XCity 2018

Foreign Correspondent

CHRISTINA LAMB

on PTSD, pay gaps, and getting mooned in the office

GAMING JOURNOS

From press box to Xbox

MAFIA

MAGS

Inside Japan’s gangland press

PAST

FLEET STREET’S BOOZY

“Lunch hour went from 1pm to 3am”

The remarkable journalism scholarship and training scheme created in Stephen Lawrence’s name and sponsored by the Daily Mail is now accepting applications.

The two-year scholarship and training scheme is part of The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, founded by the murdered teenager's mother. The aim is to help minority students with a disadvantaged background break into journalism.

The Daily Mail has teamed up with the Department of Journalism at City University where the successful applicants will receive a full fee scholarship for their Newspaper Journalism MA programme.

Apply to sue.ryan@dailymail.co.uk with a CV and a letter explaining why you want to work for the Daily Mail

editor’s note

It’s been a turbulent year for journalism. We’ve seen media executives deal with claims of sexual harassment, mourned NME’s last ever print issue, gulped as BuzzFeed cut one-third of its UK staff, and learned just how little the BBC pays some of its female employees.

The future might seem dark and unclear, but there are lots of bright spots if you look closely enough. This year’s cover star, Christina Lamb, told us how she remains positive despite cover ing some of the world’s most severe humanitar ian crises (p78).

It’s not just Lamb though. Journalists every where are finding new ways to thrive, whether it’s through podcasting (p67), launching activist blogs (p69), or reporting on video games (p41 spoke with some of the media’s most innovative figures about their latest pro jects – from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales ( Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton (p29).

Sure, 2017 was full of challenges, such as covering an impulsive, Twitter-crazed president like Donald Trump (p108) or reporting on China’s increasingly author itarian regime (p56). But there’s also a lot to look forward to, including a royal wedding (p35) and the 2018 World Cup (p84). To mark both occasions, we looked back at how journalists have covered these events in the past.

And if you’re feeling sad about all of the retiring City lecturers (p6), cheer yourself up with a game of “spot the real indie magazine” (p27), or by reading about the first ever City Journalism blind date (p49).

Needless to say, there’s a lot going in this issue – including, of course, the ever-important listings section (p113) – so be sure to give it all a look. We hope you enjoy reading this magazine half as much as we enjoyed making it for you.

Special thanks to

Annabel Snoxall (cover photo)

Malvin Van Gelderen

Clive Raven Frederik Burlage thenounproject.com

The Guardian Press Association

Illustrators: Ian Baker

Aishling Caomhanach

Amber Senocak

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Kanika Banwait

Alex Daniel

Sophia Ernesti

Lucy Kehoe

Lauren Kelly

Nicholas Kenny

Dominika Kubinyova

Will Moffitt

Sophia Moss

Kate Plummer

Molly Sequin

Eliza Slawther

Josh Spencer

Arielle Witter

Annie Simon

Louisa Cavell

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29 DOLLY ALDERTON

The former dating columnist talks gender double standards, her new book, and why she’s leaving Tinder behind

46

HUW EDWARDS

The BBC anchor talks Brexit, social media, and whether he’s taking a pay cut

49

We sent two City alumni on a blind date. Yes, really

06 QUARTET OF LEGENDS SET TO LEAVE CITY

CITY JOINS BATTLE AGAINST FAKE NEWS 12

NOT PLANT BASED

City alumna’s food blog causes a stir

ROYAL

Meet the sports reporter paid to write about video games

The highs and lows of reporting on the royals’ big day

52

DRINKING AND JOURNALISM

The boozy days of Fleet Street are over, but does the drinking culture live on?

56

CHINA

What it’s like to be a foreign journalist under one of the world’s most repressive regimes

64

NICHOLAS COLERIDGE

The magazine mogul on his love affair with print

78

CHRISTINA LAMB

We find out how the celebrated foreign correspondent navigates warzones, family life and the gender pay gap

90

MAFIA MEDIA

What’s killing the Japanese mob mag?

67

PODCASTS

Everyone’s listening, but are podcasters making any money?

70

LESSONS FROM GRENFELL

The magazine that predicted the fire, and why the world didn’t listen

MUSIC JOURNALISM

How life has changed for the people reporting on music in generation Spotify

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WORLD CUP PHOTO SPREAD

Discover less well-known photos from World Cup history

115

STEVE CRAWSHAW

on fleeing the secret police in Rangoon with help from Aung San Suu Kyi

116

LISA ARMSTRONG FASHION DIRECTOR, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

“The thing about fashion is it’s not just ‘that’s a pretty dress’ – a three-year-old could point to a pretty dress”

133 ROSA PRINCE

recalls MP’s “grovelling and begging” when confronted with the expenses scandal

134 DAVID HYTNER

The Guardian’s football writer tells how he set fire to his boss on his first overseas trip

‘Starship Enterprise’ lands at City

A£350,000 multimedia newsroom is to be built at City as part of the Department of Journalism’s expansion into digital and social reporting.

The multimedia room will offer new software, complete with video and radio technology, and is expected to be available at the start of the 2018-19 academic year in September.

The head of the depart-

Investigative grants for two budding reporters

Grants worth £20,000 to help people from less privileged backgrounds get into journalism have allowed two students to secure places at City.

Sian Bayley and Ellie O’Donnell won a nationwide competition for the new scholarship, established in partnership with The Evening Standard and The Independent Bayley received £10,000 from Quadrature Capital, plus £2,500 in living expenses from City.

She said: “I honestly don’t think I would have been able to do the course without the funding. I was given such a great opportunity.”

ment, Professor Suzanne Franks, said: “It will be a multimedia newsroom with big screens, software for data analytics, and another radio studio.”

Prof Franks explained the substantial investment from the university will enable the department to expand its teaching capacity and develop student reporting skills as technologies advance.

She said: “We want to stay ahead of the curve, because this is a very fast-moving area. We want to demonstrate and get students to be able to do things that are really useful and cutting-edge for when they go into the workplace.”

The newsroom will have areas for live news broadcasting, with a roaming camera, a green screen in one corner and a radio studio in another.

It will also come with 24 desks, computers and analytics walls to display live financial market updates

and breaking news. The facility will replace the current staff room within the Department of Journalism.

Tom Felle, a news and digital journalism lecturer, said: “In an era when news is no longer platform-dependent, we shouldn’t have newsrooms that are platform-dependent.”

He added: “It is designed to simulate a real newsroom and students will be able to report live as things are happening.”

Felle is currently in discussions with Facebook and Google, who he said both hope to donate a “bag of toys” for the room. He said this would likely involve augmented reality and virtual reality tech, and Facebook Live kits.

He said: “This is a news room that has everything. You can do video in one corner, radio in another, you can broadcast. It’s the Starship Enterprise.”

Bayley said she had planned to work full time for a year to fund her studies. Instead, since joining the MA in September she has spent her time investigating subjects such as higher education mergers and essay writing websites.

O’Donnell won £8,000 towards tuition after impressing with her application.

The scholarship is an initiative of City’s Investigative Journalism course leader Heather Brooke.

She said: “I noticed people from poorer backgrounds weren’t able to afford this course – and it’s a course where you want people from different backgrounds.

“We’re the mirror of society, so can only reflect back

things we know about. If we get an elite group of students, we’re not covering all parts of society.

“I’m so pleased with the students we got – they will report on stuff other people wouldn’t be aware of. Sian’s stories will reflect what’s important to her.”

The scholarship included

December work placements at the Evening Standard for both Bayley and O’Donnell. Bayley will join the paper on a 12-month traineeship in August. She said: “The Standard have put so much into me, making me understand everything. I feel like they’re really investing in me.”

Swapping the bar for City Bar

65-year-old lawyer joins Newspaper MA course, writes Emma Rosser

Aformer barrister has become the oldest journalism student on City’s records, after joining the MA Newspaper course this year at the age of 65.

Robert Vasquez QC retired from his role as managing partner at Gibraltar law firm Triay & Triay last June and took the opportunity to pursue his passion for political journalism.

He chose the Newspaper MA course at City on the advice of his old university friend and ITN broadcaster Alastair Stewart, who said it would help to develop his feature writing.

Vasquez said: “Getting used to being taught was difficult at first.” He said his return to the classroom has forced him to retrain his brain, adapt his writing style, and learn to work alongside younger students.

