around a story quicker than the opposition.”

Other contributors include Jonathan Hewett, director of the Interactive MA and Newspaper MA courses, and Simon Rogers (Newspaper Diploma, 1991), founder of The Guardian’s Datablog.

Hewett, whose chapter focuses on the evolution of data journalism, said the book is a reflection on City’s influential contribution to the field.

“City has been at the heart of the development of data journalism in the UK, from the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s summer schools in 2003, when US experts ran classes in computer assisted reporting, to hosting a key course for trainers in 2007 and starting the Interactive MA in 2011.”

Guest lecturer Tom Felle and former students John Burn-Murdoch and Ændrew Rininsland also have chapters in the book. Burn-Murdoch and Rininsland were on the Interactive MA at City with Beleaga in 2012 – the first year the course ran.

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JOURNALISTS AND lecturers from City have contributed to a new book exploring the history and potential of data journalism.

Data Journalism: Mapping the Future, edited by Professor Paul Bradshaw and former student Teodora Beleaga (Interactive Journalism, 2012), also includes chapters from five other City journalists and lecturers.

Data journalism is a term given to reporting that involves using data to both source and present information.

Bradshaw, City’s visiting online journalism professor, said his chapter dispels the myth that data journalism is time intensive and requires a large workforce.

“I was keen to write about examples where data journalism is used to save time and save resources. It doesn’t have to be

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Left to right: Ashley Pace, Giovanni Charles, Philip Nye, Kadhim Shubber, Jeshua Maxey

Investigative students crack coding challenge A TEAM of student journalists from City won a News International coding competition by creating a tool that finds original tweets about the news.

Build the News, a two-day event, challenged 12 teams to produce new ways of telling stories digitally.

The winning team created Low Pass, a tool that enables journalists to see tweets posted within a specific time frame. It can find tweets before news of an event spreads and the information becomes distorted.

Nick Petrie, deputy head of news development at The Times and The Sunday Times said: “We could see the tool being used in our own newsrooms.”

The team consisted of three MA In-

vestigative Journalism students: Ashley Pace, Philip Nye, and Kadhim Shubber. They were joined by Giovanni Charles and Jeshua Maxey, both students at Imperial College, London.

Nye said: “It went down to the wire to get the tool working before we had to present it to the judges.

We’d now like to develop the tool into a product that can be used by news organisations.”

Students from the University of Birmingham, Goldsmith’s University, Birmingham City University, St Andrew’s, and another team from City’s Interactive Journalism MA, also participated.

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Kidnap victim to support freelancers Syria reporter sets up front line network

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“We thought [the rebels] were lookA FORMER City student kidnapped while freelancing in Syria has helped ing for somebody else. A few times they set up a support network for interna- came into the cell and flashed lights in our faces. After 12 hours tional freelance journalists. they drove us to an Balint Szlanko (Internationabandoned area al, 2009) was kidnapped and let us go.” while reporting on He described the Syrian conflict in the need for the January 2013. He FFR as “obvious” has since become and said that in a board member one year the orof the Frontline ganisation had Freelance Regisformed a commutry (FFR), which nity of internationlaunched in June al freelancers.

2013.

The FFR is an afRebels took Szfiliated entity of the lanko and two othFrontline Club, a er journalists near media organisation an abandoned outcatering for foreign post just outside of correspondents.

Aleppo.

The new registry, Szlanko, 34, said: which celebrates its “We were treated first anniversary this okay, we weren’t June, helps freelance beaten. They never journalists to network asked us any questions and purchase supplies. and they never told us Lifesaver:VestGuard body armour The FFR has also who they were.

Journos feel spied on by editors JOURNALISTS NO longer feel trusted by editors and management, says a new study by a former City student.

Line Hassall Thomsen (Newspaper, 2003) found the changing layout of newsrooms makes journalists think they are “always being controlled and observed”.

She said: “The newsrooms are now made so that there is even more observation of everyone than there was before. It used to be just one huge square box, and now it’s one central desk and everyone can look at each other.”

Thomsen spent 18 months studying BBC, ITV, and Danish newsrooms for her PhD thesis.

Many journalists said they wanted to thoroughly check their copy, have a focused specialism, and pursue long-term investigations. But editors and publishers expect journalists to work faster, do less research, and be able to report on a wider range of issues.

Thomsen found journalists have to compete with bloggers uploading images of events on social media sites.

She said: “A BBC reporter now has to compete with an amateur with a smartphone who happened to be in the right spot at the right time.”

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Balint Szlanko reporting from Syria in 2013

established links with equipment specialists and members can buy items, such as helmets and flak jackets, at discounted prices.

Szlanko said: “Freelancers are very disorganised and there are a lot of issues. Access to training is one – a lot of young freelancers have never bothered to do a safety course. There are also problems with getting paid and getting enough money.”

He said it was normal for freelance journalists to establish networks to look after each other. Organising security check-ins allows friends and family back home to know if a journalist is

progressing safely through a dangerous environment.

He said: “If someone misses a check-in, we alert their government so that [a search] can begin. Some people go missing and it can be three weeks before anyone starts looking for them, which is a disaster. They could be anywhere by then.”

Talking about the next step for the FFR, Szlanko said: “The main plan is to set up a code of conduct. It will help regulate the relationship between the industry and freelancers – how the industry is supposed to behave towards us and vice versa.”

IS THERE HOPE FOR PRINT?

Q&A with Neil Thurman, head of Erasmus Mundus at City READERS ARE spending more The average time people spend with the 12 titles I studied, the average fall time reading print newspapers than a newspaper website is actually only a in time spent reading between 2007 to 2011 was at least 16%. However, digital versions, a research paper has couple of minutes per month. the idea that everything should be found. Dr Neil Thurman analysed Q: So, print is not dying? data gathered from 12 UK newspa- A: I definitely would not say print is focused on the web is not the right dying. The amount of time people strategy either. pers between 2007 and 2011.

Q: What do your findings mean are spending with print is going down Q: What is the next step for so they still have a problem. Across newspapers? for the digital vs print debate?

A: Newspapers might A: Even with all the onwant to take note and reline newspapers and HOW ARE READERS DIVIDING THEIR think the way they meaapps, when you look at TIME BETWEEN PRINT AND DIGITAL? sure success if they would the time people spend like to increase advertisreading, 90% of that THE TIMES ing revenue. Given that time with news content THE SUN newspapers still get 86% is reading newspapers in THE PEOPLE of their ad revenues from the print version.

THE INDEPENDENT print, they have an incenQ: Why are we still inTHE GUARDIAN PRINT tive to exercise greater investing in newspapers DIGITAL (exFINANCIAL TIMES fluence on the evolution when countless digital cludes apps) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH of audience measureoptions are available?

DAILY STAR ment, and try to ensure A: If you buy a newsDAILY RECORD engagement is reported paper, you read it for an DAILY MIRROR with as much prominence average of half an hour DAILY MAIL as exposure. on a weekday, but at DAILY EXPRESS the weekend people can Eve Simmons spend an hour with it. THECONVERSATION.COM XCITY 2014

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Guardian defends axed MA Newspaper group focuses on website and app instead of Cardiff University by Deborah Weitzmann

THE GUARDIAN has defended its decision to axe a planned joint MA journalism course with Cardiff University.

In September The Guardian and the university insisted they would launch a new MA in digital media.

But in a sudden U-turn the scheme was ditched with no signs of the partnership resuming.

Julia Porter, Guardian News & Media’s director of consumer revenues, said the plans were announced prematurely and never officially confirmed.

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian issued a statement in 2012 heralding the course, and the newspaper group advertised for staff.

Porter said: “It is something we investigated and then we decided in the context

Hipster mag hits 10,000

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is there to be re-imagined and reshaped. Our new masters degree in journalism with digital media will be applicable to a wide range of careers, from news to website content management and social media.”

The £9,000 year-long course was expected to run from a central London location, funded by The Guardian and verified by Cardiff University. Students were to be taught by a

How XCity broke the rise and fall of proposed MA

mix of guest lecturers and a permanent director of studies appointed by the university.

Last year, Richard Sambrook, director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff University, said he was confident that a public launch would happen “shortly”.

“People will be looking for opportunities from Easter [2013] onward… we are not expecting any problems.”

He later said: “What happens next is entirely up to The Guardian. They were going to pay for it and they stopped it. I was hoping to see it through but I’m definitely not holding my breath.”

Despite the climbdown, Porter said: “We still have a good relationship with Cardiff University.”

Grad takes role in ‘deadly’ Iraq A RECENT City graduate who has become an editor for a news agency in Iraq has talked about the difficulties of reporting in one of the deadliest countries in the world.

Sofia Barbarani (International, 2013) is the English-language editor of news agency Bas News in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. According to Reporters Without Borders, 190 journalists were killed in Iraq between 2002 and 2012.

Barbarani, originally from Rome, was appointed last October. Her first task was to set up Twitter and Facebook accounts for the agency.

Bas News was founded in 2011 as a Kurdish-language weekly newspaper.

In 2013 it expanded into an online news agency and now covers five languages. Barbarani is responsible for editing articles that have been translated from Kurdish to English.

Kurdistan contains areas of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran.

Many of Barbarani’s stories for the agency have focused on the region’s refugee camps. Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Iraqi Kurdistan has seen an influx of more than 200,000 Syrian refugees. Barbarani has visited several camps with Erbil-based NGO Rise Foundation.

Although facilities in Kurdistan’s camps vary, Barbarani encountered

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A HACKNEY-THEMED publication set up by a former City student, has reached a circulation of 10,000 and is celebrating its first birthday.

Founded by Nick Johnstone (Magazine, 2008), Dalstonist is a quarterly magazine aimed at Hackney’s younger generation.

The idea for a community magazine first came about when Johnstone saw a gap in the market for local media that appealed to young people.

He said: “We felt people aged between 20 and 40 in Hackney today were looking for something different.”

Rather than cat-stuck-up-a-tree stories and pages of real estate photographs, Dalstonist provides an unabashedly positive view of Dalston, with features on inner city life and activities going on in the area.

Dalstonist also has a growing online presence, with a website that receives 30,000 unique views per month.

Lucinda Borrell, a student who lives in Hackney, said: “I don’t plan a night out without using Dalstonist.

It’s my social Bible.”

of all the other things we have to do that it was not a top priority and now is not the right time.

“We are in the middle of rebuilding our website and developing apps. We have so much to do which is core activity for our business that we have to prioritise making sure those things are successful.”

The plan was first revealed by XCity and confirmed in September 2012, when Rusbridger announced: “Everything about the media

Iraqi boys swim in a crater in Baghdad

harsh conditions over the winter, when temperatures were often below freezing. “Most camps weren’t properly prepared,” she said.

She described a woman whose daughter was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and who said they had received no help: “She seemed lost, she was alone with two children, her husband had been killed in a

bombing. She was convinced I could help her get to Europe.”

But for Barbarani, the challenges in Kurdistan give the job vitality: “Working as a journalist in a country where until 2003 freedom of the press was not allowed, and is still limited, is a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

Simon Gwynn

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NEWS

Politics MA gets the chop

by Samuel Horti

Course cancelled at last minute; students turned away course was dropped after a review of MA courses.

He said: “In our view the prospects for the MA in political journalism were uncertain. In a situation in which overall demand for MA courses in the UK is falling we need to be careful about any course where we feel recruitment has been difficult.”

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AN MA in political journalism was axed at the end of last year despite students being keen to take places for September 2013.

The course, which ran for four years, was cancelled by City because of “uncertainty” with recruitment.

Professor George Brock, head of the journalism department, said the

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Heard it on the radio A FELLOW of The Radio Academy has said would-be radio journalists need to consider alternative routes into the industry, as the centralisation of newsrooms has led to a decline in jobs.

Sandy Warr, a lecturer at City, was appointed a fellow of broadcasting charity The Radio Academy in October last year. A fellowship is the highest honour the Academy can confer upon a member of the radio industry.

She said that City students should consider alternatives to traditional radio journalism, such as producing multimedia content for corporations or news sites, due to a shortage of jobs in the commercial radio industry.

The growing trend for centralised newsrooms serving several stations has in part caused the shortages, she added.

Commenting on the fellowship, Ms Warr, a presenter for talkSPORT and Absolute Radio, said: “It was a tremendous honour. I was completely taken by surprise.”

Josh Lowe

Alastair Ballantyne, who is now studying the TV Journalism MA, was one of seven students who were interviewed for a place.

He said he has “mixed feelings” about the course being cancelled. “It was very late, and that was a bit annoying. They could have given more reasons as to why it was cancelled.

“But ultimately I want a job in journalism. Getting a job in political journalism would be great but there’s lots of benefits to the course I’m currently doing that outweigh the negatives of missing out on political journalism.”

Ballantyne has since done placements on The Andrew Marr Show and This Week.

Ivor Gaber, who directed the Political Journalism MA course, said he was on sabbatical when the

AAA for BA

City now has highest entry requirements for a journalism undergraduate degree by Julia Richardson CITY HAS introduced the highest A-level requirements for any undergraduate journalism course in the UK. Students now need three ‘A’ grades at A-level to get a place on the BA journalism course at the university.

The previous requirements were ABB. The increased tariff, introduced in September 2013, is intended to produce higher calibre graduates, according to Professor Suzanne Franks, director of the undergraduate programme.

Franks said that despite the tough new entry process, including an interview, there has been no difficulty in filling places.

She said: “It’s always been a popular course and obviously in taking the tariff up to AAA, we can be more

selective with who we offer places to.

The whole course has become more rigorous and more academic.”

City is the only university in the UK that asks for such high A-levels for a BA journalism course.

Franks said the argument for studying an undergraduate programme, rather than a postgraduate course, has become stronger since tuition fees have risen to £9,000 a year.

She said: “[An MA] will become a luxury item because debts will be much higher following an undergraduate degree.

“People will not necessarily have the opportunity to do a postgraduate course in 2015, unless they come from wealthy backgrounds.”

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decision was taken and had not been consulted. While away completing his PhD in the Spring term, he received a phone call from the Head of Department telling him the course would be cancelled for the next year.

Linda Lewis was acting course director while Gaber was away.

She had already interviewed seven promising students before the course was cancelled, although no formal offers had been sent out and no students had paid their deposits.

Although City was able to offer all of the seven students places on alternative courses, Lewis said that the course’s unique focus on evening classes meant that students “would not have found another course with the same hours”.

Campbell: Brits hate media ALASTAIR CAMPBELL said there has been a “huge collapse in trust” of the British media by the public, at a City lecture in February.

Campbell, the former director of communications and strategy for Tony Blair, said: “The public is turning away from a model of journalism that has had its day.”

He made the comments during his guest lecture for Professor Roy Greenslade, his former editor at the Daily Mirror.

“There is a danger that the media becomes a noise, and when most people hear a noise they just turn away from it. It is one of the reasons for the decline in newspapers,” Campbell said.

He stressed the importance of the media for the future of British society.

Jack Gilbert

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ABB

Sultan of spin: Campbell holds court

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DATA WIZARD WINS XCITY AWARD

EVE SIMMONS

The Guardian’s James Ball beat 27 nominated City alumni to £500 journalism prize THIS TIME last year Alan Rusbridger called 28-yearold James Ball into his office one Friday evening.

“At first I thought, am I going to get into trouble?

It’s not a frequent occurrence that you get called into the editor-in-chief ’s office,” Ball recalls. “He asked me: ‘James, can you fly to New York for Monday please?’ I thought, surely not – lightning doesn’t strike twice.”

Ball (Magazine, 2008) did as he was asked, and three days later, he, alongside a selection of The Guardian’s investigative team, published the first of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations.

“That first week you had in this tiny office in New York Alan [Rusbridger], Janine [Gibson], Stuart Miller, and me and we just didn’t leave it,” Ball remembers, “thrashing out the copy, talking to the lawyers, talking to the agencies, checking, doublechecking, redacting, planning. God it stunk.”

In the months following the Snowden NSA information leak, Ball travelled more than 150,000 miles between Berlin, Rio, and New York analysing both NSA and GCHQ documents. He used his data analysis skills to break stories including the NSA’s monitoring of world leaders’ phone calls.

Since Snowden, Ball has continued to excel and has produced ground-breaking investigative pieces on topics including internet governance, Yahoo webcam spying, and the offshore holdings of China’s leaders. Ball’s integral position in The Guardian’s investigative team was noted in November 2013, when the job role of special projects editor, Guardian US, was created especially for him.

It is this outstanding contribution to investigative journalism that has made James Ball 2014’s winner of the XCity Award and £500 prize. George Brock, head of journalism at City, named Ball a “worthy

winner”, adding, “there could hardly be a more significant story to show what we prepare City students for”.

Josh Lowe, editor of XCity and member of the judging panel, said: “James’ role in breaking the Snowden files has proved to a skeptical generation the important role professional journalism still has to play in public debate.”

Ball relies on skills he learned at City – where he studied magazine journalism and two investigative modules – almost every day. “A rough grasp of media law is a great comfort,” he says.

Ball is positive about the industry’s future: “It is so easy to be miserable about journalism but GOD it’s a brilliant job. You get to go and talk to people and annoy people and stir up trouble. More people read us now than they ever did and it’s just as much fun as it ever was.”

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THE REST OF THE BEST

JULIE STEWART-BINKS

OLIVER SHAH

LISETTE JOHNSTON

ANCHOR, FOX SPORTS

REPORTER, THE SUNDAY TIMES

SENIOR PRODUCER, BBC

HEAD OF INTERACTIVE, FINANCIAL TIMES

Julie Stewart-Binks (International Broadcast, 2010) has earned acclaimed for her coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Stewart-Binks was born in Toronto, and has worked for Sky Sports, TV Cogeco, and Fox Soccer Channel before her current post as Anchor and reporter for Fox Sports 1.

Oliver Shah (Newspaper, 2009) masterminded the ‘save our shops’ campaign for The Sunday Times. It highlighted the lack of choice on high streets, the death of independent shops, and called for reforms to business rates. George Osborne changed his autumn statement last year following the campaign.

BBC producer Lisette Johnston (PhD International Journalism) is working on a PhD at City on the use of user-generated content to report on the conflict in Syria. She worked at BBC World News during the start of the Syrian conflict, as well as other incidents during the ‘Arab Spring’.

Martin Stabe (International, 2005) has helped reinvigorate the Financial Times (FT)’s interactive content. He has been behind a series of interactive features that include the FT’s award-winning ‘austerity audit’ project – a review looking at how Britain’s austerity programme has impacted local economies.

MARTIN STABE

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The philospher argues that there’s no such thing as good and bad news Earthquakes, cyclones, war, malnutrition, disease, crime, poverty, sexual abuse. It often seems as if it’s not news unless, and until, it’s very grim. News is the disturbing, tragic, appalling stuff. The job of the media is to puncture complacency: keep the bastards honest, reveal corruption, and punish hypocrisy. Does the news have to be sad and nasty? Only if you’re doing it right.

In the circumstances it’s not surprising that a reaction has set in: a movement in favour of a greater supply of more positive stories.

We’re told that the number of white-clawed crayfish in the Yorkshire Dales is on the up. A grandmother in Germany has given up money and lives by barter. In Holland, some children have a pedal powered school bus.

In isolation, these are charming. En masse they are very, very annoying. Being told to cheer up is grating.

Bad news has prestige for journalists, because it has prestige with consumers. We live in a cynical age. Someone who practices their art with any dedication should surely return to base with tales of the wickedness of mankind, not happy tales of its resourcefulness and resilience.

I’m not into good news or bad news. I start from a different place. My primary move in selecting stories is to ask, “Would it be helpful to know this?” In order to live your life well, you need to deal with negative and positive information. News can be helpful when it is talking about appalling events. And it can be extremely unhelpful when the stories it tells us are cheery. That’s why I prefer to cut the cake into four slices rather than the usual two. I think there are four kinds of news stories:

BAD BAD NEWS Complete chaos in a hospital. The IT system has failed – again. The melting of the ice-caps is happening even faster than previously thought.

The nation’s children are hopeless at maths. Bad news. But what identifies this as bad bad news is the tone in which the information is conveyed: the suggestion is that there is nothing we can learn from the sombre facts. We can’t atone or mourn in a dignified way. There is no sliver of redemption of any kind, no suggestion of resilience, just an air of panic or depressed angry hopelessness. One is up against the rage, cruelty, and sheer unreasonableness of people you’ve never met. In big doses, this kind of bad bad news saps the will to live.

GOOD BAD NEWS Then there is the better kind of bad news, which we need to hear for two reasons. Firstly, and most predictably, so that people can start to fix the problems being evoked. We need to know if politicians are stealing, so we can make public life more honest. We need to know if the transport system has been badly designed, so we can square up to our mistakes. Fault-finding is part of building a better society. Our unhappiness is what generates a mandate for governments and others to make the necessary changes.

Then there’s a second, less candid, reason why we need certain kinds of ‘bad news’. We need evidence that we are not alone in suffering. It isn’t just us who find life hard. Indeed, think how much harder it is for the Syrian children, the refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the relatives of those who died in the plane crash. It is a pity that the sufferings of others are quite so extreme (we didn’t necessarily want anything quite so bleak), but the darkness is deeply reassuring nevertheless. We aren’t alone.

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GOOD GOOD NEWS

BAD GOOD NEWS Then there’s the irritating good news: someone won an Oscar, a fashion house in Milan is garnering accolades, a socialite in Sydney has redecorated their house in retro chic. Sounds cheerful, but these things don’t in any way help anyone else to live. It’s good news but not for you. Quite the opposite. You’re not included. The stories are unkind because they don’t acknowledge envy and feelings of inadequacy. They expect us to have a natural mastery of a highly complex skill that most of us can manage only for very brief moments across our lives: knowing how to be happy for others when there’s nothing in it for us.

Then, lastly, there are positive stories that help because we feel in some way, even if only unconsciously, involved or encouraged. For example, through the troubled economy, Crossrail has been ploughing on with its huge construction venture that will, eventually, make a radical improvement to transport in London. The impact will be felt for decades to come. While we are bemoaning the current state of things, Crossrail is looking years ahead, their sights are set on the needs of people journeying form from Heathrow to Canary Wharf in 2035.

Their confidence in our future is heartening – because it is greater than our own.

We can be happy by proxy too, when the story is one that belongs both to someone else and simultaneously, in a curious way, to us. Millions were touched by the birth of Prince George because babies and their parents are universals – we’ve been there already or we might be headed there in time. Kate and Wills are joining a heavily subscribed club. Their delight in the birth of their son is an endorsement of our own deeply remembered or anticipated emotions.

We can be happy for them and, at no cost for us, for ourselves.

These four varieties of news lead me to want to cut an unusual path through the debate: I’m into good bad news and good good news. I’m into useful tragedy and helpful victory.

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SCOTT BRYAN

A.A. GILL

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, BUZZFEED

CRITIC, THE SUNDAY TIMES

TWITTER IS a mess – a vacuum of people who think their opinions matter most, praying for retweets. An orgy of individuals spreading breaking news and information as if it is their own, when in fact they just copied and pasted it from a website or read it first on Reddit. And a social network full of individuals who spread rumour and constantly get the wrong end of the stick, making the site pointless and a total mess to follow when huge news breaks.

It’s a waste of time. A total waste of productivity. A completely overrated form of technology.

And you know what? It is the greatest journalism invention in a long time, and if you are not on Twitter whilst trying to be a journalist, you are an idiot.

For me, Twitter isn’t a place for news, it’s a place where you acquire a sense of which issues matter to everyone and where you get tips about stories and columns you should pursue.

It’s also a great place to vent and WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK. When you join Twitter you’re pushed into following nearly every other news organisation, nearly every single journalist and every big ego. You’re pushed into competing with them – you know which stories they’re writing, and you gain an understanding of which stories your publication is missing out on and where your publication is getting ahead.

At BuzzFeed, we don’t care about traffic through SEO from Google or hits from people stumbling across our homepage. What we do care about is social network shares, people who stumble across our articles, like or are stimulated by what they read and think “oh, I’ll tell people on my Facebook or Twitter about it”.

We each get analytics so we can see who is sharing it in real time. This means that as a journalist, you really start thinking about what people are passionate about, what everyone is talking about at the moment, which articles people would be keen to tell others about.

Twitter is a massive help in forming your ideas and your reporting. It means that I think a lot more about my writing than in any job I’ve had before.

If you don’t use Twitter or know your readers, you have no idea what you’re audience is interested in – so how on earth are you supposed to know what to write for them?

I DON’T TWEET. I don’t go on Twitter and I don’t look at Twitter. I never look myself up on Google.

Sometimes my grown-up kids do and they’ll say, “Dad, don’t go there.” And I don’t.

I don’t get involved. I don’t reply to letters. This isn’t a conversation. It’s a one-off. A statement.

Samuel Johnson said: “Only a fool writes for anything but for money.” Writing is what I do for a living. I get paid for it. I write from 10am to about 4pm and then I stop. When I stop am I going to say, “maybe I’ll just write something for nothing now”?

F**k off!

Most journalists are now made to tweet. I don’t, but some people think I do, even when I don’t. A year ago, a woman came up to me in the BBC. She said, “Oh! So nice to meet you! I follow you on Twitter!” and I said, “No you don’t.” Then she said, “No, no. I know people say that but I really do! I really do follow you!” And I said, “Well, you don’t because I’m not on Twitter.”

“No, no, you are because I follow you on Twitter.”

“Look, it isn’t me.”

“Yeah but there’s someone pretending to be you.”

“I don’t care.”

“But they might say things you disagree with!”

“It’s not me. I’m not saying them, why would I care?”

“But that’s really irresponsible!”

She got really angry and we had this argument about how I should take responsibility for someone who had set up a fake Twitter account under my name and was being me. I said, “Look, if Craig Brown can pretend to be Frank Sinatra or Piers Morgan in Private Eye, why shouldn’t I have the right - if I believe in freedom of speech - to not care if someone is pretending to be me on Twitter? Do you think Rory Bremner doesn’t have the right to imitate people?”

And she said, “I think that’s completely wrong. I’m not going to follow you on Twitter any more.”

It comes back to anonymity. The internet seems to give people permission to vent in an incoherent, furious way. I don’t tweet but I do Instagram. I Instagram because people tweet about things they hate but people take photographs of things they love.

Twice a day I check in. Who thought I would like to see pictures of my friend’s children? And their dogs. And what they have for lunch. It’s just quite nice – it’s not journalism. It’s not about what’s happening in Ukraine. It’s not going to rehouse people in Syria. But for me, for being in touch with my friends and people I know, I like it.

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TALES FROM THE LOBBY Projectiles, abuse, and peers with toilet seats slung around their necks: Oliver Griffin gets political journalists’ inside stories

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“YOU END UP AT A URINAL WITH A POLITICIAN HOLDING SOMETHING OTHER THAN A TEN-BOB-NOTE” NICK ROBINSON BBC POLITICAL EDITOR “Politicians tell you if they think your coverage is wrong. I suppose our relationship is interesting because we live and work together. We see them when we go for a coffee, or bump into them in corridors – sometimes you end up standing at a urinal with them when they’re holding something other than a ten-bob-note.

“There has to be a kind of understanding – a degree of trust – between people, about when you’re working and when you’re not.You’re bumping into sources all the time – they need to know when they can gossip with you and that you won’t shaft them.

“Sometimes with politicians, something funny happens. You catch their eye and you know they

find it funny, but you can laugh and they can’t. One time, we were in the Gaza Strip following Blair. A Palestinian band was crucifying the [British] national anthem. We were all sniggering but Blair couldn’t laugh – the politicians have to keep their composure when you don’t.

“The strangest thing that ever happened was the purple-powder attack on Tony Blair – then the prime minister – when protestors covered him in purple powder from the public gallery. No one knew if it was dangerous or not - the whole place went into total lock down.

“Then there was the time Rupert Murdoch was custard-pied at a select committee – it can be a bit ‘projectiles-R-us’ at times.”

“JOHN PRESCOTT USED TO SHOUT ABUSE AT ME WHEN HE WAS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER”

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SKETCH WRITER, DAILY MAIL “Sketch writing is important – it makes the public engage more with politicians. When the voters go to sleep, that’s when politicians get away with murder. Sketch writers make politicians: we show their character, the way they walk, talk, speak, and even describe their hair. We bring them to life. It’s important for democracy that the public is aware who their politicians are.

“Not all politicians respond to criticism well.

After the last election, John Bercow stopped me in the corridor, eyes bleeding with anger. He started jabbing his finger at me, full of indignation that I had criticised him. He’s such a prat. His wife stood by,

towering over both of us.

“John Prescott used to shout abuse at me in the House of Commons - including the f-word - when he was deputy prime minister. On one occasion he was walking towards me and dropped his shoulder.

I thought he was going to punch me.

“To be honest, I couldn’t tell you too much about policy. I deal with politics as theatre, as performance. Alistair Darling made this difficult when he was chancellor because he was so boring.

“You should probably know that my second job is as a theatre critic. You’d be amazed how very similar the two jobs actually are.”

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“ONE WELL KNOWN PEER HAD A TOILET SEAT AROUND HIS NECK”

“THE FRIENDLIEST POLITICAL PARTY PRESS OFFICE BELONGS TO THE BNP”

CATHY NEWMAN PRESENTER, C4 NEWS

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“Lunches are a sort of strange initiation ceremony for politicians willing to put themselves through ritual humiliation. Either they’re desperate to climb the greasy pole and show political correspondents they’re made of stern stuff, or they’re over-the-hill and couldn’t care less what anyone writes about them.

“At the last event there was a clearly uncomfortable Chuka Umunna, forcing a smile in front of 50 or so political correspondents. The BBC’s James Langdale made jokes about Umunna’s penchant for self-promoting Wikipedia edits, while sketch writers prepared to take the mickey some more.You’ve got to be mad to be a politician.

“One of the biggest revelations is the contrast between popular perception of parliamentarians and how they treat you in person. Lord Geoffrey Dear, who led staunch opposition to the same-sex marriage bill, was one of the friendliest and most polite people I’ve dealt with, even when running stories that he wouldn’t like.

“Similarly, Labour MPs won’t hear a word said against right-wing Conservative MP Peter Bone – who wants to introduce Margaret Thatcher Day – because they reckon he’s one of the nicest people in parliament. Oh, and the friendliest and most accessible political party press office I’ve ever dealt with belongs to the BNP. “Journalists gain access to parliament at the whim of the Sergeant at Arms, aka Black Rod. It’s an office of the crown dating back to the 15th century and has a medieval attitude to websites. So, while the BBC has dozens of passes handed out and every local paper in the land gets access to the parliamentary estate, MailOnline, Guido Fawkes, and BuzzFeed struggle to even get one person in the lobby.”

“The most bizarre situation I’ve ever found myself in? Most seem to involve planes of some description. There’s the time I was wedged between Angelina Jolie and the foreign secretary, William Hague, in a helicopter above the Congolese jungle in the middle of a massive tropical storm. They were subsequently dubbed the “odd couple”, and my role as a gooseberry certainly felt pretty incongruous. I remember hitting a spot of turbulence in a helicopter somewhere in Suffolk and found myself clutching the knee of my fellow passenger: Tim Yeo MP. But aside from choppers and planes, I’ve also ended up at three in the morning with a bunch of Liberal Democrats, including one well-known

peer who, for reasons I now can’t remember, had a toilet seat around his neck.

“Sometimes at lunches, MPs spill the beans and sometimes they don’t. I remember one dinner I had with the then culture minister Kim Howells, he yielded a story before he even took his coat off – I was at the Financial Times at the time. He walked to the table spitting about the “conceptual bull****” he’d just viewed. Spotting a good news line, my newspaper colleague, Independent journalist Nigel Morris, and I asked him to elaborate. And it turned out he was talking about the Turner Prize. Our story ended up on the front of both our newspapers the next day.”

“I DIDN’T EXPECT TO GET HIT BY AN EGG IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD“ MICHAEL DEACON SKETCH WRITER, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH “Politicians know that if they get angry with you and confront you about your writing, you are only going to redouble your efforts. Instead, they like to make it known they enjoyed your sketch, that they can see the funny side and they thought it was very well done.

“In one sketch I wrote last autumn during the Lib Dem party conference, about Danny Alexander, I compared his likeness to a robot. The next morning I kept having other journalists coming up to me and saying ‘oh, I’ve just bumped into Danny Alexander. He wanted me to know that he’d read your sketch and he thought it was very well done.’ It seemed he’d been saying this to journalist after journalist, because they all kept coming up to me separately. Politicians are prepared to put up with your jokes at their expense, provided that you also lay into their rivals, or better still their colleagues.

“Tim Loughton, at the time a Tory education minister, once complained about what I’d written. Naturally I hoped to write about him again, but sadly I was denied the opportunity, because he was sacked soon afterwards.

“On a separate occasion, John Redwood

wrote to the editor about a sketch in which I’d mentioned him in passing. I’d written that, like an ostrich, Mr Redwood swallows pebbles in order to aid his digestion. He pointed out that this wasn’t true – I was happy to correct the record.

“I didn’t expect to get hit by an egg in the side of the head when I was following Ed Miliband on the campaign trail around London. Ed was moving his way down the street shaking hands, talking to people, when suddenly there was shouting.

“An egg whistled past the back of Ed Miliband’s head, and then another one caught him just on the shoulder. I looked round to see where the eggs were coming from and who was throwing them, when splat! The egg thrower had completely missed Ed Miliband, apart from a slight dribble of yoke on the back of his shoulder, but got me perfectly. It was the side of my head, down my shoulders, down my back, on the strap of my bag, down my arm, down my leg, and over both of my shoes. I did think about maybe billing the Labour party for my dry cleaning; as I understand it, their funds probably wouldn’t be able to match that.”

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REWRITING THE SCRIPT

Journalists looking for new challenges are turning their hands to everything from Radio 4 drama to Hollywood screenplays. Simon Gwynn investigates

Let me be Frank for a minute: Jon Ronson speaks at a press event for The Men Who Stare at Goats, the film of his book about the US Army’s research into the paranormal

So what are the challenges? “There are an infinite number of possibilities as to what you can do,” he says of writing fiction. Unlike journalism, the writer is not bound by the facts: “It’s like the difference between a game with rules, and one where you have to create your own.

“There has to be a truth to journalism,” he adds. “But there are different sorts of truth: factual truth, and truths about the way people are. It’s the same for film – it has to be true. It has to have integrity, it has to be real.

Both kinds of writing deal in truth.”

If Frank takes liberties with history, the same can’t be said for the work of The Guardian’s former security ed-

itor Richard Norton-Taylor, who has written several plays based on public enquiries. Using verbatim text from the transcripts of the inquiries, they straddle the line between journalism and drama.

In 1994, Norton-Taylor played tennis with Nicolas Kent, the artistic director of London’s Tricycle Theatre. At the time, he was reporting for The Guardian on the Scott Inquiry into sales of arms to Iraq by British companies. Kent encouraged him to adapt the enquiry into a play, and the result was Half The Picture, which took its name from a comment by a senior civil servant that “half the picture can be true”.

It was the first of seven plays Norton-Taylor developed for the Tricycle.

Though he doesn’t write any original dialogue, he often has a monumental task in distilling masses of material into a story the audience can follow and relate to. The inquiry into Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday massacre, for example, went on for 10 years, whereas Norton-Taylor’s play Bloody Sunday was a relatively brisk threeand-a-half hours.

Norton-Taylor says that putting factual material on the stage helps draw out humour and colourful characters.

He gives the example of many of the police officers in The Colour Of Justice, his play on the inquiry into the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence: “I could almost have written a musical on how stupid, incompetent, racist they were.”

In learning to write for the stage, Norton-Taylor has had to reconsider his assumptions. “At the beginning I was behaving like a journalist, and writing like one” he says. “I would overlook passages from the reports that seemed trivial, and Nick Kent would say ‘no, they’re actually quite significant’.”

He mentions a moment when Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen, told the inquiry about handing the police a list of names on a piece of paper, only to watch it get scrunched up and thrown away in front of her.

“As a journalist, I would have said that this is insignificant, but of course it’s not, because it reflects how, to her, the police were just not interested in getting the killers.”

Petty suggests that this is something journalists can struggle with. “Scripts are more complex because they’re both long and short form: each scene has to work individually, but contribute to an over-arching narrative. This isn’t easy, no matter how good you are at writing other stuff.”

The more routine areas of justice have always been a rich source for drama too. For the last eight years,

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estival audiences love it. Michael Fassbender plays the lead. And it follows the fortunes of a novelty pop group led by a man in a giant papier-mâché head.

But perhaps the most enticing thing about the new movie, Frank, which hits cinemas in May, is the identity of the screenwriter.

He is Jon Ronson, briefly a member of Frank Sidebottom’s Oh Big Blimey Band in the 1980s, and whose brief music career is the basis for the film’s story. Inspired by an article he wrote for The Guardian in 2006, it’s Ronson’s first screenplay.

Until now Ronson has been better known as an author and documentary maker. His work includes the books Them, The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test, and the Channel 4 series Secret Rulers of the World. He co-wrote Frank with Peter Straughan, who adapted Goats for the big screen.

Ronson is the latest journalist to try his hand at screenwriting. In such a competitive working environment, journalists are increasingly looking for other sources of employment. For many, screenplays are the logical next step. And it’s not just film, but TV, radio, and theatre too.

“There’s a natural crossover” says Rhian Petty, a script assistant for TV production company Tiger Aspect.

“Journalists are writers who are adept at sniffing out good stories.”

Petty sounds a note of caution, though: “Writing an article is obviously very different structurally from a script, so I think that – when they cross over – journalists can find it difficult to adapt these skills.”

This is something that Ronson can testify to. “It’s a really long route trying to do in screenwriting what you naturally do in journalism,” he says.

“You end up in the same place, but the way you get there is a real mind f*** if you’re left to your own devices.”

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they have been the inspiration of former investigative journalist Sharon Kelly (Periodical, 1987).

Kelly, with writing partner Tom Fry, has now written seven series of BBC Radio 4 drama Brief Lives, about legal representatives who work in police stations. It’s now one of the longest running drama series on Radio 4.

Kelly and Fry originally wrote the script for television in 1999, when it was called Arrested Development.

It was optioned by BBC One, but never went further. “Nothing happened for six years,” she recalls, “and then Radio 4 contacted us. They’d seen the script, and wanted to produce it. So the lesson from that is, never throw anything away.”

In the meantime, both writers were approached by the producers of daytime soap Doctors to join its pool of writers. Kelly has now written 34 episodes of the show.

One of the things that drew Kelly to fictional writing is perhaps surprising. “Even though I did investigative journalism, what I really hate is ringing people up,” she says. “I’m quite happy sitting in a room on my own and making things up.”

When it comes to writing drama with a set formula, though – such as stories set in a police station – Kelly does draw on real life. And of course, there are the moments when life imitates art. She mentions a story they wrote for Brief Lives about “a councillor who was using cocaine and rent boys”.

Not long afterwards, Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers was splashed across every newspaper front 26 page after allegations emerged of his own use of drugs and rent boys.

The kind of excess practised by the likes of Flowers is a long way from the life of an average script writer. In fact, Kelly is certain that she’d be earning more now if she was still working in journalism.

Rates for an original 45-minute BBC radio drama range from £1600 to £4000, while a script for a one hour TV drama should net the author upwards of £9,840 – the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) minimum rate. Film screenplay rates start at £18,900 for low budget flicks, but can rise to six figures for more established writers. As a rule of thumb, screenplays account for between 1% and 2% of a film’s total budget. The WGGB also set a minimum rate of £8,100 for a full-length play (longer than 70 minutes).

Although some of these figures sound generous, they disguise what Kelly sees as a serious problem in the industry: the amount of on-spec work script writers need to do to get a commission. “You’re working on stuff for free all the time, and it’s getting worse,” she says. “Even well known writers are expected to develop scripts for nothing.”

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hile a lot of scriptwriters do struggle to get their first break, some such as former journalist Paul Rose have made it to the big screen. Rose is about to see the release of his first film – a comedy crime caper starring Pudsey the dog from Britain’s Got Talent.

Rose is upbeat about the film, which he describes as “Beethoven meets Midnight Express”. “People are quite cynical but hopefully we’ve done a good job of turning over their expectations,” he says.

The movie features David Walliams as the voice of the adorable mutt. Rose recounts his difficulties in getting the dialogue to work: “I wrote the script with lots of witty, subtle dialogue, and then when we watched it, it turned out that animals aren’t very good at emoting and getting across subtext.”

For the last 10 years, Rose has largely been making his money writing for children’s TV. But he first came to public attention, under the name of Mr Biffo, as a writer on Digitiser, the cult video games magazine that appeared on Channel 4 Teletext from 1993 to 2003.

Digitiser quickly developed a reputation for its irreverent (and often irrelevant) humour. Eventually, Rose and his colleague Tim Moore realised their talents were wasted on Teletext, and wrote a script together – a dark comedy called We Two Vets.

It caught the attention of comedy producer Robert Popper – but from there, Rose’s experience was similar to Kelly’s, when Brief Lives was in limbo: “Literally nothing happened to my career in screenwriting for the next five or six years.”

A series of serendipitous moments eventually led Rose to children’s TV – first as the lead writer on Sooty. Eventually, he pitched his own creation: Dani’s House, starring Tracy Beaker actor Dani Harmer.

That show ran for five series, and there have also been three of spin off Dani’s Castle, and four of his other show, 4 O’Clock Club.

Rose has recently signed with an American agent.

But he is still happy writing TV for kids – and now prime time television too, including the Sky comedy drama series Stella.

“Every writer I know has a completely different story about how they got into it,” he says. “Don’t rule out anything – whether it’s soaps or TV for kids.

The reason I’m writing for Stella is because I worked with the producer on 4 O’Clock Club.”

What’s his advice for journalists with aspirations to write a blockbuster (or even an episode for CBeebies)? “Most screenwriting courses out there are a waste of time. There are some good books, but the best thing you can read is scripts, and there are tons out there on the internet. And if you want to write a film: just write a film.”

Frank is in cinemas from 2 May. Pudsey: The Movie is out from 18 July. Brief Lives returns to BBC Radio 4 in the summer.

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am waiting in the lobby of The Mail on Sunday offices for one of Britain’s most controversial columnists, Peter Hitchens. It’s been 15 minutes and I’m getting nervous. I’m expecting a hard time from Mr Difficult. Famed for his ferocity and lack of humour, he told TV star Matthew Perry, a recovering drug addict, that his condition was no more real than Tinkerbell.

Finally Hitchens appears, apologising profusely. He shakes my hand warmly and ushers me to Starbucks, where he politely asks the barista to turn down the music. As we wait for the acid jazz to fade, Hitchens brings me an Earl Grey tea, with the milk in a separate jug. The barista comes over to ask if the music is low enough. “Yes, although if you could get it down even lower, that would be much better for her dictaphone,” he says, smiling at me.

The evening before we meet, Hitchens has been trending on Twitter for likening abortion to mass infanticide. The Twittersphere is furious with the 62-year-old. “Peter Hitchens makes me want to tear out my brains in fury” is one young woman’s take on the debate. “Peter Hitchens is an obstreperous knob end,” writes another. He clearly enjoys it as he refers to himself as “The Hated Peter Hitchens” when he tweets and regularly responds to his accusers. Did he get a buzz out of tweeting “English is clearly not your first language” to a woefully misspelt insult from @pompoushobbit the previous night? He half smiles, half smirks. “I can’t say I was unhappy after I’d done it.”

Hitchens, the younger brother of the late author and critic Christopher, is one of the country’s best known columnists. Each week in The Mail on Sunday, he rails against all things modern, channeling a right-wing conservatism that bears no allegiance to any political party. Hitchens’ unfashionable views 28 and subversive stance on social and moral issues make him the broadcasting world’s go-to man for a heated argument with real shock-factor. He has debated drug addiction with the comedian and former heroin addict Russell Brand on Newsnight. More recently he got Friends star Matthew Perry so riled up that Newsnight editor Ian Katz said he’d dispatched a producer to take the opponents out of the building through different exits. The media coverage was huge, and social networks went wild with glee at the surreal pairing.

Hitchens claims he doesn’t care what the Twitterati, or “left-wing electronic mob” as he calls it, thinks about him. But a look at his Twitter feed suggests that he searches his own name, as he tweets people who have referred to him or spoken about him, even if they haven’t tweeted directly at him. He

clearly gets a kick out of being talked about, even if it’s by angry lefties. “They say such stupid ignorant things about me. They’ve obviously never read a word that I’ve written.”

It’s his Mail on Sunday readers, for whom he has been writing for 12 years, that he cares about. “I spend a whole week thinking about my column.

I sometimes have to chuck all my ideas as things change later in the week.” He often drops a column topic because it isn’t as original, or truthful, as it initially sounded. “The worst complete collapse of a story recently was when someone claimed penguins were being given antidepressants. Quite a lot of papers printed this and I thought, ‘can this be so?’ I was fascinated.

And then just one phone call – one phone call – and it’s not true.” Has the writing process become easier over time? “Oddly enough I spend longer on it now than I used to. I’m getting slower.”

Despite being an advocate for all things proper, Hitchens’clothes are surprisingly casual. He is wearing a pale blue shirt with its top button undone, no tie or jacket. He writes his weekly column from a cubby hole in Northcliffe House – “it’s wonderful, nobody can bother me” – and files every week, even when

Hitchens won’t be there for you: he tells Friends star Perry (a recovering addict) that addiction is a myth

he’s on holiday. An insider suggests that Hitchens rarely misses a week because he’s concerned about someone swooping in and taking his job. The most challenging place he’s filed from was Tehran. “I edited my column about 15 feet from a group of Syrian military officers in full uniform having some kind of conversation with the Iranians.” He has a long record of reporting from afar. As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express in the early 90s, he reported from Moscow during the final months of the Soviet Union, and later in the day he is booked to do an interview on the state-run radio station The Voice of Russia about the Ukrainian crisis. He talks passionately about the way the BBC has misjudged its coverage of the crisis.

No longer covering international conflicts, does he miss reporting from further afield than Kensington High Street? “Not really,” he says, and then pauses.

“I feel I’ve done it now. It’s tremendously exhausting and can take months of preparation if you’re going to do it properly. I found it took an awful lot out of my home life and personal life. You do four or five

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“He’s a decent, kind and deeply compassionate man with the air of a prophet about him; and like all prophets, doomed to be scorned by so many” Ed West The Daily Telegraph

HITCHENOMETER “Peter Hitchens knows about opinions. He’s held most of them” John Rentoul The Independent

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“I don’t care how upsetting it is – if Peter Hitchens is Santa, I’m telling my kids not to believe in him” David Baddiel Comedian “Kiss Peter Hitchens. It’s the only way to shut him up” Suzanne Moore The Guardian

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Hitchens is despairing of broadcast news. “I used of those big trips a year and it makes a very big hole to not be able to go to bed until I’d watched the in your life.” He says he loves going on non-journalBBC, ITN and Newsnight. Now I can’t stand news istic visits to places instead, most recently to chair a bulletins. They drive me wild because they’re so padebate in Idaho on same sex marriage. tronising. They seem to be aimed at, well…not very To my great surprise as our interview progressbright eight-year-olds.” es I start to feel a bit sorry for Hitchens. At times he speaks like a man on the wane – or at least like itchens sees his appearances on someone who fears his star is in descent. “I have Newsnight and Question Time panbeen allowed to make two or three documentaries els as a chance to reach an audifor Channel 4, although they seem to have gone off ence he wouldn’t normally get to. me now.” He sounds bemused.

“You don’t exist in the world of The publishing world isn’t keen on him either. commentary unless you have an Hitchens has written six books, the most recent, electronic presence. It’s a shame The War We Never Fought, about what he sees as Britbecause 40 years ago you could achieve the same ain’s non-existent war on drugs, but says the leftpresence with newspapers alone.” wing bias in publishing means he can’t get printed Doesn’t it get tiring, being so anti the modern anymore. “You battle to get a book published and world? “No,” he says matter-of-factly. “People say if you’re me, when it is published all your enemies ‘why are you so gloomy?’ but I’m not gloomy at all. either attack it moronically in the case of The GuardI have one of the most enjoyable lives anyone could ian and Observer, or ignore it completely. My last wish for. But it doesn’t mean that I have to be wildly book – well, frankly, I’ve got relatives who don’t optimistic about national circumstances, the state know I wrote it. It may as well not exist.” He says of society, the economy, declining morality, and the this with a distinct bitterness and keeps going, unstate of things in general. I’ve seen catastrophe happrompted. “It’s not only the publishing world that’s pen, and catastrophe can happen here.” biased,” he says. It’s the “predominantly left wing” It is his genuine distress about the nation’s moral reviewers and “invariably left wing” bookshop staff decline that has kept Hitchens writing his column, who never display his book on a front table, “even week after week. One of his biggest bugbears is antithough several of my books are a good deal better depressants, which he believes are dangerously overthan the ones that are displayed”, he adds. prescribed. “It would be the biggest achievement of Although Hitchens’ own publishing efforts have my life if I could get an enquiry into antidepressants gone awry, he’s busy “finally” making his way started. I sometimes try to justify my existence by through War and Peace and is a fan of detective stosaying, well, if I make all this noise I’ll ries. His favourite authors are Eric Ammake it easier for others to take bler, the older le Carré – “the more up the cause. I don’t know if recent ones are awful” – Joseph that’s true but it’s a kind of Kanon, and Alan Furst. He comfort.” also reads Dorothy SayHe pauses to choose ers and Josephine Tey, his next words careand, repeatedly, Sherfully. “The problem lock Holmes. “I don’t with being Mr Difthink, ‘oh these peoficult is that howple are contemptible ever right I may be purveyors of trash,’ about these things, I think, ‘Wow this there’s no point at is real skill, I wish I which what I say had it.’ I don’t have meshes with the it in me, though. I gears of politics, and love it when people so nothing gets done. can completely get It’s the curse of Cashold of me in a plot.” sandra: knowing you’re He repeats “I wish I could right” – he stops and cordo it” several times. rects himself defiantly – “being In a 2005 article in The right, in fact, but condemned to be Guardian, journalist James Silver described Hitchens as “The Mail on Not so negative now: Hitchens disbelieved.”

In a 2013 BBC interview, Hitchens Sunday’s fulminator-in-chief ”, his col- measuring the Gross National said he “came out of the womb arumns “molten Old Testament fury Happiness of Bhutan guing”. I ask whether Britain has got shot through with visceral wit”. But worse at debate. “Oh much worse,” he says withHitchens says he never intends to cause anger. “It’s out hesitation. “All the best people were killed in the stupid to seek to provoke because people will see that First World War – it was the best people who volunit’s phoney. I never intentionally set out to please.” teered to fight. Something went out of the spirit of And then, sounding like a naughty 1950s school boy this country. Now we are a pretty passive bunch.” thrilled at a successful prank, he says: “But when Hitchens attributes his own vigour to his great people I don’t have much time for dislike it, that’s grandfather. “He wouldn’t have a television or telealways an extra zing of pleasure.” phone in the house, he was a strict Baptist, he would It is conformists and “the fashionable purveyors never read fiction, and was completely opposed to of conventional wisdom” who Hitchens has liteverything in the modern world. I remember him tle time for. “People who pick up their opinions as raging about the place in my childhood and my chameleons pick up their colours – people who take being fascinated by this extraordinary person.” He what is being said as correct without thinking first.” stops and has a sip of his latte and adds gleefully, Hitchens says that there are plenty of British jourwith a hint of smugness, “I think I must have some nalists who he admires for avoiding bandwagons. of his genes.”

“I’m quite struck by Aditya Chakrabortty who does And with that, he drinks the rest of his coffee. very good things in G2. He doesn’t take things at He shakes my hand and walks back to Northcliffe face value.”

House for his interview on the Russian radio station.

He mentions several other names including SiAfter he’s gone I realise that views on abortion, gun mon Jenkins, who Hitchens disagrees with “enorlaws, and capital punishment aside, The Hated Pemously” on drugs but respects for “not forming his ter Hitchens can be surprisingly nice. opinion on the basis of what is fashionable”. But

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hen Reuters football editor Mike Collett flew out to Brazil in 2012, it was not for soccer, sunshine, or samba. He was there on business, accompanying a FIFA media tour with the aim of mapping out journalistic problems ahead of this year’s World Cup. As he was escorted around the 12 host cities, housed in luxury hotels boasting security and swank, and served South

America’s finest dishes, he realised something: Brazil 2014 is going to be a nightmare.

“I’ve covered nine World Cups and they’ve all been fantastic, but I saw early on that this one was going to be an absolute ballbreaker,” Collett says. “All the logistical crap, the huge distances and unreliable transport have made it a really tough situation.”

If the situation is tough on Reuters, think of the smaller fish in this enormous pond. Financially unsupported freelancers, the minnows, are being priced out of the best material by travel and accom-

modation costs – they will take whatever they can get, and still risk failing to make a profit.

Brazil 2014 is a journalistic landscape like no other. There is healthy demand for reportage, yet the tournaments size and dire infrastructure mean only the largest agencies can target comprehensive coverage. Then there are the football squads, constantly criss-crossing the nation in thousand-mile leaps, allowing only the fastest – and wealthiest – journalists a chance to keep up. Unfortunately, in a lean industry size matters and cuts need to be made,

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vative attempt to cut costs Reuters will use an editing desk based in Miami rather than Brazil, something Collett is anxious about but agrees is necessary. “It’s not the best solution because the editors should be in Brazil,” he says. “But at least Miami is a couple of hours behind so their nights won’t be as late. They’ll just have to work hard on the phones, keeping in constant touch with everybody in Brazil to ensure it’s running smoothly.”

Ian Herbert, football correspondent for The Independent, is also worried about filing over the internet while constantly on the move. “In the stadia you will have to ensure there will be extremely good wireless connections available, but unfortunately you won’t know until you get there.

There will certainly be a lot of anxiety going into the early games when you’re wondering how secure this system is going to be – it can be potentially catastrophic if you can’t file when your newspaper is spending £20,000-£30,000 on sending you there.”

Freelance journalist Tim Rich, who has covered World Cups since France 1998, believes this will be “the most internet-focused World Cup ever”, with time difference forcing most newspapers to publish key material online. He says: “In the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan we were nine hours ahead – we had plenty of time to write and file our work. In Brazil the problem is a lot of the games won’t be finished until after final editions have gone to print.” Consequently, paywall sites may suffer: “Why would somebody pay The Times for something small like a match report when they can get it free on The Guardian?”

While relying on the internet has obvious drawbacks, it provides journalists an opportunity to add more value to their work. Rich predicts that high quality video recording will be “everywhere” – a contrast to the podcasts of past tournaments. He remembers the state of online coverage at Germany 2006: “We’d just started doing podcasts and it was a jokey sort of thing. In one I did, the base was a Red Lion pub in London, one of the guests was the guy who played Herr Flick on ‘Allo ‘Allo!, our theme was ‘don’t mention the war’ and Henry Winter and I were calling in from Germany.”

Media technology has evolved rapidly since then, most notably with video production gadgets. BBC Sport news reporter Richard Conway has been provided with an iPhone 5 so he can “broadcast live, wherever and whenever”.

He will use a programme called Luci Live, which allows him to film and file from his phone as long as a 3G connection is available. “It’s a godsend in situations like Brazil,” he says, “because it allows me the flexibility to record or broadcast live from virtually anywhere using my phone, in broadcast quality.”

While Reuters’ Miami desk might be picking up some of the slack, global hunger for online content means employees will not have much opportunity for barbeques on the beach. Collett predicts “little to no” free time: “We’ll start work at around 8am, and if you’ve got an evening match you won’t be

in bed until 2am. You’ll get three or four hours sleep and then you’re back on. There will always be something to write, be it a sidebar or a feature or analysis.

Think of it as a non-stop, five-week marathon.”

The insane idea of hosting a nomadic tournament was spawned by UEFA president Michel Platini.

Co-organiser of the France 1998 World Cup, Platini was keen to boost football’s image in his homeland.

Rather than having each nation assigned to a region, as had been the case in the past, he touted a roadshow format in which teams would travel across the French provinces. The Italian opera would visit every corner of the country, as would the English pantomime. His vision was myopic and a hint of logistical nous would have made him think twice.

Yet the tournament was a success, and subsequent World Cups ran just as smoothly. In Germany 2006, FIFA and the German FA provided free first class train passes for 6,000 journalists. As long as they caught the train on time, they were fine. Gerry Cox, chief executive at London based sports agency Hayters Teamwork, says: “In Europe it wasn’t ideal, but it all ran on time because there were these great transport links. Even at the 2012 European Championship [in Ukraine and Poland] it was fine.”

It was only after a difficult South Africa 2010 that journalists began to look ahead at Brazil apprehensively.

For smaller agencies, having eyes and ears in every city isn’t an option. Pragmatism is key. Cox is one of just two Hayters Teamwork reporters travelling to Brazil. He says: “I’m going to be based in Rio which means I’ll get to a number of England press conferences, but there’s no way I can get to Manaus [2659 miles away] for what will most likely be their biggest game of the group stages, against Italy. That’s material we should be getting, but can’t.”

In fact, Cox believes the only way reporters unsupported by the finances of a company like Reuters – who are spending around £250,000 on the tournament – can possibly obtain this prime material is by travelling with a media travel company like BAC Sport. “Media travel companies look after everything,” he says. “Every training session, every press conference, accommodation, it’s all covered. They’ll get you to where you need to be.”

This bespoke service will carriage sports journalism’s aristocracy. David Pearson, managing director of BAC Sport, says: “Most of those travelling with us are chief football reporters, like Henry Winter of The Daily Telegraph and Shaun Custis of The Sun, and then there’s journalists from Sky, the BBC, ITV, Fox News – most of the big companies.” The only setback is the price. BAC Sport are charging £42,000 for tours running to the final per journalist.

While that might seem extortionate, finding suitable accommodation elsewhere isn’t as simple as googling the lowest rates.

Tariq Panja, a Bloomberg correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, has noted prices “surging as much as sixfold” as the event grows near. One hotel in Salvador will charge £306 per night throughout the World Cup, while prices in July last year were roughly £45 per night. On average, a hotel in Berlin when it staged the 2006 World Cup final charged £180.

Amid these five-star prices, journalists

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both to corners and staff. But Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country, and the World Cup is its premium sporting event. There are too many corners, and not enough staff.

Collett explains: “Normally we would have people travelling in groups, chasing stories around the country. Then we’d have individuals following a football team they specialise in. This year we can’t do that, because we need to save money and we can’t cope with the inevitable logistical headaches.”

Prevalent at past tournaments, journalists assigned to a single team will be a rare luxury in Brazil.

Entrusting every hour of, say, England’s involvement to a single reporter is too risky. Trains do not travel long distances, planes are constantly delayed or cancelled, and buses get stuck in traffic or, occasionally, hijacked down alleyways. Besides, in the group stages of the tournament an England correspondent would have to travel back and forth between Rio de Janeiro, Manaus, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte (about 6412 miles) in 13 or 14 days, with a flight most likely planned on every third day. Even if they were able to cover the distance in time, and still manage the daily demands of their job, they would be “wrecked”, as Collett puts it, “which is something no one can afford less than a fortnight in”.

Instead, agencies like Reuters will be sending out a scaled-down team of around 50 journalists (in past World Cups it has been 70-80) including editors, reporters, photographers, and video producers. They will be spread across the host cities, picking up whatever teams come through. Furthermore, in an inno-

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“WE HAD TO GET TO THE STADIUM SIX HOURS BEFORE KICK-OFF OR THE TRAFFIC WOULD BE TOO BAD” can’t go waving expensive equipment around, or go walking around alone in the evenings.”

Most journalists will not even have the option of staying in these poorer districts, as it is vital to locate a base close to all the relevant training and media facilities, as well as the stadia. Collett remembers the problems he faced when covering the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil: “There was a game at 4pm once. Normally we would leave from a hotel half an hour away at 12pm, so we could guarantee getting there three hours early to prepare. What we were having to do is get to the stadium six hours before kick-off, as the traffic would get too bad if we set off any later.” He says the high levels of civil unrest

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expected this year will only add to the chaos.

With eye-watering costs of secure accommodation and vast distances between venues, what happens to the freelancers with little or no financial backing? They are at the bottom of the pile fighting for the scraps, of course. Cox explains: “In South Africa 2010 the freelancers saved money wherever possible, staying in one city and occasionally jumping on a cheap flight if big games were coming up nearby, but only if it was financially viable.”

This will not be an option in Brazil. Panja points out that there is not a low-airfare culture, with a peak, same-day return flight between Rio and São Paulo costing more than a flight to New York. “And that’s a flight which takes between 45 minutes and an hour.” In short, freelancers will be frozen in a single venue praying for big stories to emerge.

In fact, Rich believes most freelancers risk making a financial loss. He says: “I’m on a contract with The Independent, but I’ll be working for a Chinese website too and between the two of them I can hope to make a reasonable profit – but without two or three contracts it will be very difficult [for freelancers] to do that.”

Instead many will be heading to Brazil with the aim of acquiring “spin-off work and contacts” as well as simply “getting to go to the World Cup which is itself a special experience”.

Even Collett, having slogged his way around Brazil five times over the last three years, concedes that this year will not be all bad: “Brazilians know how to stage a party, they know how to appreciate football. Then there’s some dramatically beautiful locations,” he says.

But will he enjoy it? His laconic reply suggests otherwise: “I don’t think it’s going to be that great.”

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will have to be careful not to allow cheaper rates to lure them into unsafe areas. Shanty towns and favelas – often hotbeds of criminal activity – lie sprawled across Rio’s metropolitan vistas. While hotels in these areas will undoubtedly demand less, Panja believes they are best avoided. “These are places where you

The Amazônia Arena in Manaus, where England will kick off their tournament against Italy

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Alison Tay, Style Editor at Now magazine identifies the top five ways to wear office-to-event outfits

BRAZIL

THE HARD WORKER

All eyes will be on Brazil during the 2014 World Cup, with 64 matches to be held across 12 cities in June and July.

These days we’re all multi-taskers so I expect the same from my wardrobe. My hardest working LBD is a midi with a zip all the way up the back that doubles as office-appropriate by day and converts into a sexy backless dress after dark. I love unexpected cut-out detailing right now too.

THE POLO NECK DANIEL JULIE

Holly Willoughby taught me this.

Pop on a polo neck under a glam dress to make it day-time appropriate. You can always whip it off when it’s show time. I bulk buy mine from American Apparel.

BELGIUM

The 100th anniversary of World War I will see a host of events at the battlefields of Flanders.

THE TROPHY JACKET

Another trick is to wear a trophy jacket or a tailored biker for meetings then shoulder robe it to fash it up on a night out.

BERLIN

2014 marks 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, with events culminating on the 9 November anniversary.

THE IT LIPSTICK GUILLÉN PÉREZ

Stuck for the perfect restaurant to impress a new contact? Want some alternatives to the stale ideas that clog up your inbox?

XCity has gathered together expert editors to keep you ahead of the curve.

Peter Grunert, editor of Lonely Planet gives his take on the best parts of the world to visit this year

ANTARTICA

It's 100 years since Ernest Shackleton's attempted Antarctic land crossing, which turned into a threeyear feat of survival.

SCOTLAND September is the month when Scotland holds its referendum on independence. For the first time Scotland will hold both the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.

MAC COSMETICS

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MAC Lipstick in Lady Danger (£15, MAC) is an instant glamoriser in every self-respecting celeb's cosmetics bag as a day-to-play makeup must-have. Caroline Flack and Erin O'Connor are fans.

THE HEEL-HATER’S TRICK

If you're as hopeless in heels as me, invest in Hi Heel Hosiery – 10 denier tights with cushioned foot pads – to make sure you're the last one standing on the dancefloor.

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BLOGS Peter Dreyer, features writer at technology magazine T3, selects five of the best blogs

William Sitwell, editor of Waitrose Kitchen and Masterchef food critic, recommends five London restaurants

CONFERENCE BITES

HOI POLLOI

SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET A self-styled “modernist brasserie”with a varied menu for both formal and informal dining. A meal for two with wine will set you back about £60.

www.conferencebites.com Superb little blog that grabs all the best quotes from events around the world.

ULTRA CULTURE

ULTRA CULTURE

www.ultraculture.co.uk Charlie Lyne’s homegrown movie culture blog is witty and informative.

HOLBORN DINING ROOM

GRANTLAND

grantland.com Great mixture of sports analytics TV, movies, and pop culture.

Sophie Charara, reviewer for Stuff and Stuff.tv has picks the best gadgets for journalists in 2014 DATAMINR FOR NEWS

£TBC My tech tip for journos in 2014, it identifies trends and stories on Twitter before you know what you're looking for – and half an hour before traditional news picks it up.

HP CHROMEBOOK

£230 A lightweight laptop like this is cheaper and more reliable than an iPad.

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UL ROSEWOOD HOTEL W I This British brasserie and del- NCH F icatessen is popular with the Fleet URNES Street set. Hot lunch for two with wine S and service costs around £100.

YANKO DESIGN

www.yankodesign.com If you’re after cutting edge design and tech concepts, YD will always have them first.

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PICCADILLY High ceilings and Viennese style pay homage to the 1920s brasserie in this prestigious Piccadilly restuarant. Afternoon tea is critically acclaimed, and will set you back around £60 for two – glass of champagne included of course.

WHERE COOL THINGS HAPPEN

BERNERS TAVERN

www.where coolthings happen.com Endless inspiration and procrastination.

Like Buzzfeed but less shameless.

MAYFAIR A lavish affair, set in the decadent London Edition hotel. A meal for two including wine and service costs around £100.

OLLOCLIP FOR IPHONE

£55 A neat, easy-to-connect set of photography lenses for your phone that provide almost-SLR quality photos and videos.

MINDMELD

£2.49 (BEST ON IPAD) A brilliantly clever (if not flawless) voice assistant app that pulls up relevant articles, video and images by listening in to conversations.

NIKOLAS KOENIG

WHERE COOL THINGS HAPPEN

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TINGO CHILTERN FIREHOUSE

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STUART C AIE

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MARYLEBONE Serving only daily dinners and Sunday brunches, Chiltern Firehouse is certainly exclusive. Set in the beauty of the Grade II listed Victorian building, The Chiltern Firehouse Hotel, a meal here is something really special. Dinner with wine costs about £150.

£1.99 Offers a daily shot of fresh vocab in app form with historical phrases and global slang.

Compiled by a former QI researcher, the definitions will get word geeks grinning.

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HOW TO STAY ON TOP

Kay Burley is in her 25th year at Sky News. She tells Eve Simmons and Deborah Weitzmann why it’s not nip and tuck but grit and tenacity that have helped her outlast her rivals

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or the past 25 years Kay Burley has been a constant presence on Sky News. When the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished in extraordinary circumstances it was Burley who was sent to cover the breaking story.

Yet it wasn’t her lengthy news reports that received more than 73,000 views on YouTube, but a 17-second clip of her tripping at the top of a downward escalator in a Kuala Lumpur hotel as she ran up to help two Malaysian women. This is not the first time that Britain has been fascinated by our longest serving female newsreader’s occasional slip-ups.

“Doctors bury their mistakes, lawyers lock theirs up and broadcasters broadcast theirs to the world,” Burley tells XCity on the morning she returns from a nine-day stint covering the mystery plane disappearance in the Far East.

“I tripped at the top of the escalator, so what? Whoopi-do!” she says in a typically feisty response to the on screen stumble.

This isn’t the first time that Burley has created news for the wrong reasons. A quick check on Google reveals lists of her most “cringeworthy” and “insensitive” career moments. But when confronted with her infamous Peter Andre interview where she reduced him to tears by asking him if he thought the new husband of his estranged wife Katie Price would consider adopting his children, she dismisses it: “Oh please, I’m not going to talk about that. Seriously.”

She’s clearly not afraid of confronting her detractors and admits her “new guilty pleasure” is retaliating to a mob of “Twitter trolls who hide behind a handle”.

“It’s fun to respond because trolls are bullies. To come against someone like me who can actually stand up to them will hopefully make them think twice about picking on other people who are less able to defend themselves.

“No one has ever threatened to kill me or come round and thrown things at my house,” the north London local confirms, “but plenty of people have not been particularly polite.”

The Twitter tough talk is not only reserved for anonymous “trolls”. She’s even prepared to go toe-to-toe with characters such as Ulrika Jonsson (Burley took to Twitter last September to respond to Jonsson’s catty claim – “Kay Burley has been on screen for 128

years” – with: “Just off to work in my 4x4”, a backhanded reference to Jonsson’s four children by four different fathers).

After more than two decades of public scrutiny, Burley appears to revel in her various scraps.

“If you are going to be a journalist and be in the public eye for as long as I’ve been, you have to learn to be very thick-skinned. I don’t get offended if people are rude about me. If my friends or family are upset with me that bothers me greatly. But people I have never met? I couldn’t give a toss.”

This fighting streak may partly explain how the 53-year-old has stayed at the top of her game for so long. Last year marked 25 years at Sky for the anchor – with which came the signing of a contract committing her to another five years at the channel. She is clearly excited to continue anchoring the 2pm-5pm weekday slot: “I am incredibly lucky to still be doing what I do. I’m living the dream. I am a very, very lucky girl.”

Burley has seen it all during her quarter of a century at the forefront of Sky News. “Diana died on my watch, Concorde crashed on my watch. You never know what is going to happen.”

In a broadcasting age where anyone above 35 is considered a “veteran” and women on television have lost their job for being on the wrong side of 50, Burley’s longevity is exceptional. Just what is her secret?

Burley is refreshingly honest about the importance of maintaining her good looks as well as being a top-flight journalist. She recalls the late Sir David Frost’s advice when she first broke into national broadcasting 30 years ago at the breakfast television channel TVam. “Always remember that when you are on telly you are invading someone’s living room. They choose whether to stay with you or turn over to something else. If you look presentable, they’ll start to listen to what you have to say.”

So perhaps it is Sir David’s words of wisdom that are responsible for her face-lift that allegedly cost £10,000. Burley is sick of the endless “under the knife” questions – when we approach the subject, she responds: “Oh yeah I was waiting for this to come, go on then.” The mere implication that it is interesting for a well-known woman to invest in cosmetic surgery and she immediately interrupts: “Why? Why is it controversial?

“Would people have the same view about a man who had a procedure?” she asks.

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Above, clockwise: A fresh faced Kay Burley at the launch of Sky News with fellow news anchors Andrew Neil and Bob Friend; Reporting from London 2012; Outside the Lindo Wing at the birth of the royal baby; During her coverage of the missing Malaysian airlines flight; taking a break for a selfie with Sky News royal correspondent Paul Harrison

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“I am a successful woman on television and I have done more live television probably than anyone else in the world. It’s very easy to pick me off.”

On the issue of older TV journalists, Burley has previously hit out against the BBC’s allegedly ageist sacking of Countryfile presenter Miriam O’ Reilly.

Speaking in Reilly’s defence in 2009, the then 49-year-old said if ageism and sexism came for her she would “fight it like Miriam O’ Reilly did”.

On the same issue, she commented that “no woman should be judged on her looks” – some would say a contradictory stance for someone who has had two cosmetic procedures in the last 15 years.

But Burley insists her cosmetic surgery had nothing to do with extending her career. “Surprise, surprise, I have more to my life than just being on the telly. I haven’t done it to look younger or to extend my career, I’ve done it because I wanted to look as good as I can for as long as I can – for me.”

And it’s not just surgery that she looks to in order to maintain her appearance.

“I exercise, I eat well, I don’t smoke, which is the most aging thing you could possibly do to your skin. I am not ready for mother nature to mug me just yet.”

It may be this honesty that makes the Wigan-born anchor subject to ridicule at times. But whatever your opinion on Burley’s nips and tucks, her tenacious attitude to seeking out answers is undeniable.

Never is her journalistic ability more apparent than when covering the breaking stories that dominate the nations’ newsrooms and living rooms.

Whether it is national elections, natural disasters, or the failures of the rich and famous – Burley is there.

In March she co-presented her first LBC morning show with The Sun’s Stig Abell, and now has the opportunity to explore her political passions. Despite Labour MP Chris Bryant calling her “a bit dim” in 2010 when she interrupted him during an interview about the phone hacking scandal, Burley re-

Q&A WITH KAY WHO HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST? My mother because she was a spectacular, kind, intelligent, articulate, and charming woman who has more warmth in her heart than probably any-one else you can imagine.

HOW HAVE YOU INFLUENCED YOUR SON? We’re very close – He’s 21 but still wants to take his mum out for Mother’s Day lunch. He doesn’t want to follow in my footsteps, always saying: “You work too hard and people are too rude about you.”

WHAT’S A PIECE OF ADVICE YOU WOULD PASS ON FROM YOUR EXPERIENCES? Get your facts right and never give up. I took that advice myself and have been reasonably successful in my career.

IS THERE A CRIME YOU WOULD COMMIT KNOWING YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH IT? No – of course not! The very idea!

IS THERE ANY PHILOSOPHY THAT UNDERPINS YOUR LIFE? Work hard, play hard and be kind HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED? I’ve never really thought about that. I think I want to be remembered as a hard-working journalist who got it right most of the time.

WHAT FILM WOULD YOU WATCH TIME AND TIME AGAIN? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

mains self-assured and assertive when interviewing Britain’s most powerful people.

“Politicians serve the public – they are elected by us. They should not get an easy ride. I am in a privileged position where I can put [forward] the questions that people who are watching or listening want to know the answers to.”

Burley is keen to stress that the hard-headed political interviewer is only an on screen persona. “I might be pretty tough when I’m interviewing politicians but that’s not what I’m like really. Don’t judge me unless you have met me.”

Despite her passion for grilling politicians she often hits the headline for less high brow reasons – Peter Andre’s tears; the picture of her with her hands around a photographer’s neck whilst covering Naomi Campbell’s assault trial in 2008; her infamous grunting at the birth of Prince George – to name but a few. Are these silly mistakes simply a consequence of a 24-hour rolling news operation? Or carelessness?

Whichever it may be, Burley is not naive to her mishaps. “Of course I make mistakes – absolutely I do. I certainly learn from my mistakes.”

A less well-known side to Burley is her commitment to the training and campaigning organisation, Women in Journalism. Chairing a panel of female journalists at a Women in Journalism event this February, Burley’s presence was undoubtedly a highlight of the evening. Young, aspiring reporters were fascinated to hear about her “traditional route” to success.

Born and raised in Wigan, Lancashire, her first port of journalistic call was her local paper, The Lancashire Evening Post and Chronicle, which she joined as a trainee reporter at just 17. From there, Burley climbed up the ranks of local news reporting, finding her feet with local broadcasting and finally landing her national break as a reporter and newsreader on TV-am in 1985.

Is a successful career in journalism still possible without a degree? Bur-

ley seems to think so. “When I was a trainee, you needed five O-levels to be a journalist. Now I suppose that you are potentially more qualified if you have a degree. If you don’t have a degree that doesn’t mean you aren’t able or capable. You just need to approach things in a different way.”

Despite her lack of a university education, Burley has little time for those who complain about a lack of educational opportunity.

“Life’s not fair, who ever said life was fair? You can either lick your wounds or make the most of what you’ve got.

Nobody else is going to do it for you. “ While proud of her parents’ humble upbringing – “my mother and father met making cardboard boxes on the production line” – she is quick to reassure us of her parents’ education.

“When I became qualified as a journalist, my father – who was a deeply intelligent man – decided that he wanted to better himself and went on to Rotheby College in Oxford and took his degree, then he became a lecturer in industrial relations at the local college in Wigan.”

Whether it’s ambition or passion, there must be some explanation for her appetite for success. Perhaps it’s the fight for the people behind the breaking story that spurs her on?

When asked about the emotional challenges of covering international human suffering, the mother of one refers to the “Malaysian parent who has lost her only son” and her guilt “coming back to a nice, dry house” following the floods in the south-west of England earlier this year.

Having said that, learning to disconnect and switch off from traumatic scenes is all in a day’s work for Burley.

She says her job is first and foremost to distil information “as clearly and succinctly as I possibly can. I’m just there to provide the news, nobody cares what I think”.

But as long as Burley remains the pioneering, confident news anchor – with the added entertainment of her occasional trip-ups – we will continue to be endlessly fascinated.

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NEWS KIDS ON THE BLOCK Stay ahead of the pack with Jack Dutton’s five pioneering news sites

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THE DIGITAL NATIVE BUSINESS NEWS SITE REINVENTING STORY TELLING

THE INFECTIOUS NEWS SOURCE KNOWN FOR ITS EYE-CATCHING HEADLINES

A new arrival to the news industry is US business news site, Quartz.The site, which was launched in September 2012 by Atlantic Media Company, produces punchy, statistics-driven articles with creative web design.

Quartz hit the five million users mark in January, just 16 months after launch. Leo Mirani, a Quartz reporter based in London, says: “We try to avoid blatant internet traffic-chasing stuff. It’s more chart, graph and analysis based. I think respecting your reader’s intelligence is quite a bit to do with it.”

But another reason for this success could be down to the “Quartz curve” – the policy the editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney has against publishing articles that are between 500 and 800 words long. These articles, he says, “are too long to be sharable, and too short to be in-depth”.

Upworthy is a liberal website for viral content. Unlike conventional news sources, it takes pride in a partisan approach to news coverage. The site covers attention grabbing and controversial topics, tackling everything from birth control to gay rights. It claims to go through at least 25 potential headlines per article, carefully picking those that will lure in the most readers. Recent Upworthy headlines include “A Totally Mesmerizing, Insanely Eloquent Defence Of Islam That Your Brain Will Thank You For” and “A Kid Came Up To Her In The Hall And Told Her She Saved His Life.

He Wasn’t The Only One In Tears”. Despite fluctuations in traffic due to most of it coming through Facebook, the site still has a very high user count – it claims to have more than 20 million weekly users.

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TRENDING & INSTAFAX

#BBCTrending brings together trending content on Twitter and broadcasts it out on all of the BBC platforms – television, radio, or online. Instafax is the BBC’s service for Instagram, which features three or four daily 15-second news story videos to people’s Instagram home screens.

Matt Danzico, head of the BBC’s Video Innovation Lab and one of the masterminds behind these new start-ups, says: “Today, the worldwide web isn’t a centralised system. What the BBC is thinking about now is finding hubs of activity on the internet and figuring out how to help colonise these spaces. We want to get in at ground level and get our content into these spaces, rather than leaking it out onto the worldwide web.”

THE FIRST VIDEO NEWS NETWORK EXCLUSIVELY FOR MOBILE TRINITY MIRROR’S EXCITING NEW DATA PROJECT National papers are working on pithier data-driven projects to keep up with sites like Quartz. Trinity Mirror launched two subsidiary sites last year, called Us Vs Th3m and Ampp3d. The newsier of the two is Ampp3d, a data-driven version of the Daily Mirror. Ampp3d avoids huge screeds of analysis and relies on statistics and infographics to engage readers.

Martin Belam, editor of new formats at Trinity Mirror and Ampp3d, says news stories come to you through social media.

“Studies show that among young people, news that’s important will come to them. It’s not so much doing things like sitting down to watch the news at six o’clock or picking up a paper in the morning. Your social network carries important news to you.”

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NowThis News is “a news network built for the social generation”. It is a video-only news source that channels across a number of apps, including Vine, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. The outlet, launched in 2012 by The Huffington Post co-founder and former chairman Kenneth Lerer, has produced over 10,000 original news videos, which are all between six and 30 seconds in length. NowThis News has already formed partnerships with BuzzFeed, MSN, Forbes, The Atlantic, Mashable, and the Columbia Journalism School. Some of the titles of the 18 to 25 original videos it posts daily include “Why Does North Korea Hate Us” and “Boston Marathon Update: Everything We Know In 133 seconds”.

BATTERY: EVA VERBEEK, NOUN PROJECT. IPHONE: ZACH VEGA. IPHONE BACKGROUND: ICLARIFIED. APPS: QUARTZ, BBC, NOWTHIS NEWS, UPWORTHY, MAIL ONLINE, THE TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE SUN, THE TELEGRAPH, THE INDEPENDENT

THE MEDIA GIANT IS NOW PART OF YOUR MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK

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MY BREAKTHROUGH PHOTO Leading photojournalists tell Anna Matheson about the shot that launched their careers

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ROB STOTHARD Camera: Canon 5D Mark 2 This photo is of female Muslim Brotherhood members celebrating Mohamed Morsi’s assumed victory in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections.

The crowd in Tahrir Square was jubilant and Stothard had to work his way through a throng of people to get to a guarded backstage area.

“I’d been in the square many times and it became a little familiar – you see the same faces, the same scenes, and hear the same sounds, but that day was different.

“I was free to stand and take in the

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crowd. I saw this girl pop up, it was a sea of quite similar characters and I felt like it made you focus [on her].”

While studying online for an MA in photography and photojournalism at the London College of Communication, Stothard moved to Egypt in 2012.

He lived there for a year to cover the presidential elections, hoping that the work would be “a major starting block” for his career as a photographer and photojournalist.

The significance of this image, and the

trip to Egypt as a whole, was the chance to be noticed professionally. The photo was part of the portfolio that Stothard submitted to win The Times/Canon award for Young Photographer of the Year in 2013.

After winning the award, Stothard spent six months working for The Times and a further two months freelancing.

He now splits his time between editorial and commercial work, and most recently has travelled to Kiev to cover the on-going protests for Getty Images.

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HANA KNIZOVA Camera: Canon 5D This photo depicts a young woman called Mo, who Hana Knizova met on her first trip to LA in 2012 to shoot her Young Hollywood series.

The collection explores the themes of youth, ambition, and self-image through portraits of young people in LA pursuing their dreams and seeking fame.

Mo came to LA from another part of California, and worked in a bar while trying to make it as an actress.

The pair were introduced by a mutual friend and Knizova spent a day

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with her. She says: “I always prefer to be taken by my subject to the location rather than picking out my own.This was nearby where she lived, so we were just driving around the area and I really liked the spot and she said ‘yeah this is great, I pass this spot every day’.”

The image was accepted into the Taylor Wessing exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2012.

She believes the difference between LA and other big cities is that youngsters are focused on the

film industry. She says: “I think people are more looking for a big scene and I think fame is more important for them, whereas in other cities I feel like it’s the actual industry success – people want to make money. But there it’s much more about fame and recognition – it’s about being seen.”

Knizova went on to win the 2013’s John Kobal New Work Award at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, with her portrait of two Australia’s Next Top Model candidates.

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THOMAS BALL Wista field camera – 4 x 5 inch film

This intriguing image is of Jim Boucher, chief of Fort McKay First Nation, a community of Dene, Cree, and Métis peoples in Alberta, Canada. The chief is also the CEO of the Fort McKay group of companies, which services the oil sands industry and in 2008 had revenues in excess of $100 million.

This photo, taken in 2007, is part of Thomas Ball’s Athabasca series, which he sees as a significant point in his career.

“It’s quite an unusual image, a lot of people wonder what’s going on in it,” says Ball.

During his MA in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication, Ball chose to do his final project covering the story of the Athabasca oil sands. He spent five weeks in Canada, and shot the whole project on large format film.

He says: “It was difficult to get the sort of imagery of the landscape that gave some sense of the damage that was taking place.”

Ball was successful in getting access to Boucher where other press organisations had failed. He explains Boucher’s wariness to talk to the press stems from his position as both chief of the tribe and the CEO of the companies that had set up in the village: “It was difficult for them to work out their place because there was such huge damage to their environment and such huge issues of how the money was affecting their village.”

Ball explains that during this time each villager got a share of the profits from the oil industry, which led to issues of alcoholism and drug abuse.

The interview and photograph took place in Boucher’s office. Ball says: “I wanted to get in some of this very clean white feel to the image because here is the man who is surrounded by forest, dirt, and oil in a remote part of Canada but he was in quite a bland corporate looking office.”

Boucher offered to put on his tribal headdress on, much to Ball’s amazement: “I would never have asked him to do that but he said would I like him to and I said ‘okay, go for it’.”

The Athabasca work now forms part of a wider series, titled Inescapable Limits.

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TREVOR ADAMS Camera: Canon T90 In May 1997 Trevor Adams, then picture editor for Watford Observer Group, took a photo that completely changed his life. He says: “There was a new girl band called The Spice Girls and they were the biggest thing the pop scene had seen for years. One of the girls, Geri Halliwell, lived in Watford and I knew her well.

“A local firm had been commissioned to make a dress for her to wear on their forthcoming American tour and the owner of the firm invited me to take a picture of his daughter modelling the dress before he gave it to Geri.”

The dressmaker wanted the picture to appear in the Watford Observer.

Adams says: “Once the picture appeared my phone did not stop ringing. Every tabloid paper in the country wanted to print the picture.

I sold it exclusively to the Daily Star and they ran it on the front page.

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I then started getting phone calls from agencies who wanted to syndicate the picture around the world.”

Adams chose to give it to an agency called Big Pictures and they asked to see more of his work. He was offered a job as a picture editor on the spot.

Working at Big Pictures was very different to what Adams was used to at the Watford Observer: “I was completely thrown in at the deep end from the word go. I was expected to run the picture desk on my own, dealing with pictures from all over the world.”

Adams says: “It’s the picture that took me from being a local newspaper photographer, to being an international celebrity photographer overnight.”

Adams went on to set up his own picture agency, Matrix Media Group, which now represents photographers all over the globe and has offices in Hollywood and Australia.

EAMONN MCCABE Camera:Yashica When Eamonn McCabe was 19, he wanted to be a rock musician.

“I was never any good at it. So the next best thing was to try and photograph my heroes.”

McCabe went on to work for national titles photographing sport and news. He eventually became picture editor at The Guardian – where he won Picture Editor of the Year award six times. But it was after taking pictures of a performance

by The Who at Leeds University Student Union in 1970 that McCabe decided to become a photographer.

McCabe recalls: “I didn’t know that at the time, it was just a concert in the uni bar, you know. But I went up there and I had my Yashica camera with a leather case that I’d just bought. I pushed my way up to the front and took two rolls of film, which is 72 pictures.”

After driving home to north London, McCabe took his film to be developed at a local chemist.

A few days later he went to pick them up: “I opened the envelopes

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that they were in and the first one – nothing, the next one – nothing and the next one – still nothing.

I was heartbroken. And then I opened the next and there was a bit of red light.

“For all my luck and judgement one came out and I thought it was the most exciting thing I’d ever done.

And I realised that’s what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”

The photo, of Pete Townshend jumping into the air with his guitar, was not published until much later in McCabe’s career. But it was this image that sparked his interest in photography: “I was just a fan with a camera – I was stimulated by that to then go on. I got myself a job at Imperial College as a chemical mixer in the photo unit, and the rest is history I suppose. It’s this picture that really got me going.”

Now a celebrated photographer, McCabe has met Pete Townshend.

“I’ve done a portrait of him. I said you kicked me off and he said ‘you don’t look old enough’.”

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Two screenplays, a sitcom, a book, a standup tour, and a new ABBA song. Kasia Delgado and Barbara Speed visit Caitlin Moran at home as she enters

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“HELLO

BLOKES!”

