The award-winning broadcaster, political editor and financial journalist Robert Peston has been named as the Hugh Cudlipp Lecturer 2020.
At the prestigious event next March ITV's Peston will also help present the Cudlipp Student Journalist Award - entries for the £1,000 prize open today.
The lecture and prize were set up in memory of the late Daily Mirror editorial director Hugh Cudlipp to give a platform to people who've worked at the highest levels of the press and who can give an insight into the future of the media and the challenges it may face.
In their invitation to Peston, currently ITV’s Political Editor, to give the 21st lecture, the Cudlipp trustees unanimously agreed that “both in terms of his record of ground-breaking journalism and his deep analysis of the economy in his books, Robert’s assessment of where the UK will be in the New Year - and how we got there - will be greatly anticipated.”
Lord Cudlipp who worked for the Mirror in the 1950s and 60s believed in journalism which was fun and reached many people with "lucid and graphic communication" about important subjects.
The Cudlipp Lecture and Student Prize is staged by the London Press Club and sponsored by the Daily Mirror and will take place on at City, University of London on Friday, March 6th, 2020.
The prize will go to a student with a story or stories which explore an issue of public interest or concern. Entries will need to 'entertain and inform' - as Cudlipp demanded of his reporters. For full entry details see https://londonpressclub.co.uk/the-hugh-cudlipp-student-award-2020-submission-guidelines/
Arsenal fan, Peston, 59, currently presents ITV's flagship political show "Peston" on Wednesday nights. He worked at the Independent and FT before becoming the BBC's Business Editor in 2008 where he caught the public attention with his distinctive voice amid his reporting if the global financial crisis.
He won a Royal Television Society award for his coverage of the credit crunch and his scoop on the trouble at Northern Rock.
Past Cudlipp speakers have included C4 News anchor Jon Snow, former Mirror Political Editor turned spin Doctor Alastair Campbell and BBC Radio News legend James Naughtie.
Other speakers have included George Osborne, Kevin Maguire, Emily Bell, Sir Harold Evans, Lionel Barber, Alan Rusbridger, Felicity Green and Piers Morgan
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