He said: “I was a bit scared

of coming in on the first day, to be honest. I thought, ‘what are all these 22 to 25 year olds going to think?’’

But he soon overcame his “initial trepidation”. The Interactive students have helped him with tools like InDesign and Premiere Pro video-editing, and he has enjoyed a Friday pint at City Bar, in the student union.

He added: “I’ve been treated really terribly well, and nicely and equally, and in that sense it really has been fabulous.”

Vasquez has particularly enjoyed debating journalism ethics with Professor Roy Greenslade. He said: “Ethics reflects real life, and I’ve lived it.”

Vasquez spent 42 years at Triay and Triay. The practice attracted international attention in the 1980s when it represented SAS soldiers accused of murdering un-

armed IRA soldiers.

The firm also represented Spanish workers in Gibraltar seeking pension claims after the territory’s border with Spain closed in 1969. Vasquez specialised in financial services, banking, and commercial law.

Vasquez said he is keeping an “open mind” when it comes to his next career

move, though he is looking into launching an online political news site in Gibraltar. He said: “There are issues of importance that are simply being avoided by the press. I believe that a new online news platform will help to achieve greater freedom of speech.”

Watch xCity’s interview with Vasquez online at xcityplus.com

Terror attack footage wins award

Katie Burton

A quick-thinking City student who filmed the London Bridge terror attack on 3 June has won a top award.

Kaine Pieri won the Eric Robbins Prize, which recognises recent graduates with potential, for his footage of the terror attack in which eight people died after a van drove into pedestrians.

The International Journalism student was leaving London Bridge tube station after helping friends film an assignment, when he saw people running and screaming and police cars arriving at the scene.

He used his iPhone to film the chaos and, still unaware

of the full scale of the incident, uploaded a 45-second clip to Twitter.

Pieri said: “I kept going, not really knowing what I was filming, but I had that instinct that it was something that needed to be recorded, and shown.”

Within minutes he was inundated with requests from international news agencies, including Sky and CNN, who wanted to use the footage. He returned to the scene with the BBC the next morning where he gave 15 eyewitness interviews.

Pieri was presented the award at the James Cameron Memorial Lecture by the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Dou-

cet. The prize was set up in memory of the former Time correspondent Eric Robbins.

Congratulating Pieri at the ceremony, Doucet said:  “When the firing started on London Bridge, he knew what he had to do:

pick up his camera, in this case his phone, [and] start filming, start reporting.”

Pieri described the award as an “honour”, but noted it was “shrouded in sadness”.

Read about Pieri’s xCity award nomination at xcityplus.com

Police respond to last June’s terror attack at London Bridge

‘I’ve

done a good job’: Magazine queen Rowlands to leave City

Longtime course leader transformed Magazine MA, writes Jack Napier

DrBarbara Rowlands is retiring as director of the Magazine Journalism MA in May, after 18 years. Dr Rowlands joined City from the University of Westminster in 1999 and took over the magazine course the following year. She said: “It’s been a real privilege to teach at City - it attracts the very best. Down the years I’ve taught some enormously talented people and I’ve so much enjoyed

seeing them go on to carve out brilliant careers in all kinds of journalism, and we’ve kept in touch. I shall miss that energy.”

Dr Rowlands will return in the first term of the 201819 course, to teach the Magazine Business module that she was instrumental in setting up in its current form.

Speaking about the changes she has made to the module, in which students now have to design and present

a new magazine concept to leading industry professionals, Dr Rowlands said: “The Magazine Business was just someone lecturing on the industry, so I changed that because people were just falling asleep in the class.”

She will be replaced by Dr Sarah Lonsdale, who has been a lecturer on the magazine path of the undergraduate course since 2013. Dr Rowlands said: “I’m delighted to be handing over to Sarah, who will bring all the skills and experience she has demonstrated on the undergraduate programme to the course.”

Speaking about the impact Dr Rowlands has had on the course, Dr Lonsdale said: “I’m inheriting probably the best postgraduate journalism course in the country, which is very exciting on one hand, but obviously quite daunting as well. Barbara has absolutely made it her own.”

Jason Bennetto, senior lecturer on the Magazine MA and Barbara’s deputy for nine years, said: “It’s been an absolute pleasure working with Barbara. Her determination to maintain standards on the course while updating it has been key in making it the most successful and largest magazine MA in the country.

“On a personal level she’s been incredibly supportive. She’s also got a wicked sense

Absolutely Babulous: Barbara on...

Her favourite City memories: “Great colleagues, terrific students and production fortnights. And relief that City did not burn down in 2001.”

The journalists who most inspired her: “AA Gill and Lyse Doucet.”

Her most embarassing moment: “I interviewed a top Saudi foreign minister and my skirt fell down as I was leaving. I was young, poor and it was held together with a safety pin. I still have nightmares about it.”

of humour - all of which I’ll greatly miss.”

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of the Journalism Department, praised Rowlands’ “outstanding track record”. She added: “Numerous generations of magazine students owe her a debt of gratitude and the close ongoing relations she maintains with her alumni group is testament to this.”

Prof Franks also said she had “twisted Barbara’s arm” into staying when she had previously considered retirement, but Dr Rowlands said: “There comes a time when you think, ‘I’ve done my work here, I’ve done a good job, let someone else carry on with it.’”

Travelling to South America will be Dr Rowlands’ first venture in retirement, with Buenos Aires and Patagonia most likely to be the first two stops. She plans to remain involved with City and journalism on “some sort of consultancy basis”.

Dr Rowlands also hopes to return to medical journalism and work on long form, investigative pieces. She completed her PhD on media representations of complementary and alternative medicines in 2005.

On top of that, she also plans to get involved with a charity for refugees, and get her French language skills back up to fluency.

Her favourite magazine: “Too many - but tops would be GQ, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and Delayed Gratification.”

Her proudest moment: “Changing how the police dealt with women who had been sexually assaulted in a country in the Middle East.”

The best story she ever worked on “A health piece for a women’s consumer magazine that resulted in a reader getting pregnant after years of trying.”

Television MA creator retires after 15 years

Lis Howell established pathway in 2003, writes Rob Picheta

Professor Lis Howell is retiring from her role as head of Broadcast and Television Journalism.

Prof Howell established the MA course in Television Journalism in 2003, after initially joining City as a visiting lecturer in 2002. She previously enjoyed a successful career as a television reporter, producer and executive.

Howell, who has also served as deputy head of the journalism department, said her time as City was “great – but very tiring,” adding: “Lots of people are coming up and there’s other things to do, other places to go, so the time’s right.”

Prof Howell created the television course in response to a growing demand for young talent. She said: “There was nobody providing entry-level television people, so we set out to do that and we’ve been successful in doing that.”

Reflecting on her time at City, Prof Howell said: “I’m going to miss the good students. It’s so stimulating

and exciting when you see a student do well, or even when you see a student who hasn’t started so well getting there in the end. There’s nothing like that, that’s a wonderful feeling.”

But she added that she is looking forward to retirement, saying: “It’s a tremendous amount of responsibility and that can wear you down. There is a Groundhog Day element to doing the same thing each year.”

Before joining City, Howell had worked for the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, and ITV, where she was the station’s first female head of news. While in the post, Howell won a Royal Television Society Award for the channel’s coverage of the 1988 Lockerbie Disaster.

In 2011, Prof Howell created the Expert Women Programme, for which students track the number of women who appear on flagship news programmes.

She said: “It’s flagged up a big disparity between the number of women and men,

and I think even flagging that up has helped change it a little bit.”

But she noted that “so few women get opportunities” in journalism, saying: “I sit there every year and have a class which is 70% female, and 70% of the 70% say they want to be reporters – and where do they go? They don’t go on screen.”

Prof Howell was given the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) Special Recognition Award in November 2017 for her services to journalism. She said she

was “stunned” to receive the honour, adding: “I was delighted – it’s a really nice thing to get.”

She has also written six murder mystery novels, and said she would “love to” write another in retirement. She will be succeeded in her role as course head by Sally Webb, who currently teaches on the TV Journalism course. Prof Howell spoke highly of Webb, saying: “She’s brilliant, I have absolutely no worries.”

Watch video tributes to Rowlands and Howell at xcityplus.com

‘Legend’ Roy Greenslade to step down

Lydia Hawken

Professor Roy Greenslade is stepping down from his role as the journalism ethics lecturer at City, after 15 years in the post.