Caitlin Moran hugs us and ushers us into the large, cluttered hallway of her Crouch End Victorian terrace, knocking a pile of post onto the floor. We offer to take off our shoes. “GOD no, we’re not that kind of family,” she says, disappearing through a narrow kitchen door. We walk gingerly into the red-walled kitchen and find her husband Pete Paphides, a rock critic, standing by the kitchen counter slowly stirring a stew. He nods towards the garden door through which we can see Moran standing on a wooden table wrestling a large patio umbrella to block out the early evening sun. “TEA?!” she exclaims as she jumps to the floor with a thud and disappears into the kitchen again.

She returns, clutching three cups of tea and a barrel of digestive biscuits. “The kids will have eaten all the good ones,” she says, rummaging through them, “but these are quite posh oaty digestives.” Finally, she sits down. Before we can ask a single question she spews out her day’s itinerary – but not before checking that our dictaphones are on. “Got up, usual bollocks, kids didn’t know where their bags were, went for a swim because I try to swim three times a week so as not to become 500 stone, had a Skype meeting with our sitcom producer, and then I started writing my column which is about how I believe UKIP are the greatest hope any left wing person in this country has. Then the Swedish TV crew turned up to film me dancing to ABBA, and after this I’ve got to prepare Celebrity Watch for The Times, which means reading every single gossip paper.”

For Moran, this is a typical day, and she wants us to know it. She’s only 38, yet she’s currently working on a screenplay for her best-selling book How To Be A Woman (it sold 150,000 copies in the UK and was in the top 10 for a year), while writing another film script from scratch, preparing for nine dates of a stand-up comedy tour for her third book, writing a sitcom for Channel 4 about her childhood on a Wolverhampton council estate (filming begins in July), and holding down two columns a week for The Times.

We’re entering The Year of Moran, and she can’t afford to waste any time. “My friend, Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, gave me a brilliant bit of advice – when you get hot, there’s a year where you can get anything off the ground, and even though it will kill you, just sign those contracts, because in two years time you might not be as hot and it will be 10 times harder,” she says.

Lately she’s been saying yes to quite a lot - including writing the lyrics to a new ABBA song and dancing to it on Swedish TV (“One of the more mortifying things I’ve done”). Her trademark Doc Martens and big hair will be everywhere: on stage, screens (large and small), in print and, as ever, on the newsstand. Be prepared for an avalanche of Moran in the coming year.

She certainly speaks as though she’s cramming as much as possible into every minute of Her Year.

She talks incredibly quickly and swears constantly,

yet every sentence is a sound bite and every topic a column. Our transcription of an hour’s interview comes to 11,000 words – enough to fill her regular Saturday slot in The Times Magazine for three months. She rolls, lights, and relights cigarettes as she goes, ducking behind us whenever daughters, nine and thirteen, come past the large white sash windows – “I’ve got these new f**king windows and now they can see everything.”

But is it all too much for one person to handle?

Strangely, for a woman who must need a constant stream of ideas, anecdotes, and stories to fill her weekly columns, Moran works from home and does not leave the house “for days at a time”. She says she is “socially anxious” and prefers interacting with the world via Twitter and her 491,000 followers.

Despite her apparent confidence and loud, husky voice, she’s also nervous – she rarely meets our eyes and uses our questions as a springboard into safe anecdotes that are familiar from previous interviews. We ask about her first steps into journalism and she tells us her only other options were “the supermarket cheese counter or prostitution”.

When we ask if she’s serious, she replies with a blank “YEAH!” reeling off into another jokey anecdote.

Moran thrives on Twitter, where she can tell the world her funniest stories and interact with her clique of journalist friends. Her tweets are filled with capital letters and swearing, and this is reflected in her real-life persona. Perhaps, then, it’s unsurprising that we got this interview through a barrage of tweeted requests over two days.

Several national magazine editors told us we had no chance of an interview because she’s insanely busy, yet a mock-up cover featuring Moran and 80 tweets pleading for her help got us an invite to her house – “HEY BABE! let’s do it. I shall CHAT WITH YOU!” – showing that Twitter is clearly the way to her heart. But even after the confirmation, securing the interview was not without drama. At the last minute, Moran had to drop out, but like a trooper she said we could do the interview after all, as soon as she had finished with the Swedish film crew.

If a conversation on Twitter gets too difficult, Moran says that it’s comforting to be able to “close the computer and have a bath instead. You can’t do that in real life, I’ve heard. And I really do like a bath, in order to wash the fag smoke off myself before the kids come back.”

And sometimes the real world conversations do get tricky. In the two years since the release of her best-selling memoir How to be a Woman, Moran has become the go-to feminist voice, and said in an interview with The Guardian that she had “made it socially acceptable for girls who wear eyeliner to discuss masturbation and sexism”. But being the face of popular feminism is not an easy gig. She has hit headlines several times in the past year for controversial comments, including a tweet defending fellow feminist Lena Dunham, creator of HBO series

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Girls, after backlash against the show’s all-white cast. She rails against the idea that even if she’s the face of popular feminism, she has to get everything right. “The idea that one demigod will come along and have the answers for 3.3 billion women is completely nuts. We’re not looking for a feminist Jesus.”

Pressure aside, Moran looks like she’s living the writer’s dream but she says she won’t keep this up forever. “In a couple of years I intend to be a proper journalist again,” she says. “I’d like to go and do big features, like when I interviewed Lady Gaga” for The Times, in which she went to a Berlin sex club with the singer and sat next to her while she went for a wee. The article won Moran a British Press Award.

Given that she once said “I don’t like opinion journalism – how can you have 52 opinions a year?” it’s ironic that Moran now writes the “prime spot” opinion column in the Saturday newspapers.

Moran has been a journalist since she was 15 and won The Observer’s Young Reporter award. She was writing for The Guardian at 17 and at 18 The Times offered her a regular slot after she used a local newsagent to fax them a sample column. She’s hugely fond of the newspaper to which she owes her career. “The Times are brilliant. I’ll love them forever and I’ll never leave. My loyalty to them is absolute.”

We ask how Moran would feel if her daughters became journalists. “I’d totally encourage them. The key thing I tell them is that work will take up the majority of your time. It’s how you’ll meet the people you know, it’s probably how you’ll meet the person you’ll marry, you’ll certainly have a lot of sex within that industry. It’s when you get to 35 and you’re in your job and you think: ‘I hate everybody here, nobody here thinks anything like I think, I hate the way they dress, I don’t want to have sex with anyone here.’ Then you know you f**ked up a bit earlier on.”

At 16, she joined Melody Maker and now mourns the loss of the British music press as a good training ground for young journalists. “You have to become a blogger now which is much harder because you have to go out and find your audience rather than being served one by a magazine.

That means you get very shouty strident voices, which are great to have but it just means that the introverts don’t have space to put their heads above the parapet.”

So was Moran an introvert who just got lucky? She cuts in when asked, almost outraged at the idea that she was ever a doormouse. “Oh no, I was always very jazz hands.

NO, no no. When I went to work for Melody Maker and people disagreed with me about bands I liked, I’d kick them.”

Throughout the interview, Moran illustrates how un-mouselike she really is by telling stories about drunken socialising in her fairy-lit garden.

She tells us proudly (and loudly) about rapping JayZ’s ‘99 Problems’ in the garden one afternoon with her brothers and sisters. “Four teenage lads came round and said ‘can you keep the noise down a bit?’ and I’m standing there, mother of two in a sundress going ‘really sorry, but you’ve got to give me respect for the fact that I knew every single line’.” She laughs heartily and tells us the best hangover cure: “A packet of Dioralyte, 10 drops of milk thistle, and a Berroca genuinely stopped me from going to A&E. It’s a bit like that bit in Pulp Fiction when they stick that f**king hypodermic into her heart to bring her back round. This cure is like that but far gentler. This job involves a lot of drinking if you want to be good at it.”

Although she would balk at the idea, she’s in many ways less Shameless, more Cath Kidston. Her house, round the corner from actors James McAvoy and Peter Capaldi, is airy and high-ceilinged with the exception of the kitchen, which is cosy and painted a postbox red. Mugs and plates in clashing colours have been artfully arranged to look like they haven’t been. In the sitting room, Neighbours

plays on a large-screen TV and a four-foot high Victorian doll’s house entertain her daughters.

Outside, the garden is being landscaped. It’s no secret that Moran is one of the best paid journalists on Fleet Street, and she’s quick to assure us that the money is being spent here, in the house she rarely leaves, where she works, socialises, and raises her children. “I don’t take cocaine and I don’t wear designer clothes, so all the money has gone into fairy lights and small, clipped box hedges,” she says, gleefully showing us that she has a remote control to turn off the lights without having to move an inch.

She has no time for columnists who write only about their own lives. “Columnists I don’t like are literally just sitting there going: ‘I’m going to settle a score with a traffic warden I had a tussle with last week, I think I should be allowed to drive my car at 75 miles an hour and then just park it on the curb outside a primary school, f**k you.’”

Whatever the topic, Moran’s voice is unmistakable.

But she says she has two different voices. “For The Times there’s the funny, boggling voice where I go: ‘The world is an amazing place, look what the humans have done now.’” She says this in a martian-like voice and waves her hands around. “I try never to be down on something in that voice. And then there’s the ‘fnehh fnehh fnehh’ voice I use when I’m writing about something serious. ‘Fneh mental illness, fnehhh Marxism.’ I love writing them, and I mean every f**king word, but there’s a part of me that just goes: ‘You’re a scratcher from a council estate with no education and here you are writing about the future of politics.’”

“PART OF ME GOES: ‘YOU’RE A SCRATCHER FROM A COUNCIL ESTATE WRITING ABOUT POLITICS.’ ”

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LITERATURE “I find the idea of a book all about vaginas more interesting and important than, say, Hemingway wanging on about fishing.”

MOTHERHOOD “What every mum really wants for Mother’s Day: for you to f**k off down the park for five hours while I watch Game of Thrones.”

WORLD EVENTS “I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower.”

FEMINISM “It’s simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. “

because I was 13 and quite stupid”). She asked her publishers for other ways she could make money by writing.

“They said ‘Journalists earn a lot of money’ and I went ‘Okay I’ll become a journalist then’. They looked at me in a way that suggested ‘I don’t think you will be a top columnist and earn lots of money’ and I was like ‘No, I will, I shall, I will.’ And I did. As soon as you tell me where the money is, I will go there...”

Moran grew up with her seven siblings in a three-bedroom council house in Wolverhampton, an experience she has likened to dystopian teen series The Hunger Games, in which young people fight each other to the death.

They were officially home schooled but Moran says they were largely left to fend for themselves. Her columns, books, and sitcoms are written through the lens of her working-class background. She’s keen to show that despite being in the journalistic elite, she has not changed. A rant about Syria turns into one about how our society is “practically feudal”. “I’ve been at dinners with cabinet ministers and advisors and leader-y people in this country and you explain what it’s like on welfare and after five minutes they’re like ‘Oh God I had no idea.’ That’s one of the things I love most about the pieces I’ve been able to write about politics and society.

I don’t know any of that shit, I’m just coming at it from quiet mum-like logic and observation.”

As if to prove her point, her older daughter interrupts us, clamouring to know how she’s going to find a plank of wood for a school project. The teenager suggests going to a shop, but Moran, ever the Wolverhampton girl, says: “Darling, if we drive really slowly to school tomorrow and drive past a skip we’ll find a plank of wood. You can’t BUY a plank of wood. We’ll go to a skip.”

Given her unprivileged background, Moran says she was “incredibly lucky” to succeed with no connections.

“If you’re looking to have better journalists, put them on a living wage and give them some space in the paper to learn their craft. That’s what they need to do to attract a load more journalists like me. I’ve won more awards Moran’s Crouch End kitchen, the than anyone else. They’re on top of my piano, I can seat of her media empire show you them now. I have 27. I’ve won literally every single award you can get for writing in this country.” She waves in the direction of the living room.

She was once offered an Op-Ed column in The Times It’s nearly time for us to leave. Throughout the interbut turned it down after Nicola Jeal, editor of the view, Moran has leapt back and forth between the very Saturday magazine, convinced her to stay, saying: “If serious and the very trite, and it’s hard to keep up and you’re there in the front of the magazine, someone who to know when she’s being genuine. Her two “voices” is just looking for recipes and lovely pictures of shoes is express her worldview – a combination of the socialism going to read your piece about politics – why would you born of a difficult background and the self-deprecating, give that up?” funny stories she tells to perhaps avoid really talking And she certainly seems to enjoy influencing people. about it – “I was 13, very fat in a dressing gown and a “I always try to imagine I’m writing to someone. I want straw hat.” to catch their eye, I want them to reach the end.” One Ending a rant on social justice, she says: “It’s of her career highlights was receiving a letter from an Thatcher’s horrible thing, ‘the good will rise 89-year-old Catholic Colonel in response to a to the top’. Well no they won’t, not if column on abortion. He wrote to her and they’re stuck under loads of f***ing said: “You have completely changed problems.” She slaps her hands my mind about abortion.” “I was together, miming injustice piled so pleased about that,” she says. on injustice. Then she stops, “If I’ve written about someruns her fingers through her thing, I genuinely want to hair, leaving it standing on change people’s minds.” end, and bursts out laughMoran has always wanting. “But I also do loads ed to be a writer. She’s “not of jokes about Kim Kara born editor”. “I’d be dashian as well. Those are terrible - I can’t say anythe two things I do.” thing negative to anyone.

Our hour is up. At sevIf someone filed a piece en sharp, she bustles us out, called ‘Why I believe in hugs us, thanks us profusely – Nazism’ and it didn’t go far “BABIES! Thank you for comenough, I’d be like: ‘Oh, this ing over!” – as though we havis so lovely, I can tell you spent en’t fought tooth and nail for an a lot of time on this.’” hour of her time. The busy Moran When she wrote her first book household spits us out onto the tranquil at 16, a semi-autobiographical novel Crouch End streets, and we feel oddly reabout home-schooled children, her pubMoran with celeb lieved. As The Year of Moran begins we’ve lishers gave her an advance of £1800, and pals Lauren Laverne been to the eye of the storm and from where she felt hard done by (“At the time I thought and Grace Dent we stand, it looks exhausting. maybe I would get a million or something

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THE FASHION AY T N ALISO

This season’s pick of entrepreneurial editors

EDIT H A N N A S SU TAYLOR

Alison is style editor at weekly magazine Now, has a regular slot on This Morning’s fashion item, and a reputation as a go-to celebrity stylist.

EDITOR As style editor of Now for the past eight years, Tay has become known for her innovative and dynamic style ideas.

TELEVISION APPEARANCES Tay’s face is familiar with the daytime TV watchers of Britain, as she leads the Rate or Slate fashion item on ITV’s This Morning. The savvy style editor appears regularly on Sky News and BBC Breakfast.

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When not in the Now office, Tay can be found sourcing outfits for the stars of Channel 4 shows such as Bodyshockers and Gok Live!. Alison also advises ex-model and TV presenter Katie Piper on her clothing qualms.

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Most recently, Tay has been a consultant for the branding of the Kardashian Kollection for UK store Lipsy.

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Into the office for 8am. A spring coats post up by 9am. Appointment with a car manufacturer for an advertising campaign at 10am. Darting off for a TV appearance at 11am. This might sound like the morning of a corporate high flier, but it is the working pattern for the new breed of entrepreneurial fashion editors.

Eve Simmons meets three leading ‘fashion brand’ journalists…

“I’VE NEVER HAD ANY FORMAL TRAINING IN BUILDING A WEBSITE SO I HAVE LEARNT A HELL OF A LOT BUILDING GET THE GLOSS.”

ANTHONY TEASDALE Anthony is editor of online menswear magazine Umbrella and sub-editor at Esquire Weekly. He thinks being a successful journalist in 2014 requires an entrepreneurial mindset.

Susannah is co-founder and editor-in-chief of beauty and health expert website Get the Gloss, which uses vlogs and make-up tutorials to build an immense online presence and community.

EDITOR In 2010, he launched online men’s lifestyle magazine Umbrella.

He also edits a men’s customer magazine for watch brand Christopher Ward.

FREELANCE FEATURE WRITER This savvy sub has not abandoned his original journalistic flair. He continues to write a weekly feature for Esquire Weekly while freelancing pieces to Nuts and The Guardian.

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Teasdale uses his knowledge of British menswear well. In October 2012, he worked with Nike on ideas for the football kit of the England squad at the 2014 World Cup. He’s also been a consultant to Virgin Media, Procter and Gamble, Sagres Beer, Mazda, and menswear brand Farrell.

DIRECTOR Using the stylist skills she developed on magazine photo shoots, Taylor can direct, style, select models, and shoot videos for Get the Gloss. From make-up tutorials to interviews with industry experts, her vlogs are proving popular with readers.

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Anthony Teasdale spends two days a week as chief sub-editor at Esquire Weekly.

As a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Taylor hasn’t abandoned her creative tendencies. As well as being influential in the website’s design, she produces her own handdrawn illustrations for the Gloss World section of the site and, until recently, ran an art company selling paintings for young children.

“GOOD COMPANIES AND BRANDS NEED PEOPLE WITH GOOD WRITING AND EDITING SKILLS.”

As former beauty editor of Glamour magazine and Vogue, Taylor has over 13 years of style and beauty editor experience. She has used that expertise to her advantage in her current webbased editorial role.

CREATIVE CONSULTANT Taylor has styled photo shoots, advised on campaigns, and written copy for brands including Procter & Gamble, Chanel, and Pantene.

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Subs are being left on the backbench as news organisations encourage the switch to digital and cut down on staff. Anna Matheson investigates

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he sub-editor is a rare breed. A keen eye for syntax, a nose for sniffing out facts, and a willingness to make others look good are just a few of the qualities they must possess. Not forgetting, of course, the desire to 52 pick apart copy in meticulous detail.

“A good sub’s inherent pedantry makes the job all the more difficult. I’ve yet to meet a sub who isn’t a sadomasochist,” says Dave Phelan, a sub-editor at The Times.

It’s no secret that newspapers are losing money.

And it is also natural that a drop in profits often means scaling down staff. But what has become clear is that when the times get tough, it’s the subs that often pay the price. Conor McNicholas, executive content director at Redwood publishing agency and ex-editor of NME, says: “Subs have been decimated, their skills unused or ignored. It feels like a dying art. It’s carnage. Whole layers of the industry have been taken out.”

Last month, regional newspaper giant Newsquest announced that sub-editors on three of it’s northern papers in York, Darlington, and Bradford would be faced with the choice of relocation to a new subbing hub in Newport, or redundancy. The scheme has been adopted in the past by newspaper groups Trinity Mirror, Northcliffe Media, and KM Group, in which subs from several of the companies’ papers are moved to remote locations to work on multiple publications. Although Northcliffe Media’s hub was scrapped two years later and subs were returned to the individual newspaper offices, jobs were still lost in the process.

However, it’s not just sub-editors on the regionals who are feeling the pinch. A source within News International revealed that a recent review into staffing at The Times axed around 20% of subs, backbench,

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and production staff across multiple desks, some of which were freelance. But the past few years have seen a general reduction of subbing roles. Desk-editors at The Independent were told that they would be taking over the majority of subbing, as sub-editors were being scaled back. Staff at the Financial Times were told they were to sub-edit parts of their own stories, eight production jobs were cut at the Evening Standard, London daily City AM cut all of its subbing staff, and the Daily Mirror’s sub-editing team was downsized.

Unsurprisingly, a sub-editor at The Sun says there is less money in subbing than there used to be: “The job climate is changing throughout journalism, it is not anywhere near as well paid as it was years ago, some people got taken in the 1990s on the same money as people are getting taken on now.”

Peter Sands, director of Sands Media Services and tutor on several graduate training schemes, says that subs are often the first to go when funding is low, particularly in regional newspapers: “The most important thing for them is content, so if I was running a regional newspaper I would probably put as much of my resources as I could into news gathering and not into what I call the processing, which is the sub-editor’s role.”

Sands adds: “In an ideal world I certainly wouldn’t endorse that, but you can see the practicality of the situation.”

Sub-editors have long felt undervalued. Sands says:

“Behind the scenes you’ve got a team that never see their names in lights.” One interviewee commented that they were recently rewarded a beer by the chief sub for spotting a rogue “heady here” in a caption box that hadn’t been completed in a lead page – but this seems about as far as thanks usually goes.

Mia Aimaro-Ogden, senior sub-editor at The Sunday Times, remembers the now infamous letter that Giles Coren sent the subs on The Times after a Yiddish word had been changed in one of his reviews.

Coren wrote: “I must insist, from now on, that I am sent a proof of every review I do, in PDF format, so I can check it for f***-ups. And I must be sent it in good time in case changes are needed. It is the only way I can carry on in the job.”

The letter and a subsequent response from The Sunday Times subs soon went viral.

Aimaro-Ogden says that subs often pick up on things that writers mean to say but don’t necessarily get across in their copy. For instance, she recalls one piece by A. A. Gill, who wrote “My newt’s livers” when he meant “minute slivers” in a column. She adds: “That’s the thing about being a sub, you’re the first in the firing line, you get all the flack when there’s a mistake but if you change a piece from being really shitty when it comes in to a really great piece of work, you tend not to get a thanks for it.”

A. A. Gill acknowledges the vital role subs play. “I would have no career at all if it wasn’t for subbing – a good sub saves your life all the time. Not least just factually – so I’ll say something was Richard II when it was Richard III and the subs always get it, they always know. They always know what the capital of Uzbekistan is – good subs are fantastic.”

Another sub commented on the state of some of the copy they receive: “Subs have their favourite and least favourite writers, those reporters whose writing is a delight, some whose grasp of even rudimentary

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English is so abysmal that it is hard to fathom how and why they are paid to write.”

In fact, more than one interviewee actually suggests putting out copies of unsubbed papers to show how much the subs actually do.

Peter Sands even proposes that there may be a possible link between papers that invest in subs and sales. He says that The Sun and the Daily Mail, the highest performing papers in terms of circulation, may well owe some of their success to the continued investment in subs.

Sands also says that although subbing hubs may not be the answer, local subbing experts that would be willing to work from home could be the way forward. He points out that the Daily Mirror, which is largely produced in Howden by the Press Association, already uses a system of “bedroom subs”, where sub-editors can work from home.

However, an insider from the Daily Mail thinks that office interaction is vital: “I don’t think you can sit alone in a room. You need to have colleagues there to chat over ideas, even just get a second opinion.”

If sub-editors are being scaled down, or moved into a remote location, does this mean that reporters should be learning to sub-edit in their absence?

Sands says he has been training reporters to sub-edit for ten years. He expresses the importance of the “right first time” mantra.

Conor McNicholas also suggests that reporters should be able to sub their own copy. He says: “We all have to learn to be multi-skilled in the new work environment. Subbing is an easily transferable skill.”

However, some sub-editors feel differently. A sub-editor at The Sun argues: “The role of the sub is checking reporters’ copy, correcting any problems, identifying legal issues and rewriting stories to make them as good as they can be. It’s a crucial role and something that I don’t think can be bypassed.”

The online question is another big one for subs.

Dave Phelan, at The Times, believes that the urgency for turning copy around for online is, “exacerbated by mediums like Twitter”. He says: “When subbing breaking news for online I tend to concentrate on

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from the Daily Mail says that reporters do everything themselves when it comes to online copy, adding: “You don’t have much time and they’re breathing down your neck because they want you to put it live.

It’s so easy to be blind to any mistakes.”

The paper reportedly has a “we’re never wrong for long” policy when it comes to online. Articles can be changed at a later date, or when readers notice mistakes and complain in the comments section. But what exactly is the reason behind this high tolerance of error? “The money isn’t an issue really, because they still have a lot of staff. For them, it’s about being first,” says the Mail insider.

But being first could also lead to lawsuits and libel claims. “The safety net of the sub has been taken away. Yes stuff does get read after it’s gone live, but it only takes a minute for someone to take a screenshot. It could get you into trouble,” warns the Mail source.

And what does a lack of online subbing mean for the readers? Hannah Shaddock, sub-editor at the Radio Times notes: “There are sometimes errors in online articles, due to the speed with which they want to get things up, and inevitably readers comment on these mistakes, even if it’s a tiny thing like a typo or a misplaced apostrophe.”

While subbing may not be a priority online, sources from both The Times and the Daily Mail say the papers are becoming more aware of the importance of subbing within their iPad editions.

Given that it is often younger journalists that have more digitally transferable skills, younger, more digitally aware subs seem to have the upper hand in an increasingly squeezed jobs market.

But what does this mean for newspaper subs that are reluctant to learn? The insider from News International says: “The days of one-dimensional, single-format subs are numbered.”

However, for those who are willing to adapt, the future could be promising. Phelan says: “For an experienced sub there is work out there. Shifts come onto my radar on a daily basis and if I wanted to I could work every hour God sends. It’s a matter of being flexible and willing to learn new things.”

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pure facts first, after that readability and a quick revise for any howlers. Because it’s possible to go back after publishing and alter copy, I tend to suppress the natural urges to fawn over things.”

Some newspaper editors have decided that subs act as a barrier to the speed of breaking news online.

Papers like The Independent and the Daily Mail now ask reporters to upload their content directly. A source

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The building has been around since the 1600s with its interior dating from 1754. But don’t let that fool you – this is a thoroughly modern enterprise with a charity at its heart.

The club and its members are dedicated to social change. The house on Greek Street was once a hostel, but now the House of St Barnabas charity uses its resources to help homeless Londoners off the streets and into employment.

There’s no reason not to be involved. The club’s

founders list is achingly cool, with Miranda Sawyer, photographer Rankin, and everyone’s favourite beanpole Jarvis Cocker having a hand in the space.

Other founding members Rob da Bank and Gilles Peterson regularly put their favourite new artists on the St Barnabas stage, which just so happens to be inside the French gothic chapel attached to the building. Upon the walls hang artworks by Tracey Emin and Gilbert and George.

It may only have been open for a few months, but the House of St Barnabas is already making its mark on London’s club-scape.

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“We have one rule in the club,” says Vaughan Smith, Frontline’s founder, sitting upstairs in the club’s events room. “You’re supposed to put your phone on silent. But we don’t enforce it because we don’t like rules.”

This, in a nutshell, is what makes Frontline stand out. The club, which is now 10 years old, prides itself on its inclusive attitude, bohemian atmosphere and array of creative members.

The only press club in London to have its own permanent clubroom, Frontline provides a service for the wandering tribe of British journalists working abroad, often in areas of conflict.

“There is a restaurant, bedrooms for members, and our profits support the Frontline charitable trust,” says Smith. “In terms of working out what we want to do in the future – I would like to open a Frontline club in every major city in the world.”

Frontline has a reputation for hosting big name media speakers – none more so than Julian Assange, who briefly took refuge in the establishment before spending 13 months at Smith’s home in Norfolk.

Smith recounts another particularly memorable instance – the club held an event after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.

A man got up and started speaking. “He basically accused Putin and the regime of murdering her. He said it with some authority. Soon after, we heard in the news he was poisoned with polonium. He died seven or eight days after the event.” It was fugitive Russian secret service officer Alexander Litvinenko.

Smith insists there is nowhere else like Frontline.

“We are full of people who know how to disagree agreeably.”

Original photography by Annabelle Collins and Suzie McCracken

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The Hospital Club is a seven-floor building with over 60,000 sq ft of space. “The whole building and business is geared towards helping people get their shit done,” says Anna Chapman-Andrews, Hospital’s head of marketing.

The 3000-strong members list is heaving with diversity – they have 10 different sectors but each is huge (Art and Design, encompassing architects and photographers, is one particularly varied bracket).

There’s a television studio, home to ITV’s The Agenda and BBC’s Watchdog.

There’s also a performance space that regularly hosts comedy and music from the likes of electropop pedallers, Metronomy.

There’s a gallery, a screening room, a martini lounge, and numerous events spaces where members organise shindigs for their fellow Hospital members. “Theoretically you need never leave the building,” says Chapman-Andrews.

But The Hospital is not a soulless multipurpose space. “In such a busy city, there’s something really nice about being welcomed by name by the barman,” says Chapman-Andrews. We certainly agree.

Quo Vadis, a privately owned and family-run establishment in the heart of Soho, just asks for good manners from its members. Opened

by Damien Hurst but closed before brothers Sam and Eddie Hart took over in 2008, Quo Vadis prides itself on a relaxed atmosphere.

The building itself, comprising of restaurant and private dining floor, has been open since 1926 and the Dean Street address was once the home of Karl Marx.

Among the more unusual things Quo Vadis offers members is an annual cocktail competition on Valentine’s Day and the opportunity to party with royalty – the King of Tonga has a reputation as a Quo Vadis fan and dance floor demon.

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24/7

JOURNALISM

A HAZARD TO YOUR HEALTH

Journalists are now expected to be tweeting and blogging round the clock, resulting in exhaustion and break downs, Jennifer Chattaway investigates

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wo am. I’ve finished for the night.

My shoulders and neck are in agony from hunching over my laptop.

There’s no time for breaks when you are doing the late shift on a national newspaper. Today it was all go: checking our social media page, monitoring the blogs and podcasts, and then breaking news hit. The front page we had worked on all day was scrapped. No different from most Saturday nights. I’m home now. I need to sleep. I need to switch off.

4am. Flick through the different news channels for the latest update on what was going to be our main story. Check Twitter. Check the news. Check Twitter. Check the news. Maybe we should have used a different angle?

7am. The vibration from my phone on the bedside table woke me up. It was my editor: “You’d better get here now, there are spelling mistakes all over the edition, and no one has updated our Twitter or Facebook page for at least three hours. This is not acceptable.”

With the growth of online media, journalism has been transformed. The immediacy of the internet means that journalists must ensure that their brand is always first to break a big story via their websites or social media. Growing interest in iPad editions, as well as 24-hour news supplied through social media, along with staffing cuts, are adding more and more pressure to what was already a stressful job. Has this 24/7 approach gone too far and is it putting the health of some journalists at risk?

Fred Burlage, sub-editor at The Sunday Times knows just how stressful working as a journalist has become,

particularly when working night shifts. He says: “I did one or two 2pm-2am shifts on the iPad at the The Sunday Times, which are ludicrous. I would get home wired at 2.45am, get to bed at 4.30am, and wake up with adrenaline still coursing through my veins.

I am also responsible for the iPad, website, Twitter, and iPhone at the moment so I find I put in a 14hour day with no break. I am then behind my Mac at 8.30am the following day weeding out errors. It is difficult to let go.”

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CAN BE ABUSE THAT WOULDN’T BE TOLERATED IN ANY OTHER INDUSTRY” In a 2013 CareerCast study, journalism was voted the worst job to have, and ranked seventh in a list of the most stressful jobs.

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worst job in 2013 ahead of enlisted military personnel, oil rig workers and flight attendants.

Tony Lee, CareerCast’s publisher explains why: “Journalists are not paid terribly well. You’re also working under constant deadlines and in the public eye. You’re essentially in demand all the time. Not only are you responsible for your article, and deadlines, but also nowadays you need to make sure you are tweeting all day, writing a blog, or even recording videos. 24 hour journalism requires you to do more in the same amount of time. It’s not easy. Journalism is a high-stress job.”

A senior journalist in the health magazine industry knows all too well how stressful journalism can be, and how it can affect you both physically and mentally. “I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, I’m just a mess during deadline week. I feel physically sick the whole week until the PDFs have been sent to print and I can sit back and congratulate the team. I remember for the January issue of this year, I started looking over the files on Christmas Day. That is how much journalism is a 24-hour commitment.

“I dream about the magazine and often wake up with ideas so have to jot them down on a notepad next to my bed.

Sometimes I’ll come into the office on the weekend because that’s where I feel most relaxed. If I’m getting through the work, and making sure everything is running smoothly, Fred Burlage, chief sub-editor of the Business and Money sections, at The Sunday Times

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“I AM CURRENTLY DEALING WITH JOURNALISTS WHO ARE, OR HAVE BEEN, OFF ILL WITH STRESS AND EXHAUSTION”

Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser at the NUJ

And with these additional pressures the tension in newsrooms is increasing. Burlage says: “I was chief sub during the financial meltdown and found myself checking Bloomberg every 10 minutes, even on my days off. Newspapers are theatres, and people do get too caught up in it. Newsrooms are addictive. There can be shouting and abuse to a level that would not be tolerated in any other industry. Deadline and stress levels are no doubt the root cause.”

But despite this growing stress, journalists are expected to absorb the extra workload. Drew says: “Journalists will adjust their practices and expectations over time. The new breed of journalist would not expect to work ‘normal’ hours anyway.”

Katy Durrans, community and social media journalist for The Times certainly doesn’t work “normal” hours but agrees that she has to accept this if she wants to continue working at The Times: “My responsibilities include managing social media accounts and sourcing content using social media. Journalism is absolutely a 24-hour job because people are 24-hour consumers, and expect breaking news, at whatever time, to be covered. Night shifts are difficult. I can’t say much in their favour.

Sleeping in the day is not easy, and I definitely feel strange when my sleep patterns are disturbed.

Switching off from the job is equally difficult. I guess you learn to deal with the stress.”

With studies such as Careercast’s stating that journalism is the most stressful job to have, how will this information affect our future journalists?

Emma Williams, broadcast journalism student at Cardiff University predicts that: “The situation is only looking to get worse for when I graduate. As social media and the internet become even more popular, so does the need for journalists to be available 24-hours a day.

“I’m scared about sacrificing my health. If I want to work in the world of journalism then I need to be willing to commit all of my time and energy to the career.”

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then it’s okay, but when I leave the office, all I do is panic that things are going wrong.”

Paul Holleran, Scottish organiser at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), has seen first hand this type of reaction from many NUJ members: “I am currently dealing with over a dozen members who are, or have been, off ill with stress and exhaustion in the newspapers and broadcasting industry. The increase in demand for journalists to produce additional material for social media is another burden affecting the wellbeing of our members. The problems affect people across the board, of all ages and both sexes, but my experience is that it is particularly problematic for middle managers such as desk heads or editors.”

William Drew, editor of Restaurant, understands the pressure editors, in particular, are placed under: “I don’t know an editor that doesn’t feel stressed on a daily basis. It goes with the territory. Being an editor of a newsstand title and living or dying by your sales figures can be extremely difficult, especially in recent years.”

Unfortunately, the past few years have been getting tougher. Not only has the workload increased as journalists are expected to publish news and features on more than one platform at the same time, but journalists are also finding themselves taking on a number of different roles due to staffing cuts. It is no surprise that stress levels are increasing when journalists now have to not only sub their own work, but also put together videos and coordinate social media.

Sian Price experienced the difficulty of multi-tasking on many different platforms with limited staff numbers, while working as features editor at Health & Fitness. She recalls: “We had a tiny team of only five of us. There was the editor, one other features writer, the sub, the designer, and myself. In 2012 we were a team of 12, but we were cut down to a team of five by 2013. We were expected to produce the same quality magazine monthly, but with limited staff. I’d find 58 myself feeling like I had written the whole magazine on my own, while keeping our Twitter and Facebook pages updated.”

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Viral news sites may appear to be re-hashed churnalism but Julia Richardson looks beyond the cute animals to find a mini news revolution

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ists of ‘22 celebrities without teeth’, ‘The 18 clumsiest deer’, and ‘14 cats who think they’re sushi’ are, for many journalists, evidence that the internet has turned their profession into tosh. The explosion in viral news sites that detect, spread, and share online content has made sites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy hugely popular.

But is viral news killing ‘proper’ journalism? Or are the same sites, with a penchant for adorable kitties, producing serious news content, bringing in new audiences, and investing resources in investigative journalism? Could these leeches be pumping fresh blood into the industry?

News sites like BuzzFeed, Vice, and more recently the Mirror Group’s Us Vs Th3m and Ampp3d distribute their content through social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. They rely on readers sharing their content to boost readership.

Recently, these sites have been ramping up their news operations. BuzzFeed employ journalists from hard news organisations and has Pulitzer Prize winners on its staff, including founder Jonah Peretti.

Started in 2006, the social news site has hired 16 investigative journalists, including editor-in-chief Ben Smith who came from US political site Politico. The investigative team broke the story of John McCain endorsing Mitt Romney in January 2012.

In the UK, Richard James joined as news editor from Metro.co.uk in March and Alan White’s ap-

pointment as breaking news reporter last November shows BuzzFeed is expanding its serious news coverage for its already-engaged audience. White says: “I think people have realised that we’re growing and we’re going to the popular stuff to begin with because we know that it works and [have] the foundations in place to do the more serious stuff.”

The UK site already has a well-covered world news service, with on-the-ground reporting from Kiev about the crisis in the Ukraine, correspondents in the Middle East, and strong American political coverage, but it is often bypassed by those who come onto the site through the latest light-hearted list.

But Professor Chris Frost, chair of the NUJ’s Ethics Council, says sites like BuzzFeed should not be described as journalism, and they pick up soft material because it is quick and easy. “It’s just the electronic version of the old gossip machine and urban myth we used to have to do in the good old days. Now you can slam it on a site or put it on a Facebook page to get it out quicker, but it’s still the same kind of material.”

Frost does not see these sites as a threat to traditional news outlets, as people continue to want reliable, trusted news services. What’s more, how much an article is shared is not the only benchmark for how successful or important it is. “How many pictures of cats on the internet can you stand? They’re very popular at the moment but no one wants to spend their life looking at cats. Just because it hasn’t gone viral doesn’t mean people aren’t interested in it. I’m pretty relaxed about all these sites. People get

excited about them and then they die. It would be a mistake to assume that just because people are not passing on the important stories that they’re not interested in them. The kind of things that have always been passed on has always been light-hearted, urban myth kind of stuff.”

However, BuzzFeed UK’s coverage of the flooding in south-west England in January is an example of a viral hit. Aerial shots of affected areas in an article titled ‘27 staggering new pictures of the Somerset Levels floods’ told the story more effectively than words.

White says that another BuzzFeed article, ‘21 pictures of politicians in wellies staring at floods’, which received nearly 650,000 hits had a serious message. “Essentially these politicians are powerless in the face of nature and yet the modern PR industry expects them to go and stand around in wellington boots,” he says.

White says that BuzzFeed writes a lot of serious stuff in a silly way and a lot of silly stuff in a serious way. “Finding angles on stories that are both amusing and shareable but with a serious point underpinning it is what we’re trying to do more and more.”

An example of this approach is White’s ‘12 pictures of death row prisoners’ last meals. It got over one million hits. “It’s all about finding angles on traditional issues. How many times have people written about the death penalty but how many times have they got over one million views with it? It is kind of serious journalism and it was an incredibly powerful piece that made people think about the death penalty, whatever their conclusions were.”

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things that they can relate to story-wise, which I think is the same as traditional journalism. Social media isn’t a new curveball to journalism, it’s just about finding new ways to exploit it.”

Breaking news stories do well on any medium but the need to get stories online first and while they are relevant leads to scepticism about accuracy. Few can forget the Mail Online’s howler when they incorrectly reported that Amanda Knox was found guilty during the verdict of her retrial on 3 October 2011. Rob Orchard, co-founder of slow journalism magazine Delayed Gratification, says: “The real crux of this is the desperate need to be first and if you’re an online media source, you’re incentivised to prioritise being first above being right and I think that is desperately dangerous. Factual inaccuracies that are corrected later down the line, once the clicks have been fired, is profoundly unsettling.”

What Orchard asks for is for journalists, aside from breaking stories, to deliver stories based on traditional reporting standards and ethics. “We really want the good stuff, statistics, proper context, different angles, rather than click fodder and hoards of people who are just trying to beat Twitter to the punch which is never going to work.”

But sites like BuzzFeed maintain that their corrections policy is very transparent and their news-gathering process is conducted in line with traditional journalistic ethics. “If we’re doing a story, we’ll try to double source it,” says White. “We do make mistakes, as has every news organisation since the year dot, but I strug-

“SOCIAL MEDIA ISN’T NEW TO JOURNALISM, IT’S ABOUT FINDING NEW WAYS TO EXPLOIT IT”

WHAT GOES VIRAL? SOMETHING UPLIFTING AND INSPIRATIONAL

EVOKING EMOTIONS (POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE) IS BETTER THAN NO EMOTION AT ALL

POSITIVE CONTENT DOES BETTER THAN NEGATIVE CONTENT

SOCIAL CURRENCY MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE INSIDERS

PRACTICALLY USEFUL CONTENT WORK OUT THE NEXT STEPS YOU WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE

STORIES MAKE IT COMPELLING SO PEOPLE WANT TO TELL IT

AMUSING TALES THINK ABOUT THOSE BORED AT WORK WHO MIGHT PASS THINGS ON

gle to accept criticism that we are a great deal less rigorous than the places that I used to work before BuzzFeed. There seems to be this assumption that all dead-tree press journalism was like a triple-sourced New Yorker essay before sites like BuzzFeed came. It’s absolute nonsense.”

For those brought up on traditional forms of media, the juxtaposition of hard news stories with humorous memes can be jarring. But the generation who largely read sites like social news aggregator, Upworthy, are used to a Twitter feed with a story of Justin Bieber side-by-side with one on Syria, and viral news sites take advantage of this.

It is this approach that media big guns have started to adopt to broaden their readership. Trinity Mirror launched Us Vs Th3m, a BuzzFeed-style social content website in May 2013. Designer and journalist Martin Belam, who helped launch the site, says: “We wanted to do something that was fun and to experiment. We were looking at how BuzzFeed and Upworthy and those kind of sites were being successful in generating lots of traffic and to experiment in that space, learn something, and potentially make some money from it.”

Us Vs Th3m had seven millions users in its first six months. It aims to reach 18-30 year olds who like looking at funny things on the internet and has a strong emphasis on visual content, while maintaining its left-leaning values. Following the success of Us Vs Th3m, Trinity Mirror launched Ampp3d. Edited by Belam, the site describes itself as “a topical, factual data-driven site from the Daily Mirror, making journalism more accessible through data visualisations and infographics”.

Belam thinks that this model based on socially-shareable content is affording journalism new opportunities. “We’re beginning to see different forms of storytelling that are really native to the web,” he says. For example, one particular article affords readers the chance to watch Wayne Rooney’s earnings add up in real-time against a timer. Belam argues that this couldn’t be as well-executed through any other medium like radio, print, or TV. “It’s actually something you could only really do on the web and that’s what I think we’re only really beginning to explore with news. I think in the early years of the internet, people basically put print, TV, and radio content onto the web and I think we’re just beginning to develop the language and vocabulary of hyperlinked, digital news.”

As viral sites reposition themselves as alternative news sources, it could be argued that they are following a long journalism tradition. They have enticed a growing readership with popular content. In many ways, they have adapted the business model of traditional newspapers that included comics and arts or leisure sections to sell copies.

Supporters of this new wave of sites that use innovative, often visual, and at times humorous techniques argue that it engages a wider readership to consume news. Us Vs Th3m produced an interactive game with a map called “Where’s Damascus?” at a time when the US and UK were potentially going to war in Syria. It revealed that most of the population could not point the city out on a map. As Belam points out: “Cat gifs are not going to win you Pulitzer prizes but I think “Where’s Damascus?” is as important as writing a 1,000 word essay.”

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Visiting professor of online journalism at City University, Paul Bradshaw, says that viral is a new word, but a technique that’s as old as journalism.

Any discussion about viral should replace the word with ‘distribution’ because content is only successful if it is read and, in this context, shared. “It’s not journalism without distribution. It offers journalism the opportunity to be heard, to have an impact. It’s pointless doing the best investigative reporting if no one gets to hear about it – and that’s been an ongoing issue for investigative journalism.”

What makes something go viral is quite often different to what is making the main news headlines.

So what’s the key to creating a viral success online?

White says: “You never know how well a story is going to do but generally if it’s got a sort of positive and emotional aspect, it will always do really well.”

For example a woman with a rare genetic disorder that meant she could not gain weight got over half a million clicks on BuzzFeed and an article about boy who had been bullied at school because he was ginger and is now an international supermodel was a huge success.

While BuzzFeed may have been founded by internet whizzes rather than print journalists, traditional journalism skills are still hugely important, says White. In January, the site broke the news of Tony Gallagher’s departure as editor from The Daily Telegraph. “The way we got the Gallagher story was old-fashioned journalism, just contacts and knowing the right people and being charming enough with them.

That stuff doesn’t go away and it never will,” says White.

Like BuzzFeed, global media company Vice rely on a large portion of their readership coming through social media. 80% of their 60 audience is aged 18-34. Simon Childs, deputy news editor at Vice UK, says that news is shared the most when people are talking about it.

While in the past humorous content went viral on social media, today news stories are showing signs of greater shareability. “The most popular are things that are hitting the news that people can connect with, so

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HACK OF ALL TRADES Once, journalists only had to worry about their words, but now they’re expected to be onscreen stars too. Josh Lowe reports on the closing gap between print and broadcast

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dependent and the Standard are being beamed into four million London homes – London Live launched on 31 March.

Over at Telegraph Media Group, formidable Daily Telegraph editor Tony Gallagher (Newspaper, 1986) was banged out one lunchtime in January. Staff in the Telegraph newsroom pounded on their desks as he left the office in a throwback to an old printers’ tradition. Journalists on the paper say he had chaired conference that very morning, unaware of his fate. It is widely assumed that the reason for his expulsion was that he stood in the way of the paper’s digital revolution, spearheaded by new chief content officer Jason Seiken, whose background includes stints at US broadcaster PBS and internet portal AOL. Does it make sense to maintain a clear distinction between the two disciplines?

Journalists are having to get used to a multi-platform world, and management teams are having to devise schemes to ease the transition.

Hatfield sees no reason to draw a line between broadcast and written journalism: he is proud of the fact that his channel’s news and current affairs coverage makes use of journalists from its sister papers. “We’ve got a lot of expertise in this building and it’s crazy not to use it,” he says in the canteen at Northcliffe House.

“On site, we’ve got Simon Calder [The Independent’s travel editor-at-large], Britain’s best known travel journalist. He’s on TV on every other channel every day, it seems bonkers not to utilise him. We’ve got another young journalist called Lucy Tobin, one of Britain’s best young business journalists. I could go on and on and on.” While setting up London Live, Stefano and his colleagues screen tested 150 print journalists, with 80 taking a “writing for TV” course, 40 learning how to shoot video on iPhones, and 16 being given full video journalism (VJ) training.

The channel has even hired one print hack full time. Luke Blackall, formerly a diarist for The Independent and i newspapers,

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was taken on as an entertainment presenter. What was it that made him stand out?

“He’s a very good storyteller. He’s very personable,” says Hatfield. This, it turns out, is something of a mantra for the editor. Simon Calder, he says, is the same: “I sound boring but it’s about the ability to tell a story and be engaging. You won’t be able to out-fact or out-debate Simon but then he has that kind of little sparkle or fairy dust or whatever it is that makes some people more engaging than others.”

Joe Murphy, political editor of the Standard, was apparently among the best students on the iPhone course Hatfield attended. Murphy himself says he thought the film he made – about endangered coffee plants in west London’s Kew Gardens – was “dazzling” given his limited previous experience.

But not everyone is happy with the arrangement. One Independent insider says: “People are optimistic and want it to succeed for the sake of the company’s future.

The issue, however, is whether there’s a demand for more news programmes on the television and whether we are in danger of producing a lower quality product than what’s produced by high quality TV journalists already.” A reporter from the Standard, who wished to remain anonymous, is more cynical. “The whole thing is insane – the idea that I can file copy from a trial at the Old Bailey and then rip outside to do an evening bulletin is ridiculous.”

Still, Michael Rosenblum, a former TV producer who runs training courses in video for organisations including London Live, thinks print journalists have something to contribute that many TV journalists lack: balls. A slicker with thick-framed glasses and a New York accent, Rosenblum becomes animated as he discusses inducting lay people into the cult of video.

“Print journalists are much better than television journalists [on his courses],” he says. “They’re much more aggressive.” His wife, he explains, began her career on local papers in Leicester before moving to the BBC. When she went for her first job interview at 21, she was told to head straight back out the door and not return until she had a story. “If you go to work for the BBC now, on your first day they’re not going to tell you that, but they should. They should say, here’s your iPhone, go and find a story, let’s see what you can do.” The Standard’s Joe Murphy returns the compliment, describing Rosenblum as a “genius” who helped Murphy break down the “Berlin wall” between print and broadcast.

Broadcaster Nigel Cassidy, European business correspondent for BBC News, agrees the wall has to come down, but thinks bosses should approach the process with caution. “For any journalist... to be resistant to getting their journalism on new platforms, I think it’s death,” he says. But he thinks audiences are just as discerning about quality of editing and delivery in video content as they ever were, even when viewing it on phones, so if one journalist is given too much to do in two formats, their output could be below par.

“For a committed print journalist, having to constantly interrupt what they’re doing to perform is likely to heavily reduce the time they can spend with interviewees… so the opinion they’re giving about

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e are standing on what looks like the set of a daytime chat show, yet I can hear the seething, expletive-punctuated hubbub of a print newsroom leaking through the part-open door behind me. On set, techies wander about looking technical. A man with a huge, jangling belt fiddles with some knobs on the side of a camera stand. In the centre of the long, oblong space is a black leather sofa of the type Phillip Schofield might happily sprawl across.

I’m with Stefano Hatfield, editorial director of London Live – London’s first ever dedicated free-to-air television channel. At this stage, the channel is five weeks from launch, and we are admiring the distressed wooden floorboards in one of its two new studios. “We decided to have them stained,” Hatfield explains.

“They were looking a bit Barratt Homes-y before.” He nods approvingly before we return to the squall of the newsroom.

London Live is run by Evening Standard Television (ESTV), a company owned by Evgeny Lebedev, proprietor of the London Evening Standard and The Independent. To accommodate their owner’s newest venture, the two papers now share a newsroom in Northcliffe House in Kensington, the gargantuan art deco palace which also houses both Mail titles and the Metro. The channel’s studios, galleries and green rooms sit just off it. The shift in atmosphere as we return to the land of print is a bit like flipping the channel from This Morning to The Jeremy Kyle Show.

In the British media the boundary between print and broadcast is looking blurrier than ever before. Journalists from The In-

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something is probably less formed,” he points out.

Still, he concedes, the arrival of a younger generation with a broader skillset might help alleviate these problems in the long term.

Traditional television reporters, says Rosenblum, can also be too self-centred. “Everybody has a story to tell, [you just have to] ask,” he says. “The problem with on-air reporters is they’re only interested in their own facetime. They rarely take the time to ask people anything.” Besides, a broadcast background is less essential now that it’s so easy to get interviewees to talk. “People say ‘shit, people get intimidated when you take out the camera,’ but everybody’s got a camera. Everybody’s making video. There’s 100 hours uploaded to YouTube every minute. It’s the most natural thing in the world [to them].”

Has the rise of YouTube and other social media made people easier targets on-camera? Clive Martin, a writer and documentary presenter for youth media brand Vice, thinks so. Martin started out producing written content for the Vice website. His best-known regular feature, Big Night Out, sees him trawling the clubs and bars of Britain in search of little-understood subcultures, from leather fetishists to tequila-sodden students.

Last August, Big Night Out made its video debut, and further episodes have appeared sporadically since. When he and his crew lug a camera into a club, it’s not as awkward as you’d think: “People

love it. People run over to get their mates and go ‘take a picture of me!’” It may have something to do with the fact that Vice’s hi-tech cameras look like the digital SLRs club photographers use. Watching the videos, you can spot a few worse for wear revellers clearly under the impression they are posing for an epic profile pic.

Martin, who had no on-camera experience before shooting the first Big Night Out, has behaved much like the organisation he works for in moving between words and video. Vice began as a free music magazine in Montreal, but is now a global phenomenon with a monthly audience of 129 million. Video is now “at the heart” of its business, according to a spokesman. In March, the company launched Vice News, a largely video-based current affairs site offering “Global news, analysis, and opinion on the absurdity of the modern condition”. It runs online TV channels and partnerships with terrestrial networks including HBO. Vice’s UK arm alone has 30 video edit stations, five post management stations, and voice recording facilities. Clearly its bosses aren’t nervous of culture clashes between writers and filmmakers.

But in print newsrooms, where tensions run high, culture clashes are more likely than in the new media-friendly Vice offices. When you run a TV channel alongside a newspaper, you need to account for different newsgathering processes. In a newspaper, individual reporters can head off on stories more or less of their choosing. The desk pushes them to get additional content, then arranges their stories after they have come in. At a broadcaster, the desk’s role is far more significant. You can’t just send out camera crews willy nilly – planning is vital. You can only do a few stories, so they have to be the best ones.

Hatfield says London Live has more than made up for this distinction. Vikki Cook, the channel’s head of news, comes from Sky. The channel has structures in place whereby Cook works closely with the Standard’s

deputy editor and head of news Ian Walker and the paper’s managing editor Doug Wills. The channel’s head of planning will introduce a planning discipline across the paper as well, to ensure the two newsrooms work in a similar way. London Live, too, has been producing video content for the Standard’s website since weeks before its launch.

The channel is also moving beyond either kind of traditional newsgathering model in its approach to hyperlocal news. “People are turning away from local papers,” says Hatfield. “I care about the closure of Charing Cross A&E because I live in west London, but you’ve got to find a balance between the stories which are London-wide and the stories which are really within the borough.” London Live’s response to this problem has been to recruit ‘vloggers’ – otherwise known as the public – to produce news and opinion on their local area for the channel’s website. Communications charity The Media Trust is on board to help recruit these contributors, but to many journalists the move is likely to look like a cost-saving measure.

Martin also thinks that video and photography are good drivers of proper shoe-leather journalism.

“Video is expensive, and luckily Vice has the budget to do it, but you could go out and find a million great stories. Take your mate with a camera and jump on a bus.” He thinks this sort of spirit can only be a good thing for journalism: “You have this new breed of commentariat writers who’ve never been anywhere and never done anything. I see so many comment pieces where I think ‘You know what would have been a good thing? If you had gone there and found these people’.”

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ut Rosenblum is much more damning about what the explosion of video technology means for traditional media organisations. He sees the “democratisation” of video as being a serious challenge to newspapers and broadcasters.

Not only does he see the next round of news companies looking more like Twitter or Facebook, but existing non-journalistic organisations are now playing roles once filled by journalists. His company has trained 160 UN staff to produce video reports from the field. Once UN field operatives would have to wait for “CNN to send some jerk from Atlanta who didn’t speak the language, didn’t know anything... and f**ked up the whole thing”. They now create many of the packages they need to inform the world themselves.

The week after we talk, Rosenblum is training journalists at The Guardian to use Google Glass. He has an early test model, and his voice becomes infused with passion when he talks about the wearable computing device. Glass could allow reporters to live stream events as they see them, and take viewers right into the thick of the action, up close and personal with faces, bodies, explosions. Vice reporter Tim Pool has already used Glass to cover protests in Brazil, Turkey and Egypt, taking compelling footage even as he dodged bullets and fled from tear gas. Rosenblum says: “To me looking at Glass is like a peasant in Germany looking at Gutenberg’s basement in the 14th Century. I’m thinking, you know what? This is something beyond just bibles.”

One thing is for sure: print and broadcast are only going to move closer together. On this, everyone seems unequivocal. Thinking of oneself as a single-platform journalist is as outdated as asking to file copy by telegram.

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IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES have upped their game. No longer the dirty old catalogues that festered under the plane’s seats, these magazines are replaced every month with stimulating new content with their own identity.

But what does this rise in quality mean for the traditional travel magazines and travel writers? Should travel journalists see these publications as a new opportunity or the nail in the coffin for paid for publications?

These well-funded magazines are, increasingly, of such high standard that they frequently feature both celebrity writers and established travel journalists. For example, British Airways’ Business Life magazine, the publication that sits in their business class cabin, runs a regular column with Dragon Den’s Deborah Meaden offering business tips to flyers. Simon Calder, senior travel editor for The Independent, frequently shares his knowledge with in-flight travel magazines, including British Airways High Life, as does The Independent’s star interviewer Deborah Ross, who writes for the same magazine. It’s not just the content. Magazines such as N for Norwegian are creating waves with their design, use of eye-catching infographics, and imaginative covers.

And these aren’t quirky magazines produced by small independent companies. Most in-flight magazines are produced by large customer publishing companies, increasingly staffed by young and talented journalists – there’s clearly new energy in in-flights. Cedar Communications, which produces British Airways High Life also publishes Tesco’s magazine. Ink specialises in the magazines for more budget airlines like easyJet, Norwegian, and Ryanair.

Simon Kurs, the editor of easyJet Traveller, easyJet’s in-flight magazine, believes that in-flight magazines are doing so well because they cover much more than just travel. “We cover business, culture, technology, and fashion – the only necessity is that the story happens

within the destinations we fly to.

This allows our content to be far more wide-ranging than Condé Nast Traveller, say, which is more of the traditional travelogue style of travel journalism, strictly intended to inspire people to go on holiday.”

In-flights offer inspiration for the cash-strapped tourist, one of the reasons why they’re increasingly popular among readers.

Thanks to the fact that they’re free and readily available, the magazines have sky-high circulations – BA High Life has an annual circulation of three million and easyJet Traveller magazine reaches more than two million fliers.

In-flight magazines have become less formulaic. Toby Skinner, Editor of N, says: “we’ve tried to produce strong stories first and foremost. It’s been less ‘36 hours in Paris’ and cocktails overlooking azure seas, and more story-driven: the Danes going to space in a homemade rocket, say. To a certain extent we owe it to the airline to sell destinations, but we do it subtly - our primary aim is to make a magazine that people will engage with.”

Rather than predictable copy about mojitos in the Caribbean, in-flights can end up with some pretty funky features. N recently commissioned an article on insect fine dining and Sarah Warwick (Magazine, 2005) set a world record when she visited six capital cities in 24 hours for easyJet Traveller.

It’s clear by the number of prestigious awards in-flights are winning that they’re a magazine force to be reckoned with. Kerry Smith, the editor of High Life, won the Content Marketing

Awards coveted Editor of the Year award in 2013, and at this year’s PPA Awards High Life’s online editor Lucy Thackray scooped the Grand Prix award for top new talent.

N for Norwegian also picked up the gong for best magazine launch at the 2013 British Society of Magazine Editor’s awards.

Editor Toby Skinner (Magazine, 2005) thinks the success is down to the creative freedom the airline gives him. He also credits the change in the magazine industry for giving smaller magazines a fighting chance: “The fact that the big newsstand titles are struggling has, in a way, spurred on the little mags, which are in rude health. In-flight magazines have been a good example of this. They’re interesting in that they have a captive audience and – when done right – can afford to take a few risks. Hence I think we’ve got to a stage where you’ll find better stories in the easyJet magazine than in newsstand titles like Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveller, which represent a high-gloss, aspirational kind of travel.”

But rather than complementing aspirational glossy travel magazines, are in-flights actually killing off established travel magazines? Along with pretty much every other magazine, publications including Condé Nast Traveller and Lonely Planet are fighting for a place in a tough market. ABC Sales figures for the first half of 2013 reported a 12.8% drop in sales for Lonely Planet Traveller magazine and luxury brand Conde Nast suffered a modest fall of 2.1%.

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Lyn Hughes, editor-in-chief of adventure travel magazine Wanderlust, agrees that the majority of in-flight magazines have “raised their game in the last few years”, but argues: “They offer an enjoyable read, but we certainly don’t see them as a threat. They are more of a lifestyle magazine than a traditional travel magazine.”

Hughes feels that consumer magazines like Wanderlust have a strong connection with their readers. Although consumer magazines don’t have a captive audience like planes do, she says: “unlike us they don’t have a relationship with their audience.” Wanderlust’s brand extends much further than just the glossy magazine: on the website there are forums where travellers share tips and there are frequent writing and photography classes for interested readers.

But there are obvious downsides to the in-flight magazine. For a start, it can only cover where the airline flies to, which is restrictive when it comes to editorial freedom. One anonymous in-flight magazine editor admitted: “Finding another way to make golfing in the Canaries new and exciting can be pretty boring. I do get fed up writing about Portugal year after year.” Another limit is that in-flights are dominated by content the business wants in it. If an airline has a new route to Naples, for example, then there will be guaranteed pages of content on Neapolitan food, art, and accommodation.

Daniel Uglow, editor of Travel Weekly, a magazine aimed at professionals working in the travel industry, thinks that a big limitation of writing for inflight magazines is the demand to always write “rosy, positive copy”.

But in spite of these limitations, inflight magazines are changing the face of travel journalism. These magazines are pushing boundaries by providing high quality, entertaining features for free. The sky’s the limit for these seatback publications.

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hen Katie left her job at a radio station for maternity leave, she didn’t get the farewell she had hoped for. “There was nothing.

No goodbye. I’d been working for the company for eight years. It came to the end of my shift and I just got into my car and drove home. As far as my boss was concerned, the event wasn’t worth marking. He was just angry that I’d gotten in the way of his rota.”

Katie returned to work but her original position was no longer available. Instead, she was put on reporter shifts by her male boss. These were often late at night and off site. “When you’re a working mother, that’s not what you want to hear. But I needed the money and had no choice but to swallow my tongue.”

Her boss made it clear that her pregnancy had been an inconvenience on multiple occasions.

“Once,” she remembers, “he said out loud: ‘I will never employ a mother again.’ This was in the presence of myself and other working mothers.”

Jane Shilling was working for a newspaper when she found out she was pregnant. With a boss who took a “dim view” of pregnant interviewers, she worked through her pregnancy, taking only three weeks off for the birth and felt she could “never mention the baby” around colleagues.

These women’s experiences were 10 and 20 years ago, but have things changed for mothers in jour68 nalism? Is the industry still as uncompromising and inflexible? A Women in Journalism study conducted in 2012 found that 78% of articles in national newspapers were written by men. However, this disappointing figure is not a result of gender imbalance at entry level. Sue Ryan, who interviews for the Daily Mail’s graduate schemes, says: “I see far more women coming into the industry, but then they disappear for all the obvious reasons – it’s bloody hard work bringing up a family and trying to work.”

Managing the full-time roles of mother and journalist is unquestionably difficult. Mother of two and recently appointed editor of The Independent on Sunday Lisa Markwell had childcare help from her husband.

She explains: “I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to return to work knowing my husband was my children’s full-time carer. If I’d had a baby and taken a year out of my career it might have been more difficult to slot back in at the same level.”

For those without that option, leaving work for an extended period of time can stand in the way of further promotion. Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman, says that in her experience many female journalists leave to have children in their thirties and find it hard to return. “My female friends have found it’s almost impossible to come back to a position at the same level, let alone try to progress further. The gates are barred.” Of her own experience, she says: “I’m 30, I don’t have any kids. If I do, it may well go wrong for me.”

The culture of 24-hour news and a news agenda that changes daily is particularly hard on parents who need leave and flexible work times. This, of course, extends to both sexes. Yet the biological and legal requirement for mothers to take leave and the continued tendency for women to take time out to raise children means that having children affects women more than men in terms of their career.

Employers in the UK must offer maternity leave with around 90% pay for 39 weeks, while men are

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entitled to two weeks of paternity leave. Beyond this, flexible work or time off for childcare is up to employers’ own maternity policies.

Gabriella Jozwiak, who freelances for HR magazine, says media organisations tend to offer only the “bog standard” leave package. “Offering long maternity leave is a bad business decision to make as an editor. It’s sometimes not even worth the employer getting cover – it takes time for them to build up contacts and get the stories,” she says.

Maternity cover can create its own problems for parents on leave. A newspaper journalist with a five-year-old son, who wanted to remain anonymous, says of her experience: “There was a lack of communication – I was unsure how secure my job was from about halfway through my leave and I felt threatened by the presence of maternity cover.”

Michele Simmons, a freelancer who has edited a range of publications at EMAP and IPC, argues that editors of women’s magazines have a more positive approach to maternity leave than those at newspapers, which tend to have male-dominated offices. “I covered a maternity leave at Best magazine about three years ago and it was really well organised with meetings beforehand and copious handover notes,” she says.

When leave ends, the problems of school pickups and other commitments can still make life difficult.

As an editor herself, Simmons was “very happy” to offer part-time positions, and encouraged staff to job share. “I had a member of editorial staff who would leave at 2:30 every day so she could pick her kids up from school.”

Carla Buzasi, editor of Huffington Post UK, stated a similar position at a Women in Journalism panel debate in November. She pointed out that it was in her interests to let parents leave half an hour early for a “football match or a birthday party” – they ended up happier, more balanced, and with more ideas gleaned from the “real world”.

Lisa Markwell of The Independent on Sunday agrees with Buzasi. “Staff who have meaningful lives outside the office bring a rounded attitude and diverse views to the paper.” As a result, she is willing to work around her staff ’s needs and changes. “I would do everything in my power to accommodate those wanting to take maternity leave and wanting to return with a different work pattern.”

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However, some editors, like Katie’s, are not so sympathetic, and part-time or flexible jobs are a rarity in the industry. For women who return to the 9 to 5 (or the 9 to 8), the costs of childcare can be crippling.

The recent Family and Childcare Trust survey showed that a single parent working full-time and earning £24,500 with one child aged three, faces an annual childcare bill of more than £4,000. This is despite being eligible for both the 15-hour free childcare allowance and childcare working tax credits. Most journalists work in London, where childcare costs up to £120 a day.

Laura Saarikosi, features editor at Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, has lived in both the UK and Finland.

While in the UK, she knew many women who were “forced to stay at home for years” because of the high cost of childcare. In Finland, full-time public daycares cost only €260 (£216) a month. Saarikosi believes that the strong presence of Finnish women in politics has led to a better deal for working parents, and that in the UK, the pressures keeping women at home are having a “huge impact on women’s role in society”.

The cost of childcare means that women have to come up with their own solutions. Katie Hind, showbiz editor at the Sunday People, is launching a campaign for a creche to be set up in the Trinity Mirror building in Canary Wharf. “It’s a brilliant way of keeping people in work,” she says, as parents could visit children at lunchtime and return to work earlier than they might have done otherwise.

Working from home is another attractive option.

Jozwiak, who held a full-time reporter post before going freelance says that freelancing can offer welcome flexibility. Some female journalists have made their names or enhanced their profiles by freelancing extensively about their pregnancy and children, combining their jobs and home lives and saving time in the process. Zoe Williams wrote columns and features for The Guardian pre and post-natally, and there is a demand for columnists who fit the forty-something, 2.4 children profile of their readers. Yet a

journalist who specialises in social housing or health may well resist the idea of turning her hand to the subjects of domesticity and dummies.

Freelancing can be a viable and rewarding career choice for working mothers. Jozwiak says: “If employers were more flexible with freelance, mothers could do the work at home while the kids are in the other room or work around it.” Markwell feels the digital revolution should make the workplace more flexible.

“It should make things easier for mothers and fathers to work from home, to work unusual shifts, to share jobs more easily.”

New maternity and paternity laws which come into place in April 2015 will offer a full year’s leave which parents can request to split between them – though paid paternity leave will still only total two weeks.

Male journalists will be able to take far longer than the current two-week allowance for the birth of their children. However, the difficulties already faced by female journalists taking leave make it unlikely that significant numbers of men will take up the offer – the government expects that only 4 to 6% of fathers will ask for longer paternity leave.

Tom Chivers, assistant comment editor at The Telegraph, recently took two weeks paternity leave for the birth of his first child. “In an ideal world, I’d have been able to spend another couple of weeks helping out,” he says.

However, he is unsure whether he could take longer leave even when the law changes: “On my desk we don’t feel overstaffed at the best of times, so it’s hard leaving your colleagues in the lurch for extended periods.”

Katie, who faced strong opposition when she took leave from her job at a radio station, feels that the change in the law could make a real difference – not necessarily to the number of men taking longer paternity leave, but to the attitudes towards working mothers.

She predicts: “It will make men just as much a liability to employ as women. If men are just as liable to take that time off, then everything changes.”

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LORRAINE CANDY The ELLE UK editor-in-chief called having children as “addictive” as eating hobnobs: “once you start you can’t stop”. Candy came under attack from the media and public for being “selfish” and “environmentally irresponsible” when she announced the birth of her fourth child. She wrote a defiant response in the Daily Mail.

JON RONSON Just because you’re the one writing doesn’t mean you’re the one in control as Jon Ronson learnt. The journalist and father had a Guardian column until his young son made him swear on his life to quit – a hilarious exchange that is recounted in Ronson’s final column.

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Independent on Sunday editor, Lisa Markwell, jet-setting with her family on holiday

Don’t use your adolescents for inspiration unless you can deal with the consequences.

When Mrs Myerson was revealed as the anonymous author of Living with Teenagers, a Guardian column and later a book, detailing her life and those of her three teenage children, she was the object of disdain in the journalism world. Her son Jake called her “slightly insane” and the book “obscene” and decided to change his last name.

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Make it short

Extra skills

“Commissioning editors receive a lot of pitches. If you haven’t managed to put your idea across within two sentences, they are unlikely to continue reading,” says Hilly Janes, former commissioning editor of The Times.

“We’re now in the age of the super-journalist,” says Rachel Oldroyd, former commissioning editor at The Mail on Sunday.

“If you know how to create an infographic, that will really help you sell stories.”

Get the right person

Think of the visuals

Most publications have a number of sections, each with their own editor. If this is the case, you should double check that you send your pitch to the right editor.

Pictures are a really good way of selling stories. When pitching, if you can explain how your piece will look, then this will increase your chances of success.

Be unique

Have a hook

Bring an editor a unique statistic, an exclusive interview, or a story only you have access to. This will greatly increase your chances of being commissioned.

As well as new stories, publications are always looking for fresh attitudes towards contemporary trends and issues, so have your finger on the pulse.

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THE GOING RATES

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has recommend ed freelance rates, but these aren’t always followed.

Despite the recomme nd a 1000 word-long featur ation that e should be paid £450, The Guard ian its freelancers just £324 pays for 1,000 words. The Telegraph is a little better ; their 1,000 word featur es can earn the writer £410. The Da ily Mail and The Sun consistently pay the best – expect £500 to £700 for a page lead and a lot more if it’s a hot exclusive.

National magazine rat es have also tumbled or stayed the same. On Esquire, for example, you ’ll be lucky to get 50p a word, wh ile The Observer Magazine pays just ove r 30p a Reviews work a little diff word. erently to full-length features. Ker rang! has been

known to pay £30 for a 100 word review, but freelancers who worked for the news sec have tion of the magazine have reported po just £50 for news pieces cketing that are between 200-400 words in length.

The NUJ recommends that freelancers on local papers get paid a day rate of £100 with an extra £100 per half page of photo s. A publication such as Feminist Tim es freelance journalists £9 will pay 0 for a 500 word feature.

Jack Oughton, a freela ncer who has written for FHM, fin ds that some publications are reluct ant to pay at all: “Some publications will try and get you to write for fre e, but don’t fall into the exposure trap. It doesn’t matter how much exp osure you get, they will still probably never pay.”

WHAT CAN YOU C LAIM? It is important to reg ister as selfemployed within thr ee months of your decision to becom e a freelancer.

While you’ll still have to pay income tax, there are a numb er of business expenses that are tax deductible.

Office equipment and furniture including lamps, DVDs and books are all valid office business expenses. It is also possible to cla im tax back on most communication costs, such as internet and phone bill s.

You can also claim tax back on any travel costs incurred wh ile conducting

research and meeting interviewees. If you drive, this includ es the cost of running and cleaning yo ur car It is best to keep you . r personal and business matters separate as expenses involving bo th are nondeductible. You can no t claim back the cost of travelling to a business meeting, should you choose to do your weekly shop on the way there.

To claim, you’ll be expected to provide evidence of your business expenses – such as rec eipts and bank statements.

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An oldie but a goodie, the Any.do offers the stanservice has gone through ordard package of several iterations since ganisational tools and it was first launched and features you’d expect now offers a comprehenat Wh . app y from a diar sive suite of features. The is ce makes a big differen most recent update has the clean and simple inconnectivity increased ng faffi re mo No . terface ail, as well as inteGm to logtiple mul around with gration with Twitter and ins or waiting for all your Evernote. h devices to sync with eac other.

EVERNOTE A particularly useful feature of Evernote is the web clipper, which allows you to save any text or images from the internet straight to your phone.

Perfect for when you can’t get wi-fi or the 3G signal drops.

THE NATIONAL THEATRE Cavernous, airy and surrounded by luvvies, the National provides unlimited free wi-fi, comfy couches and two bars serving excellent espressos and chilled white wine for that special after-the-deadline tipple.

THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE Killer views of the Thames, metres from Skylon if you’re seized by hunger pangs, and couches, wi-fi, and quiet spaces aplenty. Best of all there are often temporary exhibitions on display in the bowels of the building if you need to take a stimulating break.

IF THIS THEN THAT Creates connections between different websites and apps and carries out the desired response, such as uploading a picture into your Evernote calendar and then automatically sending it to Dropbox or Twitter.

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BRITISH LIBRARY Surely no better place for freelancers to congregate than the home of language, learning, and literature. If writers block strikes then you can always go and stare at Shakespeare’s first folio for inspiration.

CENTRAL ST GILES Google’s UK HQ has one of the best wi-fi connections in London, but forces you to re-sign in every thirty minutes to stop you from turning into an internet moocher.

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As the tablet revolution falters, Samuel Horti examines the winners and losers of the new digital magazine world

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n first dates, in bed late at night, even on the toilet, people are swiping. Tablets are everywhere. Worldwide, sales soared by 68% in 2013.

They’ve been hailed as the saviour of the magazine: a new hope that will lift the industry from a downward sales spiral. But, unfortunately, the digital revolution hasn’t materialised. Total readership figures are still falling, editors are struggling to entice new readers, and publishers are left scratching their heads. Was the magazine industry’s tablet model broken before it even got started? And what lessons can the industry learn from the limited number of digital successes?

Print sales are in long-term decline. The most recent Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures reveal print sales fell at a rate of more than 6% a year in the UK in the six months up to December 2013.

In the two years leading up to July 2013, the number of circulated print magazines fell by 10%.

Almost every magazine has experimented with a digital edition that you can download on tablets and smartphones. And, on the whole, the results have been disappointing.

Only 13 digital editions of magazines in the UK have a circulation of more than 10,000, including BBC Good Food, TotalFilm, and GQ. Just 17 more have managed sales above 5,000. Digital sales still constitute a tiny margin of total sales, especially on larger magazines. Glamour, for example, has print sales of 410,480, while its digital sales are less than 5,000.

The combined circulation of all digital editions in 2013 was 550,000. That’s a long way short of the circulation of the single best selling print title, What’s on TV, which has a circulation of over one million.

Why are we yet to see the boom we’ve been expecting in digital sales? What are magazines doing wrong?

Adam Tinworth, digital journalism consultant and former editorial development manager at publisher Reed Business Information, thinks many digital editions are failing simply because they’re not very good.

The worst offenders can be split into two catego-

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“IT’S LITERALLY A PDF. THAT’S NOT A NICE READING EXPERIENCE”

ries, he says. First, there’s “overoptimised” editions: magazines that try too hard to impress and ending up tripping over their fancy footwork.

“Wired was particularly bad at this for a while because a) it took up a huge amount of space on my device, and b) I had to wait ages for it to download.

It just wasn’t a good experience,” he says.

Second, there’s what Tinworth calls “shovelware” editions, where a print magazine is transferred clumsily to a tablet in PDF form. “They are just literally PDFs, which don’t allow you to move around and zoom in a very interactive way,” he says. “It just doesn’t make a nice reading experience.”

Some magazines have excelled in tablet form. The digital edition of T3, Future Publishing’s flagship gadget magazine, sells over 22,000 issues a month in the UK. That’s the most of any digital magazine and 5,000 more than The Economist’s continental Europe edition, the second most popular. And, more impressively, those digital sales account for a staggering 42% of the T3’s total circulation.

Jeff Parsons, the magazine’s news editor, says T3’s early tablet launch, in 2010, has helped them build a strong digital presence. It helps that the magazine has a tech savvy audience who were quick to adopt tablets too, he says.

However, the success is down to more than cir-

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The number of tablets that will be in use in the UK in 2017, according to CCS Insight.

Currently there’s 27 million. cumstance. T3 has looked at the digital edition in a different way to most of its competitors. “I think a lot of magazines will see it as another branch of the publishing, not spending much time with it,” Parsons says. “We looked at it as a new product. How can we make it different enough from the magazine that it’s going to offer something individual to people?”

Firstly, they hired “very talented engineers and designers” who built a magazine that could include multimedia content that a print magazine could not.

Secondly, and very importantly, the team produced extra, exclusive content for the digital edition.

“There’s ability to add in extra content right up until the last moment when we have to push it out.

We’ve done [that] on a couple of occasions where we’ve had bigger stories, breaking stories that haven’t been able to fit into our print deadlines. Those are the kind of steps that we take to differentiate it from just being a bland PDF republication.”

Parsons is certain that digital magazines will become central to the industry thanks to “huge tablet sales” across all demographics. “It almost seems inevitable based on the last 12 months. It’s just going to be an increasingly important part of media publishing, I don’t think there’s any way around it.”

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he evidence is on Parsons’ side. Research released in January by telecom analysts CCS Insight suggests that 55 million tablets will be in use in the UK by 2017. That’s more than double the 27 million used today. And, according to analysts IDC, nearly eight million tablets were shipped to the UK in the first three quarters of 2013, a year-onyear growth of 192% for the same period in 2012.

But even if tablet sales continue on their upward trend, fundamental problems with the market need to be addressed.

One such problem, according to Douglas Hebbard, experienced publisher and editor of Talking New Media, is the “discoverability” of digital magazines. Deficiencies in app marketplaces, such as Apple’s Newstand, make it hard for consumers to access many digital editions. “The condition of the app store for Apple is far worse than it’s ever been before, and it’s not necessarily getting better,” he says.

He cites examples such as Apple failing to promote apps in certain categories, and simply organising publications by alphabetical order in the “new” section of others. “If you don’t know what you want, how are you supposed to find it?” he asks.

“One of the great things about digital media and tablet editions is that if you want to put out a magazine, you can do it. If I want to put out a magazine,

I can do it. There is going to be so much content, it’s going to be crazy. But will you be able to find it? That’s going to be a really difficult hurdle to overcome.”

The other major concern is whether tablet editions are really serving a purpose in the first place.

Paul Bradshaw, visiting professor at City University and creator of Online Journalism Blog, worries that they’re not.

“Why create an app for iOS when you’ve got to create another one for Android, and do you do one for Blackberry or Windows? How costly is it to update? Why would you have a tablet edition in the first place rather than a responsive website?

“The evidence is that people only use a few apps at most. A browser is overwhelmingly the number one app that they use, every app you install takes up extra memory you could be using for music or films.

People use apps as tools, so if it’s just content, why not just go to the website?”

It’s clear that digital editions are not proving to be the panacea that many hoped they would be. With a few exceptions, the current model is failing. However, with a rethink, perhaps digital can live up to the hype. Focus is the key, say the experts. Publishers need to understand that tablets and smartphones are completely different platforms to print, and should be treated as such. They need to ask themselves how their tablet edition should be different to print. When they do this, there are some impressive results, and that gives hope for the future.

“I subscribe to Photography Week. It’s a smaller, weekly magazine that only has four or five features, it’s very optimised and quick to download, and it’s very visual,” says Adam Tinworth.

“There are lots of photos and videos and a little bit of reading material. It’s a nicely sized content packaged that I don’t feel overwhelmed by reading.”

Paul Bradshaw wants to see companies diversify in the marketplace, and thinks there is potential for success. “The apps that have impressed me are things like Marie Claire’s beauty app, and magazines that have seen the apps marketplace as a different proposition. It’s not ‘let’s put out our magazine as an app’, it’s ‘what tool can we make for people?’”

As more and more companies do away with PDFs and craft editions specifically for the tablet, we’ll start to see more innovation, says Douglas Hebbard.

“Once you decide to do a native edition using any of the various platforms out there that allow you to do that, you’ve taken a leap, it’s a jump that makes it that much better,” he says.

“Each medium is its own platform, and if you build for that you can create something great.”

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The circulation of T3’s digital edition, the highest of any UK digital magazine. That accounts for 42% of the magazine’s total circulation

THE GOOD This is what a digital edition should look like. It’s interactive without being complicated – detailed but not cumbersome.

There’s something to do on every page, whether that’s simply removing the text from the front cover to get a good view of the beautiful image behind, or flicking through photos and videos on an onscreen camera. Seriously impressive.

THE BAD Fair play to Condé Nast, it’s not a straight PDF port. They have reformatted pages to make them easier to read on the iPad, and there are some chances to play around, with scrolling make-up galleries and embedded music. But the annoying, unresponsive navigation system and ridiculous length completely overwhelm the reader.

You’ll get RSI frantically swiping through and inevitably put it down before you reach the end.

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THE UGLY A PDF can only be tarted up so much.

Bonnier, the publishers, have stuck a few interactive information buttons over a print magazine and expect you to be impressed. And many don’t even work: the video button on a feature about Cuban cuisine takes me to a missing link on Saveur’s website. There’s no reformatting or resizing, so you have to zoom in to make out the words, and there’s virtually no interaction. A shoddy effort. Buy the print mag instead.

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FIVE BRAZILIAN JOURNALISTS WERE MURDERED IN 2013

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THIS IS THE UNTOLD STORY On 12 June the 2014 World Cup will kick off to an audience of billions. But away from the carnival, Brazil’s reporters are risking their lives. Jack Gilbert and Eleanor Ross investigate

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im Lopes was held down as gang leader Elias Maluco’s henchmen stubbed out cigarettes on his eyes. Lopes’ bleeding torso was forced into a stack of rubber tyres before a gallon of petrol was tossed over his body and set alight. Just a few blocks away crowds celebrating Brazil’s 2002 World Cup victory drowned out Lopes’ screams of pain. Lopes’ charred remains were later found by police just outside the Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio de Janeiro. Although Maluco was arrested for this crime in 2002, violence against journalists lives on.

In the run up to the 2014 World Cup, hundreds of British journalists will head to Brazil. But amid the media frenzy that always precedes the tournament, and debate over England’s chances of making it out of the group stages, the British press have largely ignored the violent repression of Brazil’s media.

During 2013, five Brazilian journalists were murdered, allegedly by military police. Their killers have not been brought to justice. Brazil ranks as the eleventh most dangerous country in the world to be a journalist, according to the Committee to Protect

Journalists (CPJ). CPJ’s senior Americas program coordinator Carlos Lauría told UN Radio: “The number of journalists killed has grown in recent years and the official government response has been insufficient. Brazil has become a dangerous country for the practice of journalism.”

Sara Rydkvist, Amnesty International UK’s Brazil campaigner, says that violent media suppression has become a worrying trend. Rydkvist calls upon the Brazilian government to lead a full investigation into the killings, and bring those responsible to justice.

She adds that perpetrators of these attacks must be shown that they will not be allowed to get away with it, otherwise “violence against journalists reporting on sensitive issues will only continue”.

Recent incidents indicate that the violence has continued. In February 2014, two journalists were murdered in Rio de Janeiro. Pedro Palma, the editor of Panorama Regional, was gunned down by a mo-

torcyclist outside his home. According to CPJ, “the paper had frequently alleged corruption in the local government”. Days later, José Lacerdo de Silva, a cameraman for Bandeirantes regional TV station, was shot on his way to a supermarket by two men in the western region of Rio Grande do Norte.

In June 2013, protests initially triggered by a hike in public bus fares turned into a fight against the poor administration of the World Cup, among other societal grievances. Bruce Douglas, a British freelance journalist, said that the police are “violent, badly paid and poorly trained, and journalists frequently get caught in the crossfire”.

Throughout the protests journalists have been attacked by police. On 7 September 2013 tear gas was fired at the O Globo offices and police dogs were unleashed on photographer Fabio Braga, although the journalist did not sustain any serious injury.

“EVERY DAY IT BECOMES MORE DANGEROUS TO BE A REPORTER IN BRAZIL.”

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: DMITRIY SIDORENKOV: MARIO TAMA (THE GUARDIAN) ; SEBÁSTIAN FREIRE

According to ABRAJI, Brazil’s Association of Investigative Journalism, there have been 138 cases of “aggression, hostility or detention of journalists” since the protests began in the summer of 2013 – and four fifths of these incidents have been at the hands of the police. Fernando Mellis, a journalist for Brazilian publication R7, was attacked by several policemen on 11 June in São Paulo. “I was walking down a street when a group of policemen started beating a protester for no apparent reason. Then, a policeman approached me and told me to go away. I showed my journalist identification and asked what was the matter was. He got angry, pulled me by the arm and hit my back with a baton.”

Attacks during the protests have led to an atmosphere of fear among Brazilian journalists. Simone Marques, a Brazilian reporter for Zero Hora, says that her colleagues working for the same newspaper in Porto Alegre, in south-east Brazil, said that they “felt threatened even inside their newspapers offices” as protests raged outside. She adds that “the police used gas pumps and were carrying weapons”.

However, demonstrators were also guilty of injuring journalists as the protests became increasingly violent. At a Rio demonstration in February 2014, Santiago Andrade, a cameraman for Brazil’s Bandeirantes Network, was struck by a rocket: it had been fired by a protester. Wyre Davies, the BBC’s Rio de Janeiro correspondent, was reporting just metres away when Andrade was hit. Davies removed his cameraman’s shirt and pressed it around Andrade’s head. The cameraman later died in hospital, despite Davies’ best efforts to save him. Davies, who has previously reported on the Arab Spring, told Public Radio International he “never really expected to see the same level of violence here [in Brazil]”.

The death of Andrade sparked international criticism of the Brazilian government. The UN condemned the “excessive use of force and arbitrary arrests of demonstrators and journalists by police”.

Reporters Without Borders, UNESCO and The International Press Institute also condemned the handling of the incident. But despite the global outcry, the British media have largely ignored the story.

The case of Andrade is not the only example of protesters turning on the media. Rita Lisauskas, a presenter on Terra TV, was assaulted by demonstrators in São Paulo on 18 July 2013. “I was describing the scene as some protesters were destroying the City Hall,” she says. “A boy who had his face covered by a t-shirt threw vinegar in my eyes. For a moment I thought they had thrown acid on my face, but a few seconds later, I smelt vinegar.” Lisauskas now

Below: Journalists are more prone to assasination when reporting in favelas on the outskirs of Brazil’s cities

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Left: Brazilian camerman Santago Andrade is hit by a rocket during a protest in Rio and recieves first aid from the BBC’s Wyre Davies Above: A Brazilian policeman firing pepper spray into the face of a camerman during a demonstration.

feels “totally unsafe”, and she says, “every day it becomes more dangerous to be a reporter” in Brazil.

But despite the fact that it was demonstrators who assaulted her, Lisauskas still blames the police for instigating the violence on the previous day in São Paulo, and criticises them for standing by and not protecting journalists on the streets.

While pictures of police and protesters clashing with journalists may seem shocking, these urban confrontations are not where the real danger lies for Brazilian journalists.

In March 2013, two unidentified men on a motorcycle gunned down Rodrigo Neto, a broadcast journalist, in Ipatinga, south-eastern Brazil, while he was making his way home from a barbecue. Neto, the host of a radio show on Rádio Vanguarda, had previously reported on police corruption and had received death threats after implicating the police in a murder case.

