Two dates for your diary. On Tuesday week (27 January) the London Press Club is staging a discussion entitled Campaigning newspapers in a digital age.
On the panel: David Cohen, campaigns editor for the London Evening Standard and winner of last year’s Paul Foot Award for his campaign on gangs; Tony Gallagher, the former Telegraph editor who is now joint deputy editor of the Daily Mail; Sharon Hendry, senior features writer for the Sun and author of Radhika’s story: surviving human trafficking; and John Coventry, global communications director for the campaign platform Change.org. It will be chaired by Sarah Baxter, the Sunday Times’s deputy editor and its magazine editor.
The Press Club’s co-hosts for the event, to be held at News UK’s London Bridge headquarters, is the communications consultancy, Pagefield.
Press Club members can reserve a free space by emailing info@londonpressclub.co.uk. Non-members can email to join the waiting list or join/renew membership at londonpressclub.co.uk.
The following week, on 4 February, the Media Society is holding a panel discussion about the workings of the freedom of information act.
It is linked to the launch of a book edited by Tom Felle and John Mair, 10 years of FOI: freedom fighting or lazy journalism?
On the panel: Chris Graham, the Information Commissioner; Heather Brooke, the tireless FoI campaigner who lectures at City University London; Martin Rosenbaum, the BBC’s freedom of information specialist; and Tom Felle, another City University lecturer. I will be in the chair.
The event will be held at City University’s Oliver Thompson lecture theatre, with a 6 for 6.30pm start. Tickets - £10 for Media Society members and £15 for non-members - are available here.
