Forget the future of journalism for a moment and ask instead: what's happening now? Do paywalls work? Are newspaper staffs still too white and too middle class? Is there any hope for the hundreds of would-be journalists emerging from universities and NCTJ courses?
These are the sorts of questions two panels will consider next Thursday (11 September) in the latest Grapevine event at the Frontline club.
The opening panel, chaired by Archie Bland, will include contributions from Zing Tsjeng, digital news editor at Dazed magazine, Stephen Bush, the Telegraph's assistant comment editor, Emma Hogan of The Economist, and Alex Hern, tech reporter with the Guardian.
On the second panel, chaired by City university's George Brock, will be Amol Rajan, the Independent's editor, Emma Tucker, deputy editor of the Times, Ian Hislop, the Private Eye editor, and Alex Miller, editor-in-chief of Vice.
Doors open at 7pm. The first panel discussion will run from 7.30pm until 8.20pm. After a 30-minute interval (with drinks and food), the second panel will run from 8.50pm until 9.50pm.
Tickets can be bought online here at Eventbrite