Just one month later, Walgney Assis Carvalho, a freelance photographer, was shot twice in the back while in a restaurant in Ipatinga. He was investigat-

ing police killings for the magazine Vale do Aco. The executive director of ABRAJI, Guilherme Alpendre, blamed the Brazilian police for these killings.

He accused them of trying to cover up murder cases that they were implicated in.

But what is it about Brazil’s rural areas that make it more dangerous to be a journalist? Away from the coast and big cities of Rio and São Paulo, lie the less developed northern Amazonian plains. Reporters working on local publications here often lack the support and protection of major media outlets like O Globo.

Andrew Jennings, who presented BBC’s 2010 Panorama documentary FIFA’s Dirty Secrets says that there can be trouble when reporters try to report on contentious issues such as “deforestation and indigenous people”.

Journalists in rural Brazil are also faced with a media system heavily controlled by local government.

Carlos Madeiro, a journalist working in the north-eastern city of Maceió says: “Journalists are frequently threatened and intimidated, usually by politicians.” Madeiro says that the biggest risk for journalists is being fired, “if you react against a system that is almost feudal. Here, subservience is one of the most important journalistic assets to have.”

But getting fired is not the only thing that regional reporters have to worry about.

According to CPJ, 90% of the journalists murdered in the past three years have been reporting on gangs and suspected corrupt officials. Michael Smith, a sports reporter at Bloomberg based in Brazil, says that Brazilian journalists who “live and work in conflict areas” have “good reason...to worry about reporting on the mafia and local council”.

Considering the violence towards local reporters, will British journalists be safe when travelling to Brazil to report on the World Cup? Panorama’s Jennings believes they “will not be at risk”. This could be due to heightened security at hotels and also because the focus of the media’s visit will be on football rather than corruption. But he argues that this doesn’t mean that the British press should ignore “Brazilian journalists who are risking their lives”. He adds: “The British press have a duty, a responsibility, to expose the killings of Brazilian journalists.”

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BREAKING THE CODE

Suzie McCracken on why you should care about coding

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word ‘thingymabob’ will be much appreciated.

You are a media whizz and Q: Where is the best place to start? yet there is one skill that Beginners will take their first foray into the coding eludes (and possibly terrifies) universe via HTML (HyperText Markup Language) you – coding. The governand CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). The former is ment has even named 2014 the “Year of Code”. the main language for creating websites. Anything Apparently, everyone is at it. written in HTML can be understood by your web Q: Journalists should learn how to do it browser, which translates it into what you see when too. Right? you click on a site (try XCityplus.com for an example The word ‘code’ has become problematic. It has of an excellent website). CSS lets you control the look been appropriated so much recently that it sounds and format of what you have created using HTML. new and frightening. But people have been coding HTML uses pre-agreed commands squeezed besince the invention of the computer. tween more-than and less-than symbols. For Computers run because they understand example, when a word goes between patterns of zeros and ones, known as the following two tags then the word binary. Programming languages is changed to a bold font, <b> (codes) are merely the middleVoila! </b>, with the forward men between those lines of slash indicating the end of the binary and what you see on command. Voila! your computer screen.

There is a variety of Websites, apps, and ways to learn these skills. even your computer Many choose to do so at desktop are products of home using a service like one or more of these Codecademy. They have languages. To become a website and accompaa bona fide developer nying app that guides paryou need a mastery of 76 ticipants through coding numerous languages and tasks that teach a variety years of practice. of programming languagQ: So what’s the point es, starting with HTML. You of learning to code? complete challenges, so the exKnowledge of basic code perience feels more like playing a makes you more employable game than studying. and ensures you know how diffiQ: Where can I learn to code? cult or easy a task will be for an Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of Sometimes, however, there is a experienced developer. As a wanHTML and the World Wide Web need for a real life teacher. There nabe coder, you will start by learnare plenty of companies that offer coding boot ing languages that deal with the “front end” of a camps. Rosario Rascuna is a freelance software dewebsite (i.e. how it looks). veloper and head of Coderwave – a company that This is helpful because, in the same way unteaches code. derstanding how a car works makes learning to During a four-hour class Rascuna explains, with drive easier, understanding the building blocks of immeasurable patience, that browsers understand the internet makes it simpler to grasp what is posseemingly random acronyms and symbols. He sible. How can you ask a developer to make your teaches the most common HTML and CSS comcross-platform content look amazing if you have mands before sharing his stockpile of resources for no concept of the parameters in which they work? the amateur coder. These include online banks of Being able to convey your needs without having to pre-made code that you can slot into your own work wave your hands in the air and resort to using the now you know how the language works.

Q: Any practical benefits from coding?

It also provides an insight into how basic coding can enable journalists to establish an online _LEARN TO CODE brand. No potential client is going to be impressed by a generic Wordpress template, but by Download Codecademy’s Hour of Code iOS app. This being able to dig into the code and tweak what teaches the basics of coding in one hour. you need, you can transform your website into Code Racer teaches you some more basics via the medium something unique. Having a handle on HTML of a cartoon racing game. also provides a greater insight into how search enBook a place on a coding course like Coderwave’s HTML gine optimisation (SEO) works and how you can and CSS morning. use it to increase traffic to your site.

The Mozilla Developer Network is home to numerous Q: Still scared to give it a go? introductory guides and more advanced tutorials.

Don’t be – you will take it in your stride. Journalists work and play with language everyday.

And remember, thousands of five-year-olds are attending extracurricular coding clubs all over the country. It is child’s play.

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BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO LOOKING TECH SAVVY We’ve all been there. You’re talking to a fellow journalist who seems to have the upper hand on every single topic, website and trend, and you can’t quite bring yourself to ask what on earth they’re talking about. To help, we’ve compiled a list of buzzwords and tricks to throw right back at them.

Next time someone asks for your email address, ask if they use PGP encryption, and if they say no, explain that you’re reluctant to communicate with them because GCHQ/the NSA can read all their emails. For extra tech kudos, print your own encryption code on your business card.

If there’s a big story happening in a specific location (a shooting or a sighting of Victoria Beckham, for example) you can search your Twitter for tweets from the surrounding area.

Just enter the address in the search box on freegeocoder.co.uk, copy the latitude and longitude into the twitter search bar in the format “geocode:[latitude],-[longitude],[radius you want to search]km” and boom, you’ve got a list of quotes, possible witnesses and sources.

Stuck for ideas before a morning conference?

Go to Google Trends (just google ‘google trends’) to find out what everyone in the world is searching for that day.

Worried you’ve been sent a photo from Kiev that was actually taken ten years ago in Syria?

Click on the little camera icon in Google’s image search to upload the image and search it - this will bring up all the sites the image has appeared on before.

Use twtrland. The site analyses your performance on Twitter, letting you know how often you’re retweeted and where people are viewing your tweets. It’s always nice to know you have a hidden fanbase in Tunisia and that your most popular tweet ever was that one about cheese toasties. (Oh, and if you haven’t got Twitter yet, we despair of you.)

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Never mention the word “listicle” - there is no surer way to prove your cultural references are stuck way back in 2013. Just call them lists, and airly talk about how you “really respect Buzzfeed’s move towards longform journalism – loved their coverage of the equal marriage debate.”

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Taking acid in a Mormon temple, being a knife-thrower’s assistant, living in a squat – journalists will go to any lengths for a story.

Annabelle Collins asks: how far is too far?

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It is rare for immersive journalism to have such a ou would not have known it was tragic end but Halpin’s story emphasizes that it can spring in Newcastle last April. be risky for the inexperienced. Has the pressure on Snow was still on the ground and novice journalists increased so much that they will the North East was experiencing a go to any lengths to stand out from the crowd in biting, unseasonal cold snap. For a this competitive industry? Julia Llewellyn Smith is region with one of the highest numa freelance journalist and experienced feature writer bers of homeless in the UK, this for The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and other weather would have made life for many unbearable. national newspapers. She agrees there is a demand No one would sleep rough unless they had to. on journalists to do unreasonable things. “When Lee Halpin, however, chose to. The aspiring inyou’re young, you are trying to prove yourself. It is vestigative journalist was aware of the social probvery hard to know where to draw the line – to delems in his hometown and wanted to raise awarecide whether you’re a coward or if you are being ness. At the same time, Channel 4 put out a call for exploited.” young journalists to do something fearless, with a Alex Lockwood, a lecturer in journalism at the 12-month place on their investigative journalism University of Sunderland, met Halpin at course up for grabs. He spent a few nights a writing for radio course in Newcastle. in a derelict squat to fully immerse himHe describes him as a professional self in the life of a homeless person friend and personal acquaintance.

– on the coldest night of the year.

“Lee was a real live wire. He was Packing a copy of Orwell’s drawn to provocative and danDown and Out in Paris and London, gerous stories but had got to the Halpin was a fan of gonzo jourpoint where he wanted to do nalism and adamant that it was more serious journalism.” Lockimportant to have an ‘I’ in jourwood agrees that Halpin was nalistic narrative. He admired the reckless but he wouldn’t discourage work of Hunter S. Thompson, others from pursuing a good story.

Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe.

“I would advise plan well, take conOn 1 April Halpin, 26, was explorsiderations and be patient with a ing Newcastle’s West End and prestory. Make sure you have someone paring for his documentary. Two Hunter S Thompson inspired a who is a really good mentor.” days later, he was found dead. generation of gonzo journalists

Llewellyn Smith enjoys the unpredictable nature of the job, but agrees with Lockwood that support from the editor is key. “Journalists never feel that you’re given quite enough support by the desk – when editors send a journalist out to do these things then they should show appreciation that people are

“IT’S THE JOURNALIST’S RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE WHAT THEY’RE DOING IS UNSAFE” being extremely brave.” Llewellyn Smith recounts a story of a young journalist, who graduated with a Journalism MA and started working for the Daily Mail. “He went to live with Germaine Greer – she said she would look after any tramp so this guy who worked at the Mail disguised himself. She was so nice to him he couldn’t forgive himself. He was in a vulnerable position, the Daily Mail requires extreme things and he was trying to prove himself.” While

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it appears a growing number of fledgling journalists are willing to take risks in order to secure a job, the exploitation of novice reporters has been going on for years.

Llewellyn Smith recounts being asked to do extreme things by her editor whilst at The Sunday Telegraph. “When I was a knife thrower’s assistant, my editor was more worried than I was. I am able to keep my cool in situations like that and I think she had me down as someone who would do anything.

I was even sent to a posh orgy – that was one of the weirdest things I’ve ever done.”

A young journalist freelancing at the Daily Mirror in the 1980s bought a banned fighting dog for an investigation. Once the article was published the fledgling reporter was left with the illegally bred dog to dispose of. He says: “I had this enormous puppy in a cardboard box and no idea what to do with it.

The RSPCA didn’t want it because it was a banned breed. In the end I took it to a vet to be put down. I remember queuing with everyone looking at me as if I was a child killer.”

In the summer of 2013 a young reporter, whilst on an internship at a Columbian news website for English-speakers, was asked by his editor to try and buy a large amount of cocaine for an investigation into drugs tourism. He was told, “If you get caught, I will bail you out.” Another, who was working as reporter for a large East Coast newspaper remembers being asked to break into a psychiatric hospital to talk to patients – something she refused to do.

Gus Baker is co-director of Intern Aware, an organisation that campaigns for better conditions for interns, and thinks employers should take responsibility for their journalists. “People are desperate to get onto the career ladder and for none is that more so than young journalists – people will do anything to stand out from the crowd and some employers will take advantage of this.”

Baker suggests a solution to this is payment of interns. “We think it’s important that the employment relationship exists because payment equals compensation if something goes wrong. Being paid for an article puts them in a safer position.”

Alex Lockwood makes a distinction between the safety of freelance writers and staff writers. “If you’re freelance the risks would be less considered as you don’t have institutional support and a paper behind you.”

Part of the attraction to both editors and journalists is that gonzo journalism never fails to get attention. The piece is unpredictable and the reader learns about potentially dangerous experiences without enduring any hardship. James Brown, former editor of Loaded, used gonzo to take down as many barriers as possible between the journalist and the reader. “The responsibly is of the journalist to make sure what they’re doing is unsafe. Safe equals a predictable outcome. How many times have you heard the same story?”

He agrees that outlandish pieces are a way to get noticed as a young journalist. “Fear and discomfort will create great copy. There were some stories I tried to get some writers to do, but no one would. I really wanted someone to stow away in the big cargo ships, opposite the offices in Greenwich.”

Although popular in the nineties, gonzo journalism was actually born in 1887. Writer Nellie Bly was committed to an infamously brutal New York institution, all for an investigation in the New York World. Bly put herself in the midst of the story and

Ten Days in a Madhouse gained immediate notoriety.

Fast-forward a century and this form of journalism has a new identity. Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas struck a chord with many aspiring feature writers. Part exaggeration, part truth, he produced a radical type of journalism that was to popularise a frequently imitated style.

Loaded launched in the mid-nineties when other titles were de-personalising their content: Q magazine told their writers not to put ‘I’ in their features.

“When I started Loaded one of my big inspirations were the years I spent reading the American New Journalist and Tom Wolfe, George Plimpton, and Hunter S Thompson,” says Brown. “I think that in the early years of Loaded the guys took an inspiration from Thompson rather an attempt to copy the style – my brief to the writers was to be the story.”

He recounts when a group of writers lived in a remote Scottish cave for a week, without any home comforts. “Our readers loved it. We put ourselves through hardship that you’d now see on reality TV.” Twenty years later, Vice is the new hothouse of gonzo journalism. Writers undertake crazy stunts with a serious agenda, gaining answers and observations that leave the reader reeling. In a recent article Troy Farah, a Vice writer, visited a Mormon temple on acid in true Hunter S. Thompson style. “I think it’s good they put cameras in journalists hands rather than keyboards. They’ve brought different voices in the mix, which is important – if you don’t change the people commenting and reporting you get the same establishment point of view,” says Brown.

Vice may take it to another level when it comes to immersive journalism but Stylist’s Lizzie Pook has experienced what it is like to go out of your comfort zone for a good story. Pook (Magazine, 2010) took the stimulant Modafinil over a period of days for a Stylist feature in 2013. She spent a significant amount of time researching the side effects of cognitive enhancers and spoke to GPs and neuropsychologists so that she was aware of the risks.

“I felt that, as long as I was comfortable with what I was doing, then that was okay. I think journalists have – and should be given – some degree of personal responsibility to decide what stories they take on,” she says. “But I also know my editor would have stood by me if I had pulled out of doing the story.”

Although Pook thinks that journalists should in-

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form and entertain, she feels it was important not to encourage readers to “go off and do the same”.

“It was hardly a positive piece about the effects of the pills – we certainly weren’t singing their praises.”

But why try something that might be dangerous for the sake of an article? “Simple,” says Pook. “It makes a better story.”

There is an increasing demand for extreme first person articles and programmes, but what is fueling this desire? “What it might reflect is society’s shift towards the want for experiences rather than material goods,” suggests Pook. “We don’t want to read about someone talking about something, we want to read about them doing something.” Readers want to be captivated from the start and taken on a journey – it is up to the writers to go the extra mile.

Is there a lesson to be learned about going the extra mile after Lee Halpin’s death? Alex Lockwood admits he would like to see more of Halpin’s fearlessness in aspiring journalists. “He was slightly reckless, a great character and very brave. I would hold him up as a role model.” The social issues Halpin was trying to highlight have certainly got a lot more attention, but this is not the only thing this tragedy has drawn attention to. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the reporter not to go after a story at any price – there will always be other chances to prove themselves. This patience comes with journalistic experience. “You go through a rite of passage,” says Llewellyn Smith. “You learn where you have to draw your line.”

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They’ve delivered pizzas for Domino’s and packages for Amazon, but now remote controlled cameras are opening up new frontiers for video journalism. Emma Powell reports

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camera focuses on a lake swollen with floodwater. A low monotonous buzz eclipses the silence as it rises to reveal Somerset’s waterlogged farmland. It spots the roof of a small vehicle poking out from the murky water, and swoops back down to film the rescue operation.

But this isn’t the work of a cameraman or a news helicopter – it’s a drone.

Normally associated with covert attacks on suspected terrorists, the drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is beginning to emerge as a piece of cutting edge technology that is tipped to change the way that news is covered. But how has this transformation taken place and what’s to stop these UAVs from becoming intrusive spies in the sky?

One of the earliest incidents of drone use in news reporting was in 2011 when Rupert Murdoch’s iPad only newspaper, The Daily, used them to report on intense flooding in South Dakota. Since then drone videos have been popping up of protests in Thailand and Kiev.

In the UK, the BBC Global Video Unit is arguably the pioneer of drones for news reporting. Using the drones to cover the HS2 rail link was a first for BBC News. The Global Video Unit has since gone on to film at Stonehenge, Brazil and a World War One documentary on cities affected by war outside of Europe.

The BBC isn’t the only company using this technology. Sky News is investigating the benefits and is currently training their first in-house drone pilot.

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Natural disasters have been the most obvious choice when trialling drone use for reporting, with Channel 4 News using them to cover the recent UK flooding. And in February the fashion house Fendi used drones to live-stream its catwalk action in Milan to viewers worldwide.

Safety and privacy fears, coupled with apprehension over the use of the word drone itself have left some people feeling hostile about these ‘flying cameras’.

There are two basic types of ‘civil drones’ – those that have multi-rotor blades and those that are cockpit-less with fixed wings. These look more like the autonomous aeroplane drones used by the military and come in two different sizes: small fixed wing ‘drones’ can fly for up to 90 minutes, while their larger counterparts can fly for more than 20 hours at a time.

Multi-rotor devices are most commonly used by news agencies and journalists, but at present cannot usually fly for longer than 15 minutes at a time. The most basic models cost around £100 and can capture images and films by the touch-screen on a smartphone.

Their emergence has led to questions over the future of news helicopters. Unlike a helicopter, drones can fly lower than 300 metres, have remote

controlled piloting and better manoeuvrability, which together offer a new perspective that neither news helicopters nor photographers on foot can achieve. Tom Hannen, senior innovations producer at the BBC Global Video Unit explains: “You can go from a human eye view to a literal overview of what you’re looking at in a single shot, and that’s a really useful tool. It means you can take your audience from a human scale that they can understand, and then lift them up to reveal a wider truth.”

This has been most evident in capturing protests where, unlike cameramen on foot, drones can continue reporting amidst tear gas and gunfire.

Lewis Whyld, drone technology pioneer and Telegraph photographer, believes drones could be used to detect and prove chemical weapon use as part of a news investigation.

“If a journalist had a simple sensor on board while doing the detective work, it could detect chemical weapons in Syria when attacks were happening. These could open up stories that may not have been found without using that tool.”

Last year Whyld used drones together with thermal imaging in Tacloban to not only cover the disaster after super-typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines, but also as a means of detecting dead bodies in areas

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lose control of the aircraft or it runs out of battery over a built up area it could cause serious injury.”

Although no serious cases have been reported in the UK, in South Africa a civilian was nearly knocked off of a roof by a journalist flying a drone.

Richard Taylor a spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says in terms of safety breaches there have only been a “handful” of complaints. It is a “rapidly growing industry, but rules have been in place for around three years now”.

A license is needed along with permission from the CAA before anyone can fly a drone for commercial use.

The rules at present do not allow UAVs to be flown closer than 150 metres of a congested area, they must remain at least

100 metres below helicopter flight paths, and must not drift from your line of vision.

Along with safety, the major concern with drones is the potential threat to privacy.

“The biggest threat to [people in the public eye] are paparazzi using a long camera lens. It is easier to use one of these than it is to fly a wobbly camera across to where [celebrities] are,” says Whyld.

Indeed, the paparazzi have been quick to see the potential of drones. Last February, freelance photographer Claudio Meier attempted to get shots of Tina Turner’s wedding by flying over a remote-controlled drone. Fortunately for Turner, the Swiss Police caught Meier in the act and forced him to land the aircraft and hand over the memory card.

But Whyld believes the fears about tabloid spies in the sky are misplaced.

“There are lots of uses for [drones] that could be genuinely life saving.

Drones aren’t about tabloid shock stories, they’re about genuine journalism and being able to see things that you perhaps couldn’t see before.”

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too dangerous to tackle by foot. The faster drones can be deployed after a disaster to assess the situation, the faster a response can be initiated.

A report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford details the investigative advantages of using ‘nano drones’. Although a long way off and with a current price tag of £20m, these minute insect-sized drones would allow individuals to work and film undercover – if the research was believed to be within the public interest.

However, at present the potential benefits of this emerging technology are being masked by its problematic terminology.

Drones have long been associated with the military, and in recent years they have been embroiled in controversies over US drone attacks on militants in Pakistan, as highlighted by a long running inquiry by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Hannen refers to them as flying cameras so as to differentiate between civilian and military use. On calling them drones he says: “It’s like comparing a tank to a bicycle. They’re not the same things. They don’t work the same way and they don’t have the same purpose.”

Although the benefits are clear, as with any new technology cynicism is rife. Media lawyers are flying into new ethical territory, and there have been calls for more stringent safety laws.

Daniel Easterman, journalist and founder of Drone Journalism UK, says: “Safety is always going to be an issue, especially with multi-rotor drones.

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Her biographer and great nephew Patrick Garrett ou didn’t see any male journalists says most journalists, male or female, would have felt there. It was me, Sarah Sidner, and apprehensive about marching into Poland the day Alex Crawford that night when Tripoli the German war machine began its Blitzkrieg. But fell,” says Zeina Khodr, senior correHollingworth insisted she “never felt fear”. spondent at Al Jazeera English on the Many of the early female reporters had to overlandmark moment during the Libyan come sexism and prejudice to get to the front line.

Civil War in 2011. Seeing women reporters on the Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) advanced the cause front line is not unusual today – but that has not alfor equal access through her reporting in wartime ways been the case.

Korea. But during her stint in the Far East, she was This year marks a century since the beginning of accused of offering sexual favours to men to gain acWorld War One – and the beginning of the end of cess to news stories – military gossip put out by jealmale-dominated conflict reporting. Journalists like ous rivals that she denied. In her 1955 autobiography, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Corra Harris, and Inez Higgins notes that the biggest challenge for women Milholland convinced their editors to send them to was men’s assumption that “femininity and blonde the Western Front, disrupting traditional gender hair” equated to “dumbness, slyness, or both”. norms. But, in reality, they were given little opportuAfter Higgins was ordered out of Korea by Gennity to report on its true nature: no bylines, no accrederal Walton Walker, she fought back by appealing to Alex Crawford reporting from the 2011 Libyan Civil War 82 itation by the War Department, and limited access to his superior, General Douglas MacArthur, who rethe action. This was still no job for a “lady reporter”. lands conflict, she was advised against drawing burnt sponded by sending a telegram to the Herald Tribune XCity has spoken to female journalists who covered soldiers or the body bags being sent home from the saying: “Ban on women correspondents in Korea some of the landmark conflicts of the last 100 years to Falklands in case she became “too distressed”. has been lifted. Higgins is held in highest professionlearn of their experience of reporting from the front Along with the troops, Kitson had to endure rain, al esteem by everyone,” paving the way for the milline and to discover what prejudices they have overhail, extreme winds, and sub-zero temperatures. She itary to accept women reporters on the battlefield. come to reach parity in a once male-dominated field. wore three layers of mittens, carried a fisherman’s Move forward to the modern era of warfare and Few journalists can claim that they were the first waterproof parasol, and slept in a silver foil survival female reporters were still few on the ground. Linda to report the opening moments of World War II, but blanket. When her hands were too painful from the Kitson tells XCity that during the Falklands War, in Clare Hollingworth can. cold, drawing became an impossible task.

1982: “I was the first female to land with troops in Now 102, Hollingworth was 27 when she stumShe says: “Working below ground level in a slit the ‘arena of war’, ever.” Her gender was still seen by bled across the German invasion of Poland. A reftrench or “standing down” for 50 minutes in air alert those around her as a factor, and as an artist portrayugee worker from a wealthy middle-class family in was horrible because the perpetual dampness was a ing the horrors of the heavily media controlled FalkLeicester, she signed up to The Daily Telegraph just a danger along with the ice. We week before she landed the scoop. suffered more climatic casualties In a recording played at the Frontthan battle ones.” The dangers line Club in London in February, included frostbite and hypoHollingworth recalls how she smugthermia – the latter landed her gled herself into Poland by borin hospital after the ceasefire in rowing the car of the British consul Port Stanley. general. “I was driving back along a Such testing conditions have valley and there was a hessian screen not deterred Channel 4’s inup so you couldn’t look down into ternational editor Lindsey Hilthe valley. Suddenly there was a great sum. Embedded with a US unit gust of wind which blew the hessian during the Iraq War in 2003, she from its moorings. I looked down describes sleeping “stretched out into the valley and saw hundreds of on a plank in the armoured veNazi tanks lined up for the invasion hicle for a week, eating rations, of Poland.” washing my hair in mineral waOf course many British men did ter, and waiting for dark to go not want to hear that their efforts to the loo in the dirt so no one of appeasement had failed, and recould see me”. fused to believe this young woman.

Out in the field, Hilsum treaHollingworth says: “I remember sures the poetry of Auden, Yeats, telephoning the secretary of the emand James Fenton, as well as bassy in Warsaw, saying: ‘The war “lucky marbles” that she picked has begun.’ He said: ‘Rubbish, they up in Faulluja. “I always carry are still negotiating.’ So I put the makeup in my backpack too, betelephone out of the window so he cause I’m on TV and I don’t want Clare Hollingworth who revealed the start of WWII on duty as a war correspondant could hear the tanks rolling in.”

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to look like a dog however difficult the situation.”

The first journalist to arrive on the scene when the slaughter started in Rwanda in 1994, Hilsum speaks of the colossal technological developments that have made sending reports back home so much easier. She recalls filing to The Guardian and BBC by telex in Africa. At certain points she resorted to travelling to Nairobi in the evening “to find a willing Brit who would hand carry the radio cassette package to London on British Airways”.

Unlike Hilsum, who speaks to XCity from the global flashpoint of Crimea, Maggie O’Kane sips her Earl Grey from the comfort of The Guardian’s coffee shop.

“As I got older, I became handicapped by fear. People that I knew and worked with were killed. I became obsessed with not being kidnapped and separated from my children,” the Irish reporter says. It is clear that, unlike Hollingworth and Kitson, O’Kane does not shy away from her fears.“I missed my son, which is why I actually stopped being a war correspondent.”

O’Kane’s most prominent period of war reporting came in Bosnia. “The percentage of women was quite high in Bosnia [40%] but those who went there like Victoria Clark and me went on their own steam as freelancers.

“We hadn’t come through the conventional route: war correspondents within a newspaper which were generally still male and a particular type – educated, middle class, young men.”

The Guardian’s multimedia editor says she “lived my youthfulness” in this role, which she likens to escapism. “When you’re trying to find your way into a besieged city you aren’t allowed to think about the electricity and telephone bills or all the other boring mundane things in life.” She describes coming home from Bosnia “in a state of high adrenalin” and having to use “major domestic tasks like cleaning windows” to bring herself down.

While in Bosnia, O’Kane describes her relationship with other female war reporters as “deeply competitive and very bitchy”. She recalls one journalist who discovered a hot shower hidden in the basement of the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo. “We had no hot water, and sometimes no water at all but that woman never told any of us about her discovery. Not all were like that though.”

While some women were out for themselves, the men “tended to do what men tend to do in these situations - behave quite macho”.

O’Kane believes this worked to her advantage. She was taken on more trips and was perceived “as less of a threat”.

“Young male commanders didn’t feel the need to be combated with me, they wanted to show off which meant I actually got to see a lot of things.

“I remember going to places like Goražde in Bosnia and being allowed to visit areas where I think maybe it would have been a bit more difficult [for male reporters].”

O’Kane also recognises her work with rape victims in Tuzla, Bosnia, as largely the domain of female journalism. These abused women and children opened up to her in a way she feels is contingent to her gender, although she recognises “there are some very empathetic male journalists such as Allan Little of the BBC who produced very moving reports”.

Al Jazeera English’s Zeina Kohdr agrees and says from her experiences, victims and soldiers are more likely to open up and share their stories with women.

“I truly believe that people talk to women differently, even fighters, and sometimes you get more access, particularly in the Arab world.

“They say let’s give her the interview because they are shocked that you are here.” But in certain conflicts being a woman comes with its own obstacles.

As the extremist groups began to emerge among the rebels in the Syrian Civil War, it became difficult for Kohdr as a woman. The Amir (Islamic commanders) refused to be in the same picture as a woman because of their religion.

For female war journalists such as O’Kane and Khodr, the primary focus was the individuals in the war zones, not the guns or the military tactics. Khodr says, “I didn’t care about the ‘boom boom’, I cared about telling the world the stories of the people on the ground.”

Now, 100 years after female reporters were given limited access to World War One, are women war correspondents finally equal to their male counterparts? For many this is an absurd question, almost as sexist as the World War One generals. But according to Khodr being a woman still makes a difference to the way conflict is reported.

Change has happened, and female journalists believe there are now equal opportunities in western media for conflict reporters. Khodr is ambivalent to the fact that it was Sky News’ Alex Crawford, Sara Sidner, of CNN, and Khodr, of Al Jazeera English, who were first into Tripoli. “I don’t think I am sent because I am a female, I am sent because of the work I do on the ground. It really doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman.”

“I BECAME OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF BEING SEPARATED FROM MY CHILDREN”

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BY NUMB3RS

We’ve always used facts and figures to tell stories, so why is data so hot right now? Max Benwell reports on the media’s latest buzzword

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ata journalism.

Ever since it was used to expose the MPs’ expenses scandal in 2009, it has become a buzzword among journalists and editors. But as Neil McIntosh, the managing editor of BBC Online, puts it: “Data journalism is like sex at university – everyone talks about it, few do it, fewer still do it well.”

The Guardian was the first newspaper to dip its toe into data when it launched its own data blog in 2009.

The Economist, the Financial Times and The Telegraph all soon followed.

Since then, data journalism has been behind some of the biggest headlines, such as The Iraq War Logs and The Snowden Files. In January, Trinity Mirror launched Ampp3d, a website of “socially sharable data journalism”.

Despite its rapid advancement across newsrooms, some remain wary.

It’s still considered by many reporters to be something for computer nerds, or the work of strange dark arts. So why should journalists care? And what exactly is it?

Gathering and sourcing information is something all reporters do.

When it comes to data journalism it’s called “scraping”. This can be done manually by copying and pasting the data into a spreadsheet – although this can often be a laborious process.

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But scraping doesn’t always have to be done by hand, as tools have been developed to save time. WikiScraper, one of the most widely used programs, uses computer programming to automatically gather the information you need.

It is what Nicola Hughes, a data journalist at The Times, calls having “infinite interns” working for you.

“Scraping is a Class A drug for data journalists,” she explains, pointing out how long it would take to gather the data by hand.

Sometimes, however, the best data doesn’t need to be scraped at all. In the last four years WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden have provided the press with gigabytes of invaluable data on discs and memory sticks, bypassing the scraping stage altogether.

Once it has been collected, the data is then edited and moved into a single dataset, before being cleaned up and analysed. Trends and anomalies within the data will then be searched for, and the reliability of the information tested.

DATING DATA

In the first issue of The Guardian in 1821, a table of statistics detailing the numbers of children in school was printed on the back page. The controversial data had been provided by a whistleblower named NH, and revealed a huge gap between the figures reported by the Government and the actual figures.

Once analysed, the data can then be used in copy or visualised. In 2012, The Guardian’s Simon Rogers was the first reporter to visualise how each government department had spent taxpayers’ money the previous year, using colourful weighted circles.

Rogers – who has declared data journalism to be “the new punk” because anyone with a computer can do it – is now data editor of Twitter.

He produces infographics based on the huge volumes of data produced by its users every day.

David McCandless, author of Information is Beautiful, is another data journalist known for his eye-catching infographics. Working with designers, he finds simple ways of visualising complex data sets. “In this age of info-overload, condensed, visualized information cuts through the noise, helping us quickly understand, navigate, and find meaning in a complex world,” McCandless wrote in January. “It reveals the invisible patterns and connections in the seas of data around us.”

But data stories are not only popular with editors because they look good: “Editors are frightened of lawsuits, they’re frightened of losing their friends and getting into political trouble,” says Gavin MacFadyen, director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). “Data has become particularly attractive because it is not liable to libel. And it has become attractive to reporters because you

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can tell really interesting stories about corruption in a completely safe way.”

Data journalism may be one of the most accurate ways to report a story, but as Hughes has pointed out, it also allows you to be “wrong with infinite precision”.

The modern day use of data journalism can be traced back to 1967 when Philip Meyer, an American social scientist, used a mainframe computer to analyse data on recent riots in Detroit. Yet it is only in recent years that it has taken off.

Heather Brooke and James Ball are two of the leading figures within the field. Brooke brought the MPs’ expenses scandal to light in 2009, and City alumnus Ball has been instrumental in The Guardian’s work with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Both attended the same classes on data journalism between

2006 and 2007 at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ).

Taught by the American data experts David Donald and Aron

“BESIDES THE WHOLE TECHNICAL MUMBO-JUMBO, THE ESSENCE IS THE SAME” Pilhofer, the sessions formed part of an intensive, six-day summer school set up by the CIJ to introduce USstyle data journalism to the UK. The classes began in 2004, but according to

Donald, it wasn’t until a few years later that data journalism really started to become popular. “2007 was the year,” he says. “There is no question in my mind. It just exploded after that and it’s never quit.”

As well as Hughes, journalists who attended the classes include Martin Stabe, head of interactive at the Financial Times, and Stephen Grey, who used flight data to expose the CIA’s program of extraordinary rendition.

Before the classes there were only a smattering of UK journalists working with data in the UK. One was the earliest was The Observer’s Paul Lashmar, who in 1998 worked with Richard Oliver to rank every local council in the country by their performances across a number of categories.

But now there are data journalists working in most UK newsrooms.

Some have called them a “new breed” of journalist, although it’s debatable whether the principles of what they’re doing are that new at all.

“Besides the whole technical mumbo-jumbo, the essence of it is exactly the same as traditional journalism,” Hughes says. She’s at The Times, but is free to talk over the phone while a computer program she has scripted herself scrapes data together for her next project.

Lashmar agrees. “It’s different to the journalism I grew up with, which relied on getting documents and interviewing people,” he says.

“But we’ve now got an extraordinary group of people who think about how to bring power to account in a completely different way. But they’re still bringing power to account. And that’s what journalism has always been about.”

Below: David McCandless’ “Mountains Out of Molehills” graph measures the intensity of media scares since 2000 Above: James Ball and Valentina D’Efilippo’s graphic on regional GDP throughout the history of the world

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PERIODICAL

RADIO

BROADCAST

NEWSPAPER

INTERNATIONAL

TV CAJ

MAGAZINE

ERASMUS

INVESTIGATIVE

POLITICAL

FINANCIAL

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2918 EDITORS

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“It’s not your job to be popular, it’s your job to be awkward.

Also, it’s not my job to make the government’s job easier.”

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BBC

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“You don’t really make a rational decision to be a journalist, you get bitten by a bug. And that was the day I was bitten.”

Fraser Nelson Newspaper 1996 p.117

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THE GUARDIAN

161 JOBS AT

THE DAILY MAIL

127 JOBS AT

THE FINANCIAL TIMES

“The social aspect of City was memorable for me. All those nights out trying Fleet Street pubs in the hope the magic would rub off. “ Glenn Moore Newspaper 1986 p.97

Icons: From the Noun Project: Simon Child, Michelle Ann, José Campos, Lemon Liu, Nathan Thomas, Sundance McClure, Luke Anthony Firth, André Luiz Gollo, Juan Pablo Bravo, Diego Naive, Oliver Q Wong

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1977 - 1979 1977 DIPLOMA Sarah Bayliss Assistant editor, South London Press; editor, The Times Educational Supplement; editor, Times Educational Supplement; Sarah Bayliss Press & PR Terry Dignan Reporter, Sheffield Morning Telegraph; Independent Radio News; A Week in Politics, Channel 4; On the Record, BBC; reporter, editor, BBC Radio 4 Nigel Dudley Reporter, Middle East Economic Digest; reporter, Finance Weekly; chief leader writer, The Daily Telegraph; writer, Middle East finance; writer, The European; consultant, Camel Publishing Steve Howell Redbridge Guardian; relationship counsellor Peter Kendell Reporter, South Wales Evening Post; public affairs director, Western Mail; PR director, Western Mail, European Passenger Services, Eurostar International; communications manager, Brent Council; consultant, Rho Kappa Limited Susan Landau Reporter, Hornsey Journal; writer, Investors Chronicle; equities correspondent, Reuters; International Herald Tribune; freelance researcher, Blue Heron Research Partners; translations editor; Africa Mining Intelligence; translator, rewriter, Mediapart English; freelance Jacky Law Reporter, South Western Star; reporter, Sutton Herald; freelance, Medical Economics; associate editor, Scrip Magazine; author, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda; managing editor, Pharmaphorum media Mark Newham European energy reporter, international reporter, Financial Times; freelance (The Economist,The Sunday Times); author Francesca Robinson Writer, My Weekly, Exeter Weekly News; reporter, Lincolnshire Echo, Sheffield Morning Telegraph; freelance, Hospital Doctor; news editor, Practicing Midwife, Practicenurse; freelance Jon Slattery Reporter, senior reporter, Lincolnshire Echo; senior reporter, news editor, deputy editor, Press Gazette; editor, publisher, blogger, jonslattery.blogspot.com; external examiner, London College of Communication; freelance media journalist (Press Gazette, The Journalist, InPublishing.co.uk, TheMediaBriefing. com) Steve Williams Reporter, Hastings Observer; writer, Maritime Magazine; reporter, Brighton & Hove Express; freelance Robin Wills Northampton Chronicle & Echo; BRMB Radio; residential social worker, Islington Council; freelance (The Guardian, BBC World Service); psychiatric social worker, Tower Hamlets Council; freelance (BBC World Service)

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National Council for Voluntary Organisations; Fiat Auto News; Education Magazine; Report Magazine of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers; 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 Catherine Bennett Honey;The Sunday Telegraph; The Mail on Sunday; The Sunday Times; The Times; Sunday Correspondent, columnist, the Guardian;The Observer Joanna Blythman Scottish Women’s Aid; Citizens Advice Bureau; freelance (Tonight, BBC Breakfast, Sunday Herald, Evening Standard, Observer Food Monthly, Daily Mail, the Guardian, Olive); author Anne Cadwallader Reporter, Bradford Telegraph & Argus, BBC Radio Ulster; correspondent, BBC Dublin, Irish Press; political reporter, Century Radio; reporter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Dublin); northern editor, Irish Press (Dublin); INN; Irish Echo; Irish Examiner; Christian Science Monitor Ray Chalmers Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Birmingham Post; PR, Publicity Plus; regional director, Eversheds; director of business development, Bond Pearce Solicitors, Foot Anstey Solicitors; head of communications, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nick Fielding The National and Local Government Officers’ Association; Shelter; Voluntary Action; New Society; New Statesman; freelance (The Independent; The Mail on Sunday; The Sunday Times); editor, Circling the Lion’s Den blog; freelance Richard Gillespie Associate editor, The Architect; Associated Press;Washington editor, Pensions & Investment Age (New York); acting editor, Euromoney (New York); managing editor, Corporate Finance Magazine; research director, Morgan Stanley; Kleinwort Benson; NatWest Securities; JP Morgan; Bear Stearns

International; senior supervisory analyst, research director, Société-Générale Alastair Guild Asian Building & Construction; freelance Mark Ivory South West London Weekly; executive editor, Community Care Sara Jones Cambridge Evening News; media trainer; 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 Heart of England Newspapers; Radio Forth; Radio Clyde; BBC Radio Scotland; BBC Radio 5 Live; freelance (BBC News Online) 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 Martin Pritchard Unknown Kate Purcell (née White) Medical News Daily; Welcome Foundation; Kingsway PR; associate editor, British Journal of Cardiology Binda Rai (née Randhawa) Hackney Gazette; Ealing Gazette; BBC Religious Affairs; press officer, Ealing Council; The Asian; communications manager, NHS Direct; head of Global Media and Public Relations, University of London International Programmes Myra Reid Glasgow Evening Times; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Glasgow Barjinder Singh Sahota Worcester Evening News; Commission for Racial Equality; Sahota Solicitors; libel-law.co.uk Lucy Tennyson Festival organiser, Artweek; RSPB Publications; freelance journalist & PR Consultant, Lucy Tennyson PR Ltd; yoga teacher; event organiser, Green Party; freelance writer/editor Colin Veitch Operations manager, Bank of America; management consultant, SIAR; general manager, P & O Properties; SVP Marketing; Princess Cruises; CEO, Norwegian Cruise Line Corporation Carol Ward Kilburn Times; design sub-editor,

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JON SLATTERY Freelance Journalist; Diploma, 1977 Fondest memory of City?

Going to the Empress of Russia pub with our brilliant shorthand teacher, Harry Butler, after his classes. Learning shorthand ended up being very useful for me as I covered Crown Court for a news agency for a while.

Favourite thing about your job?

The gossip and intrigue. Plus, I’ve always found journalists very good company. A

particularly good friend I met through work is Jean Morgan, the legendary chief reporter of Press Gazette.

Who has been your most memorable interview?

When I was working for Press Gazette I was tipped off that Eddy Shah, who had a big free newspaper operation, was planning Today, the low cost, high tech national that would operate without Fleet Street print

unions. He confirmed it, which was a great exclusive for me and the beginning of the end of old Fleet Street. Also, in the early 1980s I asked the 20 stone plus wrestler, Big Daddy (Shirley Crabtree), if wrestling was fixed.

He said no and I didn’t argue.

Best career advice you’ve ever received?

Jean Morgan telling me “you’re only as good as your contacts book”. Also, to never, ever betray a source, and to join the NUJ. CHLOE HAY

Jane Adkins (née Farrow) Assistant editor, Print Buyer and Print and Promotion; assistant editor, British Printer; editor, Packaging; editor, Computer Games and System Retailer; 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 subeditor, North West Times; freelance sub-editor, Fleet Street; sub editor, production editor, The Guardian David Brindle Coventry Evening Telegraph; Financial Times; society editor, public services editor, The Guardian Nikolaus Creutzfeldt Unknown

Jaqueline Cuthill Lothian Courier Lucilla Deane Unknown Laura Dixon (née Pasternack) Richmond & Twickenham Times Pamela Glover Kentish Times; Andre Deutsch publishers; book centre managing director, resource and communication director, All Souls Church Alex Graham Bradford Telegraph & Argus; reporter, London Weekend Television; researcher, producer, The Media Show, Diverse Productions; editor, chief executive, Wall to Wall Media Ian Graham Assistant editor, Electronics Today International; deputy editor, Which Video?; freelance; author Caroline Handley (née Thompson) Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Woman; Daily Mail; Sunday Express; Woman’s Own; freelance; ghost writer Askold Krushelnycky South London Press; The Sunday Telegraph; The Mail on Sunday; assistant foreign editor, The Sunday Times; South Africa correspondent, Sunday Express; The European; chief correspondent, editor, The Kyiv Post (Ukraine); The Daily Telegraph; Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty (Prague); The Independent; Chicago Tribune Adam Mayers Plymouth Evening Herald; Western Evening Mail; business editor, Hamilton Spectator; Toronto Star; TV commentator, senior editor, thestar.com Mary Moloney Surrey Advertiser; Irish Times; Evening Press (Dublin) Diana Muir Yorkshire Evening Post; producer, director of factual programmes,Yorkshire Television; series producer, True North Productions; media training consultant, University of Leeds; training consultant, Thomson Foundation Ian Nash Chief reporter, Waltham Forest Guardian; further education and business editor, The Teacher; assistant editor, The Times Education Supplement; member, The Policy Consortium; senior partner, Nash & Jones Partnership Margaret Preston Waltham Forest Guardian; freelance researcher, Weatherall Green & Smith; group publications editor, Jones Lang Lasalle; Robert Preston Association Michael Rank Reuters; translator (Trade Marks Directory Service); freelance (The Guardian, Asia Times, BBC Wildlife magazine, North Korea Economy Watch) Nicholas Tester Sounds; Schools Council;

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ADAM MAYERS

Investing and Personal Finance Editor, Toronto Star Diploma, 1978 Fondest memory of City?

Probably the friends I made there whom I’m still in touch with such as Dave Brindle and Alan Travis who both work at the Guardian. The course wasn’t even a masters back then so there was only 12 or 14 of us.

Most memorable interview?

I’ve done four books about ocean racing and sailing. I got to talk to people like Sir Robert Know Johnston and some of the great pioneers. I followed a Canadian who was in the solo ocean racing, because it was the early days of the internet we could really follow his journey.

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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) 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

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What’s your favourite thing about your job?

Helping people with their day-today affairs. We recently had a situation where people were not getting the correct pension benefits from the government because they hadn’t filled the form out correctly.

When we intervene we have a presence that people listen to.

What’s the most valuable journalism advice you’ve ever received?

The first thing you need is curiosity, The second thing would be fairness. The third thing would be perseverance.

ANNA MATHESON

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 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; 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, examiner. com; trainer, Ireland Writing Retreat 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, LB Islington Alison Le Breton Middlesex Advertiser & Gazette; Medical News Daily; government press officer, Associated Newspapers; legal assistant, Steven Slater John Lynott District reporter, West Lancashire Evening Gazette; editor, TV Comic; Enfield Gazette; sub-editor, Bradford Telegraph & Argus; content producer, orange-today. 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; freelance 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 New Statesman; Hackney Gazette;Yorkshire Television; freelance TV producer (BBC DEF II); Open University; Royal Television Society; head of broadcast production, European Parliament; executive producer, London Gifted & Talented; director, educational video company; writer and producer, Poyser; consultant Julie Shrimpton Southern Evening Echo; press officer, Prudential; corporate affairs, SmithKline Beecham; communications manager, Sainsbury’s; teaching assistant Michael Towers Kensington Post; London Newspapers; London Daily News; freelance Zara Tracy Estates Gazette; Investors Chronicle; died 1985 Toni Turner Melbourne Herald; freelance (Nursing Times, Community Practitioners & Health Visitors Association) Anna Umbima Producer, BBC Television; correspondent, BBC Zimbabwe; presenter, BBC World Service; presenter, Everywoman; consultant, producer, BBC World Service; freelance consultant; facilitator & leadership development, AU Associates Vicky Viotti Writer, editor, Sun Press; editorial writer, Honolulu-Star Advertiser Anne Byrne (née Watson) 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, Ann Carroll BBC Television (South) 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; head of policy, British-Polish Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw) Richard Evans South Wales Argus; Radio West; presenter, BBC Wales; presenter, Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1; presenter, BBC Radio 5 Live; presenter, BBC Radio Wales; journalism senior lecturer, London Metropolitan University Alison Fisher Writer, Surrey Mirror Nick Goodway reporter, Investors Chronicle; reporter, The Observer; reporter, London and Financial News; city reporter, Evening Standard Robin Jarossi reporter, Hackney Gazette; reporter, Radio Times; reporter, TV Times; editorial director, Satellite and Cable Guide; editor in chief, Scorpio Multimedia; consultant editor, Publicis-Blueprint; project editor, You mag (Daily Mail), Cedar Communications; author, blogger, The Huffington Post; editor, Crime Time Preview; sub-editor, Creative Head; sub-editor, Daily

Mirror, Daily Mail; freelance, HELLO!; content editor, Daily Mail (iPad edition) Tracy Jeune Dosh, Channel 4; novelist; series producer, director, BBC (Bristol); executive producer, My Life as a Child; executive producer, Can’t Sing Singers; 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 Carol Lamb Hull Daily Mail; Falmer and Company Tricia Leishman Printing company 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, Bradford Council Steve Matthews Hendon Times; Radio Times; English lecturer (Pisa, Italy) Heather McGlone Western Morning News; Western Evening Herald; Daily Express; arts editor, Daily Mail Weekend magazine Jim McLean chief reporter, Glasgow Evening Times; senior reporter, Scotland on Sunday; health & science correspondent, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail; arts correspondent, The Herald, Glasgow; ovelist Phil Murphy Southern Evening Echo; Newcastle Journal; Yorkshire Post; Press Association; Arts Council; director of communications, assistant general secretary, Labour Party; special advisor to the Prime Minister; head of public affairs, vicepresident & global head of government and public affairs, BG Group 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 New Statesman; Diverse Productions; social worker; principal lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge and Chelmsford; mental health and social work consultant, Haringey Council, Essex Social Services; author; Youth Enquiry Service, Systemic Psychotherapist; external examiner, University of Essex Gail Whitfield News agency; PR, BursonMarsteller

1982 DIPLOMA Coral Beadle Wimbledon News; Indian Daily Standard; 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 Michael Coren Researcher for John Pilger; columnist (New Statesmen;The Sunday Times;Toronto Sun); presenter, The Michael Coren Show, CFRB radio; presenter, Michael Coren Love, Crossroads Television; host of The Arena, Sun News (Canada) Ian Cowie Kilburn Times; Morning Advertiser; personal finance editor, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph; columnist, The Sunday Times Steve Crawshaw Granada Television;

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1982 - 1984 senior writer, The Independent; London Directory, UN advocacy director, Human Rights Watch; international advocacy director, Amnesty International James Cusick Glasgow Herald; BBC; London Daily News; The Sunday Times; TV AM; The Independent; BBC Newsnight; London and Westminster editor, Sunday Herald; senior reporter, The Independent; political correspondent, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday Peter Davies Freelance (health) Jane Dowell LAM magazine; writer, newspaper (New Zealand); researcher, iHug. co.nz website; researcher, Education Services (New Zealand) Carmel Fitzsimons Cambridge Evening News; The Observer; freelance Harriet Gaze Nursing Times; The Link Programme, ITV; assistant producer, producer, BBC Disability Unit; producer, Mental Health Media; freelance journalist and video producer Cecil Hedigan Freelance film maker; craniosacral therapist and acupuncturist David Keen Camera Press; McGraw Hill News Service; Sociology PHD; Save the Children; researcher, Oxford University; lecturer, development studios, Institute of Development Studies; Professor of Conflict Studies, LSE; Professor of Complex Emergencies, London school of Economics Catherine Kristiansen Surrey and Merton Guardian; Unicom (Paris, Washington); The Wall Street Journal Valentine Low Northampton Chronicle Echo; Sheffield Morning Telegraph; Evening Standard; The Times Fiona Mallon Bucks Free Press; Coventry Evening Telegraph; reporter, Yorkshire Post; communications manager, City of York Council; freelance PR; campaign officer, NSPCC; regional communications office, National Trust; freelance; regional media officer, Diabetes UK Cathy McNab Sheffield Morning Telegraph; House Journals Agency Belinda Nenk Pulse; Extel Alex Sutherland Screen International; The Sunday Times; deputy commissioning editor, science and education, Clark TV; commissioning editor, Science and Current Affairs, Channel 4; commissioning editor, History, Channel Five; executive producer, Dragonfly; executive producer, National Geographic Channel, executive producer and consultant, Outsider Television 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 Producer, World Tonight, BBC; developing world correspondent, religious affairs correspondent, world affairs correspondent, BBC Everard Davy BBC Radio London; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Sheffield, South Yorkshire & North Midlands David Heald Unknown Brian Milligan Metro Radio; Capital Radio; BBC News South East; business reporter, BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World; personal finance reporter, BBC News Bill Morris Producer, BBC Radio 4; chief assistant to controller, BBC Radio 1; head of music, BBC Radio 2; directorate secretary, project director, live events, BBC; director of ceremonies, education and live sites, London

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Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, NED for HMGov, Trustee UK Centre for Circus Arts

1983 INTERNATIONAL Aslam Abdullah Arabia Magazine; Islamic College; editor, The Minaret; The Muslim Observer; American Islamic College; author; director, Islamic Society of Nevada Waheda Al-Mikdadi Features editor, Al-Tadamon; health editor, Sayidaty Arab Woman Magazine; London correspondent, Oman Daily; London correspondent, Al-Sabah Daily; media director, Iraqi Cultural Centre (London) Demetrius Danas Polis TV (Greece) WahFoon Ho The Star (Malaysia); Reuters (Kuala Lumpur); law student Rowena House (née Whelan) Coastguard, Marine Services Company; postgraduate student; Unicom; freelance (Dow Jones, Reuters, BBC); postgraduate student, rural economic development, University of Plymouth; postgraduate student, creative writing, Bath Spa University Ebrahim Moosa Cape Times; University of Cape Town; lecturer in religious studies, Stanford University; professor of religious and Islamic studies, Duke University Cindy Polemis Broadcast;Yorkshire Television; BBC local radio; freelance arts fundraiser; student, history of art, Birkbeck, University of London; owner, Fernandez and Wells Martin Portus The Asian Post; ABC Radio (Sydney); arts journalist, Fairfax Press; director of public affairs, National Museum of Australia; 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 Carrickfergus Advertiser; Newsletter (Belfast); Irish News; director of communications, Queen’s University Belfast; director of marketing and development services, University of Strathclyde Penny Farmer Tottenham Weekly Herald; Chemist and Druggist; Woman; Oxford Mail and Times; freelance, Swimming Pool Publications; partner, Talk2PR Ken Ferris Euromoney; Financial Times; Reuters Financial Television; chief sub-editor, 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 Surrey Advertiser; Portsmouth News; language teacher (Japan); author; English teacher (Japan) Michael Jeffree Coventry Evening Telegraph; Benn Publications; freelance; editor, Timber Trades Journal and Timber & Sustainable Building; communications consultant, European Timber Trade Federation Michael Jess News reporter, The Voice; assistant producer, BBC; deputy editor/art director, Black Media Journal; media studies lecturer, Lambeth 6th Form College Angella Johnson Bristol Evening Post; The Times; London Daily News; The Guardian;

Johannesburg Weekly Mail; freelance Roddy McDougall News trainee, BBC; BBC TV Sport; TV AM; head of news, Channel 4 News; head of special projects, GMTV; head of home news, ITN; PR, Trinity; editor, editor-in-chief, Cantos; adviser, Trinity Management Communications Mark Mitchell NME; Gloucester Citizen; West Country Agency; BBC Radio Gloucestershire; BBC News West; editor, BBC TV News; freelance photographer; training manager, BBC Justine Picardie The Sunday Times; Marie Claire; The Independent magazine; The Independent on Sunday; The Observer magazine; contributing editor, Vogue; columnist, The Telegraph; feature writer, The Telegraph magazine; The Observer; author; editor-in-chief, Harper’s Bazaar Margaret Rooke South Wales Argus; Northern Echo; News on Sunday; 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 The Sunday Times; Reporters International; The Daily Telegraph; The Sunday Times magazine Sarah Wason Arts Council; The South Bank Show, Sky Arts; freelance TV producer; head of visual arts, Arts Council

PERIODICAL Sarah Barclay Accountancy Age; London Daily News; The Independent; BBC; Public Eye; freelance (BBC Panorama); director, The Medical Mediation Foundation Stephen Burke The National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO); The National Union of Teachers (NUT); Association of Metropolitan Authorities; Crime Concern; Community Service Volunteers; public relations consultant; director, Daycare Trust; chief executive, Counsel and Care; director, United For All Ages; director, Good Care Guide Peter Cann Community Transport Quarterly; Arabia magazine; Doctor; Reading Post; subeditor, Oxford Times Andrew Davidson Argus Specialist Press; The Sunday Times; 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 Association of Independent Producers; PR, Dennis Davidson Association; Goldcrest Film International; film script and development consultant; own radio company Valerie Dennis Unknown Nick Fletcher Electrical Review; Electronics Weekly; London Daily News; Birmingham Post; Daily Express; city news editor, columnist, The Guardian Ian Grant Publisher, editor, Newzeye; Environment and Computing Design; BBG Media; Information for Industry; freelance, GBNB; managing director, Newzeye Deborah Gudgeon Byeline, Saloman Brothers; director, Gazelle Corporate Finance Anna Healy International Broadcasting Trust; British Gas communications; Labour Party Parliamentary Press Office; Northern Ireland Office; special adviser, Cabinet Office; Carlton TV; senior consultant, strategic communications, GPC; 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 Datalink; Investors Chronicle; The Daily Telegraph; financial news editor, US news editor, bureau chief, Financial Times (New York); business editor, associate editor, The Times

RADIO John Alcock Radio West; freelance (Hereward Radio, GWR, BBC); reporter, Independent Radio News (IRN); producer, ITN; HTV (Bristol) Piers Duncan Political lawyer; BBC West Midlands; director, science external relations, Department of Defence (Australia) Richard Ewart Severn Sound; Hereward Radio; BBC Radio; TV Leeds; BBC GMR; assistant producer, Crime Squad, Hard Cash, BBC 1; BBC Radio 5 Live; producer, presenter, On the Line; producer, presenter, AM Newstalk; News Radio 938 (Singapore); TV & radio news producer/reporter, current affairs presenter, ABC Australia Kathryn Harvey Radio Piccadilly; BBC Radio Northampton; BBC Radio Leeds; BBC TV News (Bristol); BBC Parliamentary Unit Jeremy Lindsay GLC Press Office; barrister James Thomas World Television News; Reuters Television (Hong Kong) Lindsay Williams BBC Radio Norfolk; freelance, BBC Radio, Reuters Financial Television; executive producer/ freelancer, Bloomberg Television; freelance producer, CNBC Europe; freelance writer/ broadcaster/producer; managing director, Media Coach International

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1984 INTERNATIONAL David Adams Sevenoaks Chronicle; freelance (BBC, The Times); The Economist; Latin America correspondent, St Petersburg Times; editor, Page One Media; bureau chief for South-East US and Caribbean, Thomson Reuters 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 Accountancy Age; 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 South London Press; diplomatic editor (Belfast, Jerusalem, Johannesburg); African & Middle East correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; European Union correspondent, “Charlemagne” columnist, 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

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1984 - 1985 Duen Otsuki (née Monkolsmai) Ministry of Information (Bangkok) Sackey Schikwambi South West Africa People’s Organization Information Department (Lusaka); deputy director of treaties and agreements, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Namibia) Michal Schwartz Challenge (Israel); editor, Al-Sabar (Israel) Sona Sewnundon Unknown Ernesto Silva Bielecke Hamburger Abendblatt; Deutsche Presse-Agenteur (Hamburg); Tribuna Alema (Hamburg); warehouse chief, Tejidos Pintex S.A Sur Gul Speen The Mujahideen (Peshawar) Soon Beng Yeap New Straits Times; postgraduate study (Hawaii); communications lecturer (Singapore); journalism lecturer, Seattle University; international communications, Starbucks Karen Zagor CBS News; Financial Times (New York); health and education editor, National Post (Toronto)

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Guy Ashworth South Wales Argus; Coventry Evening Telegraph; Daily News (Birmingham); Express and Echo; senior editor, Citigate; communications, David Clarke Associates; 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, Equity Emma Burstall Plymouth Western Morning News; freelance (BskyB, Woman, Family Circle); novelist Ray Clancy Southern Evening Echo; Press Association; The Times; The Daily Telegraph; news editor, Mail on Sunday Mark Gay Kent & Sussex Courier; Coventry Evening Telegraph; producer, The Today Programme; business editor, Sky News; financial editor, LBC; correspondent, CNBC Europe; programme editor, Reuters Television; freelance writer and producer Roger Hearing Birmingham Post; BBC external services; East African correspondent, BBC; foreign news, BBC radio; producer, World Television News; presenter, BBC World Service Juliana Koranteng Hackney Gazette; International Press Association; Computer Talk; AdAge Global Alison Kreps Croydon Advertiser; Juniper; BBC; London Weekend Television; executive producer, Endemol UK; series producer, Flame TV; series producer, BBC; Boundless Productions Clive Lindsay Eastern Counties Newspapers; PC Business World; Dunfermline Press; The Herald (Glasgow); reporter, BBC Sport Interactive (Scotland), senior broadcast journalist, BBC Barry McIlheney Westminster and Pimlico News; editor, Smash Hits; publishing director, Empire and Premiere; editor-in-chief, FHM; managing director, EMAP Metro; chief executive, EMAP Elan; consultant, McIlheneyBovis; chief executive, PPA Alison Moore Portsmouth News; BMA News Review; lecturer, Greenwich University; course leader, West Kent College; freelance health writer and editor; freelance journalist, writer and editor, specialising in health and

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public sector Dermot Murnaghan Coventry Evening Telegraph; Business Programme, Breakfast Programme, ITN; breakfast presenter, BBC; presenter, Sky News Anne Peacock Surrey Advertiser; ILR County Sound; First Edition, BSkyB; assistant producer, Watchdog, BBC One; senior producer, Any Questions, Any Answers,Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 Sue Rylance Lincoln Echo; Hampstead & Highgate Express; Plus Magazine; editor, TV Times; editor, group editor, TV & Satellite Week; director of IPCTX; freelance editorial consultant; commercial and editorial director, Global Listings; consultant, Sue Rylance Consultancy Suruchi Sharma Freelance (The Guardian); freelance television researcher (Drugs Live, The Ecstasy Trial, Channel 4); freelance reporter (Metro, 3Fox International, Newsquest North London); freelance PR officer (working for clients including artist Israel Zohar and fitness company Resco Results) Angela Smith Business Programme, Channel 4; BBC Educational TV; programme researcher, Tyne Tees TV; programme researcher, Sine Media for Channel 4; producer/director Thames TV; producer/ director MTV; producer/director RTE; producer, The Big Breakfast, Planet 24; producer/director, Tiger Aspect; CEO, Turn On Television

PERIODICAL Karina Bliss Hilal International; author Louise Bromley Medical News; General Practitioner; Bullet Communications; account director, Avenue HKM; Freelance PR consultant, Chandler Chicco Georgina Brown (née Simon) Accountancy Age; The Magazine; The Independent; theatre critic, Mail on Sunday Alejandrina Catalano Contributing editor, Estates Gazette; freelance Simon Crompton Therapy Weekly; Health Service Journal; Professional Social Work; medical editor, Body and Soul; freelance, The Times; freelance health writer; feature writer, Cancer World Stephen DiBasio Safety and Fire News; Kilburn Times Richard Evans Euromoney; presenter, BBC Radio Wales; freelance Nicholas Fisher Freelance agony uncle, writer, screenwriter, broadcaster, TV script writer, series creator Christopher Giles Recorder Group; West Sussex County Times; sports editor, 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 Joanna Newson Kitchen Magazine; managing editor, BCS Publishing; freelance (Traditional Homes) Laura Phillips Freelance William Shaw Freelance (GQ, Blender); columnist, The Observer; author Elizabeth Tuley Food Manufacture International; PR, Leatherhead Foods Research Association; freelance Alexandra Watson Informatics Newsletter; Business Magazine; Aberdeen Evening Express; Press and Journal

RADIO Peter Brill Sportscall, British Telecom; PR manager, Toyota GB; account manager,

Avenue Communications; press officer, head of public relations, RAC Motoring Services; managing director, Net; director, Red Ferry Philippa Colton Freelance; farmer Richard Cooke DevonAir; Plymouth Sound; Radio City; TV AM, Granada Television; sports producer, ITN; senior subeditor, Sky Sports Jane Dodge BBC Radio (Birmingham, Cumbria, Sussex, Belfast); BBC TV (Belfast); On the Record, BBC; Midlands correspondent, Channel 4; freelance Michael Gillings Freelance; BBC; ITN Audrey Green Oakes BBC Radio Scotland; The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; communications, Amnesty International; internal communications manager, Cabinet Office; head of internal communications, investigations and TV producer, special correspondent’s producer, BBC; freelance Abdul Jawad Professor, Duke University Malcolm Shaw TVS; LWT; Thames TV; Capital Radio; LBC/IRN; Radio Mercury; County Sound; correspondent, ITV Meridian

1985 INTERNATIONAL Farhan Bokhari Postgraduate studies (Vancouver); program anchor, Dawn News TV; analyst, CBS News; Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent, Financial Times Leyla Boulton (née Ertugrul) Correspondent, Reuters; journalism fellow, Michigan University; Moscow correspondent, Turkey correspondent, international economy page editor, assistant world news editor, main news integrator, head of production, special reports and ebooks editor, Financial Times Heidi Egede-Nissen Norwegian Broadcasting; Computer World (Oslo); Daily Business News (Norway); 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 American Embassy (Riyadh); Al Nahdah Philanthropic Society for Women; Al Mnahil Centre; Al Riyad Daily Newspaper; Kulenas Arabic magazine; freelance Anwar Iqbal The Muslim (Islamabad); The Independent; Reuters; fellow, Oxford University; 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 Radio Beijing Jonas Lihnell PR Manager, Ericsson Arop Madut-Arop English teacher, Secondary Schools (South and North Sudan);newspaper journalism student, East and West Berlin; editor in chief, Nile Mirror (Khartoum-Juba);press secretary, Regional President (South Sudan); assistant director for information, Southern Region Juba (Sudan); deputy director of information and culture, Bahr al Ghazal Region (South SudanWau); editor in chief, Heritage Newspaper (Khartoum);director of advocacy and communication, Sudan Council of Churches (Khartoum); under secretary for information and culture, South Sudan Coordination Council; visiting fellow, City University London; Member of National Assembly, Republic of South Sudan 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; ZanuPF candidate; distribution company Donald McRae Postgraduate study; NME; freelance Kasra Naji BBC Persian Service; BBC Middle East; stringer, The Guardian, CBC Canada, ABC Australia; correspondent, CNN; Special correspondent, BBC Persian TV (Tehran) Farah Nayeri Reporter, correspondent, Time (Paris); 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, Photosphore; news editor, Eureka Titti Nordberg Norwegian newspaper Chinye Nwosu Lagos Life Christiane Oelrich BBC German Service; DPA (Hamburg, London, Geneva, Washington) Rita Ojomoh Nigerian Television Marie Omofoma Nigerian Television Fotini Papatheodorou Postgraduate student, senior lecturer; London College of Printing Cari Reixa EFL (Spain) Miriam Sliwoski Freelance (Los Angeles, Seattle); video producer; Microsoft Press (Washington) Roshin Varghese The Mail on Sunday; TV Today (Delhi) Olive Vassell Channel 4 Business Programme; National Newspaper Publishers Association; lecturer, University of the District of Columbia; Freevoice; Managing Editor, Euromight.com Ariana Yakas BBC stringer (Athens); researcher, Thames Television; freelance consultant; Associate lecturer, Open University Jiaping Zhang China Radio

NEWSPAPER Tracey Allen (née Tobin) Newmarket Journal; Gloucestershire Echo; Woman Focus, MoD House Journal, training department, MoD; features editor, RAF News Ian Birrell Wolverhampton Express & Star; Hampstead & Highgate Express; The Sunday Times; Sunday Express; Daily Mail; deputy editor, Columnist and foreign correspondent, The Independent Gordon Boreland Nottingham Evening Post; UK News; PR, Miles Communication Group; PR, Altisidora Peter Craig Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; assistant news editor, crime reporter, Grimsby Telegraph Susan Crawford Reporter, The House Magazine; news reporter, The Docklands Recorder; feature writer, news reporter, Daily Star; feature writer, The Sun; features editor, Daily Express; deputy editor, Sunday People; author Sarah Crewe EMAP; Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press; Gloucester Citizen; freelance Debra Davidson Newham Recorder; London News Network; LWT; features editor, deputy editor, London Today, London Tonight; producer, editor, This Morning, Granada TV; freelance 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.

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1985 - 1986 Thomas Gordon Director, Altisidora Heritage Reuters (Moscow, London, Warsaw, Belgrade, Brussels, Jerusalem); bureau chief, Reuters (Jerusalem, Israel and Palestinian Territories, France, Russia) Stuart Jeffries Hampstead & Highgate Express; Birmingham Post & Mail; Paris correspondent, features writer, The Guardian, The Observer Melanie Jennings (née Knight) Coventry Evening Telegraph; teaching assistant, Just Teachers; freelance copy writer, University of Warwick Justyn Jones Southern Evening Echo; Western Mail; ITN; producer; Small World Productions Donald Leggatt Freelance, The Daily Telegraph; senior broadcast journalist, BBC; editorial consultant, The Money Channel; associate editor, Cantos Communications; founding partner, Wildflower Video Communications James Meek Northampton Chronicle Echo; The Scotsman; Moscow correspondent; religious affairs editor, science correspondent, feature writer, The Guardian; novelist John Mullin Morning News; The Independent; The Guardian; deputy editor, The Scotsman; executive editor, The Independent; Editor, Independent on Sunday; Referendum editor, BBC Mike O’Sullivan Derby Evening Telegraph; Radio Trent; Leicester Sound; Sheffield Star; broadcast journalist, BBC Nottingham, Derby; reporter, BBC East Midlands Today; reporter, BBC John Ogden Unknown Ed Oldfield Reporter, Western News; reporter, Camden Chronicle and Alcadian; chief reporter, South Avon Mercury and Western Gazette; assistant news editor, Western Daily Press; district news editor, deputy head of content, assistant head of design, assistant chief sub-editor, Production editor, Exeter Express & Echo Rachel Royce Richmond & Twickenham Times; The Scotsman; BBC World ServiceScott Smedley Croydon Advertiser; Hounslow Recorder; BBC; Channel 4 News; died 2004 Christopher Sparrow Focus; Watford Review; Hendon Times; editor, Barnet Times; editor, Walk; sub-editor, The Argus (Brighton); sub-editor, Cyprus Today; freelance Tony Trueman Bristol Evening Post; Press Association; International Relations MA, University of Cambridge; head of communications, St Mungo’s Homeless Charity

PERIODICAL Lisa Armstrong Fitness; Elle; The Independent; fashion features director, Vogue; fashion editor, The Times; contributing editor, Vogue; fashion director, The Telegraph; author Lucy Ash The List; East London Advertiser; BBC South East; Eurofile, BBC Radio 4; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Gillian Bowditch Money Marketing; The Scotsman; Daily Express; The Times; The Sunday Times Fiona Cumberpatch Banknotes; Media Week; editor, Hodder & Stoughton; Editor, Nene Valley Living Elaine Fogg Wimbledon News; Hampstead & Highgate Express; freelance news reporter Rachel Gardiner (née Simpson) Marketing Magazine; The Mail on Sunday; PR Kate Graham What Diet?; You & Your Wedding; She; Best; Young Telegraph; freelance, Two-Can Publishing, Disney Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph; project manager, GE Fabbri; group editor, Egmont UK Joanna Grobel Director, Exact PR

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Norma Harris Yellow Advertiser; Social Work Paper; Printing World Vanessa Houlder Accounting; Investors Chronicle; tax correspondent, Financial Times Rustom Irani New Life; researcher, BBC Panorama; Eyewitness LWT; poet; businessman Jolyon Jenkins New Statesman; Law Magazine; BBC Radio 4; freelance producer; radio producer, BBC Richard Klein Researcher, BBC Scotland; Hornsey Journal; Thames Television; Eyewitness LWT; senior producer, executive producer, senior commissioning executive, BBC Documentaries; controller, BBC 4; Director of factual, ITV Kirsty Lang Trainee, BBC; BBC News; BBC (Budapest);TV WS TV;BBC TV (Paris);The Sunday Times; Channel 4 News; presenter, The World, BBC 4; presenter, Front Row, BBC Radio 4 Audrey Mindlin ATV (Hong Kong); press officer, CVCP; communications manager, Equality Challenge Unit; freelance Andrew Moore Plymouth Morning News; ILR Plymouth Sound; Television South West; Reuters TV; Sky News Lisa O’Kelly Campaign; Studio5; review editor, writer, The Observer Sylvia Pleasant Weekend Recorder; Bristol Press & Picture Agency; Prison Service News Carmen Pryce Central Television; Tomorrow’s World, BBC; BBC Science Online; freelance, Business Traveller; intranet producer, BBC Mark Shillam Lynn News; Yorkshire Evening Press; chief sub-editor, deputy night editor, The Times Janet Simpson (née Noble) News agency; Morgan Grampian; Noble Publishing; Pavilion Publishing; Grub Smith Literary Review; GQ; Esquire; FHM; Bravo Comedy Central; documentary maker, Channel 4; columnist, Arena; freelance Emily Smyth Pulse; 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 Surrey Mirror; South Wales Argus; Sutton Herald; Evening Standard; The Informer; new media contents editor, Press Association; sports sub-editor, Sunday Mirror; sub-editor, Sunday Mirror Susan Watts Computer Weekly; New Scientist; The Independent; science editor, BBC Newsnight

RADIO Miti Ampoma BBC Radio Leeds; secretary, House of Commons; BBC; ITV; Channel 4; business consultant, FTSE 100 companies; Director, Miticom Limited Elaine Arthur BBC Radio Derby; BBC Bristol David Gibson BBC Radio Northampton; BBC Belfast; Today, BBC Radio 4; news editor, senior editor and broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Kay Holmes Social Services; Insight Magazine; Hounslow Recorder; Morning Star; Unison; freelance Iain Nicholson BBC Radio Norfolk; Radio Berkshire; BBC Radio Oxford; Nicholson Associates Susanne Reber Deputy managing editor, investigative editor, CBC Radio News; deputy managing editor, NPR Investigations; senior coordinating editor, director of digital media, Centre for Investigative Reporting Jenni Russell Trainee, BBC News; producer, BBC World Service; producer, Channel 4 News; deputy editor, BBC Current Affairs; editor, BBC Radio 4 World

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RICHARD GILLESPIE Research Director, Société-Générale Diploma 1979 Fondest memory of City?

One was the time we were doing court training with Stewart Patrick and we got this case of a musician who had been nicked smoking a joint in a Bayswater mews. Defence counsel was arguing for leniency on the grounds that he was in a very famous band and they were about to do a tour of the US and make a great deal of money for the country. It was Elton John’s lead guitarist. He got off with a fine. I asked Stewart if he wanted to use the story. He declined – but I got it published in the Evening Star the next day, and my second freelance cheque. I was quite the sleuth.

Tonight; political columnist, The Guardian, 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 BBC Greek Service (London); Kathimerini (Athens); Leo Burnett PR; Onassis Foundation Bill Brown Lecturer, University of Kansas; consultant and teacher Rana Budeiri Mercantile Discount Bank (Jerusalem) Elizabeth Camp Automobile Association; Cash Vending Systems; PR, E=MC2 Karen Dabrowska Middle East Magazine; The Immigrant; Middle East International; London correspondent, Jana News Agency 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, Euronews Rizwana Hamid Freelance (BBC, Channel 4) Kyriacos Lacovides Sports editor, managing director, Cyprus Mail Lawrence Joffe Asian Trader (London); COI Press Office; The Guardian Sirr Anai Kelueljang Editor, Heritage; died 1999 Nicola Knipe Editorial assistant, assistant editor, Princeton University Art Museum

The most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

Oh, my old editor in New York, Mike Clowes (formerly of The Australian). Mike told me that often when you get one side of a story, you get a really good story, but when you get another side, the story starts to look not so good. This is because people usually exaggerate or big up their side of a story. For that reason you had better always get at least two sides to every story, or else you may find you are not publishing the truth so much as someone’s polemic.

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Publications; senior writer, Princeton University Office of Development Sidonie Leone Advertising agency Neil Lewis Inter Press Service (Johannesburg); South Africa Press Association; KZN/Mpumalanga legal aid board Ira Mathur Asian Trader (London); BBC Caribbean Radio; producer, newscaster, National Broadcasting Service (Trinidad and Tobago); Service Radio 610 (Trinidad); news anchor, Caribbean Communications, Network TV6; Inglefield Oglivy and Mather; columnist, Trinidad Guardian; The Guardian; documentary producer, Trinidad Express 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 Financial Weekly; European Business TV Channel; The Times (Washington, Brussels); Financial Times (Frankfurt); associate editor, columnist, Financial Times (Brussels) Colleen Murrell (née Johnson); TF1; CBC; ITN; Associated Press Television (APTV); BBC News; ABC Australia; SBS World View radio; PhD, Melbourne University; senior lecturer, Deakin University Alli Mutasa BBC Swahili Service; public broadcasting (Uganda) Abel Ayazika (Zik) Nakwagala PA, Minister of Planning and Economic Development (Uganda);World Bank Graduate School; JFK School of Government (Harvard); communication officer, project officer, UNICEF Sivagami Natesan (née Subbiah) Vice president, human resources, Shakti Solutions Kalli Plainos Unknown Sajid Qaisrani Resident editor, Pakistan Times; PTV Academy (Islamabad); Pakistan Television; director resource service, director of programming, Avrat Foundation;

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1986 - 1987 freelance development consultant; executive director, Sungi Development Foundation Max Rajathurai News editor, head of marketing, Petro Min Caroline Repton Oil market reporter, Petroleum Argus; scriptwriter/duty news organiser, Visnews; assistant news editor, Independent Television News; sub-editor, South China Morning Post; 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 Magna Publishing; Savvy; 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 Rukee Tjingaete University of Leicester; PhD, African Studies (Michigan); The Namibian Frank van Vliet UK and Ireland correspondent, De Telegraaf (Amsterdam, Budapest, Israel); postgraduate studies; USA and Canada correspondent, De Telegraaf Etan Vlessing Research organisation; Islington Health Authority; Jewish Herald; Canadian bureau chief, The Hollywood Reporter Prince Woboroma Postgraduate studies; Nigerian Television (Port Harcourt)

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John Brotherton Derbyshire Times; Sheffield Star; employment law consultant, AP Partnership Denis Campbell Journalist, NME; TV researcher; reporter, Time Out; home affairs correspondent, Scotland on Sunday; Westminster correspondent, The Glasgow Herald; sports correspondent, social affairs correspondent, The Observer; health correspondent,The Guardian Clare Fermont Tottenham Herald; editor, Middle East Economic Digest; senior editor, Amnesty International Angus Finney Screen International; managing director, Renaissance Films; screenwriter; author; lecturer Tony Gallagher Trainee journalist, Southern Evening Echo; Southwest News Agency;news editor, Daily Mail; deputy editor, editor, The Daily Telegraph Tracey Harrison reporter, Coventry Evening Telegraph; reporter, Daily Mail; consumer correspondent, Daily Mirror; freelance (Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, the Guardian, The Sun); head of news, Twelve Thirty Eight Ltd Kate Heathman (née Roberts) Liverpool John Moores University; University of Leicester Merseyside business correspondent, Business North West; freelance production journalist, Daily Mail; columnist, sub-editor, Liverpool Daily Post; 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 Nick Holdsworth Coventry Evening Telegraph; Press Association; Westcountry TV; Eastern Europe correspondent, Times Higher Education Supplement; The Hollywood Reporter; Moscow correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph Jane Holligan Peterborough Evening Telegraph; EFE Agency (Madrid);London city editor, UPI; Lima correspondent, The Economist; correspondent, Business Week; The Guardian; communications manager,

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media relations manager, Alliance Trust Savings; editor, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator Kate Ironside Trainee and political reporter, Reading Evening Post; correspondent, Central Press Lobby; political correspondent, Daily Express; LSE European Institute; editor, Standard & Poor’s London; political Correspondent, BBC UK News; editor, reporter, correspondent, Regional Unit BBC Westminster; freelance, Practical Parenting; EU columnist, Western Morning News; journalism lecturer, senior lecturer, University of Bedfordshire Rose Lloyd South London Press; FACTS; director of volunteer services (Paris) David Mason Senior reporter, Eastern Daily Press; deputy news editor, diary editor, Press Association; European correspondent, Express Newspapers, UK online editor, Reuters; European channel manager, news and weather, Vizzavi; head of editorial development, news, BBC Worldwide; head of communications, Forum for the Future; associate, Do The Green Thing; consultant, Greenhouse PR Joan McAlpine Greenock Telegraph; feature writer, news reporter, The Scotsman; feature writer, columnist, Daily Record; deputy editor, The Herald; 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 Mandy Norrish Gloucestershire Echo; freelance writer, editor and photographer Sarah Poland freelance; RSPCA Kate Rankine Money Marketing; reporter (New York);deputy city editor,The Daily Telegraph; headhunter, partner, JCA Group Anthony Snape Eastern Daily Press; The Observer; Channel 4; Reuters; The European; WWF; European Commission; CEP-Research; Environmental Expert; freelance; MRM Worldwide; 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 Croydon Advertiser; BBC South East; Northwest Tonight; news organiser, BBC; UK assignments editor, BBC Newsgathering; UK news editor, BBC; deputy UK editor, BBC Paul Wilmshurst Central Television; Claire Rayner (Sky TV); Channel 4; independent TV research; BBC; ITV; HBO; freelance TV director

PERIODICAL Mark Battersby Money Marketing; law degree; Money Management Stephen Bealing People in Pictures; director, Landmark Media Karen Brown Freelance; Euromoney Heather Harris (née Capel) Shooting Times; Country Magazine; PR, British Airways; worldwide PR director, Hyatt Hotels; freelance Simon Cartledge Pagemakers; China Daily; The Economist; publisher, Big Brains (Hong Kong) Peter DaCosta The Voice; Inter Press Service (Gambia, Harare); senior communication advisor, UN Economic Commission for Africa; independent consultant; PhD, SOAS Lindsey Darking Ealing Gazette; freelance (The Teacher, Southern Life, Southern Daily Echo, DfES); Hampshire County Council; Connexions; Learning and Skills Council; PR

and screenwriter; director, Impact Writers; freelance Julia Dodds reporter, Associated Press Dow Jones; reporter, International Financing Review; investment editor, Money Marketing; editor, Planned Savings Magazine; trainee solicitor, Eversheds; associate, Reed Smith; associate, Hill Hofstetter Ltd Susan Ellicott Reuters; The Independent; The Times; The Sunday Times; Here and Now; BBC;Vox Media Janet Fricker Medical Newsletter; Pulse; RCGP; freelance (Daily Mail,The Times, Lancet Oncology, Marie Claire); contributor, European Society of Cardiology Reports Sally Gethin Cosmopolitan; BBC Wales; 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 Futures and Options World; financial products editor, managing editor, head of news and data strategy, head of content integration, Reuters; change and programme manager, IZG Diana Henry Researcher, Wogan (BBC); BBC documentaries; food writer,The Sunday Telegraph; freelance (Red, House & Garden, Olive, Delicious, Real,Waitrose Food Illustrated); author; columnist, The Sunday Telegraph Janet Lawrence (née Dix) Essex County Newspapers; Electricity Board Corporate Magazine; foreign correspondent, Agence France-Presse; world desk editor, Reuters Sam Lennon Folkestone Herald; Adscene; Kentish Express; Medway Today; senior reporter, chief reporter, Medway Messenger; senior reporter, Kentish Express Megan Lloyd-Laney (née Jones) Precis writer, Tellex Monitors; The Economist; Intermediate Technology Development Group; manager, Appropriate Communications Project; Intermedia; director, CommsConsult; communications consultant, World Bank, UNPDP; journalism lecturer; consultant, Communications & 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) Glenn Moore Hayters Sports Agency; The Post; Reuters; football correspondent, football editor, The Independent Jason Nisse The Banker; The Daily Telegraph; Mail on Sunday; Sunday Business; assistant business editor, The Times; city editor, Independent on Sunday; director of media relations, Barclays; director, Fishburn Hedges; director, Newgate Communications John Perlman Radio 703; Weekly Mail (South Africa); Saturday Star; South Africa Broadcasting Corporation; presenter, AM Live and The Round Table, SABC3; Today with John Perlman, Kaya FM (South Africa) Lucy Pilkington Current affairs, BBC; commissioning editor, Challenge, Trouble and Bravo,Virgin; commissioning editor specialist factual, Channel 4; executive producer, commissioning, BBC Worldwide Richard Preston Tatler; The Independent; features editor, news editor, comment editor, assistant editor, The Daily Telegraph Mark Raymond User Magazine Keiron Root Planned Savings; Money Magazine; Money & Family Wealth; editorin-chief, What Investment; consulting editor, Treasury Management International; editorin-chief, Charterhouse Communications; died 2009 Sally Rowlands Marketing Magazine; The Late Show (BBC)

Nicholas Sack Photographer Lindsey Sharpe Southern Daily Echo; freelance; director, Impact Writers Ltd; freelance (Ealing Gazette,Teacher magazine, Southern Daily Echo); screenwriting MA Adrian Sibley BBC; freelance Deborah Thornton Sub-editor, technology reporter, Building Paola Tich Independent Radio News; GMTV; BSkyB; consultant, Medialink International; manager, public relations, EMEA, Cisco Systems; head of executive communications, Barclays Group; Enfatico; co-owner, Tutti Communications; owner, Bridge & Park Joanne Waters Reporter, North Devon Journal; news reporter, Southern Daily Echo; editor, Link staff newspaper, Wessex Regional Health Authority; news editor, General Practitioner; features editor, Pregnancy and Birth magazine; features editor, Top Sante; freelance health writer (Yours, Marie Claire, Essentials, Red, Pregnancy and Birth, Mother and Baby); chairman, Guild of Health Writers, freelance writer and editorial consultant, Sole Trader Helen Weathers BBC Radio Devon; Evening Herald Plymouth; Richmond & Twickenham Times; Wales on Sunday; Daily Mirror; Daily Mail Louise Webster Derby Evening Telegraph; Radio Bedfordshire; World at One, BBC Radio 4; producer, editor, 9 O’ Clock News; producer, editor, World Features, BBC; assistant editor, BBC News 24; freelance Roy Wilkinson Freelance (Sounds, Select); Q; artist management; author Elizabeth Wilson Medical magazine Lucie Young Fitness; 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)

RADIO Maria Coyle ILR Southern Sound; BBC Radio Cleveland; Tyne Tees TV; Central television; Carlton News; press officer, University of Oxford Rachael Davies BBC Radio 1 Jackie Garriock (née Lidgard) BBC Radio 4; BBC Parliamentary Unit; news and current affairs, BBC; BBC Radio 5 Live; studio manager, BBC Radio News Ian Gregory Euromoney; CBS News; BBC Radio Finance Unit; Swiss TV; producer, BBC World Service TV Antonia Hastings ILR Hereward; Radio ILR Southern; Sound Radio; Thames TV; Meridian TV; freelance Vidar Hjardeng Central Independent Television; Carlton; executive producer, regional programmes, ITV Central; diversity manager, ITV Claudia Josephs A Week in Politics; Journalists in Europe Scholarship (Paris); producer, Planet 24, Roger Bolton Productions; series producer, Channel 4; launch producer,The Economist, E-Vision programme; current affairs producer, BBC; freelance Michael MacFarlane Production trainee, BBC; producer, World at One, BBC Radio 4; executive editor, BBC London Pamela Hiles (née Toppin) CBC (Canada); BBC Belfast; Ulster Orchestra; owner, editor, director, Hiltop Publishing Joanne Williams TV AM; BBC (GNS)

1987 INTERNATIONAL Millie Adisa Concord (Lagos); freelance

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1987 Katherine Arms Freelance (Cyprus); reporter, CBS News (Hong Kong) freelance producer (CBS News, National Geographic Television); producer, communications consultant, Katherine Arms Production; communications consultant, UN Women James Boothroyd Law Magazine; Police Review; McGill News; author; Montreal Gazette; freelance (Canadian Geographic, The Guardian,Vancouver Magazine, Adbusters) communications manager, CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network; 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 Accountancy Age; MS (New York); freelance (Penang); Inter Press Service (Washington); student, Berkeley; Project Underground; 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 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 Financial Post (Toronto); postgraduate studies; founding executive director, board of directors; The Natural Step (Canada); vice-chair, The Natural Step International Mary Heaney Editor, The Lawyer; Cofounder, Futurelex; Editor-in-Chief, European Lawyer; editorial director, Futurelex, The Global Legal Post ChangYong Kim Associated Press; Dow Jones (Seoul); professor of journalism, Inje University Nanke Kramer Editor, reporter, correspondent, Text Agency Nanke Kramer; editor and coordinator, Sponsoring & Fondsenwerving Magazine; head of communications, APX Group; press officer, communications consultant, KLM; marketing and communications, Kramer Consultations Kathryn Lainoff (née Kincaid) Senator’s press officer 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 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 Clare Ogilvie-Turner Pulse; British Direct Television; The Province (Vancouver); senior reporter, CanWest; senior reporter, The Province; editor, Pique News magazine Savvas Paritsis Freelance; builder appraisals, DEGW Architects; 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 Fernando Rodrigues Economics editor (Sao Paulo); foreign correspondent (New

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York, Tokyo, Washington); political columnist, features reporter (Brasilia) Howard Rombough Creative Review; editor, Voyager; PR director, Campbell Gray Hotels 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 Altaposten (Norway);Verdens Gang; Nordisk Ostforum (Norway); Dagbladet (Norway); Dagens Naeringsliv (Norway); University of Oslo; 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) Sebastian Usher Freelance (Saudi Arabia); correspondent, BBC World Media; 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 The Independent; Business Programme, Channel 4; Business Daily; Evening Standard (New York); business editor, deputy editor, editor, New York Post; executive editor, CNNMoney.com; editor, Crain’s New York Business; executive editor, vice president, CNBC Digital 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 Reporter, Hull

Daily Mail; Reporter, Bristol Evening Post; Correspondent, Times Higher Education Supplement; sub-editor, Deutsche Presse Agentur; Freelance; Senior Editorial Manager, Standard & Poor’s Frankfurt-am-Main Farzana Cheema Croydon Advertiser Jeremy Clifford Hull Daily Mail; Golf World; Derby Evening Telegraph; news editor, assistant editor, South Wales Echo; deputy editor, Leicester Mercury; editorial development manager, Connecting Communities; 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 BBC Television; Channel 4; producer and director, Wall to Wall TV; MSc, Tavistock Centre; family therapist, NHS Geraldine Holden Sub-editor, Health Service Journal; freelance (Brussels); deputy production editor, Nursing Times; chief subeditor, British Medical Association; content editor, BBC Health, BBC Parenting; associate editor, Mumsnet; senior web-manager, Wellcome Trust Christian Jenner Radio Times; PR,Variety Club; 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 Motherwell Times; Greenock Telegraph; Stirling District Council; 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 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 Take a Break; The Sun; The Mail on Sunday; editor, That’s Life; editor, Real Magazine; freelance, The Guardian; columnist, feature writer, The Times Giovanni Ulleri Inside Housing; BBC Radio 4; World in Action, Granada Television; The Big Story, ITV; Tonight with Trevor McDonald, Granada Television; Investigate Reports, PBS; Dispatches, Channel 4; Real Story, Panorama, BBC; partner, Popkorn Films; owner, Genius Media, producer, director, Wall to Wall Michael Williams Freelance; New Scientist; trainee, BBC; World at One, BBC; Newsnight, BBC; foreign affairs correspondent, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; freelance, BBC Radio

PERIODICAL Douglas Amrine Sub-editor, Time-Life Books; Wine Magazine; managing editor, publisher, Eyewitness Travel Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Penguin Books; editorial director, Editions Didier Millet Tom Aston Channel 4 Daily;Visnews; Gemini; Sunday Express; freelance; researcher, Free Tibet campaign Joanna Bale Croydon Advertiser; Daily Express; Sunday Express; 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 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 Beverley Cohen Freelance (Australia);

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RICHARD EVANS Senior Journalism Lecturer at London Metropolitan University; Diploma, 1981 As a visiting lecturer at City, what changes have you seen in the journalism department?

