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Tuesday 21st October at City University London
Olive Tree Middle East Forum - The Middle East: a story too dangerous to cover?
6.30pm
Lectures
Public
Admission Price: Free to attend, please book your place
Speaker: Professor Suzanne Franks, Lyse Doucet, Rageh Omaar, Andrew Roy, Kim Sengupta
Series: Inside Out Festival
Room A130
Journalists
prepared to report on violent conflict always faced the possibility of personal injury or death in the crossfire. Kidnapping and hostage-taking are also facets of war that have long posed risks for journalists as well as combatants. Yet reporters still made
it in and out of warzones and provided coverage that could be set against the claims of the protagonists.
In today's Middle East however, the dangers facing journalists are sufficient to deter all but the most intrepid or foolhardy from reporting on the frontline. And the idea that they are simply messengers is no protection, as the Al Jazeera team jailed in Egypt
discovered and the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State demonstrates. We'll be looking at the challenges for journalism - and the consequent implications for diplomats and decision-makers.
On the panel to discuss the dangers of reporting from today's Middle East and
the implications for news gathering and decision-making, we shall bring together a panel of leading journalists, anticipated to include:
Lyse Doucet,
the BBC's chief international correspondent;
Rageh Omaar,
ITV's International Affairs Editor
Andrew Roy,
Foreign Editor, BBC News
Kim Sengupta,
Defence Correspondent, The Independent
Professor Suzanne Franks
Department of Journalism
City University
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
0207 040 3314
www.city.ac.uk/arts/journalism
@suzannehfranks on Twitter