He has taught the core module to over 4,000 postgraduate students since joining the faculty in 2003. He first began lecturing at City while writing as a media commentator for The Guardian, which he will continue after he leaves.

Professor Greenslade said: “I was extraordinarily keen that incoming journalists should get a sense of ethics, because I was alarmed at what some newspapers were doing - particularly the News of the World, and The Sun, and the Daily Mail I wanted to pass my knowledge on to other people.”

Reflecting on his City career, Prof Greenslade said: “One of the joys of this university has always been the positivity of the students. I soon discovered how enthusiastic our students are for reporting the truth. They don’t want to tell lies.”

But young journalists’ preoccupation with social media has played an impor-

tant role in why he has chosen to retire now.

He said: “I taught the undergraduates last year and I found it very unrewarding. I feel that my whole experience and knowledge is of no particular use now to many undergraduate students because all of my examples come from newspapers.

“When I asked the cohort of 69 last year how many of them read a newspaper, only one out of 69 did. I suddenly thought, ‘I’m not up for this.’”

Greenslade added: “People’s prejudices are reinforced by social media. On Facebook, you’re only getting the things you know. You’re not getting anything new that challenges you.”

Before joining City, Greenslade had enjoyed an illustrrious career in journalism which included stints as editor of the Daily Mirror and managing news editor of the Sunday Times

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of the Journalism department, referred to Prof Greenslade as a “legend”.

But he assessed his own legacy far more modestly, saying: “Journalists I have worked with would view

me as little more than a hack, and unworthy of any accolade. As for the journalists I have written about, usually in critical terms, I imagine they see me as notorious.”

Commenting on the current state of the field he is leaving begind, Prof Greenslade said: “People want to avoid truth. They have been told not to trust journalists. My hope is that we can use what has happened

in the United States to galvanise the public in Britain to understand the direction they’re heading in.

“If there were such a campaign, I would be waving my flag at the front of a march down Fleet Street.”

Greenslade and his wife, Noreen Taylor, plan to spend more time in their home in Ramelton in Ireland, where he is creating a walled garden.

Ode to Roy... looking back on his 54 years in journalism

1964: Greenslade begins his first job in journalism, at the now-defunct

1974-1979: While studying politics at the University of Sussex, Roy works as a sub-editor at the Brighton Argus

1990: After four years at the Sunday Times, he is named the editor of the Daily Mirror

1993: Roy moves into radio, hosting the programme Medium Wave for two years on BBC Radio 4

2003: He becomes a professor of journalism at City, where he remains for 15 years

Intruder alert: sheikh-up sparks security concerns among students

Security at City University has been called into question after a prankster posing as an ‘Arab prince’ interrupted a lecture taught by Professor Roy Greenslade.

The intruder, who is believed to be a local youth, burst into Prof Greenslade’s Journalism Ethics lecture, and loudly demanded that the former Daily Mirror editor shake his hand.

Alarmed witnesses filmed the exchange, in which Prof Greenslade stressed his republicanism and told the prankster: “I shake the hand of no prince.”

A student rushed to alert security, while a handful of attendees fled the lecture theatre fearing a more sinister disturbance. The footage was then posted on Twitter where it was picked up by Private Eye, who published a story about the incident.

The outburst, on 9 October, raised the question of security at City and how

easy it was for anyone to enter parts of the university. Staff and students need their ID cards to enter the College or Rhind buildings, but the Tait Building, in which Prof Greenslade was delivering his lecture, can be accessed via the main entrance by all members of the public.

Prof Greenslade said: “I think it’s bizarre that the university has one entrance where you need a card to get in and another entrance where you can just walk in.”

He added: “I think if you need [key cards for] every single national newspaper then why shouldn’t universities do it too? If they’re really worried about the possibility of terrorist activities, then we should do it. It strikes me as sad that we’d need to, but in the end it’s probably the only way to be absolutely secure.”

His lecture was one of several at City to be disturbed that week, and staff had been warned of rumoured planned disturbances.

But Professor Suzanne Franks, head of the Department of Journalism, ruled out the possibility of increasing security measures on campus. She said: “We did have discussions about it, but we don’t want this to be a place with a great barrier fence.“

She added: “It’s a university, it’s not a prison or a corporate headquarters.” Prof Franks also noted that the incident was carried out by “local kids”. She also commended the

student who sought the security team. She said: “I’m really pleased that people just dealt with it.”

Greenslade was further perturbed by Private Eye’s coverage of the incident, which claimed he was “visibly alarmed”. Greenslade fired back on Twitter, writing: “At the risk of daring to correct a Private Eye tale, I was not ‘panic-stricken’ nor ‘visibly alarmed’. My students can attest to that.”

Watch footage of the incident at xcityplus.com

Investigative journalist is new head of Ethics

A former investigative journalist will take on the “daunting task” of following in Professor Roy Greenslade’s footsteps as the leader of the postgraduate Journalism Ethics module.

Dr Paul Lashmar, who joined City as a senior lecturer last year, is best-known for his investigative reporting at The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, and the Granada TV series World in Action, as well as for producing BBC’s Timewatch and Channel 4’s Dispatches

Ahead of Prof Greenslade’s retirement at the end of the academic year, Dr Lashmar said: “I am hoping to replicate the level of

interest, while also bringing some of my own personal experience to bear.”

Dr Lashmar was keen to pay his respects to his predecessor, praising his “gripping delivery” and his ability to keep more than 300 students and academics engaged during his lectures. He has said that he has

been “very impressed by the level of the intellectual debate” since coming to City. He noted that he had been considering whether the course should explore “a slightly wider range of international ethical dilemmas which may appeal to the increasing number of international students”.

The industry veteran covered the War on Terror extensively while at The Independent on Sunday, and has written books about the Cold War.

He took up a teaching role at Falmouth University in 2001, and has also been a journalism lecturer at Southampton Solent, Brunel and the University of Sussex. He received his doctorate in in-

vestigative journalism from Brunel three years ago.

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of the Department of Journalism, said of the hire: “Paul is a highly experienced journalist with a great track record in the industry. He has published extensively as an academic and is well-placed to bring expertise and insight to the ethical issues faced by contemporary journalism practice.”

Dr Lashmar said that he is pleased to be at City, noting its reputation in journalism education, and the quality of its staff, students and resources. He said: “In the past, I could only look in envy at what was going on, but now I’m part of it. I’m very pleased to be here.”

City staff stage record strike

Alex Daniel

Journalism lecturers at City participated in the longest strike ever seen in the department this year.

The four-week strike ran from 22 February to 16 March, and was part of the nationwide University and College Union (UCU) action against proposed cuts to lecturers’ pensions.

Lectures by core teaching staff were cancelled and

picketing took place outside university entrances. It came amid protest marches across the country and threats by the union to continue the action into exam season if a resolution is not reached.

Union members were striking over plans to end the “defined benefit” element of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) by Universities UK (UUK), the governing body. UCU says this would leave a typi-

Book celebrates forgotten women

who paved the way for the legalisation of contraception.

Aseries of books about forgotten, influential women have been written by the UK editor of Vice’s women’s interest channel Broadly, and were published on International Women’s Day this year.

Zing Tsjeng (Magazine, 2012) wrote the four-book Forgotten Women series to celebrate unsung and unacknowledged women for how they shaped the world.

Women explored in Forgotten Women: The Scientists, released on 8 March, include Ynés Mexía, the Mexican-American botanist who discovered over 500 new species of plant, and Margaret Sanger, the nurse

The series’ first title, Forgotten Women: The Leaders, was released in February. Each book includes 48 women – the number of women who have won a Nobel Prize.

Tsjeng explained: “I’ve always been interested in underrepresented voices, especially those of women. The conventional view of history is one that is dominated by white heterosexual men. Women of all nationalities and ethnicities were actively participating in all of these huge world events, but their stories have been completely obscured.”

She was approached by Octopus Publishing Group in spring 2017 to write the

cal lecturer almost £10,000 a year worse off in retirement than they would be under the current set-up.

Sally Webb, a lecturer on the MA TV Journalism course, said that the support staff had received from students was “fantastic”. She added: “Obviously we don’t want to withdraw teaching. We wouldn’t be in education if we didn’t believe in it, but there is a bigger issue at stake here.”

Callum McCulloch, 23, a student on the MA Broadcast Journalism course, said that it was important for students to see the bigger picture. He said: “Obviously it’s really inconvenient that we’re not getting our contact hours. But I completely understand why the lecturers are striking. They could be facing up to £10,000 shaved off their pensions.”