When I was studying at City the journalism department was in the old Ingersoll Factory opposite the pub now called the Peasant. Just one postgraduate journalism course, no computers and just 25 students. Now there are hundreds.

Proudest career moment?

A trip to Kiev for Newsbeat in 1990. My producer Fran Unsworth (now deputy head of news for the BBC) and I came across an American woman taking medical supplies to displaced children fwho were suffering from long-term medical problems. We were the first to come back

with the story which was picked up around the world.

Most memorable interview?

Interviews with survivors of 9/11. I presented some of the coverage on Five Live on the evening on September 11th. You didn’t have to ask any questions: they just talked and told the most extraordinary stories.

DEBORAH WEITZMANN

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Design Week; yoga teacher Elizabeth Coldwell Editor, Forum; author, editor, Xcite Books Martin Cottingham Editor, press officer, head of media, Christian Aid News; regional campaigns manager, Oxfam; marketing director, Soil Association; freelance; media and advocacy manager, Islamic Relief UK Melanie Fanstone Lowestoft Journal; Eastern Daily Press; BBC Radio 5 Live; 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 Stephen Hounslow Reporter, Marketing; trainee, BBC; producer, senior producer, BBC World TV, BBC News 24 Richard Johnson Marxism Today; New Media Markets; TV Guide; Radio Times; New Woman; Men’s Health; The Sunday Times; freelance Dean Jones Herts & Essex Observer; football writer, Sunday People Michael Kavanagh Financial Adviser; Marketing; Marketing Week; deputy news editor, FT.com Margaret Keenan Stroud Observer; Western Mail; editor, Drive Time News; producer, Sunday Supplement (BBC Radio Wales) Anne Kelly Woman Options; Country Homes & Interiors; novelist; freelance (Ideal Homes, BBC Good Food) 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, The Talent Manager Helen Kitchen PR; events manager, Cardiff Council; director,Toucan Promotions; lecturer, Cardiff and Vale College and University of Glamorgan Keith Lockhart Freelance (The Independent)

Richard Marsh Desk officer, Conservative research department; special advisor, Department of Health, Department of Environment; speech writer, Prime Ministers Political Office; director, Goverment Policy Consultants; director of market access, Bristol Myers-Squibb Pharmaceuticals; independent consultant, Holdsworth Communications and Fleishman Hillard; director, Market Access; independent consultant, Government Relations Alison MacDiarmaid-Gordon Freelance Anthony Meenaghan Eastern Counties Newspapers; Reading News Agency; The Mail On Sunday; proprietor, Solent News Agency Sarah Moore London Portrait Magazine; Harpers & Queen; freelance Fiona Murray Birmingham Post;Yorkshire Television; freelance; adult literacy teacher, Wandsworth Prison Shaun Phillips Reviews editor, Sounds; press officer,Virgin Records; features editor, Vox magazine; editor, BlahBlahBlah; deputy editor, ZM magazine; features director, Esquire; associate features editor, The Times Susannah Price Hull Daily Mail; Press Association; correspondent, BBC (Kabul, Sri Lanka, Pakistan); United Nations (New York); UN correspondent, BBC; chief of communications, UNICEF Somalia Wendy Robbins Panorama,Watchdog, Here and Now, Public Eye, BBC; 20/20 Television; development executive, BBC Factual Department Peter Smith Barnet & Finchley Press; sports writer,Yorkshire Evening Press 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 Sarah Womack Birmingham Post; Press Association; Daily Express; political correspondent, social affairs correspondent, The Daily Telegraph ; deputy foreign editor, Daily Mail

media officer, head of world news, CAFOD Sally Arthy ILR; Essex Radio; BBC Radio Essex; IRN; London News; APTV; senior news producer, APTN; senior news editor, Sky News; acting head of online, Sky News Penelope Boreham BBC Radio Bristol; BBC Bristol; senior producer, BBC World Service Alison Dawes ILR; Hereward Radio; CNFM Radio (Cambridge); radio intake editor, BBC; assistant editor; BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Roger Few, Dr Orbis Publishing; social science researcher, University of Leicester, South Bank University; senior research fellow, University of East Anglia Owen Gay Business Daily, Channel 4; BBC Business Unit; Watchdog, BBC; executive producer, BBC Factual Department; commissioning editor, The One Show; head of popular factual, 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, University of Teesside Beatrice Rubens Senior producer, BBC Radio 4 Alasdair Sandford Trainee, BBC news; Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1; World at One, BBC; The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; Europe reporter, Radio 1; reporter, Radio Netherlands; freelance (BBC, The Guardian, Paris) Dale Templar (née Hayhurst) Series producer, BBC; series producer, BBC Factual; series producer, Dragonfly Film and Television; freelance writer, Lonely Planet Magazine; executive producer, The Gamma Project Limited; trainer, BBC Academy; managing director, One Tribe TV; series producer, Zig Zag Productions Researcher, WPFM, presenter, BBC Radio 1; presenter, BBC Radio 2

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Nana Anto-Awuakye Researcher, producer, BBC Radio; United Nations (New York); UN Radio Mission (Kosovo); senior

Hossinali Afkhami Research fellow, Leeds University; Allameh University (Tehran) Jonathan Ames US News and World

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BARRY MCILHENEY CEO of PPA; Newspaper, 1984 Fondest memory of City?

Believe it or not, I’d have to say our shorthand lessons. I didn’t enjoy shorthand itself but my teacher, Harry Butler, made it entertaining. He used to smoke a pipe in lessons and was a proper old school journalist.

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

The variety of it - 25 of the 30 years I’ve been in journalism, I’ve been on the front line and now

I’m taking more of an industry role. For years I was working for one publishing company but now I help to manage 230, so I get to meet a good variety of people.

Most memorable interview?

Three or four years ago, I was writing for a magazine called The Word and they asked me to interview Van Morrison.

I managed to get a whole hour of him in an Indian restaurant where I watched him eating a Jalfreezi. I’ve always been a Van Morrison fan as he’s from Belfast, like me.

Best career advice you ever received?

Always stay until the end.

Don’t go home early. It’s pretty much guaranteed that the main story will happen just after you leave. I was taught that at City, mainly with regard to council meetings, trials, and funerals.

But it was equally useful when it came to gigs, screenings, and awards ceremonies. You never want to be that guy who is on his way home when Springsteen introduces McCartney for the final encore of the night.

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Report; editor, Law Gazette; editor, The Brief; editor, The European Lawyer; editor, Leaders in Law Review; consultant, MBR legal Sylvie Basley Freelance communications consultant Ferry Biedermann News editor, Society of Chemistry Industry; foreign editor, Radio Netherlands; Middle East correspondent, Chicago Tribune; de Volkskrant, Financial Times (Beirut); business correspondent, Europe correspondent, The National (Beirut); Middle East correspondent, Elsevier magazine, IHS Jane’s; freelance feature writer, Financial Times Jim Boothroyd Law Magazine; Police Review; McGill News; author; Montreal Gazette; freelance (Canadian Geographic, The Guardian,Vancouver Magazine, Adbusters) communications manager, CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network; 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 Gabriella Gamini Freelance (Sri Lanka); South America correspondent, The Times; Brazilian Embassy in London; Brazil correspondent, Paris correspondent, The Times; freelance (The Times) Imran Gardezi Pakistan foreign ministry; Pakistan Embassy (Hong Kong); general media affairs manager, Pakistan International Airlines; minister pres, Pakistan Embassy (Washington); press attaché, Pakistan Consulate (London); principal information officer, Pakistani government Angelina Grasso BBC External Services; Cambridge Community Television (Boston); scheduling editor, BBC Russian Service; community interpreter, CITAS and TheBigWord.com Mike Hall Freelance (BBC); editor, director, The Weekly Post (Lusaka); editor, The Tablelander (Australia); AAP (Sydney); editor, bureau chief, South and Southeast Asia, 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 (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 Mui Khi Lim Associated Press, Dow Jones (Singapore); Southeast Asia correspondent, Bridge Information Systems; editor, Singapore General Hospital Patrick McDowell Journalist, Associated Press (London); journalist, Associated Press (Paris); correspondent, Associated Press (South Africa); news editor, Associated Press (Bangkok, Thailand); Malaysia bureau chief, Associated Press (Kuala Lumpur); Asia-Pacific chief editor, Associated Press (Bangkok, Thailand); assistant bureau chief, Associated Press (Chicago); Southeast Asia bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires (Jakarta, Indonesia) Estela Moreno-Bosketti Unknown

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1988 Mojalefa Moseki The Sowetan; postgraduate studies (London); chief information officer, State Information Technology Agency (South Africa) Chizuko Muranaka International television marketing department, Sony Corporation; production coordinator and researcher, Tokyo Broadcasting System Europe; assistant correspondent, Yomiuri Shimbun; 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 coordinator, West Africa Radio; regional coordinator, 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 Aliaa Zayed London Oil Reports Winston Zulu Evelyn Hone College (Lusaka)

NEWSPAPER Sarah Borchersen-Keto Staff reporter, Dow Jones (Amsterdam, London); 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 desk, Reuters (London) Katharine Capocci Food and drink editor, The Journal (Newcastle); Loved Up; Luxe Dolly Chadda Reporter, Croydon Advertiser; 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 Junior reporter, Hull Daily Mail; senior reporter, Blackpool Evening Gazette; editor, Rangers News; sub-editor, Scottish Daily Mail Alastair Dalton Reporter, deputy news editor, Dunfermline Press; reporter, Aberdeen Evening Express; news reporter, science and transport correspondent, The Scotsman and

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Scotland on Sunday Matthew Eltringham Reporter, health correspondent, assistant news editor, Western Morning News; news editor,The Doctor; producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; desk producer, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4; Westminster planning editor, BBC News; programme editor, senior producer, Breakfast with Frost, BBC; assistant editor, interactivity and social media development, BBC; executive editor, BBC College of Journalism Katharine Everitt Assistant chief subeditor, food and drink editor, The Journal (Newcastle) Suzanne Gamble (née Swan) Higher level teaching assistant, Templefield Lower School; French teacher, Bedford Lower School; primary school teacher, Shire Foundation (Luton) 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 Farming editor, Western Morning News; news reporter, political editor, Farmers Guardian; news correspondent, Farmers Weekly; senior press officer, Department of the Environment; communication officer, climate change desk, strategic communications advisor, external communications advisor, project manager, Defra; national account manager, Natural England Anna-Marie McFaul Reporter, Northampton Chronicle and Echo; Ballymena Guardian; deputy head of content, head of features, Irish News (Belfast); freelance (Irish Daily Star, BBC,That’s Life); freelance producer (BBC); media trainer, Nua Media; radio news producer, BBC NI Michaela Miller Animal World; 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 Production trainee, documentary features, BBC TV; co-editor, New Internationalist; freelance film producer, director (BBC, Channel 4); course leader, MA Documentary Film, University of Arts London Stephen Sheppard Northampton Chronicle and Echo; Money Week; copy editor, Bridge News; 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, Birmingham Post; 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 Newham Recorder; Daily Mirror; assistant news editor, The People; website producer, Channel 4; freelance (Sunday Mirror,The Mail on Sunday, Channel 4); web producer, director of web design and editorial, 72 Dots; news editor, The Argus; freelance Robert Tait Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Glasgow Evening Times; Washington correspondent, The Scotsman; Turkey correspondent, Iran correspondent, The Guardian; Middle East correspondent, The Daily Telegraph Sally Trelford Airport Magazine; deputy editor, associate editor, Meetings & Incentive Travel (CAT Publications) Richard Warry Croydon Advertiser; GP; Doctor; health editor, BBC News Online;

assistant editor, BBC News

PERIODICAL Simon Aldous Production editor, INTRA; Best; PR, National Asthma Campaign; head of PR, Royal Society; director of policy and public affairs, National Child minding Association; CEO, National Care Association; chief sub-editor, Building Design; freelance sub-editor; teacher Helen Brown Reading Evening Post; She; BBC Sport; sub-editor, Radio Times; production editor, chief sub-editor, Cosmopolitan; production editor, Zest; contributing editor, National Magazine Company; Redwood publishing; community manager, associate editor, Mumsnet; deputy editor, Immediate Media Phyllida Brown Freelance (New Scientist, BMJ, WHO, UNICEF); MA studies, University of Exeter; freelance (New Scientist) Kevin Buckley National Student Extra; freelance football writer (FT.com, The Guardian,The Observer) Caroline Bullough Assistant editor, Furnishing; sub-editor, BSB TV Month; chief subeditor, BBC Clothes Show Magazine; director/ managing editor, Harlyn Publishing; freelance Ed Buscall Televisual Magazine;Television Week; assistant editor, Current Affairs and Business Programme, BBC; farmer; chairman, Norfolk branch of the Country Land and Business Association Marti Colley-Illueca UNEP (Nairobi); freelance translator Stephen Duffy South Wales Echo; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News Online Paul Dunt News reporter, Express and Echo (Exeter); press officer, Essex Police; BBC (Essex); documentary producer, BBC TV; producer, director, Inside Out; BBC TV Norwich; BBC Current Affairs Jemima Gibbons Sky Sports News; Brazen Radio; ITV; creative director, MD and Founder, Interactive Knowhow; head of social media, All About Brands; technology strategy programme board member, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts; Manufactures and Commerce; social media manager, Timewise Jobs; freelance social media strategist; social media advisor, 3Space; author; lecturer Nick Gibbs The Woodworker; Good Woodworking; Future Publishing; owner, Fresh Wood Publishing; editor and publisher, British Woodworking; Living Woods; Smallwood Richard Handford Communications magazine; Financial Times; freelance (Financial Times,Wall Street Journal); content editor, Mobile Money Live and Mobile Health Live Christopher Histed General manager, Sky Interactive Production, BSkyB; vice president, FT.com; director of strategy and UK general manager, Silicon Media Group; CEO, Parliamentary Communications; nonexecutive director, Public Technology; panels warden, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; co-founder, public sector advisor, Publitas Consulting LLP Nigel Holtby Studio photographer; yoga teacher; photographer Ricky Kelehar Marketing Week; Campaign, BBC TV; Channel 4; producer and director, Chrysalis TV; executive producer, factual entertainment editor, BBC TV; head of factual programmes, North One Television; head of factual entertainment and US formats, IWC Media Kathryn Kirby Lawyer Tom Loxley BBC Magazines; editor, XL Magazine; editor, Stuff; editor-in-chief, Maxim; editor, Maxim Fashions; editorial consultant, IPC media; associate editor, executive editor, Radio Times Caroline Merz Researcher, ITV; New Statesman; freelance writer, book editor;

web author, editor, content consultants; selfemployed counsellor and psychotherapist; researcher (Early Cinema in Scotland), Edinburgh University; 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 Freelance (The Guardian, Independent on Sunday,The Sunday Times, The Observer); student, space science and astronomy, Michigan University; journalism fellow, science and environment correspondent, BBC News; media training, Astrium UK; media training, Wellcome Trust; freelance (BBC Radio 4, The Sunday Times, European Space Agency); partner, writer and broadcaster, Boffin Media; producer, Natural Environment Research Council; science writer, Ecorys UK David Pilling Chile correspondent, Argentina correspondent, deputy features editor, pharmaceuticals correspondent, Tokyo bureau chief, Asia editor, assistant editor, Financial Times; author Mike Power Copy editor, Sofia Press Agency; freelance (BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, CBS, Time); editor, New Times; senior campaigns officer, TUC; communications and marketing, Unionlearn Nick Pyke Deputy news reporter, news editor, Times Education Supplement; deputy news editor, Independent on Sunday; freelance (Independent on Sunday, Times Educational Supplement, The Tablet); deputy features editor, review editor, The Mail on Sunday Caroline Smith Managing editor, Harlyn Publishing; freelance sub-editor, acting production editor, Easy Living; acting managing editor, chief sub-editor, Condé Nast Robin Stummer Independent on Sunday; The Guardian; freelance (The Observer, New Statesman, Independent on Sunday,The Guardian); staff journalist, Guardian Weekend; staff journalist, Independent on Sunday; founding editor, Cornerstone; commissioning editor and writer, Quintessentially Caroline Sweetman Shoeshoe magazine, Unicef; West Side (London); editor, Journal of Gender and Development, Oxfam UK Frances Tennyson Sounds; NME Audrey Thompson Hornsey Journal; Pulse; deputy features editor, Community Care; press officer, Tower Hamlets Council; news and feature writer, Greater London Authority; freelance Jane Tyler Redditch Advertiser; Bristol Evening Post; Wolverhampton Express & Star; senior reporter, Birmingham Evening Mail Hilary Wood Nun

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RADIO Carolyn Atkinson Leicester Sound; Radio Trent; BBC Radio 1, You and Yours, BBC Radio 4 Gillian Baxter BBC TV Leeds Charlotte Blofeld ILR Radio Broadland; BBC Radio 1; Atlantic Productions; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Millennium History Project; project executive; BBC Learning Andrew Chetham BBC Radio Lincolnshire; BBC World Service; telecom specialist, South China Morning Post; producer, presenter, BBC News; Managing VP, Gartner Mia Costello Newsgathering editor, producer, editorial lead, BBC South; managing editor, BBC Radio Solent; editorial leadership, BBC; programme leader, BBC College of Journalism; freelance journalist, media consultant and trainer

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1989 Jonathan Dobbs GWR Radio (Bristol); freelance (Australia); agricultural engineer, director, Boston Tractors Same Giselle Green (née Finlay) BBC Radio Cambridgeshire; BBC Radio 4; freelance; reporter, BBC Cambridge; reporter, BBC London; producer, World at One/PM; head of News, Siobhan Benita for Mayor Campaign; media consultant Miles Harrison BBC Radio Leeds; BBC Radio Sport; rugby union commentator, Sky Sports; author Neil MacDonald Channel 4 Business Daily; BBC Business Breakfast; business producer, Channel 4 News Sarah Oloway BBC Radio Julie Osborne Assistant producer, BBC; producer, London Weekend Television; producer, GMTV; office manager, Strikeward; office manager, CoverVersio; director, Holiday Heat Simon Wilson BBC Radio Essex; reporter and producer, BBC World Service; producer and presenter, BBC Radio 5 Live; producer, BBC Six O’Clock News; senior producer, BBC (Brussels); senior producer, BBC Middle East Penny Wrout BBC South and West; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Radio 4; BBC South East; home affairs correspondent, communities editor, BBC London; project manager, producer, Elbow Production; arts, media and events producer, LandSky CIC

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Anne Augustine Westminster Social Services; Microsoft; head of sustainability, Edelman Banu Avar Avar/Onuk Productions; producer,TV8; freelance Gladys Ayache Freelance (Paris); global assets, Bankers Trust Clarence Boom Unknown Philippa Bourke Freelance (USA, Japan); Japan Times Beth Burnard Unknown Magali Christol Unknown Sof Efuk BBC Africa Service Everest Ekong Founder, managing director, publisher, Business in Africa 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, UBC associate professor Vusi Khumalo Died 1993 Penelope Koufopoulou Newscaster, Tele-City; teacher Franz Kruger East Cape News Agency (South Africa); South African Broadcasting Corporation; senior lecturer in journalism, Wits UN (South Africa); freelance, Daily Mail, The Guardian; web editor, journalism.co.za; novelist Liliane Landor Researcher, Channel 4; BBC World Service; head of programmes, BBC; controller of language services, Global News, BBC Evridiki Makariou, Editor, Hellenic RadioTelevision; 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); retired Hilifa Mbako Communications director, 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

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Insurance Namibia Rashid Meer Died 1995 Xiao-Shu Meng Bromley Times; China News; Yanhuang Chunqiu Omer Mohamed Freelance Adam Mwakangata Stringer, BBC (Tanzania) Ellen Nakashima Quincy Patriot Ledger (Boston); Hartford Courant; south east 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 Media & Communications Ali Qassim Marketing Week; freelance (Spain, Latin America) Margaret Roberts Which Way to Health; freelance, Consumer’s Association, 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 Freelance, Christian Science Monitor (San Francisco); researcher, producer; CTV Barbara Smit Reporter, European Business Today; Amsterdam correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; freelance writer; novelist Kayode Soyinka Editor-in-chief, publisher, Africa Today Yann Tessier Sub-editor, money desk, correspondent, Reuters (Milan, Rome); correspondent, senior producer, senior editor of the Day, Thomson Reuters Sandy Trivieri (née Lafrate) Freelance; Canadian Business Life Anne Vander Zijl Haague Post; HP/De Tijd BV (Amsterdam) Jenny Verster Panos; freelance (South Africa); ReSource (South Africa); Frameworks; Barker McCormac Advertising Rosy Voudouri ET3 (Greece); SKAI TV; BBC World Service; Makedonia (Thessaloniki); BBC World Service 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 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; freelance (Australia) Susan Campbell The Scotsman; freelance Sergio Casci Lennox Herald; BBC Glasgow; BBC Scotland; freelance scriptwriter; Bard Entertainment Robert Cole The Independent; city desk, Evening Standard; deputy business and tempus editor, leader writer, The Times; assistant editor, Reuters Breakingviews Antony Dore Bristol Evening Post; Mail on Sunday; Times Educational Supplement; education correspondent, BBC Newsroom South East; BBC London News; assistant editor, 6.30 News, BBC; editor, London News, BBC Andrew Gilgrist Nottingham Evening Post; Design Week; Menswear; editor, RJ Magazine; business editor, Leicester Mercury; director,

House PR Marie Irvine Reporter, Belfast Newsletter; trainee, BBC Bristol; assistant news editor, producer, series producer, BBC Northern Ireland; production team, 4thought.tv, Waddell Media Ltd Catherine Jackson (née Short) Hull Daily Mail; teacher, Ackworth School Tim Jotischky Eastern Daily Press; executive news editor, Daily Mail; editor, Metro; editorial executive, head of sport, Daily Mail; deputy editor, The Sunday Telegraph; head of business, deputy editor, Daily Telegraph Tim Knowles Woverhampton Express; Daily Mail; news editor, assistant editor, Scottish Daily Mail John Lawrence Lancashire Evening Post; Yorkshire Post; reporter, night editor, Wolverhampton Express; assistant news editor, Daily Mail; editor, Femail.co.uk, Daily Mail; editor in chief, SPG Media Jason Lewis Home affairs correspondent, Birmingham Post; Daily Mail; chief investigative reporter, Whitehall correspondent, security and Whitehall editor, 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 Editor, High Fidelity; Haymarket consumer magazines; publishing editor, What Hi Fi; PR consultant; freelance 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, UKIP Gabrielle O’Neill Western Morning News; 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 Trainee, BBC News; 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 Eastern Daily Press; National News Agency; Daily Mirror; Daily Mail; news reporter, deputy editor, Insight; focus writer, senior news reporter, chief reporter, The Sunday Times Roland Watson Coventry Evening Telegraph; Central Press; Daily Express; Sunday Mirror; chief political correspondent, Washington bureau chief, leader writer, The Times; foreign editor, The Times Sarah Wilson The Scotsman; multi-media producer, ITN; journalist, Christian Aid; senior media specialist, World Vision

PERIODICAL Piers Alder Chief sub-editor; freelance writer and sub-editor; channel editor, Virgin Net; editorial director, Citizenship website; head of content, Circle.com; senior copywriter, content manager, editorial project manager, Euro RSCG Circle; head of copy, Dutton Merrifield; freelance copywriter Christine Alsford Southern Daily Echo; Bristol Evening Post; reporter, social affairs correspondent, Meridian Television Sarah Bailey 19; Chat; Just 17; freelance, The Face, The Sunday Times Style, Sky, Heat; editor-at-large, Elle; Elle Girl; deputy editor in chief, Harpers Bazaar; contributing editor, Harpers Bazaar (US); editor in chief, Red

Sarah Bancroft (née Wright) The Independent; sub editor, editorial production, Independent on Sunday; freelance editor and writer Fiona Beckett The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; freelance, The Times, The Guardian, Decanter, Food and Travel, Sainsbury’s Magazine; freelance publisher, Beyond Baked Beans; author and food journalist; columnist, The Guardian Adrian Brown Fulcrum TV; The Daily Telegraph; Agence France Presse; producer, editor, BBC World Service Ian Byrne Walthamstow Guardian; East Anglian Daily Times; The Sunday Sun; Daily Mirror; deputy chief sub, The People; subeditor, The Sun; deputy night editor, Daily Mirror Tanith Carey Ilford Recorder; chief reporter, Ealing Gazette; crime reporter, Brighton Evening Argus; women’s editor, features editor, contributing features editor and consumer editor, US editor, Daily Mirror; executive editor, American Media; executive editor, National Enquirer; freelance; author Sarah Courtenay Living; FCO William Dunn Editor, Liv magazine; Editor in Chief, Redwood Publishing Martina Hall Elle; freelance TV researcher; documentary producer, BBC History Unit; freelance producer and director Helen Halls Focus Group Newspapers; Solihull News; Birmingham News; Midland Weekly Newspapers; teacher; PR, Shell; promotions officer, Redditch Sure Start; media and communications officer, Redditch Borough council; campaigns officer, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Douglas Hayward Pontefract & Castleford Express; computing; Techwire online service; research analyst, Ouum; research manager, IDC 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); UNFPA; Save the Children Thomas Lappin Festival Times (Edinburgh); List Magazine; Scotland on Sunday; sports writer, The Scotsman; freelance Moyette Marrett Trainee, BBC; News Network (Budapest) 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 The Sunday Times; freelance Catriona O’Shaughnessy Record Mirror; Select; The Independent;Time Out; deputy chief sub-editor, Daily Express Jill Parsons The Lawyer; Bristol Mercury; Daily Mail; Mail on Sunday; freelance Mamta Patel GP; European Chemical News; Environmental Data Services; editor and co-founder, Chemical Watch Richard Pendry Freelance, TV producerIan Pollard Public Eye, BBC producer, BBC Watchdog; died 1998 Lynn Power Freelance, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, GMTV; Liverpool Echo; 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 BBC Bristol; BBC Wildlife; doctor; Pulse; Blue Water Films; Channel 4; managing director, Patient

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BROADCAST Sarah Barclay Youth Programme, Halfway to Paradise, Channel 4; BBC Scotland; film maker, BBC Panorama; founder, Medical Mediation Foundation Flora Botsford Essex Radio; senior producer, BBC World Service; Madrid correspondent, Sri Lanka correspondent, BBC; visiting lecturer, City University Nicholas Clitheroe Chiltern Radio; KCBC Radio (Kettering); Devonair; sports reporter, editor, BBC Midlands Jonathan Crawford Radio Aire; 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 Reporter and correspondent, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, BBC World Television (London, Brussels, Geneva); head of media, WWF International; director, ClearViewMedia (Video production and training) Tessa Duggleby County Sound Radio; Pirate FM; news producer, BBC Radio Cornwall; BBC Radio Devon; presenter, BBC Parliament; public affairs manager, Digital UK; communications manager, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals 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 Devonair Radio; TVSW; Central TV; presenter, north editor, Meridian Tonight; freelance presenter Dominic Groves Radio Orwell; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Westminster Susan How BBC Radio Kent Emma Howard Capital Radio; BBC Bedfordshire; BBC Radio 1; news correspondent, BBC Kimberley Littlemore (nee 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 LBC Radio; BSkyB; IRN; Radio Fox; Oxford researcher, University of London; lecturer, Open University; novelist Lawrence McDonnell BBC Kent; BBC Radio 4; BBC (Kiev); IRN (Moscow); ITN (Moscow); founder, Pravda PR Elizabeth Mead Press officer, Lord Chancellor’s Dept, Department of International Development Daniel Nathan Unknown Karen Van Vuuren News, Superchannel (Germany)

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Central Jane Silley Video Trade Weekly Deborah Sawyer Nursing and law student; doctor; Nursing Times; teacher Andrew Thomas Packaging News; British printer; Cowise; managing editor, Tarsus Group Audrey Thompson Freelance; editor, Hounslow Matters Jim Valentine Transportation and shipping; director, Jayhawk Andrew Wilson New Woman; Mizz;19; freelance, Daily Mail,The Sunday Times,The Independent; biographer, writer, Night and Day, Mail on Sunday David Wood Gloucestershire Echo; Evesham Journal Series; Redditch Advertiser sub-editor, Newsquest (Worchester)

GLENN MOORE Football Editor, The Independent; Newspaper, 1986 Fondest Memory of City?

The social aspect: nights out trying Fleet Street pubs in the hope the magic would rub off.

Lunches in a local caff. Friday lunchtimes after the sports specialism, when visiting tutor Charlie Burgess, would regale us with tales of the industry while picking up the tab.

Best thing about your job?

Watching live sport, writing about it, and the variety.

Annabelle Waller Freelance Beverley Webb Eurosport TV; Sky News Sean Webster BBC Radio York

1990 INTERNATIONAL Jan Herman Baas De Echo (Amsterdam); Brabants Nieuwsblad (Breda); Gooi en Eemlander Sandra Baptiste Freelance Nadia Bilbassy Local officer, ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross; reporter, Agence France Press; trainee, BBC Arabic Service; reporter, The Independent; Chief of the African Bureau, MBC TV; senior correspondent, senior diplomatic correspondent, Al Arabiya; 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 Spectrum Radio; Hellenic TV; Zoofilia ke Fissiki 201; Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia; NET/ET-1 (Athens); ERT/NET International Marta Escotet Spanish magazine; director of communications, MTV Networks (Latin America); international communications, AVINA Foundation; teaches mass communications at the University of Miami Fernanda Godoy-Fonseca Jornal da Tarde (Sao Paulo); Folha de Sao Paulo; national news deputy editor, O Globo (Rio de Janeiro); correspondent, editor, Infoglobo 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) Ministry of Education; internet editor, project manager, NRK (Norway); project manager, multimedia journalist, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Thalia Kartali Foreign news desk, ET (Greece); foreign news desk, Katherimini Amina Khairy Sawt Al Kuwait (London); Al Hayat (Cairo)

Most memorable interview?

When I talk at schools, the kids (or teachers) are impressed by the names; people like David Beckham, Pele and Elton John.

But sometimes it’s the location (Ivano Bonetti in the laundry room at Grimsby Town), the timing (Alex Ferguson on Christmas Day), or the subject’s enthusiasm (Bobby Robson actually moved around the salt, pepper and ketchup to illustrate a point), which make an interview memorable. Steve Tshwete

Trish Knight Chernecki UTV (Vancouver); consultant, TKC Communications; senior manager, Property Services at Carrera Management Corporation (Vancouver); public and media relations consultant, TKC Communications Jane Kokan Freelance; Financial Times TV; video journalist and director, Cross Border Productions; freelance journalist, camerawoman and director (Vancouver) Kyriacos Kouros, Cyprus News Agency; deputy head of mission, Cypriot embassy in Greece; first secretary, Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs; career diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cyprus); ambassador, Cypriot Embassy in Netherlands; Cypriote Permanent Representative, OPCW Pearl Lee Communications lecturer Marla Levy Writer, owner, Brave New Worlds (Vancouver) Maritza Luque de Gonzalez Metal Bulletin; Ansa News Agency (Rome); Bloomberg (Lima); teacher, English for business and English for journalists, Universidad Del Pacifico (Lima); lecturer, Universidad Del Pacifico Nicholas Lyne Time Out Guide; advertising company (Madrid); Words and Pictures; EFE (Madrid); managing editor, English language edition, El Pais; author Paulo Lyra Brazilian news agency; communications co-ordinator, Latin America, World Wide Fund for Nature; consultant, Internatio; advisor, WHO; communications director, Pan American Health Organisation Andrew Marshall Tokyo Journal; freelance (Tokyo); Time; author Anita Mielewczyk CBC Radio; Fifth Estate; CBC TV (Toronto); producer, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; lawyer Elizabeth Mitsani Ermis Mass Media; Foundation for Hellenic Culture (Athens); press officer, Hellenic Foundation for Culture Kulbir Singh Natt Radio (Netherlands); BBC World Service; BBC worldwide Television (Hindi Department) Maria Panagiotopoulou BBC World Service; Sky TV (Athens); head of the press office for Athens and Epidaurus, Hellenic Festival SA Sofia Polhammer Nyhetsbyrab Direkt (Stockholm); Gramma; financial, political reporter and assistant news editor, Nyhetsbyrån Direkt Grazia Romani Marketing Week; Il Picolo (Italy); European Commission Geraldine Sartin Agence Centrale de

was arguably the most impressive individual, but I doubt I’ll ever forget bowling in the nets with Dennis Lillee, or going sailing with Ben Ainslie.

What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

My first boss, the legendary Reg Hayter, gave me two tips.

The first, C.P Scott’s dictum, “Comment is free but facts are sacred.” The second, wear two pairs of socks in football ground press boxes from November to March.

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Presse (Paris); Liberation; Courrier International; teacher; InfoMatin; Les Echos; Ivry My City; editor, A Bagnolet (Paris); author; translator; freelance Rainer Schmidt BBC World Service; Zeit; deputy editor, Der Spiegel (Hamburg); deputy editor; MAX Magazine; deputy editor, Park Avenue Magazine editor-in-chief, Rolling Stone, Musikexpress, Sounds Samuel Serwanga Head of human resources and editorial manager, New Vision (Kampala) Elana Shap Freelance, Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Report, Retail.com; editor, Essence Magazine; Haaretz International Herald Tribune; style coach Georgios Terzis Freelance; editor-inchief, Touristiki Chalkidiki; editor-in-chief, Maties sin T; assistant producer, Argo TV; correspondent, Greek State Radio; 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 Oil magazine; communications teacher (Fiji); EU and Nato correspondent, RFI;deputy head of the economic service, Radio France International; advisor, Radio Stoplus (Serbia); 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)

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NEWSPAPER Samira Ahmed Trainee, BBC; BBC World Service TV; BBC Newsnight; Deutsche Welle TV (Berlin); BBC News 24; presenter, reporter, Channel 4 News; freelance Matthew Bigg Press Association; Good Shepherds Mission; senior producer, sub editor, Reuters (Ivory Coast, Nairobi, London); bureau chief, Reuters (Indonesia) Melanie Birch Bournemouth Evening Echo; editor, Scripture Union; freelance, Christian Press Rachel Borrill The Independent on Sunday; Irish Times (London); Ireland on Sunday; Irish Examiner Yossarian Brain Coventry Evening Telegraph; Bolivian mountain guide and travel author

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died 1999 Yolanda Brooks (née Day) Winchester Gazette; RSPCA publications; Cambridge Evening News; Hobson Publishing; resources editor, commissioning editor, deputy editor, Times Educational Supplement; freelance, Daily Mail Severin Carrell The Scotsman; lobby journalist, Scotland On Sunday; home news journalist, Independent on Sunday; Scotland correspondent, The Guardian Robert Chote Economics columnist, The Independent; economics editor, Financial Times; speechwriter and adviser, International Monetary Fund; director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility; The Times Robert Chote Economics columnist, The Independent; economics editor, Financial Times; Times; speechwriter and adviser, International Monetary Fund; director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility Mandy Garner Book Researcher; P.E.N. International; Enfield Gazette; social affairs, BBC News; features editor, deputy editor, Times Higher Educational Supplement;editor, Working Mums Alexandra Goodwin Eastern Daily Press Michael Harvey Press Association; Daily Mail; news editor, features editor, The Times; communications director, Bite Communications Alex Hunt Gloucester Echo; Liverpool Echo; politics editor, BBC News Online Emma Jones BBC Watchdog; producer, The Money Programme, BBC; entertainment reporter, BBC Breakfast; blogger, Huffington Post Karl Lindemann Associated Press (Warsaw, Bonn) Marianne Macdonald Yorkshire Post;The Independent;The Observer, Life; The Mail on Sunday; features, The Sunday Telegraph Vincent Moss Bristol Evening Post; Mail on Sunday; freelance, Sunday Mirror, The People, House of Commons; political editor, Sunday

Mirror Heather Prentice Visnews; UPI (London); Agence France Presse (London); correspondent, Reuters (Milan); Sportswear International (Milan) Gillian Sanders Southern Evening Echo; Childline; Oxford University Press Darius Sinai Johannesburg Star; Agence France Presse (Johannesburg, Cyprus); The European; The Independent; Esquire; editor, Gold, Escape, editor-in-chief, contract publications, editorial director, Condé Nast Lesley Thomas The Voice;The Sunday Times; features editor, Life magazine; features editor, Daily Express; editor, Daily Express Magazine; 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 Media Week; Evening Standard; London News Radio; freelance, Wallpaper, The Face, Sunday Times, GLR 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 The Independent; The Face; contributing editor, Evening Standard; GQ; cultural consultant, The Face; freelance, (The Observer,The Daily Telegraph,The New York Times,Vogue, GQ); author Karen Benveniste BBC Pebble Mill; BBC Newsround; Take Two; Fan TC; TV producer, Capricorn; series producer, BBC Crimewatch; director,Vanilla Film Production Julian Blake Inside Housing; editor, Roof Magazine; editor, London Bulletin; corporate communications manager; commission for

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GERALDINE HOLDEN Senior Web Manager, Wellcome Trust Newspaper, 1987 What is your best memory of City?

The best part was definitely shorthand with Harry Butler - even back then he was like something from a different age.

Who has been your most memorable interview?

For the most part I’ve been on the production and editing side of things rather than news gathering, but at Mumsnet we had one live chat which caused a hoo ha with the Duchess of Cambridge. We assumed most people would know that it wasn’t the real Duchess of Cambridge, but they didn’t and it caused a lot of controversy.

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What’s your favourite thing about your job?

They have big plans for the website. It’s very collaborative, which is exciting, and I’m looking forward to learning new skills.

What advice would you give to other digital journalists Be a team player - if you’re doing digital you need to work as a team to create a better product. It’s rare that anyone has all the production and editorial skills needed to produce good content.

LUCINDA BORRELL

architecture and the built environment; editor, TechCityInsider; freelance Jane Bruton Chat; Wedding and Home; Prima; editor, Living Etc; editor, Eve; editor, Grazia Christina Bunce GP; director, Mediamedica; 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 Fascination; 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 Freelance; NHK Jules Japanese Broadcasting Corp; Just Seventeen; features editor, features director, Elle Decoration; editor, Mr & Mrs Smith (AsiaPacific); editorial director, DesignFizz Kathryn Godfrey Nursing Times; freelance health writer and editor; clinical editor, practice and learning editor, Nursing Times Siobhan Gonzalez (née Bullick) Arts reporter, BBC Scotland; features, arts and music, BBC (London, Cardiff, Bristol); freelance (Brussels) Michele Hart Director, Michele Hart PR Russell Hodson Unknown Tim Hollis Citrus Publishing; Hollis Directories; Asian Sources; Electronic News; 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 City Limits; Advertiser North London Group; Harrington Kilbride; People Management; editor-in-chief, Supply Management; editor-in-chief, Redactive Media Group; senior vice president, research, SCM World James Kingsland Medical Monitor; Doctor Magazine; editor, Inside Science; editor, New Scientist; freelance; science production editor, The Guardian; executive consultant, State of Flux Ltd Lee Kynaston Mizz; editor, 19; deputy editor, Men’s Health; freelance Amanda Linfoot Senior sub-editor, Media Week; deputy chief sub editor, House Beautiful; chief sub-editor, Marie Claire; the Guardian; chief sub-editor, The Times magazine Claire Maloney TV Quick; RSPCA; Paragan Communications; William Reed Publishing; freelance, Hello!, British Council, Ink; freelance Maria Manning New Statesman & Society; freelance Lindsay McClintock Copywriter; Ulster Grocer; The Grocer; retired Richard Miles Freelance; Computing; Money Marketing; the Guardian; 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 Evening Post; Hong Kong Standard; The Eastern Express; BBC Radio Jersey; States Greffe Jersey; Jersey Evening Post; Jersey Consumer Council; private sector PR agency; communications officer, Jersey Communications Unit; communications manager, sport & culture, Jersey Education John Mulvey Freelance; NME; music reviews editor, deputy editor, Uncut; Wild Mercury Sound Amy Raphael Editor, The Face; feature

editor, Elle; freelance, (The Observer, the Guardian, Financial Times); editor-at-large, Esquire; author Clark Siewert American Banker; lawyer Miriam Stoppard Lifetime; editor, Just For Nurses; programme leader, postgraduate diploma in professional writing, Falmouth College of Arts; John Thompson Local London paper; founder, owner, managing director, Mousetrap Publishing Services; publisher, journalism.co.uk; Mirror Tim Turner TV Listings; Runner’s World; deputy editor, Sky Magazine; editor, Barclays magazine; editor, Forward Publishing; senior account director, Wardour

BROADCAST Suzanne Balaban (née Levy) Trainee, BBC; features editor, The Big Breakfast, Channel 4; publicity director, William Morrow, Harper Collins; director of publicity, Scribner, Simon & Schuster; president, BMM Worldwide Malcolm Brown Mercury Radio; Star FM; London News Network; News Direct; correspondent, Feature Story News Agency; multi-skilled broadcast journalist, Feature Story News Emma Coker (née Cannon-Brookes) 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 Essex Radio; BBC TV Trails; Presentation, BBC Radio 4; BBC Marketing; 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 NBC Radio; intern, Channel 4 Moscow correspondent, East African correspondent, Asian correspondent, BBC Georgina Johnson Voice of Peace Radio Tessa Mayes Investigative reporter, Renegade Pictures; writer and filmmaker, Tessa Mayes productions Lainy Malkani (née Bridgelall) LBC Talkback; GLR; 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, Front Row, BBC Radio 4 Camila Reed Freelance; IRN Radio Stations; BBC World Service; Haznews; Packaging News; Metal Bulletin; UK Equities correspondent, commodities editor, Reuters; digital media director, MD communications James Westhead BBC Radio Kent; 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 Radio Hallam; BBC Northampton; community editor, assistant editor, acting managing editor, BBC Essex Caroline Wyatt Trainee (Bann, Berlin,

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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 Ilona Biro Features editor, Mexico City News; freelance; online editor, Rogers New Media; senior editor, AOL Huffington Post 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 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 Reuters; features editor, The Frontier Post; special correspondent, oped 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 Production assistant, CNN; deputy director, head of communications, United Nations Millenium Campaign Maritza Luque de Gonzalez Lecturer, Universidad del Pacifico; lecturer, ESAN (Lima) Kyriacos Kouros Head of Middle East department, Foreign Ministry of Cyprus Virginia Marsh Eastern Europe stringer, Financial Times; 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 Arts editor, The Voice; London Weekend Television; deputy editor, Sybil; 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 Akzo News and Views; Associated Press (Amsterdam); RTL4 (Amsterdam); Metro (Holland); freelance; journalism teacher Daan Van Lent Milieu Magazine; Food; FEM; De Week (Amsterdam); business editor, senior editor, Reed Business Information; investigative reporter, NRC Handelsblad; arts and culture

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reporter, NRC Jules Van Os Radio Newsservice (Amsterdam); National Broadcast Organisation (Amsterdam); Radio Netherlands; Storms Factory; journalist, editor, NOS Nieuws; senior press officer, Oxfam Novib Annajet Van Der Zijl HP/De Tijd; author Maria Vassiliou Unknown

NEWSPAPER Kamal Ahmed Lennox Herald; chief reporter, deputy news editor, Scotland on Sunday; royal correspondent, media correspondent, media editor, The Guardian; executive news editor, political editor, The Observer; executive editor, group director of communications, Human Rights Commission; business editor, Sunday Telegraph; business editor, BBC Topaz Amoore The Independent; The Sunday Telegraph; Daily Express; business and pleasure editor, Sunday Business Magazine; acting editor, The Sunday Times News Review; foreign editor, The Sunday Telegraph John Arlidge The Independent; news and feature writer, The Observer; freelance (Evening Standard,The Observer,The Sunday Times, Esquire) Christopher Bennett Freelance (Yugoslavia); Bloomberg Business News; The Mail on Sunday; editor, Balkan Crisis Reports; senior editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; editor, NATO Review; communications director, Deputy High Representative, Office of the High Represetative 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); crime correspondent, 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 The Sunday Times; The Daily Telegraph; Daily Express; diary editor, The Times; The Spectator; chief interviewer, columnist, diarist, The Sunday Times; columnist, The Observer; restaurant critic, The Telegraph Tania Glyde Freelance; novelist; freelance, New Statesman, the Guardian,Time Out London; counsellor Richard Good National News Agency; Agence France Presse (Paris); producer, Euronews; systems analyst, tuOtempO Simon Greenberg Hornsey Journal; The Mail on Sunday; head of sport, News of the World; assistant editor, Evening Standard; executive member, management and standards committee, global head of rights, News Corporation Martin Hennessey The Mail on Sunday; comedy and drama writer; freelance web journalist; managing director, The Writer Meg Hillier South Yorkshire Times; P&O Ferries; Newlon Housing Group; editor, Voluntary Housing; features editor, Housing Today; freelance PR; Mayor of Islington; member, London Assembly; MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Home Office minister;

shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change Shelley Jofre BBC Scotland; BBC Newsnight; BBC Frontline Scotland; reporter, BBC Panorama 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; writer Jane Martinson South Wales Echo; Financial Times; media writer, New York correspondent, city news editor, media editor, women’s editor, The Guardian Yvonne McKenley PR Joanna Nicholls (née Ralphs) Western Morning News; feature writer, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance; marketing director, Nicholls & Co Rebecca Pike The 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 Simon Rogers Centaur Newsl ers; The Lawyer; The Big Issue; deputy online editor, The Guardian; assistant news editor, editor, Life; online data editor, The Guardian; data editor, Twitter Kate Watson-Smyth The Independent; senior press officer, Railtrack; The Guardian; freelance (The Financial Times,The Independent) Rhys Williams The Independent Graeme Wilson Liverpool Post and Echo; The Scotsman; The Sunday Telegraph; political correspondent, Daily Mail; deputy political editor, The Sun; Press secretary, 10 Downing Street

PERIODICAL Eleanor Bailey Media Week; novelist Briony Barnett (née Sergeant) Postgraduate student; clothing company; freelance business editor of Simon and Mayo Show, BBC Radio 2; casting director, Common People Productions Anna Borzello The Monitor (Kampala); freelance (Agence France Presse); BBC; The Economist; The Guardian; 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; head of television development, Somethin’ Else Robert Carruthers Freelance consultant; deputy news editor, Drapers; freelance, The Times, Management Today Lucy Cavendish Freelance (Options; ES Magazine; The Sunday Telegraph; Observer Food Monthly); columnist, celebrity interviewer, Evening Standard; columnist, Stella Magazine; novelist Michael Cooke South Wales Echo; Exeter Express and Echo; deputy news editor, Peterborough Evening Telegraph; deputy editor, Rutland and Stamford Mercury and Citizen; editor, Melton Times Kristina Cooper Coventry Telegraph; Hansard; Wokingham Times; lobby correspondent, Northcliffe Newspaper Group; producer, Today programme, BBC Radio 4; parliamentary programmes, BBC Marja Cooper Reporter, Today programme, BBC Radio 4 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 & 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 European Commission; freelance, Malta Business Weekly, Malta Times,The Economist; managing director, Contentworks.net; managing director, Strategyworks.net; 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 Evening Standard; Daily Mail; commissioning editor, T2,The Times; commissioning features editor, The Times; health editor, Daily Mail; commissioning editor, The Times; editor, Good Health; editor, Daily Mail Lee Harpin The Face; ID;Ticket; Daily Star; showbiz editor, News of the World; freelance showbiz reporter; deputy news editor, news editor, The People; news editor, Sunday Mirror Amanda Harrison PR consultant, Amanda Harrison Media Ashley Heath Fashion Weekly; The Face; Arena; editorial director, Ema Will Lewis The Mail on Sunday; Financial Times (London, New York); news editor, Financial Times; business editor, The Sunday Times; editor, The Daily Telegraph; editor-inchief, managing director (digital),Telegraph Media Group; group general manager, News International; chief creative officer, News Corp Maria Maguire Research assistant for Jeremy Corbyn MP; solicitor Diana McAdam Radio Times; Harpers & Queen; weekend section, gardening writer, The Daily Telegraph; comment and analysis, Financial Times Tina Merrifield NAAFI News;Wiltshire Institute for Child Health Research (Australia); communications, Lloyds TSB; senior communications officer, University of Saskatchewan; communications manager, Affinity Credit Union Gabrielle Mullarkey Best; Take a Break; Chat; Delia Smith online; Ideal Homes; Inspirations; Sainsbury’s magazine; Ms London; Girl About Town; launch team, Reveal; novelist; freelance Kate Naqvi (née Barnett) Editor, Amusement Business; editor, AB Europe; senior development editor, De Agostini UK; consultant, De Agostini/Phoebus Editions Ndidi Nkagbu Freelance; producer, LBC Eleanor Phillips Jane’s Defence Weekly; Equity; Channel 4 Rebecca Sillis (née Main) PGCE; journalist, Linguist Haznews; teacher, Northolt High School; PR Stefan Stern Corporate finance; International management; The Money Programme, BBC; Industrial Society; features editor, Management Today; senior editor, Financial Times; dynamo.com; contributing editor, Human Resources Magazine; freelance (Financial Times); The Daily Telegraph; Management Today; management writer, Financial Time; director of strategy, Edelman Catharine Utley Satellite TV; own business Simon Wardell Arts Listing Agency; Listings Limited Simon Warr Publicity officer, City of Westminster Council; publicity officer, Olympic Delivery Authority; press officer,

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Misbah Alvi Freelance; BBC Pebble Mill; Central TV; GMTV; executive producer, Entertainment Today Primaljit Bath Postgraduate studies; GLR; history unit, BBC Richard Bee Freelance, ITN (Meridian); producer, Question Time; political consultant, BBC; Caprom Productions; freelance producer; series producer, director, BBC Rosalind Childs VNU Business Publications; Financial Times TV Donna Cooper-Cliftlands BBC;Yale College; media lecturer,Wrexham; director of media curriculum, principal moderator,Thomas Adams School 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; producer, ITV Marc Goodchild Freelance; Fox FM; Chiltern Radio; BBC Radio 5 Live; Disney; producer, CBBC; series producer, Walking with Beasts; interactive development producer, executive producer, BBC Interactive Factual and Learning; director, Syncscreen; freelance (digital consultant) 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 BBC Manchester; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; Black Britain, BBC; BBC Breakfast; BBC Newsnight; BBC Holiday; 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, The Mail on Sunday Philip Smith Freelance producer and director, BBC, Channel 4, Oxford Films Dixi Stewart Chiltern Radio; Fox FM; BBC Radio 4; BBC GLR; Capital Radio;Talk Radio; 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 Nicholas Thatcher Parliamentary unit, senior broadcast journalist; BBC; BBC East Midlands; freelance Mathew Tucker Freelance (BBC Radio Sussex, Southern Counties, Meridian TV); producer, director, South Bank Show, London Weekend Television Simon Watkins VNU Business Publications; banking editor, city editor, The Mail on Sunday Caroline Wilson Radio Derby; lecturer in media studies, University of Central England; lecturer, DeMonfort University

1992 INTERNATIONAL Hadyat Abiola Newswatch Tesfaye Alemu Ethiopian Geological

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Survey; Ethiopian Insurance Corporation Efi-Eftihia Alexandridou PR,Thessaloniki John Amoateng-Kantara Die Zeit TV; 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; press office, Oxfam (Oxford) Mary Brazier Press and media relations officer; press officer, foreign affairs, council of the EU Philippe Brodeur (née Greystones) News Producer, BBC London; News editor, TV3 Ireland; director,TV3.ie; lecturer, Entertainment Masterclass; owner, HotAir Media; Director, Aertv Chizuko Broinowski (née Muranaka) Tokyo Broadcasting Service; Yomiuri Shimbun (London,Tokyo); senior research specialist; columnist, Fuji Television (New York); Fujisankei Communications International (New York); author, freelance journalist, translator, (Lausanne); Managing Director at Integral Media 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 The European; Zest; Cosmopolitan; Frank; associate editor, Vogue; The Guardian author special correspondent, Fashion File; Director at Cosgrave Global Media; Contributing Editor,Vogue India 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 Information Systems Department, Computergram; Overseas Development Agency; MBA student, CASS Business School; Enix Consulting; IBM; Consultant, Cisco Systems (UK, India); editor, NRIOL.com;VP business development, Rrap Software; Founder and Editor, Kwack.in Michael Dumiak Greenville News (South Carolina); 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 Lecturer, University of Mannheim; assistant professor, Johannes Gutenberg Universität; assistant professor, University of Missouri-Columbia; professor of international and comparative media research, University of Zurich Nina Hanssen Reporter, Arbeiderbladet (Oslo); Kenyan National Daily; freelance (Middle East); reporter, 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, consultant; translator/ kimono specialist Janet Kerlin Associated Press (Boston, Providence); Brown News Service; copy editor, Providence Journal; Web Writer, Bryant University;Writer/Editor, Johnston & Wales University (Providence) 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) Andrew McEvoy Executive director, Tourism Ballarat; deputy chief executive, marketing general manager, South Australian Tourist Board; director,Tourism Australia Adla Moukarzel Journalist, Flying Hands Production (New York) ADD 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); died 1995 Shiang-Tze Yeh Daily Express; financial controller, Sabah Publishing House Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)

NEWSPAPER Kate Alderson The Times; died 1996 David Anderson Chester Chronicle; Deeside Chronicle; South Wales Echo; football writer, Press Association; boxing and football correspondent, Daily Mirror James Bethell The Sunday Times; The Independent; managing director, Ministry of Sound Media; manager, strategy and development team, head of new business, Capital Radio; campaign director, Nothing British; director,Westbourne Communications Matthew Brace Norwich Chronicle; feature and travel writer, night reporter, news editor, The Independent; freelance, The Independent,The Guardian,The Times,The Observer, Sunday Express, Geographical Magazine Rachel Cooke The Sunday Times; The Daily Telegraph, Style; feature writer, freelance, Evening Standard; The Observer; writer, The Observer Amy Cooper News and Echo; Take a Break; That’s Life (Sydney); editor, B; deputy editor, Cleo; editor, Pure; freelance Ruth Davis Rex Features; Big Breakfast; Nothing But The Truth; September Films; Princess Productions; executive producer,The Weakest Link, BBC; entertainment editor,Tiger Aspect Productions Sharon Dempsey (née Copeland) Public relations manager; editor,TEC 2000; South Wales Echo; Red Dragon Radio; tutor; columnist, Irish Times health writer, Extreme Parenting; feature writer, Modern Mum; feature writer, Scottish Pharmacist; chief feature writer, Pharmacy in Focus James Gardner Agence France Presse; Intelfax; Independent Media Support; European Captioning Institute; head of sales, managing director, SDI Media; 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 Brussels political correspondent, 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; freelance, The Daily Telegraph,The Sunday Telegraph Christopher Lloyd The Sunday Times;

Springboard Internet; Immersive Education (Oxford); author Timothy Lusher Western Morning News; features editor, Evening Standard; columnist, ES magazine; editor, Guide, deputy features editor, G2, the Guardian; deputy features editor, the Guardian Natalie Meddings TV Quick; freelance, Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, Real, Eve, Cosmopolitan, She, Marie Claire Esther Oxford The Independent; Sunday Express; producer and reporter, Sky News; documentary maker, October Films; Mentorn Documentaries; founder of Oxford Media + Medicine Esther Oxford: The Independent, feature writer at The Express, feature writer, The Mail; freelance; director of Dispatches, Panorama, Unreported World Christopher Parker Liverpool Echo & Post; Daily Post; Daily Mail Weekend magazine; scriptwriter, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, EastEnders Mark Rowe Grimsby Evening Telegraph; foreign desk, Daily Mail; freelance (Independent on Sunday) The Independent Sanjay Singhal Trainee, BBC; BBC World at One; senior producer, BBC Newsnight; development executive, BBC documentaries; series producer, BBC documentaries; managing director, Dragonfly Film and TV Productions, Voltage TV Alex Smith International Financing Review; European equities chief correspondent, bureau chief (Spain), equities editor, Reuters; bureau chief, news, television, Reuters; Financial Industry Editor, Reuters Lucy Smy Citylines; editor, foreign desk, Financial Times; senior lecturer in journalism, Kingston University Harriet Swain Birmingham Post; deputy features editor, Times Higher Education; freelance (the Guardian,The Independent,Times Higher Education Supplement); visiting lecturer, City University London Rajeev Syal The Sunday Times; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; reporter, The Times; reporter, The Guardian Lauren Taylor Political correspondent and newsreader, news correspondent, ITN; news presenter, Aljazeera English Kate Townsend Director of documentaries,Yorkshire Television; freelance director, producer, BBC, executive producer, BBC Storyville (commissioning editor of BBC Storyville) John Verity Voice Communications; Money Marketing; personal finance reporter, The Independent; business presenter, Wake Up To Money, BBC 5 Live;personal finance reporter, BBC Tessa Walsh Yorkshire Post; International Financing Review; vice president, Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation; editor, Reuters 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 Agence France Presse (Paris); reporter, deputy bureau chief, Reuters (Brussels, London, Kuala Lumpur); author Nicholas C Compton Western Morning News; Classic Boat; Salty Dog Media; editor, Insight City News; editor, Boat News; freelance writer/photographer Nicholas P Compton Menswear, Arena; freelance (The Observer,The Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday); features director, Wallpaper Michael Day The Doctor; Nursing Times;

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(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 Premier Magazines; Dream Journeys; Business Life; The London Magazine; Signature; Retail Therapy; Alodis; teacher; proof reader; freelance (The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Olive) Martin Wood Financial adviser, Birmingham Post; 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 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 Freelance TV journalist; 20/20; series producer, Holidays in the Danger Zone; series producer, This World; executive producer, Cooking in the Danger Zone; producer, BBC Panorama; managing director, Plum Pictures Catherine Drew BBC Dorset FM; FSN Reuters (Washington); bureau chief, FSN Feature Story News Reuters (London) John Escolme Freelance newswriter and newsreader (Classic FM, GMTV, BBC Radio Sussex); producer, presenter, BBC World Service; presenter, BBC 1; BBC History and Heritage Suzanne Glass the Guardian; contributing editor, Frank; novelist Peter Gilbert Copywriter; freelance Nina Harrison-Bell Head of production, ITN; partner, h2glenfern Patrick Johnston Mercia Sound (Coventry); Capital FM; marketing and advertising Sally Johnston A Week in Politics (BBC); On the Record, BBC; BBC Newsnight Sandra Khadhouri Sky News; Euro News; CNN; Channel 4 News; producer, The Independent; media consultant, Iraq elections; election work, UN; media development, OSCE (Kosovo); communications advisor, British Embassy (Kabul)

Ronit Knoble BBC Children’s Programmes; freelance (Israel); BBC World Service; BBC Radio 4; BBC Radio 5 Live; head of development, Red Spider Television; Ghetto Productions; freelance development producer (CBeebies, BBC); owner, producer, director, Fantastic Films; director, Top TV Academy Natalie Maynes Corporate finance, BBC Belfast; freelance (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; fiction writer Natalie Savona English National Radio (Bangkok); postgraduate student; nutritionist; author; TV presenter Pauline Smith Producer, Country Focus; producer, BBC Radio Wales Franca Tranza PR, Survival International; PR, Marie Stopes; press officer, British Medical Association Rachel Watson BBC Radio Sussex; BBC (Brussels); BBC Newsroom South East; Cambodia Daily News

1993 INTERNATIONAL Sandra Akhtar ABC News; freelance Hassan Arouni Presenter and producer, BBC World Service Stetson Babb Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation; Barbados Transport Board; marketing and corporate communications, Barbados Water Authority; senior vice president, Barbados Tourism Authority; director, SIB Consulting Dan Bindman Law Society Gazette; freelance Jorg Burger Reportage editor, Tempo (Germany); lifestyle and reportage, Leben; editor, Zeitmagazin Andreas Cremer Market News International; economics and politics, automotive correspondent, Bloomberg News Glynis Crook Freelance, Agence France

Presse, EnviroNews, Deutsche Welle, Unesco, The Sunday Times, Radio France Internationale; producer, The Midday Report, Primedia 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, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Chloe Fox journalist , Adelaide Advertiser; Unesco magazine; Elle Online (Paris); SOURCES Magazine; Unesco Paris; Teacher; Member of Parliament; Parliamentary Secretary; Deputy Speaker, South Australian Parliament; Minister for Transport Services, Australian Government Naglaa Ghali Business reporter 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 Jan Gunnar Sandnesposten (Norway); teaching, Hart Publications; editor, European Offshore Petroleum Newsletter; news editor, Statoil Jane Hamilton (née Hencher) The Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario); Alumni Quarterly Magazine; president, See Jane Run Communications Angela Hennersdorf Editor, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, Wirtschaftswoche Marian Hens feature writer, The Guardian; Foreign news editor, El Mundo; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News; Global Corporate Communications, Amadeus IT Group Lukman Lyiola Concord Press; African Concord magazine; media consultant, Citigate Communications James Kanter The Cambodia Daily; journalism fellow,Yale Law School; Global Competition Review; FT Marketwatch EU reporter, Dow Jones; business reporter, International Herald Tribune (Paris) Miranda Korzy Australian Associated Press 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

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SARAH BARCLAY Founder of Medical Mediation Foundation; Broadcast, 1989 Fondest memory of City?

The camaraderie. The course was very small so we were a closely knit group, we all got on very well. Bob Jones, he led the course, he was an amazing character. He glued the course together.

Best thing about your job?

Teaching health professionals about communication and how to reduce conflict with family.

Your most memorable interview?

I interviewed Diane Pretty, one of the first assisted suicide cases. This was a woman who couldn’t communicate other than tapping with a finger on one hand on a keyboard.

At one point I asked her: “Isn’t life better than death”. She tapped out an answer,

“I am dead.” It was a powerful moment.

The most valuable journalism advice you’ve received?

Always ask one more question, or make that extra phone call. There’s always something that will make your story richer.

SAMUEL HORTI

medical editor, New Scientist; social affairs editor, Health; social affairs editor, Daily Express; health correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph; Italy correspondent, The Independent Sharon de Botte (née Beesley) British Dental Journal; Veterinary Record; editorial manager, Medical Education Network; editorial manager (Europe), Rogers Medical Intelligence Solutions; senior editor, Health Press Nick Edwards Which Computer; Local Government Chronicle; Supply Management; International Freighting Weekly; Planned Savings; editor, Plastics and Rubber Weekly; deputy editor and features editor, editor, Health Service Journal; editor, Construction News; general manager, CRU Group Charles English Gemini; Daily Awaz; The Independent; editor, Friday Review; arts editor, the Guardian; deputy editor, Saturday Guardian Harriet Green Media Week; freelance (Daily Express, Cosmopolitan); news features editor, Campaign; associate features editor, The Daily Telegraph; features director, deputy editor, Harpers and Queen; deputy editor, Harper’s Bazaar; Family editor, the Guardian Michael Hogan More!; Microscope; Just Seventeen; editor, Sky Magazine; freelance (Heat, Time Out, FHM, Marie Claire,The Guardian,The Face); editor at large, EMAP news magazine; editor, Zoo; freelance Elliot Lane International Construction; One Lime Street; freelance (Drinks International, Justdrinks.com); news editor, deputy editor, editor, Insurance Times; Head of Media Relations, CII; group PR director, Gallagher Heath; director, FWD PR Harriet Lane Tatler; feature writer, The Observer; freelance Adam Legge MIMS Weekly; Care of the Elderly; Nursing Times; freelance (Nursing Times, General Practitioner, Doctor , Hospital Doctor, British Medical Journal); editor, Equinox Nursing Magazine; communications consultant; media training; freelance Miranda Levy Cosmopolitan; Daily Mail; Sunday Mirror; features editor, Glamour; contributing editor, Grazia; freelance (Daily Mail, Glamour, Eve, Parenting); editor, Mother and Baby; freelance Nyta Mann The Morning Star; New Statesman; author; freelance (The Independent); Channel 4; UK politics duty editor, political correspondent, BBC News Online; assistant editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; adviser, House of Lords Robert Morgan Evening Standard; BBC Wales; senior producer, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; news editor, assistant editor, BBC Newsnight Pelle Neroth Freelance; The Economist; author; teacher; journalist, European Voice 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 Budapest Week; Financial Week (Budapest); Dow Jones; bureau chief, I-Net (South Africa); Bridge News; Bloomberg; engineer, Mi Danmark; freelance; engineer, Cabot Speciality Fluids Ltd; Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer at Kemtech Ltd Damon Syson Screen International;TV Quick; More!; freelance Axel Threlfall Bloomberg Business News; Wall Street Journal; anchor, Market Watch, CNBC Europe; media director and partner, ECD Insight; anchor, Reuters Lucie Tobin Columbus Press; Bliss; executive editor, Mizz; scriptwriter; deputy editor, Woman’s Own; deputy editor, Essentials Magazine; acting editor, deputy editor, Essentials Magazine Adrian Turpin The Independent; editor, ECOSl Ecosse; The Sunday Times; freelance

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DEIRDRE DEVLIN Executive Producer, BBC Northern Ireland; Broadcast, 1989 What has been your best memory at City?

One part of the course was the newsday where we ran as a radio news desk. We were given roles such as News Editor, Producer, reporter and everyone took it very seriously. Then, somewhere after the Christmas break, it all seemed to become second nature.

That was my best memory; realising I could “do” this.

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Alberto Letona Basque Television Jorn Madslien Reporter, Institutional Investor; reporter, Derivatives Week; reporter, European Business 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 Zandile Mbele South African Press Association; corporate affairs general manager, Sentech; MBA student, Durham Business School Lucy Szablewska (née Smout) Darlington and Stockton Times; BBC North; BBC Radio Newcastle; freelance Olivier Thibault Basque country correspondent, Agence France Presse (London, Paris, Milan, Madrid) Alexandra Zavis News editor, Associated Press (Africa)

NEWSPAPER Samina Baig Freelance writer, author and director Joanne Ball Freelance (South Africa) Sarita Bhatia Eastern Eye; news editor, Emmawards Anindya Bhattacharyya Waters Information Services Julie Cohen The Mail on Sunday Faith Collier Sky News; Associated Press TV; producer, BBC TV; producer, Pearson TV; media relations consultant, APCO Nancyella Daniel PC User; Microscope; Investors Chronicle; freelance Gareth Davies Chester Chronicle Hampstead and Highgate Express; sub editor, Highbury & Islington Express; deputy chief sub editor, 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 Sky News; BBC Manchester; Granada TV; associate producer, LWT Factual Faith Jennings BSkyB; head of international PR, Marketing and Trade show; Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Matthew Lawton Western Daily Press; Daily Express; football writer, The Daily Telegraph; football correspondent, Daily Mail Edward Luce Speechwriter; Delhi correspondent, South East Asia

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What’s your favourite thing about you job?

Since 2006 I have been working as an Executive Producer overseeing a fantastic range of output in the factual area here. It’s a busy, fascinating role which brings me into contact with a diverse range of people. I feel incredibly lucky.

Most memorable interview?

My first interview with the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Sir Patrick Mayhew. As someone more used to organising rather than conducting in-depth discussions, I was very conscious that I needed be rigorous and well informed. The interview went really well. As this was my first interview with a senior political figure, it stands out as memorable from that period.

SAMUEL HORTI

correspondent, Financial Times Harriet Martin Reporter, Aljazeera (Khartoum) Stephanie McKeown Oxford Mail Jojo Moyes The Independent; South China Morning Post; arts and media correspondent, The Independent; author James Munro Sports reporter, Sky News; sports correspondent, Communications Director, LTA, BBC Sara Naylor Evening News (Edinburgh); Daily Express; Press Association; assistant news editor, The Scotsman; 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-in-chief, Metro; director, head of customer publishing, managing director, Wardour Publishing Michael Paterson Reporter, The Scotsman; reporter, The Mail on Sunday; assistant news editor, The Daily Telegraph; HR, Guardian Media Group Emma Peacock Brighter Pictures; Turner Broadcasting; 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 Coventry Evening Telegraph; political reporter, Hampstead and Highgate Express; Coventry Evening Telegraph, Gillian Smith Chester Chronicle; Sunday Mirror Boris Starling Control Risks; novelist; screenwriter Nick Thorpe Author; freelance, The Sunday Times; The Daily Telegraph; the Guardian Nicholas Walker The Independent; PHASE Magazine Ken Wiwa The Guardian;Toronto Globe and Mail Gary Younge New York correspondent, feature writer, columnist, the Guardian

PERIODICAL Gary Allden Dubai Magazine; Airtrade; PR, Wolff Olins; PR, Smith & Jones Communications; corporate communications director, Gillette; corporate director,

corporate marketing director, Hewlett Packard 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 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 Freelance, The European Magazine; Europe reporter, The Politics Show, BBC; head of press, UK Information Office of the European Parliament 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, BBC Wildlife; 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 Rampeearee Agence France Presse; Agence France/Extel Financial; Bloomberg News (London); sub editor, Jerusalem correspondent, 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 can’t find 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 Shop Equipment News; Retail Week; Roger Bolton Productions; parliamentary officer, Age Concern; director, Parliamentary Contacts; managing director, Parli-training Stephen Overell Morning Star; People

Management; freelance, the Guardian,The Independent, Financial Times, Evening Standard; head of media, The Work Foundation Jonathan Paterson LBC Radio; World at One, BBC Radio 4; Up All Night, BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC News (Washington); senior broadcast journalist, BBC; senior producer, BBC Newsnight; assignment editor, deployments editor, world news gathering, BBC Debora Robertson Features editor, Homes & Ideas; food editor, food writer, Red; acting food editor, associate food editor, Waitrose Food Illustrated; food editor for Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall; freelance food writer, associate food editor, Red Lina Saigol The Guardian; Sunday Business; mergers and acquisitions correspondent, special correspondent, Middle East Crisis, Investigative correspondent, Financial Times Daniel Sevitt Telex Monitor Elisabeth Shackleton Hong Kong correspondent, Asia editor, Screen International Jonathan Sides Granada TV (sports); video producer, managing director, Paul Doherty International Lydia Slater Feature writer, Daily Mail; features editor, Sunday Express; The Daily Telegraph; features editor, Harpers & Queen; acting editor, editor, Style, The Sunday Times; editor, ES Magazine; editor, Style, The Sunday Times; contributing editor, Evening Standard; columnist and editor-at-large, Style, The Sunday Times; contributing editor, ES Magazine 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, Museums Journal Simon Targett Times Higher Education; education correspondent, Financial Times; editor, FTfm; features editor, Financial Times; editor, Financial Times Online; assistant editor, Financial Times; associate editor, FT Reports; editor-in-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 Dressage magazine; Nursing Standard; British Medical Association News Review; press officer, British Medical Association; deputy health editor, The Sun; head of media and public affairs, The Prostate Cancer Charity

BROADCAST Robert Ambrose BBC Radio Humberside; BBC TV (Leeds); training and editorial development manager, ENPS; Associated Press; media production senior consultant, Siemens IT Solutions & Services; media and entertainment industry director, Oracle Tanya Arnold Sports reporter, Look North, BBC Leeds Elizabeth Ayto Laverack West Country TV; GMTV; owner, NCI Management; managing director, Media Ambitions Public Relations Sarah Boxhall BBC West; economics unit, Business Breakfast, Working Lunch, BBC Helene Bradley BBC Radio Berkshire; BBC Travel News; office secretary, BBC; BBC

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Tracy Williams Beacon Radio; freelance

1994 INTERNATIONAL Paula Adamick Toronto Star; The Evening Standard; owner and managing editor, The Canada Post Furat Al Jamil University lecturer; information officer, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq; scriptwriter; filmmaker and artist, Buranunu Animation Studio Roberta Almeida Unknown Rukhsana Aslam Staff correspondent, News International (Islamabad); media and diplomacy advisor, British High Commission (Islamabad); assistant professor, Fatima Jinnah University; Hamdard Univeristy; chair, centre for media and communication studies, International Islamic University; Asian journalism fellow, Auckland University of Technology Alison Barber Agricultural editor, Western Morning News; editorial coordinator, agricultural journalist, Rural Press; senior water policy officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Australia); freelance (Currie Communications, Lonely Planet) Shadrack Bulimo Financial journalist (Nation, Standard, Kenya Times); civil servant; business owner; author

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Jayson Carcione Reuters (Mexico); subeditor, deputy night editor, The Irish Examiner 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 Claire Dowdy Reporter, news editor, features editor, Design Week; intelligence news editor, architecture news editor; freelance (Wallpaper, Phaidon Press) Thomas Eckert Mexico correspondent, Radio Canada Elizabeth Elder Consolidated Communications Management; Nexus Public Relations; PR, Elder Catering and Hospitality Organisation Alexander Fenby CNBC Asia; Lonely Planet; inSing; director, strategic digital initiatives, SingTel (Singapore) Carlotta Gall Stringer, Financial Times; The Economist (Russia and Central Asia); reporter, Moscow Times; Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent,The New York Times; 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 Overseas publication editor, The Gleaner Company; reporter, The Gleaner/Sunday Gleaner (Jamaica); editor, The Star (Jamaica); marketing and sales manager, Television Jamaica; General Manager, Television Jamaica Lucy Hawking The Daily Mail; New York Magazine; novelist; freelance, Daily Mail,The Daily Telegraph,The Times, Radio 5 Live Ayesha Ikram Unknown Pav Jordan The News (Mexico); The New York Times; Bloomberg (Toronto); commodities correspondent, Reuters (Mexico, Central America, Chile); mining reporter, The Globe and Mail; senior manager, media and public relations, BMO Capital Markets 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, NRCHandelsblad (The Netherlands) Leiv Lie Freelance, Rogalands Avis; Stavanger correspondent, Dagbladet (Norway) Anne Ligner Unknown Tosca Looby HTV (Bristol); freelance documentary maker; volunteer mediator (Sydney); freelance director, producer, writer (Textured Films, ABC, 360 Degree Films, Gertrude Films) Simonetta Nardin Reuters (Rome); media officer, International Monetary Fund (Washington) Hiroshi Otabe Supervising photo editor, Associated Press (Tokyo) Katja Pantzar Book review editor, Quill & Quire; senior editor, managing editor, Thomas Allen Publishers (Toronto); staff writer, producer, editor, Blue Wings (Finland); freelance, The European, Publishers Weekly, The Globe and Mail,The Georgia Straight,This is Finland, Focus Finland; author; freelance broadcast journalist,Yle (Finland) Milica Pesic AIN Agency; Radio Free Europe; FJ project co-ordinator; 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 Deputy-head of English service, Swiss Radio International; reporter, Swiss bureau chief, Bloomberg (Zurich); investing reporter, Bloomberg (Geneva); chief editor, ABB (Zurich) Zeng Shuping Publishing office, International Department of Ministry and Labour; editor, Chinese Trade Union Yvette Sitten The Sunday Times; Television Corporation of Singapore; Media Corp TV; producer, Wayward Media Astri Sivertsen Microscope; news editor, Statoil ASA; web editor, Norwegian Polar Institute; freelance Santhra Somanath Freelance Mineko Takiguchi Lecturer, Tsuru University Pemra Ulkumen Unknown Sandra Wolf Wolf Media Lounge Yuan Zhang Lecturer, Beijing Polytechnic University; broadcast journalist, China Radio International; 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 Thomas Chesshyre Freelance (Cambridge Evening News,The Times,The Independent, Sporting Life, Sky Sports, Daily Express, Condé Nast Traveller); travel writer, The Times; travel book author Glenda Cooper Feature writer, The Daily Mail; news reporter, health correspondent, BBC News 24; deputy editor, News Review, The Sunday Times; deputy features editor, Evening Standard; consulting editor (features), The Daily Telegraph; freelance journalist; PhD researcher, Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University London Warren Deutrom Freelance (Australia); Keith Prowse; project manager, 1999 Cricket World Cup; events manager, England and Wales Cricket Board; cricket events manager; development head of events, International Cricket Council; chief executive, Cricket Ireland Alex Dick-Read Freelance, Reuters and Associated Press (Caribbean); editor, The Surfer’s Path; freelance Sarah Ebner Graduate trainee, news reporter and feature writer, Daily Express; feature writer, Daily Mail; researcher, producer, BBC Newsnight; features correspondent, Press Association; editor, The School Gate,The Times; sports news editor and reporter, The Times Jeremy Ettinghausen Digital publisher, Penguin; creative director, BBH Sian Evans Metro; freelance Julia Gallagher New Statesman; New Times (Rwanda); freelance, Fabian Society; London Correspondents’ Service, Foreign Office Stephen Gee Eastern Counties Newspapers; Mentorn Barraclough Carey (Los Angeles); ITV Studios (Los Angeles); Author Victoria Graham Police Review; Upfront and Business; Screen International; Broadcast; Mizz magazine; sub-editor, The Daily Telegraph; sub-editor, the Guardian; news presenter, BBC South West Sebastian Hamilton The Sunday Times; Scotland on Sunday; Sunday Business; news editor, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday; deputy news editor, The Sunday Telegraph; news editor, The Mail on Sunday; editor-inchief 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; executive producer at Al Jazeera America Allister Harry The Voice; New Nation; TV editor, feature writer; freelance (New Nation) Annabel Hobley Producer, BBC TV; series producer, RDF TV; documentary producer, BBC; series producer, Rare Day Films; history series, Servants:The True Story of Life Below Stairs, BBC Two; series producer, BBC/Betty TV; executive producer & writer, Betty TV Luke Jacobson ITN training; News editor, Channel 4 News 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 London Weekend Television; senior producer, assistant editor, Ten O’Clock News (BBC); assistant editor, Six O’Clock News (BBC); assistant editor, Newsnight (BBC); assistant editor, Today (BBC) Ian King City Reporter, The Daily Telegraph; Business Correspondent, the Guardian; Senior Financial Correspondent, The Mail on Sunday; city editor, The Sun; deputy business editor, The Times; business and city editor, The Times; business presenter, Sky News Victor Kremer Managing editor, Power Finance & Risk; BondWeek; 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 Eastern Daily Press; Money Marketing; city desk, The Times; city desk, finance service editor, The Daily Telegraph; Deputy Business Editor, The Independent Alasdair Murray Economics/Brussels correspondent, The Times; deputy director, Centre for European Reform; director, Centreforum; senior advisor, Quiller Consultants Danny Penman News reporter, The Independent; freelance (Sunday Express, The Mail on Sunday); feature writer, Daily Mail; author; owner, FranticWorld Samantha Roberts Metro; Stafford Chronicle Sarah Shannon Private Eye; Evening Standard; Daily Express Christine Smith Reporter, Money Marketing; senior reporter, Broadcast Magazine; showbiz reporter, Daily Mirror; TV editor, The Sun; celebrity interviewer, Daily Mirror; Freelance celebrity interviewer Enver Solomon Producer, south east Asia correspondent, BBC World Service; reporter, senior producer, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4; press and policy manager, Prison Reform Trust; 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 Times; The Sunday Express; The Business; chief city correspondent, Daily Mail Clare Sumner Private secretary to Jack Straw, Home Office; private secretary to Tony Blair; performance and communications director, Her Majesty’s Court Service; executive director for civil service reform, Cabinet Office

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Director; Deputy Editor, CFO; communications and marketing specialist, Northern Arizona University; assistant director of communications and marketing, Colorado State University Nicholas Barber Rock critic, film critic, Independent on Sunday; freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, Intelligent Life, Economist, Metro) Alison Baycock Business Opportunity World; Retail Newsagent; senior writer, The Inside Page; director, consultant, Alison Baycock Communications Katharine Braham Warfdale and Airedale Observer Frances Brierley You; Pravda Advertising; freelance Elaine Carlton Assistant producer, Tonight with Trevor McDonald; London Weekend Television; Times Educational Supplement; News, city desk, Evening Standard; producer, Tonight with Trevor McDonald; freelance development producer; producer, development producer, ITV1 Jeremy Case NME; Walthamstow Guardian; Sky; Ministry; More!; Icons; author; assistant editor, Elle Girl; sports sub-editor, Sunday Mirror; editor, Wallpaper City Guides Matthew Coppock Walthamstow Guardian & Gazette; production editor, Sky; production editor, More!; chief sub editor, OK! Andrew Duck Camden New Journal; Top of the Pops; XL for Men; Ministry; The Face; deputy chief sub-editor, Esquire; freelance (Big Issue,The Observer,Time Europe, Grand Designs); copy editor/writer, TIME; visiting lecturer in creative writing, University of Brighton; freelance contractor, August Media; PR and communications manager, Active Sussex; consultant communications specialist Celia Duncan Freelance (i-D; The Face; Arena); deputy features editor, Screen International; features editor, Company; editor, CosmoGIRL!; editor, Jellyfish; head of special projects, National Magazine Company; acting associate editor, Vogue; deputy editor, The Times magazine Jonathan Evans Classic and Sports Car; Autocar; Racing Line; Stuff; deputy editor, What Hi-Fi?; editor, Jaguar Magazine; automotive group editor, Haymarket Media Group; managing editor, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision Tania Hershman Jerusalem Post; Tornado Insider; The Daily Telegraph; Business 2.0; Upside Magazine; BYTE; Wired; associate editor, Israel.internet.com; Israel Hi-Tech Investor; freelance technology correspondent, Wired; Israel News correspondent; freelance, (MIT Technology Review, Business 2.0, Jerusalem Report); Israel 2/c.com; [novelist deleted] writer in residence, Bristol University; short story writer; writing teacher; curator of ShortStops.info; PhD student in creative writing, Bath Spa University; Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2014-15), Bristol University Jeremy Hunt Features editor, Property Week; deputy features editor, Sunday Business; business profile writer, Sunday Express; property journalist, The Times; deputy editor, European business, Ink; vice president of communications, Sovereign Asset Management (Qatar); director, Bell Pottinger (Qatar); head of communications, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority; country manager, Regester Larkin (Qatar) Adeline Iziren Retail Jeweller; The Voice; freelance (the Guardian, Daily Mirror, CNN, Teletext, Evening Standard, Daily Mail); managing editor, Nang!; the Guardian; columnist, Candis; Financial Mail on Sunday; managing director, SmartGrads; editor, Smaart Advice; managing editor, Rise Media (Limelight Magazine) Isobel Jacobs Everywoman; Daily Mail; Green Guide to London; shopping editor, fashion editor, Metro; editor, Hot Style and Metro focus Andrew Johnson Inside Housing; freelance

