Local and regional journalism after Leveson - 5 November 2014 in Chester
Registration is now open for this one-day symposium organised by the MeCCSA Policy Network and the University of Chester. It will take place on 5 November 2014 in Chester (Kinsgway Buildings, room CKW132). The event will bring together academics, journalists and NGOs as well as members of the newly formed independent regulator IPSO, the Society of Editors and the BBC Trust. Registration is only £20 and it will cover lunch and refreshments. The conference programme is attached below.
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
• Professor Chris Frost, professor and head of Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University and a journalist, editor and journalism educator for more than 40 years working in newspapers before moving into the academy. He is National Chair of the Association for Journalism Education and as well as being a National Executive member of the National Union of Journalists, he is also Chair of the Ethics Council.
• Keith Perch, regional press representative on the board of the new Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). He is the former editor of the Leicester Mercury, the Derby Telegraph and the South Wales Echo, Cardiff, and has also worked for the Grimsby Telegraph, the Hull Daily Mail and the Birmingham Post and Mail. He is currently a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Derby and a media consultant.
• Dr James Morrison: a senior lecturer in Journalism at Kingston University and a former national newspaper journalist, who worked as a staff writer for, among others, the Independent on Sunday, the Daily Mail and the Press Association. He is the author of a core NCTJ textbook for trainee journalists, Essential Public Affairs for Journalists (Oxford University Press).
The panel will be chaired by Alison Hastings: currently BBC Trustee for England and chair of the Editorial Standards Committee, previously editor of the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle between 1996-2002 and an Editor Commissioner for the Press Complaints Commission.
Registration: http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/25311
How to get there: http://www.chester.ac.uk/find-us
More about the historic city of Chester: http://www.cityofchester.org
Conference programme
Registration and coffee: 10:00 – 10:30am
Morning panel: The News Today? 10:30am – 12:00pm
Bob Satchwell, Executive Director, Society of Editors
Tor Clark, Principal Lecturer, De Montfort University
Peter Devine, journalist, Messenger Newspapers
Simon Lennon, investigative journalist
Chair: Ato Erzan-Essien, University of Chester
Lunch: 12:00pm – 12:30pm
Keynote panel: Local and regional journalism after Leveson: 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Professor Chris Frost, Liverpool John Moores University
Keith Perch, IPSO
Dr James Morrison, Kingston University
Chair: Alison Hastings, BBC Trust
Coffee break: 2:30pm – 2:45pm
Afternoon panel: The News Tomorrow? 2:45pm – 4:15pm
Stuart Baird, University of Lincoln
Lauren Pennycook, Carnegie UK Trust
Professor Michael Temple, University of Staffordshire
Dr Simon Roberts, University of Chester
Please contact Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova at [log in to unmask] if you have any questions.
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