More than 2,000 lecturers and students from London universities marched through the city on Wednesday 28 February. The march ended with a rally in Westminster, where Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell spoke to protesters.

A City representative said: “This is a very difficult issue for any employer; nobody wants to see a reduction in employee pension benefits, and we respect the right of UCU members to protest over scheme reform.”

Watch xCity’s video report of the strike online at xcityplus.com

series, as their commissioning editor was interested in her voice and background as a journalist. Tsjeng worked with them and The New Historia, an online resource that unearths women’s histories, to find women to include in the books.

She said: “We should be celebrating these women, not sidelining them. I hope this book series goes some way to redressing that.”

Two more books in the series are set to be released later in the year; Forgotten Women: The Artists and Forgotten Women: The Writers.

Tsjeng noted how British cinema has recreated historical events through film and television, but has overlooked women involved.

Like mother, like daughter

Family affair for graduating pair, writes Louisa Cavell

Graduation days are always a special occasion, but this January’s ceremony for the City class of 2017 had a particularly unusual addition: a mother and daughter graduating together.

Bridie Pearson-Jones (Interactive, 2017), 23, graduated on the same day as her mother, Debbie Pearson, who had completed a MSc in Charity Marketing and Fundraising at the CASS Business School.

The pair were surprised to receive emails in November informing them that they would be graduating on the same day at the Barbican, albeit in separate ceremonies.

Pearson said: “I had to leave home at an unearthly hour to get to Bridie’s

graduation.” After travelling from her home in Southampton and arriving at 9:30am for the first of the two graduation ceremonies, Pearson added: “Then [Bridie] got lost in the Barbican and couldn’t find me. I remember thinking, ‘Well, this is a great start!’”

The news also surprised Pearson-Jones. She attended her mother’s graduation just hours after her own.

Pearson said: “I certainly wasn’t expecting to have to leave Bridie’s ceremony early to get gowned up myself.” She added: “After she had gone on stage I had to sneak out a little bit early.”

Pearson-Jones said about her mother: “She is such an inspiration. She balanced

her job, university and looking after my brother and me. She’s a superwoman.”

Pearson described the day of the graduation as hectic but “thoroughly enjoyable”. Pearson-Jones added that it was “amazing to spend time together, the whole family”.

Pearson left her job as head of marketing at BT Group Plc because she wanted to move into the charity sector, and enrolled at CASS partly for its rep-

utation. She said: “One of the best things [about the course] was hearing from people with a solid background [in the subject]… seeing well respected figures, being taught by them and interacting with them.”

Pearson-Jones is now on the Daily Mail graduate scheme in London. Pearson currently works with two charities, teaching young people who are entering the marketing profession.

Investigative course guru to retire

Guardian’s investigations editor until 2013.

Professor David Leigh is retiring from City after 12 years as the Anthony Sampson Professor in Reporting. Prof Leigh teaches students on the Investigative MA, a course which he helped develop in 2006. Alongside his lecturing role, Prof Leigh continued to work part-time as The

During his four decades in journalism, Prof Leigh uncovered stories including the MI5 vetting of BBC reporters and an investigation of former Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken, which led to Aitken’s arrest.

Looking back to his early days at City, Prof Leigh, 72, said: “The first thing I had

to do was to devise a course, because nobody had done this before. So I had to think hard, and conceptualise what investigative journalism was, and then work out a way of teaching it.”

He added: “It isn’t actually a set of techniques, like medicine or dentistry... Investigative journalism is different from other types of journalism because of the attitude you bring to it.”

Prof Leigh was appointed to be the first, and last, Anthony Sampson Professor, a post named in memory of the British writer.

Professor Heather Brooke will take over teaching the course from Prof Leigh. Prof Brooke worked with Prof Leigh at The Guardian before she joined City. Speaking of Prof Leigh, Prof Brooke said: “He was always at the top of his game.”

“Not only is he talented in prising out information from people, but he’s also very patient and generous in terms of explaining to the next generation how to go about that in a quite methodical way.”

Despite retiring from City, Prof Leigh will still be on the board of IMPRESS, an independent press regulator which aims to give support and to and deal with the challenges faced by journalists during digital reporting.

Reflecting on his career at City, Prof Leigh said: “The whole thing was quite pioneering. There wasn’t any similar course when I started it. Every year now for 12 years I’ve had two dozen students, and I’ve watched them succeed.

“It’s really nice to see people do well. To think: ‘That’s my ex-students’.”

New book to focus on historic feminist fights

The deputy editor of the New Statesman is to write a book exploring the history of feminism through several landmark campaigns.

Helen Lewis (Newspaper, 2005) said the book will explore “a series of emblematic feminism struggles, and take them from their pioneers in history to the present day”.

Topics will include the struggles for the vote, abortion and the right to education. Lewis will focus on the stories of the individual women and groups involved.

Explaining her reasons for writing the book, Lewis said: “After more than a decade of reading and writing about feminism and being involved with feminist activism, I realised that my grasp of the movement’s history was weaker than I would like. It sometimes feels like every generation has to start again from scratch.”

The book is due out in early 2020. Lewis said: “Already I’ve buried myself in original letters from Suffragettes and spoken to incredible women who changed the law to make it fairer.”

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Fake news app gets £300k Google grant

Emma Rosser

City University researchers are joining the fight against fake news by building an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fact-checking app, after receiving a £300,000 grant from Google.

Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI) is funding the two-year project to build DMINR (Dataminer), an app that will automatically find and fact-check news stories in real time.

The project was launched in March, with a prototype set for release in August.

Tom Felle, senior lecturer in digital journalism, will lead the six-strong team of City academics and technicians working on the app.

He said: “What we’re looking to do is build a verification tool - a web-based application based on certain keywords or series of key phrases, where you can factcheck and verify information using public data.”

Felle said the idea was a “gradual realisation” that came to him while teaching.

He added: “Journalists who work in data journalism can get so far with skill. And then you hit a wall, and you can’t go any further unless you’re a coder.”

He explained it can be “very difficult” for journalists to manually gather and analyse data to verify information and create stories.

DMINR will aggregate data from sources such as Companies House, police crime reports and other open public data and information portals. The goal is for journalists to be able to search this data with keywords and phrases, helping them to verify information.

AI technology also means that the automated tool will learn, adapt and refine its responses to deliver more accurate findings.

Felle stressed that the app is aimed at helping journalists. He said: “It’s never going to be a replacement for a human, it’s not going to write stories, it’s simply a journalistic tool.”

DMINR is one of 107 digital projects funded by Google’s €150 million (£133 million) DNI budget.

Ludovic Blecher, head of the DNI Innovation Fund, said: “These projects are helping to shape the future of high-quality journalism.”

Female share of newspaper students hits lowest level

Emma Rosser

The proportion of female students on the Newspaper MA has shrunk to its lowest levels since 1985, with women making up just a third of the 2017 intake.

The rate matches the prior low in 2003. Over the last six years, women have made up an overall share of 42%.

Jonathan Hewett, the course leader, said: “I’d like there to be a higher proportion of women, or for it to be more equal.”

Professor Suzanne Franks, City’s head of journalism, stressed that the postgraduate courses have maintained a majority female share overall, saying: “If you look at all the students, there’s still a preponderance of women.”

Prof Franks added: “I don’t think it’s anything that we do here, because I think that we have plenty of good role models.” Franks praised the inspiring female staff and visiting female alumni for “showing it can be done”. Deputy head of journal-

ism, Professor Lis Howell, said that Newspaper has been “consistently more male” and added that this is also reflected within the industry: “I think there is a tradition in print journalism of a male-dominated culture.”

Prof Franks added: “There’s no problem attracting good women to come here. It worries me that a few years after that, particularly as you climb higher up the ladder, there’s fewer women, and you certainly don’t see 65%.”

Guardian media head takes over Financial MA

years, teaching final-year journalism students.

The Guardian’s former head of media and women’s editor is to take charge of the Financial Journalism MA course this month.

Jane Martinson will become the new Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism from April, having recently left The Guardian after 18 years. She has served as the newspaper’s head of media, women’s section editor and news editor for City coverage.

Martinson was a student on the MA Newspaper course, graduating in 1991. She said: “I learnt a lot from my time at City and I really feel that trying to understand financial journalism is incredibly important.”