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(The Independent on Sunday); deputy editor, Camden New Journal; reporter, The Independent on Sunday; editor, Islington Tribune; reporter, The Independent, i Newspaper Gemma Mitchell (née Heggs) Everywoman; Direct Marketing Agency; freelance, (Daily Mail, Big Issue); graphic designer, SS&K (New York) Zoe Moore Beme.com; Homes and Ideas; Daily Express; The Times; FHM Collections Samantha Oakley (née Clark) Daily Express; The Sun; Royal Academic of Art; freelance (Today, She, Cosmopolitan); exhibition organiser, Hermitage Development Trust; freelance exhibition organizer David Parsley Property Week; The Mail on Sunday; business desk, The Sunday Times business editor, Sunday Express; editor, City AM; founder, chief executive, Parsleymedia Morag Preston The Times; Daily Express; The Independent; Cosmopolitan; US correspondent, The Times; freelance (US) Nicholas Rushworth Agence France Presse; Euronews TV; France 3 TV; France 24 TV (Paris) Lorna Russell Everywoman; Sibyl; Time Out; the Guardian; Channel 4; freelance (The Face); assistant editor, deputy editor, Big Issue; MA in social work, University of Sussex; mental health social worker Emily Shamma Drapers; retail analyst, equity analyst, West LB Panmure; head of local sourcing, director of non-food planning, Tesco; director, clothing online, Tesco Joshua Sims Menswear; Shoe and Leather News; Financial Times; freelance journalist and editor, (Arena, The Face, the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent on Sunday,The Observer, Sunday Business, i-D, Esquire, Sabotage Times,The Times,Wallpaper,The Independent,The Hackney Courier); editor, Viewpoint Vanessa St Clair Freelance (The Face, ES Magazine); web journalist, British Airways Hi Life; freelance, (Tatler, the Guardian, Red, Thelondonpaper); author Nicki Symington Independent on Sunday; sub-editor, You & Your Wedding; House and Garden; Harpers & Queen; chief subeditor, Tatler; Special Project; Waitrose Food Illustrated; 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 British Society for Disabled Sports; Challenge Magazine; freelance (Sport First, Dressage magazine); British Tennis Foundation; freelance PR consultant and journalist (The International Tennis Federation); disability tennis press officer, The Tennis Foundation; freelance press consultant (Melt Communications) Alex Wijeratna Femail, Daily Mail; The Times; food rights campaign co-ordinator, senior campaigner, Action Aid; consultant and writer Sharon Wilkinson (née Speller) The Bike Magazine; Cycling Today; organiser, Labour Party Havering and Redbridge; antique shop and pizzeria owner Sarah Woodhead Fashion Weekly; Drapers; Menswear; channel editor, beme. com; editor-in-chief, iCircle.com; head of content, Wanadoo; digital media consultant; consultant digital director (women’s brands), Emap Elan; creative director, OSOYOU; director, Delightful Media; director, Jones & Jones Media Marianne Young (née Darch) The Times; Fairplay Shipping International (Singapore, London); diplomat; news department, head of great lakes section, Africa Directorate; head of East Africa and horn section, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; head of communications for the engaging with the Islamic World Group; 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

BROADCAST Victoria Breakwell Senior journalist, Severn Sound; senior journalist, news editor, morning crew presenter, community manager, GWR FM, Bristol deputy programme controller, 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 Freelance, Zenith, NBC News, World of Wonders, ITV Anglia; freelance producer (Juniper TV); series producer, Maverick Television Simon Coss television director, European Commission; staff reporter, European Voice; editor, Prezz; Europe correspondent, Business Europe; journalist, Expatica; writer, European Service Network; editor, Expatica; freelance contributor, European Voice; author, E!Sharp; freelance feature writer, Agence France Presse; freelance television director; freelance video journalist, Agence France Presse Lisa Costello Reporter, producer, LBC; broadcast journalist, BBC Three Counties (Belfast); senior reporter, General News Service; London correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland Elizabeth Davis Essex Radio; news reporter, Metro;Virgin Radio; broadcaster, Traffic Link; editorial assistant, Royal Opera House Joanne Episcopo BBC World Service; correspondent, BBC Madrid; BBC World Service (Spain); World Update, BBC; development executive for global languages, BBC Louise Evans BBC Radio Southern Counties; freelance (National Radio); press officer, Shelter; media relations manager, British Airways; director, Loop PR Catherine Gluckstein journalist/ researcher, BBC; international marketing manager, Reuters; vice president, audiobooks, Barnes & Noble; director of mergers & acquisitions, vice president of corporate development and international operations, Getty Images; chief financial officer, LIFE.com; president, SumAll; Advisor, Stocksy United; board of advisors, Graymatics Susan Haley BBC Radio Jersey Trevor Hodder Reuters Adam Holmes Journalist, producer, breakfast show, BBC Radio York Catherine Jones Mix 96 FM (Aylesbury); NewsDirect FM (London); IRN; ITN; health correspondent, Channel 5 News Wendy Jones Freelance, Southern FM; RSPCA; Meridian Broadcasting; researcher Joanne Littlehales Severn Sound Sharon Mascall-Dare (née Mascall) BBC Radio 5 Live; Euro News; columnist, reporter (Melbourne); presenter, producer, On The Record; BBC One Here & Now; BBC Radio Five Live; producer, presenter, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; lecturer, University of South Australia; freelance producer, reporter, BBC World Service; writer, managing director, Making Sense Communications; communications director, Spatial Scientific Technologies; military public affairs officer, Department of Defence of Australia Jeremy Monblat Researcher, assistant editor, editor, Public Eye; The Money Programme; BBC Panorama; BBC Four launch; producer, BBC; head of content and media, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Lisa O’Sullivan IRN; Classic FM; freelance

news and sports presenter, (talkSPORT,Virgin Radio, BBC London, Sky News) Rachel Ward Assistant Producer, A Week in Politics; political producer, Channel 4 News; political correspondent,Sky News; correspondent, GMTV

1995 INTERNATIONAL Christina Armondi Unknown Maria Armondi Unknown Sebnem Arsu Reporter, New York Times (Turkey); producer, APTV; TV producer, Thomson Reuters Oliver August The Times (London, Beijing, New York); Africa editor, The Economist Maxim Avdevich Moscow Times Sandrine Bates-Blanc Central Press; Discovery Channel; teacher Olga Betko Ranok Magazine; producer, BBC World Service (Ukraine); freelance broadcaster/media trainer/voice-over artist; associate producer, Ukraine’s Forgotten Children (BBC) Maria Benevides executive producer, Independent Radio News; public information officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; producer, BBC World Service (Brazil); communications officer, United Nations Development Programme; freelance, JOB Productions; editor, PlusNews (Portugal); head of communications, British Embassy (Brazil); consultant, ANDI (Brazil); owner, Quartz Communications Henriette Lockwood (née Borche) Director of marketing and communications, Tideway Systems; corporate communications manager, Cisco Systems; PR manager, Text100 Kenneth Borgenholt Editor, reporter, Danish Broadcasting Corporation; reporter, TV2 (Denmark); reporter, Ritzau (Denmark) Yevgenia Borisova Staff writer, St Petersburg Times; writer, Moscow Times Jayson Carcione The Irish Examiner; acting night editor, Thomson Reuters Brian Carroll Managing director, BBC; Triple Line Consulting 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 Political correspondent, Cols bleu; chief of political services, Associated Press (Paris); director of information and political communication, Conseil Régional Ile-de-France; web consultant, L’Association des régions de France Christiane Groner Unknown Kelly Hawke-Baxter Executive director, The Natural Step Kate Heathman Sub-editor and columnist, Liverpool Daily Post; freelance media trainer, Data TV; freelance production, Daily Mail (Manchester); owner, Kate Heathman Media Consultancy; freelance, Comment Magazine; senior journalism lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University Virginia Hristu Trade publicity officer, British Embassy (Bucharest); UNICEF (Romania); Piata Financiara (Bucharest); product marketing, Siveco Chia-yun Hsu Unknown Pav Jordan Reporter, Thomson Reuters; 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 Michelle Knapp Senior media advisor,

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1995 relation and communication strategy manager, Petro-Canada; 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 and photographer, Big Tree Communications Jonas Lindgren Unknown Dominique Le Roux (née McClarty) Editor, Out There; editor, Diversity; publishing manager, travel and tourism, Struik Publishers; business manager, Capture Life; director, Moonshine Media 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 Freelance (Brussels) Victoria Llosa Intake editor, Associated Press Television News Mary Longmore Reporter, Napier Telegraph (New Zealand); reporter, Evening Post (New Zealand); editor and journalist, Asia-Pacific desk editor, Associated Press (Sydney and Bangkok); journalist, New Zealand Press Association; freelance (New Zealand, Australia); communications manager, Philanthropy New Zealand 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 Freelance (San Francisco); San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times; US correspondent, Les Échos (France); campaign manager, nourish9billion. org; west coast correspondent, Radio Television Suisse Fazal Malik Research student, Nottingham Trent University; freelance (The Guardian, News International); station manager, Radio Faza (Nottingham, UK); 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; foreign desk news editor, Sky News Marina Michalopoulou Foreign editor, Ethnos Daily; foreign editor, Copy Magazine; foreign news editor, NET TV (Greece); foreign news editor; Athens News Agency Kayoko Miyamoto Unknown Natanya Mulholland Foreign correspondent, The Sunday Times; Times Media Limited; Cape Talk (South Africa); deputy editor, Fair Lady; publisher, Jonathan Ball Illustrated Books/Sunbird Publishers; freelance; editor, New Media Publishing Samuel Obbo New Vision (Kampala); chief news editor, WBS Television; news editor, The Voice; directory editor, Independent Media; copy editor, deputy editor, The Sunday Monitor; editor, director, media consultant, Alpha Media; Institute of Corporate Governance Hiroshi Otabe Associated Press (Tokyo) Joakim Palmkvist Sports reporter, sub-editor, reporter, Barometern (Sweden); reporter, Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten (Sweden) Enzo Pelosi Unknown Dorien Pels Local radio (Amsterdam); news reporter, Trouw (Holland) Sigrun Rottmann Associated Press (Frankfurt); Latin American correspondent, Frankfurter Rundschau; freelance journalist and consultant, ActionAid; broadcast journalist,

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James Harding Financial Times (Shanghai); media correspondent, Financial Times (London); Washington bureau chief, Financial Times; editor, The Times, director of news and current affairs, BBC Emma Hartley Western Morning News; sub-editor, The Times; author, associate editor, The Daily Telegraph; inventor, 24hourlondon. co.uk 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; screenwriter Adam Jones The Sunday Times; consumer industries correspondent, Financial Times; business life editor, Financial Times Victor Kremer Bond’s Week (New York); kibbutzreloaded.com; Derivitives Week; International Investors News; London bureau chief, executive editor, Institutional Investor News; director, Great North Road Media Inc Leyla Linton The Times; European Voice; The Express (Brussels); assistant foreign editor, Americas desk editor, The Independent; North America desk, Associated Press (New York Angharad Lynn (née ap Gwilym) Daily Express; freelance, (Daily Express,The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Prima Baby, Junior, She); solicitor, Buss Murton Law LLP Rifat Malik East; freelance (Eastern Eye); Ministry John Maslen Welwyn Hatfield Times; Hertfordshire Mercury; deputy editor, editor, supplement manager, and event manager, Fleet News; content director, Bauer Media; brand director, Sewells Jenny McCartney Prospect; columnist and film critic, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph

BBC World Service Inger-Johanne Saeterdal Freelance translator and editor Despina Taxiarchi Sales manager, Real Consulting 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 New media consultant, Bartels Verdonk Impuls/BBDO Amstelveen (Netherlands); account manager, Explainer DC; senior account manager, Bone Advertising; senior project manager, Proximity Pekka Vanttinen Freelance (Nordicum, Metro, The Daily Telegraph,Visio, Nokia, Image Magazine, Anna, Bisnes.fi, Northern Enterprise, Theatre; contributing editor, Image Publishing, Helsinki Happens; contributor, A4 Media John Walenga Indigenous People’s Business Council Andrew Webb-Vidal Plymouth Evening Herald; Bloomberg News; Latin America correspondent, Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review; Columbia correspondent, Financial Times

NEWSPAPER John Aglionby South East Asia correspondent, The Jakarta Post; South East Asia correspondent, The Guardian; Indonesia correspondent, Financial Times; International economy news editor, Financial Times; senior news editor, senior news desk reporter, FT.com Decca Aitkenhead Features writer, The Independent; The Guardian; author; columnist (The Guardian, Evening Standard); freelance, (The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph); interviewer, The Guardian Lucy Bannell Features Editor, Daily Express, Daily Mail; deputy consumer features editor, Glamour; deputy consumer features editor, deputy food and interior editor, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance project editor; cook book editor Elizabeth Baxter (née Searle) Communications manager, Natwest Bank; head of internal communications, Willis Corroon; consultant, Synopsis Peter Bennett European Chemical News; content director, World Broker (New York); equity research editor, product marketing, Credit Suisse First Boston; head of European merchandising, Goldman Sachs; equity research product management, Macquarie Bank Zoe Brennan Daily Express; Press Association; lobby reporter, The Sunday Times; media consultancy; columnist (The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph) Dominic Casciani Grimsby Evening Telegraph; BBC Westminster; senior reporter, producer, community and social affairs correspondent, BBC News Online; home affairs correspondent, BBC News Adrian Dalingwater Researcher, Stateside News (Washington DC); reporter, Western Mail; BBC Online; sub-editor, Sharecast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Sophia Ewen Reporter, The Voice; freelance; reporter, New Nation; housing and education correspondent, Pubic Finance; senior reporter, Investment Magazine, freelance committee writer, DeHavilland; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Humberside Carlos Grande Deputy editor, New Media Markets; reporter, Western Morning News (Plymouth); editor, Creative Business; senior companies correspondent, marketing correspondent, Financial Times; editor, thecreativeindustries.co.uk

Barry Mcllheney 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 Kathleen Nutt Trainee reporter, Western Daily Press; crime reporter, Edinburgh Evening News; reporter, deputy news editor, Greenock Telegraph; reporter, political correspondent, The Sunday Times (Scotland); freelance, The Glasgow Herald,The Times,The Tablet Leala Padmanabhan Researcher for David Blunkett; political researcher, Anglia/ Meridian TV; political producer, BBC World Service, BBC World TV; senior producer, BBC Philip Pank Agence France-Presse (London); freelance; foreign night editor, assistant foreign editor, transport correspondent, The Times Geraint Price Night news editor, The Mail on Sunday; publisher Simon Quicke Deputy editor, features editor, editor, Microscope Timothy Reid The Sunday Telegraph; The Sunday Times; news reporter, correspondent, The Times (Washington) Julie Stewart Edit UK John Weaver Sunday Mercury; Birmingham Post; Birmingham Mail; senior writer, Bucks Free Press; senior writer, news editor, BMA News Review; desk editor, Asia deputy sports editor, Agence France-Presse Matt Wells Edinburgh Evening News; The Scotsman; media reporter, media correspondent, media Guardian editor, launcher of Guardian audio department, US blogs and networks editor, The Guardian

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NICK CLITHEROE Sports editor, BBC Midlands Today Broadcast, 1989 Best memory of City?

We were the first intake of broadcast students. It was quite experimental at the time. Radio 5 was just about to launch, and they came in to see us, and asked to brainstorm ideas for what they could do on the channel.

Your favourite thing about your job?

When you get caught up in a major breaking sports story, for example when one of our Premier League teams sacks their manager - or when news came that the Jamaican Olympic team was going to be based in Birmingham,

and Usain Bolt was coming to the city to train. You’re rushing round trying to make sure that your version of the story is the best that goes out that night.

Your most memorable interview?

The then Wolves manager Mick McCarthy asked me if I wanted to step outside for a fight after he claimed I was giving him dirty looks during a press conference. I didn’t take him up on the offer.

What’s the most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

The best advice I received in radio was “Keep it simple, stupid”. In television it was “always use your best pictures first”.

SAMUEL HORTI

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AMY RAPHAEL Entertainment Editor, Daybreak, ITV Periodical, 1993 What has been your best memory at City?

I made some lifelong friendships with people pursuing the same career as myself. The best thing about City was the placements: I did one at The Face and was offered a job.

Best thing about your job?

Meeting people I might never normally meet. Being allowed to ask cheeky questions.

Your most memorable interview?

Kurt Cobain in my hotel room at 2am in New York the summer before he killed himself. The interview was for a Face cover story.

I waited around in an insanely hot city with Courtney

Love and baby Frances Bean for days before Cobain turned up. Nirvana played at Roseland that night and, finally, there was a knock on my door. We lay at opposite sides of a super king size bed watching Beavis and Butthead and talked till it was light. He was funny, gentle, angry. I was deeply upset when he killed himself, but not surprised.

What’s the most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

The best advice I ever got was not to give up. You’ve got to really want a life in journalism. It is, I think, a lifestyle and not a job. You never quite switch off.

JULIA RICHARDSON

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PERIODICAL Katie Agnew 19; B Magazine; freelance, Options; columnist, Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, Cosmopolitan; commissioning editor, features editor, Marie Claire; novelist Philip Baty Printing World; Print Week; chief reporter, The Times; deputy news editor, investigations editor, deputy editor, editor-atlarge, ranking editor, Times Higher Education Supplement Michael Broad Property Week; NGO Finance; deputy editor, Personnel Today; editor, Hospital Doctor; group editor, Community Care Matthew Brown Deputy editor, The Canmaker; English language editor, Pulse (St Petersburg); English language editor, St. Petersburg Times, English language communications expert, SL&C (Geneva); copy editor, World Health Organisation, Geneva Mark Cantrell World Textile Publications; The Internet Review of Film; PR, Bradford Against Injustice; book reviewer, Cheshire Today; novelist, Inspired Quill; PR, Pristley Centre for Arts; LMI Publishers; journalist, Excel Publishing Sarah Caplan Medical Information Systems Anne Cuthbertson Planning Week; Bangkok Post; The Sunday Times Magazine; property editor, home and living editor, life editor, The Sunday Telegraph Lucy Davies Press Association; Radio Times; BBC Good Homes; senior sub-editor, Marie Claire; contributing editor, Flavorpill Productions; features writer, deputy editor, bambinogoodies.co.uk Johnny Davis Assistant editor, editor, The Face; freelance (The Times Magazine, The Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday Magazine); contributing editor, Elle, Q Magazine); brand consultant

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Tamsin Douglas Miller Macmillan Publishers; editor, HarperCollins; freelance; Friends Office; Royal College of Music Bridget West (née Dray) Assistant editor, Shop Equipment, Shopfitting News; sub-editor, International Freighting Weekly; production editor, Planned Savings; production editor, Plastics & Rubber Weekly; primary school teacher Edward Eadon-Simpkins Belgravia Estates Gazette; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; associate partner, Finsbury Financial PR Lucy Farndon Knight Ridder Agency; Dow Jones Energy Service; Dow Jones Company; news business reporter, chief city correspondent, deputy city editor, Daily Mail, senior external news editor, HSBC Alice Fisher Esquire; Scene; senior editor, The Face; commissioning editor, Vogue; author; freelance, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer; deputy editor, Carlos Magazine; style correspondent, The Observer Magazine Kerry Fisher Feature writer, Essentials; author; presenter, Granada TV; freelance (Essentials, Family Circle, Bella and Junior) Alexander Griffiths DJ Magazine; deputy music editor, burnitblue.com; paralegal, Clifford Chance; senior documentation analyst, Goldman Sach Jessica Hodgson PC World; PC Dealer; Televisual Magazine; Design Week; Press Gazette; Media Guardian; media correspondent, Evening Standard; freelance (The Guardian,The Independent); Sunday Business; UK media companies reporter, Dow Jones Ellie Hughes Girl About Town; freelance (OK, Chat, Company); Hendon Times; Heat; chief sub-editor, Cosmo Girl; consumer editor, Mother and Baby; editor, Pregnancy and Birth; editor,Top Sante Lee Kynaston Deputy editor, editor, 19; deputy editor, Men’s Health; grooming editor, Mankind; freelance (Daily Mail, Mail on

Sunday, Beauty Magazine, The Times); columnist, Telegraph Men; 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; sub-editor, reporter, managing editor, Kemps Publishing Alex Mayhew-Smith Reader’s Digest; Fire Prevention; news editor, Reed Business Publishing; news editor, Electronics Weekly; freelance, English editor, Story Boulevard David McComb Television Buyer; Nintendo Magazine System; freelance (Bizarre Magazine, Smash Hits); editor, Bizarre James Mclean CD Online; Business Day (Bangkok); correspondent, Thomson Reuters (Bangkok); city reporter, business news editor, Evening Standard; deputy business news editor, foreign news editor, The Times Patrick Neate CD Online; Toifund; author Alexis Petridis Mixmag; Select; Evening Standard; head rock critic, The Guardian; music editor, GQ; head rock and pop critic, The Guardian Catriona Richardson Pulse; features and finance editor, GP; deputy editor, Medeconomics; communications manager, Medical Protection Society; communications manager, St Thomas’ Hospital; external relations head, NHS Helen Sage The Lawyer; Marketing Week; Sky TV; BBC Science; producer and director, BBC Documentaries Ursula Seymour (née Biggs) Interior; PC User; Information Week; reviews editor, managing editor, PC Advisor; freelance Catriona Smith Everywoman; The List; freelance Christopher Taylor Features editor, Leisure Week; deputy editor, Media Week; Group Head of PR, IPC Media; Head of Communications, Future; Director of Communications, Future plc Stephanie Testaferrata Moroni Viani (née Apap Bologna) Reporter, Institutional Investor Magazine; editor, International Money Marketing; freelance, International Herald Tribune; freelance Sian Tichar Freelance (BBC World Service, BBC London Live); lawyer, Rouse and Co; solicitor; editor, Boutique 1 Group (Dubai); editorial director, ABCD Publishing and Communications; marketing director, Harvey Nichols (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

BROADCAST Jack Baine Freelance; BBC Radio Leicester; news writer, BBC Radio; reporter and producer, senior news broadcaster, US reporter, deputy editor, Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra Newsbeat Nina Bhagwat freelance producer and director; training manager, thinkBIGGER!; head of short courses, National Film and Television School Sarah Brooks Producer, director, BBC Bristol; producer, Maverick Television; programme maker, Ideal World; series producer, RDF Media; series producer, Ricochet TV; series producer, Sarah Brooks TV Production, director, LoveToPresent Sinead Casey Unknown Matthew Cornell Candidate assistant, Labour Party Tim Durrans Ocean FM, BBC Leeds, BBC Radio Solent; sports editor, BBC Sussex, BBC Surrey Conrad Evans BBC graduate trainee; communications consultant, Towers Perrin; director HR communications, Nokia; head of internal communications, head of group internal communications, marketing

communications manager, head of R&M communications, BP Howard Gossington FT Radio; actor; writer, gov.uk; voiceover artist; Middle East desk editor, Agence France Presse; copywriter, editor, Guardian Professional; website content editor, gov.uk; freelance web editor, Department for Communities and Local Government; client service manager, The Social Simulator Paul Hagger Premier Radio; BBC Local Radio; BBC Radio Newsroom; BBC Business; BBC World Service; Deutsche Welle Radio (Germany); press officer, Defra; freelance (Premier Christian Radio); freelance (BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4); broadcast journalist, BBC News Henrietta Harrison Freelance; producer, reporter, BBC Radio Michael Hollingdale Research analyst, National Research Group; journalist, producer, London News Radio; Swiss Radio International; PR manager, Kuehne & Nagel; public communications, International Committee of the Red Cross; communications consultant, World Radio Switzerland Joanna Kelly Euronews; Babel TV (Lyon); freelance production journalist Adam Livingstone BBC TV (Bristol); senior broadcast journalist, Newsnight (BBC), broadcast consultant Rebecca Lovell BBC Radio (Cambridge); World Service Television; Newsround (BBC); Firstsight (BBC); reporter, assistant producer, Liquid News (BBC) Elizabeth McCabe Assistant news editor, Sky Sports Harriet Saxton RDF Television; Reuters TV; freelance Samantha Simmonds Freelance; BBC News 24; reporter, Breakfast (BBC); BBC London; presenter, 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 Series producer, Celador; assistant producer, associate producer, Parkinson (BBC); director, Heroes of Comedy (Channel 4); producer, Pet Rescue; senior producer, Gordon Ramsay’s F Word; Reuters TV; MSN Entertainment (USA); development producer, Cineflix; series producer, Silver River Productions; series producer, BBC; series producer, Renegade Pictures; executive producer, BBC Academy

1996 INTERNATIONAL Alfonso Abagnale Freelance; business and financial news reporter, ANSA news agency Sujata Assomull Columnist, The Indian Express; mid-day.com; freelance Daniel Bellamy Wall Street Journal; APTV News; freelance (Reuters African Journal); senior producer, Associated Press TV Lars Bevanger BBC Radio 5 Live; senior producer and editor, BBC World Service; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News; freelance, BBC News, The Independent, NRK 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 Financial Reporter, dealReporter Luigi del Prete Member of regional parliament Pierre-Henri Deshayes Press

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1996 department, French Embassy; teacher, (Oslo); Norway correspondent, Agence France Presse Paulo Dias Freelance; assistant editor, O Estado de Sao Paul; Reuters Kyra Dupont Troubetzkoy Reporter, Cambodia Today; producer, CNBC; Redhead Productions (Los Angeles); Reuters TV (Geneva, Paris); head of international news, 24 Heures; novelist Monika Evans Unknown Lisbert Fagerberg TV Denmark Faridul Farinordin New Straits Times Paulos Gebremariam Haddas Eritrea; head of radio, Ministry of Information (Eritrea).

Anna Gerschenson Clarin, La Prensa, (Buenos Aires); political reporter, El Cronista Jakob Hoyer Det Fri Akteult; head of culture, Jyllands Posten; head of press, Danish minister of Culture; culture editor, Berlingske Tidende.

David Jones Editor, associate producer; developer and producer AP CBC Radio (Vancouver) Jorge Rolon Luna, Prof Judge (Paraguay, Asuncion), Supreme Court of Justice; Professor of Introduction Faculty of Law, Catholic University; program director, Mediation Program, INECIP; Lawyer; 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 Truesoft (Lahore); content editor, Century Technologies; concept writer, R. Lintas; content editor, Pakfree; associate creative director, Channel 7 Valentin Nuham Piata Financiara; Goodrich Capital Canada; financial analyst Hilde Nyman Naeringslivets Ukeavis; digi. no; Dagens Naringsliv; Mintra as; scriptwriter; deputy editor, Magazine Kampanje Volodymyr Oleyko Lecturer, Ukrainian Institute of Great Britain Tsemaye Opubor Marketing manager, Snowcrash (Sweden); freelance Eric Pape Cambodia Daily; Phnom Penh Post; freelance, (LA Times, Elle, Los Angeles magazine, Marie Claire); Newsweek; Spin; freelance, Foreign Policy 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 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; 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, DiversityCanada Foundation Inger Sethov Associated Press; Dow Jones (Oslo); Reuters (Oslo) Ee-Waun Sim Equities editor, Dow Jones; consultant, Oglivy PR; editor, Stir; consultant Jade Communications; Appetite Magazine Kittipong Soonprasert Bloomberg, (Bangkok); Bangkok correspondent, project manager, BBC World Service; correspondent, Reuters; senior policy officer, Netherland’s Embassy (Bangkok); program development officer, US Aid; political specialist, US

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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, Amnesty International Hege Talsnes Customer consultant, Netcom; copywriter, Cicigonon Advertising Agency; PR manager, Nord-Trondelag Theatre; 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); Credit Agricole CIB (Ukraine) Diana Zileri Freelance; BBC World Service (Latin America)

NEWSPAPER Martin Anderson Newcastle Evening Chronicle; Irish News; BBC; freelance Muniya Barua Liverpool Post; London News Network; CNN; media officer, Royal College of Nursing; senior press officer, corporate communications manager, head of news and social media, CBI Melanie Bien The European; Sporting Life; personal finance editor, Independent on Sunday; press officer, head of media relations, Savills Private Finance; director, Private Finance Ltd; founder, director, Bien Media Christopher Bunting Halifax Evening Courier; freelance, (The Independent, Times Educational Supplement; Times Higher Education Supplement); freelance, (Tokyo) Fiona Callister Business and news reporter, Liverpool Post; deputy editor, The Lawyer; news reporter, The Daily Telegraph; head of media, CAFOD; media manager, Age UK; head of communications, 4Children Suzanna Chambers Reporter, Sunday Express; reporter, Mail on Sunday; features writer, News of the World; editor, Luxarro Publishing; 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; Germany correspondent, The Guardian,The Observer Zoe Dare-Hall (nee Dare) Hull Daily Express; deputy travel editor, features writer, Daily Express; arts editor, Sunday Express; freelance; editor, Property Club Anthony Dovkants Press Association; bureau chief, Dow Jones (Brazil); senior reporter, Magazine LatAm; managing director, Financial Dynamics; managing director, PR Consulting Brasil Susan Emmett Bloomberg TV; Weekend Money; The Times Business; Elle; deputy property editor, Bricks and Mortar (The Times); freelance; director residential research, Savills Jack Enright BBC; BBC Radio Cornwall; BBC News (Belfast); BBC Current Affairs (Manchester); assistant producer, BBC Panorama Henry Fitzherbert Daily Express; film critic, film editor, gossip columnist, Sunday Express Peter Foster The Times; news feature writer, South Asia correspondent, US Editor (Washington), The Daily Telegraph David Garfinkel Daily Mirror; The Sun; 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 Press Association; The Guardian (Moscow); deputy foreign editor, Paris correspondent, The Guardian; India correspondent, International Herald Tribune; The Guardian Graham Harvey Freelance; Cambridge Evening News; Hounslow Chronicle; sub-editor, Evening Standard.

Joanna Hill (nee Snicker) Le Shuttle Magazine; Derby Evening Telegraph; assistant news editor, deputy news editor, Nottingham Evening Post Andrew Holt Institutional Investor; PR Week; Portfolio International; New Hampshire Publishing; MSM International Sri Jegarajah East; Dow Jones; Bloomberg; CNBC Asia TV; Associated Press, Dow Jones (Singapore) Stephen Lyle Channel 4; BBC Sport, Grandstand; producer, BBC sport Maurice Mcleod Political editor, The Voice; freelance (The Independent, Daily Express, the Guardian); director, Snow Media; director, Marmoset Media; executive editor, Engage Stuart Miller Scotland editor, The Observer; special projects, assistant deputy editor, The Guardian.

Fraser Nelson Scotland and political correspondent, The Times; political editor, The Scotsman; The Business; editor, The Spectator Cherry Norton The Sunday Times; The Independent; Tokyo correspondent, The Sunday Times; freelance, (New York), The Times Hannah Pool Commissioning features editor, The Guardian Caroline Ryan BMA News Review; Pulse; Nursing Times; health, BBC News Online Jeremy Scott-Joynt Total Telecom; Gemini News Service; CommsWeek International; AFX News; senior business reporter, BBC News Online; associate, senior associate Financial Services Authority; head of compliance investigations (Europe), Standard Chartered Bank Ava Soe Rochdale Observer; press officer, Leeds City Council; senior reporter, news editor, Middleton and North Manchester Guardian; freelance; died 2013 Nicole Veash Trainee, Daily Mirror; The Independent; The Observer; press secretary, Minister for Trade; press officer, Foreign Commonwealth Office; head of stategy, consultant, Home Office Kirsty Walker Social Affairs, political correspondent, Daily Express; political correspondent, Daily Mail; associate director, iNHouse Communications; co-founder, HerSay Nicole Veash Trainee, Daily Mirror; The Independent; The Observer; press secretary, Minister for Trade; press officer, Foreign Commonwealth Office; head of strategy, consultant, Home Office Thomas Whitewell LineOne; Ministry Magazine; features editor, editor Mixmag; deputy editor, The Face; editor, Fit Magazine; editorial consultant, IPC; digital editorial director, The Times; head of digital, The Times, The Sunday Times

PERIODICAL Ronke Adeyemi Caribbean Times; Black Media Journal; Kudos; press and marketing officer, Manchester Commonwealth Film Festival; marketing executive, Romeite Media Solutions; marketing manager, University for the Creative Arts; marketing executive, FENSA ltd; blogger, Ondo Lady; tech blogger, Hello!

Magazine; freelance Neil Armstrong Precision Marketing; Press Association; commissioning editor, Mail on Sunday; commissioning editor, The Daily Mail

Karen Brown Unknown Emma Creamer Daily Mirror; Kilroy; Cutting Edge; Cosmopolitan; Real; features editor, Good Housekeeping; producer Daybreak, ITV Marianne Curphey Freelance financial reporter, (The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times); freelance, Look; director, Curphey Media Marie Dill Shoe & Leather News; deputy editor, Retail Jeweller; freelance, Pomp Magazine, The Goldsmith Magazine; freelance editor, LCR magazine; company director, iCandy Media and Communications Kate Finnigan Film & TV Week; Now; Big!; deputy editor, J17; senior features writer, Elle; style director, Stella; fashion columnist, The Daily Telegraph Olaf Furniss Cyberia; editor, Fono; freelance (Billboard, Music Week, i-D, Under the Radar); columnist, The Scotsman; director, Born to be Wide Claire Handley Press Gazette; Broadcast; Channel 4; Sky TV; Rapido TV; associate producer and director, Big Brother; Cactus TV; Talkback Productions; freelance producer, BBC; assistant psychologist,The Priory Colette Harris Editor, Here’s Health; editor, Health Plus; editor, You & Your Wedding; editor, Emap, Esprit; freelance editor and writer; author; creative communications director, Atlantis Healthcare Andrew Higgins Sub-editor, deputy production editor, production editor, Weekend Financial Times Emily Humphries Good Housekeeping; producer, BBC; freelance (GMTV, This Morning, Carlton Factual Entertainment); producer, Terry and Gaby Show; producer, The Wright Stuff; freelance (Loose Women) Georgina Kalzoe-Card PR, London Millenium Party; Kensington & Chelsea Times; Good Hotel Guide Lucinda Kemeny Retail News Agent, Charles Barker Publishing; Precision Marketing; Accountancy Age;Teletext; business correspondent, The Sunday Times; chief city correspondent, The Mail on Sunday; director, Smithfields Consultants ltd; director, Hogarth Partnership Limited; managing director, head of private equity, MHP Communications Darron Kirkby Music News Asia; Travel Trade Gazette; sub-editor Stuart Livingstone-Wallace Bahrain Tribune; Agence France Presse; editor, Bloomberg Victoria McCulloch Spirit; UPCTV; editor, Innergy; editor,Thorsons website; yoga teacher Nicholas Mcquade The Voice; Press Association; Irish Independent; The Scotsman; chief sub-editor, The Scottish Sun Jane Morris Editor, International Arts Manager; editor, Museums Journal; freelance (The Guardian, Art World); editor, The Art Newspaper Akin Ojumu IPC; TV Times; Neon; music editor, commissioning editor, The Observer; freelance Ben Osborne Author, dance editor, dotmusic; freelance (The Guardian, Xfm, The Independent, The Times, DJ Magazine, Music Week); music content manager; BT Rich Media; head of programming, Dela Ware; director, Noise of Art Christina Pishiris Televisual; TV trade press; Televisual; C21 Media James Plouf Publisher, Marco Polo; Travelroads.com;Travelwriters.com; HDTrader.com; Hadami.com; Itrav Bronwen Roscoe SJP Publishing; Avaya; senior strategy advisor, BBC; freelance Fiona Sandiford Teletext; Minx; New Woman; senior features writer, features editor, Cleo; freelance (Daily Mirror, Press Association, More, B, New Woman); commissioning editor, Top Sante; freelance James Snodgrass Multimedia Magazine;

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Christopher Taylor Leisure Week; deputy editor, Media Week; director of corporate communications, head of media relations, IPC Media; director of communications, Future PLC Catherine Tillotson Institutional Investor; Global Private Banking; FX Week; director of research, Scorpio Harriet Hanmer Africa Analysis; probation officer; director, Equest Partnership; director Equilibrium Equine Guided Learning

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Stephen Baker BBC Essex; Press Association; The Independent Joshua Bashett Radio City FM; producer, BBC; segment editor, ITN; producer, Bloomberg TV; executive producer, Bloomberg (Turkey); executive producer, Bloomberg (Arabia) Robin Brant Reporter, GWR FM; ITN news direct; political correspondent, BBC Radio 1; Feature Story News; political correspondent, BBC Radio 1; Newsbeat; Malaysia correspondent, political correspondent, BBC News Sally Bundock (née Jackson) Freelance; producer and presenter Bloomberg TV; presenter, BBC World business report; producer Mark Chapman Announcer, BBC; sport and breakfast DJ, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 5 Live; presenter, BBC Final Score, BBC Radio 5 Live Colette Cooney Reporter, Meridian TV; reporter, BBC; producer, CNN; BBC Northampton radio; tutor, City University Anne Dawson Manx Radio; BBC Radio Ulster; senior press officer, Federation of Small Businesses; media manager, Barnardo’s Channah Durlacher Reporter, producer, RTL (Amsterdam); producer, 2Vandaag; AVRO Rachel Harries Channel One TV; video journalist, ITN; reporter and presenter, Meridian Emma Jefferson Freelance; BBC World Service; radio producer, news programme, British Forces Beth Jones Broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; Eurovision on Location; 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 Ann McMullen Radio 210 (Reading); newsreader, Radio Geneva Katherine Melandri GLR; senior broadcast journalist, BBC London Stephen Mort The Eagle; IRN; Southern Bureau, Feature Story News Sean Napier News editor,Westsounds; freelance Rishaad Salamat Bloomberg Oonagh Smyth IFJC (Paris) Nigel Stevenson BBC Radio Stoke; 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)

1997 INTERNATIONAL Rebecca Abecassis Executive editor, RTP International; Cable News Channel; international news editor, producer, SIC TV

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Mohammed Al-Harthi Editor-in-chief, Sayidaty; editor-in-chief, Al-Jamila; managing director, editor-in-chief, Arrajol Gayle Alleyne The Nation; SaunderFranklyn Associates; senior sports writer, Royal Gazette Newspaper; 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 DR-Radio P1; The Marketplace; reporter, DR News; financial, foreign desk, DBC News Gerry Brahm Project manager, Klunk & Millan Advertising; regional editor, Patch.com; associate regional editor, AOL Irene Bwire Assistant press secretary to Prime Minister; editor, Majira on Sunday Angela Chitkara CNBC America; founder and chief executive officer, US-India Corridor Hayden Coppin Sales and marketing professional; marketing consultant, Barbados Tourism Authority; corporate sales manager, LIME; Dennis Strong Associates; marketing specialist, Arawak Cement; marketing manager, Premix and Precast Concrete; sales manager, Cable and Wireless Claudia Coumans School of Journalism (Utrecht); National Dutch Television; writer, Euroviews Christine Cowern Sales Representative, Keller Williams Referred Realty; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; account manager, Iris Communications; freelance Stanislas Dembinski News editor-inchief, Reuters Alex Falkinhoff CNN Spanish; correspondent, Monitor (Mexico) Maria Falkinhoff Radio correspondent monitor, Mexican Radio; director, The Argentine Trading Company Ltd Vincent Fournier Unknown Akiko Funamoto (nèe Kamimura) Assistant manager, International School of Communications School Jennifer Furmidge Product manager, JP Morgan Marie Gunnarsson Artsworld.com Vincent Hoburg Unknown Benjamin Holst-Olsson Freelance Kristin Hulaas Sunde Global content producer, Amnesty International; press officer, Amnesty International Secretariat; editor, Save the Children; freelance reporter, writer and editor; senior editor, Amnesty International Secretariat Rosalind Isaacs Unknown Pirkko Juntunen Global Money Management; Financial News Online Chris Kaklamanis Attorney,Vgontzas & Associates David Katz Unknown Sarita Khajura Children’s News (Channel 4); died 2003 Rosemary Konkola Radio and TV controller, ZNBC (Kitwe) Nasia Koutra Ethnos Daily Newspaper; attorney Annegret Loges Editorial, Hans Boeckler Foundation; DM Magazine; financial editor, Der Spiegel; business reporter, Norddeutscher Rundfunk Nabila Malick (nèe Zar) Incharge Publications; editor, Brides and You; columnist, The Nation; presenter, Pakistan TV; director of advocacy, Family Planning Association of Pakistan; script writer and translator, BBC World Anna Mathews Editorial, Trademarks4India; 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) Carol Nahra Head of development; freelance, Stampede Sebastian Naidoo Freelance (The Big Issue, OneWorld Online); international news editor, Human Rights News Service; managing editor, Reliefweb (United Nations); communications specialist, UN Eric Pape Contributor, Foreign Policy; freelance writer, editor and commentator, Independent; Cambodia Daily; Newsweek Paris; freelance international reporter Enzo Pelosi Financial Times (San Francisco); business correspondent, Agence France Presse E. Job Rajan Unknown Haroon Rashid Herald Magazine (Pakistan); Pakistan correspondent, BBC; Reliefeweb Unit; editor, BBC Pakistan Ayako Saito Japanese magazine Saiphon Sarabutra Unknown Hege Talsnes Information advisor, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority; senior communications advisor, The Norwegian Directorate of Nature Management Costas Tsindas Radio Institute for Cyprus Jeany van der Spuy (nèe Haggerty) Institutional investor; reporter, International Financing Review Gareth Vaughan CBS Market Watch; The Independent; Dominion Post; The New Zealand Herald Sissel Wessel-Hansen Nordlys (Tromso)

NEWSPAPER Rebecca Allison L’Alsace (France); Press Association; night news reporter, assistant news editor, The Guardian Mark Austin The Sunday Times; Finsbury Group; associate, solicitor, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Chris Ayres Business technology, media business, e-business, New York business correspondent, LA correspondent, West Coast correspondent, The Times; correspondent, Monitor (Mexico) Nomination (Author of War Reporting for Cowards, Foreign correspondent of the year 2004, co-wrote Ozzy Osbourne’s memoir) Joanne Beaney Press officer, Alzheimer’s Society Colin Blackstock Freelance (Independent on Sunday, Daily Mail); night news editor,The Guardian Jon Brodkin Deputy sports news editor, The Guardian Emma Burstall Novelist Tanya Datta BBC documentaries; trainee, producer, ITN News; researcher, producer, BBC Radio 4 Jamie Doward Deputy business editor, social affairs editor, religious affairs correspondent, diarist, The Observer Andrew England Investment Week; Agence France Presse (Nairobi); Associated Press (Nairobi); East Africa Correspondent, Financial Times Sally Flood (nèe Whittle) Staff writer, Information Week; T3; freelance (Mobile Choice); features editor, Computing; editor, EO News; freelance (The Guardian,The Independent,The Times,Telegraph, ZD Net); professional blogger, Who’s the Mummy; founder, Tots100.co.uk Blogging Network Laurence Frost French automotive correspondent and team leader, Reuters (Paris); press service, King’s Fund; internship in press service, European Commission (Brussels); reporter, Radio France Internationale (Paris); business reporter, European Voice, Economist Group (Brussels); business writer, Associated Press (Paris); transport reporter, Bloomberg (Paris) Julian Guyer Sports editor, Agence France

Presse (London); Hayters Sports Agency Mark Henderson Head of communications at The Wellcome Trust; science correspondent, The Times Amelia Hill Glasgow Herald; The Scotsman; news reporter, education correspondent, The Observer Chris Hughes EMEA Editor, Breakingviews (Reuters); researcher, BBC; freelance (CNN, London Financial News); Investors Chronicle; The Independent; PR consultant, financial markets correspondent, associated editor, Breaking Views Andrea Hunt (nèe Von Der Banck) Hill & Knowlton; European PR manager, Xerox Europe; freelance Michael Levanthal Assistant editor, diary, Daily Express; director, Greenhill Books; publisher, Frontline Books; founder and director, Gefiltefest – Jewish food charity David Lewis Highbury and Islington Express; MA, creative writing, University of East Anglia; freelance copywriter; file, BBC Radio 4; culturenorthernireland.com Malik Meer Freelance (The Face,The Guardian Guide, Daily Express); documentary unit, BBC Radio 1; Ministry Magazine; special projects team, IPC; editor, Muzik; assistant editor, NME; editor, The Guardian Guide Matthew Mezey News editor, Library and Information Update Lucie Morris Editor, CRYSTAL; owner, Lucie Morris Media; Press Association; South West Correspondent, Daily Mail; reporter, Femail, Daily Mail; feature writer, Daily Mail Stephen Morris Freelance; manager, Stephen Alexander Morris Amanda Newman Freelance (Daily Express, Independent on Sunday, Southwark News; The Wharf; product reporter, Money Marketing; Pension Strategy; Protection Strategy Glen Owen Diary, education, The Times; Mail on Sunday Georgina Pattinson News, features, Press Association; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News Online Raekha Prasad The Big Issue; reporter, The Guardian; foreign desk, Times Online Richard Price Owner, Richard Price News & Features Ltd; Liverpool Daily Post & Echo; Daily Mail; senior reporter, Daily Mail Scotland; general reporter, features, Daily Mail Rosa Prince Daily Mail (Belfast, Glasgow); Sunday Mirror; The Independent; reporter, political correspondent, The Mirror Job Rabkin Producer, specialist producer, Channel 4 News; Ln One; FT.com; trainee, BBC; BBC GMR; BBC Westminster; producer, BBC News Nandini Sukumar European news reporter, Bloomberg Sophie Walker Reuters (Paris); senior sub-editor, EMEA; business copy, trade correspondent and deputy editor, energy and commodities, Reuters (Washington); diplomatic affairs correspondent, House of Commons; specialist lead writer, Reuters

PERIODICAL Lucy Aitken Staff writer, Contagious; publications manager, PPA; freelance (Total Film); associate editor, EMAP Media; news editor, Music and Media; associate editor, M and M Europe; world editor, Campaign; freelance (Contagious, Campaign,The Independent, Management Today, Revolution, Voyager, Eureka); author Howard Baker Freelance, New Scientist; lead producer, BBC Interactive Factual and Learning; senior content producer, BBC; commissioning editor, BBC Jam Hannah Baldock Chief reporter, Building; freelance (RIBA Journal, Property Week, World Architecture, Icon, Intersection); freelance Latin

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America correspondent (The Business Times, The Sunday Times,The Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph,The Independent on Sunday, Icon Magazine, Intersec); freelance Celine Bijleveld Network production editor, The Guardian; trainee sub-editor, EL Gazette (TEFL); production editor, Financial Times Business Emily Booth Marketing Direct; Revolution US; Revolution Australia; Campaign; freelance (Evening Standard); Revolution UK; deputy editor, Broadcast David Brooks Senior assistant editor, North American editor, content manager, Metal Bulletin; editor, American Metal Market; deputy editor, AMM (Pittsburgh); editorial vice president, American Metal Market Penney Byrne (nèe Tapp) Assistant editor and sub-editor, Green Futures; producer and assistant producer, SmallWorld Productions; freelance (Fitness First, Parentwise, Angel, Farmer’s Weekly, MS Society Magazine, Physiotherapy Frontline, Sprouts magazine) Hannah Crabtree Creative Elements; Prince’s Royal Trust; Raleigh International; press office, Save the Children; press officer, ActionAid (Brazil) Emma Elms Editor, TFI London; student pages, Regradiate; senior writer, B Magazine; senior features writer, Cosmopolitan; editor, The Graduate; deputy features editor, Marie Claire Livvy Fernandes Arthritis Care; assistant editor, Baby Magazine; freelance (Nursing Standard, Lifebyte.com, Total Guides); press officer, Leukaemia Research Fund; coordinator, information and press officer, Nursing Leukaemia Emma E. Forrest Editor, G-Club.net; editor, Dazed Group websites; freelance (Dazed and Confused, Another Magazine, Nylon Magazine, Intersection, Metro International); editor, Intersection; F1 Red Bulletin; freelance (New York Times Style, City AM, Mixte); new media editor, Dazed and Confused; features editor, City AM; motoring editor, global travel editor, Metro International Noam Friedlander FourFourTwo; Spice Girls books; Manchester United Magazine; The Sunday Times; Daily Express; Haymarket; The Guardian; Eclipse-sports.com; freelance (The Times,The Net, OneFootball.com); digital editor, Time Out (London); script writer, Hewland; TwoFour Productions; The Daily Telegraph; script writer (LA); freelance (The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, She) Alex Gatrell Senior Product Manager, Rated People; reporter, Commercial Lawyer Magazine; producer, LineOne; launch editor, bun.com; online editor, The Sun; online producer, Channel 4 News; head of video content, head of production, ITN ON; digital publisher, Harper Collins Anita Hall Runners World; freelance (Attitude) Emma Hayley Managing director, publisher, SelfMadeHero; freelance, Neon; Hobsons; Arcturus Publishing; Island Life; subeditor, Spain; MediaSolutions; Metro Media Kaspa Hazlewood Media & Marketing (Hong Kong); sales and marketing director, Arcuturus Publishing; managing director, Candour Dorian Lynskey Reviews editor, Mixmag; music critic, The Big Issue; freelance (Select, Q, Mizmag, Sky, Muzik,The Big Issue, Evening Standard,The Guardian, Arena,Word, Blender, Total Film, Empire) Alison Macarthur Editor, Agenda; freelance feature writer (Focus); health editor, Now; freelance Sasha Mansworth News and media officer, Action For Children; assistant editor, Executive Woman; education correspondent and news reporter, South Wales Argus; communications, University Wales College; freelance (Scottish Daily Record, Sunday Mail,

SIMON ROGERS Data Editor, Twitter; Newspaper, 1991 Fondest memory of City?

Being taught by journalists who really knew and loved their craft, such as Linda Christmas or Hugh Stephenson.

Best thing about your job?

Just the variety of what I get to do that’s the great thing about data journalism. One day it is looking

Edinburgh Evening News, Sunday Herald, Best); features writer, Glasgow Evening Times; feature writer, Scottish Daily Record; South West News; communications, North Somerset Council, Arcadia Housing, Weston College, Wales Audit Office Vicky Millar Freelance (The Scotsman); assistant editor, Harvill Press; book editor, associate editor, Bloomsbury Publishing John Mullen People Management; freelance (Select, Mojo,The Net); editor, mojo4music.com; production trainee, assistant producer, BBC Faith Penhale Head of drama, BBC Cymru Wales; media Week; Broadcast; Guardian New Media; researcher, BBC; script editor, series editor, BBC Drama; script editor, Box TV; script executive, Spooks, BBC; script editor, development executive, head of TV development, Kudos Film and TV Warren Pole Deputy editor, Ride; freelance (Superbike, Mail on Sunday,The Times, The Independent); freelance investigative feature writer Shaun Pye The Commercial Lawyer; The Lawyer; freelance television writer Steven Ranger Editor in chief, ZDNet; Executive editor, TechRepublic; Network Week; computing; managing editor, vnunet. com; freelance; business editor, silicon.com Vicky Rees Freelance (Haymarket Publishing); sub-editor, Financial Times; financial advisor; deputy production editor, production editor, BBC Francesca Syz Editorial assistant, Wallpaper; Condé Nast Traveller; features editor, New Eden; features editor, research editor, contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller Anthony Thornton Head of digital content, British Film Institute; Freelance (The Independent, Q); music editor, Dot.com (Music Week); editor, NME.com; eeviews editor, new media consultant, NME; editor in chief, IPC Ignite Online; digital development director, digital group editor, IPC Media Victoria Thornton Rees Deputy production editor, Investors Chronicle; production editor, How to be Better Off, BBC; production editor, Financial Times; production editor, Investors Chronicle Robert Waugh LineOne; PlayStation Plus; commissioning editor, Stuff; sub-editor, commissioning editor and writer, Night and Day; Live Dominic White Supply Management; Building; street.co.uk; telecoms correspondent and connected editor, communication industries editor, Daily Telegraph Martin Worster CTO, Canonbury

at the Oscars, the next it is the crisis in Venezuela. Twitter data is incredibly exciting because it is such a huge way of consuming the news nowadays and I get to tell stories with it.

Your most memorable interview?

When I was at the Big Issue I got to interview Tony Blair. It was winter in 1996 and he had not been elected yet. Everyone

Antiques; LineOne; dance editor, dot.music; editor, uprush (BTOpenworld); business director, microgroove.com; author

BROADCAST Paul Adabie Social worker Nandini Banerjee Researcher, BBC Watchdog; school volunteer Zoe Bloomfield Trainee, BBC News; senior broadcast journalist, BBC South; senior producer, GMTV; senior producer, ITV Liza Booth Reporter, senior reporter, Newsheat (BBC Radio 1); freelance (BBC Radio 4); Palace Radio 1; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Thames Valley Katie Breathwick Communications consultant; Century 105; presenter, LBC News; presenter, New Direct; breakfast news, Classic FM Nick Cosgrove Labour Friends of Israel; Juniper Productions; senior producer, reporter, BBC News Miranda Eeles Project manager, BBC Media Action; APTV; producer, Channel 4 News; BBC (Iran); communication officer, UNICEF Al Eykyn Sports editor, IR Theo Fairley Trainee, senior broadcast journalist, BBC 10 O’Clock News Jo Fitzgerald (nèe Pitt) Pineapple; BBC; TV Producer; freelance Vassos Giorgiadis Bloomberg; producer, TransWorld Sport Jonathan Hughes Senior producer APTN; desk editor, NBC News (Mexico City);VT editor, Cactus Film; camera operator, BBC Moscow Alison Kirkham Freelance (BBC Radio, ITN, Granada TV); researcher, Right to Reply (Channel 4); producer, Tonight with Trevor McDonald; executive producer, BBC Daytime Suzy Klein Freelance (BBC Radio 4); BBC Late Review; assistant producer, producer, BBC Arts Cordelia Kretzschmar Presenter, Daybreak; News Direct; reporter, ITN Radio; reporter, GMTV; presenter, CT FM; freelance (The Big Breakfast, Sky News); New York correspondent, GMTV; reporter, BBC London Elma Maxim BBC Radio 5 Live; reporter, GMTV; arts producer, BBC Bridgid Nzekwu News presenter, ITN; News, The Big Breakfast; Channel 5; reporter, First Edition; reporter, Channel 4 News Siobhan O’Connor Assistant producer, Pearson TV Steve Palmer 97.3FM News Direct;

in my office had wanted to do the interview. There was a lot of pressure to get it right. The result hit the newsstands at the right time and caused a big splash.

The best journalism advice you’ve ever received?

Find the job that no one else wants to do, but that really needs to be done. Then do it so well that they cannot imagine anyone else doing it.

SUZIE MCCRACKEN

producer, BBC London Live; trustee, Charity Comms; press and public affairs manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence Colin Paterson Freelance (GLR, Mentorn, BBC, Esquire, The Guardian) Tom Pfeiffer Editorial, senior sub-editor, Reuters David Shanks Board member at Glasgow Print Studio; Researcher, LWT Factual Programmes; television correspondent, World Media (Peru)

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Rezwan ul-Alam Assistant communication officer, UNICEF (Bangladesh) Mi-Kyoung Ahn Unknown Fareena Alam Editor, Q News Maria Anguita Editor, Nexus Media; deputy clinical features editor, GP; Associate Publisher, Quay Books 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 Doina Basca Media consultant, director, Top Audience Kerry Benefield Reporter, The Shreveport Times; political correspondent, Press Democrat Chris Brauer Virtue broadcasting, Ananova; management consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers; owner, Smoothmedia; sociology and computing PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London; course leader, online journalism, City University Christiane Buehler Bloomberg TV (London); Bloomberg News (Frankfurt); Reuters Financial News (Germany); Touristik Report (Frankfurt); press officer, DeTown; press agent, Dertour; travel consultant, Sprachcaffe and Languages Plus; flight attendant, Lufthansa German Airlines Helen Castell Institutional Investor (London); Derivatives Week (Hong Kong); freelance 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 Investors Chronicle; P&K Securities (Greece); equities analyst, Alpha Finance; investment manager, Bluehouse Capital; managing partner Gem Partners

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Elena Cosentino Associate producer, producer, CNN; freelance TV producer, BBC, Channel 4 Luigi Del Prete Member of regional parliament Paulo Dias MBA Imperial College Ranjeeta Dutt McGroarty Researcher, emerging markets, LSE; senior financial journalist, Lloyds Shipping Economist Job Eliazer publisher, Dallas Monthly News;Vice President, SanSail Capital Victoria Stagg Elliott Senior reporter, Senior Research Associate, American Medical News Leslie Esparza Freelance; CNN Stephanie Fontenoy French Embassy (London); international news journalist, RTBF; US correspondent, Daily La Libne Belgique; finance journalist, La Croix; US correspondent, La Libre Belgique Gidon Freeman Freelance, (the Guardian; Kyodo News); news editor, executive editor, PR Week; political and media consultant, Lexington Communications; director of regulation and government affairs, NBC Universal Miki Garcia Reporter, The Examiner Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Freelance radio journalist, producer, Associated Press; Voice of America, APTN Colombia; radio correspondent, Associated Press (Jerusalem, London); bureau chief, NPR (Mexico) Georgios Georgakopoulos Press officer (Greece); English section editor, Parikiaki; UK correspondent, Eleftheros Typos Julius Gittens Senior information specialist, Caribbean News Agency; consultant, Observer Radio; programme director, Caribbean Environmental Reporters Network; consultant, producer, journalist and presenter, Caribbean Today; Carib Vision/Caribbean Media Corporation; JPAGmedia; associate, Right Angle Imaging Inc; Freelance Helene Gram Multimedia producer; producer, project manager, Boxen Technology AS Kim Gurney Reporter and news editor, FT Business; reporter, news edition, Community Radio South Africa; reporter (South Africa); FT Business (London); freelance Myria Hadjimatheou Reporter, Must; VAT officer, Ministry of Finance Jennifer Hanawald Bloomberg Television (Tokyo); freelance, American Chamber of Commerce journal; salon.com; The Times; freelance Jessica Hasslen Freelance graphic artist, Everglade Floridian; St Cloud State University; sales associate, Aurora Photos; freelance, the National Geographic Society; freelance documentarian and photographer Valerie Herczeg Freelance (Paris) Jennifer Irwin Bloomberg Krisztina Katona BBC documentaries; TV documentary director; officer, Dafur Emergency, United Nations; media and external relations, UNICEF; series producer, Tiger Aspect; Open Data Implementation Manager, Transparency Team (Cabinet Office) Nelly Kelzi Press officer, University of Western Sydney; BridgeNews (Sydney); news reporter, AFX Asia; freelance; teacher Titia Ketelaar Reporter, editor, foreign desk, UK and Ireland correspondent, NRC Handelsblad ; Freelance, BBC World Service; CNN (Washington); head of Tajikistan bureau, Internews Network; regional project manager, Asia-IRIN News Outreach Radio (Kabul); regional project manager, Irin News (Afghanistan); Office of Communication & Public Information; UN (Afghanistan); chief media and external relations spokeswoman (UNICEF); communications officer, United Nations Peacebuilding Comission Natalie Knight Head of news, CCN TV6 Trinidad; Author, Editorial Consultant, Macmillan Carribean Publishers * Birgit Kolboe Bohemen Sportspub;

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Nettsport; Football 247; freelance, Itaru Konno; Nippon Digital Communications; PT NNA Indonesia Delphine Liou-Brugeilles TV journalist, Bloomberg (London, Paris) Antoine Lokongo Freelance (Congo) Karen Mahabir Village Voice (New York); International Herald Tribune; Jersey Journal; crime reporter, The Bergen Record (New Jersey) Gilbert Manda Features writer, The Times and Sunday Times (Zambia); editor, Integrity News (Washington); international correspondent, Voice of America; business writer, Demand Media; contributor, Wikio Experts; financial columnist, The Washington Examiner; financial examiner, New York Life Insurance Americo Martins Dos Santos; senior producer, online editor, head of Brazilian sector, executive editor of the Americas, BBC World Service Miki McDonald Cambodia Daily; Business Day; freelance Farah Mohamed Fahmy Software developer, BBC Interactive TV Thabo Motlamelle CEO, TM Media Solutions Anne Myrjord European Free Trade Association; PhD student; EU affairs advisor, Norwegian Embassy (London); senior executive officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway); embassy secretary, diplomat, Royal Norwegian Embassy Janet Ong Dow Jones (Singapore); Bloomberg (Shanghai) Agnes Phiri Director of consumer and public affairs, Energy Regulation Board Bernd Radowitz Correspondent, Bloomberg (Brasilia); Associated Press; freelance, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Focus (Rio); correspondent, Dow Jones (Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid); Germany correspondent, Recharge Simone Ramella Editor, Nuova Cronaca; researcher, Redattore Sociale; web editor, Carta;Editor, Il Piccolo Giornaledi Cremona; press officer, Italian Minister of Family Affairs; press officer, AMREF Italia Onlus Anna Sansom Worth Global Style Network (WGSN); freelance, Time Out (Paris); Harpers & Queen; Radio France International; SBS Sydney; EuroBusiness Habhajan Singh Business Times; Berita Harian (Malaysia); section editor, Malaysian Business; Editor Karin Sitalsing Freelance, Elsevier News Weekly (Amsterdam); regional news reporter, Friesch Dagblad; correspondent, de Volkskrant; freelance journalist and author Victoria Stagg Elliott Out There News; Cambodia Daily; health science reporter, senior reporter, American Medical News Somporn Thapanachai Bangkok Post; senior reporter, Post Publishing Plc Bennett Thomas Freelance; library techinician, University of Calgary Guillaume Thomas Institutional investor (London); French furniture assistant, Sotheby’s (Paris); trainee, valuer, auctioneer, Thomas Auction House Jean Van der Spuy Reporter, LFR; adjunct professor, Marymount Manhattan College; Freelance, Haggerty Publishing Joana Veleanu Art director, On Trent Margrethe Vika Dagens Naeringsliv Online; social performance advisor, external affairs advisor, Norske Shell Exploration and Production Doreen Walton Independent Radio News; Newshour; senior broadcast journalist, BBC William Wareing The European; Bloomberg; editor, Impact Media; head of English, Notting Hill prep school David Wasswa Freelance; owner, Safeways Tour and Travel Sissel Wessel-Hansen Reporter, Nordlys Natalie Williams Freelance; children’s

author; communications manager, Safer Hastings Partnership Margaret Yamoah Senior editor, chief editor, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation WaiYee Yuen Freelance producer Nabila Zar Malick Director of advocacy, Rahnuma-FPAP

NEWSPAPER James Ashton Reuters; The Daily Telegraph; media correspondent, deputy city editor, Business AM financial journalist, The Scotsman; Daily Mail; city editor, media and telecoms editor, The Sunday Times; Head of Business, The Evening Standard Bill Bows Time Out; listings, Press Association; 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 Slough Observer; freelance, Daily Star; duty editor, Teletext; freelance journalist and editor, duty editor, Teletext Ann Chambers European auto correspondent, Thomson 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, The Sunday Times Janet Coull Trisic Ludgate Communications; press officer, chief press officer, Department for Education and Employment; communications specialist, Pliva (Croatia); press and PR officer, Hertfordshire Constabulary Niall Couper Highbury & Islington Express; Hampstead & Highgate Express; freelance, (The Observer; Metro); sports reporter, sub-editor, The Independent; editor,Yellow + Blue; head of PR, NASUWT; press officer, Head of Media Amnesty International James Debens senior news sub-editor, A&N Media; freelance writer, sub-editor; sports desk, Daily Mail Jennifer Duddy Evening Herald (Plymouth); London News Network; freelance, London Tonight; BBC NI Victoria Fletcher Trainee, The Times; health writer, Daily Mail; consumer editor, Daily and Sunday Express; consumer correspondent, Evening Standard; health editor, Daily Express; freelance Ashley Grossman This is London; associate producer, NTL Interactive; portal manager, head of advertising, NTL; head of operations and planning,Virgin Media; director of product & operations, Sanona Ltd;Video Discovery Manager, Liberty Global Linsey Hakansson Assistant producer, Granada Group Plc David Hytner Sports reporter, Daily Express; football correspondent, the Guardian Sam Jary Reuters TV; The Sentinel (Stoke on Trent); sub-editor, Cumberland Evening News & Star; assistant winemaker (New Zealand); Vigneron (Burgundy, France) Lucy Marsh The Sunday Times; Daily Mail; PR Consultant, Annvil Marketing; Cornwall Energy, copywriter, Xperience;ork St John University; Copywriter, The Higher Education Academy Nicole Martin News reporter, media correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; associate director, MHP Communications Lucy McDonald Social affairs correspondent, Daily Express; freelance,

The Mail on Sunday; news reporter, GMTV; entertainment correspondent, Sky News; freelance media consultant; food bloggr; Correspondant CBS News Joseph McHugh The Wharf; Highbury & Islington Express; deputy news editor, Public Finance; ministerial speechwriter, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Lucy Miatt (née Rollin) The Sunday Times; freelance; horse trainer Naga Munchetty City reporter, Evening Standard; business reporter, The Observer; reporter, Reuters; producer, CNBC; producer, ITN; economics anchor, presenter, Bloomberg; presenter, BBC World and BBC Breakfast Sara Nathan Cambridge Evening News; news reporter, deputy TV editor, The Sun; show-business editor, Daily Mail Clara Penn Western Morning News; press officer, Eden Project; 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, Financial Times Helen Rumbelow News reporter, comment writer, political correspondent, The Times Deepa Shah News editor, Eastern Eye; GLA reporter, Evening Standard; the Guardian; London Tonight; freelance; senior press officer, Department of Health; speechwriter, Department for Education Adam Sills Assistant editor, SportsDesk; sports editor, the Guardian; sports editor, The Daily Telegraph Sophie Tweedale Trainee reporter, Manchester Evening News; Daily Mail; freelance, Century FM; reporter, Granada; freelance Sharon van Geuns Daily Mail; Western Morning News; reporter, Evening Standard; reporter, Night and Day,The Mail on Sunday; features writer, Sunday Mirror; director, SVG Publicity Burhan Wazir The Observer; deputy features editor, The Times; editor, ARY (Pakistan) Eleanor Jary (née Wilson) Trainee, News and Star (Carlisle); The Sentinel (Stoke on Trent); wine industry (New Zealand); freelance sub-editor, The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand);freelance journalist (Burgundy, France) Georgina Wintersgill The Wharf; Daily Mirror; features editor, Prima Baby; freelance, Best, Bella, Company; freelance Linsey Wynton Chief reporter, Highbury & Islington Express; social affairs correspondent, Brighton Argus; researcher, producer, Meridian TV; documentaries, Granada TV; assistant producer, Tonight With Trevor McDonald; freelance, Carbon Media, Channel 4 News, True Vision

PERIODICAL

Simon Burnton FourFourTwo; Amnesty International; sports desk, The Observer; freelance, Arena; sports desk, the Guardian Justine Cadbury: Barrister Susie Chun Publishing, Strand Communications; Planned Savings; deputy production editor, FHM production editor, FHM Bionic; 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 Staff writer, Heat; associate editor, features editor, deputy editor, Arena;VJ, MTV UK; assistant travel editor, deputy travel editor, The Sunday Times; commissioning editor, The Sunday Times

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1998 - 1999 Magazine Elena Dalrymple (née Ghiringhelli) Junior sub-editor, acting chief sub-editor, associate editor, deputy editor, editor, Pregnancy & Birth; editor, Mother & Baby; editor, Boots Health Club; editorial director, TheSchoolRun.com Joanne Faragher Computer Business Review; Computer Wire; senior staff writer, Infocomony; features editor, Information Age; features editor, The Recruiter; 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 Mike Fletcher Reporter, Leisure Week; deputy editor and senior reporter, Marketing Event; group editor, Event Magazine and RSVP Magazine; freelance,Visit London Charlotte Greggains Law student; trainee solicitor, Crockers Oswald Hickson; solicitor, Farrer & Co Ed Grenby Commissioning editor, features editor, Maxim; editor, Sunday Times Travel magazine Olivia Gunning Health Insurance; nursingTimes.net; newstatesman.co.uk; teacher, American Language Centre (Morocco); 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 Production assistant, production controller, Oxford University Press; senior production editor, Blackwell Publishing; senior production controller, Macmillan Publishers Limited Nina Hytner (née Chatterjee) Researcher, assistant producer, associate producer, director, BBC; producer, Strictly Come Dancing, BBC; Producer, Discovery Networks Maebh Jennings Account executive, ASE London; Focus PR; 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 Woman’s Realm; freelance, (Chat,Woman’s Realm,Woman’s Weekly, Best, That’s Life); deputy features editor, Woman; commissioning editor, Look; Daily Mirror; deputy practical’s editor, Woman; features editor, What’s on TV David McLaughlin FHM editor, FHM.com; special project editor, FHM; director, junior creative director, Guerilla Productions; owner, Red Rock Productions Katy Migiro (née Salmon) Freelance (Nairobi); Africa Analysis (London); Christian Aid (London); OCHA (Kenya); east Africa correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation Annalisa Miller National News Christina Moller Freelance, (Mental Health Lawyer, Law Journal,The Guardian, Legal Action, Independent Lawyer) Chris Mooney Copywriter, DP&A; freelance, FHM, Ministry,The Face, BBC, Sky; deputy editor, editor, FHM.com; 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 Junior writer, Heat; Features writer, Company; reviews editor, Q Magazine; features director, Elle; freelance and contributing editor, Elle Catherine Rapley Frank; Minx; commissioning editor, Sky magazine; freelance, (Heat, Daily Mirror, New Woman); senior editor, InStyle; New Woman; commissioning editor, The Observer magazine; freelance

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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 subeditor, website editor, deputy chief sub-editor, Building; freelance sub-editor, RIBA Journal; freelance, The Sunday Times Amy Sohanpaul Traveller’s Handbook; Square Meal; Traveller’s Guide to the Internet; staff writer, Wexas; deputy editor, editor, Traveller Caspar VanVark Emap Finance; production editor, Revolution magazine; freelance, The Mail on Sunday, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald,The Times, Evening Standard, Social Enterprise,Traveller Imogen Wall Freelance, (BBC World Service, The Big Issue); broadcast journalist, producer, BBC World Service; features editor, Intersection; consultant, UN development programme

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 Mentorn Barraclough Carey First on Five; Twenty Twenty; producer, Wall to Wall TV; actor James Blake Trainee, home affairs producer, ITN News at 10; home affairs reporter, home affairs producer, Channel 4 News; Melanie Bromley Freelance, BBC,WENN; entertainment reporter, IRN; European bureau, Us Weekly; freelance, (Top Santé, New Woman, Grazia, Heat, Red, More, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express); West Coast Bureau Chief, Us Weekly; senior managing correspondent, E! News Alice Ceresole Assistant producer, Blakeway Productions; studio manager, The Light Surgeons; producer, Imperial Leisure; producer, The Light Surgeons Nicola Christie Freelance, The Independent; news reader, Jazz FM; producer, Sky Movies; arts correspondent, Reuters TV; freelance, (The Times,The Daily Telegraph,Vogue, the Guardian,The Indepedent, Financial Times); contributor, The Ticket, BBC World Service Dan Davies Freelance, BBC GLR, BBC Essex; reporter, WENN; writer and producer, Entertainment Now, ITV; senior producer, Al Jazeera Entertainment Elspeth Daya Freelance, APTV Craig Eason Freelance, BBC Radio Norfolk, London, Oxford; conference organiser, Lloyd’s List; journalist, Lloyd’s List Carolyn Gammon Freelance, CNN Pia Harold Intern, APTV; The Baltimore Sun; Media Broadcast Services; ITN; researcher, senior broadcast journalist, BBC Frank Harvey The World Tonight,World at One, BBC Radio 4; journalist, Newshour, BBC World Service; editor, producer, ITV News; freelance producer, (GMTV, ITV, BBC, Sky, BBC Radio 4) Natalie Jamieson Freelance, Mercury FM, Fox FM; news reporter, Fox FM; assistant editor, Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1; senior reporter, BBC Radio 1 Emma Jordan Newsreader, 107.8 Arrow FM (Hastings) Katie Keward Channel One TV; BBC News;

ASK AN ALUMNUS

SANJAY SINGHAL

Managing Director, Voltage TV Newspaper, 1992 Fondest memory of City?

We were sent out with a page of the A-Z to find three stories by the afternoon. It was terrifying, but once I realised that if you just talked to people, everyone had a story then it became easy.

It was some of the best practice I’ve ever had.

Favourite thing about your job?

I love the end product. After months and months of taking something from a concept on paper to a television series that’s being broadcast across the country, it’s incredibly rewarding to know that - for that hour - millions of people will all be watching and engaging with your show. It’s very fulfilling to know that you’ve done

ITV News Channel; producer, Channel 4 News; producer, Five News; Sky Gudrun Lawyer Freelance, (GLR, Five Live); broadcast journalist, BBC London Live 94.9; TV news, BBC London; producer BBC London news Mark McCleary BBC Ulster; BBC 2 Working Lunch Nicky Minter Director, BBC Newsround; The TV Consultancy Amanda Parr Trainee, BBC News; reporter, presenter, BBC Bristol Kavitha Prasad Freelance, (IRN, Heart FM); production journalist, ITN News; production journalist, BBC World Service; broadcast journalist Johnny Saunders Capital Gold Sport; journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; (left journalism to be a teacher) Louise Tornehave TV3 (Sweden); London correspondent (Stockholm); David Wareham Channel One TV; Carte Blanche TV; Mauritius Broadcast Company; BBC (Japan); picture producer, BBC Newsgathering; producer, BBC News 24; news traffic manager, BBC

1999 INTERNATIONAL Katie Anderson Reporter, The Deal; reporter, Hollywood Reporter Azamat Atadjanov Web editor; National News Agency of Uzbekistan Charlotte Beder Naestved Tidende (Denmark); press co-ordinator, Danish Industry; Move On Communications; TV2 Finance; weekend host, TV newspaper Barbara Bierling Freelance translator; writer and editor, Financial Times; Swissinfo and Swiss Radio International; Himalayan Database Esmera Bilal Oslobodjenje; media monitor

something, which becomes part of a national experience.

Who has been your most memorable interview?

George Bush. It was the first interview he did with a British broadcaster after being elected.

We were taken into the bowels of the White House, to the Map Room, to do a fulllength interview with the US president. Not one of those moments that’s likely to happen again!

Best career advice you’ve ever received?

Never take no for an answer.

BARBARA SPEED

and analyst, senior media analyst, UNMIBH (Sarajevo) Bente Bjorndal Freelance, Medieforum, ProgramBladet; Oslo correspondent, AFX News; finance reporter, Dagens Naeringsliv Online; DY Nye Medier Anthony Blackman Senior reporter, Barbados Advocate; Nation Newspaper; public affairs specialist, US Embassy (Barbados) Fernando Botero Strategic Alternative Investments; CEO, Editorial Group Estilo (Mexico) Bagila Bukharbaeva Editor, BBC Monitoring; Associated Press (Tashkent) Tobias Bungter Editor and scriptwriter, Peter Clausen; writer and editor, Kiepenheur & Witsch; writer and producer, WDR; freelance writer, editor and graphic designer Carolina Chagas Jornal da Tarde; Ultimo Segundo IG; Prima Pagina (Sao Paolo) Francesca De Chatel Freelance Melina Demetriou Astra Radio; parliamentary correspondent and feature writer, Cyprus Mail; press and information officer (Cyprus) Estelle Doyle Freelance researcher, The Sunday Times; AMARC, Panos; broadcast journalist, Inter-World Radio; freelance producer, (BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live); staff producer, Outlook, BBC World Service; freelance radio producer; radio producer, BBC World Service; BBC Trending Larry Fan Lawyer Kerstin Fischer Producer and broadcast journalist, BBC Berlin Maurice Frank Business manager, managing director, ExBerliner Georgios Georgakopoulos English section editor, Papikiaki Newspaper Alison Gibson Personal finance writer and sub-editor, The Times; freelance Julius Gittens Media consultant, producer, JPAGmedia; freelance Christoffer Guldbrandsen TV2Denmark; Nordisk Film; Danmarks Radio;

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director, Danish Broadcasting Company; documentary film maker, DBCorporation Angela Hachmeister NDR; news editor, AOL Germany Ghida Hamadeh Unknown Jennifer Hanawald Freelance journalist and editor Karin Kamp Online and radio journalist, Swiss Radio International; new media editor, senior web editor, PBS; director of digital strategy, The Story Exchange Mariko Katsumura (née Ando) Bloomberg TV; CBS MarketWatch, Tokyo; news reporter, Asia Business; Reuters (Tokyo) Marie-Cécile Kleinveld Freelance photographer; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines; general manager, Hillswood Ofira Koopmans Ben-Amar (née Koopmans) Correspondent, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Tel Aviv) Birgit Kolboe Sportsblikk Alpana Lath Senior feature writer, chief sub-editor, Mid Day Multimedia; chief subeditor, Sunday Mid-Day (India); junior assistant editor, Mid-day Multimedia Katrine Laursen Nordjyske Stiftstidende; reporter and news editor, ANR (Denmark) Pei-Hsuan Lee Formosa TV (Taiwan); PR administrator, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Ivette Leyva-Martinez BBC Latin America (Miami); sub-editor, Reuters Latin America; cubaencuentro.com; head of news and front page,Yahoo! (Miami); founder, cafefuerte.com; Metrocitizen magazine Alison Lin Research assistant, National Kaohsiung Normal University (Taiwan) Eugenia Maia Deputy editor, Adrenalin magazine; PR Manager, L´Oréal Brazil Eddie Malone Football365 website; football journalist, Trinity Mirror Supa Mandiwanzira Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation; freelance, Reuters TV, BBC World Service, African Business Communications; CEO, Mighty Movies Zimbabwe Emma Mattei The People (Malta); Adrenalin magazine; scriptwriter, Nautvision (Los Angeles); freelance scriptwriter Dara McLeod Associate producer, CBC; Inside Track; freelance Sarah Murphy Freelance; South East correspondent, The Irish Independent Sharif Nashashibi Copy editor, energy and commodities desk, Dow Jones; Arab Media Watch; freelance (Guardian) Anna Nelson Associate producer, CBS News (Paris); programme editor, ExpatPro. com, bureau chief and correspondent, Swiss Radio International; journalist, WRG FM Francois Oulai Unknown Shiraz Paracha PhD, Guildhall University Irene Peroni Associated Press; Bloomberg (Rome); International Herald Tribune (Milan); sub-editor, Metro (Rome); BBC Monitoring; freelance, BBC Katie Pisa (née Anderson) Freelance; features supervisor, interactive, CNN Jessica Robertson Associated Press (Bahamas); PR Executive, AdWorks; news director, Joy 101.9FM (Bahamas); chief operating officer, Pyramid Marketing Services Gibril Samura Sierra Leone High Commission; MA, International Relations, University of Warwick Helin Sari Freelance, NTV, CNN (Turkey); research assistant, PhD, International Relations,Yildiz University; research assistant, Yildiz Technical University; lecturer,Yildiz Technical University Olivier Shaw-Latimer Producer, Compuserve, AOL Europe; editor,Vodafone UK; group product manager, Monitise Daniel Sheldon Media planner and buyer, Universal Mccann Vedat Spahovic Freelance; Deutsche Welle (Balkans)

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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 XPress PR Agency and Innova Group (Miami) 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 Monika Unsworth Irish Times; press officer, NI Civil Service Nadege Vancauwenberghe Unknown Jonathan Waddell Special assistant, Minister of Environment (Canada) David Wasswa Associated Media Services; owner, Safeway Tours and Travel Rebecca Webb Reuters (Wellington) Erica Wells The Tribune (Bahamas); managing editor, The Nassau Guardian Hao Wu Radio Guangdong; International Development Centre; translator; community settlement counsellor, ISS settlements services; citizen service officer, Service Canada

NEWSPAPER Esther Addley The Australian; features writer, deputy features editor, senior news writer, The Guardian Lisa Baxter Evening Star (Ipswich); producer, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, assistant editor BBC World Geraldine Baybutt Senior reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; senior reporter, Lancashire Evening Post; German professor David Brown Reporter, The People Ciar Byrne Private Eye; Media Guardian; press and publishing correspondent, Media Guardian; arts and media correspondent, The Independent; freelance, (The Guardian,The Daily Telegraph,The Lady, Press Gazette) James Cadman Production trainee, PA News; sub-editor, Pagemasters; duty editor, Teletext; senior news sub-editor, deputy night editor, head of tablet editions, Metro Shamim Chowdhury Daily Express; London Tonight; BBC Choice; deputy foreign editor, Sky News; news editor, Al Jazeera English; Huffington Post Jonathan Clements Graduate trainee scheme, staff reporter, night news editor, showbiz editor, crime correspondent, Daily Mirror; correspondent, ITN; Director of Campaigns, Crest Advisory Indira Das-Gupta Evening Standard; senior news reporter, Third Sector; PR and communications manager, Back Up; co-owner, North London Yoga Studio Finian Davern Freelance, The Independent; news, Metro; Travel Trade Gazette; reporter, Metro; Solicitor, Knocker & Foskett Guy Dennis Reporter, The Sunday Times; reporter, Bloomberg; business reporter, Daily Mirror; city correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph; head of media, Freud Communications; head of news, CBI; head of communications, Atomico; editor, Shell James Diamond Cambridgeshire Times Peter Elliott News editor, Crosby Herald; news officer, Liverpool City Council Dominic Fifield Football reporter, 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;

news reporter, transport correspondent, media correspondent, deputy news editor, The Sunday Times Katherine Griffiths Daily Express; business reporter, banking correspondent, Wall Street correspondent, The Independent; banking editor, The Times Nerys Hairon The Wharf; Meat Trades Journal; senior reporter, acting clinical features editor, assistant practice editor, Nursing Times Tom Kelly Reporter, Press Association (Dublin, London, New York); reporter, Daily Mail Anthea Lawson Freelance, The Observer,The Times; researcher, Amnesty International; senior investigator, Global Witness Luke Leitch Diary section, news desk, arts reporter, Evening Standard; deputy fashion editor, The Daily Telegraph Catherine Mayer Foreign correspondent, Focus; Europe editor, Time; author Donna McConnell Assistant channel editor, TV & Showbusiness; showbiz editor, Mail Online Gabriel Milland Freelance reporter, The Sunday Times; news reporter, foreign editor, Daily Express; head of press, Policy Exchange; head of news, Department for Education Emma Morris Daily Mail; sub-editor, staff writer, Ski and Snowboard; Daily Mail; feature writer, Kitchens; freelance, (Daily Mail, She, Snowboard); features editor, Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms; style writer, Living Etc; chief subeditor, Health and Fitness Joseph Mouzo St Albans Observer; multimedia editor, Agence France Presse (online) Sherna Noah General reporter, showbiz, arts & media correspondent, Press Association; The Independent Ben Perry Online, newsdesk, head of English language business desk, Agence France Presse Karen Rice Edinburgh Evening News; education correspondent, Scotland on Sunday; author; investigative reporter, Edinburgh Herald & Post; investigations editor, Irish Daily Mail Mark Sellman Assistant head of news, Times Online; deputy editor, digital editions, The Times Meera Selvananthan City desk, The Daily Telegraph; CityWire; European correspondent, The Business; freelance, (The Independent, New Zealand Herald); reporter, The Associated Press Deborah Sheldon News of the World; National News Agency; Daily Mirror Zoe Smith Belfast Telegraph; freelance sub-editor (Australia); sub-editor, The Age (Melbourne); sub-editor, journalist, Sydney Morning Herald Michelle Stanistreet News desk, features writer, books editor, Sunday Express; deputy general secretary, general secretary, National Union of Journalists; reporter, The Guardian Sarah Toyne Finance writer, The Sunday Times; business reporter, BBC Tim Webb Sky News Online; energy reporter, Sunday Business; business correspondent, The Independent on Sunday; energy editor, The Times Cathy Winston (née Mayer) Reporter, senior feature writer, acting deputy features editor, feature editor, head of features, head of premier showbiz, Press Association; lifestyle editor, Fabulous

PERIODICAL Elisabeth Attwood Assistant editor, Health Matters; chief sub-editor, features editor, Pregnancy & Birth; reporter, photography, Alice Springs News; chief sub, FOXTEL magazine; entertainment editor,

Discovery (Cathay Pacific inflight magazine) 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,Viva, DreamWatch,TV Hits, Eve,Total Film, OK!) Shaoni Bhattacharya Trainee, Daily Express; Pulse; deputy online editor, news editor, New Scientist; freelance, New Scientist, The Mail on Sunday, Psychologies Ursula Biggs Freelance, PC Advisor Jeanette Blair Freelance, (International Freighting Weekly, New Scientist, Psychologies) Tracey Boles Money Marketing; finance writer, The Observer; transport editor, chief reporter, The Business; business reporter, The Sunday Express; director, ReputationInc Dom Brookman Sub-editor, What’s Online; senior publisher, Paragon; editor, Internet Made Easy; editor, Internet User; editor, Buyer and Online Seller; homepage editor, MSN UK and Online Seller; homepage editor, MSN UK; content producer, AEG Europe Huria Choudhari News editor, Public Sector Newspaper; freelance (Evening Standard, the Guardian,Travel Trade Gazette, Daily Express, Marketing, LGC, Music Week, Nursing Standard, NTL World.com,Virgin Media); producer, BBC News Online; editor, Life & Soul Magazine Claire Coe (née Smith) The Lawyer; deputy editor, Legal Business; writer and researcher, Claire Legal Jane Crowther Staff writer, news editor, Flicks Magazine; movies editor, Sky Magazine; freelance, (Total Film,The Yorkshire Post, Men’s Health, First Magazine, Company, Sky, Sky Movie); associate features editor, editor, Total Film Emma Dent (née Forrest) Leisure Week; Building; features reporter, Construction News; senior features reporter, features editor, Health Service Journal; editor, L; freelance Ben Falk Associate producer, The Movie Chart Show and BBC Films Online; Los Angeles producer, The Movie Chart Show; development producer, Scream Films; Hollywood correspondent, entertainment and lifestyle features writer, Press Association; entertainment freelance (Sky, The Huffington Post UK) Jennifer Farrar (née Currie) Times Higher Educational Supplement; Schoolsnet; 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 Sub-Editor, EL Gazette; production editor, ZDNet; Edinburgh Evening News; senior journalist, assistant editor, Holyrood Magazine; editor, Mambo Magazine; freelance travel and cultural journalist Tamsin Hargrave Production editor, Nintendo Magazine; production editor, Smash Hits; chief sub-editor, Cosmo Bride; chief subeditor, 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, The Guardian Pete Jenson Parliamentary Review; Revolution magazine; telegraph.co.uk; Sunday People; sport reporter, Mail Online Selina Julien New Nation; showbiz writer, showbiz editor, assistant editor, Now James Keighley Travel editor, Open Interactive; content editor, Sky Interactive; freelance (Online News Reader, wsj.com, The Wall Street Journal Europe); copy editor, assistant news editor, Dow Jones Derren Lawford Whereits.at; music

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1999 - 2000 journalist, BBC Radio 1; Radio 1 Newsbeat; presenter, BBC1 Xtra News, TX Unlimited; BBC Watchdog; Commissioning Exec at London Live TV, Evening Standard Chris Leadbeater Music editor, This Is London; senior writer, Cut; FHM; thisistravel; Daily Mail; freelance, (The Independent, Daily Mail) Lucy Maggs Reporter, editor, Third Sector; communications manager, Crisis; account director, Geronimo Communications; Campaigns, Prime Ministers Office and Cabinet Office Sara Manuelli Freelance, Country Homes & Interiors; features editor, Design Week; freelance journalist and press officer, Interaction Design Institute; writer,Via della Trinita dei Pellegrini; The Guardian Elizabeth Michaelson Freelance (inniverse.com, Shoot!); staff writer, associate editor, Skin Cancer Foundation Hubeena Nadeem Revolution magazine; senior feature writer, Asian Woman, Asian Bride; contributor, Asian Home, Asian Fashion and Beauty; writer, Newsquest Media Group; senior reporter, Inside Housing Sarah Obermuller-Bennett Unknown Vanessa Pawsey People Management; The Lawyer; writer, European Legal Business; writer, finance editor, news editor, Legal Business; CEO, Jeego Ltd Edward Reeves Sub-editor, Car Magazine; deputy chief sub-editor, GQ; freelance sub, TV columnist, Esquire; editor, Ford; copy editor, House & Garden, Brides Joel Rickett News editor, deputy editor, The Bookseller; editorial director, Penguin books Estelle Shirbon Ha’aretz (Israel); Agence France Presse; 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 Assistant editor, editor, Penguin Books; non-fiction commissioning editor, Hodder & Stoughton Jane Verhelst Freelance Sarah Wakely The Net; Songlines; subeditor, production editor, AutoCar magazine; deputy editor, Practical Motor Home; freelance Sarah Warwick Editor, Family History Monthly; deputy editor, H2Open; deputy editor, easyJet Traveller magazine Louise Wilson Researcher, BBC Tomorrow’s World; production secretary, Comic Relief; researcher, We’ll Meet Again, Net Comedy Awards; researcher, BBC Entertainment; assistant producer, BBC Specialist Factual; assistant producer, director and producer, CBBC; freelance; producer, BBC Children in Need; director, BBC Children in Need; director, BBC The One Show Jenny Wood Features assistant, Wedding Day; writer and sub-editor, Real Health & Beauty; feature writer, deputy features editor, Company Clare Zinkin (née Lister) Project editor, senior editor, Dorling Kindersley; freelance editor

BROADCAST Andrew Bailey Press officer, Middlesex University; broadcast journalist, Radio City (Liverpool); morning news editor, Century Radio (Manchester); head of news,Virgin Radio UK; head of interactive content and news, Absolute Radio; head of news, sport and entertainment,Virgin Radio UK; head of news and Breakfast news presenter, Absolute Radio Zoey Bird Producer, Channel 5 News; presenter, At The Races Mark Cotton Commodities reporter, Bridge News; Lead markets reporter, AFX

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Paris & New York; Presenter, efdex TV (Paris); Markets reporter, CBS Market Watch; PR manager, Jupiter Asset Management Sarah Deech Producer, BBC 10 O’ Clock News; senior producer, BBC 3 News; senior producer, BBC News 24; senior broadcaster, BBC News TV 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 Merriem Matthew Dubai TV; Swiss Radio International; reporter (Zurich) Sonya Mayet Bloomberg TV; BBC Business Unit; broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; freelance screenwriter Matthew Neylan All Out Productions; press officer, Local Government Information Unit; senior press officer, Mayor of London; account director, director, London Communications Agency Anna O’Neill Broadcast journalist, BBC London; BBC Essex; radio reporter, BBC London weekend Barbara Serra Today programme, BBC Radio 4; broadcast journalist, BBC London Live; reporter, Sky News; newsreader, Al Jazeera Julian Shea Broadcast journalist, BBC Ceefax sport; broadcast journalist; BBC sport website; Sky News for iPad; blogger, Metro Karishma Vaswani Broadcast journalist, CNN Singapore Bureau; business correspondent, BBC World News (Mumbai); correspondent, BBC Indonesia Georgia Webber David Paradine Productions; Calendar News; reporter and newsreader,Yorkshire TV; reporter, Sky News; 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 News editor, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation; Corporate Broadcast magazine; freelance; public relation executive, Lindsell Marketing; editor-at-large, Sheeko magazine; foreign correspondent, The East African Newspaper; owner, Gigicucina Sahar Al-Amri The Saudi Research & Publishing Company Caroline Al-Faraj Managing editor, Al Rai Newspaper (Jordan); Jordan Times; Defence News Weekly; 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 subeditor, Daily News (Tanzania); PhD, Fordham University; teaching fellow, lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam; associate dean and senior lecturer, School of Journalism and Mass

Communication, University of Dar es Salaam Maria Anguita Mark Allen Group; editor, British Journal of Midwifery; editor, Nexus Media; deputy clinical features editor, GP Magazine; editor, Nurse Prescribing; acting editor, British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, freelance (Madrid), publications and digital communications officer, Tommy’s.

