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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. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------