She added: “Being able to take part in that and help the next generation of students whilst still carrying on as a practicing journalist was really attractive.”

Martinson has been a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths University for the last two

On her approach to the new role, Martinson said: “What’s really important is to keep the course relevant to the needs of journalists today. I’ll be making sure that whatever the course content may be, it will remain flexible and relevant to today’s workplace.

“The great thing about financial journalism is [that] if you love a good story, there are lots of stories about people and power to be found, which is the essence of all good stories.”

Martinson started her career at the South Wales Echo, before joining the Financial Times in 1993 as their Wall Street correspondent. She will continue writing her media column for The Guardian alongside her teaching at City.

Professor Suzanne Franks, Head of the Department of Journalism at City, said: “We are delighted that someone with Jane’s breadth of experience is joining us as

the new Marjorie Deane professor. She will be a brilliant ambassador for City’s journalism department and a great role model for all of our students.”

Martinson replaces Steve Schifferes, who resigned from his position as the Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism in 2017. Since then, the course has been run by Tom Felle, a senior lecturer.

Martinson said of City: “I feel it really is a place where

Gender splits across Journalism postgraduate courses

students do go on to work in the industry, and I’m really quite passionate about making sure that we do go on to keep teaching the next generation of journalism.” She added that she was keen to pass on the skills she has learned throughout her career, advising students to “keep your wits about you and be tenacious”. Martinson also stressed the growing importance of teaching and training new journalists in an era of fake news.

The current gender split across the journalism MAs is 65% in favour of women - a contrast from the 55% of women in 1984. The 2017 crop boasts 218 female students, with male students numbered at 117. Over the past 15 years the proportion of women has remained relatively steady, fluctuating between 60-70%. Newspaper is the only course in which men outnumber women.

Food blog causes a stir

City graduate battles the dangerous stigma around eating disorders, writes

Josh Spencer

Afood blog set up by a former City student has hit the headlines and gained thousands of readers - including Nigella Lawson.

Eve Simmons (Magazine, 2014) founded the website NOT PLANT BASED in 2016 with Laura Dennison, to “change the conversation around food” and provide support for those struggling with eating disorders.

The blog aims to help those who suffer, or have suffered, from eating disorders. Simmons said: “We’re trying to offer a different, safe place for people to enjoy their life and what they eat. Food needn’t be one of your worries.”

Both founders have struggled with eating disorders themselves - Simmons with anorexia and Dennison with bulimia. Simmons said of her disorder: “I had an experience which changed the way I viewed the world. I’m lucky, because in journalism you have the opportunity

to change how other people see things.”

In just under two years, NOT PLANT BASED has built an audience of over 20,000 monthly readers, with content ranging from first-person experiences, to recipes, to practical advice on how to cope with unhealthy eating habits.

Recent content includes how Lent doesn’t have to result in cutting things from your diet, and an ode to fish, chips and curry sauce.

The pair have interviewed food critic and journalist Jay Rayner, and Simmons also wrote a piece on television chef and best-selling cookbook author Nigella Lawson - who tweeted her support of the website’s eating disorder coverage.

Speaking on the growth of the blog, Simmons said: “The pickup showed this issue was in the zeitgeist. In this space, for people who have - or are vulnerable to - eating disorders, there really isn’t anything else.” Eating disorder charity Beat estimate that around 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder. The authors are currently working on a book propos-

Media ‘simplifying the Middle East’

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The western news media presents a negative image of Muslims and over-generalises the Middle East in its reporting of the region, according to a City lecturer.

One of the conclusions of a book edited by Dr Zahera Harb is that ‘Orientalism’, the practice of stereotyping so-called third world countries, is endemic throughout news reporting in the UK and US.

In Reporting the Middle East, Dr Harb called for journalists to gain a greater understanding of Middle Eastern history and politics.

Dr Harb, who teaches on the International Journal-

ism MA course, said: “Orientalism is still alive. Certain experts, journalists and academics say it’s an old notion – it’s not, it’s alive and kicking, and you can see it clearly in the way the Middle East is reported.”

The book singles out several cases of inaccurate reporting, including a Daily Telegraph article from June 2015 which shows a woman in Lebanon whom the journalist assumed was a Christian “drinking champagne after recent elections”.

Pointing out that Lebanon’s most recent elections were six years prior, Dr Harb said: “Most of the as-

al about busting diet myths and celebrating food - a long form version of the articles found on the website. They are currently in discussion with publishers to negotiate a book deal.

pects in her article are extremely stereotypical...you feel like parts of her article are a matter of copy-paste from something that might have been published 20 years ago.”

Harb, who has over a decade’s experience working at Lebanese news organisations, held a roundtable discussion with Lebanese

journalists to research her chapter in the book.

Dr James Rodgers, head of International Journalism MA at City, contributed a chapter about Gaza, in which he argues that Western journalists without travel restrictions in the region “are able to get a unique view of the conflict that is denied to others”.

Gap narrows but men still paid more in journalism department

Emma Rosser

Female journalism lec-

turers’ average salaries have overtaken those of their male counterparts at City - but men are still earning 3% more on average across all department staff.

The findings, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, come at a time when top media organisations are revealing significant pay gaps between women and men.

On 28 February 2018, the average salary for men working in the department was £63,842, compared to £61,892 for women.

These figures take into account the salaries of all professors, lecturers and research fellows working in the department.

However, when lecturers’ salaries alone are compared,

New portfolio mag launched

A magazine showcasing journalistic writing, photography and short stories is being launched this year.

Matt Hussey (Magazine, 2007) will launch The Atelier this year with Paul Rider.

Each issue of the magazine, which means ‘workshop’ in French, will focus on a different theme. It will pair photographers with journalists, and painters with poetry writers, to create a fully-packaged print story.

Hussey said: “It’s people’s side projects that they’re really proud of but can’t pitch into a company or platform.

“The idea is that it will be shown to people in a position to commission writers and this is a chance to get side projects published that they would traditionally find difficult to do so.”

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women are now earning more than men on average. The average lecturer salary for women was £49,374, compared to a figure of £48,085 for men.

Between 2014 and 2017, the average salary for male lecturers in the department exceeded the average for women, but promotions for several female lecturers in the past year have redressed the imbalance.

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of the journalism department, said she was “surprised” at the overall gap in favour of men, but added: “Three per cent doesn’t disturb me.” She continued: “It’s relatively small compared to anything I’ve seen in my working life, and even across the years I’ve been in the department, it’s obviously a big improvement.”

Prof Franks was the first woman to join the university professoriate in 2012. She said: “It was a bit of a boys’ club before.”

The university has since hired a number of highprofile women journalists to leading teaching positions,

including Professor Jane Singer and Professor Heather Brooke.

Prof Franks added: “There are plenty of good women out there, and it’s just [about] encouraging people to apply and to be coming in at a senior level.”

Companies ‘must reveal pay’

Rob Picheta

More media organisations should disclose what they pay their staff, according to two City experts.

Several broadcasters have revealed gender pay gaps in recent months, but Lis Howell, the director of broadcasting at City who served as a special advisor to a House of Lords committee on women in current affairs broadcasting, said pay reviews should take place in all public service broadcasters and in

print publications.

She said: “I think there need to be pay reviews in other companies…There’s a case for saying that all public broadcasters should.”

Howell added: “Certain newspapers have made a big thing about the disparity - but if you actually look at their columnists, for example, are they getting the same money? I bet not.”

Controversy over a disparity in pay at the BBC has led to several broadcasters

releasing their own figures.

ITN revealed that its men earn 18.2% more than women on average, with the gap standing at 11.95% at ITV and 24.2% at Channel 4.

Howell praised the impact of the BBC’s revelations, and warned that the issue is widespread throughout journalism. She said: “The BBC is not the biggest culprit. And if the BBC could be seen as starting a revolution, that would be great... There are problems across the board in media.”

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of journalism at City and author of the book Women and Journalism, also noted the importance of income disclosure in bringing about equal pay

Prof Franks said: “I was very shocked when the figures came out... only by shining a bright light on these things can you get anything done.”

Youths spend longer with print

Young news audiences are spending more time with newspapers’ print editions than with their websites and apps, according to a new study led by a City journalism professor.

In 2016, 18 to 34-year-old readers of eight UK national newspapers spent 21.7bn minutes reading their print editions, compared to just 11.9bn minutes visiting their online counterparts.