Farhod Arziev National News Agency of Uzbekistan; senior reporter, international affairs, News Agency (Uzbekistan); deputy clinical features editor, GP magazine Jacopo Barigazzi Assistant producer, CNBC Europe (London); business reporter, Reuters (Milan); business reporter, Adnkronos; special foreign correspondent, Newsweek; chief editor, Linkiesta; deputy editor, Pagina 99 Mallika Basu Assistant editor, Financial Publishing International; account executive, consultant, Gresham PR; senior account manager, Hill and Knowlton; director, corporate, management board, The Communication Group plc; senior associate director, corperate PR director, MSL London Christina Blaagaard Reporter, TV2 (Denmark); infopaq.dk; editor, news agency, Newspag; editorial project manager, Berlingske Media Andreas Bondevik Reporter, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation; producer, NRK, National Commercial Radio; US stringer, Norwegian News Agency; Europe correspondent, Norwegian News Agency Christina Charalambous Cyprus News Agency; public image consultant, Epopsis Communications Hopewell Chin’ono African producer, ITN; nieman journalism fellowship program, Harvard University; journalist, ITN, ITV News Natacha Crnjanski Reuters (Paris); news editor, Travel Security Services; regional information manager, International SOS PhamTran Dinh News assistant, Vietnam Economic Times; Reuters (Hanoi);

communications and external affairs coordinator, 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 State House Bureau; North Carolina Public Radio; Feature Story News (Washington DC); producer, PBS; healthcare reporter, Boston Business Journal Laura Dowrich-Phillips Internet editor, Trinidad Guardian; freelance writer, Fretwork Publishing Luz Echeverri Film project, author Farrah Esmail Rogers Television; news writer (Ontario); anchor, Al Jazeera and Quatar News Dinah Gardner Freelance (Beijing) Alison Gibson Journalist and sub-editor; freelance Lilian Githungo Court reporter, Nation Newspaper; humanitarian affairs officer; UN (Somalia;) Anne Harenberg FT Marketwatch; reporter, N-TV, CNN Germany Tom Hennigan Screaming Media; freelance, CNBC Europe (London); freelance (Buenos Aires); Sao Paolo correspondent, The Times Gisela Henriques Activa Magazine Merete Jebsen (née Bergeland) CNN (London) Mamiko Kawamoto Screen International; talent agent,Yoshimoto Entertainment USA; senior executive international development and marketing, Yoshimoto Entertainment USA Inc. Ragnhild Kjetland Editorial assistant, site2oil.com; pharmaceutical/chemical correspondent, AFX News; freelance (Norway); Dow Jones; technology/media reporter, Bloomberg

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RICHARD ARNOLD Entertainment Editor, Daybreak, ITV Periodical, 1993 Fondest memory of City?

An old Fleet Street hack told us we’d end up growing through the industry together. We really have progressed through the media world together, no matter what expertise we went into. It was a terrific fraternity to be a part of.

Best thing about your job?

I love the variety. I’ve met everyone from prime ministers to sporting icons to ordinary heroes. I might start a week with Leonardo DiCaprio and end with Rustie Lee. It’s exciting, never knowing from one day to the next who I’ll be interviewing. I’ve had all sorts of giddy adventures and that’s the thing I’m most grateful for.

Any interviewing tips?

I get more out of interviews now than when I was younger because I’m more sure of what I’m doing. Let interviewees fill the gaps and remember it’s not about you. Keep your own style and listen hard. You know when you’ve come away with a good line.

Most valuable career advice you’ve received?

If you have a passion, specialise in it. I loved TV and so I worked up a reputation for being that go-to person. That stood me in good stead. I also made sure I had several strings to my bow. There’s no such thing as a permanent job in print, radio or TV. KASIA DELGADO

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Yannis Krontiras Military service Christine Lai Vice executive director, China Times Katarina Limkjaer Screaming Media; CNN (Norway) Anouk Macchetti Bloomberg TV Kennedy Makambira PR Director, Prince Edward Centennial; sport correspondent, BBC World Service; sports marketing executive; sports coach Glaieul Mamaghani News assistant, Digital Business Globe; Reuters (Paris) Nonofo Mankhi MA Television, Westminster University; secondary school teacher; educational broadcaster Nicole Mannix Contributing writer, Maranatha News; contributing writer, 29secrets.com; freelance (Canada) Mpho Mantjiu Reporter, Smart Bureau; Sunday Tribune Johannesburg (Zimbabwe); researcher, writer, Laing & Buisson; producer, Poppylands Productions; production journalist, The Times Ulrica Marshall FT.com; restaurant reviewer, www.wcities.com; derivatives section, International Financing Review; freelance Helly Minarti Jakarta Post; head of arts, British Council (Jakarta;) Asia fellows; programme development manager, Cohort 5; Kelola foundation; freelance, (Jakarta Post, International Arts Manager magazine) Maria Ntavou Journalist, National Greek Television; communications consultant to the executive director, Organising Committee for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games; communications manager, Hellenic-American Arts Centre; account director, Solid PR Agency; account director, Solid Digital Agency Oyvind Nyborg Dagsnytt NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corp Lise Olaussen Aftenposten (Norwary); NRK Dagsrevyen; MTV; 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 Freelance; Regeneration & Renewal; researcher, World Rate & Data; writer and editor, Audit Commission; researcher, editor, Pakistan High Commission; community projects manager, Tameer Microfinance Bank (Karachi); teacher Tatiana Reis Intern, New Statesman; commercial lawyer; 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 Al Ahram Correspondent, Scandinavia; TV Presenter, Kuwait News Agency; editor-in-chief, Nile News TV (Egypt); Scandinavia correspondent, Central News Sector; financial correspondent, Egyptian TV; Egyptian TV Correspondent, AFX News Joao Tordo Freelance Roula Tsoumita InterClubNet; European football analyst, Premierbet; PhD, sports and media management; European football analyst, Blue Lizard Dominic Tunon Assistant producer, AOL Europe; online consultant Ruwan Wijewardene Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka); PA, Wijeya Newspapers (Sri Lanka); executive director, RS Printek; director, Freudenburgh Training Company Saskia Wirth Freelance; Marketwatch; Financial Times; press officer, Comic Relief; publicity manager, Christian Aid; ITV News; group publicity manager, features and daytime, Channel 4 Eylem Yanardagoglu Freelance; teaching assistant; sociology research student, City University; assistant professor, Bahcesehir University; researcher, University of Westminster Helen Yates Online journalist, Financial Publishing International; deputy editor, UK

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NICHOLAS BARBER Critic, The Independent on Sunday Periodical, 1994 Fondest memory of City?

I had lots of good times with good friends. Also, I’d just done an English degree, which I didn’t understand at all, so I remember being very pleased that I could follow what the lecturers were talking about.

Best thing about your job?

Film screenings.

You can watch a film and call it work, and if you’re lucky the PR company will serve chocolate biscuits beforehand.

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Most memorable interview?

A 90s Britrock band called Reef - but only because I got to travel to Japan for the interview!

Most valuable career advice you’ve ever received?

A month ago, my best pal from City, Josh Sims, advised me that no premise for an article is too tenuous or ridiculous.

However daft it might seem, he said, it’s always possible to gather the quotes and statistics to back it up.

EVE SIMMONS

Excellence Magazine; freelance insurance journalist, Helen Yates Media 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 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 The Scotsman;The Mirror; Press Association; Daily Record; political correspondent, Evening Standard Elizabeth Crudgington Chief reporter, Kent Regional News James Daley Investment reporter, Money Marketing; freelance, (The Times, Sunday Business, The Sunday Telegraph); business correspondent, The Business; money desk, The Sunday Telegraph; business and personal finance reporter, personal finance editor, The Independent; money editor, Which?, senior associate, Demos Finance Graham Diggines Edinburgh Evening News; reporter, The Sun; assistant editor, Soldier magazine; editor, The Sharp End Laura Elston News desk, royal correspondent, Press Association David Fickling Metro; Sydney correspondent, the Guardian, Americas world news editor, companies reporter, Financial Times; commodities reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, consumer reporter, Bloomberg Oliver Finegold Camden New Journal, The Watford Observer; news reporter, Evening Standard; media relations manager, Westminster City Council, Head of media relations, Southwark Council; media relations manager, General Medical Council; senior communications and media relation consultant; various Jodie Ginsberg Correspondent, Reuters (South Africa); chief correspondent, bureau chief, lead writer, Reuters; Head of communications, Camfed Emma Gosnell Deputy editor, Seven Magazine 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 Sam Lister Trainee, staff reporter, health correspondent, news editor, health editor, The Times Director of communications, UK Department of Health Martel Maxwell Trainee, showbiz reporter, The Sun; showbiz editor and columnist, The Scottish Sun; freelance columnist, broadcaster and novelist; entertainment reporter, Sky News, This Morning, ITV; author; freelance Louisa McLennan Intern, The Australian; reporter, Yellow Advertiser, news writer, entertainment editor, student editor,Times Online; 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 21st Century, China Daily (Beijing); foreign desk, special project editor,

The Independent; deputy chief sub, The Sunday Times Magazine Rosalind Ryan Trainee, Financial Times; yourmoney.com; health writer, femail.co.uk, Daily Mail; freelance; reporter, news.com.au; reporter, Guardian Unlimited; deputy editor, Healthy magazine; freelance Ben Sheppard Trainee, news reporter, Daily Express; freelance (Athens) Laura Smith Reporter, Nottingham Evening Post; reporter, The Evening Standard; reporter, The Guardian; Freelance journalist and communications consultant, (mydaily, The Guardian, The Independent, Marie Claire) Julia Snoddy Business desk, The Guardian; business desk, The Independent on Sunday; freelance, (Sky News); business producer, BBC Radio 4 and 5; freelance Preety Taneja Rochdale Observer; Manchester Evening News; guardian.co.uk; The Observer; Financial Adviser; freelance, Evening Standard, BBC Radio; Children’s Express, Andrew Tongue Financial News; sports desk, Press Association; personal finance reporter, Financial Times; recruitment; field ecologist, RPS Group Lucy Warwick-Ching Trainee, personal finance reporter, editor, ft.com/personalfinance, Financial Times; business reporter, Financial Times; consumer industries reporter; editor, FT.Com money editor, Financial Times Bob Williams Trainee, Daily Express; freelance, (Daily Express,The Guardian; Wicked Whispers); Daily Mail; football writer, The Mail On Sunday; reporter, thelondonpaper; Scottish sports editor, The Daily Telegraph Charlotte Williamson ES Magazine; researcher, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine; freelance, (Elle, Harpers & Queen,The Observer); commissioning editor, editor, news review and comment, The Sunday Telegraph

PERIODICAL Michael Bird In-Store Marketing; Independent on Sunday, Design Week; deputy editor, Bucharest Business Week; associate editor, www.ak13.com; editor, The Diplomat Hannah Booth Deputy news editor, features editor, Design Week; Zitty Magazine; deputy editor, editor, Space, Guardian Weekend Chris Brock The Lawyer; reporter, New Media Creative magazine; associate editor, eDesign Magazine; columnist, Nervous Room; editor, Mulberry Publications; editor, Tileywoodman; Chris Brock Photography Abigail Cattell Editorial assistant, Wilmington Publishing; features writer, Frontier; sub-editor, Wanderlust; copy writer,Virgin Holidays; travel writer,Teletext Holidays; freelance, deputy editor, Marks and Spencer; global editor, Aviva plc; editorial senior manager, Coca-Cola Enterprises Martin Clark Records assistant, defocus; Dotmusic; Straight No Chaser; freelance, G2,The Face, Jockey Slut, Ministry, Hip Hop Connection; A&R consultant; news editor, Knowledge Magazine; uploader, guardian.co.uk; content manager, community manager,Yahoo Europe Isabel Connet (née Pitman) Presenter and reporter, local French radio; freelance, (Country Homes and Interiors, ES Magazine, Time Out, French newspaper); teacher; English teacher, French/English translator (France) Suzy Cox Staff writer, mixmag.net; Q4music. com; Staff writer, smashhits.net; celebrity writer, Mizz; senior writer, 19; senior writer, Cosmopolitan; features director, Grazia; associate editor, Fabulous; deputy editor, Cosmopolitan; editor, Cosmo on Campus Sally Eyden Trainee, feature writer, acting deputy features editor, Daily Express; entertainment editor, Night & Day, The Mail on Sunday; health editor, Daily Express; showbiz editor and columnist, Reveal; editor, Fabulous;

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2000 - 2001 editor, Now Leon Forde Freelance, (Flipside, The Face, The Guardian); assistant features editor, Screen International; film columnist, The Mail On Sunday; deputy features editor, features editor, Screen International; freelance, (Screen Daily) Adam Gold Freelance, WHSmith guides, The Itchy Guide to London, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Private Eye, Rough Guides, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, FHM, InStyle, Sugar, More!; video editor and feature writer, AOL’s film channel; web editor, Zoo associate editor, editor-in-chief, Men’s Digital, Bauer Media; launch publisher, GoThinkBig.co.uk, Bauer Media, O2; digital business manager, Men’s and Entertainment (Empire, FHM, Kerrang!, MOJO, Q and ZOO), Bauer Media Lucy Gordon Aura magazine;Travel Trade Gazette; assistant producer,Tiger Aspect TV; assistant producer, Granada TV; assistant producer, Hewland International; freelance assistant producer, BBC factual Justina Perry Icircle.com; freelance, (sparklearning.com, National Magazine Company); editor, London Supplement, Junior Magazine; group account director, G2 marketing; client director, Geometry; director, Baby Mama 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 Telegraph magazine, Die Zeit, Neon, Wallpaper); author Christian Koch Freelance, (The Face, Muzik, Campaign Media Business, Dotmusic, Mondo, Limb by Limb,World Entertainment); showbiz journalist,World Entertainment News; senior writer, Smash Hits; Commercial editor, FHM; freelance (Evening Standard, the Guardian, Q, Metro, Stylist) Victoria MacCallum Senior reporter, features writer, Law Society Gazette; Press officer, 10 Downing Street; senior press officer, Department of Health; chief press officer, Foreign Office; Communications, 10 Downing Street; Head of Communications, Cabinet Office Sarah Mason Editorial assistant, Pharmacy Magazine; senior interactive editor, Monkey TV; assistant production editor,The Wardle Agency; assistant editor, Fabulous; freelance journalist; production editor, First Magazine; assistant editor, Fabulous Andy McCue Freelance (netbeat.com, Terrorizer, Kingsize, Kerrang!); senior reporter, VNU News Centre; deputy editor, Silicon. com; freelance, (CBS Interactive UK, silicon. com, greenbang.com); editor, Climber Magazine; freelance Kate McGeown Researcher, BBC Science Online; broadcast journalist, BBC News Online; reporter, BBC News Asia Pacific, broadcast journalist, BBC; editor, Asia/Pacific website; radio reporter,World Service BBC; Philippines correspondent, BBC Eve McGowan News reporter, Richmond Informer; freelance, (Cosmopolitan, Metro, The Sunday Telegraph); writer, 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 Writer, Smash Hits; freelance, (TV Hits, Mizz, Inside Soap, All About Soap, Blush, OK!); deputy showbiz editor, More!; writer, senior features writer, Star; travel editor, New; travel editor, Star; showbiz editor, Woman’s Own; assistant editor, acting deputy editor, Now Zoe Murphy Assistant editor, AOL News Channel; broadcast journalist, BBC News Interactive, world desk Katie Reich-Storer (née Reich)

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Freelance (Woman’s Weekly, the Guardian, The Observer,Tesco.com); editor, huggieclub. com, Citrus Publishing; assistant editor, deputy editor projects, ABTA magazine; special projects editor, Absolute Publishing; associate editor, ABTA magazine; editor, Spa Secrets Magazine, Absolute Publishing Susan Riley TV Times; Soaplife; features writer, features editor, Mizz; features editor, features director, Sugar; features director, More!; deputy editor, acting editor, Stylist Paul Rincon Reporter, Construction News; 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 Nic Scott Freelance, (OK!, Hello!, Citrus Publishing, Forward Publishing, 7 Days, consumer magazines);production editor, Junior; freelance Ben Spriggs Freelance (Freeserve, Fashion Weekly, Menswear); copy editor, deputy chief copy editor, InStyle; news editor, Living; homes editor, ELLE Decoration; associate editor, Sunday Times Style magazine; PR manager, Maybourne Hotel Group Jon Webdale Reporter, New Media Age; freelance, (the Guardian); commissioning editor, Interactive TV; senior reporter, C21 media. net; editor, Future Media.Ben Westwood Assistant travel editor, Electronic Telegraph; acting online travel editor, travel journalist, deputy travel editor, The Daily Telegraph; manager,Travel PR; lecturer, Universidad Espiritu Santo; freelance travel author, Rough Guides Sarah Willcocks Editorial assistant, Literary Review; freelance (The Independent, The Scotsman, The Moscow Times, Literacy Review, The Erotic Review, Time Out, The Oldie, The Stage); playwright; freelance

BROADCAST Lee Baker Kick FM; broadcast journalist, BBC Wiltshire Sound; independent music producer Mike Bovill Freelance sport reporter; reporter, sports editor, City AM; 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 ITN News; trainee, BBC News; broadcast journalist, BBC Spotlight; reporter, 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 & Economics News Ellie Crisell Reporter, presenter, Channel 5 News; presenter, BBC Newsround; senior broadcast journalist, BBC 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 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 Melanie Grant Online producer, broadcast journalist, television pundit, UKTV and BBC 1Xtra; interactive editor, The One Show, BBC; editor, BBC London Nina Harrison-Bell (née Harrison) Producer, ITN; Partner, h2glenfern (Investor Communications) Will Inglis 106 CTFM; LBC; Power FM; 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 Gareth Mason Broadcast journalist, RTE Westminster; sub-editor; contributor, Irish National Radio; freelance, writer, editor, subeditor, copywriter, reviewer, broadcaster, and trainer 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 Broadcast journalist, ITN Radio; trainee, BBC News; video journalist, BBC North; Bradford reporter, BBC Yorkshire;TV reporter, BBC South Keme Nzerem Producer, ITN; producer, 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)Senior broadcast journalist (transport producer), BBC News; presenter, QF Radio; reporter, Monocle 24;columnist,Telegraph Expat; editor, 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 Associate producer, ITV, Channel 4;reporter, producer, CNN; reporter, Associated Press; produce, 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 Researcher, ITN Picture Agency

2001 INTERNATIONAL Alex Arampatzis Political analyst; reporter, Dehavilland Information Services; lecturer, Edge Hill College; CEO, WIN; owner,

Arampatzis Media Malene Arboe-Rasmussen Public relations officer, UEPG, European Aggregates Association (Brussels); desk officer for the Nordic countries, United Nations Regional Information Center (Brussels); press officer, IFAD; information and communication officer, Food and Agricultural Organisation (Banda Aceh, Indonesia); public relations officer, Clr Public Relations (Copenhagen, Denmark); senior media officer, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (Brussels); multimedia co-ordinator, assistant web editor, information liaison officer, NATO (Brussels); freelance journalist (Brussels, Copenhagen); communications officer, NATO (Brussels) Marie Barraud News analyst, Dehavilland; reporter, Groupe Afrique; foreign correspondent, La Croix; RFI radio Sophie Besse Agence France-Presse Elisabeth Brun Reporter, NRK P1 (Norway); Kulturnytt; NRK P2; documentary director, producer, NRK 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 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) Gustavo Arnizaut Duarte TVE; communications manager, Proklima; freelance (Information and Development , 4 Saints); media specialist and project manager, GIZ Proklima Montreal Protocol Unit, HEAT GmbH (Frankfurt/Brazil); communications consultant, UNEP (OzonAction branch, Paris, Panama) Minelle Fernandez Communications officer, Commonwealth Secretariat; Colombo correspondent, Al Jazeera; director, Media Matters Violet Gonda Producer, presenter, anchor, SW Radio Africa James Gooder Reporter, The Independent on Sunday; writer, Reuters; speechwriter, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Geneva); online journalist, Al Jazeera; deputy editor, Argus European Electricity Report; business development manager, Argus Media Miriam Gressli Producer, MTV News (Norway) Michelle Hakata Sub-editor, New African; customer services advisor, lastminute.com; programme executive, Commonwealth Business Council; features editor, Africa Practice; consultant, HMD Marianne Hartz-Thomas Media officer, UNEP (Arendal); examiner, teacher, Læreanstaltenes Fælles Formidlingskursus; partner, Livingwords Communications; senior communications advisor, Operate Communications 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 Editor, reporter, Ticker News Agency; reporter, Dagens Media Forlag; reporter, n.24.se (Stockholm) Sebastian Lopez Unknown Kristine Lowe Freelance; columnist, ABC Nyheter; online journalist, journalisten.no (Norway); founder, Norway’s Online News

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Association (NONA) Marta Machado-Gooder Programme administrator, Reuters Foundation; freelance, Al Jazeera English; CNN Africa; project coordinator, Reuters Foundation Isaac Massaquoi Senior news editor, head of news and current affairs, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service; lecturer, programme coordinator, University of Sierra Leone Brian McGee Editor, bmcnews.com; reporter, Bloomberg Elodie Mialet France 3 (Bordeaux);TV reporter, Sante Vie; 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 Editor, PG Lim Private Ltd (Singapore); co-managing editor, consulting editor, Aerobics and Fitness Association of America; editor, 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 Press advisor, Portuguese Minister of Economy; executive director, Ogilvy PR (Lisbon); deputy director, Diario Economico; partner and founder, Cupido Comunicacao; managing director, Ogilvy and Mather Scott Reeves Freelance assistant news editor, Channel 4 News, ITN; researcher, John Kay’s Financial Times column; producer, Powerhouse, Channel 4; producer, Channel 4 News Friedel Grant (née Rother) Freelance (Financial Times radio, Associated Press Radio); financial journalist, Financial Times, Reuters; PR and editorial assistant, Europeana Shirin Sadeghi Producer, reporter, BBC World Service; producer, reporter, for Al Jazeera English; columnist, Al Jazeera 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 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 Assistant editor, contributing editor, Spirituality & Health; PhD, clinical psychology; freelance, Spirituality & Health Corinne Touze Radio Mediterranee Internationale; freelance (Radio Europe 1, Radio Orient, Europe 1 France, Radio Canada, Radio Suisse Romande); news anchor, writer, Radio Mediterranee Internationale Vanessa Viola Market reporter, Argus Media; oil broker, E A Gibson Shipbrokers Dan Wallis Foreign desk, The Times; intern, Reuters (Nairobi); deputy foreign editor, PA; Tanzania correspondent, Uganda correspondent,Venezuela correspondent, Reuters Barry Wilkinson Cricket correspondent, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation

NEWSPAPER Kate Allen Reporter, PA Digital; chief feature writer, Building; feature writer, Inside

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Housing Magazine; editor, Social Housing; director, The Financial Information Company; statistics journalist, property 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) 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, Press Association; senior reporter, The National (Abu Dhabi); assistant news editor (National desk), The National; English desk editor, Courrier International (Presseurop) Kate Haywood Commodities reporter, Reuters; deputy editor, Telecom finance; IFR; senior reporter, Thompson Financial; reporter, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones 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 Trainee, The Sun; news desk assistant, The Sunday Times; news reporter, Evening Standard; freelance, (Mail On Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph); account manager, Ian Monk Associates; literary agent, Hunter Profiles Scott Hussey Newsflash Press Agency; The Scottish Sun 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) News reporter, features and supplements editor, Mortgage Strategy; deputy features editor, Contract Journal; acting features editor (maternity cover), Personnel Today; acting features editor, Contract Journal; deputy features editor, Estates Gazette; content editor, Personnel Today; freelance Luisa Metcalfe Freelance, Hampstead & Highgate Express; trainee, Daily Express; feature writer; Sunday Express; food editor and articles editor, OK! Magazine USA; deputy women’s editor, Daily Express; acting women’s editor, acting health features editor, digital lifestyle editor, Daily Express 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, Press Association James Nursey Sports reporter, The Argus; sports writer, Birmingham Post; freelance, sports reporter, Daily Mirror Dan Rookwood Health and fitness editor, Maxim; sports desk, guardian.co.uk;

commissioning editor, style director, Men’s Health; freelance, (The Guardian, Maxim, Four Four Two, Zest Magazine); health and fitness editor, Maxim; US editor, MrPorter; columnist, ES Magazine; columnist , GQ 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 Political researcher, Londoner’s Diary, Evening Standard; deputy editor, Wicked Whispers; reporter, Daily Mail; arts reporter, Evening Standard; freelance Rachel Williams Reporter, North American correspondent, US bureau chief, Press Association; features writer, The Guardian Alex Wynne Cosmedias International; information manager, deputy editor, Beauty Business News; deputy editor, Cosmetic News Weekly; freelance (Women’s Wear Daily, BW Confidential)

PERIODICAL Matthew Adey Freelance (Maxim,Wax, TNT, SX); deputy editor, Docklands Magazine; Islington Magazine; 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, telegraph.co.uk Al Chan Civil servant, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; civil servant, Department for Transport; FOI compliance officer, TFL Marissa Charles Food critic, Camden New Journal; Zest; editorial assistant and writer, Good Housekeeping; freelance (Pride, Closer, Zest); features reporter, Splash News & Picture Agency; freelance, Marissa Charles Media Catherine Clarke Freelance, Menswear; staff writer, assistant editor, deputy editor, editor, AnOther Magazine; freelance (Dazed & Confused, the Guardian,Time Out, Arena Homme Plus) Matthew Cottingham Feature writer, Property Week; investigative reporter, BBC 5 Live, assistant producer, BBC Panorama; assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; director, BBC Watchdog Sarah-Jane Cutting Editorial assistant, production editor, Australian Business Online; editor, WorkplaceInfo; Australian Business Sophy Dale Sub-editor, Computer Weekly; sub-editor,VNUnet.com; sub-editor, senior subeditor, Computing 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 Writer, reporter, deputy restaurants and bar editor, deputy news editor, Caterer & Hotelkeeper;freelance, The Guardian; features editor, BBC Online; features editor, Olive Phil Hebblethwaite Freelance, Men’s Health; junior editor, assistant editor, Adrenalin, Bogey Magazine; editor, publisher, The Stool Pigeon Dominique Hines Freelance, (Marie Claire,Your Life); 3am, Daily Mirror; freelance (Pride, Daily Mirror,TV Times, Closer); celebrity reporter, Reveal; showbiz reporter, Daily Mail; Daily Star; New; news editor, Heat

Claire Garcia (née Kilner) Development trainee, 12 Yard; administrative officer, The Refugee Council; communications officer, Renewal; equality & diversity coordinator, Ealing Primary Care Trust; freelance, PHAM Magazine; advice and information manager, BME services; policy & planning manager, General Medical Council Ellie Levenson Reporter, The Lawyer; travel writer, Netjetter, The Guardian; editor, Fabian Review; freelance (New Statesman, the Guardian); press officer, End Child Poverty; freelance (New Statesman,The Guardian, The Observer); lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London; author, freelance Fiona Macdonald Sub-editor, feature writer, features editor, editor, Home and Commuter, Metro Debbi Marco Features assistant, Your Life; freelance (Channel 4 Website, Men’s Health); trainee, Daily Express; assistant women’s editor, Bella; celebrity features editor, Full House; freelance Louie Purday Feature writer, Take a Break; features editor, Full House; freelance Heather Sadtler PA to editor, writer, GQ Annabel Short Freelance (The Ecologist, Faber & Faber); corporate social responsibility consultant, Context; senior researcher, head of program, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (USA) Geoffrey Spiteri The Independent on Sunday; reporter, Barclays Globe; publisher, News Digest Amy Taylor Community Care; freelance Daniel Thomas Freelance, feature writer, Medeconomics; staff writer, GP; senior financial markets reporter, Thomson Financial; reporter, Marketing Week; assistant news editor, Property Week; property correspondent, telecoms correspondent, Financial Times Gaia Vince Freelance (The Guardian, Pink Ribbon magazine, Focus,The Times, Build It Magazine); writer, New Scientist; editor, Ergo; news editor, Nature; freelance Natalie Williams Freelance sub-editor, GQ, Metal Hammer; columnist, sub-editor, 21st Century School Edition; editor, thewalk; editor, HH&A, Far Beyond; freelance, GQ, iTouch, T3; 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 Broadcast journalist, Club Asia; broadcast journalist, BBC 1Xtra; broadcast journalist, BBCAsian Network; freelance Lucy Boast Producer, broadcast journalist, BBC Vanessa Buschschlüter Researcher, trainee broadcast journalist; Washington producer, broadcast journalist; BBC World Service; Washington reporter and producer, BBC; Americas 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, BBC Leigh Jennings Unknown James Josephs Broadcast journalist, BBC Surrey, BBC Sussex; production journalist, ITN, Setanta Sports News Ragnhild Kjetland Pharma and chemicals reporter, AFX News; banking reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; technology reporter, Bloomberg; photographer Jude Landau Producer, Feature Story

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2001 - 2002 News; freelance producer, NTR; trainee hypnotherapist Jonathan Leleu Producer, Sky News; senior producer, BBC Six O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, BBC Benjamin Lowings News reader, Radio New Zealand International; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Christina Mackay Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC Naomi McCafferty Broadcast journalist; BBC Northern Ireland; political broadcast journalist, BBC Abi McLoughlin Associated Press; BBC Newsnight Review; producer, BBC Newsround; producer, BBC Sportsround; assistant producer, Newsround and Sportsround; producer, The World Tonight, Radio 4; assistant producer, Watchdog and Rogue Traders Shahab Mossavat Producer, BBC Six O’Clock News; Reuters (Iran); medical student, University of London; freelance, Middle East analyst Melanie Parry Researcher, BBC Radio 4; researcher, World at One, BBC Radio 4; BBC news sponsorship scheme; producer, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC Six O’Clock News Ewan Petrie Reporter, Scottish TV and Central; reporter, Real Radio Glasgow; reporter, newsreader, Radio Wave 102 Dundee; BBC Politics (Millbank); production journalist, Scottish TV Sohail Sahi BBC Southern Counties; sports reporter, BBC Solent; 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 BBC Northampton; stringer, BBC Baltic (Riga); broadcast journalist, BBC newsgathering; freelance reporter and producer (New York) Anna Thomas Presenter and reporter, Granada; news reporter and presenter, GMTV Louise Tickle BBC World Service; Everywoman Jonathan Wald News assistant; assignment editor, CNN (London, New York); executive producer, Piers Morgan Live Monica Zilouf Freelance producer, ITV News

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Safety Agency David Manley Marketing assistant, Universal Studios; product manager, Rockstar Games Alexandro Martello Economics reporter, Portal G1 Joana Mateus Producer, Press Association TV (London) Richard McColl Newsweek; feature writer, WWF; freelance (The Independent, Newsweek, Adventura Travel, Costa Rica); Global Travel magazine (UK); freelance, BBC online; Global Traveller Magazine USA; author, The Michelin Green Guide to Colombia; freelance contributor and defence correspondent, Diologo-Americas (Colombia) Nathalie McDermott Freelance, BBC Radio 5 Live; freelance trainer, City University; project officer, Radio for Development; managing director, On Road Media Mike McIlvain Feature editor, Laredo Morning Times; interim sports editor, Copperas Cove Leader-Press; managing editor, Belton Journal; reporter, LareDOS; adjunct professor, Texas A&M University; lecturer, United International College Pilar Medrano-Dell Secretary, Ebullient UK Limited Anthony Mills Sub-editor and writer, Middle East Reporter; contributor, executive, journalist, producer, Beirut Media Centre; correspndent, CNN (Beirut); freelance, (CNN, Sky News); press freedom and communications manager, International Press Institute (IPI,Vienna, Austria); deputy director, International Press Institute Edetaen Ojo Executive director, Media Rights Agenda (Nigeria) Dora Papagianni Unknown Theodoulos Papavassiliou Lecturer; newspaper editor; chief editor,Weekly; editor in chief, M. Pitsilidis SA Renee Louise Paul (nee Chow) TV control room, ABC News; UK correspondent, Associated Press Radio; correspondent, BBC Caribbean Sarah Pozzoli Lettera Finanziaria; freelance (La Repubblica,Valori, Capital, e-gazette) (Italy); economic editor, ItaliaOggi; financial editor, A&F of La Repubblica; editor in chief, www.nostrofiglio.it (First Italian parenting website), Gruner and Jahr Mondadori Synnove Prytz Berset Skarland Press AS Dong-Fang Qiu Executive editor, CCTV news Ganapathis Reddy Freelance, deputy manager, William Hill (India)

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 assistant, Independent Conflict Research & Analysis Matiullah Jan Reporter, The Frontier Post Daily; associate editor, News Network International; news reporter, Pakistan Television; media law advisor, Internews (Pakistan); senior correspondent, Dawn News TV; court correspondent, Waqt News (Pakistan) Brjann Jonasson Freelance (Lice Science); Morgunbladid; Frettabladdid Charlotte Kan Business reporter, Standard and Poor’s Marketscope; TV reporter, Bloomberg; freelance 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) Julian Kramer Editorial assistant, Classic Photographic Service; editorial assistant, Open Democracy; Senior marketing manager; PPC manager, Kaplan International 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 Affairsw Kwangu Liwewe Reporter, Malawi Media Women’s Association; co-ordinator, PAMODZI; freelance, (Positive Nation Magazine) (London); MA, human rights, ULU; co-ordinator, PAMODZI; West Africa Bureau chief, ENCA Fernando Lucena Associate producer, undercover reporter, Dispatches, 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

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FRASER NELSON Editor, The Spectator; Newspaper, 1996 Your best memory of City?

Definitely the people. City seemed to throw together a diverse and yet very like minded group of people - the fee was worth it, just to hang around with them for a year.

Best thing about your job?

Being able to work with (and commission) the writers I most admire in the world. It’s an incredible honour.

Most memorable interview?

Ian Lang, April 1994, when I was a student journalist. It was my first time in Westminster - I became completely intoxicated by it. You don’t really make a rational decision to be a journalist, you get bitten by a bug. And that was the day I was bitten.

Most valuable journalism advice you’ve ever received?

But at City, the best advice was how to do work experience properly, in a way that makes you look employable. The single best thing about City is that it gives you a far greater chance to get work experience.

SIMON GWYNN

Sherine Abdel-Razek Reuters; economics journalist, Al Ahram Weekly; head of economy desk, Al Sharouk (Cairo); deputy managing editor, Al Ahram Weekly Akram Al-Hendi Presenter, researcher; translator, UN; 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); photographer 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 Freelance producer (NHK Japan); editor, Saday-e-Jawan Radio Network; trainer and field producer, Internews Network (Sri Lanka); public affairs and outreach officer, local governance and community development project

(Afghanistan); deputy chief of Radio, United Nations 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, Bloomberg News Ginanne Brownell Researcher and producer, CNN; editorial manager, Newsweek (London); freelance (International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Financial Times) Ratchada Chitrada Producer, Asia Works Television Milly Clark Advertising, OK! Jelena Culum Press office assistant, City University press officer, Crisis; PR assistant, City University; sales and marketing manager, Emerging Markets; 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 Reporter, Credit magazine; freelance (New York Sun, New York News Network); financial reporter, Financial Times; financial reporter, dealReporter; corporate board correspondent; Reuters Sasha Damouni Reporter, New York News Network, The Star (Jordan); reporter, assistant editor, Merger Market; global editor, Pharmawire; healthcare reporter, Bloomberg News Perrine Faye Commodities reporter, Agence France Presse; correspondent, Basemetals.com; head of physical reporting, deputy chief correspondent, FastMarkets Ltd Camille Fournier Elle (Paris); psychology student 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 Joanna Gasiorowska Senior sports presenter, Al-Jazeera English Dwayne Gordon Reporter, Jamaica Herald; reporter, The Gleaner; news editor, entertainment editor, The Star; editor, The Gleaner; editor, The Star (Jamaica) Emily Gray Researcher, BBC Manchester Harun Maruf Hassan Trainee, BBC;

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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 Project manager (Spain) Roee Ruttenberg Production assistant, associate producer, ABC News; assistant news editor, Al Jazeera (Washington); freelance (Tel Aviv) Aliza Samorly Unknown Hirotada Shimura Reporter, openDemocracy.net Shaima Shobokshi Unknown Anastasia Siniori MA public relations, Cardiff University; Apofasi (Greece); K Magazine; Kathimerini, media PhD student, Westminster University Maria Sitaras-Yiangou Lecturer and managing director, evening school; programme manager in media; lecturer; teaching and learning inspector Fiona Skenderlis (nee Kallis) Freelance, (Nation227 TV); post-production; manager, artist management and music production company, TV project manager; post producer film and TV, production director, Cinematic Soundscapes 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, The Wall Street Journal (Washington) Zoe Telegraphou News editor and presenter, Astra Radio; Communications & Marketing Executive, Lanitis Green Energy (Cyprus) Rawle Titus Reporter, Nottingham Evening Post; editor, weekly paper; 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 Tom Watson Jane’s Sentinel Security Assessments; researcher, BBC News; October Films; assistant producer, BBC; producer, director, Tiger Aspect; assistant producer, BBC Sandy Wilheim Broadcast assistant, BBC World Service; content partner, associate, strategic partner development manager, Google Ashley Williams Assistant reporter,

reporter, People; editor, ESPN magazine; senior editor, The Oprah magazine Christina Wu Copywriter; freelance Nicole Young Associate, CBS News; 60 Minutes 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; associate producer, BBC Newsround Rebecca Barr Reporter, Money Marketing; reporter, european transport reporter, US technology reporter, Bloomberg Katrina Baugh Features and news, Fund Strategy; reporter, professional advisor, deputy editor, SM interntional; 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 Daniel Bushell HTTP Technology; business present, RT; host, The Truthseeker Riazat Butt Reporter, fashion editor, feature writer, Manchester Evening News; religious affairs correspondent, The Guardian; reporter, Al Jazeera Gemma Calvert Feature writer, News of the World; acting assistant editor, Fabulous!

Emma Clipp Reporter, Harrow Observer; sub-editor, chief sub-editor, Metro; sub-editor, Daily Mail; night editor, Metro Angharad Couch Reporter, Bloomberg; financial PR advisor, Citigate Dewe Rogerson Anna Davis Reporter, education reporter, Reading Evening Post; reporter, Evening Standard Monidipa Fouzder Senior reporter, Buckinghamshire Advertiser, Buckinghamshire Examiner; sub-editor, senior sub-editor, Trinity Mirror; sub-editor, The Law Society Sam Green News and sport reporter, sub-editor, Western Daily Press; sports sub-

editor and football writer, The Daily Telegraph; freelance sports sub-editor and football writer, Olympic News Service (Vancouver Winter Olympics); freelance Angela Henshall Features writer, politics reports, Money Marketing; senior staff writer, Global Investor; oil market reporter, energy report, Dow Jones; The Wall Street Journal; deputy editor, BBC Worldwide 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, BBC News 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 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 Natasha McDowell writer, Nature Magazine Rebecca Meehan Reporter, Bloomberg; anchor, CNBC, weekend presenter, BBC NWT; BBC 5 live Caroline Meehan Freelance (Financial Times); reporter, Financial News; medical student, University College London Shafik Meghji Trainee, Evening Standard; freelance news and sports journalist; novelist; 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 Chronice; news editor, Aberdeen Evening Express; freelance reporter (BBC, AFP, Monocle, the Guardian,The Economist, The EIU, The Africa Report, The

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CORDELIA KRETZSCHMAR Business Correspondent, Daybreak; Broadcast, 1997 Fondest memory of City?

Trudging up St. Johns Street, carrying a camera and struggling to keep the tripod together.

It was the first time I had to film a story, and I was with Zoe Bloomfield, who is now a senior producer at ITV. I now work with her everyday.

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

Having the opportunity to

report on the biggest stories of the day and bringing them into living rooms across the country.

I get a first row seat on history in the making.

Who has been your most memorable interview?

George W Bush in 2006. I asked him at a White House press conference

what he was going to miss about Tony Blair. Bush said: “First of all, his red ties.” Then he started rowing and shouting: “Don’t count him out”. It was alarming.

The most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

I haven’t received much advice.

It’s every journalist for him or herself. Everything I’ve learned is from making mistakes.

KATHERINE LANDERGAN

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Mail, the Guardian, Africa Confidential, South Africa); freelance journalist, South Africa 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 Ryan Sabey Reporter, News of the World; news reporter, The Sun Mark Scodie Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Jewish Chronicle; trainee solicitor, associate, litigation and dispute resolution, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Sam Sheringham Trainee, Press Association; sports report, Bloomberg News; Setanta Sports News; journalist, BBC Sport Interactive Nyree Stewart Senior reporter, features editor, Investment Advisor Christopher Tryhorn Trainee, The Times; city correspondent, Media Guardian; freelance Andrew Walker Reporter, Camden New Journal & Islington Tribune; MA in development studies, SOAS; Daily Trust (Abuja, Nigeria); reporter, BBC News Online 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, 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, New Scientist 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 Tom Campbell Sub-editor, Press Association Weather Centre; sub-editor and reporter, production editor, Regeneration & Renewal 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 (nee Worsley) Subeditor and feature writer, The Stage; freelance, (Health & Fitness,Women’s Health); features sub-editor, Metro; freelance copy editor and proof reader Michael Deacon Sub-editor, More; junior writer, J17; reviews editor, Zoo; feature writer, The Sun Online, TV features editor, The Daily Telegraph; parliamentary sketchwriter, 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) 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 Naomi Greenaway Staff writer, M Celebs, Sunday Mirror; features editor, associate editor, assistant editor, Glamour (South Africa);

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2002 - 2003 freelance (Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, Glamour, Top Sante,Woman&Home) Gareth Jones Freelance, University of Cambridge; BBC Worldwide; Electoral Commission; Footstep Productions; freelance, product development manager, Dr. Foster Research Victoria Kennedy Reporter, Catchline News; showbiz reporter, Daily Express; celebrity writer, Reveal; features writer, assistant features editor, Daily Mirror; deputy 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, Al Jazeera (Kuala Lumpur) Darren Lazarus Staff writer, Faversham House Group; deputy news editor, senior reporter, reporter, Estates Gazette; deputy online editor, Financial News; online editor, Financial News 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 Iain Noble Assistant editor, Marine Engineers Review; deputy editor, Landrover World; sub-editor, Pick Me Up; sub-editor, Zoo Weekly (Sydney); sub-editor, NW Magazine (Sydney); deputy chief sub-editor, NW magazine (Sydney) 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 Stephen Russell Marketing PR, copywriter, City and Islington College; subeditor, 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 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 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, report, Bucharest Business Week; freelance (Business Review, Vivid, Holidays in Romania, New Bucharest Express, The Daily Telegraph, Bucharest in your Pocket, The Times,The

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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-in-chief Travel Weekly Australia 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 Peter Wilson Freelance (Ski guide, Telegraph Weekend,Telegraph Motoring, Ski and Board, Metro, Rugby World,The Field,The Daily Mail); assistant editor, Mazda magazine; writer, BAR Pure Racing, motoring supplements; editor, MoneyPlus, feelFord; section editor, Fabric magazine; editor, Forward; editor, Specialist.

Adam Withrington Writer, sub-editor, HOT magazine; staff writer, Harpers-ontrade; 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

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 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 Eve-Marie Akers BBC World Service, BBC TV London Anna Bailey Presenter and producer, Liberty Radio; freelance broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1xtra, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service; newsreader, Club Asia Radio; 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 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, 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 Adam Fleming Presenter, reporter, BBC Newsround; political reporter, BBC Jenny Gimpel European news editor, edie.net; press officer, Country Land and Business Association; media relations manager, University College London Kirsten Hills Assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; reporter ITV Central South; journalist, ITV Central West Rachel Horne (nee 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; broadcast journalist, BBC London TV Julie Kangrisser (nee Hayman) Broadcast journalist, BBC TV News Planning, BBC News 2, BBC London News; network producer, BBC TV News; communications consultant, Fishburn Hedges 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 journalists, BBC Spotlight TV; Northamptonshire reporter, BBC Look East 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) Sarah Mills Reporter, presenter, CMJE Newstalk radio; senior reporter, 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 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 Jim Reed Assistant producer, CNBC Europe; reporter, BBC Newsnight; reporter, BBC Radio 4 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 Freelance assistant producer, ABC News London; associate producer, producer, director, CNBC; contributing editor, Bon Vivant Concierge Tunde Asaju Chief press secretary, President of Nigeria; head of press and public affairs, British High Commission (Abuja) Zalina Azman Managing director, Maxmedia Sdn Bhd Neha Bal Reporter, Dow Jones Mark Bhagwandin News editor, editorin-chief, Guyana Broadcasting Corporation; website moderator, MSN; senior education and media officer, LIFE; chairman, Oxford East Conservative Association Ruben Bicho TSF Online; reporter, Jornal de Negocios; journalist, Reuters (Lisbon); deputy editor, Economico TV Daniela Bluth Goldfarb cultural pages, Trés; reporter, editor, chief sub-editor, Galeria Eva Rey Botana Correspondent, Basque Country Radio (London); presenter, news anchor, RCN TV Semanario Busqueda Freelance Nikolaos Broumas National service; account manager, Proximity ZZ Greece; account manager, Rascal S.A.; account manager, OgilvyOne Worldwide (Athens) Laura Brown PR assistant, The Documentary Channel (Toronto); press officer, Bush Branding Marketing (Australia); freelance associate producer, Metro Morning; associate producer, CBC Radio Toronto Olga Budarova Broadcast assistant, BBC Radio 4; freelance Amandine Cauchy Freelance, Le Monde; internet editor, Groupe Alain Ayache (Paris); web journalist, FemmesPlus.fr,;project manager, Groupe Alain Ayache; digital project manager, Ciclic Gabrielle Chatelain-Moor Radio France International; freelance (TF1); CBC; producer, Associated Press; TV reporter, Agence France Presse Victoria Chimbwanda (née Massimo) Acting editor, The Voice (Botswana); sub-editor, deputy editor, Global TV Listings; communications, Havering Council; communications, Commonwealth Secretariat; internal communications, Plan UK Jana Ciglerovß Chief editor, Elle (Czech Republic); presenter, Radio Express & Czech TV; editor, MAFRA Ryan Coopamah Writer and sub-editor, 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 Freelance, Acteurs Publics; news assistant, Canal Plus; Le Journal des Femmes; section editor, Psychologies; editor-in-chief, MagicMaman.com Yanik Delvigne-Jean Nurse (Canada); freelance (Ecuador) Skye Docherty News, motor supplement,

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The Sunday Times; researcher, reporter, producer, Insight SBS TV (Australia), journalist, ABC Eduardo Escorial Writer, Antena 3 Television; screen writer, director, Endemol TV (Spain); director, creative director, Zeppelin TV Behzad Farsian Stringer, The Daily Telegraph (Iran); freelance; owner and managing director, AutoGlass Middle East Mathieu Fournier Associate producer, CBC Toronto; journalist, researcher, public affairs, Télé Quebec; Ludicatif Present, CBC; journalist, presenter, Radio Canada Jennifer Furmidge Executive director, J.P. Morgan; senior associate challenges consulting, Challenges Worldwide Dwayne Gordon Editor, The Jamaica Star Sergiy Grytsenko Sub-editor, BBC Monitoring (Kiev); communications coordinator, counter-trafficking programme; Caritas (Ukraine); senior media expert, European Commission delegation to Ukraine; 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 Hays Managing editor, ISO & Agent Christine Hoffmann Freelance; associate editor, Getty Images Jan Hromadko Intern; European commission (Berlin); translator; reporter, Dow Jones Heather Hugley Administrative assistant, KSTP-TV Helena Iveson Copy editor, China Daily; China Central Television; newsreader, anchor, CCTV International; freelance(South China Morning Post, Asia Weekly,The Australian,The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian) Jingjing Jiang China Business Weekly Marit Borud Kamark Advisor, Norwegian Confederation for Business; freelance (Eva, HSMAI travel business, Insero, Hotell Restaurant OG Reiseliv); senior associate, Korn Ferry (Norway)Njoki Karuoya Correspondent, Nation Media Group Ruhi Khan UK correspondent, Hindustan Times; senior correspondent, Mumbai Mirror, Times of India; principal correspondent, NDTV; editor, Newsletter: Life & Times, 5E Ltd, Sunanda Kumar Senior sub-editor, reporter, hindustantimes.com Jeremy Landor Unknown Leslie Ann Lee Freelance, BBC Forward Maisokwadzo Communications officer, Mediawise; coordinator at EJN Dalia Martinez Freelance Joana Mateus Diario Digital and Diario Economico newspapers (Portugal); Vogue (Portugal); Atlantico Magazine; reporter, senior TV producer, Associated Press Isaiah Mbuga Media consultant; talk show host; radio station manager; media marketing and promotions, Employment Forum UK; communications consultant, Promoting Media; lecturer, Uganda Christian University; Uganda Communications and Advocacy Specialist, Research Triangle International Yan Mei Casual producer, BBC Chinese service; research fellow, marketing and business strategy, University of Upminster; London co-ordinator, external relations executive, China Policy Institute; program coordinator, Stanford Graduate School of Business Elodie Mialet Freelance, France 2; broadcast journalist, France TV; producer, Canal Plus (France) Sara Yasmine Mohamed Assistant manager, corporate communications, CIMB

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Investment Bank Sandra Nyaira Reporter, Daily News (Zimbabwe); website editor, co-editor, Zimbabwe Journalists;Voice of America Alan O’Sullivan Reporter, Trinity Mirror South; banking correspondent, This Is Money, The Mail On Sunday; reporter, The Daily Mail Filipa Parreira Reporter, sub-editor, Lusa news agency (Portugal) 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) Doreen Rietentiet Producer, Deutsche Welle; external relations, TV21/CNBC (Germany); PR consultant at DRW Eco (Germany) Matthew Robinson Radio B92 (Serbia); Balkans correspondent, Reuters; South Caucasus correspondent, Reuters; Balkans chief correspondent, Reuters Maria Sarafoglou International News Department, 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) Patrick Schleisman Unknown Amanda Scott BBC Focus on Africa; CNN International; web news editor, NBC 10 News (Philadelphia) Sunil Shetty Kuwait News Agency; United News of India; Sunrise Radio; Associated Press Television; project manager, National Radio Monitoring; TV correspondent, Zee News (Kabul); vice president, business development, NSP Company, The Times of India Shamillia Sivathambu Reporter, Euromoney; staff writer, Incisive Media; news editor, HFM Week; head of communications, Argo Capital Management, vice president, corporate communications, PIMCO, communications, Labuan IBFC Tor Ketil Solberg Freelance; music reviewer, case handler, vocational rehabilitation; advisor, EURES (Norway); course instructor, Folkeuniversitetet Jugoslav Stojanov Industry analyst, (Automotive); Datamonitor plc.

Carolina Stupino ANSA; Il Messaggero (Italy) Gonzalo Suarez Redondo London correspondent, La Razon; freelance, (MTV magazine, Capital, Fortuna Sports); reporter, La Razon newspaper (Madrid); reporter, El Mundo newspaper (Cronica - Sunday Features supplement) Kiryl Sukhotski Host, BBC Russia Ian Talley Energy policy reporter, international finance reporter, Dow Jones Newswires Yogita Tahilramani reporter, Jakarta Post, TEMPO, communications consultant, CIFOR, Political and security analyst, Hill & Associates (Jakarta) Emre Temel Producer, BBC World Service (Turkey); senior web editor, Al Jazeera Turk Luciana Teshima Unknown Line Hassall Thomsen Freelance, The Independent (US and Danish publications); press department, ITV News; Channel 4 News, PhD in Newsroom Studies, Aarhus University; journalism lecturer, Aarhus University Arturo Torres Unknown Julien Toyer Freelance; EU correspondent, Thomson Reuters; senior correspondent, Reuters News (Spain)Johanna Treeck Sports reporter, Barometern; financial reporter, local reporter, night reporter, crime

reporter, Sylsvenka Dagbladet (Sweden); 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 International Development), University of Bristol 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 Isabell Witt Freelance, Common Ground Radio, USA and German broadcasters; copy editor, Business Wire; equity market reporter, Standard and Poor’s MarketScope; credit reporter, Standard & Poor’s LCD; credit reporter, Bloomberg; credit reporter, Thomson Reuters 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 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 Bradley Reporter, Bromsgrove Standard; deputy editor, Coventry Observer; editor, Worcester Standard; account manager, Central Office of Information; communications officer, Amey; media relations manager, University of Birmingham Jaymes Bryla Trainee sub-editor, Press Association; news sub-editor, The Daily Mail; news sub-editor, The Sun Timothy Burroughs China Daily, editorin-chief, China Economic Review; managing editor Asian Venture Capital Journal (Hong Kong) Margaret Clothier Reuters (Russia) Tom Collomosse Sports reporter, Press Association; sports reporter, cricket and football correspondent, The Evening Standard Lorraine Cushnie Market reporter, MTN-I; The Lawyer; online editor, Asiamoney; editor, EuroWeek Asia Anna Farley News reporter, Press Association 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 Meyrem Hussein Reporter, Ipswich Evening Star; reporter, Islington Gazette Caroline Iggulden Feature writer, features editor, The Sun; features editor, News International Mark Meadows Sports writer, European stock market correspondent, sports subeditor and reporter, Reuters Brian Moher Staff writer, Reuters; Self-Fly 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 Sachin Nakrani News reporter, Harrow

Observer; senior reporter, The Wembley Observer; chief reporter, The Eastern Eye; news editor, Ealing Gazette; sports reporter and sub-editor; sports features editor, The Guardian Arabella Newnham Cambridge Evening News; television production co-ordinator, writer and producer (USA); researcher, BBC Svenja O’Donnell Reporter, economy and politics correspondent, Bloomberg News Sarah Ogden Senior marketing executive, Improve; Campaign manager, communications manager; content marketing manager, Aviva Lisa Parry Reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; freelance, Times Educational Supplement Kiran Randhawa Reporter, Daily Mail; senior reporter, the Evening Standard Chloe Rhodes Features assistant, commissioning editor, The Daily Telegraph Matthew Roper Feature writer, The Daily Mirror; freelance Jessica Shepherd Reporter, The Birmingham Post; reporter, Times Higher Educational Supplement; education correspondent, news editor (planning), the Guardian Primrose Slater (née Skelton) Reporter, News of the World; deputy women’s editor, Emirates Today; life editor, Emirates 24/7; deputy editor, Arab Media Group; editor, Lovestyle.com; online Editor, Motivate Publishing (Dubai); Freelance PR executive Bobby Stansfield Trainee, The Sunday Mirror; News reporter, The Daily Mirror ; Press officer, Department for International Development; Private secretary, Department for International Development Mark Stevenson Reporter, The Scottish Sun; news reporter, The Sun Steven Swinford Western Daily Press; reporter, The Sunday Times; deputy news editor; senior politics correspondent, The Daily 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 Technology reporter, Plastics and Rubber Weekly; freelance, Chemical Weekly, Host City, Eureka, PRW, City Asset Management; change communications consultant, Bieles Ltd; visiting research associate, King’s College London; physiotherapist, London Scottish RFC; PHD student, King’s College London Sarah Bush Editor, senior editor,Vodafone Live!; category manager, Amazon.co.uk; channel manager, Shopping MSN UK; senior product manager, Microsoft; marketing director, Vestiaire Collective Nick Clark Freelance, staff writer, section editor, Financial News; reporter, arts correspondent, The Independent Caroline Corcoran commissioning editor, MORE; acting deputy editor, Sugar; editor, 3am.co.uk; freelance (Stylist, Grazia, Look) Adrian Cornell Citigate Publishing; editor, Bulb magazine; trainee sub-editor, sub-editor, The Daily Telegraph; teacher Joanna de Mille (née Grobel) Reporter, The Grocer; reporter, Convenience Store; feature writer, The Morning Advertiser; Lime PR; director, Exact PR Anthony Dhanendran Journalism teaching assistant, City University London; staff writer, reviews editor, Computeractive;

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senior content producer, BBC Worldwide 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) web/print writer, 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 Anna Kierstan News and features writer, Drapers; freelance editor, Worldwide; chief sub editor, Which?

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 magazine; editor, Gambling Insider Jonathan Lipsey Deputy editor, editor, Men’s Fitness Alex Marshall Freelance reporter, China Daily; freelance, (Flux,Vision China Daily, Stool Pigeon, BBC,The New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent); senior reporter, Ends Report Kate Maxwell deputy health editor, Daily Mail; senior editor, contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller (US); editor-in-chief, Jetsetter; Europe editor, contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller; editorial director, Soho House Group Andrew Morris Freelance, (Jack, Mojo, GQ, Dazed and Confused); features editor, arts editor, contributing editor, GQ Lisa Murch Freelance, The Sunday Telegraph, Ubiqus Sean O’Connell Senior manager, AOL, European director (shopping, travel and games), AOL; MBA student, London Business School; director of integrated advertising solutions, Telefónica; product director, Weve Rose Parfitt Writer, researcher, Your Life!; 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 Sub-editor, Nottingham Evening Post; production journalist, The Daily Telegraph; production editor, The Spectator Charlotte Ronalds Assistant editor, Junior Education; deputy editor, Child Education; freelance travel writer Hayley Shedden Features assistant, Mother & Baby; features assistant, junior writer, Hello!; celebrity writer, Woman; brand solutions editor, BBC Worldwide; creative solutions editor, Immediate Media Dr. Sebastian Skeaping 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, Pick Me Up; features editor, head of features, Pick Me Up and Chat, freelance Esther Walker Book researcher, Time Warner; reporter, Londoner’s Diary, the Evening Standard; features writer, The Independent; freelance (The Times,The Daily Mail,The Evening Standard, the Guardian, Easy Living and Tatler); author Charles Williams Reporter, Property Week; business writer, editor, senior editor, Trident

JOANNE FARAGHER Freelance: Periodical, 1998 Best memory of City?

Strangely, being sent out on vox pops. I remember talking to butchers in Smithfield Market and it was a great laugh.

Favourite thing about your job?

I have was an editor but now I’m freelance; there are great things about both. Being freelance allows me to be my own boss and

Communications; editorial manager, British Red Cross; head of external affairs, Business in the Community; content manager, Marie Curie Cancer Care

BROADCAST Candice Allen-Olsen BBC Radio Kent; reporter, Sky News; producer, Grace Productions and Ministry of Culture; producer, Lunchtime Live with Kay Burley, Sky News; internal communications manager, ArcelorMittal Kate Atkinson Reporter, producer, ITV local news; assistant programme editor, ITN Claire Bridge Online journalist, researcher, Sky News; broadcast journalist, 2-Ten-FM (Heart Berkshire) Jonathan Bithrey Freelance (BBC Radio Solent, BBC Hereford and Worcester); broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Jersey; business reporter, 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 Edith Djin Reporter, Mail on Sunday; junior account executive; PR account executive Claire Duff Researcher, associate producer, Channel 5 Ayesha Durgahee Freelance, BBC Radio 1Xtra News; freelance associate producer, CNN International; presenter, Bloomberg Alison Earle Trainee broadcast journalist, London Tonight; broadcast journalist, 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 Unknown Elizabeth Hill Bulletin journalist, RI:SE, Channel 4; news editor, ITV London News Naomi-Jayne Holland Newsreader, Downtown Radio; newsreader, BBC Ulster David Jerman Freelance reporter (BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire); sports producer, BBC Radio Lincolnshire Loveday Kitto Broadcast journalist, BBC Lincolnshire; video journalist, BBC Look North Christopher Landau Freelance radio journalist, BBC; reporter, BBC Radio 4;

decide when and how I work. I don’t earn as much, but that freedom makes it worth it.

Your most memorable interview?

I once interviewed scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield at her home in Oxford. She was a bundle of energy and provided great copy.

postgraduate student, Oxford University; reporter, GMTV; producer, ITV Adrian Larkin Freelance radio journalist, BBC; reporter and news reader,Virgin Radio; music journalist, senior music journalist and digital producer, BBC 6 Music and Radio 2’ head of music, Audioboo Robert Lawrence Assistant editor, multimedia newsroom, BBC 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 BBC Radio Bristol, Content partnership associate,YouTube, Google; head of digital, SYCO; partner developer, Twitter Rachel Lynch BBC Nina Manwaring BBC Nottingham; Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 Julius Mbaluto Attachments (Carlton TV, Alamo); freelance Darren McKenzie Researcher, Radio Birmingham; Radio New Zealand; BBC WM; Senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5Live Francis Mensah Runner, The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 Lorna Milton GWR Group; reporter, BBC Three Counties Radio; strategic communications specialist, MWH Global Ramita Navai Reporter, Channel 4 Unreported World Tom Parker Reporter, BBC Radio 4, photo editor, Condé Nast Traveller India; freelance photographer Josephine Parry Unknown Kawser Quamer Trainee, presenter, reporter, producer, ITV West; Channel 5 News; senior broadcast journalist, duty producer, BBC Hayley Radford Producer, Time Out digital radio service; presenter, producer, The Gallery, Channel 4; presenter, Bizarre podcast, The Sun; director of marketing, Authoright Luke Robinson Freelance, (The Sunday Times, BBC); media officer, House of Commons; head of media, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Max Rushden Reporter, Radio Cambridge; breakfast reporter, BBC London; presenter, BskyB; Sky Sports, presenter, BBC 5 Live; presenter, the Guardian (football weekly podcast) Oliver Rogers Broadcast journalist; 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

Most valuable journalism advice you’ve ever received?

If you’re not sure about something, double check. It’s beyond embarrassing to get something wrong (and believe me, I have).

ELEANOR ROSS

Peter Thackrey Teacher, Haberdasher’s Aske’s School for Boys Daniel Whitworth Producer, LBC; freelance (BBC Sheffield and York); reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC London, Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 1 Mark Worthington Television news producer, Tokyo Broadcasting System; BBC Belfast; reporter, BBC Newsline; senior broadcast journalist, BBC NI, east of England reporter; BBC; partner, Bell Pottinger (Singapore)

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Rasha Abu Baker Freelance, Emirates Today; programme analyst, United Nations Development Programme; national reporter, The National (Dubai) John Odey Aduma City Business College; editor, vigilance-securitymagazine. com Despina Afentouli, DR Guest production assistant, research, Channel M TV (Manchester); editor, correspondent, The Greek Art Hosting Portal (London); presenter, correspondent, features production, L.G.R. (London Greek Radio); project assistant, R.F.D. (Radio for Development, London); radio news editor, e-news editor, BBC Greek (London); teaching, Greek Schools of Apostle Varnavas (London); editor, CNN Business Traveler (London); guest production assistant, research, PR, CNN (London); script, editor group, Ant1 TV (Athens); correspondent, editor, Tourism Market (Touristiki Agora) magazine; scriptwriting, editorial team, Ant1 TV (Athens); scientific advisor, journalist, Institute of Port Development (IPD, Athens); special advisor, Press Office and Public Relations, Ministry of Education, Longlife learning and Religious Affairs (Athens); author of British Press and Greek-Turkish Relations, 19551965; journalist, special advisor, Economist magazine, editor (Athens); Professor of Journalism, University of Wolverhampton (UK); Professor of Journalism, College of Professional Journalism (Athens) Natalya Baigozhina Foreign editor, Express-K; creative director, Gorod newspaper 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; author

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ASK AN ALUMNA

JULIA CAHILL Associate Editor, Estates Gazette Newspaper, 2000

Fondest memory of City?

John Humphrys giving the James Cameron Memorial Lecture in which he attacked broadcasters for prioritizing ratings over serious journalism.

I also remember a good feeling of camaraderie as well as competitiveness in our year.

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

The access and variety it gives me. I could be out talking to the entrepreneurs leading Britain’s street food renaissance one day and interviewing the chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts the next.

And I still get a buzz out of breaking a big story.

Most memorable interview?

Lord Sugar. Unlike the belligerent character on The Apprentice,

he was polite and charming as I asked why the majority of his fortune had ended up in property. Disappointingly he hardly swore during the interview, but did lose patience with the photographer. When asked to perch on a windowsill he snapped: “No. I’ve got groin strain.”

Best piece of career advice you’ve ever received?

Never forget what a privileged (and interesting) position you’re in - use it and enjoy it. How many jobs give you the chance - from such a young age - to ask people in positions of power any question you like, whether they’re a politician or the chief executive of a FTSE 100 company?

EMMA POWELL

122 Cecile Bridel Communications, Consumers International; communications, motherbridge.org; communications officer, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative 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; community manager, European University Maya Canfield Unknown Sara Carbone Editor, Hodder Murray Publishing; editor, Child Poverty Action Group; communications; editor, Bliss; corporate communications officer, Institute of Physics; publishing and digital communications manager, Tommy’s; communications manager, Mind Kabir Chhibber Reporter, Bloomberg; copy editor, BBC News; founder, Pitch Me Elizabeth Choppin Desk assistant, The Independent; reporter, Disability Now; editor, Onoffice magazine; editor, ALTO magazine Charlotte Coulon Case worker, Refugee Council; Eurovision editor, deputy news editor, Associated Press Television News Stephen Cummins Co-founder, founder, Understated Production; editor, NME Ireland; contributor, Irish Independent, freelance (Irish Times, NME), digital media and entertainment editor, The Irish Post Enda Curran Reporter, sport news desk, UK equities; European equities desk, AFX UK; money and policy reporter, Dow Jones / The Wall Street Journal; economics and politics reporter, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones (Australia) Khushnuma Dadachanji Assistant producer, special projects, senior writer, Hindustan Times; freelance (CNBC,The Times of India) Jerome Demare Intern, Lewis PR; marketing and communications, PR executive,

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Olympus UK; brand marketing manager, Europcar; PR and digital marketing manager, LG Electronics; social media controller, Emirates (Dubai) Felicity Devonshire Freelance, Insight News Television Limited Peter Eisenberg Producer, eurovision editor, intake editor, deputy news editor, APTN (Associated Press Television News Stella-Maris Ekpene Producer, Radio Nigeria; senior marketing and communications officer, Positive People; director, Ardyss International; PMO analyst, tesco.com; assistant programme manager, Marks & Spencer Hamed Eqbal Development committee, Fresh Media; national public information officer, communications officer, United Nations Development Programme; Kabul treaty reporting and language expert Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Zaida Espana Editorial foreign desk assistant, The Independent; european equities reporter, loans correspondent, energy correspondent, Thomson Reuters Maria Galvez-Penttinen Trade finance, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Maya Garg assistant producer, freelance field producer, CNN; assistant producer, producer, Al Jazeera International; producer, Al Jazeera English; producer, Riz Khan Al Jazeera International; director of PR, Surge for Water; producer, The Stream at Al Jazeera Andreas Grigo Executive producer, Mephisto 97.6 (Leipzig); news editor, Sputnik (MDR Radio); freelance editor (MDR & WDR, Germany); trainee, Electronic Media School; editor, RBB Public Radio; advisor and lecturer, German Development Service, Royal University of Phnom Penh Naomi Gunasekara Sub-editor, feature writer, The Sunday Leader (Sri Lanka); researcher, Aloka Films; student, International

Development Law; The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka); announcer and translator, BBC Sinhala; partner, Jade Law solicitors Kashish Gupta reporter, senior correspondent, NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) Taneli Heikka Political correspondent, head of political news, Aamulehti (India, Finland); co-founder, Avaja Open James Herron Market reporter, Platts; reporter, oil and gas reporter, EMEA Energy News; editor, Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal; energy news editor, Bloomberg Luminita Holban Director, The Mihai Eminescu Trust 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 Freelance (Associated Press, CNN) Sofia Kannas Freelance (Cyprus Mail, Pseka); press assistant, Office of the President of the European Parliament (Brussels); press officer, UK Ministry of Justice Chie Kawada Research analyst, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Tania Khadder Summit producer, Marcus Evans Trine Knudsen Translator, researcher, BBC GMR; freelance (Kanal 24, NRK Norway, Kommunikasjonshuset Renomme) Harshita Kohli Freelance (Worldwide Plus, Bombay Times, India Tourism Office, BBC World Service); BBC Radio 4; entertainment editor, Hill Road Media; entertainment reporter, BBC Asian Network; freelance assistant producer, Mandrake Films; freelance news correspondent, BBC; producer, MediaCorp Pte Ltd; associate research fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Konstantinos Koulaxis MSc, MRes European Politics and the European Union, Birkbeck College (London); UK correspondent, Adraxe (Greece) Sarin Kouyoumdjian-Gurunlian MA in Political Studies, American University of Beirut; journalist, press manager, Marcus Evans Wilfredo Laboren Unknown Shrikesh Laxmidas Impact Media Group; documentary producer, Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal); reporter, Angola correspondent, Reuters Stephanie Lochner Project assistant, Radio for Development Kevin Massy North America correspondent, associate editor, AKA TV; associate editor, CBS Interactive; reporter, The Economist; assistant director, The Brooking Institution Olivia McGill media director, GOAL UK, writer, Indymedia Ireland; online journalist, Al Jazeera English (Qatar) Viviana Mendoza Media and audiovisual programme, Amnesty International UNICEF, execution backup and marketing assistant, QW Capital Chryssa Michalopoulou Unknown Vaishali Mishra Media officer, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Arnau Monras Writer, MediaPro; freelance (Barcelona) Felipe Moreno Sub-editor, RS Components; communication advisor, Minister of the Interior, Chilean Government; consultant, De Kanel Consultores; senior consultant, Accendi, professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; assistant professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Aidan Muller Communications officer, Judicial Appointments Commission; equality schemes editor, Department for Constitutional Affairs; e-comms officer, Office for Criminal Justice Reform; digital

engagement advisor, UK Ministry of Justice; account director, Edelman Yoriko Nabeta Producer, researcher, TV Asahi; risk management division, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Dean Naidoo Reporter, entertainment writer, feature writer, sub-editor, Sunday Tribune; chief sports sub-editor, The Star; sports editor, Sunday Tribune; sports director, Independent Newspapers; senior lecturer in journalism, Leeds Trinity University College Thuy Quynh Nguyen PR; Transerco Daphne Papadopoulou Field assistant and interpreter, Kids Eye View of Greece; freelance (Financial Daily); online journalist, Daily Express; journalist, researcher, Greece Overview, translator, Thomson Reuters, freelance journalist and translator Emily Persse (née Gordon) Freelance 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 Web developer, NASDAQ; web developer, Oglivy Interactive; editorial producer, Major League Baseball Advanced Media; reporter, Columbia University, producer, presenter, Resonance FM; webmaster, Red Bee Media; content producer, BBC Sajidhussain Shaikh Freelance (the Guardian, BBC Wildlife magazine); The Times of India Christopher Sheppard Marketing and public relations assistant, Chelsea Pictures (New York); freelance (US Esquire); PR writer, Fiore Associates; copywriter, J Walter Thompson New York; freelance (Dunne Public Relations); Port Magazine; writer and project manager, JWT New York Mohini Suchanti BBC World Service (Mumbai); Business India magazine; principal correspondent, Business Standard Newspaper; development officer, Child Advocates of Silicon Valley; communications manager, TiE Inc Oystein Samson Tjentland Communications advisor, Norwegian Shipowners’ Association; research consultant, ESR ltd; head of research, senior consultant, EWK International; senior research associate, Maven Partners; senior consultant, Boyden Shu Chun Trainee solicitor, James Tsang & Co; paralegal, Fragomen Yoko Toda (née Kono) The Asahi Shimbun Catherine Townsend Features, The Independent; freelance (Daily Mail,The Times, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York Post); columnist (The Independent, Marie Claire, Fabulous); author Despina Trivolis Editor, Lifo Gina Valcke Market research Rui Videira Presenter, producer, BBC World Service; Bloomberg; chief reporter, FT Business Investment Adviser; marketing and communications assistant, Pallinghurst Resources; copy editor, Dow Jones News Wire; associate producer, CNBC Europe Josefine Volqvartz Journalist, Al Jazeera English Dan Wang Unknown Chao Yan Xinhua News Agency Qin (Yvonne) Yang Unknown Ting Zhu Page editor, 21st Century China Daily; analyst; reporter, Bloomberg

NEWSPAPER Mohammed Abbas Trainee reporter, Cairo general news correspondent, Islamic finance correspondent, Baghdad general news correspondent, London money

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2004 political general news correspondent, Reuters; multimedia editor AFP London Kevin Allison FT.com; San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times; investment banker, UBS; global resources columnist, Reuters 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 Heather Browne Feature writer, The Sun; English teacher Michelle Fyrne (née Byrne) Online journalist, Associated New Media; entertainment section editor, This is London (thisislondon.co.uk); section editor, Time Out (Dubai); editor, SoGlos.com; director, So Publishing Robbie Collin News of the World; film critic, The Daily Telegraph Catherine Devlin Sub-editor, medical correspondent, The Daily Telegraph 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 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, ITN Jens Harder Sub-editor, 21st Century China Daily; media correspondent, Argus media group Amy Iggulden Trainee sub-editor, reporter, The Daily Telegraph; news editor, Evening Standard; assistant editor, Mail Online; assistant editor (News), 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 Michael McGrath Sports journalist, football reporter, Press Association; football reporter, The Wardle Agency 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) 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, Times

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Online; 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 Ben Cardew Trainee reporter, CMPi; Printing World; 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 Fiona Cowood Senior features writer, B magazine; features editor, Bliss; features director, Cosmopolitan 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, RAB Capital, 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 (The Sunday Times, Vice, Monocle) 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, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (Switzerland) Yasmine Gibson The Observer; researcher, Channel 4; sub-editor, editorial assistant, feature writer, Grand Designs; subeditor, 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 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; production editor, The Art Newspaper Martha Housden Researcher; freelance (the Guardian, The Observer); producer, Maverick TV

Benjamin Hunt Sports journalist, Hayters Teamwork; sports journalist, Wardle Whittell Limited; Formula One correspondent, 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 Eleanor Keymer Armed Forces research analyst, armed forces editor, features editor, IHS Jane’s 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 Roland Lloyd Parry Reporter, Agence France Presse (Madrid) 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) Stuart McGurk 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 Claire Sparks (neé Mitchell) Editorial assistant, web editor, Country Living; content producer, BBC Lifestyle; editorial manager, Primelocation.com; web editor, Hji; senior editor, Lifestyle Group 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 Mienke Retief Events manager, IQPC; writer, Corporate Citizenship Briefing; researcher, Homebrew Films; production manager, iMaverick (South Africa) 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 Editorial administrative assistant FHM International, EMAP; graduate trainee, CMP Information; technical writer, Building magazine; deputy supplements editor, Travel Trade Gazette; supplements editor, commissioning editor and writer, Absolute Publishing Ltd, editor, Eretz Group

BROADCAST Harry Anscombe Broadcast journalist, reporter, ITN; digital producer, The Economist; presenter and producer, Channel 4 News; consultant media director, New Century; managing director, 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 Helene Cacace Researcher and reporter, BBC 3 News; producer, director, More4 News Tom Cheal Producer, LBC News 1152; broadcast journalist, Heart and LBC; political, correspondent editor, Global Radio News Lucy Collingwood Assistant producer, BBC Radio Drama Stephen Douglas Reporter and producer, Border TV; North of England correspondent, ITV News; reporter Sky News Clair Duff Researcher, Channel 5; associate producer, Milkshake!

Ian Edgar BBC Night Network; BBC Radio (Sheffield,York, Humberside, Cleveland); Network Director, BBC TV; transmission controller, BSkyB Tom Esslemont Journalist, BBC Radio Essex; reporter, BBC World Service; reporter, BBC News Annabel Falk Newsbeat, Radio 1; freelance Laura Fogg Rogers BBC Science & 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’ education in Rwanda; freelance, journalist, CBC News; Senior Media Officer, Plan UK; Senior Media and Communications Manager, 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 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 Charles Murray Freelance, Time FM; assistant producer, BBC Newsround Katherine Murrells Sports reporter, sub-editor, The Guardian; BBC; Talksport; LBC Moronke Owoborode 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;

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2004 - 2005 producer, BSkyB Oliver Rogers Producer, BBC Thea Rogers Producer, Sunday AM; producer, BBC Newsnight Max Rushden Presenter, BBC Radio Cambridge; broadcast journalist, BBC London; The Late Show, TalkSport; presenter, Soccer AM; presenter, BSkyB 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 Jessica Shiddell Freelance, Kestrel FM; Kick FM; deputy news editor, news editor, Essex FM Jamie Smith Trainee reporter, producer, ITV Central; trainee producer, Channel 4 News; co-ordinator, REVEAL Scotland Kerry Taylor Win FM; Kestral FM; freelance; SGR Colchester; Essex FM; press officer, Home Office, PR and communications manager, John Lewis Emike Umolu ITN Multimedia; director, Embellie Ltd; presenter, 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 Antony Whincup Freelance, GWR, CNN

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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; planning editor, Five News Daniel Glyde BBC Breakfast; assistant producer, BBC TV sports news; assistant Producer, director, BBC Sport interactive Rose Gretton Researcher, reporter, producer, 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 Katie Inman Political researcher; BBC Politics Unit (Southampton) 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, MAKE Productions Pte Ltd (Singapore) Tom Lumley Researcher, BBC Westminster; producer, BBC Newsnight; senior broadcast journalist, BBC World News; Americas news editor, Al Jazeera English 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 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

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Dimbleby, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC Question Time; freelance producer (BBC) 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 Anna Richey Intern, CNN; freelancer; researcher Natalie Shelton Production manager, Richard Sambrook Productions; production co-ordinator, Objective Productions, production manager, ITN Productions 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, BBC Amy Youssefian Reporter, CNN

2005 INTERNATIONAL Samantha Alleyne Senior reporter, Stabroek News Ali Amar Slate Magazine 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 Gifty Anti News reporter and presenter, Ghana Television News Giulia Ascoli Administrator,Victoria & Albert Museum; personal assistant,Victoria & Albert Museum; personal assistant, capital campaign coordinator, editorial assistant, Design Museum Jerome Bonnard Freelance film maker; TV video reporter, France 24 (France); TV reporter, i-Télé, Canal Plus (France); freelance (TV investigation journalist) Jennifer Bragg Russia Today TV; line producer, The Stream, Al Jazeera English Katarina Brkic Freelance Magali Brutel Freelance, Marche à Londres; French teacher, International School of Luxembourg Morgane Campioni Unknown 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 Annie Evangeli Editor, Exodus; account executive, Adventis Group; senior associate, Capital Link; ‎EMEA marketing communications manager, FTSE Mimi Fawaz News desk assistant, London Tonight, ITV News; sports journalist, news presenter,Vox Africa Maria Galvez Penttinen trainee, trade finance, BBVA Gina Gavala Reporter, Ethnos Newspaper; reporter, Beautiful World In The Morning; reporter, War Zone, Society at Eight O’Clock, Mega Channel Giulia Gencarelli Web project manager, Aegis Media Gareth Gore Staff writer, Incisive Media; Madrid correspondent, Bloomberg News; senior reporter, associate editor, Thomson Reuters Dana Gornitzki Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; freelance; creative handler, MIEN Magazine Svetlana Graudt Editor, Russian (London);

deputy editor, Pulse UK; copywriter, Staff Creativel; research analyst, Penumbra Partners Daniela Gross De Almeida Unknown Mahtab Haider Lecturer, Brac University; senior assistant editor, New Age (Bangladesh); communications manager, UNDP Bangladesh Matthew Hall Unknown 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; producer, France 24 Alexander Holliday Marketing manager, Philips Electronics 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, New York); editor, Sewage Treatment Weekly Amanda Janis Business editor, reporter (California); senior editor, PEI Media Anne Kaiffer Unknown Daniel Kalinaki Uganda bureau chief, The East African (Kampala) 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 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 Correspondent, Trouw (Netherlands) Robert Kyei-Gyau Freelance; assistant registrar (PR), Kumasi Polytechnic Jessica Le Masurier New York correspondent, France 24 Francesca Liberatore Reporter, The London Planet Weitao Liu World news editor, The London Globe; deputy editor, China Daily Konstantina Marneri Client services manager, Electronic Solutions SA Feroza Mehta (née Master) TV News Reporter, Citytv; freelance reporter Elaine Mills Freelance James Mills Unknown Ljiljana Mitevska Unknown Gillian Murdoch Beijing reporter, copy editor, 21st Century 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 Unknown Abdi Osman-Adan London correspondent, Nation Television (Kenya); freelance reporter (Sky News) Pimmi Pande-Jones Freelance writer; freelance TV producer; founding director, Ethique Ltd; owner,Vocalise Ltd Radhieka Pandeya Trainee journalist, India Today; reporter, Hindustan Times Mint

Emilie Reymond Researcher, Blakeway Production; journalist, group communications manager, Haymarket 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 Conference producer and contributor, Telematics Updates Maria Salvador Unknown Gwladys Savery Freelance Martin Stabe Online reporter, Press Gazette; online editor, Retail Week; interactive producer, head of interactive news team, Financial Times Ikuko Tatsuta Editor, LondonZok Lea Teuscher The Independent; sub editor, Wallpaper Nina Tietzel Freelance (APTN); staff news producer, APTN London; foreign editor, producer, Network Ten Sydney; freelance producer (APTN Sydney bureau); freelance reporter and producer (SBS World News Australia Hjalmar Tjan Freelance Sara Trioni Freelance Lucie Tvaruzkova Reporter, Tyden Nicholas Underdown Freelance report writer and researcher Joost Van de Loo Freelance; strategic planner, LEMZ; freelance planner 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 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, 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 Building Mark Cobley Graduate trainee, fund manager correspondent, pensions 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, 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 Andrew Gill Sports journalist, deputy social media and communities editor, BSkyB Anna Hodgekiss Graduate trainee, CMPi; reporter, Pulse; senior reporter, Property Week; associate editor, Daily Mail Good Health; health editor, MailOnline Ali Hussain Reporter, The Sunday Times Laura King Racing Post; deputy editor, editor, Race Week (Dubai); editor, Equestrio; producer, presenter, Dubai Racing Channel Helen Lewis Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail; assistant editor, deputy editor, New Statesman

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2005 Rob Ludgate Reporter, The Mail on Sunday; documentary filmmaker Chris Marshall Reporter, Aberdeen Press and Journal; education correspondent, The Scotsman Donna McConnell Sub-editor, The Independent; freelance (The Observer Magazine, The Times); online news reporter, Daily Mail; showbusiness editor, MailOnline Haili McHugh Reporter, News of the World; reporter, The People Gary Meneely Reporter, The Sun Sebastian Morton Freelance (The Sunday Times,The Observer) Aaron Pan General finance reporter, Bloomberg News (Hong Kong, London); senior reporter, Asiamoney; public relations manager, Mayer Brown JSM; corporate communications manager, Nomura Jonathan Parker Reporter, The Lawyer Gary Payne Sports reporter, The Sun (Scotland), deputy football editor, The Guardian Aisha Phoenix PhD student (Sociology), Goldsmiths University of London; media and advertising reporter, Bloomberg Daniel Pimlott Editor, companies reporter, economics reporter, Financial Times (New York); project Manager, Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative; senior manager, Adam Smith International.

Laura Roberts Reporter, The Scotsman; news reporter, showbiz reporter, Daily Mail; news reporter, The Daily Telegraph; news reporter, Evening Standard; media consultant, senior media strategist, associate director, Pleon Ketchum Genevieve Roberts News reporter, features writer, The Independent; freelance (The Independent, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, McCann Erickson); Parisbased freelance foreign correspondent (The Independent, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, Monocle, Agence France Presse, Radio France Internationale); freelance (The Independent on Sunday, Psychologies, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian Christopher Roberts Production trainee, sub-editor, Daily Mail James Rose Graduate trainee, CMPi reporter, Building Design Joseph Sinclair Multimedia journalist, general reporter, Press Association Claire Vivyan Multimedia journalist, Press Association; interactive journalist, GMTV; broadcast journalist, BBC News; senior editor, Central Office of Information; global head of social media relations, Ernst & Young Damon Wake West Midlands reporter, video journalist, showbiz, arts and media correspondent, general reporter, Press Association; editor (Europe-Africa newsdesk), editor (Asia-Pacific newsdesk), PakistanAfghanistan correspondent, Agence FrancePresse Sarah Weaver Graduate trainee, reporter, Express Newspapers; producer, BBC News; producer, Juniper Productions; broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; press officer, The Insolvency Service Alan White Freelance (Private Eye, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement); researcher, Mock the Week; developer, Free at Last TV; freelance (The National, Aeon Magazine, New Statesman) 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 Flora Bagenal The Sunday Telegraph magazine; foreign desk, The Sunday Times;

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producer, Channel 4 News; freelance reporter (Reuters, The Sunday Times); writer, producer Adam Benzine Graduate trainee, CMPi; reporter, acting online editor, Music Week; senior reporter, factual editor, C21 Media; associate editor, Realscreen Victoria Bentley (née Heath) Reporter, sub-editor, China Daily; assistant editor, editor, Caravan; senior editor, Caravan and Motor Caravan 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 Colin Crummy Reporter, Press Gazette; assistant editor, Attitude, acting features editor, Esquire Kelly Ellis Features writer, acting deputy features editor, Full House; commissioning editor, senior commissioning editor, Ebury Press Jamie Fullerton Deputy editor, Caravan; staff writer, Loaded; reporter, assistant news editor, news editor, features editor, NME; deputy editor, Time Out (Shanghai) Richard Heap Graduate trainee, United Business Media; assistant editor, Property Week; 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; sub-editor, travel writer, assistant travel editor, deputy editor (travel), The Sunday Times David Jenkins Sub-editor, Zone publishers; freelance (Time Out, Empire); deputy editor, Little White Lies; staff writer, Time Out; reviews editor, editor, Little White Lies; editor, The Church of London Naomi Leach Researcher, Many Rivers Films; development assistant producer, Oxford Film & Television; assistant editor, IPC Media; freelance travel journalist, Time Out (Cyprus); columnist and feature writer, Cyprus Mail; Travel Trade Gazette Middle East and North Africa Lottie Lumsden Junior writer, Cosmo Girl; showbiz writer, Closer; showbiz reporter, features writer, News of the World; news writer, assistant news editor, deputy news and entertainment editor, Grazia 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 Christina Martins (née Franks) Graduate trainee, CMPi; novelist; copy editor, Steak UK; copy editor, 360i, freelance (The Sunday Times, La Repubblica, mumsnet.com, Marie Claire) Rebecca Miles Staff writer, Daily Mail; Ski and Snowboard; editor, natives; website editor, MetroSnow; freelance 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 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; author, freelance freelance (TIME, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph); subeditor, The Week Adrian Sandiford Freelance, Proms; back section editor, Little White Lies; subeditor, Latin American Journal; staff writer, sub-editor, Esquire; 21st Century China Daily; features editor, editor, editor at large, Time Out (Beijing) Laura Silverman Graduate trainee, sub-editor, Daily Mail; arts writer, The Times; content editor, assistant iPad production editor, The Daily Telegraph Toby Skinner Freelance, Collings Sport Agency; editor, Time Out (Shanghai) Laura Topham Columnist, feature writer, Evening Standard; freelance (New Woman, Daily Mirror, Cosmopolitan, Evening Standard); features writer, Daily Mail; freelance, deputy health editor, The Mail on Sunday Anna Wakeford Editorial assistant, Smash Hits; freelance (Bliss); site editor, OSOYOU; web manager, Dorothy Perkins; international platforms manager, operations lead-order management, Marks and Spencer Charlotte Cullinan (née Walsh) Graduate trainee, CMPi; news reporter, online editor, Travel Trade Gazette; communications officer, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home 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 Assistant editor, editor, Family History Monthly; freelance travel writer (TNT, Tiger Tales, South China Morning Post, Kindred Spirit); deputy editor, H2Open; deputy editor, easyJet magazine Emily Wright Graduate training scheme, CMPi; reporter, Building Magazine; reporter,

Travel Trade Gazette; features editor, Building Magazine; features and comment editor, Estates Gazette; freelance (Evening Standard Homes & Property, Travel Trade Gazette Luxury) Nick Yates Graduate trainee, CMPi; features writer, The Publican Morning Advertiser; media officer, The Association of Train Operating Companies; editor, Xinhua News Agency; freelance writer and subeditor (specialising in beer & brewing) Nicola York Feature writer, news reporter, deputy online editor, Money Marketing; senior associate and editor of global marketing strategy, Cicero Consulting; editor, Global Financial Strategy; head of marketing and content, Cicero Group; co-founder, Congo Connect; account director, Cicero Group

BROADCAST Emma Baker TV journalist, London Tonight; production journalist, correspondent, ITV Anglia Paul Barber Freelance, BBC Radio Merseyside; TV reporter, Channel M Marianne Barriaux Reporter, City AM; business reporter, Guardian Media Group; correspondent, deputy news editor, social media editor, France correspondent, Agence France-Presse Nicholas Beake Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Bristol; home affairs reporter and producer, BBC; reporter, newsreader, Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1; reporter, BBC London TV News; news correspondent, BBC News Jacob Brown Freelance (Australia); broadcast journalist, Time FM; assistant producer, Channel 10 News; journalism lecturer, National University of Samoa; video editor, CODA International; online editor, Headlines UK; national digital inclusions officer, The Campaign For Learning; digital communications officer, The University of

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MICHAEL DEACON Parliamentary Sketch Writer, The Telegraph Periodical, 2002 Fondest memory of City?

Marcelle d’Argy Smith’s writing classes. She’s an excellent teacher. One by one you had to read out your homework to the class, then she’d go through it, line by line, saying, ‘Why did you pick THAT word?’ She terrifies the clichés out of you.

Best thing about your job?

I get paid to write jokes about Jeremy Hunt looking and sounding like a children’s TV presenter.

Most memorable interview?

Morrissey in 2011. Me: “You’re always saying romantic relationships

are a mistake and doomed to fail. But if, as you claim, you’re celibate, how do you know?”

Him: “You don’t need to go down a pit to know that it’s dirty.” I think that might well be the most Morrissey-ish thing he’s ever said.

What’s the most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

It’s better to start your career somewhere small and unglamorous, where you’ll get lots to do, than somewhere big and glamorous, where you’ll be lucky to make the tea.

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Brighton Faculty of Arts Danielle Codd Broadcast journalist, Wish FM; broadcast journalist, newsreader, BBC Radio Humberside; business producer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service; TV business producer, BBC New York Bureau; TV and radio producer, BBC Business.

Matthew Cole Sports reporter, BBC Kent; line editor, reporter, Club Call; presenter, newsreader, BBC Radio Kent Sarah Dembitz Media PR executive; event manager, Incredibull Ideas; business development manager, RPMC Europe Ltd; founder, SEED Consulting; founder, CEO, Saviour Snacks Reuben Easey TV journalist, Russia Today; TV journalist, France 24; senior monitoring journalist, BBC Monitoring Marcus Edwards Freelance (Channel 4 News, BBC Radio Derby); Midlands researcher, Midlands producer, home affairs producer, Channel 4 News Georgette Ginn Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Essex Amanda Haire Financial reporter, breakfast news producer, Sky News Adrian Hieatt News assistant, ABC News (London); newsroom assistant, BBC News 24; assistant, Hardcash Productions; broadcast journalist,Virgin Radio; Absolute Radio; film and entertainment writer, Aint it Cool News; video manager and journalist, Absolute Radio Summer Hurwitz Freelance (ITN, CNN); broadcast journalist, CNN International; Olympics producer, BBC Nabeel Irshad Freelance journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; broadcast journalist, BBC Three Counties; Citigate Public Affairs; account executive, Weber Shandwick Worldwide; special adviser, senior political adviser, head of political research, The Conservative Party; management consultant, Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting James Isola Broadcast journalist, senior producer, Bloomberg TV; director, Cubitt Consulting John Jelley TV producer, programme

editor, multimedia editor, executive producer, commissioning executive, editorial director, 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 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 Broadcast assistant, BBC; assistant news editor, Sky Sports Lynoon Musafer Newsroom assistant, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, business and economics unit, BBC Maryam Nemazee TV journalist, Russia Today; news anchor, Al Jazeera English; news anchor, Bloomberg Television Charlotte O’Brien Freelance radio journalist (Virgin Radio, Time 106.8FM); news editor, Global Radio Chris Page Freelance journalist, BBC Radio Ulster; senior broadcast journalist, 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, Channel 5 News;

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THOMAS FESSY BBC West African Correspondent International, 2006 Fondest memory of City?

I loved the news day when we would pretend to be a real newsroom, with our teachers being our editors. That day was brilliant because we got to the bottom of what being a journalist is in a completely practical way. We actually learnt to report for a proper outlet and had access to teachers who were very much available to us.

Favourite thing about your job?

Raising awareness on underreported places. As a foreign correspondent I hope that going to remote places in the world can help.

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I’m based in Dakar, Senegal now but before this I was in Central Africa keeping an eye on the Congo and Central African Republic.

What’s the most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

To be proactive, to chase stories constantly, but also to be sceptical. Journalists get in front of the camera and act as if they knew everything about the story, but the amount of time we’ve had to prepare is so little - we need to remember to keep digging and learning about the different aspects to help the story evolve.

KASIA DELGADO

reporter, presenter, producer, ITV West News; assistant press officer, Clarence House; press officer, assistant press secretary, Clarence House Amanda Thompson Runner, receptionist, Darrall Macqueen; executive assistant, TBWA; brand management executive assistant, executive support coordinator, business support officer, NSPCC Michelle Uwins Broadcast assistant, BBC World Service Radio Hugo Ward Freelance (BBC Radio 5 Live); news producer, Channel 7 (Australia); news programme editor, Channel 10 (Australia); producer, Sky News; producer, director, Raw Cut TV; producer, director, October Films 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; France 24 Imogen Anderson Researcher, BBC Governance Unit; producer, BBC Annabel Archer Broadcast journalist, ITN Multimedia; producer and writer, CNN International Wale Azeez Producer, Al-Jazeera; freelance producer (BBC World Service, BBC News); freelance writer (Bloomberg News); freelance online ethnographer (Push); founder, CanVerse Helen Babbs Writer, Time Out; freelance writer, assistant producer; author; editor, Animations Online; writer, The Guardian,The Observer; copy editor, Greenpeace; freelance journalist, New Statesman Jenny Berglund Freelance researcher; consultant, Cambridge Strategy Centre 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, ITV Sunita Butterworth Self-employed Serge Cartwright Researcher, Brook Lapping Productions; Russia Today (Moscow); journalist, Associated Press; Sky News Kristina Cooke researcher, The Economist; journalist, CNN; correspondent, investigative reporter, Reuters Jennifer Evans Freelance documentary researcher (Tiger Aspect); researcher, Unreported World; assistant producer, Late Edition, BBC; shooting assistant producer, 30 Minutes,The Insider, Channel 4; producer, BBC Benjamin Farey Energy markets reporter, Heren Energy; reporter, Bloomberg News; LNG broker, ICAP Ben Gallagher Researcher, The Wright Stuff 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 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 Worldwise David Peter Researcher, broadcast journalist, BBC Current Affairs Nazanin Sadri Newsdesk journalist, Al

Jazeera International; producer, Al Jazeera English; press officer, London 2012; account manager, Bolton & Quinn Shiv Sharma Broadcast journalist, Russia Today Toby Strutt Assistant producer and researcher, ITV; assistant producer, Mentorn; researcher and assistant producer, BBC; producer, director, TwoFour; development producer, Arrow Media; DV director, Special Edition Films; producer/director, Channel 5 Abdulrahman Abdullah, Dr Reporter, Iraq Today (Baghdad); reporter, Voices of Iraq (Baghdad); associated producer, Quick Silver Media-Channel 4 (Iraq, London); associated producer, Out There News Ltd (London); associated producer, Al Jazeera International (London); reporter, ANB Satellite Channel (London); consultant, BBC Drama, Between Two Rivers (London, Tunisia); reporter, Alsharqiya TV satellite Channel (London); reporter, APTN (London); associate producer, Investigative Journalism department, City University London; freelance producer, Al Jazeera English (London); director, Iraqi Cultural Centre (UK)

2006 INTERNATIONAL Gulden Banu Aktas BBC World (Turkey); press officer, 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 Charlotte Angela Senior producer, Al Jazeera International Catarina Anjos Unknown Jessica Au Correspondent, Newsweek; reporter, Abu Dhabi Media Company; multimedia editor, Agence France-Presse; account manager, PLUG Public Relations; communications manager, CLSA Sarah Barden Video journalist, France 24; freelance (BBC, APTN, Agence France-Presse, Time Out); reporter, 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 (nee Bivero) Investment Banking Associate, RBS; director, The Committee; managing director, These Guys Milton Bragatti Assignment editor, NBC News; reporter, DW World Lola Constantini Freelance Rebekah Curtis Reporter, Thomson Reuters; sub-editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation 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 Freelance (The Observer, The Times); editor, Diarios de la Guerra (Spain); multimedia reporter, The Wall Street Journal (Europe); sub-editor, Timesonline; freelancer (foreign desk, The Guardian, The Observer); online producer, Channel4.com; markets reporter, Forbes.com; features writer, Wall Street Journal Thomas Fessy BBC World Service; Congo correspondent, West Africa correspondent, BBC James Fontanella-Khan Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; India editor, FT.com; Delhi correspondent, Financial Times; Brussels

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2006 correspondent; Financial Times Jennifer Forsyth Assistant producer, Dr Keith Ablow Show,Warner Brothers 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 Padraic Halpin Editor, raggedwords.com; editor, bandstandbusking.com; sports desk, 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); assistant producer, Blakeway Productions; freelance (Al Ekhebariya TV channel); cultural advisor, Universal Pictures; researcher,The Rory Peck Trust; researcher, Atlantic Books Ltd; broadcast journalist, BBC Worldwide; producer, BBC; head of project, BBC Media Action Anne Kaiffer Broadcast media (Luxembourg) James Kenny Freelance reporter, The Irish Post; account executive, Penrose Financial; senior business reporter, Financial Times; reporter, Estates Gazette; special projects editor, Emap; Europe and Africa editor, PPP 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 Editor, Calcalist Megan McCormick Unknown Thomas Muirhead Writer, sub-editor, Whatsonwhen; website executive, online development editor, Cancerbackup; cofounder, Novlr; co-founder, Banstand Busking; director,The Maybeor Group; social publishing manager, Macmillan Cancer Support; digital manager, Breast Cancer Care; director,Whosit & Whatsit; head of digital & CRM, Leukemia & Lymphoma Research Zipporah Musau Managing editor of magazines,The Standard Group; director, Zen Media Catherine Neilan (née Herne) Reporter, news editor, Investment Advisor; senior reporter, The Bookseller; deputy news editor, Broadcast; news editor, Drapers Aliyu Odamah Musa PhD researcher, part-time tutor, Liverpool Hope University; freelance (Al Jazeera International, Radio France International); peace campaigner Jyotika Oberoi 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 Staff writer, BC Entertainment Magazine (Hong Kong); development manager, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum; administrative assistant, South Asian Americans Leading Together; membership and development manager, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum; fundraising

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manager, Colon Cancer Alliance;Vice President Membership, National Organization for Women (Washington) 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 Freelance reporter; store operations, Brooks Brothers; editorial assistant, Oxford University Press; research assistant,The Loreen Arbus Foundation; text manager, Follett Higher Education Group; text manager, 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 Freelance, Al Jazeera International (Italy); contributor, Vatican Insider; Vatican correspondent, UCANews.com; Vatican correspondent, Religion News Service; consultant, NBC News; contributor, Time; ECB correspondent, Bloomberg News Diana Davis (née Stech) News assistant, intake client producer, APTN; editor, PEXNetwork.com Uzma Sulaiman Researcher, BBC World Service Middle East Business Report; information officer, Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research; reporter, Global Arbitration Review; fundraising, communication and campaigns manager, Lifeline Energy (London, Cape Town) Carlo Svaluto Moreolo Reporter, Infrastructure Journal; reporter, Shares Journal; freelance, Investment and Pension Europe (IPE); intern, consultant, African Development Bank; reporter, International Rugby Board; communications manager and copywriter, Openview Communication & Technology Ahmed Taha Freelance (NBC News) Sumaa Tekur (née Bangalore) Assistant editor, Daily News and Analysis; editor, CEB Iconoculture (India) Judy Terrell-Hamilton (née Terrell) News director, Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas; associate editor, online editor, 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 Fashion assistant, New Woman; fashion assistant, Harrods Magazine; content/social media editor, Stylehopper; junior fashion editor, IPC Media; copywriter, Fab.com; online writer, Selfridges Gabriela Vieru Freelance, BBC Romanian service; editor, Pearson Education; web migration editor, City University London; online content manager, LexisNexis; digital producer,TradeDoubler; technology project manager, Limelight Sports; e-communications officer, A2Dominion 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 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, Star 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 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) Ruth Barnett Press Association; social media correspondent, political reporter, Sky News; head of communications,VP of global communications, SwiftKey Catherine Boyle The Business; business reporter, The Times; staff writer and correspondent, CNBC Christopher Bryant 21st Century/ China Daily; Berlin correspondent, Financial Times; central and eastern Europe business correspondent, Financial Times; Financial Times (Washington and New York bureaus); Frankfurt correspondent, Financial Times Andrew Bryson Sunday Express; BBC Business & Economics Unit; producer, BBC Simon Cable Daily Express Alexander Carnwath Wandsworth Borough News Frank Dalleres Sports editor, City A.M.; freelance James Doughty Policy officer, Department of Health; policy manager, Appointments Commission; policy manager, Department of Health Helen Dowd Daily Express; reporter, 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 Stage; reporter, The Independent; reporter, The Independent on Sunday; social affairs correspondent, The Independent David Firth Trainee sub-editor, features sub-editor, features assistant chief sub-editor, The Sun Sharon Flaherty News reporter, Metal Bulletin; news reporter, deputy online editor, Financial Times Business; head of content and PR, confused.com; group head of PR, MoneySuperMarket.com Tom Harper Reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; reporter, Mail on Sunday; investigations reporter, Evening Standard; investigations reporter, The Independent Ryan Harrison News editor, Pensions Week; chief business reporter, Emirates Business 24/7; deputy editor, Commerce, The Brief; freelance financial journalist (At Kearney, Efinancialcareers, Gulf Business, The Islamic Globe, Global Finance, Gulf Marketing Review Nico Hines Reporter, The Times; US reporter, The Times; London editor; Newsweek and The Daily Beast Kerry Hopkins PR account director; associate director, KTB; associate director, Ogilvy Broadcast; director, Hopkins Communications Rhiannon James The Sunday Times, property section Urmee Khan Investigations, The Sunday People,The Observer; commissioning editor, G2; The Western Daily Press; news reporter, digital and media correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; freelance (Daily Mail,Time Out, Al Jazeera English, BBC, Huffington Post) 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 Robin Stringer Bloomberg; breaking financial news editor, editor, Bloomberg News Richard Suchet Newsreader, Sky News Radio; news reporter, arts and entertainment correspondent, Sky News Carlene Thomas-Bailey Staff writer, contributor, The Guardian; freelance (Cosmopolitan, Elle, Grazia, Psychologies, Time Out, Glamour, Best, Look, ASOS, Mixmag) Stephen Wilkinson Sub-editor, Brentwood Gazette; Essex Chronicle Media Group

MAGAZINE Tessa Andrews Project worker, St Mungo’s; homeless prevention centre manager, Southdown Housing Association; area manager, St Mungo’s Homeless Charity; Senior consultant, Hay Group Caroline Atkinson (née Tosh) Reporter, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; social media editor, Safe World for Women; editor, Christian Aid Thomas Atkinson Editorial assistant, Esquire; freelance (Little White Lies,The Stool Pigeon); arts and entertainment reporter, thelondonpaper; online editor, BT Digital Music Awards; editor, Hot TV Magazine, The Daily Star Mark Bridge Freelance (The Times,The Sunday Times); reporter, personal finance writer, The Times Laura Canning Feature writer, Daily Ireland; novelist and creative writing tutor; North Belfast News; Andersontown News; features writer, Siam Map (Ko Samui); content and social media manager, Pitchup.com; freelance Sophia Cottier Staff writer, Fusion; freelance (H2B Journal); research assistant, Pye Tait; editorial assistant, Professional Beauty; account manager, PR4; account manager, Profile Press and Public Relations Laura Kenworthy (née Fergusson) Freelance (New Zealand); writer, researcher, Futureintech; freelance (Dominion Post); writer, Redhouse Lane Communications; freelance (The Tablet, Sightsavers International, Economist Intelligence Unit, Wiley-Blackwell) Eleanor Goodman Graduate trainee, CMPi; news reporter, Building; freelance, Rock Sound; chief sub-editor, production editor, deputy editor, Bizarre; production editor, Kerrang Gareth Iacobucci Intern, CMPi; The Publican; news reporter, senior reporter, chief reporter, Pulse; news reporter, BMJ Philippa Jacks Features reporter, deputy features editor, features editor, managing

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editor (features), managing editor, editor, Travel Trade Gazette Ellen E Jones Editorial assistant, Esquire; film programmer, chief film programmer, FILMCLUB; freelance film journalist (The Guardian,The Times,The Sunday Times,Total Film, Little White Lies, NME, Esquire, thelondonpaper); Hollywood Correspondent; deputy editor, Independent Voices, TV critic, The Independent; contributing editor, Little White Lies, columnist, The Independent on Sunday Lee Jones Reporter, Mortgage Strategy; copywriter, The Mortgage Broker Limited; mortgage reporter, features writer, Money Marketing; copywriter, Wells Fargo Bank; PR specialist, One Simple Plan (Minneapolis) Neon Kelly Staff writer, previews editor, Little White Lies; freelance (Promo, Caravan, Time Out) 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 Freelance, junior staff writer, John Brown Media Group; reporter, editor, Dive magazine; freelance (Dive, snowmagazine. com, active-traveller.com, Men’s Fitness,Women’s Fitness, Health and Fitness, Harrods Publishing) Leah Milner Reporter, Mortgage Strategy; reporter, news editor, Money Marketing; money reporter, The Times Paul McNally Senior sub-editor, news editor, Press Gazette; freelance (Radio magazine, Media Week, Media Guardian; reporter and sub-editor, The Connexion; breakfast presenter, Riviera Radio; broadcast journalist, World Radio Paris; news editor, Radio Sorrel Neuss Intern, 21st Century China Daily; editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; editor, Times of Central Asia; freelance (Bizarre, Central Asia) Amanda Nicolas (née Smith) Editorial assistant, assistant producer, UKTV Food online; assistant producer, lovehome.co.uk; acting deputy channel head, website producer, Good Food Channel; freelance (Time Out); digital editor, Channel 4 Food; group editor, Zone Eimear O’Hagan Graduate Trainee, Daily Express; writer, Femail, Daily Mail; senior features writer, features editor, contributing editor, Fabulous Magazine; freelance writer and editor Hugh Reilly Editorial assistant, commissioning editor, theatre and comedy, thelondonpaper; sub-editor, The First Post; freelance (Time Out Guides, BBC online, thelondonpaper, thefirstpost); acting editor, London Planner Magazine; web editor, public affairs digital campaigner, social media community coordinator, Unicef UK Nicki Saunders Features editor, Frontier; senior journalist, editor, content strategist, The Engage Group; marketing communications manager, Thomson Reuters Alistair Smart Features assistant, Seven; arts editor, chief art critic, The Sunday Telegraph Daniel Stewart Architectural correspondent, Building; assistant web editor, senior editor, The Week (US edition); deputy editor for breaking news, TIME.com Katie Toms Editorial assistant, The Observer Review; freelance (The Guardian, The Observer, atcornwall.org, Drowned in Sound); press officer, Southbank Centre 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 Editorial assistant, John Brown; staff writer, RBS World; freelance personal finance journalist (Daily Mail, The Independent,

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Yahoo!, MSN, Google; editor, Macmillan Cancer Support; editor, Wardour 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, Eurogamer.net Tom Young Writer, Computing Magazine; shipping/freight reporter, emissions editor Argus Media

BROADCAST Thomas Almeroth-Williams Press officer, National Gallery; PhD student, University of York; communications officer, The Goldsmiths’ Company Kate Arkless Grey (née Arkless) Freelance reporter, producer, Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2; LBC 97.3; freelance broadcast journalist, social media consultant; editor, Audioboo; digital communities editor, Welcome Trust William Barkway Radio newsreader, Invicta FM, Capital Gold, XFM; production journalist, group internal communications manager, ITV; consultant, Able and How Hannah Barnes Broadcast journalist, newsreader, Mercury FM; radio reporter in current affairs, BBC Ben Bland Freelance, various radio stations; reporter, presenter, Channel M; reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; political reporter, reporter, BBC Essex/Look East/Cambridge Paul Burge Freelance reporter, BBC Radio Oxford; TV producer and video journalist, PBS NewsHour; UK Correspondent, Channel News Asia; reporter and video journalist, Agence France-Presse; TV reporter and video journalist, Bloomberg News; freelance TV producer and presenter, PharmaTelevision LTD; journalist and desk editor, CNN; TV reporter and video journalist, BBC News; multimedia journalist, Telegraph Media Group; managing editor and media analyst, PRIME research; managing editor, The Report Company (Spain) 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 Tolu Doherty Unknown Gamal Fahnbul Production journalist, ITV Granada (Manchester); reporter, Sky News; correspondent, ITV Daybreak Rachel Foley Multimedia journalist, BBC Jersey; presenter, BBC Spotlight (Channel Islands); broadcast journalist, BBC North West Tonight; broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast Adam Fowler Freelance reporter, Ridings FM (Yorkshire); reporter, Channel Television; reporter, ITV (Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire) Laura Francis Radio reporter, newsreader, KL FM (Norfolk); researcher, BBC Wiltshire; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Gloucestershire; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; freedom of information researcher, BBC News Seth Goolnik Assistant producer, BBC Newsnight; development assistant producer, Hat Trick Productions; development producer, field/edit producer, Plum Pictures; head of development, Raw Television; senior vice president development and current, Twofour Group (Los Angeles)

Davina Hagan Broadcast journalist, ITV Border; journalist, BBC London Jamie Harvey Broadcast journalist, ITN; creative solutions manager, AOL; creative director, Hijack Media; director, managing partner, Addiction Innovation; executive producer, Snoveo; director, Falcon Scott 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 Naomi Lloyd Broadcast journalist, The West Country Tonight, ITV; freelance (Exaro News, BBC Radio Bristol, EuroNews) Alexander Maple Unknown Sarah Marshall Broadcast journalist, multimedia reporter, KM Group; senior reporter, Eastbourne Herald; freelance newsreader, kmfm radio; multimedia journalist, Kent Messenger Group; senior reporter, Johnston Press; technology correspondent, technology editor and training manager, journalism.co.uk; social media editor, Wall Street Journal (London) Selena Masson Researcher, Lexis Nexis Rowan Grace Evans (née McKinnon) researcher, BBC Scotland; assistant producer, BBC Newsround; broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel; multiplatform producer, BBC Current Affairs; fashion stylist and writer, West London Living; stylist, Style Eyes; columnist, MyStreetChic; digital editor, Ernst & Young; head of social media, Greenlight Digital Golnar Motevalli Correspondent, Reuters; freelance (Turkey; Iran correspondent, Bloomberg News Joanna Newsholme Part time student, City University, BBC Chetan Pathak Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Stoke; presenter and reporter, daily news programme, BBC Asian Network; presenter, weekly news and music programme, BBC Three Counties Radio Ayden Peach Radio reporter, Time FM; freelance researcher (GMTV) Miriam Rowe Assistant editor, Cineflix; freelance editor (BT Vision); offline editor, Zone; freelance (The Sun, Reader’s Digest UK, Friends of the Earth); MCR assistant, catch up television editor, ITV London Studios Vishva Sodhi (née Samani) Broadcast journalist, BBC South; broadcast journalist, BBC London TV; freelance reporter (BBC); communications officer,VSO Jagjeet Singh-Sohal ITV Regional News; Specialist Researcher, BBC; Author & Filmmaker, Dot Hyphen Productions; Producer, Sky News Kathryn Stapley Broadcast journalist, APTN; Head of English, Ma’an News; Consultant, Seartch for Common Ground; Broadcast Journalist, France 24 television; Egypt correspondent, France 24 Kim Townsend Sunday Breakfast producer, BBC radio Shropshire; Freelance reporter, BBC; radio station tutor, Brixton Prison; community outreach manager, Media Trust; public engagement coordinator, UCL Alex Waez Music promoter Chloe Walker Reporter, BBC Essex; drive producer, ABC NSW; 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 Broadcast journalist, BBC Bristol; 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) Freelance producer (Associated Press); output producer, Al Jazeera English; freelance broadcast journalist (BBC Newsnight, BBC World Service); press officer, Survival International; real estate photographer, Curwen Photography; Customer Services Manager, Alp Leisure Ltd Kate Chambers Specialist Researcher, BBC Newsnight; 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 Sports business writer, Electric Word Group; trainee reporter, Trinity Mirror North West; freelance (Jewish Chronicle); freelance; PR and communications officer, Board of Deputies of British Jews

2007 INTERNATIONAL Mario Alemi Head of business intelligence, aNobii; head of data products, Mopapp; partner, SecurecoPro Jacques Aristide Broadcaster,Voice of America Mattia Bagnoli Freelance (La Stampa); correspondent, ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata);Video Journalist, ANSA (Italy) Joanna Barrett Communications manager, RedR UK; climate change press and communications officer, CARE Lauren Bedsole Producer, FOX Business Network Ambika Behal Producer, Bloomberg TV; online editor, braingainmag.com Julian Bohne Freelance (BBC) Boudet Boudet Unknown Leticia Camargo Unknown Laëtitia Chaucesse Freelance (Crown Media (UK), Saarlandischer Rundfunk (Germany), Deutsche Welle (Germany)); freelance (France Bleu Pays d’Auvergne); media trainer, NetCast Productions; communication officer, Duo Népenthes; communication officer, Quatuor Arc&Fact; communication officer, Company L’Auvergne; journalist trainer, Netcast Conceil (France) Nadine Clarke Lead producer, Blue Barracuda; content editor, social media producer, Draftfcb; senior content strategist, Dare; content strategist, Tangent Snowball Rowenna Davis Freelance (The Independent, New Statesman); features writer, the Guardian; councillor for Lane ward; Southwark Council; parliamentary candidate, Southampton Itchen Daphne Dimopoulou Unknown Quoc Do Unknown Helen Dritsa Owner, Goldmum.gr Judith Enriquez-Sarano Media officer, Oxfam Natalia Farr Lantero Training officer (communications), Pivotal Mona Hussain Unknown Daniele Ihns Fraud investigation and dispute services, Ernst & Young; FIFA world cup team, The Coca-Cola Company Azlira Jamaluddin Fashion and beauty writer, Marie Claire (Malaysia); defence alumni officer, Australian High Commission; marketing manager, Tune; editor, TM Media Amy Judd Reporter, community manager, NowPublic.com; sports editor, Maple Ridge Times (Canada); online web producer, Global

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NEWSPAPER Sarah Bloch Press Association; multimedia journalist, The Times; 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, The 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, 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; digital 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 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, LondonMarketing; cycling expert, FRANCE 24; chief cycling contributor / author, Blazin’ Saddles blog, Eurosport; columnist, Cyclist Magazine Thomas Lowe Press Association; reporter, The Independent; editor European Commission; journalist, The Times; producer, Greenpeace Andrew Macaskill Shifts, Times Online; China Daily; reporter, Bloomberg.

Richard Milne European business correspondent, Financial Times Ronan Murphy Business, Press Association; assistant editor, Satellite Finance; editor - clean energy pipeline,VB/Research Rupert Neate City reporter, The Daily Telegraph; business and finance reporter, the Guardian,The Observer.

Anh Nguyen The Engineer; features editor, Computerworld UK Cordelia O’Neill Press Association; The Scotsman; online production journalist, STV Group.

Dominic O’Neill Euromoney; features editor, LatinFinance Alex Ogle Freelance (New York); Americas desk editor, Agence France Presse (Washington DC); Asia Pacific desk editor,

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RICHARD CLARE Senior Writer, Match of the Day magazine Magazine, 2007 Your best memory of City?

I really enjoyed the lectures with Roy Greenslade. He’s a fantastic media commentator and his lectures were always so interesting and insightful. We were fortunate to enjoy some great guest lecturers too such as Ian Hislop.

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

I’m a huge football fan, so I love the fact that I can go into work each day and write about it - especially in such a creative way.

Who has been your most memorable interview?

Being told to f**** off by Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis was a surreal moment. But my Gareth Bale interviews are probably my most memorable.

I got three exclusive interviews with him last year when he was in the form of his life. I was impressed by how grounded he was.

What’s the most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

To pick up the phone. It’s pretty basic, but emails get deleted or missed so it’s always better to try and actually speak to someone. That was made clear to us at City.

PETER KLEIN

Agence France-Presse (Hong Kong) Laura Oliver Reporter, editor, Journalism. co.uk; community coordinator, social and community editor, The Guardian.

Celia Paul Press Association; The Independent;The Scotsman Rachel Rouse Rachel Rouse Reporter, Daily Express; senior account manager, 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, The Saturday Telegraph - Magazine Ravender Sembhy Freelance (GG2 Life); freelance (Scotland on Sunday, Sky Sports, New Media); business reporter, Press Association; business correspondent, Sunday Express Harriet Shawcross Press Association; assistant producer, BBC Newsround 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), The 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 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; .

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)

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MAGAZINE Charlotte Bailey News shifts, The Bookseller; editorial assistant, Weight Watchers 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 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) Victoria-Anne Bull Reporter, Daily Mail; freelance Laura Chubb Reporter, People Management; books and film editor, Time Out (Dubai); travel editor, editor TNT; freelance writer, editor, sub-editor (CNN.com, The Express Saturday Magazine, Escapism, Bluffer’s Guide, Tatler Travel Guide)

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AMBIKA BEHAL Managing Editor of Salwan Media International, 2007 Fondest memory of City?

Endless cups of tea and great conversation with the MA International TV section was really a highlight at City (along with classes, of course)!

Favourite thing about your job?

Being able to meet such a global and diverse spectrum of individuals who are involved in so many fascinating ventures is the most amazing part of being a journalist.

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Richard Clare Online sports reporter, The Daily Telegraph; senior writer, Match of the Day Timothy Clark Editor, SuchSmallPortions. com; freelance (Mail Online, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, Travelfish) 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 Claire Dodd Contributor, DVD Monthly; graduate trainee, CMPi; 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 Lucy Foster Staff writer, news editor, features editor, associate editor, ShortList; features editor, 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; senior shows editor, MTV Catrin Griffiths Editorial assistant, feature writer, features editor, Saturday (Daily Express)

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Who has been your most memorable interview?

Too many memorable interviews to count! So at risk of sounding a little cliche, speaking with David Cameron when he was Tory Party leader in the run up to the last election was quite memorable - just because everyone else wanted to talk to him too.

Best Career advice you’ve ever received?

Keep it simple!

HANNAH EWENS

Eleanor Harding Senior reporter, Wandsworth Guardian; 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.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, 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) 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, Icon); sub-editor

(part time), WGSN Matt Turner Journalist, Engage Group; online reporter, capital markets reporter, Financial News; mergers and acquisitions reporter, Financial News; investment banking editor, Financial News Caroline White Games editor, news writer,The Times; assistant 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, 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 Emma Boon Broadcast journalist, CN Radio (Rugby FM, Warwickshire); broadcast Journalist, Global Radio (Heart/Gold, Suffolk and Essex).campaign Director, The TaxPayers’ Alliancepublic 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; press officer, Defra 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 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) Charlotte Grant Assistant news editor, ITV News; reporter, ITV Central Martha Housden Head of development, BBC Three 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 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 Cordelia Lynch Trainee, reporter, ITV; position unknown, Channel 4 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 Breakfast news reader, Radio Jackie Dom Reynolds Producer, ITN On; producer, Sky; reporter/producer (Daybreak); ITV; senior producer, Beagle Media; presenter, monocle; reporter, ITN 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) 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 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 Newcastle Matthew Warren Broadcast journalist, BBC; group communications, BT; broadcast journalist, France 24 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 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,

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2007 - 2008 director at video.fu; lecturer in journalism, Kingston University 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)

TV CAJ Warda AlJawahiry Channel 4 news; TV producer, Thomson Reuters (Dubai bureau); Social Entrepreneur (Cairo, Egypt) Roshni Amin Runner, Richard & Judy, Cactus TV; video journalist, researcher, Brook Lapping Education; freelance producer (ITN, NHS, Elm Media, Mediomundo Arquitectos); broadcast journalist, Sunrise Radio, Litt Corporation; digital media designer, Fusion Universal; assistant producer, The Open University Perjit Auja Production assistant, Catch 21 Productions; producer, Films In Education; development AP, Outline Productions; development AP, Love Productions; development AP, development producer, Darlow Smithson Productions; development producer (features), Maverick Television Charlotte Banks Senior account manager, MRM; account executive,Freud Communications; executive assistant, Klesch and Company Limited; client manager, IPD; website manager, head of group communications, Klesch and Company Limited Radha Bedi Freelance (BBC Asian Network, Channel 4); broadcast assistant, BBC; Associated Press (Delhi) Michael Blair Broadcast assistant, BBC; producer, Sunrise, Sky News Joanna Blundell BBC News; producer, Al Jazeera; senior Producer, Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar) David Brookes Unknown Anna Cavell South Sudan correspondent, Al Jazeera Celine Chan Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills Raykhon Demytrie Field producer, Reuters; producer, BBC World TV; Central Asia correspondent, Southern Caucasus correspondent, BBC Fred Fenoulhet Producer, Sky News; broadcast assistant, BBC News 24; newsdesk producer, GMTV; producer, Channel 5 News, ITN Megan Gerrie Producer, presenter, Premier Radio; producer, reporter, Premier TV; shooting senior PD (news, shooting AP, documentaries), ITN Productions; producer/ director, ITN Productions; broadcast journalist (news and documentaries), ITN Natalie Hall Senior account executive, Kaper Emma Chandra (née Jenkinson) Russia Today; producer, reporter, BBC London; producer, BBC 6 & BBC News.

Rhiannon Jones Producer, presenter, Start Your Business TV; freelance copywriter (The Hallmark Channel, NBC Universal); broadcast journalist, Real Madrid TV (ITV and Fox Soccer); Spain correspondent, CCTV News Jordan Kenny Broadcast journalist, Russia Today; journalism trainer, news editor, news producer, Journalists for Human Rights; press and communications officer, University of Bolton; freelance feature writer, Viva Magazine Sadia Khan Producer, More 4 News; researcher, Halcyons Heart Production Company; assistant producer, Al Jazeera (Doha); broadcast journalist, BBC News.

Kamali Melbourne Trainee, ITV;

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producer, Channel 4 News ITN Hannah Mitchell Senior Celebrity Liaison, British Heart Foundation; publicity manager, Universal Pictures (UK) Mary Nash October Films Clara Nissen Production assistant, Juniper Communications; editorial assistant, BBC Proms Lucas Ochoa Head of Development, Pulse Film; head of film, Pulse Films Tom Rayner Home affairs producer, Sky News; field producer, Sky News (Egypt, Libya); deputy executive producer, politics, Sky News; Middle East editor, Sky News (Jerusalem); Middle East bureau chief, Sky News (Jerusalem) Natalie Rose Development researcher, Twofour Broadcast Louisa Sellon Producer, lead producer, What If Innovation Bushra Siddiq Assistant producer, BBC Panorama; assistant producer, ITV Studios; assistant producer, Dispatches; assistant producer, Panorama Tim Stokes Researcher, Channel 4; broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast Nicholas Westwood Development and production researcher, ReefTV; presenter, producer, ITN; commissioning editor, digital executive producer (Got to Dance,The Gleekly), BSkyB; Executive Producer, Sky (I Heart Glee) Xinmin Yan Writer, Outside; TV producer, Travel Channel; China Representative, OC Sport Group

ERASMUS Bakyt Azimkanov Global Debt Capital Markets Reporter (IFR), Thomson Reuters; freelance Managing Director (Communications Central) Dan Clifford Chief Copy Editor, Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review Alvino Mario Fantini Editor, speechwriter, OPEC (Vienna); Secretary General, The Hayek Institute; editor-in-chief, The European Conservative Christian Hudtwalcker Pinilla Unknown Arthur Patnaude Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires Khatira Shikhiyeva Unknown Martina Topic Research fellow, Faculty of Political science, University of Zagreb; cofounder and research associate, Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (Zagreb); co-editor, Journal of Culture and Religion Renfeng (Frank) Zhao Research Fellow, Oxford Institue for Energy Studies; Director, Kreab Gavin Anderson

2008 INTERNATIONAL Salam Abdulmunem Communications officer, UNICEF (Iraq) Ibrahim Adwan Reporter, editor, producer, Reuters TV (London) Lei Ai Unknown Harriet Alexander-Orr Foreign affairs reporter, The Sunday Telegraph Carlos Aparicio Senior sales (international), MFS Investment Management; Freelance (World Investment News); CMC Markets Fidan Baguirova Novelist Edward Bally Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; assistant producer, Associated Press Television Network; producer, United Nations; video consultant, UNICEF; Broadcast Journalist, Babel Media (Miami) Larissa Belyaeva Unknown Cecile Bonneau Broadcast journalist,

M6 Metropole Television (France); journalist director, Soda Presse Lisa Botter Staff writer, Criticaleye; deputy editor, Pensions Weekly, (FT Group) David Calonico Unknown Ana Cavalcanti Freelance; teacher Mann Chung Unknown Federica Cocco; Web editor, Wired; Europe editor, Demotix; editor, OWNI.eu; freelance (The Times,Wired, Channel 4, The Guardian, Nieman Reports, La Letura; Il Corriera Della Sera,The International Festival of Journalism, The European Centre of Journalism,VRL Finacial News); writer, researcher, Full Fact; Freelance Sebastian Cure Unknown Sarah Dahan Unknown Daniel Sunday Unknown Julia de Laurentiis Unknown Solange Deschatres Co-director, Industrial Solutions; freelance (Plan-B magazine, St.Louis Beacon) (US); co-director, producer, encompass entertainment LLC; content manager, Sandler Partners; marketing manager, inMarket; freelance, creative marketing consultant and strategist; creative marketing consultant & strategist, The Independent; marketing manager, App Markets, 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 Chief Brussels correspondent, 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) Emergency communications, Save the Children International; communications officer (freelance); Branding Latin America Group; London correspondent, Caras Magazine (freelance); editor, Televisa Chile S.A. Ahmet Gormez Diplomacy and defence correspondent, ATV (Turkey) Syed Hamad Ali Freelance, (The Times) Llana Hart Editor, writer, The Jerusalem Post; marketing project manager, Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies; PR manager, NICE systems Iman Hassan Unknown Jonathan Heffer Journalist, freelance; head of mission, Médecins Sans Frontières (Russia); head of mission, Médecins Sans Frontières (Yemen) Inutu Himanje Head of television operations and production, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (Zambia) Vina Hiridjee TV correspondent, TV5 Monde, Trace TV; ARTE; owner, production company (Bangkok); founder, L’Oeil Nomade Productions Juliana Holanda Unknown Olivia Hottat Public relations officer, EU commission, Mostra; trainee, Delegation of the European Union to the United States; lawyer, Stibbe (Brussels) Isabella Iliaskou Unknown Jaclyn Jacobsen Junior editor, Maghrebia. com; reporter, managing editor, Central Asia Newswire Cristina Jaleru Freelance (Associated Press Television Network); entertainment producer, Associated Press Rashi Khilnani Host, Indo-Canadian Report; presenter, Radio Canada International George Kyriakos Chief business subeditor, production editor, The 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) Xiaoxun Lei 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 Time and style editor, The Times of India; national editorial advisor,The Times of India; managing editor, Lifestyle & Luxury Response, Response,The Times of India Coralie Modschiedler Copy editor, acting editor, commissioning editor, special projects editor, World Travel Guide 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); media specialist, UNICEF (Harare) Shannon O’Meara Content editor, ournews.com (New York); reporter, producer, The Daily (New York); writer, billabout.com Viktoria Peitchev Unknown Eric Polaud Unknown Angeliki Psaila Trainee, To Vima (Athens) Cristina Ranieri Unknown Tony Renda Unknown Michel Rose Reporter, Reuters Matthieu Serpaggi Journalist, United Nations; channel co-ordinator, Discovery Communications; content operations manager, Discovery Communications, (Southern Europe) Victoria Serpis Unknown Mypho Smart Unknown Deborah Sterescu Unknown Iselin Stronen PhD student, City University; PhD Student, Michelsen Institute (Scandinavian) 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 Rachel Walsh Staff writer, Wealthbriefing. com; deputy editor, Executive Compensation Briefing Marco Woldt Freelance, (CNN International); independent filmmaker (Deutsche Telekom, Eventbrite, Evernote, City of Berlin) Duncan Woodside Freelance (IHS Janes); freelance producer, France 24 TV, Agence France Presse TV (East Africa); East Africa Correspondent, France 24 TV (English); producer, France 24 TV (French) Xinmin Yan Media manager, Volvo Ocean Race (China); China representative, OC Sport Group Tamara Zein Unknown Joseph Zeitlyn Assistant editor online, Dhaka Tribune; freelance (The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Tehelka.com)

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NEWSPAPER Ashley Armstrong City reporter, City AM; senior reporter, Credit Today; reporter, Financial Times Group; M&A reporter, The Telegraph Benedict Bailey Reporter, Associated Newspapers (The Daily Mail,The Scotsman); online reporter, Evening Standard Katherine Baker The Publican; Personnel Today Lucy Barton Unknown

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David Bartram Entertainment editor, China Daily; freelance (China Daily, the Guardian, The Australian, Global Times,The Independent,When Saturday Comes); features writer, China Daily (Europe) Esther Bintliff Graduate trainee, Financial Times; media reporter, Financial Times; assistant Europe editor, Financial Times Matthew Bolton Lonely Planet magazine Jonathan Browning Journalist, Bloomberg News (London) Kaya Burgess Graduate trainee, music critic, feature writer, reporter, The Times Gurminder Chahal Sales promotion; Promotional Marketing Magazine; Marketing Week Kevin Coulson Sub-editor, sports and travel journalist, The Daily Mail Kevin Crowley UK finance reporter, Bloomberg (London); mining reporter (South Africa), Bloomberg Alexander Davis Markets reporter, ICIS; markets reporter, ICIS Pricing; reporter, Incisive Media; freelance financial journalist; Investment Writer, BRAM; senior staff writer (Asia Risk), Incisive Media; reporter (Commodities North Asia), Bloomberg.

Christopher Dean Sub-editor, assistant night editor, Daily Mail Kara-Jane Dolman Deputy features editor, Evening Standard; senior features writer, The Sun Peter Dominiczak Reporter, Evening Standard; assistant political editor, The Daily Telegraph Thomas Drew Unknown James Edgar Journalist, Press Association; reporter; Telegraph Media Group Sonia Elks Reporter, Colchester Evening Gazette; reporter, Central News Agency; reporter, Metro; journalism fellow, Alfa Fellowship, Reuters (Moscow); night editor, Times Online.

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; feature 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 Laura Harding Reporter, correspondent (Los Angeles), Press Association Josh Loeb The Friday Times (Lahore); theatre editor, Camden New Journal; reporter, Evening Standard; news editor, Hackney Citizen James Lloyd Reporter, The Sun Charlotte McCathie Journalist, Press Association; broadcast journalist, BBC Ronan Murphy Assistant editor, SatelliteFinance Rachel Rickard Straus Correspondent, The Times of India; consumer affairs editor, This is Money (MailOnline) Tessa Roberts London 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 Katharine Slowe CEO, Middle East (Dubai) Kiran Stacey Reporter, political correspondent, Financial Times Nicola Trup The Australian; freelance (The Independent); deputy editor, Absolute Publishing Kylie Walker China Daily

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Patrick Whyte Editorial assistant, Africa Investor; multimedia journalist, The Guardian; reporter, Evening Standard; assistant sports editor, The Huffington Post; news reporter, senior reporter, Travel Trade Gazette

MAGAZINE India Aldridge Intern, Purple Gemma Aldridge Feature writer, First Features Press Agency; feature writer, Love It!; features reporter, The Sunday Times.

James Ball Senior reporter, The Grocer; Bureau for Investigative Journalism, City University; journalist, Wikileaks; data journalist, The Guardian Chloe Saxton-Peel (née Batt) Sheerluxe.com; intern, Marie Claire; senior fashion editor, Matchesfashion.com; senior editorial manager, AlexAndAlexa; freelance Emily Benammar Sports online editor, The Daily Telegraph; homepage and weekend editor, DailyTelegraph.com.au Muireann Bolger Intern, CMPi; senior features writer, Insurance Times; features editor, The Marketer; freelance travel writer, Our Man on The Ground Katherine Calder Analyst, section editor, Latin News; marketing and communications manager, Mercanta Ltd; policy development intern, Cancer Research UK; policy consultations officer, policy and research officer, Royal College of General Practitioners; 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 Sub-editor, staff writer, Daily Mail; 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 Editorial assistant, Gannett Pacific Publishing; event co-ordinator, Hotel San Carlos; events preview writer, Arizona Republic; public relations, Phoenix Suns (NBA) Jon Cook Editorial assistant, James Pembroke Publishing; editor, Atmosphere magazine; founder, editor, Trap 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 Reporter, Building magazine; news reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; deputy news editor, Travel Trade Gazette Lucy Halfhead Editorial assistant, Grazia; features assistant, Marie Claire; contributing features and travel assistant, Harper’s Bazaar Sophie Haydock Freelance (The Guardian, Big Issue, Ecologist); arts editor and staff writer, Leeds Guide; sub-editor, The Sunday Times Lucy Higgins Senior sub-editor, Candis; freelance sub-editor, More!; senior sub-editor, Computeractive, British Journal of Photography; production editor, Incisive Media; production editor, Apptitude Media Ltd; senior sub-editor Pacific Magazines (Australia) Tom Howard Staff writer, FHM.com; associate editor, FHM; reviews editor, assistant editor, NME Caomhan Keane Theatre editor, Totally Dublin; critic, Irish Theatre Magazine; freelance (The Irish Times, Irish Examiner); columnist, The Sunday Independent; senior theatre writer, entertainment.ie; reporter, assistant editor, NewsFour Katherine Levy Features assistant, The Saturday Telegraph magazine; features assistant, Harpers Bazaar; reporter, Haymarket Publishing; reports editor, Campaign; media editor, Campaign; group PR director,VCCP Kate Livesey Freelance Christopher Lo Senior features writer, NRI Digital

Morag Lyall Freelance sub-editor, production editor, Engage Publishing; freelance copywriter, Pine Solutions; Life Lasting PR; Content editor, Adfero; Editor, H2O Publishing Jodie Mablin Writer, Black Card; features assistant, You; sub-editor, Global Legal Group 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 Editorial assistant, reporter, Media Week; reporter, Brand Republic Group; freelance (The Independent, Evening Standard); news editor, Campaign; news editor, Media Week Andrew Mickel Features writer, Community Care; freelance (Occupational Therapy News, Community Care, The Guardian); journalist, British Association and College of Occupational Therapists Lydia Mossahebi Online producer, Channel 4 Kirsty Nutkins Junior sub-editor, Company; freelance (Look, More!, Bella,Take a Break, Elle Decoration, Inside Soap, Stylist, TV Choice,The Guardian,The Sunday Times); editorial assistant, writer, Daily Express Saturday magazine; freelance writer, Family Traveller.

Sarah Riches Features writer, Real People; author, London Almanac 2010; deputy editor, Time Out (Abu Dhabi) Robyn Rosen News reporter, Hampstead & Highgate Express; reporter, Jewish Chronicle Brian Semple Reporter, The Friday Times (Lahore); intern, Prospect Benjamin Sillis Editorial assistant, Republic Publishing; reporter, Electricpig.co.uk; associate editor, Republic Publishing Jenny Stocks trainee writer, features writer, Femail, Daily Mail Ruth Styles Editor, Beauty Health and Wellness (Dubai); green living editor, The Ecologist; travel editor, Running in Heels; senior writer, Femail, Daily Mail.

Georgina Terry Journalist, Sky; freelance, Radio Times, Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Observer, BBC; journalist, Holy Moly.

Miranda Vinall Freelance; copywriter, The Core Group; copywriter, Wellbeing Escapes Ltd; head of content, Wellbeing Escapes Ltd Audrey Ward Reporter, features writer, Screen International; assistant editor, Sunday Times News Review; features editor,The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Georgia Warren News reporter, The Sunday Times; development researcher, Dragonfly Film and Television; digital communications strategist, Blue State Digital; senior strategist, Blue State Digital; head of digital engagement, Labour Party Victoria Watts Freelance (Body & Soul, The Times); intern, CMPi; freelance (Oh Comely magazine, British Red Cross); writer, Oh Comely magazine; travel blogger, Bridges and Balloons.

Laura Whateley Editorial assistant, The Times Money; money and consumer reporter, The Times; columnist, The Times

BROADCAST Kerry Alexandra (née Moore) News Library assistant, Sky News; broadcast assistant, BBC; researcher, BBC Elections Team; researcher, BBC user generated content desk; journalist, BBC News 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, Sky News; chief sub, Jeff Randall Live

Ivor Bennett Correspondent, Russia Today (Moscow); reporter, Reuters News Agency Alan Bone Editorial assistant, Sky Sports Cricket Rebecca Bowring Freelance broadcast journalist; broadcast journalist, France 24; tech and features reporter; consultant, foreign expert, CNC World; video journalist, Feature Story News (San Francisco) Paul Brand Reporter, news editor, ITV Wales and ITV Fast Track; political correspondent, ITV Alexander Brandice Broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat Eleanor Bury Trainee, BBC Production; BBC Drama (London); factual department, BBC Wales (Cardiff); assistant producer, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC Radio 3 Rebecca Butler Unknown Olivia Case Broadcast journalist, GCap Media; producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; managing director and co-founder, SmartEye Productions; digital marketing, Diode Digital Ltd Emily Dollman Unknown Will Edwards Planning editor, Channel 5 News; broadcast journalist, France 24; video reporter, Agence France-Presse (AFP) Phoebe Frieze Quest Means Business, CNN; News Producer, BBC Radio 5 Live Sophie Glass Freelance broadcast journalist (BBC); broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Marie Hagen Production assistant, IBall TV; broadcast journalist Russia Today; 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 Producer, Sky; broadcast journalist, BBC Look North; news editor, chief sub, producer, Sky News Zoe Kalus Broadcast journalist, BBC; producer, BSkyB; reporter, news reader, Sky News Radio Edward Knowles Production journalist, Setanta Sports News; producer, Sky News; broadcast journalist, ITN Productions (Online); producer, SNTV Jack Lamport Guest booker, BBC Breakfast; producer, Newsnight; producer, BBC News on Demand; producer, BBC News Channel Kevin Larkin Freelance; producer, BBC News; news editor, Minster FM Ana Lockerbie Captioner, researcher, BBC Parliament; broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; social media producer, BBC Breakfast Ramzan Karmali Senior broadcast journalist, BBC Richard Martin Broadcast journalist, BBC Essex; broadcast journalist, producer, BBC News Sasha Nicholl Assistant newsdesk (freelance), Associated Press Television News; producer, text producer, Al Jazeera English; producer, Sky News Sarah Olaifa Assistant producer, You and Yours; BBC Radio 4 Julian Perkins Breakfast newsreader, Radio Jackie Zohaib Rashid Web editor, Operation Black Vote Gilly Roberts Broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today; broadcast journalist, video journalist, BBC Breakfast Alex Sergent Economics and business researcher, BBC; content producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; producer, manager, Catch21 Productions; researcher, BBC Sumit Sharma Founder and editor, Hip Hop Chronicle UK; broadcaster, Buzz Asia; digital marketing, Egmont UK Lorna Edwards (née Shaddick) Video

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TV CAJ Hyder Abbasi Text producer, Al Jazeera Georgina Andrews Production coordinator, Flame TV; junior account executive, Four Communications; account executive, Beth Cooper PR; account executive, Four Communications; production co-ordinator, Silver River Productions Osman Baig Broadcast assistant, BBC; producer, Sky News; producer, Al Jazeera English (London); programme producer, CNN (Hong Kong) Estelle Bingham Unknown Edmund Caldecott Unknown Yao Chin Unknown Sotira Christodoulou Unknown Simon Dedman Associate producer, CNBC; freelance (NBC News International, Al Jazeera English, ITV News London); field producer, BBC News Anne Faber Assistant producer, Associated Press; freelance food writer, food video journalist, Time Out; Freelance Producer, ZDF; Producer and Video Editor, Endeavour TV; CEO and founder, Currant Productions Jacob Greaves Broadcast journalist, Russia Today (Moscow); freelance reporter, ITN Max Hall Broadcast journalist, BBC Newsnight; assistant producer, 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 Freelance producer, BBC Breakfast; content producer and online journalist, ITV Matt Margrett Assistant producer, World Media Rights; associate producer, Electric Sky; associate producer, Windfall Films; producer director, Windfall Films Ltd Caroline Marsden Assistant producer, Hardcash productions; assistant producer, ITN Productions; producer/director, UltraMarine Films; associate producer, Snapper TV; assistant producer, Seneca

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news producer, ITN Online; part-time intern, PoliticsHome; 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 Emily Tolloczko Freelance (Global Stations, Tindle Radio South); broadcast journalist, Newbury Sound; broadcast journalist, Celador Radio; online journalist, Fixers UK Letitia Valentine Journalist, newsreader, Swansea Sound; The Wave programme; company director, Surviva Ltd; self-employed Mel Wallis Unknown David Weinstein-Linder Intern, producer, Bloomberg TV; research associate, Parker Fitzgerald; business manager, Parker Fitzgerald; market development manager, Parker Fitzgerald Lara Whyte Junior producer, ITN Consulting; producer, ITN Productions; freelance web producer (ITV); consultant, project manager,The World Development Movement; digital output producer, ITN Neil Wolfson Freelance researcher Clare Woodling Breakfast news reporter, The Coast 106FM; broadcast journalist, Celador Radio; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Oxford

ALEX RALPH Business Reporter, The Times; Newspaper, 2008 What has been your best memory at City?

Piling into what was then the Queen Boadicea pub close to the journalism department on a Friday afternoon with course mates after a tough week.

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

Finding things out.

Productions; producer, Ultramarine Films; assistant producer, Swan Films Claire McCready Unknown Memona Mirza Broadcast journalist, researcher, BBC Nicole O’Callaghan Assistant producer, Thomson Reuters; AV editor, Bloomberg Atish Patel Broadcast journalist, Russia Today (Moscow); producer, Reuters Tom Peck Reporter, The Independent Antonia Peulevé TV news desk, Bloomberg; account manager, Murray Weir Willats Laura Priestley Assistant news editor, international sales desk, ITN; shifts, 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 Project co-ordinator, The Media Spot; project coordinator, Global Dawn; media coordinator, BAFTA; digital marketing and projects manager, BAFTA Mesha Stewart Producer, director, ITV studios Kate Stroud Human resources officer, Consumerchoices.co.uk; EMEA HR generalist coordinator, Exponential; HR, talent acquisition manager, Cheil Worldwide Inc Jessica Watts Researcher, assistant producer, Raw TV Mariam Zaidi News anchor, Dawn News TV (Pakistan)

ERASMUS Isis Caroline Malta Almeida Soft Commodities; reporter, Bloomberg News Bamrung Amnatcharoenrit Unknown Yining (Bonnie) Cao Unknown JoAnn De Luna Reporter, Euromoney; digital reporter, Direct Marketing News Emily Drew Writer, producer, CCTV America; news producer, reporter, Al Jazeera America Maren Naess Olsen Feature journalist, Dagens Næringsliv; community journalist, Morgenbladet Alongkorn Parivudhiphongs Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University Emily Tan Insights editor, Campaign AsiaPacific Ye (Juliet) Zhu Manager, Asia Pacific; ABI Europe Marketing Public Relations

Your most memorable interview?

The despairing mother of a university student who had looted televisions in the riots in Tottenham, though she already owned several. Sitting in the living room while her daughter sobbed in her bedroom upstairs ahead

2009 INTERNATIONAL Emilie Arlet Digital cinema production and client services assistant, Technicolor Digital Cinema (London); freelance, ARTE; interactive production manager, Darjeeling; production manager, Kids Up Hill; production manager, Providences Helga Arnardottir Stöd 2 Francois Aulner Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg Public Radio) Razan Baker PhD, Sport Sciences, Brunel University; media coordinator, Union of Arab National Olympic Committee Claire Barthelemy Freelance correspondent, d’Lëtzebuerger Land; freelance, iPad production, The Guardian; 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, reporter, Law Business Research Jose Calatayud Jimenez Central and East Africa correspondent, Efe (Nairobi); Subsaharan African correspondent, El País; India correspondent, International Reporting Project Camila Canocchi Web journalist, This is Money, Mail Online Mary Colombel Assistant 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 Ludovic De Foucaud Reporter, France 24 Gabriele Discepoli Reporter, Radiotelevisione Italiana Jessica Donati-Bourne Freelance, Reuters Nora Fakim Morocco correspondent, BBC Worldwide Sandra Fernandes Reporter, sub-editor, Talk Magazine Anna Fortune Unknown Nelly Gocheva Writer, researcher, Monocle Melanie Gouby International Criminal Court correspondent, Institute for War and Peace Reporting Eastern Congo multimedia

of her court appearance, the mother was at a loss to explain her daughter’s behaviour.

Most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

News is something that someone does not want you to report.

MAX BENWELL

producer, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; Eastern Congo correspondent, Associated Press Seher Hussain Journalist, Reuters Sarah Jones Editor-in-chief, P.S. Bearing Witness Maud Jullien Reporter, producer, BBC Afrique Fatmata Kamara Producer, SLBS/TV (Sierra Leone) Kavita Kanwar Sub-editor, NDTV Jaswinder Kaur Freelance writer and editor Kedrick Keys Unknown Bobir Komilov Senior editor, National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan; head of the information office, UN Mizuho Kondo Online community assistant manager, online business development, Square Enix; project coordinator, Square Enix Reuben Kyama President, One World Public Relations Effrosyni Kyriazi Unknown Antonio La Cava Unknown Neha Lall Freelance; Public relations and corporate communications, Jet Airways; editorial board, Jet Wings magazine Kwame Laurence Digital editor, assistant sports editor, Trinidad Express Helen Livingstone News editor, london correspondent, Deutsche Presse Agentur (Berlin) Victoria Luckie Intern, BBC World Service; freelance Nawara Mahfoud Field producer, translator, filmmaker, The Light in Her Eyes Emiliano Mellino Reporter, Deal Reporter; reporter, Latin Lawyer Michael Mumo Editorial director, Capital Group (Nairobi) Elizabeth Mupfumira Media liaison specialist, UNICEF Yoletta Nyange Researcher, INSI, The Reuters Foundation Edward Nyman Unknown Morten Øyen Jensen Altinget.dk (Denmark) Maresa Patience Freelance (Munich) Joyce Paul Freelance (Dubai) Jonny Payne Weekend news editor, Pinkpaper.com; commissioning editor, Columbus Travel Media Philip Pond Researcher and lecturer, course coordinator, RMIT University Kate Puhala Chicago Music Examiner; project and media manager, Rebecca Jean Catering Romany Reagan Research assistant, Greenbang; global editor, ExchangeWire Lisa Reinisch Editor, Brownbook Report

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DOLLY ALDERTON Story Producer, Made in Chelsea Magazine, 2010 Best memory at City?

When A.A. Gill made a surprise visit on the last day of our writing course run by Marcelle d’Argy Smith. He flung open the door and the entire room gasped. He’s one of the greatest journalists of all time as well as being a good anecdotalist so it was a real treat to sit in a room with him and listen to him talk about the industry.

Favourite thing about your job?

Being paid to craft stories is a total luxury. Collecting all the components for a piece and then pouring them into a wellshaped article is an enjoyable process.

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(Dubai); senior English copywriter, Abu Dhabi Film Festival; special projects editor, Al Bayan Kashif Riaz Reporter, Associated Press (Pakistan) Saleha Riaz Sub-editor, Express Tribune (Karachi); writer, Contentive Sheena Rossiter Online content editor, International Fund Investment and founder member; freelance; journalist,VRL Financial News; Brazil correspondent, Monocle; creative director, Dona Ana Films; senior video journalist, PERFORM Britni Salazar Administrative assistant, University of Chicago; marketing communications specialist, RIVS.com Priyal Sanghavi Community and content manager, Nex-Sales Karolina Schismenou Unknown Hetal Shah Associate,Viacom Consulting (Mumbai) 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 Age Ishveen Singh Intern, Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin); project manager, Naseba; English copywriter, Spark Middle East; English copywriter, O2 Network Spriha Srivastava Foreign correspondent, Vox Africa TV (India); BEI Media; online editor, Project Finance International; online editor, Reuters; producer, EMEA Amy Stillman Freelance multimedia journalist; correspondent, Brazil Confidential Annabel Symington Founder and journalist, NewsExchange Americas; journalist and director, The Guarani Project (New York) Balint Szlanko Financial Times; freelance Nicholas Thompson Assistant producer, digital producer, CNN International Myrto Tsavalou Unknown Kelly Van Der Kwast Reporter, Radio

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Who has been your most memorable interview?

It was with Tinie Tempah and my opening question was: “Mr Tempah, your nom de plume would suggest an evenness in mood. But what gives you a large temper?” The interview was cancelled and instead I got another rapper called Example who was inconceivably late.

The most valuable journalism advice you’ve ever received?

I learnt that efficiency is what makes a journalist indispensable.

Efficiency is the vehicle for creativity in journalism and it’s something I’ve had to train myself to remember.

HANNAH EWENS

Nederland Wereldomroep; editorial staff, OBJEKT International Dominque Van Heerden Freelance production assistant, digital producer, CNN International Alex Wood Editor, Tech City News; data journalist, BBC; co-founder, Not on the Wires; video producer, web editor, International Fund Investment; producer, Bloomberg (London) Xue Zhao Assistant journalist, Financial Times; MA Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University Stefano Zoja Videomaker, Insolito Cinema; freelance videomaker

NEWSPAPER Katy Barnato Credit magazine, Incisive Media; business Reporter, Credit Magazine; freelance business reporter; assistant editor, CNBC London Emma Barrow Features writer, News of the World; researcher, Twofour Group; features writer, The People; newsdesk journalist, ITVAlison Battisby Community publisher, Dalston People; SEO, social media executive, Harvest Digital; head of social media, Croud; freelance social media consultant, Alison Battisby Consulting Katrina Bishop Dow Jones; business producer, Sky News; deputy news editor, CNBC Nathan Bleaken Ministry of Defence James Bray BBC Panorama;Watchdog; Rogue Traders; Storyville; BBC Newsnight Laurence Cable Sub-editor, Future Publishing; staff writer, MacFormat & Tap!; freelance technology writer; Marketing & Communications, IPL David Christopher The Daily Telegraph; SEO manager, OPUBCO (Oklahoma) Morwenna Coniam Reporter, Bloomberg News (London); editor, Bloomberg News (Hong Kong)

Chris Cutmore the Guardian; sport journalist, Daily Mail Clare Dickinson News editor, Hedge Funds Review; assistant online editor, Financial News Abigail Edge Digital publisher, Northcliffe Media; digital publisher, This is South Wales. co.uk, Associated Northcliffe Digital; group online editor, Midland News Association 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 Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; senior reporter, Daily Star (Beirut); Beirut and Cairo correspondent, Daily Telegraph; editor and social media coordinator, Al-Monitor (Beirut); reporter, Foreign Policy Magazine; blogger, Huffington Post Hattie Garlick Online comment editor, The Times; blogger, Free Our Kids Shona Ghosh RMM (social media consultancy); senior reporter, StrategyEye; staff writer, Dennis Publishing Nicole Green Editor, MADE; consultant, Seven Hills Michael Haddon Web copy editor, property and support services reporter, banking reporter, agriculture reporter, Dow Jones Caroline Henshaw Online copy editor, reporter, Dow Jones; reporter, Australian Associated Press; reporter, The Wall Street Journal; editor, AMAZA Magazine Benjamin Hewitt Western Morning News; freelance (NME, The Quietus) Alice Hutton Reporter, The Cambridge News; senior reporter, Camden New Journal Daniel Igra Reporter, Financial Times; legal associate, Reuters Christopher Jefferies Online copywriter, ExamFox; correspondent, Adfero; editor, Caravan Times; editor-in-chief, StantonPace; editor, Motorbike Times; video presenter, producer,Vintra Lara King Community publisher, Berkhamsted People; news sub-editor, Daily Mail Elizabeth Kirkwood Assistant editor, Aeon Magazine 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) Simon Neville News reporter, Yorkshire Post; city reporter, online reporter, showbiz reporter, Daily Mail; business reporter, The Guardian Victoria Raimes Reporter, Edinburgh Evening News; news journalist, Sunday Mail Ltd; news journalist, Scottish Daily Record Alex Ralph Business reporter, The Times Matthew Robinson Online content developer, freelance entertainment journalist, Broadcast; social media executive, MacLaurin Media; editor, WideWorld Magazine; account executive, Champion Communications; consultant, Limelight Public Relations Faaez Samadi Freelance (The Independent); news editor, Global Competition Review Oliver Shah Freelance (Daily Express,The Sunday Times); reporter, City AM; business reporter, Sunday Times Saadeya Shamsuddin Unknown Etan Smallman Trainee sub editor, news sub editor, Daily Mail; freelance (Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Metro,The Times, Evening Standard) Thomas Stubbington Bloomberg Iain Withers Freelance; reporter, UBM;

senior reporter, Building

MAGAZINE Joanna Abeyie Editorial assistant, Radio Times; Cosmopolitan; staff writer,Virgin Media Electric magazine; director, Shine Media Ltd; showbiz writer, Closer Mandy Barder Intern, Greenmystyle. com, Delightful Media; digital co-ordinator, the4mores.com; underwriting assistant, Pembroke Managing Agency Daniel Bennett News reporter, T3.com; reviews editor, BBC Focus Martina Booth Features journalist, Press Gazette; reporter, researcher, New Civil Engineer; communications officer, special projects officer, National Autistic Society; administrator Royal Society of Arts Jess Bowie Assistant editor, National Geographic Green; assistant correspondent, Jiji Press; content editor, The House Magazine Duncan Brown Researcher, assistant web editor, The Week; staff, Roy Stewart MP; web developer, Hogarth Worldwide; director, Unreal City Audio; freelance web developer; developer, The Browser William Daunt Campaign officer, Climate Week; musician, Zulu Winter Nicola Davison The Economist; Staff writer, film editorTime Out (Shanghai) Stephen Eddie Sub-editor, Business Monitor International; content editor, Health Service Journal Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith Editorial assistant, Popbitch; reporter, Marketing Magazine; reporter, PR Week Joanne Ellul Media executive, Gorkana; editorial assistant, Retail Week and Drapers; reporter, Money Marketing; media and PR consultant, Lowes Financial Management Priscilla Eyles Assistant editor, Catch 22; customer services administrator, Publications International; freelance, (Sound Screen, Little White Lies, Soundblab, Don’t Panic); Online writer, Consortium of LGBT Voluntary and Community Organisations Phoebe Ferris-Rotman Communication assistant, Gorilla Organization; communications officer, The Prince’s Youth Business International; marketing executive, Steel Business Briefing; writer, Spotted

by Locals; field marketing manager, Platts; researcher, Unfinished Histories; operations assistant, Artis Education Abigail Gliddon Freelance (Little White Lies,Total Politics,The Guardian) Rosie Gogan-Keogh Freelance, (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Tatler, Time Out (Hong Kong), Luxe City Guides, Totally Dublin, Two Tube; assistant editor, Home Journal; deputy editor, Mizzima.com (Myanmar) Christopher Hall Assistant commissioning editor, Live,The Mail on Sunday; science and technology editor,Yahoo!

Hannah Hudson Freelance (BBC, News of the World); editorial assistant, features assistant, writer, Tesco Magazine; freelance (Hearst, BA High Life); editor, Virgin Retail Therapy, Cedar Communications Katie Jacobs Staff writer, Haymarket Network; deputy editor, HR Magazine Gabrielle Jaffe Freelance (Travel,The Sunday Times); deputy editor, contributing edito, Time Out (Beijing) Isabel Janner Editorial assistant, senior features writer, Take a Break Shelley Jones Writer, Little White Lies magazine; assistant editor, National Geographic Green; deputy editor, HUCK; editor, POC; deputy editor, The Church of London Nick Johnstone Freelance (New Media Age, Clash); senior online reporter, deputy news editor, Property Week; freelance (Inside Housing, Drapers, Property Week, Dalstonist) Anna-Marie Julyan Food and drink

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2009 - 2010 reporter, The Grocer; digital editor, The Artful Diner; digital editor, Seven; staff writer, Waitrose Kitchen Magazine George Kiley Agriculture investment consultant; new business manager, client relations, FC Business Intelligence Ruth Lewy Editorial assistant, Weekend, The Times; features assistant, commissioning editor, Saturday, The Times; features editor, Guardian Weekend Magazine Kirsty McGregor Section editor, Community Care Charlotte Middlehurst Editorial assistant, New Statesman; reporter, Incisive Media; senior writer, features editor, Time Out (Shanghai) Sally Newall Freelance (The Independent, Daily Telegraph); diary reporter, acting online lifestyle editor, The Daily Telegraph; writer, Zone Rachel O’Neill Staff writer, China Daily Rhian Owen Diarist, The Daily Telegraph; freelance (What’s On Stage, Sugar,The Big Issue) Sophie Payne Events assistant, Cosmopolitan; senior sub-editor, Ideal Homes Camilla Pemberton Reporter, beat editor, Community Care Ali Plumb Writer, Empire Online; staff writer, Empire Tom Reid DJ and music producer; Presenter, BBC Radio 1 Jennifer Ruby Freelance arts and entertainment writer, Daily Mail Claire Rutter Editorial assistant, Hotel Designs; editor, TaleTela; editor, EntertainmentWise; editor, Giant Digital Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Staff writer, associate editor, books editor, Time Out (Beijing); freelance (Huffington Post, The Guardian,The Independent, New Statesmen, International Herald Tribune) John Sunyer Staff writer, Time Out (Shanghai); commissioning editor, Financial Times Weekend Kagem Tibaijuka Assistant, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; owner, KT & Co (Tanzania) Cian Traynor contributing editor, The Stool Pigeon; features writer, Irish Times, NME Lauren Vanderkar Editorial assistant, Pure Beauty; deputy editor, Lighting; researcher, BBC; researcher, Silver Research Productions; assistant producer BBC Current Affairs Adam Welch Editorial assistant, Dazed & Confused; editor, Wonderland; senior editor, Spring Studios Jesse Whittock Senior reporter and section editor, C21 Media; features reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; deputy editor, Television Business International Natalie Woolman Editorial assistant, Guardian Media; reporter, The Stage; production talent pool, BBC; arts and history researcher, Leopard Films

BROADCAST Jack Aldwinckle Assistant producer, France 24 (Paris) Lucas Atkin Assistant producer, SkySports; trainee solicitor, Hill Dickinson LLP Ruth Banks Multimedia journalist, KM Group; newsroom journalist, ITV Meridian; production journalist, London Tonight (ITN) Esther Boateng Reception, Curtis Brown (literary and talent agency) Gareth Bebb Freelance broadcast journalist, (BBC Radio 5 Live); assistant producer, Watchdog; interviews producer, Sky News; researcher, journalist, producer, BBC Toby Clarke Researcher, Endemol; digital producer, Inclusive Digital; account manager, Saatchi & Saatchi Conor Culkin Freelance, (Evening Echo, Irish Examiner, Newstalk 106-108 (Ireland), Cork 96FM); media and communications officer, Labour Party

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Smita Chandrashekar Journalism Trainee Scheme, BBC; press officer, Zoological Society of London Holly Ellyatt Broadcast assistant, Somethin’ Else; online and video producer, Inclusive Digital; Assistant News, CNBC Basmah Fahim Reporter and producer, Thomson Reuters Jo Fahy Drivetime broadcast journalist, Hertbeat FM; broadcast assistant, City Broadcasting; freelance broadcast assistant, BBC; broadcast journalist, World Radio Switzerland; Zürich correspondent, broadcast journalist, presenter at World Radio Switzerland, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation Sarah Fleming Unknown Lyndsey Giles Unknown Thomas Greaves Junior assistant producer, European Tour Productions; assistant producer and reporter, European Tour Productions & Golfing World, IMG Juliet Hofmann Unknown Joanna Impey Broadcast journalist, EU Radio Nantes (France); staff reporter, Deutsche Welle Radio; Europe reporter, editor, Deutsche Welle Radio; freelance (BBC World Service) Henry Jones Unknown Holly Jones News reporter, Town 102 FM (Ipswich) Nisha Joshi Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC Newcastle; broadcast journalist, BBC Asian Network; video journalist, reporter, Sky (Tyne and Wear) Alexandra King Video journalist, United Nations James Labous Unknown Zahid Lalami Unknown Katie Lamborn Freelance, BBC Essex; multimedia reporter, kmfm, Kent Online; video journalist, ITV 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 Faarea Masud Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service (Bangladesh); broadcast journalist, presenter, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Darren McCaffrey News reporter, politics reporter, producer, Sky News Steph Millar E-Communications officer, Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council Archie Onobu Researcher, Pioneer Productions; assistant producer, The Africa Channel Rose Palmer Broadcast journalist, Russia Today; research and communications officer, University College London Victoria Park Researcher, Press Association; production management assistant, The One Show, BBC; broadcast assistant, BBC News; web producer, The Andrew Marr Show, BBC Amy Pickerill Press officer, HM Treasury; media relations manager, Royal Bank of Scotland Natalie Powell Assistant producer, France 24; producer, Sky News; reporter, video journalist, Feature Story News Melanie Ralph Intake editor, Bloomberg LP; broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; reporter and producer, Reuters Makez Rikweda Editing assistant, France 24 News Channel Julia Ross Production co-ordinator, researcher, BBC; brief writer, Radio 4 Harsha Sharma Fellow, Tony Blair Foundation; board member, World Faith; digital communications, Portland Communications Jennifer Shaw Graduate trainee, Freemantle Media; researcher, Talkback Thames; researcher, development assistant

producer, Boundless Productions Adam Sich Production assistant, online content producer, reporter, producer, ITN Victoria Sill Intern, EU Radio Nantes; researcher, broadcast journalist, home affairs producer, BBC London TV; producer BBC World News Talitha Smith Production management assistant, BBC; shooting researcher, Escape to the Country, Boundless Productions; casting researcher, Four Rooms, Boundless Productions; assistant producer, KEO Films Jessica Westlake Freelance radio producer (Global Radio); researcher, CNN International James Willliams Broadcast assistant, BBC Wales Cymru

TV CAJ Rudabah Abbass Producer, CNN; producer, Channel 4; freelance (Al Jazeera) Antonya Allen Assistant news editor, PoliticsHome; assistant producer, CNBC; programme producer, London Live ESTV Masha Akbarzadeh Unknown James Allnutt Freelance researcher and AP (BBC, Blast Films, Shine TV, Nutopia Charlotte Bingham Producer, Sky News Georgina Brewer Royal producer, ITV news Natalie Campbell Co-founder and director, A Very Good Company Kate Collins Freelance (AP TV News); media coordinator, BBC News; foreign affairs analyst, BBC Jennifer Conway Unknown Oliver Costamagna Broadcast journalist, Sky News; researcher, producer, Channel 5; presenter, broadcast journalist, Sky Italia; commentator, associate producer, PERFORM; producer, ITN Rayhan Demetrie Central Asia correspondent, BBC News; Caucasus correspondent Vicki Ferrar Broadcast journalist, Latin America producer, 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 Reporter, Adfero; researcher, BBC; interviewer, Future First; producer, researcher, Al Jazeera English Gayan Gunaratne Unknown Simon Keating Video journalist, managing director, Bitesize Films Sally Lockwood Researcher and producer, general election unit, ITN; output producer, ITN; producer, ITV Daybreak; 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 Nitya Rajan Unknown Amy Salem Broadcast journalist, channel director, BBC Wales Emma Ward Owner, GA Productions; reporter, assistant producer, IMG Media Giles Winn Producer, writer, OK!TV; producer, writer, programme editor, Channel 5 News; editor, Sky News Nabeela Zahir Assistant producer/ researcher, Channel 4, Waddell Media, September Films; producer, Newsnight, Channel 4 News; broadcast journalist, BBC World Pakinam Amer Intern, Hardcash Productions; Al Masry Al Youm (Egypt)

George Arbuthnott Intern, Associated Newspapers Matthew Bardo Investigative researcher, Inside Out, BBC South Eve Critchley Information officer, HemiHelp Alexandra Dimiziani Unknown Sara Firth Broadcast journalist, Russia Today (Moscow) George Grant Intern, researcher, The Henry Jackson Society; deputy editor, Libya Herald (Tripoli); Libya Correspondent, The Times (Tripoli) Sarah Hiddleston Unknown Victoria Hollingsworth Co-producer, Starsuckers, Channel 4 Lucy Jordan Intern,Village Voice (New York); editorial research assistant, Village Voice; reporter, Cambodia Daily; freelance, Jetsetter; contributing blogger, Americas Quarterly; freelance, GlobalPost,The Independent; senior reporter, The Rio Times Balihar Khalsa Reporter, Mobile Magazine; senior reporter, Broadcast; Dispatches researcher, October Films Oliver Laughland Intern, The Observer; Films of Record, BBC; researcher for investigative journalist Stephen Grey; the Guardian Australia Anna Meisel Freelance researcher (BBC Inside Out) Rebecca Pritchard Reporter, Legal Business Emma Slater Freelance (The Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian,The Independent); October Films Elinor Zuke Staff writer, Labelling Business Magazine; reporter, senior reporter,The Grocer; news editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit

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Arush Chopra Senior analyst, The Asian Banker; sales and product, Duxton Asset Management Larissa Haida Media Relations, Morgan Stanley Srinivasan Jagannathan Chief news editor, The Hindu Business Line Robin Kawakami Web editor, The Wall Street Journal Kseniya Oksamytna Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate: Globalisation, the EU, and Multilateralism Fuchun (Frank) Tang China metals analyst, North Square Blue Oak Jigme Thinley Chief editor, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation Zijing Wu Trainee reporter, Fortune Magazine; intern reporter, Financial Times; reporter, Bloomberg; reporter, Bloomberg News

2010 INTERNATIONAL Adwan Adwan Sports reporter, Abu Dhabi Sports Nefeli Agkyridou Segment producer, Bloomberg TV; field & fewsdesk producer, CNBC Kanika Ahuja Unknown Yass Ajang Unknown Olamide Akintobi Project manager, producer, Hi-Media Group (Nigeria); freelance presenter (Television Continental); sub-editor, Nigerian Entertainment Today Arzu Aliyeva Unknown Arash Anghaei PhD student, innovation studies,University of the East London; visiting lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London Kathrine Anker Team member, Not On The Wires; features editor, Archant Imaging

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Chiara Albanese Reporter, FX Week; reporter, The Wall Street Journal Arzu Aliyeva Unknown Kathrine Anker Writer, photographer, Not On The Wires; freelance (Alex Wood Creates, Politken (Denmark)); features editor, Archant Morade Azzouz TV producer, Thomson Reuters Stefanie Bainum News reporter, ABC News 4 Jelizaveta Belozerova Unknown Priyanka Boghani Freelance, CNN; reporter, Asian Private Banker Paola Bonfanti Reporter, B2B Marketing; editor, freelance reporter, BE-MA (Milan) Lana Boone Intern, Channel 4; desk editor, NBC Anna Brunetti Asset management correspondent, Investment Week; Italy correspondent, Incisive Media; financial services reporter, Mlex Market Intelligence Sakshi Budhraja Unknown Anelise Chagas Unknown Indu Chandrasekhar SEO executive, Telegraph Media Group; audience development manager, The Wall Street Journal Jessica Chesko Intern, Travel,The Sunday Times; reservation sales agent, Apple Vacations 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, International Coal, Platts Kelly Cregg Unknown Milenna Da Unknown Allya Davidson Researcher, assistant producer, Clover Films, documentary filmmaker Flora Desponts Producer, Al Jazeera Rijuta Dey Editorial assistant, IntraFish Media 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) 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 Community involvement officer, station manager, Peterborough FM; project manager, EU project ‘VINTAGE’; freelance UK correspondent, (RAI, Radio Popolare, Amisnet); lecturer, University of West London; international producer, TalkSPORT Maria Furtado Unknown Federico Gatti Researcher, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; co-founder, London correspondent, L’Indro (Italy); presenter, Massimo Ascolto Radio (London); Middle East correspondent, conflict reporter, London correspondent, Mediaset Maral Gholampour Khoob Andish Daily Newspaper; marketing manager, Azad Training

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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, Spotify Anthony Johnston Copy editor, proofreader, Metro International Hitani Kaur Lifestyle writer, India Today Group; Travel writer, Times of India Dominic Kavakeb Freelance, Al Jazeera Atiya Khan News anchor, senior reporter, TimesNow Nimra Khan Unknown Marina Kim Executive Director, Pomp magazine; freelance (Quintessentially, Mayfair, JFW, Rendezvous, Russian UK) 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 Lillian Leclair Writer, photographer, Oyster.com; correspondent, Jetsetter.com Johannes Ledel Karreskog Head of editorial and social media, Livestation; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; reporter; The Wall Street Journal Geraldine Lennon Unknown Andre Lewis Freelance (Current TV, Canarsie Courier); intern, CBS Radio; postproduction intern, Linton Media (New York); freelance videographer (Sitka Conservation Society, Alaska); 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 Heng Lu Ethnography researcher, GMRA Ltd Michele Martinelli Writer, The First Pint; information and communication assistant, European Commission; social media executive, Jam @ Engine; PR account executive, Platform PR; content executive, 4C Associates Rachel McGovern Reporter, Euroweek; reporter, Debtwire Pankti Mehta Feature writer, senior correspondent, Hindustan Times Mandana Mofidi Freelance associate producer (CBS, ABC News, PBS) Zahra Moloo Intern, (Al Jazeera English, BBC Focus on Africa, VOX Africa TV); freelance, (BBC, Pambazuka Press, Norwegian Church Aid); reporter, producer, IRIN News 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 Saad Mustafa Sub-editor, Daily Times; senior communications officer, Department for International Development (DFID) Carlo Nassetti Video editor, reporter, Spectacle; 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 Production staff, video editor, Betfair; TV listings editor, Red Bee Media Yoletta Nyirakanyange Unknown Kirstine Nystrom News production intern, Bloomberg; producer assistant, SBS Broadcasting; web producer, CBS TV Victoria Onofreiciuc Journalist, National Broadcasting Company (Radio Moldova International Unit); senior consultant, The Secretariat of the Parliament; trainee, The European Commission; IBF International Consulting Fidelis Onyedikam Unknown Ilonka Oudenampsen News reporter, deputy editor, Perspective Publishing; senior correspondent, Pageant Media Kinga Papp Account manager, Collective; content manager, MediaCom Maria Pappa Journalist, Star Channel (Athens News Agency) Kyriakos Penintaex Unknown Melesiana Phiri Trainee journalist, TV presenter/producer, reporter, assignments editor, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Sunniya Pirzada Freelance (Al Jazeera English, Qatar) Anna Pitton Freelance (The Periscope Post, Closer, The First Pint, Cibus Daily, Insurance Insight, Film24.com); reporter, marketing manager, Assinform/Dal Cin Editore; reporter, Messaggero Veneto (Italy); marketing services operator, Silca S.p.A. Afsaneh Rafii Fashion editor, writer, deputy editor, Nico Magazine Martina Reinstadler Social media researcher, Cision; radio presenter, Teleradio Vinschgau (Italy); journalist, hds Unione (Italy) Anna Reitman, correspondent, FastMarkets; editor, The International Resource Journal; freelance (Automated Trader, Financial News (Dow Jones), Global Investor Magazine (Euromoney), Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Magazine); freelance (The Trade) Marcia Reverdosa News producer, RedeTV (Brazil); international broadcast sales, Casablanca Online Elizabeth Ridgeway Unknown Rémy Philomene Unknown Samar Saleh Intern, CNN; relationship manager, National Commercial Bank Priyanka Salve Social media research intern, Cision; web and news assistant, Bauer Publishing; editorial intern, Pageant Media; online journalist, Start Intelligence; reporter, CapitalStructure Limited Fiona Scott Reporter, EMAP; interactive journalist, researcher, Financial Times; editor, Crane.tv Claire Sergent Unknown Megha Shah Associate editor, GQ (India Ayesha Shahabudeen Freelance Valerie Siebert Music reporter, pressparty.com; freelance (NME,The Quietus, UNCUT magazine); staff writer, Haymarket Dustin Silgardo Sub-editor, Circinfo; senior staff writer, deputy editor, Man’s World Magazine Alissa Smith Writing intern, The Centre for Women and Families (Bridgeport); reporting intern, Virginia Statehouse News; reporter, Wisconsin Reporter; reporter, Daily Voice Nektaria Stamouli Financial journalist, Dimokrati; Athens correspondent, The Wall Street Journal; reporter, Dow Jones Julie Stewart-Binks Freelance, CBC (Canada); reporter, The OHL Tonight; programme assistant, writer, CBC Sports; reporter, anchor, Fox Soccer Report; sports anchor, reporter, CTV (Canada) Siri Svendsen Freelance; communications

advisor, Jernbaneverket (National Norwegian Rail Administration) Karolina Tagaris Staff writer, Associated Press (Athens); correspondent, Reuters Victoria Taylor Production assistant, Coco productions; researcher, The Consumer Show, RTE (Ireland); sports researcher, Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, LOCOG; researcher, The Graham Norton Show, So Television Shawn A Thomas News producer, parttime anchor, talk show host, ABS radio and television (Antigua, Barbuda); producer, host, The Journal, ABS TV Agnes Valdimarsdottir Correspondent, Agence France Presse (Iceland); flash quote reporter, Olympic News Service; reporter, news editor, RÚV (Iceland’s State Broadcasting Service); reporter, producer, MonitorTV; fan community manager, LazyTown Entertainment; producer, Al-Jazeera Lena Vazifdar Associate editor, George Media; associate editor, Revel (New York); photo editor, MISSION.tv (New York); staff writer/reporter, 33 Universal Ines Ward Production coordinator, Quicksilver Media; researcher, WagTV; researcher, Love Productions Aoife Yourell Podcast producer, managing editor, The First Pint; digital producer, Sky News Polina Zamorina Freelance Alexandra Zeevalkink Digital content manager, KFTV, Wilmington Media; founding editor, DocGeeks Sarah Zerback Trainee, Deutsche PresseAgentur Yinou Zhou Unknown

NEWSPAPER Olivia Alabaster Sub-editor, reporter, regional reporter, The Daily Star (Beirut) Francesca Angelini Reporter, Bloomberg News; foreign desk, The Times; news review, The Sunday Times Tomaaar Brooks-Pollock Reporter, Central Office of Information; reporter, Manchester Evening News Szu Chan Researcher, FT Weekend; 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 Reporter, deputy news editor, City AM Rhiannon Edwards Daily Express; Brooklyn Brothers; researcher, education desk, The Times; editor, The Spread Magazine; features writer, deputy features editor, Hampstead and Highgate Express; commissioning editor, Telegraph Media Group Peter Evans Intern, Bloomberg News; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal Emma Gatten-Mackinder Daily Star Damien Gayle Freelance, Daily Express; science and tech reporter, MailOnline Patrick Gower Reporter, Construction News; senior reporter, Property Week; reporter, Bloomberg News Georgia Graham Junior reporter, The Hampstead and Highgate Express; reporter, The Camden New Journal; news reporter, The Sunday Times Rob Hastings Reporter, feature writer and assistant news editor, The Independent Gregory Heffer Sub-editor, Goal.com; freelance, Running Magazine; freelance, Express Newspapers Gregor Hunter Business reporter, The National (Abu Dhabi); markets reporter, Dow Jones Tom Jackson Managing editor, HumanIPO.