The results show a greater level of engagement (and brand visibility) from print readers, amid a general decline in audience sizes and circulation. But there has been an overall drop of 40% in time spent with newspapers, with the fall among young people at 64%.

The study, “Has Digital Distribution Rejuvenated Readership? Revisiting the Age Demographics of Newspaper Consumption”, was led by the Department of Journalism’s Neil Thur-

man. It was published in the Journalism Studies journal in December 2017.

Prof Thurman used sample data from the National Readership Survey and analytics website comScore, which track users’ reading habits in print and online.

He said: “Online audi-

Local paper closures ‘threaten democracy’

between 2005 and 2016, according to the Press Gazette

The decline of local newspapers is having a dangerous effect on local democracies across the country, a City lecturer has said.

Local governments are not being held to account due to the closure of local papers, according to Tom Felle, a senior lecturer in print and digital journalism. Felle will be speaking on the topic at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, in April.

Felle also said that local activism is also not being performed effectively without community papers, pointing to unreporterd fire safety concerns at Grenfell Tower as an example. Some 198 local newspapers closed

He said: “Local democracy’s in real trouble… there are large numbers of courts around the country that are no longer covered by local journalists, because there aren’t any local journalists left to cover them. There are issues for the accountability of police forces, for local NHS services, for local councils, for local communities just being informed.”

Calling the Grenfell disaster an “obvious” example of the consequences of this decline, Felle added: “Just because there’s no local newspapers doesn’t mean that Grenfell could have been prevented - but there was no coverage of that area. Residents’ concerns

tually tell you how engaged the readers are, which I think is a better metric to use to compare print and online reading.”

Daily Mail readers, however, bucked this trend. The study showed that they spend more than twice the amount of time with the brand online.

Prof Thurman said: “The Mail has been very successful at attracting people to their online editions because they’ve made a decision to distinguish the editorial content of their print and their online editions. The online editions are much more focused on celebrity, for instance.”

ence figures always look impressive because online readers are reported monthly, so you might have 20 million online readers per month, whereas print readers are reported on a daily basis, so The Sun might have 2 million daily readers. These figures don’t ac-

Prof Thurman’s next research project will look at The Independent’s changing brand visibility since it became an online-only publication in 2016. The newspaper has seen improved profitability, but its readers now spend less time with the brand, which he said reduces its visibility.

were raised, we know that, and they weren’t reported.”

The BBC pays £8m a year to spread 150 local reporters across the UK, but Felle called for organisations including Facebook and Google to finance a “local journalism fund” to help rescue regional coverage.

He said: “They don’t pay their fair share of tax - I would certainly say there is something to be said for a local democracy fund that

tech companies should be required to contribute to.”

Felle also urged journalism schools to follow the example of Goldsmiths University’s East London Lines, and set up their own online-only, student-run, hyperlocal news sites.

He said: “There’s a role for universities to play… Goldsmiths have a really good model [and] I think that it is something City should look at.”

Raising her #sideprofile: selfie campaign takes off

societal expectations of a small, straight nose.

Everyonehas a part of their body they’d like to change - but one ex-City student has sniffed out an opportunity to turn these inhibitions on their head, by launching a campaign to reduce the insecurities of people with large noses.

Radhika Sanghani (Newspaper, 2012), a freelance journalist, shared a side profile of her face on Twitter with the hashtag #sideprofileselfie in February. She encouraged others to join as an act of rebellion against

Since writing about the campaign in Grazia, she has seen an overwhelming response; over 1,000 people have shared their own photos on social media, with many saying that they feel more confident as a result.

Sanghani said: “A few people have sent me messages saying that my campaign has stopped them getting plastic surgery.”

The campaign started after Sanghani realised there was no movement that addressed people with large

noses. She said: “I realised how much the lack of confidence in my nose has held me back my whole life.”

Sanghani has since appeared on Good Morning Britain and her campaign has been covered in publications including BuzzFeed and The Independent Sanghani said that being called a “big-nosed Indian” when she was bowling with friends at the age of 13 was one of the many incidences that has inspired her campaign. She said: “They were right, I am a big-nosed Indian, but the way they said it made me feel ashamed.”

She said: “If I asked my friends, they’d say ‘your nose isn’t that big’ but what they could have said and what I’m saying to everyone is ‘yes, your nose is big but it suits your face’, which is more encouraging.”

Sanghani plans to tackle nose sizeism in other industries too. She said: “The next step is for the campaign to reach the fashion and entertainment industry.” She is also working towards opening an art exhibition of women who are proud of their large noses.

Honorary degree for Tony Hall

The BBC director-general Tony Hall has received an honorary degree from City in recognition of his contribution to journalism.

He was made a Doctor of Arts during January’s graduation ceremony for the 2016/17 class of journalism students at the Barbican Centre in London.

Lord Hall said in his speech: “I would remind all of you who are setting out in journalism that, in the false information era, it has never been more important to make sure everyone has access to news they can believe in, and analysis they can trust.”

Hall became the BBC’s director-general in April 2013, after originally joining the Corporation as a trainee in 1973. He has held several posts at BBC News, and was also chief executive of the Royal Opera House from 2001 until 2013.

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of the journalism department, praised Hall’s contribution to broadcasting and the arts, and called him “a brilliant role model for our students”.

‘Invaluable’ insight into Boko Haram helps study

Reporting on the militant Islamist group Boko Haram has helped a City lecturer produce research on the Nigerian army’s online anti-propaganda tactics.

Dr Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar, who teaches on the MA Broadcast Journalism course, covered jihadi stories for over 15 years, working for Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper and the BBC World Service.

The academic said his “invaluable” contacts gave him access to sources, and his experience enabled him to

gather useful information, and offer insights into both the activity of the group and the counterinsurgency efforts of the Nigerian Army. He drew research from interviews with journalists and public relations officers; analysis of Boko Haram’s video and audio messages; library research; and analysis of press releases and web content generated by the Nigerian armed forces.

Dr Abubakar said: “The reactions to my study have been very positive. I’ve been contacted by media outlets for interviews related to my expertise on Boko

Haram and similar issues. I have also been asked to host talks, and participate in panel discussions.”

The report, titled Strategic Communications, Boko Haram and Counter-Insurgency, was published in the official journal of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (StratCom COE), in autumn 2017.

City ‘braced for Brexit effect’

City’s journalism department is preparing for a possible fall in demand from European students as a consequence of Brexit, according to the head of the department.

Professor Suzanne Franks said: “We are braced for some sort of a Brexit effect”, adding that a means of offsetting reduced European demand for places would be to “boost recruitment internationally”

Prof Franks said the potential for fees for European students to increase would be a key factor in reducing their chances of applying, especially on the undergraduate courses.

She added: “At the moment, European students can get a loan, or they can get reduced fees. One worries that if their fees go up to what they are for international students then there might be a fall off in demand... that’s what people are predicting.”

She concluded: “We’d love to increase our intake from the US. Obviously there’s a language issue in journalism, we cannot take people who don’t speak advanced English.”

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Nobel praise for ‘Bullshit’ book

Rob Picheta

A book by a former City student and BuzzFeed special correspondent has earned praise from the most recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

James Ball (Magazine, 2008) wrote Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World to analyse the devaluation of truth in politics and the media in the wake of the EU referendum and Donald Trump’s election.

Ball said: “I’m thrilled by the reviews - especially Kazuo Ishiguro picking it out. It’s not every day you get someone with a Nobel Prize being nice about you.”

Ishiguro, author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, was named the Nobel

laureate in Literature last year. In The Guardian, he praised Ball’s book for its “vivid analysis of how the business models and incentives currently prevailing in digital media render decent discourse all but inaudible”.

To complete the book in time, Ball set up a camp bed in his attic to force himself to sleep just four hours. He said: “It became the entirety of my life and then about 20% extra, where I’m not quite sure where the hours came from.”

Discussing the book’s themes, Ball said: “This problem isn’t just about the internet being bad or some nasty people making fake news, we’ve got real problems in the ecosystem and that can have really bad effects on us as a society.”

He added: “These days lots of people don’t read past the headline, so if your idea of journalism is just reporting accurately what politicians are saying you are going to be one of the biggest vectors of misinformation in the world.”

Show evidence to fight distrust, says US editor

Journalists

need to increase their transparency and show evidence of their work to combat public distrust of the media, the executive editor of The Washington Post has said.

Speaking to students at City on 22 March, Marty Baron said transparency of journalistic processes can win back confidence in news organisations.

Baron said: “A lot of people don’t know what to believe and that is being exploited by people in politics.” He said journalists should “provide more documentation”, such as transcripts, audio and video, to combat distrust.

In 2001, Baron led The Boston Globe and its investigation into sex abuse in the Catholic Church. The Spotlight team uncovered over 600 cases of abuse and revealed previously concealed church documents online.

Baron said: “People could read for themselves what the Cardinal wrote to the mother of the child that had been abused.”

He explained public access to these documents made “a huge difference” with “no way to escape the evidence”. He added: “We should try to do that more in other stories.”

Baron also warned of media sites that disseminate “falsehoods or crackpot conspiracy theories” which are exploited by politicians.

He noted the long-term “corrosive effect” of attacks on the media by President Trump, which he said undermines confidence in the press and “is not helpful to our business, and our mission, and democracy itself.”

Pointing to the large number of people with “disdain” toward politics in both the US and the UK, Baron said: “What’s happened here in Britain and what’s happened in the United States makes clear the point that we need journalism.”

Ex-Sun reporter goes undercover for BBC docs

Molly Sequin

ACity graduate has gone undercover to create and present two documentaries for BBC Three, exploring sexual exploitation by British landlords and illegal botox prescriptions.

Ellie Flynn (Magazine, 2015) left her role as a digital news reporter at The Sun in September to work on the two films, which were released online in February and March.

The first of Flynn’s documentaries, Ellie Undercover: Rent for Sex, exposed the widespread problem of British landlords requesting sexual favours from tenants in lieu of rent.

Flynn changed her appearance and wore a hidden camera to meetings with landlords and a female vic-

tim to get the full story.

She said: “There were times where I could really put myself in the shoes of a woman or man who might be in that situation for real. I thought, ‘If I can feel threatened when I’m the one with a camera, I’m the reporter, I’m pretty brave, and I’ve got a producer sat three tables away, then what would that feel like if you were on your own?’”

Although she never personally felt at risk, Flynn noticed many of the landlords were manipulative and encouraged her to stay for longer than she thought she was going to.

More than 140,000 women were asked for sex in exchange for free or discounted rent in the last year, according to figures from housing charity Shelter.

She said: “The only way [the landlord] seemed to respond to how this could be problematic is when he learned that it might be against the law. So, I think there needs to be a legal deterrent. [Online listings site] Craigslist don’t appear to be doing anything, and I think they really have to take the responsibility for this.”

Forbes forks out for digital mag start-up The Memo

Jasper Hart

An online tech magazine started by a former City student has been acquired by Forbes Media.

The Memo, founded in 2015 by Alex Wood (International, 2009), will become Forbes’ first European editorial team, with Wood as its European editor.

He launched the business and technology site after he saw “a gap in the publishing world for a magazine that explains the impact of tech and digital for everyday professional people”.

At its peak The Memo attracted over 500,000 unique monthly readers, despite

never having an editorial staff of more than four people. At Forbes Europe this staff will increase to five.

Wood, who is also a visiting lecturer on the International Journalism MA at City, said: “It feels like an exciting next chapter for the whole team. It’s no secret that having a media start-up in this age is hard.

“It’s been a really tough journey, but I’m really proud that we’re one of the brands that made it through and I think a lot of the great work that’s happened at The Memo will add a lot of value to Forbes as well.”

The Memo will live on as Forbes Europe’s monthly

newsletter following the deal, which was made for an undisclosed amount.

Wood is also planning to transfer some of its distinguishing features onto Forbes’ new site. These include its popular interview series, “Boss it Like”, which talks to leading business people and entrepreneurs about how they go about their daily lives.

Wood explained: “We’ll interview one of the heads of Virgin Media and we’ll say, ‘What time do you get up? What time do you eat breakfast? We also get them to take a screengrab of their phone’s home screen, which is very revealing.

On making the films, Flynn said: “It was an amazing opportunity I never thought of turning down. Documentaries give you a lot more time to work on a story, and really get stuck into the content – whereas there was a much quicker turn around working in online news. I’ve really enjoyed the transition.”

“We ask them almost nothing about their company, but it gives readers a nice opportunity to get to know them. It’s been a huge success for us.”

Forbes first approached Wood when he helped judge the European media category of its “30 Under 30” series, an annual list celebrating young talent in European media.

City triumphs at British Press Awards

City alumni won three of journalism’s most competitive categories at the 2018 Press Awards.

Gary Younge (Newspaper, 1993) won Feature Writer of the Year. Jon Ungoed-Thomas (Newspaper, 1989) picked up Scoop of the Year for breaking the pornography on former First Secretary of State Damian Green’s computer story for The Sunday Times Numerous alumni were recognised for their work at BuzzFeed which was awarded the News Website of the Year, including Emily Ashton (Newspaper, 2006).

Emily Steafel (Newspaper, 2014) was highly commended as Young Journalist of the year.

Standout students rack up wins

Lydia Hawken

Three City alumni took home prizes at the British Journalism Awards, with 15 more former students earning nominations.

Ramita Navai (Broadcast, 2003) won in the Foreign Affairs Journalism category for her Channel 4 documentary “ISIS and the Battle for Iraq”. She said: “It is such a prestigious award. We were nominated against such great films, such great articles, and alongside brilliant journalists. It felt great.”

Megan Lucero (International, 2011) was recognised for her work with The Bureau Local, a not-for-profit organisation that helps local reporters to uncover public interest stories. The organisation won the Google Award for Best Journalism Innovation of the Year.

Tom Warren (Investigative, 2013) was part of the Buzz-

Feed team which topped the Business, Finance, and Economics category for their investigation into RBS. Together they exposed the bank’s treatment of small businesses after the 2008 financial crash.

Sam Cunningham (Newspaper, 2011), the i’s recently-appointed football correspondent, was highly commended for his Daily Mail exclusive on the Foot-

ball Association’s cover-up of the England Women’s team coach Mark Sampson’s alleged racism.

n Sandy Warr, visiting broadcast lecturer at City, was awarded the 2018 Independent Radio Awards’ Gold Award for her outstanding contribution to commercial radio over a careeer that has spanned more than 30 years.

Double joy at PPA Awards

Rob Picheta and Jasper Hart

City triumphed at magazine journalism’s biggest night, as two graduates scooped the Student of the Year prize at the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) New Talent Awards.

Laura Rutkowski and Selena Randhawa (both Magazine, 2017) extended City’s winning run in the category to 12 years.

Eight former City students were nominated for the prize, which had nev-

er previously been shared amongst two recipients.

Barry McIlheney, CEO of the PPA, said of the winners: “They both produced work that was engaging, unexpected, thorough and of incredibly quality.” The ceremony, held in Old Street on 22 March, was hosted by Empire editor Terri White.

Rutkowski’s final project on sex robots was published in GQ, while Randhawa’s exploration of suicide amongst indigenous Canadians appeared in The Guardian

Rutkowski said: “I’m so

excited. It’s almost like a weird, out-of-body experience when you hear your name being called.”

Randhawa, who was working in Warsaw during the event, found out about her win on Twitter.

She said: “I feel very honoured. PPA has always been such an important part of our careers… the fact that they’ve acknowledged my work is really cool.” Dr Barbara Rowlands accepted the award on her behalf.

Jason Bennetto, senior lecturer on the Magazine MA course, said: “Selena and Laura were worthy winners. They showed the importance of high quality writing, originality and going the extra mile.”

Kate Lloyd (Magazine, 2012), Roisin Dervish-O’Kane (Magazine, 2013), and Neha-Tamara Patel (Interactive, 2012) were also named on the 30 Under 30 shortlist, honouring young talent.

BJTC Award for opera doc

A radio documentary highlighting the lack of ethnic minorities in opera has won a student an award from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

Sophia Smith Galer (Broadcast, 2017) won the Best Radio News Documentary award for her final project radio documentary, White Othello: Does Opera Have a Diversity Problem? She made it after finding that the national average of black and ethnic minority employees at Arts Council-funded operatic organisations was just 3%.

Smith Galer said: “It doesn’t matter what colour your skin is, you expect to see more diversity on stage.” She added that the award was “totally unexpected” and “an honour”.