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2010 com Christopher Kay Reporter, Bloomberg News Soraya Kishtwari Shifts, The Observer; lobby assistant, The Times Jennifer Lipman Comment editor, The Jewish Chronicle; research consultant, Lexington communications Anna Meisel Producer, BBC Arron Merat The Daily Star (Beirut);Time Out (Beirut) Ralph Miller Video interviewer, Winkball; freelance feature writer, Evening Standard; producer, Sky News Richard Partington Reporter, City AM; chief online reporter, Financial News Alice Philipson Reporter, China Daily; news reporter, The Daily Telegraph Media Group Alexa Phillips Editorial assistant, The Independent; communications coordinator, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Sarah Rainey Graduate trainee, The Daily Telegraph; Press Association;The Belfast Telegraph; features writer, The Daily Telegraph Alexander Ralph Graduate trainee, editorial assistant, business reporter, The Times Alexander Richman News sub-editor, Evening Standard; sub-editor, Daily Mail Dina Rickman Intern, PoliticsHome; shifts, Daily Express; assistant politics editor, The Huffington Post UK; associate editor, The Week 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, Daily Mail Martina Van Der Meer Writer, Cult Beauty; information and media assistant, One Plus One Alexander Walters Digital development, Financial Times Lydia Warren Trainee reporter, Daily Mail (Manchester); writer, Todaysthedayi.com; senior reporter, MailOnline (New York)

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Sarah Simpson Freelance, The Publican; editorial assistant, Delicious; digital assistant producer, Good Food Channel Rachel Smith Junior editor, Class magazine; editorial assistant, Reader’s Digest; online editor, www.souschef.co.uk India Sturgis Editorial assistant, Life&Style and Femail, Daily Mail; feature writer, Femail, Daily Mail Daniel Tapper Staff writer, Waitrose Kitchen; author, Food Unwrapped Judith Townend Reporter, Journalism. co.uk Clare Vooght Editorial assistant, Matchbox magazine; staff writer, TNT magazine; subeditor, British Journal of Photography and Computeractive, production editor, Incisive Media; freelance (The Mayfair Magazine, Escapism) Jonathan Watson Sub-editor, production assistant, The Stage; senior digital production executive at Incisive Media Sophie Wilkinson Writer, G3 Magazine; freelance (NME, heatworld, District MTV, the Guardian); Writer, GoThinkBig; news writer, The Debrief

BROADCAST Jessica Banham Unknown Amy Blackburn Freelance producer (C4 News, ITV) Helena Carter Producer, ITV News; presenter, reporter, ITV Lucie Charlton Producer, BSkyB Rachael Church Unknown Sarah Collinson Researcher, reporter, October Films; researcher, assistant producer, digital producer Blakeway Productions Tom Croasdell Freelance broadcast journalist Liz Emmett Account manager Carat Enterprise Marvin Farquharson Unknown Sean Farrington Reporter, BBC News Steve Gardner Web producer, ITN; social media producer, digital producer, ITV News Hannah Gibbons Researcher, Hat Trick Productions; assistant producer, This Week Helen Glancy Parliamentary assistant, House of Commons; producer, editor, Broadcorp Jason Grant Freelance (Media for Development; media communication);

facilitation and story telling, Forgiveness Project Benjamin Guy Researcher, October Films; freelance broadcast journalist (BBC World Service) Noreen Harewood Freelance broadcast journalist (Radio Jackie 107.8) Antonia Harrison Press officer, Wild Card PR; Antonia Harrison; account manager, Eulogy!

Hind Hassan Sky News International Victoria Holland Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Derby; broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today Daniel Howells Freelance broadcast journalist and producer, ITN Joanna Impey Broadcast journalist, reporter, editor, Deutsche Welle; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Ruth Jacob Croydon TV; freelance (Winkball.com) content assistant, IMAYLOVA Robin James Online producer, Sky Living; digital and social media executive, NBC Universal Corine Jess Marketing manager, Harrow College Aled John Producer, assistant news editor, ITN Caitlin Kennedy Senior head of events, The Prince’s Trust Kate Lawrence Media production assistant, Espresso Education/Channel 4 Learning Katy Lee Reporter, Agence France-Presse Christina Macfarlane Unknown Faarea Masud Sunrise Radio/ Litt Corporation; broadcast journalist, BBC News Francesca Mcleod Unknown Steffan Messenger BBC Wales Felicity Morris Development assistant producer, Raw Television Datshiane Nayanayagam Journalist, BBC News Olivia Paterson Presenter/producer, ITV Anglia Nicholas Reed-Clarke Business broadcast journalist, BBC News John Regan Freelance producer (Sky News) Oliver Regan Freelance sports journalist (Sky Sports News, BBC, ITN) Julia Ross Investigative researcher, Inside Out, BBC Jennifer Shaw Fremantle Media; researcher, development assistant producer,

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ALICE ROSS Reporter, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Investigative, 2011 Fondest memory of City?

I really enjoyed David Leigh, investigative journalist for The Guardian, who did a series of master classes with us. It was around the time he was doing the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables and he would come straight from The Guardian to City. Seeing inside the process as a live investigation unfolding was amazing.

Favourite thing about your job?

My favourite thing is that we are given this incredible luxury of time to really get to grips with a story. We’re now in the third year

of investigating drone strikes.

You can really get to understand all these different aspects.

Best career advice you’ve ever received?

My former boss Chris Woods constantly urged me to push back. So if you get given an official statement he would always urge you to dig a little bit deeper. The other advice was from David Leigh, who said two things. It’s not your job

to be popular, it’s your job to be awkward. Also, it’s not my job to make the government’s job easier. If you’re doing an investigation, you can end up at a point with national security issues. People will be saying that “you’re doing more harm than good” or “is this completely necessary?” but it’s still your job to bring information to light.

DOMINIC HOLBROOK

Cathy Adams Staff writer, Money Observer; blogger, Square Mille Dolly Alderton Freelance (GQ.co.uk, Esquire Weekly, The Telegraph, The Evening Standard, Company); story producer, Made in Chelsea, Summer Daze; assistant development producer, Monkey Kingdom Jennifer Allan Reporter, electricpig.co.uk, Republic Publishing; online editor, The Wire Magazine Sarah Baldwin Editorial assistant, features editor, deputy editor, Grand Designs; features editor, LivingEtc; aciting deputy editor, Homes & Gardens Jessica Baron Travel and lifestyle writer, après magazine; sub-editor, Building; digitial content manager, PulseToday.co.uk; manager, Tudor Reilly Health Elinor Block Business media group executive, Periodical Publishers Association; online editorial assistant, Shortlist Jessica Blunden The Engage Group; Practical Law Company; marketing communications executive Eleanor Broughton Features writer, Progressive Digital Media; assistant features editor, Pulse, UBM Nicholas Carvell Social media and fashion writer, Mr Porter; fashion editor, GQ.co.uk Hollie Clemence Reporter, Jane’s Police Review; freelance (The Week, The Sunday Times) Lucinda Dunseath Freelance, (Evening Standard, Guardian, Inside Housing,Travel Trade

Gazette); producer, Environment Films Penelope East Project manager, outreach worker, CEMVO; communications executive, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust; media and marketing account manager, Comic Relief Guy Ferneyhough Reporter, TelecomFinance, Press Association Jonathan Garrett Sub-editor, Property Week; business editor, Jamie Oliver Ltd Caroline Gosney Digital editorial assistant, Cedar Publishing; junior content editor, Cedar Communications; global digital editor, Story Worldwide Mike Kielty Reporter, TelecomFinance, Press Association; junior reporter, dealReporter; MA Creative Writing, Manchester Uiversity Lisa Kjellsson Online editor, TNT Magazine; freelance; sub-editor, Haymarket; features writer, supplements editor, Lockwood Press Anna Leach Writer, Time Out (Shanghai); Asia and Australia correspondent, Gay Star News; content coordinator, Guardian News and Media David Matthews Reporter, Building; reporter, Times Higher Education James McIrvine Freelance; feature writer, Sports Direct catalogue,VW Vans, Motor Racing Ezine (Haymarket Network) Helen Nianias Sub-editor, Architects’ Journal; sub-editor, Fabulous, The Sun on Sunday; freelance writer and editor (Look magazine, Fabulous, Q) Jasmine Phillips Writer and sub-editor, Forward Worldwide; writer and sub-editor, August Media Jessica Pike Editorial assistant, Riviera Maritime Media; staff writer, The Chartered Quality Institute; education editor, Intelligent Media Solutions Lizzie Pook Paid internship, Grazia; reporter, PRWeek; features writer, Stylist Alexandra Saggers PR consultant, Seven Hills Moya Sarner Features and health assistant, Good Housekeeping Magazine; features and health writer, Good Housekeeping Magazine Rebecca Seales Freelance, The Sunday Times; news trainee, PoliticsHome.com; reporter, India editor, MailOnline Estella Shardlow Editor, vintageseekers. com; freelance (The Arbuturian, Luxury Society, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller); assistant editor - retail, Stylus

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JESSICA LAMBERT Deputy Editor, Londoner’s Diary, Evening Standard Magazine, 2011 Fondest memory of City?

Being taught creative writing

by Marcelle D’Argy Smith.

She would tear your writing to pieces because she cared about making you the most honest and funny writer that you could be. She didn’t want us to settle for a dull job and average writing. She wanted us to have adventures and be brilliant.

Favourite thing about your job?

Getting snapshots into different pockets of London society - the literary crowds, the film parties, and the fashion world.

You get to find out who’s sharp and witty and who’s brittle and cold. And then write it all up in mischievous prose.

Your most memorable interview?

Last year, after Alain De Botton tweeted a photo claiming he was discussing love, beauty and Plato with Harry Styles, we started asking models which philosophers they adored. Cara Delevingne’s answer: “I live

by Buddhist principles, but my favourite philosophers are Aristotle and Darwin. I love all that evolution stuff. Although I’m not an atheist.”

Best career advice you’ve ever received?

This isn’t a race - don’t treat people like they’re the competition. Hanging out with other journalists is one of the best things about being one. It’s not like we’re in this for the money.

MAX BENWELL

Sarah Clark Filmmaker (Lebanon); researcher, Brook Lapping Productions Claire Cooper Media and communications officer, SANE; press officer, Crisis press officer, BBC Children in Need Ross Halliday Documentary filmmaker, Docfactory, Independent filmmaker; marketing communications and video production, INTERPOL Matthew Holehouse Reporter, assistant news editor (online), The Daily Telegraph Carisma Kapoor Unknown Billy Kenber Graduate trainee, The Times; news reporter, The Times Laura Klompenhouwer Filmmaker (Lebanon); intern reporter, NRC Handelsblad (National newspaper); reporter, Novum Nieuws Pierre Kley-Gomez Unknown Nicholas Lancaster Business development executive, Create Digital Media Simon Lewis News reporter, Nursing Times; reporter, Health Service Journal; associate editor, The Cambodia Daily; business editor, The Cambodia Daily Lidija Liegis Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Europe deputy editor, Chambers and Partners Tim Maynard Researcher and runner, assistant producer, ITN Luke Oakeshott Intern, Lord Mayor’s Office; researcher, Transnational Crisis Project Natalie Peck Freelance journalist; PhD student, City University London; contributing writer, Birchbox; communications producer, National Union of Students Conrad Quilty-Harper Data mapping reporter, interactive news editor, The Daily Telegraph; data journalist, Ampp3d Emma Slater Bureau of Investigative Journalism; October Films

138 Boundless Productions Adam Sich Production assistant, online content producer, ITN Jessica Stevens Speech and language therapist, Words First Ltd Charlie Thomson Senior Planner, Sky Sports News Frances Tilson Unknown Ayshah Tull Production trainee, assistant producer, Newsround; presenter, BBC Micky Van Praagh Researcher, BBC; freelance, producer (Endemol UK); producer, Celebrity Big Brother Timothy Wallace Financial journalist, Treasury Today; banking reporter, City AM Robert Watts Newswire writer, Writing Solutions Limited Joanne Whalley Unknown David Wilkinson Freelance broadcast journalist, assignment Editor, CNN Rebecca Williams Broadcast journalist, BBC

TV CAJ Mahsa Akbarzadeh Unknown Sophie Clayton-Payne Freelance assistant producer Kathryn Collins Unknown Stephanie Constantine Freelance broadcast journalist Jennifer Conway Unknown Catherine Corrett Freelance documentary filmmaker Vicki Ferrar Editorial planner, APTN Direct Alexandra Fowle Unknown Nicholas Gilbert Media officer, Druglink; researcher, Blakeway Productions James Greene Unknown Gayan Gunaratne Unknown Caitlin Hanrahan Unknown

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Rebecca Hayman Assistant producer, Goodness Media; assistant producer, October Films Jamil Hussein Unknown Samuel Hunt BBC World; assistant producer and interview producer, Al Jazeera English Caroline Ingvarsson Production coordinator, Flood Projects (Australia) Sam Kirby Field producer, Westminster producer, assistant news editor, ITN Kelly Kerruish Unknown Josephine Kime Researcher, Channel 5; freelance broadcast journalist James Martin Freelance Camilla Millard Casting researcher at Ivory London; producer, Beagle Media Goldie Momen-Putrym Unknown Richard Mylles Political analyst, Absolute Strategy Research Jon-Paul Phillips Unknown Stephanie Prentice Entertainment reporter and producer, ITN; presenter, producer, ITN (Channel 5); broadcast journalist, presenter, ITV2 Emily Purser Producer, Sky News Alison Rogers Unknown Karen Santi Unknown Anneka Sharpley Planning producer, Sky News Poppy Tullo Producer, Quintessentially Television; producer, Digit London Ruairidh Villar TV producer and reporter, Thomson Reuters

INVESTIGATIVE Julia Bradshaw Financial advisor, Financial Times; companies writer, Investors Chronicle, Financial Times Rebecca Buchan Reporter, The Press and Journal, Aberdeen Journals

SCIENCE Caroline Azad-Andish Contributing writer, Elements Tushna Commissariat Freelance; reporter, Physics World Jennifer Green Web content manager, ITV Julius Goldthorpe Online content manager, Cashy (Dubai); marketing and communications officer, Accounting for International Development Aine Gormley Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University Grace Howe Contributing writer, Elements Laura Husband National Geographic Green Living; writer, EggMag; website editor, King Lion Media Publishing; website editor, Progressive Digital Media; deputy online magazine editor, Progressive Digital Media; staff writer, P3; staff writer, Beauty Magazine Louis Jagger Contributing writer, Elements Charlotte King Junior scientific writer, Euro RSCG Life Medicom; copywriter, Cherry Advertising Hannah King Assistant producer, Children in Need; Researcher, Lab UK, BBC 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 Smitha Peter Researcher, Survival International Achintya Rao CMS Science Communicator, CERN Ian Randall Editor, ALICE Matters, CERN; communications coordinator, European Physical Society; PhD student, University of Auckland; lead DBA, Oracle Apps Paul Rodgers Production editor, business, The Independent; business and science editor,

Jamaica Observer Tiffany Stecker Reporter, ClimateWire (US) Gulnura Toralieva Head of journalism and mass communications, American University of Central Asia Gozde Zorlu World Health Organisation; associate communications officer, Frontiers

ERASMUS

Jan Lepetun CEEMEA reporter, Debtwire (Financial Times Group) Zhiping An Editor, XInhua News Agency Guilherme Kfouri Team Leader Biofuels and Gasoline Blending components, Platts Weiyi Wu Unknown Beibei Yin Freelance journalist (Financial Times Chinese) Sakshi Sharma Senior reporter, Infrastructure Journal Roman Chlupaty Founder, Editor-in-Chief, GlobeReporter.org; London correspondent, investicniweb.cz Isabella Cota Schwarz Stringer, Reuters (Costa Rica); online sub-editor, Thomson Reuters; Central America reporter, Bloomberg Matilde Mereghetti European reporter, ICIS; project director, Global Business Reports Emma Godfrey Analyst, researcher, Alphametrics Ltd Bunly Meas National Communication Officer, Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP (Cambodia) Kimberly Peterson Associate news editor, European Union energy policy, Platts Matthew Caruana Galizia Labs developer, Financial Times; developer, Assanka; developer, Grupo Nación Andrew Hercules Communications Coordinator, University of Toronto Scarborough Christina Dillmann Copywriter, writer, Fabric Interactive; communications director, Exit Poverty; writer, editor, marketing event management, UC San Diego Health System

2011 INTERNATIONAL Jessica Abels Editorial assistant, Alison at Home; digital communications officer, Prisoners Abroad Michelle Abrego Regulation and politics reporter, New Model Adviser (Citywire) Carol Acquaye Chief editor, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Monica Ainley Fashion features writer, Avenue 32; Social Media Editor, JOSEPH Ole Kristian Alsaker Video producer, The Guardian; output Editor, Ruptly Laila Ali Researcher, The Times; guest producer, BBC World Service; features writer, Al Jazeera English; freelance (The Guardian) Najah Alotaibi Alosaimi Asharq Alawsat newspaper (London) Samah Altaweel Reporter, correspondent, Associated Press Middle East Service; anchor, broadcast journalist, Deutsche Welle TV Anna Anderson Editor, Radicke eCommerce; keyworker, assessor, assessment team coordinator, Kids Company Tom Barfield Site editor, community manager, Demotix; freelance (Daily Telegraph, Times Higher Education); features intern, CNN; political officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Habiba Basiony Foreign desk, Sky News; media production director, 3S Avenue Beatrice Bedeschi Associate editor, Platts (European Gas Markets)

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2011 Nathalie Biancheri Unknown Clémentine Blayo-Nogret MA in translation, subtitling and dubbing for cinema (Nice, France); journalist, Non Stop People Maria Bleeg JydskeVestkysten (Denmark); freelance (Dagbladet Børsen); producer, subtitler, SBS Australia; journalist, Ritzaus Bureau Caroline Bodin reporter and video reporter, Al Jazeera English; video reporter, AFP Press Agency; editor, French Cinema London Ltd; radio reporter, Accents d’Europe, Radio France International; video reporter & TV correspondent, French Production Ltd Alessandra Bonomolo TV researcher, BBC, Discovery Channel; freelance (L’Espresso, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera,Vanity Fair); producer, BBC Alexandra Botines-Mora UK correspondent, Mundo Deportivo Marianne Bouchart Web producer EMEA, Bloomberg News Viola Caon Sub-editor trainee, Arab Today; freelance (Guardian.co.uk, The Observer); Italy correspondent, 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 Arianna Catti De Gasperi Speaker, Vatican Radio; international admission councillor, John Cabot University Adam Chidell English teacher, Merchant Taylors’ School Carlotta Comparetti Freelance journalist, blogger, E-Il Mensile; online communivations department, junior consultant, Transparency International; freelance (La Nouca Sardegna) Alexander Court Digital producer and editor, Sky; head of digital, Bloomberg TV Sara Custer Copy editor, writer, BCN Week; intern, The Oklahoma Gazette; reporter, RHS Chelsea Flower Show; intern, Pageant Media; reporter, The PIE News Muhammad Darwish Freelance (TV news); video journalist, field producer, Bloomberg LP Ruchita Daswani Intern, News International Mirjam de Jong Director of corporate film (Amsterdam) Alessandra Stefani de Medeiros Reporter, Record TV; freelance (Vice, Perform, KissBank, 12speak, Rede Record) Marleen De Rooy Web editor, Het Financieele Dagblad newspaper; business editor, NOS Angeliki Delagrammatica Unknown Caroline Demopoulos Freelance foreign correspondent (Radio France Internationale); video journalist, Olympic Broadcasting Services; assistant news editor, video journalist, ITN Source Boyana Draganova Guest writer, simplifydigital.com Zaina Erhaim CNN; media consultant, media trainer, Institute for War and Peace Nikolaos Fatsios Unknown Mimi Flemming Post production assistant, post production coordinator,Vice Media Veronique Forge Freelance, (French Media, L/onTOP magazine); founder, Business O Féminin Fabio Forin Intern, Grain Media; freelance (European Journalism Centre) Mathilde Forissier Freelance (Altermind); journalist, Le Soldat Blanc Lorenza Frigerio Blogger, Linkiesta.it; photojournalist, Demotix; account manager,

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The 10 Group Annabel Fuller Head of media and communications,The Mediterranean Boutique Hotel and Conference Centre (Johannesburg) Amira Galal Freelance translator, OR Media Ltd; Middle East analyst, Euromonitor International Riccardo Ghia EMEA industrial correspondent, Mergermarket Anna Gorszynska Reporter, Academy FM Ambra Guarnieri Freelance; PhD student, SOAS, University of London Rachel Hall Intern, Thomson Reuters; intern, The Argentina Independent; intern, Financial Times Katharine Helmore Press and publicity officer, Quartet Books; freelance (The St. Petersburg Times) Sara Hemrajani Television news associate, Bloomberg; freelance (broadcast journalist); assistant producer, Bloomberg TV (London) Tim Hilhorst Editor, Schiphol Magazine; editor, Amsterdam Magazine; keyword editor, senior marketing analyst, ReachLocal Elizabeth Holliday Intern, The TaxPayers’ Alliance; assistant producer, Channel 4 News; reporter, KOAM-TV Zoe Holman Intern, Institute of War and Peace Reporting Vincent Huck Staff writer, Pageant Media; reporter, Timetric Financial Services/ Progressive Media Group Petros Iliadis Press officer, Fleet dispatcher, LOCOG Noemi Ivicsics Sub-editor, reporter, SUP&Cup Magazine; editorial intern, Schön!

Magazine; fashion writer, Unicorns Unleashed Babbals Jamwal Freelance documentaries researcher (ITN Productions) Mridulika Jha Reporter, Dainik Bhaskar; online media consultant, Greenpeace India Aaarti 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 Jelena Kensborn Producer, co-founder, Upstart Media Fawad Khurshid Senior producer, current affairs, Capital TV (Pakistan) Carmen Ka-Man Kong Sub-editor, MouthLondon; editor, Europe & Me Marco Leitão Silva Freelance radio producer (BBC World Service) Fangchao Li Page editor, 21st Century China Daily Austin Lindberg Online news editor, Car and Driver magazine (USA) Jonathan Lopez Research analyst, Intierra; reporter, Capital Structure; news reporter, ICIS Dalia Lourenco Communications trainee, European Commission Representation (Lisbon); communication officer, DG-MARKT; consultant; World Health Organization Megan Lucero Story producer, data journalist, The Times Kabeer Mahajan Freelance (CNN); commentator, production manager, ESPN STAR Sports Carlos Martin Tornero Graduate scheme,VRL Financial News; voiceover artist, translator, Aparat Media Amit Masram Consultant, Towers Watson Singapore; analyst, ITV Sports; HR Manager, Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd,; freelance cricket writer Niall McDonald Producer, Sky News Muazzin Mehrban Communications executive, Pfizer; public relations associate, Aramco Overseas Company Gianlucia Mezzofiore Online journalist, International Business Times UK Hamza Mohamed Freelance (Sub-

Saharan, Africa); producer, Al Jazeera Media Network Anuradha Mojumdar Assistant editor, BroadcastPro Middle East (CPI Dubai); lead analyst, Pelucid/Startup Intelligence; head analyst, Gorkana Lillo Montalto Monella Reporter, Argentina Independent; freelance (Linkiesta, Metro International); online editor, Juvewntus Football Club Eugenio Montesano Freelance, Associated Press TV Nishit Morsawala Editor, Arab Today Anastasios Mpulassikis Communications executive, Eurosif Zayn Nabbi Associate sports producer, CNN International Reem Nafie Journalist, Economist Intelligence Unit; freelance reporter, Arab issues; Freelance Documentary translator, AlJazeera English, OR Media, Ultramarine Films Shuhei Nakayama Researcher, Euromoney; production, cameraman, technical personnel, Fourex Sarah Noorbakhsh Runner, researcher, production coordinator, Don Productions Ltd; marketing assistant, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Nicole Ocran Arts and literature correspondent, Entertainment News Olushola Ojikutu Freelance; contributor, Times LIVE 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 Eunae Park Deputy director, Planning and Cooperation Team, National Assembly (Seoul) Maite Perez De Nanclares International relations researcher, University of the Basque Country Maria Petchenikova London correspondent, BTV (Bulgaria); manager public relations, Kauza Communications Katie Poole Community manager, KashFlow; community manager, tmw agency Akshata Rao Assistant producer, Bloomberg TV; multimedia journalist, producer, The Times Meredith Ross Social media marketing coordinator, Lushli Silvia Rothlisberger London editor, Express Media International Massimiliano Santalucia Assistant librarian, Mediateca Santa Teresa; blogger, France24 Kira Savcenko Unknown Rosanne Scammell Unknown Melanie Siekhaus Journalist, mediaflr.com Bongani Siqoko Deputy editor, Daily Dispatch (South Africa) Catinka Sjoberg Producer, Mindpool Creative; project manager, Bond Street Film Tineka Smith Reporter, Computer Business Review; Reporter, Progressive Digital Media Amishta Sohoraye Head of social media, Connect London; chief editor, The Student Press Jennifer Spain Account manager, LinkShare Corporation Anja Strejcek Reporter, News21 Silvia Suarez Reporter, Lottarox Agency; freelance Saravanan Sugamaran Head media analyst, Gorkana Roland Sylvester Unknown Devika Tandon Freelance, Al Jazeera English (Delhi); external staff, World Economic Forum Priya Thakral Screenwriting, London Film Academy Julie Hornbek Toft News reporter, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (Denmark); journalist, mediawatch.dk

Eric Van Den Berg Markets reporter, Lloyd’s List; Internet Coordinator, PowNed Gemma Van Der Kamp Freelance (Holland); editor, RTL iPad app; teacher, Crossmedia; journalist, Fontys Hogescholen Caroline Van Soelen Freelance radio editor (Lives on Record) Polina Vezhan Procurement consultant, AnyVisa Ltd Jenna Voigt News reporter, Financial Times Karin Wasteson Trainee, Metro International; Nordic reporter, Incisive Media; blogger, The Huffington Post Elizabeth Wolfe News producer, NBC Lantian Xu Unknown Yinuo Zhou Anchorwoman, HK Satellite TV; news broadcaster HKSTV

NEWSPAPER Steve Anderson Online editorial, digital homepage editor, The Independent Christopher Barker Freelance (London Restaurant Guides); writer, Environmental Graffiti Benjamin Bryant Trainee, The Daily Telegraph Ellie Buchdahl Freelance (the i newspaper); foreign sub editor, 21st Century China Daily (Beijing) 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, Daily Mail Sam Cunningham Freelance football reporter, The Wardle Agency; trainee reporter, Daily Mail Joseph Dyke PoliticsHome; The Independent; freelance, Press Association (Lebanon) Ben Edwards Communications manager, Sodexo Emily Fairbairn News trainee, The Sun; Feature writer, The Sun David Goodman Unknown Francesca Holloway Freelance (The Times); blogger relations manager, Roost Online Edward Kemp Reviews 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 Mario Ledwith News reporter, Scottish Mail on Sunday; Trainee reporter, Daily Mail Katie Linsell News reporter, corporate finance reporter, Bloomberg Caitlin Morrison Reporter, Insurance Age Sarah Morrison Reporter, The Independent on Sunday 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 Scottish Daily Mail Michael Pope Unknown Rajvir Rai Trainee reporter, Daily Mail Alexander Sharp Reporter, Eurosport; reporter, Wardles Agency; freelance Emine Sinmaz Graduate Trainee, Daily Mail Patrick Smith Bureau of Investigative Journalism; media editor, BuzzFeed Jenny Stevens Freelance, The Independent; deputy news editor, NME Alex Webb European transport reporter, Bloomberg (Frankfurt) Holly Welham Foreign expert, 21st Century China Daily; News Reporter, FE Week

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Katy Balls Staff reporter, Mandrake,The Daily Telegraph Charlotte Barnes Editorial assistant, planner, Redwood Publishing Jordan Bassett Sub-editor, web producer, PrintWeek; staff writer, Redwood Publishing; freelance (NME) Joseph Brothwell Features writer, That’s life!

Ianthe Butt Editorial assistant, features editor, British Airways High Life and Business Life, commissioning editor, British Airways High Life Katherine Button Media assistant, assistant press officer, HS2 Sophie Caldecott Editorial intern, section editor, Source Intelligence magazine (Ethical Fashion Forum) Sophie Charara Reviewer, Stuff magazine/Stuff.tv Clare Conway Intern, The Sunday Times Magazine; freelance researcher (Sunday Times Magazine); editorial assistant, Sunday Times Magazine Elizabeth Davis Editorial assistant, staff writer, BBC Music Magazine; Alys Denby Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail Emma Dibdin Freelance (Total Film, Little White Lies); Shots and Film3Sixty (The Guardian); Jazz FM; reporter, features editor, Digital Spy Libby Galvin Reporter, Us Weekly; trainee

sub editor, Daily Mail; Freelance diary reporter and sub-editor, Mail on Sunday, Sub-editor, Daily Mail.

Jemima Johnson-Gilbert Editorial assistant, reporter, Square Meal Venues & Events magazine, production assistant and writer, Pomp Magazine Aleeza Khan Bradner (née Khan) Editor-in-chief, ION Magazine (Canada); Freelance journalist; office and events manager, Facebook Vancouver Michael Klimes Editorial assistant, Institute of War and Peace Reporting; assistant correspondent, Jiji Press; business journalist, International Business Times UK Helena Lee Lifestyle writer, City AM; assistant features editor, Harper’s Bazaar Katherine Lough editorial assistant, August Media; Going Out online editor, Evening Standard Stevie Martin Staff writer, Bauer Media (Heat,The Debrief, GoThinkBig. co.uk); contributor, Company Magazine; LSC Publishing Daniel Masoliver Writer, section editor, FHM Sophie Monks Kaufman Journalist, culture editor, deputy editor, The London Word; Writer/Researcher, Endemol Nicola Osman Intern, features writer, Woman Rakesh Ramchurn Editorial assistant, Architects’ Journal ; news, Architects’ Journal Jennifer Roper Features and supplements editor, Print Week Ian Steadman Junior writer, wired.co.uk; junior staff writer, Wired; science and technology writer, New Statesman Helen Stuart Intern, showbiz writer, Woman’s Own; senior celebrity writer, Woman Miranda Thompson Junior writer, editorial assistant, August Media; staff writer, IKEA FAMILY live; assistant editor, August Media Harriet Thurley Features writer, That’s

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GREG JONES Press Officer, Cancer Research UK Science 2012

Best memory of City?

I enjoyed the open debates during our journalism and society lectures. People from all courses weighing in on issues like phone hacking and the power of papers.

Favourite thing about your job?

I love learning about the incredible scientific progress we’re making, along with meeting some of the pioneering researchers Cancer Research UK funds. I also freelance at The Sunday Times, where I get to experience the pressure of print deadlines while indulging my pedantic side as a sub-editor.

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Most memorable interview?

I got to interview Dara O’Briain, Dave Gorman and Professor Brian Cox all in one go. They were witty, articulate and more than happy to give me their time.

The most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

Don’t be too protective of your ideas: ask for help and share your thoughts with colleagues. And if someone else writes it before you, you’ll know you’re on the right lines and are developing a nose for a good story.

ANNABELLE COLLINS

Life!; features writer, Bella Andrew Tweddle Project assistant, The Church of London; project manager, The Church of London, producer, Olivia Wakefield Intern, ES Magazine

BROADCAST Sheun Adelasoye Writer, WhoisthatgirlUK Philip Allen Unknown Emily Archer Researcher, Walker George Films; researcher, DSP (Darlow Smithson Productions); researcher, Betty; broadcast team researcher, Comic Relief Ellen Arnold Campaign producer, Tiger Aspect Productions; researcher, Blast! Films; story producer, Blast! Films Vanessa Baffoe News trainee, ITV Anglia Caron Bell Traineeship, ITV News; newsroom journalist, ITV West and Westcountry Rebecca Bell News assistant, CNBC; freelance producer, Sky News; broadcast producer, BBC News Harriet Bird Project manager, Rich Mix; researcher, Landmark Films Samuel Bradley Account executive, London Communications Agency Harriet Bradshaw Editor and reporter, Alexandra News; broadcast journalist, news reader, Radio Jackie Robert Carragher Freelance sub-editor, Sky Gauhar Chohan Unknown 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 Ross Cullen Text producer, Sky News; World news producer, Sky News Clare Davis Video producer, digital producer, Tesco Alex Dibble Newsreader, Radio City 96.7 FM Liverpool Laura Ewen Intern, PR Matters; account executive, Freud Communications Catherine Farnsworth Unknown Umar Farooq Editor, NUFCfans.co.uk; TV producer, Sports Tonight; communities and social media journalist, The Times Hanna Flint Blogger, Flint Says; content and social media executive, Cherry London; film blogger, The Huffington Post; assistant producer, LBC Radio at Global Radio Philip Georgiadis Researcher, The 10 Group; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires/ Wall Street Journal; researcher, Comic Relief Claire Gilmore Production assistant, Quicksilver Media; runner, ABC news; marketing executive, CUP James Glynn Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service Julia Greenaway Unknown Michael Greenfield Graduate scheme, Sky News Lucy Hewitt Video producer, Future Publishing Vanessa Holland Logistics co-ordinator, Deloitte; account coordinator, Socrates Communications Riaz Jugon Features producer, journalist, Community Channel; production journalist, London Live ESTV 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)

Alexandra Lawton Presenter, 106.5 Riviera Radio 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 Kirsty Malcolm News assistant, STV News; video journalist, Scottish Television; video journalist, STV Commercial 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); broadcast freelancer Francesca Oldham Runner, Princess Productions; production, Channel 5; production, The Walt Disney Company; marketing executive, The Cambridge Education Group 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 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 Lucy Towers Press officer, The Gorilla Organisation; freelance broadcast journalist, Reuters; assistant news editor, ITN Hugo Williams Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4; broadcast journalist and radio producer, BBC World Service Francesca Wilski Account executive, DDB UK; account manager, Euro RSCG London; senior account manager, account director, Animl Natalie Wright Reporter, BBC Gloucestershire; freelance (Sky News); assistant producer, ITN

TV CAJ Olivia Bolton Video news producer, The Daily Telegraph Anna Bucks Freelance TV journalist and researcher; freelance assistant producer (current affairs and documanteries) Joshua Cheesman Office manager, Pentacle The Virtual Business School Jil Dallmayr Editorial intern, Gala magazine; editor, Chesamel Communications; media consultant, MYO Swimwear Rachael Davies Freelance (Firecracker Films, Prospect) Helen Doyle Freelance producer (Sky News); freelance producer (Al Jazeera Media Network) Thomas Ellis Unknown Sandra Gathmann Gonzalez Video journalist, Feature Story News Harriet Hamilton Assistant news editor, ITV News (Washington DC) Abigail Harper Unknown Caroline James Freelance (Associated Press Television News, Sky News); news editor - foreign desk, Sky News

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INVESTIGATIVE Shaima Al-Obaidi Unknown Thomas Boadle Senior researcher, Tessa Mayes Productions Ltd; Interviews producer, Sky News Dawn Burrows Unknown Mike Doherty Reporter, Travellers Times Magazine; media officer, Irish Traveller Movement in Britain Janine Fotiadis-Negreponte Freelance, journalist/writer, Haymarket Sam Francis Researcher, BBC Parliament Jake Lofdahl Editorial assistant, Perform Group; producer/editor, BT Sport Katherine Loweth Unknown Dale Mcewan Reporter, The Lawyer; reporter, Kurdistan news agency Sebastian Payne Data reporter, The Daily Telegraph; online editor, The Spectator David Pegg Researcher, October Films Jasper Piddock Reporter, Mobile News Riah Pryor Editorial assistant, The Art Newspaper Alice Ross Bureau of Investigative Journalism Sarah Stewart Business reporter, deputy web editor, Property Week Jamie Thunder PhD student, City University London; researcher, Westminister Education Forum

SCIENCE Jennifer Appleton Unknown James Brooks Science editor, BioNews, Progress Educational Trust Rebecca Hill Genetics editor, Progress Educational Trust Michael Jones Assistant PR officer, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research; 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 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 Lorna Powell Freelance medical journalist John Serle English editor, AK News Djuke Veldhuis Editor, ResearchSEA

FINANCIAL Tanya Ashreena Writer, Pensions Week, Financial Times; structured finance, CapitalStructure Limited Odette Berg Producer, Bloomberg TV

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Emily Blewett Reporter, Citywire Manoah Esipisu Acting head of press, Commonwealth Secretariat Jennifer Francis Writer, Debtwire; writer, Financial Times Ranjana Gupta European LNG and Gas reporter, Energy Intelligence Satheesan Kanady deputy business editor, The Peninsula newspaper (Qatar) Huaiyuan Lu Researcher, FT China Confidential Miyuki Seguchi Market reporter, Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal Darshini Shah Unknown Maria Sovago Unknown Conor Sullivan Trainee production journalist, Financial Times Danwei Zhang Freelance (BBC); business developer, SkyHi Media

POLITICAL Elizabeth Bates Researcher for John Kay, Financial Times James Bloodworth Reporter, Chemist and Druggist; blogger, The Independent; editor, leftfootforward.org Andrew Bradley Marketing and Research Executive, BritainThinks; broadcast Journalist, BBC Rosanna Cobb Research assistant for Simon Hughes MP Matt Foster Parliamentary analyst, DeHavillard; Home Affairs reporter, ForesightNews Nada Issa Al Jazeera English Tonje Iversen UK correspondent, Norwegian radio Panagiotis Katsaras Unknown Alexander Lawson Communications and policy assistant, news reporter, European Disability Forum; account executive, Adam Kluger Public Relations Sam Macrory Political editor, The House Magazine; editor, Total Politics Fahim Malyar Head of communications, President Hamid Karzai Daniel Mcclendon Unknown Konstantinos Memmos Client executive, associate, senior associate Advocate/Burson-Marsteller Daria Orlova BBC World Service Pavlina Papashimova Communications assistant, marketing and communications manager, Murphy Group Paul Prentice News and features writer, assistant news editor, Rail magazine Andrew Richards Unknown Sofya Shahab Contributor, Ctrl.Alt. Shift; senior publications officer, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Andrew Tarrant Office of Gregg McClymont MP, Shadow Minister for Pensions Amie Tsang World newsdesk, Financial Times

ERASMUS Miko Cara Schneider Corporate Responsibility Co-ordinator, Lakehouse; internal Communications Officer, Family Mosaic Ying Diao UK correspondent, China Daily Vitaly Pojarsky freelance Stephen Robert Morse Creative Team, Seamless.com; head of marketing, communications, and advertising, Skillbridge. co Belinda Lopez Features Executive Producer of All the Best, FBi, Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Namitha Jagadeesh Reporter, Bloomberg; staff writer, Mint (HT Media Ltd) Sarka Halasova Credit and fixed income

reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal Frederik Fischer Co-Founder, CEO, Tazaldoo; co-Founder of MundusMedia Magdalena Kufrej Communication Assistant, European Commission Lasse Berg Sørensen Journalist, DR Nyheder (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Mads Stampe Hansen Media Project Manager, Danish Association for the Disabled Ilka Kopplin Trainee, Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche; reporter, Dow Jones News, The Wall Street Journal Cassie Werber Online Editor, Reproductive Health Matters; reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal; assistant Online Editor, Financial News; reporter, The Wall Street Journal Ana Sofia Cerqueira Unknown Eeva Marjatta Eronen Writer, foreign news desk, Helsingin Sanomat Mats Wedervang Reporter, TV 2 (Norway) Anders Lammers Freelance

2012 INTERNATIONAL Olajumoke Akiyode Journalist, Ovation international magazine (Nigeria) Sophie Anmuth Blogger, Slate magazine; freelance (The Majalla; Search for Common Ground; Ouest France Media; Le Parisien) Katherine Anker Features editor, Professional Photographer magazine, board member; korispondenterne.dk, freelance writer (Politiken); deputy editor, Lux Magazine, Lux Review 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 Bertell Video journalist, Alanews; video reporter, La Repubblica Birce Bora Freelance (BBC World Service Turkey) Clea Broadhurst Live correspondent, RTL-TVI; correspondent, Outlook (BBC World Service); 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 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, Incisive Media Simon Day Unknown Sara Delgrossi Trainee, European Parliament; features intern, CNN Ceren Deniz Intern, foreign news service, Hurriyet Media Towers (Istanbul) Elena Dimama Egnatia TV (Greece); editor, Precise Media Eva Dumontet Freelance (Le Monde; Al Jazeera; The Huffington Post) Steve Ercolani Reporter, The Tico Times; contributor, Al Jazeera France Ewen London correspondent: freelance producer, Radio Luxembourg Lisa Fernandez Staff photographer, The Des Moins Register; freelance multimedia

journalist Chiara Francavilla Somalia analyst, ThinkAfricaPress; reporter, The Covered Bond Report; senior reporter, Materials World Recycling Jeanny Gering Online editor, DLD; project manager, Dog Ear Wrks Rajni Gill NewsX (India) Demelsa Gonzalez Ruiz Unknown Reena Gurung Freelance multimedia journalist (South East Asia) Hanna Hauck Traineeship, dapd (Germany) Jo Healy Assistant producer, CNN; sports journalist, DWM; assistant producer, Life’s a Pitch Ivana Hindi Freelancer, BBC World Service; editor, BOLD Kristy Hutter Associate producer, CBC News Leonard Ibekwe Investigative reporter, NEXT newspapers; senior reporter, Premium Times Christiane Imdahl Freelance Snigdha Jain CMO of Social Media Marketing, M.K. Gupta Tax Classe (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 Brian Leli Freelance (The Morning News; The New Statesman; Gapers Block); author Victor Lepoutre Freelance correspondent (Le Petit Journal; Radio France; RTS; RFI) Audrey Letendart Web intern, Monocle; radio intern, Monocle 24; researcher, Bloomberg TV Africa; deputy editor, French Cinema London; associate producer, Bloomberg TV Africa Chris Liakos Reporter, Hellenic TV; Wealth Insight; VRL Financial News; freelance, CNN Jenny Liljefors Soffel Freelance (Escape 360, CNN); digital producer, London Live ESTV Felix Lill Freelance sports journalist Tatiana Lima Freelance (Brazil) Jinmei Liu Reporter, China Daily Melissa Paige Long Account manager, Moorgate Communications Julia MacFarlane Freelance field producer and camera operator (Lebanon); freelance broadcast journalist (CNN; BBC World Service) Maria Malygina Unknown Meghan Mardon Intern, Dash magazine Michele Martinelli Content executive, 4C Associates; editor and copywriter, uSwitch.com Vittorio Mauriello Intern, CRC Radio Damini Nath Sub-editor, The Hindu; reporter, The Hindu Sheila Navaratnarajah Unknown Tamara Novoa Alonso Trainee editor, Faro de Vigo; intern, Spectacle Documentaries; freelance (BR Press); editor, Pio Garcia Audiovisuais Artur Osinski Assistant producer, runner BBC; intern CNN; production assistant, CNN Hege Otterholm Freelance (Romsdals Budstikke; London) Emmanuil Papavasileiou Intern, The Times and The Sunday Times; intern, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; freelance researcher (Centre for Investigative Journalism) Lizette Pellikaan Producer, Bureau New York

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Hazel Pfeifer Freelance contributor, Monocle 24; planning Intern, planning producer, CNN Joëlle Pouliot Freelance (The Montreal Gazette, QMI News Agency); video production assistant, AFP Claire Read Newsgathering and planning journalist, BBC Arabic Nargiza Ryskulova Runner, The Daily Telegraph; freelance (independent sector) Javier Sauras Freelance Camilla Schick Freelance (Israel); news producer and anchor, The Jerusalem Post Laurene Senechal Freelance (Radio France Internationale; Africultures; Lepetitjournal.com; EuroNews) Iona Serrapica Newsdesk intern, CNN; freelance field producer, newsdesk, Reuters Prerna Sethi Reader interactivity editor, Gulf News (London) Sara Siddiqi Freelance Tnieka Smith Computer Business Review; senior account executive, Weber Shandwick Berza Simsek Freelance (Turkey) Bjarke Smith-Meyer Trainee, European Parliament; EU correspondent, EU Reporter Joe Stohlman Intern, Think Africa Press; intern, WBUR; freelance academic editor Rizwan Syed London correspondent, Radio France Internationale Judith Ugwumadu Freelance (Financial Times); reporter, Redactive Media Group Jette Van Exter Editor, Elsevier Juist Mary Vandorou Media professional, Initiative Yawen Wu Unknown Zoe Wu Unknown Xiaojun Yan Unknown Monica Zhang Freelance Anastasius Mpulassikis Communications officer, Hellenic Army; communications assistant, European Commission; commuications executive, Eurosif Mridulika Jha Reporter, Dainik Bhaskar; fellow, Ford Foundation; online media consultant, Greenpeace India Karin Wasteson Blogger, The Huffington Post; private equity reporter, Incisive Media

deputy editor, The Tab; The Times; subeditor, The Sunday Times Susannah Butter feature writer, Evening StandardThomas Clarke Quintessentially; LOCOG; Milestone GRP (Global Investor’s Guides) Kathryn Dobinson Content coordinator, The Guardian Josephine Forster Bloomberg; subeditor, Daily Mail Rachael Getzels Reporter, Hampstead & Highgate Express; freelance (TNT) Olivia Goldhill Reporter, Media Wales; graduate trainee reporter, The Telegraph Tom Goodenough Online writer, subeditor; graduate trainee, The Sun Ruth Halkon Freelance; sub-editor, N London Newspapers series Charlotte Henley Cohn & Wolfe Clare Hill The Drinks Business; freelance (Sunday Times); Commwealth Broadcasting Association Alexander Horlock Sports reporter, MailOnline; Daily Mail Sarah Johnson Freelance (Sunday Times, Metro, Daily Mail) Rebecca Lewis MailOnline; Yahoo News Georgina Lindsay-Watson Metro; sub, iPad edition Bianca London MailOnline Laura MacKenzie CNN; Truthloader, ITV Sarah Marsh China Daily; the Guardian Jaymi McCann Evening Standard; reporting scheme, Daily Mail Simon Murphy Mail on Sunday; reporting scheme, Daily Mail; Mail on Sunday Jack Rivlin Evening Standard; The Tab Radhika Sanghani Press Association; Liverpool Echo; The Telegraph Kara Shadbolt Coutts Sarah Smyth Evening Standard; reporting scheme, Daily Mail Heather Spurr Politics Home James Titcomb City AM Emily Wight Content coordinator, the Guardian Martin Williams Freelance (the Guardian, Private Eye); the Guardian Rhiannon Williams The Scotsman; The Telegraph

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NEWSPAPER Jessica Abrahams Bloomberg; writer, Prospect Tristan Barclay Sub-editor, Metro;

Thomas Allsop Reporter, Print Week Maria Hannah Bass Online journalist, feature writer, Woman’s Weekly Jennifer Bowden Researcher, The List;

f­­reelance (the Guardian,The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday); reporter/entertainment editor, Dunfermline Press Erica Buist Travel editor, Citizen TV (Koh Samui, Thailand); digital journalism trainee, The Guardian Madeleine Cuff Staff writer, assistant editor (consumer trends), Stylus Madlen Davies News intern, Pulse ; broadcast journalist, BBC Wales Eleanor Donajgrodzki Hospitality and leisure researcher, food, beverage and hospitality researcher, assistant editor of food, beverage & hospitality, Stylus Pete Ellender Production sub, Incisive Media Emma Featherstone Features intern, Women’s Own, researcher, writer, Which?

Vesela Gladicheva Freelance journalist, Nursery World; Trainee reporter, MLex (Brussels); Correspondent, MLex (Brussels) Eleanor Griggs Freelance, The Quietus, EYPS Project Support Assistant at University of Chichester Sophie Haslett Freelance fashion writer, Stylist; freelance, The Times Sophia Heath Intern, CNN (Sports), news desk assistant, Omnisport; news writer, Horse and Hound Nadia Khomani Editorial assistant, homes pages, The Daily Telegraph Jessica Lambert Features intern, Evening Standard, deputy editor, Evening Standard Londoner’s Diary Hugh Langley Intern, China Daily, 21st Century, staff writer, Tech Radar Helen Lawson Trainee sub editor, features sub-editor, Daily Mail Kate Lloyd IPC Media graduate trainee scheme; digital writer, Grazia Rebecca Lloyd News producer, ITV Daybreak Richard Martin Translator, reporter AS.com and El País English (Madrid); sports correspondent, Press Association (Madrid), football journalist, Diario Sport, freelance football writer, The Daily Telegraph Poppy McPherson Lifestyle Editor, Phnom Penh Post, editor, 7 Days Magazine; newsdesk, The Independent Nicola Merrifield Reporter, The Stage Krystena Petrakas Unknown Julia Rampen Writer, Workplace Savings and Benefits, Incisive Media; senior reporter, Mortgage Solutions, senior reporter, Investment Week Edward Randell Bass, The Swingle Singers Anna Reynolds Writer, Supply

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ERICA BUIST Digital Journalism Trainee, The Guardian; Magazine, 2011 Fondest memory of City?

Working on XCity Arts & Culture, where I made a video and got to write a few columnstyle pieces.

What’s your favourite thing about your job?

When people walk up to me and ask me to write something funny.

Most memorable interview?

Kelly Carlin, who I interviewed for a feature and a video for

XCity Arts & Culture. Her father was the late comedy legend (and a bit of a hero of mine) George Carlin, and that year it would have been his 75th birthday. She looked like him, she had his humour and she gave fantastic answers. I wish I could say I’ve had a better interview since.

What’s the most valuable piece of journalism advice you’ve ever received?

Jonathan Freedland, a columnist for The Guardian once told me: “there is no question in journalism to which the answer is not reporting.”

Basically, your opinion should never be the whole piece.

JACK DUTTON

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Management magazine; reporter, Legal Week Benedict Riley-Smith Graduate trainee scheme, political reporter, The Daily Telegraph Monique Rivalland Intern, CNN; online features assistant, The Times; production assistant, CNN ; editorial assistant, The Times Magazine Thomas Shepherd Unknown Emma Spedding Freelance (Good Housekeeping); Digital content manager, Graziadaily.co.uk Oliver Stratford Online editor, deputy editor, Disegno Sophie Tighe Online intern, Reveal; Senior reporter, YLifestyleUK Zing Tsjeng Online editor, Wonderland; deputy editor Rollacoaster magazine; digital news editor, Dazed & Confused Laurie Tuffrey News editor, the Quietus; digital subeditor, News International James Waldron Reporter, Chemist & Druggist David Woode Graduate trainee reporter, The Sun Daisy Wyatt Intern, House & Home, FT Weekend; online Arts&Entertainment writer,The Independent 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 Becca Attfield Freelance, assistant producer (LBC, Global Radio) Katie Barnfield News assistant, CNBC, Freelance Production Journalist/ Assistant News Editor at ITN Andrew Binner Contributor, Al Jazeera English; Account executive, 3 Monkeys Communications, Assistant Producer at Al Jazeera Media Network Sarah Binning Studio Graphics Operator at Sky Sports Yasmin Bodalbhai News journalist, Eagle Radio Charlotte Briere-Edney Text producer, Sky News; news reporter, editor, CC Radio; reporter, co-founder OntheBeat101; writer, Running in Heels Charli Burden Reporter, Splash News; contributor, The Sport Review Rebecca Burns Freelance Vincent Carroll-Battaglino Unknown Ed Challes Live text producer, Sky News Lucy Clifford-Palmer Showbiz reporter, Splash news TV, Splash Matt Clinch Online journalist, CNBC World Laura Cress Junior researcher, OR Media Ltd Kathryn Dowling Freelance (ITN, BBC) Angus Dunsire Video journalist, Press Association Oliver Foster Unknown Laura Gray Researcher, BBC Current Affairs Sarah Hatchard Intern, CNBC; broadcast journalist, BBC News Alice Hedworth Freelance, sports broadcaster, video journalist, ITV Tyne Tees Nicky Henderson Unknown George Hill Freelance, filmmaker; researcher,VixPix Rachel Humphreys Assistant producer, LBC, Global Radio Ikaba Koyi World affairs, news and production assistant, CBS News Tom Lowe Unknown Joel Massey Unknown Dinita Moore Digital intern, digital creative, Endemol Tom Morris Trainee, Fishburn Hedges Nicky Nelson Unknown

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2012 - 2013 Rosario Ogbechie Co-host and producer, Westside Station; video journalist, production assistant, Squwark Box Europe, CNBC; production assistant, BBC Esther Opoku Gyeni Development researcher, BBC Jay Patel Broadcast journalist, BBC London News Meera Pattni Unknown James Pearson Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Merseyside Costas Pitas Correspondent, Thomas Reuters Lucy Plint Unknown Rob Porter Broadcast journalist, Sunrise Radio News Ed Prior Unknown Kate Pumfrey TV researcher, NERD TV Soraya Rahim Unknown Helen Regan Video producer, Democratic Voice of Burma Danielle Robinson Media liaison executive, Markettiers4dc William Roe Multimedia journalist, Lord’s Cricket Ground; freelance newsreader (Eagle FM) Charlotte Rose Broadcast assistant, BBC Parliament Nick Stylianou Producer, Sky News Matthew Tyzack Video Journalist, Ford Motor Company; video journalist, PRISM Rozzy Unwin Unknown Louisa Wells Unknown Elie Whalley Mentorn Media; September Films;Video editor, friends1st Jonny Williams Unknown Nigel Wilson Broadcast journalist, Press Association

Lillie Revington Unknown Danielle Spears Documentary development, BBC; Production talent pool, BBC Hannah Stanton Broadcast assistant, ITN; production coordinator, Sportsbrand Media Group; production coordinator, Aurora Media Worldwide Katie Storry News intern, Sky News Rebecca Tyers Freelance (BBC, Sky, Press Association) Diani Vyas Freelance researcher Melissa Wright Freelance assistant news editor, ITN; production talent pool, BBC

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INVESTIGATIVE

Bunmi Akpata-Ohohe Writer, commentator, Africa Affairs John Allison Producer, Rocktrap Productions Katy Austin; Broadcast journalist, BBC South Today Kate Clifford Marketing Consultant, Quantal International; Sales and marketing, Fundamental Software; Assistant TV Producer, Bloomberg; senior project manager, Siegel+Gale Ellie Cotter Researcher, The Agenda, ITN; broadcast assistant, BBC Cara Dattani Broadcast journalist; BBC Edward Dowson-Collins Unknown Hannah Durning-Capella Unknown Charlotte Hawkins Current affairs producer, researcher, Islam Channel; presenter, Sky News Sunrise Kat Hayes Researcher, ITN, video journalist, The Telegraph Alexandra Jeffries Events assistant, University of Notre Dame Sophie Kirby Producer, BBC; producer, Reuters; writer, Deutsche Welle Louis Lee Ray Broadcast journalist, BBC News Keely Lockhart European markets desk producer, Bloomberg TV; assistant editor, The Gateway Alexander MacDonald Reporter, London 360; blogger, Huffington Post; producer, researcher, Islam Channel Ashley Mak Factual TV researcher, freelance Latida Mercedes-Fields Director, Global Billionaires Entertainment Tara Mulholland Digital producer, Sky News Jess Omari Producer, Sky News HD, producer, Channel 5 News Robyn Owens Assistant producer, West TV; producer, reporter, 96.5 Bolton FM; broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast; assistant producer, BBC

John Allison Freelance travel writer Sophie Barnes Blogger, The New Statesman; contributor, The Justice Gap; editor, Springwise New Business Ideas; reporter, Health Service Journal Isabel Camano Producer, Bloomberg TV Marika Cronnolly Unknown Alice Cuddy News reporter, Al Jazeera Tom Farmery Graduate trainee, reporter, The Times Leila Haddou Researcher for documentary film maker Tessa Mayes, CIJ Intern; digital journalism trainee, The Guardian Jack Hewson Researcher, Films of Record, Freelance online reporter (The Times), contributing reporter, The Guardian; video journalist, FRANCE 24 Johnny Houghton-Brown International country editor, The Oil and Gas Year Eleana Kolovou Reporter (Lambrakis Press, Eleftheros Typos, Katimerini); pilates instructor Daniel Lanyon Reporter, data journalist, The Grocer Magazine Emily Short Promotions executive, The Telegraph Camilla Swift Freelance (The Spectator, The Telegraph, Polo Times Magazine, InStyle Magazine); editorial assistant, The Spectator Katie Taylor Research for documentary filmmaker Tessa Mayes Tom Wills Database project, Chatham House; Freelance (The Mirror) Matt Wrigley Unknown

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ASK AN ALUMNI

SAM FRANCIS Political Researcher, BBC Parliament; Investigative, 2011 Best memory of City?

Learning from my classmates, often in a pub.

Favourite thing about your job?

Parliament is a never ending story factory; something interesting is always happening.

SCIENCE Joice Alves Dias Reporter (Brazil) Russel Dinange Freelance (Euromoney, FX News) Caroline Green Intern, Financial Times; account executive, RLM Finsbury Lisa Jansen News producer (CNBC); UK , De Standaard (The Netherlands)

Most memorable interview?

A former slave who became a detainee in Yarl’s Wood. It’s cheesy but it brought home the fact that behind all the statistics there are human stories.

Best piece of journalism advice you’ve received?

Be independent, not merely objective. Objectivity requires you to balance views even if they don’t merit equal weight.

Independence requires you to find out the truth of the matter as best you can.

ANNABELLE COLLINS

Chen Liang Intern reporter, China Daily; 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 analyst, Ros Business Consulting; freelance (Knowledge Magazine, Financial Times); senior correspondent, financial journalist, Africa Asset Management Victoria Maigrot Middle East and Africa sales analyst, Blackrock Asset Management Sarah Marquer TV producer, night editor, Bloomberg Tom Metcalf Billionaires Reporter, Bloomberg James Poulter Web producer, Citywire; account director, edelmandigital.com Maria Tadeo News producer, CNBC; web reporter, The Independent Kimiko DeFreytas-Tamura Freelance (Paris, BBC, FT, AFP) Caroline Varin Reporter, Argus Media Ziyi Wang Reporter, Silu; news assistant, NRC Handelsblad

INTERACTIVE Teodora Beleaga Insight Analyst, Wunderman, KBM Group; digital analyst, edelmandigital.com John Burn-Murdoch Data journalist, The Guardian; data journalist, Financial Times Antonia Kanczula Freelance (Scout Association); content editor, growwilduk. com Timothy Owen Director, Own Words Ltd; technical author, Star Computers Neha-Tamara Patel Web analyst, digital analyst, Bauer Media Rebecca Ratcliffe Content coordinator, The Guardian Ændrew Rininsland Freelance journalist, coder (The Economist; Graphic Alliance); news developer, The Times; The Sunday Times Andrew Stuart Daily Post; Manchester Evening News Alistar Walker Communications Intern, Mind; PR executive, IBA International Lauren York Graduate trainee subeditor scheme, sub-editor, Daily Mail Abigail Young-Powell Content coordinator, The Guardian

POLITICAL Abubakar Al-Sadique Lecturer (Nigeria) Aisha Gani Reporter, Total Politics magazine; digital journalism trainee, The Guardian Firouzeh Akbarian Reporter, Irainian TV

channel based in UK Alisa Bala Reporter, UN (Geneva) Asa Bennett Reporter, London Means Business website; business reporter, Huffington Post Chris Berkin Reporter, Construction News; regional correspondent, Estates Gazette Mark Briggs Freelance; author of Entrepreneurial Journalism Chizom Ekeh Campaigns Officer, Age UK Charlotte Jee Reporter, assistant editor, Government Computing website and magazine Vincent Mcaviney Reporter, political producer, Sky News Maath Musleh Lecturing (Palestine); reporter, The Electronic Intifada (Palestine) Catarina Sousa Reporter (Portugal) Harry Spencer Intern, Westbourne Communications; editorial assistant intern, Dods Parliamentary Communications; account executive, Edelman Max Tholl Editor, theeuropean.de Naomi Westland Reporter, press officer, Amnesty International

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ERAMUS Elga Andreeva Journalist, Kultura newspaper; Freelance photojournalist/ producer, Freelance Services (Bulgaria) Alfonso Campo Editor, El Progreso; web-editor, SEMINCI; news editor, Castilla y Leon TV; Financial PR assistant, Kinlan Communications, Supervisor, assistant manager; Tragus Group Peter Cernuta Reporter, sub-editor, Slovenian Press Agency 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 Aljosha Schapals PhD candidate, City University London; writer, EMAJ Magazine Anusha Sodavaram Freelance (Marketing and Communication Professional) Simona Strimaityte Account Executive, Parex PR; account executive at MRM; coorganiser, London New Finance; conference producer, Marcus Evans Ning-Chih Teng Unknown Zoe Thomas Newsroom intern, Brooklyn Daily Eagle; reporter, Dispatches International; campaign communicator, Fight For A Fair Economy; IFLR Americas reporter, Euromoney Institutional Investor Dobriyana Tropankeva Graphic

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2013 designer, Orville Media; journalist, Joy Magazine; project coordinator, editor-inChief, Orange Magazine; public relations and project coordinator, European Youth Press; International Business Developer, Savivo A/S

2013 INTERNATIONAL

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Anjali Alappat Freelance writer (Inbox 1305); freelance sub-editor (Fair Obsever) Saeed Al-Batati Yemen correspondent, Gulf News Jomana Alrashid Alriyadh Sandrine Amiel Freelance producer (CNN, The Paris Bureau Productions) Alexandra Anselmo-Khan Unknown Rasmus Arvidsson Freelance (rekatochklart.se); online and content operator, Ladbrokes Sofia Barbarani Freelance journalist and editor (Bas News English) Michele Barbero Associated Press (Rome); freelance (London) Luisa Barbieri Unknown Nicholas Barrett REDD+ researcher, Heart of Borneo Rainforest Foundation; intern, Mongabay.com Hanan Bihi Translator, Quicksilver Media Production; intern, Al Jazeera English Annika Bohnenblust Freelance (NATT&DAG); journalist, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Serena Bronda Freelance (Italy) Mary Brouder-Murphy Unknown Ursin Caderas Multimedia journalist, CNN World Sport Ruoqi Cai Unknown Marta Castellani Freelance Angie Castillo Freelance Antonio Cavaciuti Journalist, Chiara Communications (Milan) Aurelie Chassot Intern, The River Group; assistant web editor, French Radio London Lei Chen Research assistant, translator, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; intern, BBC World Service Radina Choleva Student, Coventry University Elizabeth Compson Director of operations, Double Apex (Washington DC)

University London Eunice Kwok Unknown Manuela Lanza Contributor, Al Jazeera Giuliano Levato TV researcher, Quicksilver Media Elizabeth MacHuca Vazquez reporter, Independiente Danny McDonald Unknown Ian McDonald Unknown Charlotte Moerkerk Production editor, Sydney Ihab Mohamed presenter, writer, Al Jazeera Media Network Karim Nasser Mokhtar Unknown Brianne O’Brien Unknown Anja OliveiraUnknown Malene Ørsted Freelance, The Copenhagen Post Hege Otterholm Freelance, London Igor Pakovic Unknown Anna Pavlova PhD student Antonio Peciccia Freelance; PhD student Tiffany Pritchard Contributor, Londonist Annika Ranga Unknown Shreeja Ravindranathan Carlota Rebelo Freelance photographer, Paste; communications trainee, European Parliament Kulsoom Rizvi Communications department, Counterpart International Sarah Rowland Contributing writer, Paste; sub-editor and culture writer, Fair Observer; freelance, The Oregonian Olena Rubanik Video engineer, Profit Production; filmmaker apprentice, Met Film School Monika Schläpfer Unknown Laura Secorun Founder, Newsfreed Natalia Semicheva Unknown Dana Sklack Freelance writer, designer Michele Teodori Founder, Newsfreed; broadcast assistant, The Times; The Sunday Times multimedia team; culture editor, Meridiani Relazioni Internazionali Nektaria Tserpeli Contributor, Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ Liz Weiner Unknown Sara Williams Research and media specialist, UNHCR; freelance journalist (Beirut, Amman, London) Loes Witschge Assistant editor, Delayed Gratification Saad Zuberi Researcher/assistant producer, Channel 4; Columnist, Express

Laura Coquereau Translator, transcriber, Welcome to Rio (BBC); translator, transcriber, Al Jazeera English Ilario D’Amato Games tester, Testronic Alicia De Haldevang Media advisor, Gascony Locations; intern, Sterling Group Pauline Den Hartog Jager Producer, RTL Television (London); video journalist, Monocle Films Muaro D’Errico Development assistant, Thaz Italia Xiaoqing Ding Unknown Elisabeth Doehne Freelance (Discover Germany); PR and communication trainee, German American Chamber of Commerce Emma Egli Account executive, Principal Ingredient Julian Fritsch Freelance (Munich) Paolo Ganino Editor in chief, Altitude; freelance researcher, Al Jazeera Media Network Randa Ghazy Freelance researcher, Vice Media; freelance contributor, Common Ground News Service Osman Gilani General manager of programming, Masala TV Massimiliano Giuliattini Editor, Radio Insieme Stefanie Glinski Unknown Yulia Gromova Multimedia journalist, bdmotp.com Bettina Guirkinger Unknown Carla Hobbs Unknown Tetiana Iakovlieva Unknown Elisa Iannacone Director, cinematographer, Just Focus Films Jakob Jessen Freelance, Weekendavisen m.fl Brooke Kavit Freelance contributor, Yuppee Magazine; page, AOL Ahmen Khawaja Assistant researcher, Blakeway Productions; Editorial intern, Sunday Times; factual production runner, BBC TV Zairah Khurshid Freelance producer, CTV national news Dimitrios Koskeridis TV news producer, EbS, European Commission Laura Kramer Production assistant, researcher, Clover Films Christina Kronback Unknown Charlotte Kude Intern, Greg Hands MP; intern, SP Broadway; international political communications, Project Associates UK Elizaveta Kuznetsova PhD, City

ASK AN ALUMNA

POPPY MCPHERSON Newsdesk, The Independent; Magazine, 2011 Fondest memory of City?

Former Cosmopolitan editor Marcelle d’Argy Smith’s classes in creative non-fiction. Everyone would write their life stories, read them aloud and have them ripped to shreds. There were plenty of tears, but it was great. And who can forget the dirt-cheap gin and tonics at the Students’ Union?

and choked with motorbikes, but I love the downpours, the smell of frangipani, the crumbling French hotels, and the streetside cafés where people talk politics over coffee. I also thrive on the pressure of producing a weekly magazine it’s great.

Favourite thing about your job?

Working in Phnom Penh is intoxicating; I feel very lucky to be there. It is ridiculously hot

Most memorable interview?

I won’t forget meeting my

first North Korean. I talked to him about his extraordinary life spent between Pyongyang, the capital of the most repressive regime in the world, and Siem Reap, one of its tourist capitals.

Best career advice you’ve ever received?

To keep reading. It’s so easy to watch TV instead.

Also, you’re only as good as your last story - it may be a cliché, but it’s true.

JACK GILBERT

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Tribune; UK correspondent, Epoch Creatives; visiting researcher, Bureau of Investigative Journalism

NEWSPAPER Simon Bajowski Manchester Evening News Nicola Bartlett graduate trainee scheme, The Mirror Rachel Bayne Metro & Independent; Oxford Mail Imogen Blake Hampstead and Highgate Express Rae Boocock Livingetc Jessica Bull Hotcourses Eleanor Busby Trainee reporter, Cambridge News Matthew Dathan Content and social media coordinator, The Guardian; reporter, Politics Home; The Times Rachael Day Hull Daily Mail; graduate trainee, Daily Mail Keval Dhokia Research analyst, Metal Bulletin Oliver Duggan Liverpool Echo; graduate trainee, Daily Telegraph Ben Finch Metro Alexandra Glynn Human Rights Watch Sarah Graham Deputy editor, Feminist Times Emily Kent Smith Manchester Evening News; SWNS; graduate trainee, Daily Mail Arjun Kharpal CNBC Thomas Knowles Graduate trainee, The Times Nicolas Kostov Cambridge News; Wall Street; Financial News Brett Leppard GQ Thomas Little AFP (Cyprus bureau) Antonia Molloy Daily Telegraph; I; Independent Charles Morgan Freelance (Rugby World, RFU, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph) Romil Patel Bloomberg TV Africa Callum Paton AfricaThinkPress; Libya Herald Alexander Penn TreeBox Alina Polianskaya Daily Mail; Camden New Journal Nicholas Renaud-Komiya Independent; Health Service Journal Charlotte Rettie Edinburgh Evening News Michael Smith Exaro; BBC Newsnight Oliver Smith CityAM Lydia Symonds Unknown Alexander Taylor Freelance (I, The Independent, The Times) Adam Withnall The Independent Paul Wright Ham&High Alexandra Wynick Mirror online; Oxford Mail

MAGAZINE Esme Anderson Online editor, Nota Bene Global Eleanor Austin Editorial assistant, Radio Times Thea Babbington-Stitt Unknown Unity Blott Features intern, Woman’s Own Eleanor Bothwell Reporter, senior reporter, Publican Morning Advertiser Georgina Bradley Freelance, (The Guardian,The Daily Telegraph, Buzzfeed) Chloe Cann News reporter, features reporter, Travel Trade Gazette Claudia Canavan Editorial assistant, Esquire Eleanor Clayton Writer, Progress Customer Publishing Abigail Davies Editorial assistant, Access London Roisin Dervish-O’Kane Editorial

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2013 assistant, Healthy Isobel Finbow Digital journalist, Conde Nast Traveller; intern, Travel Weekly Teresa Fitzherbert Intern, Vantage magazine, RunWildMedia Group Natalie Hammond Online intern, All About You Antonia Hawken Reporter, British Baker Sarah Holmes Online Writer, Woman & Home Jonathan Holmes Editorial assistant, Radio Times Sophie Hurcom News writer, Cycling Weekly Edward Frankl Freelance, Daily Mail Lucy Haenlein Unknown Alice Hancock Editorial assistant, Homes & Antiques Hanna Ibraheem Editorial intern, Get the Gloss Matthew Isard Account executive, 1000heads Matthew Lambert Graduate trainee, Daily Mail Bronwen Morgan Senior writer, deputy editor, Impact magazine Charlotte Oliver Reporter, education editor, Jewish Chronicle Leonie Roderick E-communications writer, The Marketer Hannah Shaddock Sub, Radio Times Yara Silva-Tolliday iPad editorial, subbing, designing app, The Guardian; content assistant, Best Holly Stevenson Graduate trainee, Daily Mail Hannah Thompson Editorial assistant, restaurants and hotels reporter, Caterer and Hotelkeeper Elizabeth Turner Chef, Tate Britain Nina Zietman reporter, White Lines snowboarding magazine Daniel Zuidijk freelance multimedia journalist

BROADCAST Char Bates Unknown Alex Burd Content producer, MPORA Rebecca Burrows Freelance broadcast journalist, 102 Spire FM; 96.4 Eagle Radio (UKRD) George Cochran artrocker.com Amelia Cox Broadcast journalist, UBC Media Group Emily Dexter Freelance broadcast journalist Jeremy Evans Digital producer, ITV News Larry Ferguson Reporter, Lafferty Group Craig Ferriman Assistant Editor, Channel 4 News Sarah Forster Unknown James Francis Freelance broadcast journalist James Goldburn Runner, guest producer, Sky News; newsroom assistant, BBC News Jennifer Graham Unknown Emma Greatorex News and programme intern, Al Jazeera Media Network; freelance assistant news editor, ITN Steven Gyford, Co-editor, TalkingBaws. com Harry Hullah Freelance Rebecca Hutter Intern, Classic FM; intern, WQXR Radio (New York) Amelia Jenne Intern, Monocle; assistant producer, France 24 Jeyssica King Reporter, Incisive Media, Ben Kirby Intern, freelance, CNN Helen Kourpas Freelance journalist, Radio Jackie; researcher Spring Films;

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presenter, London Greek Radio; office runner, production assistant, Blink Films Kerry Kular Presenter, British Asian Hafta Awards 2013; digital media specialist, Be Fuelcards Mick Le Mare Freelance Stefan Levy Presenter (pilot), BBC News; assistant news editor (freelance), ITN; VIP Host, The Roof Gardens; broadcast journalist, London Live ESTV Julia Lowes News Reporter, Radio Jackie; field reporter,15 Magazine; Sky Sports Lindsey MacLean Assistant account executive, Weber Shandwick Joel Massey Unknown Christian May Head of media relations, The Institute of Directors Haxie Meyer-Belkin Assistant producer, France 24 Hannah Miller Newsreader, Radio Jackie; broadcast assistant, BBC Radio 4 Mashaal Mir Freelance news and sports video producer, The Guardian Hannah Moore Freelance broadcast journalist, Radio Jackie; freelance assistant producer, BBC Radio 4; freelance broadcast journalist; Capital FM; researcher, BBC Harry Moss Freelance researcher Isaac Munoz-Fernandez Contributor, Channel 4 Nichola Ntim Production trainee, BBC Jay Patel Broadcast assistant, broadcast journalist, BBC Kath Pedersen Freelance, Thomson Reuters Adam-Lucas Pettit Production assistant, Special Edition Films Tom Platt Editorial assistant, Tech City News, Producer, Sky News Anja Popp Channel 4 Dispatches Caroline Radnofsky Journalist, Al Jazeera Chess Roberts Unknown Jessie Rodger Podcast editor, producer, It’s Nice That; assistant producer, France 24; digital assistant, Philharmonic Orchestra Lillie Rosenblatt Production Assistant, Spirit digital media Helen Smith Development Researcher, Zodiak Media Olivia Stuart-Taylor Account Executive, Abchurch Communications Alyssa Thomas Unknown Fern Tomlinson Text producer, Sky News Maxwell Ward Editorial assistant, Perform Amy Westgarth Freelance

TV CAJ Daisy Ball Unknown Theo Browne Unknown Holta Celmeta Intern, Sky News; intern, Al Jazeera Julia Chapman Freelance researcher, BBC Click; freelance video journalist, The Guardian News & Media; text producer, Sky News; freelance researcher, The Listening Post Briony Chappell Account executive, Bell Pottinger Wired George Coote Assistant news editor, ITN Myriam Dijck Content writer, DocGeeks Fayola Douglas Freelance production assistant, Associated Press; senior researcher, dai4 Films Clare Downey Unknown Rhys Durham Freelance broadcast journalist, ITN Aisling Ennis Video journalist

Ellen Gainsford Assistant producer, France 24 Felicity Galt Trainee solicitor, White & Case; consultant solicitor, City Financial Investment Company Ltd Grace Herbert Presenter, Hoxton Radio Poppy Hodgson Freelance broadcast journalist Syed Kazmi Unknown Nicola Keaney Television producer, Sky Phoebe Lanzer Wood Freelance broadcast journalist Nia Nguyen Assistant producer, Hardcash Productions; freelance, BBC News Kirsty Nichol Presenter Travelxp; journalist, Video News PR Carys Notley Broadcast journalist, researcher, BBC Saskia O’Donoghue Media coordinator, BBC Anshu Pandit Multimedia journalist Mike Richardson Unknown Catherine Robinson Freelance broadcast journalist Rebecca Smith Unknown Ellie Smith Unknown Kalpna Tandon Account executive, Markettiers4dc Paul Traynor News assistant, producer, Associated Press Roberto Valussi Camera assistant, development researcher Philippa Wain Unknown

INVESTIGATIVE Miranda Atty Bloomberg TV Africa Jessica Benhamou i24news Jaffa Port, Israel Jenna Corderoy Researcher, Request Initiative Adam Dobrik Reporter, Global Investigations Review Daniel Douglas Book researcher, Investigative Journalist Steve Grey Margo Gibbs Request Initiative Gemma Goodman LBC Assistant Producer Sotiris Kanaris Intern, Timetric Meera Khosla J P Morgan Chase Daniel Martin Teacher Margi Murphy Pulse Sid Ryan Request Initiative Joe Smith Investigative trainee, Channel 4 Sara Spary The Grocer Camilla Turner Graduate trainee, The Telegraph Tom Warren Reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Tom Webb Reporter, Global Investigations Review

FINANCIAL Arvid Ahlund Journalist, CNN; reporter, Central Banking Journal Robert Allen Unknown Jagdip Cheema Unknown Elena Gonzalez Mataro Unknown Valeriya Ivashchenko Intern, Bloomberg Morgane Lapeyre Journalist, EurActiv.fr; reporter, Bloomberg Shuangning Lu Unknown Verity Ratcliffe editor, Middle East Economic Digest; freelance Luca Rossi Segment producer, Bloomberg TV EMEA Shreya Sinha Unknown Jakob Villumsen Unknown Mi Zhang Freelance, The Financial Times

INTERACTIVE George Arnett Exaro; The Guardian Elisabeth Ashton SkyBet Sian Boyle Evening Standard; graduate trainee, Daily Mail Samuel Creighton Hull Daily Mail; Masons News Agency; graduate trainee, Daily Mail Jessica Denham The Independent Mauricio Fernandes Savarese The Conteúdo; FourTwoFour Robert Grant Trinity Mirror Nabeelah Jaffer Aeon Henry Kirby Exaro; The Media Briefing Sarah Marshak-Pilchick European Bank for Recontruction and Development Henry Taylor Exaro; TheMediaBriefing Henry Vane Law Business Research

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POLITICAL Alexandra Wynick Reporter, Oxford Mail Trisha Andres Weekend Desk, Financial Times Marie Bailey Unknown Joshua Franklin Unknowns Huw Jordan Network Organiser, New Economy Organisers Network Sam Judah Freelance (BBC, Financial Times) Liam Kirkaldy Intern, Financial Times John Lindsay Unknown Tony McNulty Unknown Christopher Pitchers Unknown Alexander Prowse Unknown Daniel Rosehill Communications, Vconnecta Ltd Laura Woolfenden Unknown Karolina Zagrodna Energy Market Reporter, ICIS

SCIENCE

ERASMUS

Lou Del Bello Multi-media producer, Sci Dev net Di Xu Di Editor State Grid Corporation of China Network Television Olivia Emms Further study Anastasia Fugger Broadcast journalist, ITN Productions Pip Hobbs Freelance Ryan O’Hare Deputy Editor, Optometry Today Kathy Portilla Marketing Associate, Circular Energy (Texas) Patrick Russell Broadcast trainee, ITN Rachael Stubbins Technical writer, National Physical Laboratory Becky Summers Further Study Theresa Taylor Freelance Journalist Rebecca Winkels Science web editor, freelance

Jonathan Erridge Intern, MoneyWeek Maria Gomis Sanz Unknown Hui Gu English teacher, New Oriental Education & Technology Group Dorothee Heymer Unknown Stephan Holm Lawaetz Unknown Melissa Hutsell Unknown Thomas Kleinveld Freelance Sergio Matalucci Unknown Francisco Perez Gonzalez Intern, The Copenhagen Post Lorena Ruibal Serra Unknown Simona Suciu Unknown Ning-Chih Teng Unknown Aiste Valiauskaite Journalist, Info TV Zhefeng Wang Unknown Mia Wecker Unknown Weixin Zha Unknown

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DIGITAL PRIMITIVE or

DIGITAL NATIVE? Who has more followers on Twitter?

by Julia Richardson and Jack Dutton

How old is the Macintosh computer?

Katy Perry

Barack Obama

What is a cookie?

30 years A hipster web surfer

What is ‘Delicious’?

A YouTube cooking channel

20 years

The data stored in a web browser

What is a blog?

An overlyopinionated post

What is Tor?

A bookmarking site

What is RSS?

A rich site summary

A chat room insult

A mound of green data

An overlyopinionated site

What are Perl and Ruby?

What is social media verification?

The blue tick on Twitter

What is a torrent?

Types of coding languages

A cinema advertising company

The onion router

An outburst of breaking news

Validating social media content

A speedy way of sharing files What is the median number of Twitter followers?

What is a responsive site?

167 TOP:THOMAS SHANZ/ LEFT TO RIGHT: THOMAS SHANZ;HANNAH COHEN;THOMAS KAISER;CHRIS MARTIN

An emotionally sensitive web page

A site that adapts to different devices

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Which is a type of cryptocurrency?

Superman’s cash flow

YOU’RE A N00B

You have IT on speed dial, you punch out texts with one finger, and no, backward slash isn’t a horror film.

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YOU’RE A CLUEBIE

You know your way around the BBC News site but you run a mile from this ‘Twitter’ thing the kids are talking about.

YOU’RE A DIGITAL NATIVE

You have LinkedIn, Instagram and Tumblr but still need to up your game with Tweetdeck, Storify and Infogr.am.

The Tonal Bitcoin

YOU’RE A TECHSPERT You dream in Tweets and Siri is your other half.

Wikileaks invites you to its annual staff party. Bring your flash drive.

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