Kanika Banwait

Inside Housing reporter wins XCity Award for Grenfell investigations

Sophie Barnes’ work on fire safety earns £500 prize, writes Alexandra Twohey

WhenBritain woke up to images of Grenfell Tower ablaze on the morning of 14 June 2017, most journalists and observers alike reacted with shock. The same cannot be said of Sophie Barnes, who had spent months warning of poor fire safety at tower blocks across the country.

Barnes (Investigative, 2012) has won the 2018 XCity Award for her reporting before and after the Grenfell Tower disaster, as well as investigations into welfare reforms and the effects of the benefit cap on vulnerable families seeking housing.

The deputy news editor of Inside Housing beat 15 other nominees to win the award and its £500 prize, which honours an alumnus who has made an outstanding contribution to journalism over the past year.

Inside Housing had been following government fire safety regulations since 2009, when a fire broke out at Lakanal House in south London, killing six people. Prior to Grenfell, Barnes spoke to experts who told her a similar fire could easily happen again because the

type of cladding being used was not safe.

Barnes said of her investigations: “The government said confidently between 2013 [when the Lakanal coroner’s report was published] and 2017, ‘Yes, we’re going to be looking at reviewing these regulations,’ but they never actually did – it kept being put off, and then Grenfell happened.”

Speaking of winning the XCity Award, Barnes said:

“It’s a real honour. I really

enjoyed my time at City and some brilliant journalists have come out of it, so it’s really nice to be recognised by current students and people who are going to be journalists in the future.”

The award is not Barnes’ only honour. In the past year, she won Housing/ Residential Journalist of the Year and was shortlisted for News Reporter of the Year at the International Building Press Awards in November. She was also part

of the team at Inside Housing which beat competition from the national press to win News Provider of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in December.

After the Grenfell fire, Barnes acquired around 600 fire safety reports on tower blocks across the country via FoI requests to local councils. Her research uncovered widespread concerns, including that inexperienced council employees were being allowed to carry out crucial fire assessments.

“There’s no legal requirement for someone to have any particular skills or expertise to do a fire assessment,” explained Barnes. “It means that very complex buildings like tower blocks can easily be assessed by people who have no experience whatsoever in doing these kinds of tests.”

Professor Suzanne Franks, head of journalism at City, said of Barnes’ success: “Sophie made an outstanding contribution to one of the most important issues of the year. She’s produced brilliant, sustained work and is definitely a worthy winner of the award.”

The best of the rest: XCity Award Shortlist

2011

Broadcaster Ramita Navai was shortlisted for her reporting on Channel 4’s Dispatches for “ISIS and the Battle for Iraq”, which won her the Foreign Affairs Journalism award at the British Journalism Awards 2017.

Kaine Pieri was shortlisted for his footage of the June 2017 London Bridge terror attacks. Pieri was still at City when he won the Eric Robbins Prize for his video, which was picked up by international news agencies.

Award-winning journalist and author Dolly Alderton was shortlisted for her podcast, The High Low, and her memoir Everything I Know About Love, which was was on The Sunday Times’ Top Five Bestsellers list.

Megan Lucero was shortlisted for her work heading a division of the Bureau of Investigative Journlaism, which uses data journalism to help journalists with investigations in local communities across the UK.

How well do you know our leaving legends?

Four giants of the journalism department are retiring this year - but how familiar are you with their work? Take Jasper Hart quiz to find out!

1. What links David Leigh and Benedict Cumberbatch?

2. Which of City’s retiring journos is crediting with coining the ominous term “the hierarchy of death”?

3. What job did the multifaceted Lis Howell take a break from journalism to do?

A: Postmistress B: Farmer C: Food tester

4. Who is connected through their spouse’s sibling to former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger?

5. True or false: the title of Roy Greenslade’s 1976 book is Goodbye to the Ruling Class?

6. Which of the soon-to-be-departed luminaries has helped develop curricula in Vietnamese journalism schools?

7. How many of our leaving teachers have doctorates?

8. Which of these is NOT one of Lis Howell’s six murder mystery novels?

A: Murder in the Newsroom B: Death of a Teacher C: A Job to Die For

9. Which of our dearly departed was so busy being a journalist that they almost forgot to go to university, only getting round to doing so at the age of 27?

10: How Much did BAE Systems have to pay in penalties after David Leigh published corruption exposures against them?

A: $100m B: $300m C: $500m

WHICH ON-SCREEN JOURNALIST ARE YOU?

From immaculately dressed fashion reporters to shabby political hacks, from the uppermost echelons of broadcasting power to the lowliest staff writers looking for their big break, journalists have found themselves to be the perfect fit for Hollywood.

Dr Sarah Lonsdale, City lecturer and expert on journalism in film, says there has been an 80-year love affair between Hollywood and journalism: “There is something about journalism in the States which attracts this positive gloss image.”

But what does a journalist look like to Hollywood? Is there a heroic cliché in your office?

by Brooke Theis and Jasper Hart

THE FASHION DRAGON

Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

“Details of your incompetence do not interest me.”

Miranda Priestly is the ice-cold New York fashion editor-in-chief with the appropriately adverbial surname. Known for wearing a white Hermès scarf somewhere on her person every day, Priestly won’t stand for anyone belittling fashion, the thing to which she has chosen to devote her life. She has her gluten-free, non-fat cake and eats it too, treating her subordinates in a way that borders on psychological abuse and receiving their worship and adoration in return.

THE SPUNKY SCRUTINEER

Lois Lane in Superman (1978)

“Poor Clark! He’s never around when you... wait a minute…wait a minute!”

Lois Lane is ambitious and fearless, often rushing headfirst into danger to get the big story. Immaculately clad in no-nonsense suits, Lane is a hardworking woman determined to make it in a man’s world. Her unfaltering hunt for the truth sees her recognised as one of the best journos in the city. Lane defeats the bad guys and gets the front page scoop, all while tenaciously trying to reveal Superman’s true identity. She may have to be rescued by Superman on occasion – but so does the rest of Metropolis.

THE BROADCAST BOSS

Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

“The world is a business. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.”

Who owns the news? Who are the shadowy figures at the very top who dictate the ebb and flow of information? Arthur Jensen embodies the faceless few who own the media. He is every sinister network executive, brought to life on screen. He seems to have been spawned in the dark corners of the supervillain’s boardroom (candlelit, exceedingly long table) from which he conducts his shadowy mergers and acquisitions. Plump and three-pieced in the shadows of his chamber and organisation, he understands how the world works because he is one of the people running it.

THE HARD-NOSED EDITOR

Ben Bradlee in The Post (2017)

“If we don’t hold them accountable, by God, who will?”

Any democratic government worth its salt should be held accountable by the free press, according to Ben Bradlee. Editors in his mould seem like they were born in the newsroom, living off cigarettes, coffee, and scoops. He sees no higher purpose to his profession than absolute disclosure of the truth, even when that truth threatens to bring financial ruin upon his newspaper. The commercial prestige brought about by the revelations he brings to light can’t hurt though.

THE DYNAMIC DUO

Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men (1976)

“What is it about my writing that’s so rotten?”

“Mainly it has to do with your choice of words.”

In their search for a story, these two call contact after contact from their smoky newsroom, knock on myriad doors, and meet silhouetted government informants in poorly lit parking lots. Flirting with espionage, they unearth a conspiracy that leads right to the US President. Their investigation reflects the journalistic tradition of seeking the truth almost as much as their unlikely buddy cop routine seems to demand a sequel.

THE DETERMINED DOOR-STEPPER

Sacha Pfeiffer in Spotlight (2015)

“Sir, I’d just like to ask a few ques– [door slammed in face].”

Sacha Pfeiffer is the woman behind a world-shaking knock. She is the door-stepper that hears the first Catholic priest confess to abusing children in Boston. After countless slammed doors, this willingness to talk is surprising, but it doesn’t perturb her. It is her sheer determination that clinches it. With this confession, along with a database with 20 years’ worth of information, Pfeiffer and her dedicated team grind at the story until justice prevails.

THE RUTHLESS TYCOON

Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941)

“ I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?”

We all know how newspaper journalists are supposed to appear in films: quick-witted, smart, and likeable. But in Citizen Kane they’re zeroes, and the only person who counts is the man at the top: Charles Foster Kane. Once admired for his idealism about the newspaper business, Kane becomes increasingly unscrupulous as he turns to salacious, destructive news stories. His Achilles’ heel? Taking his work attitude home with him, naturally.

Soutar’s shortlist: 10 tips for media moguls

Looking to launch a media business but not sure where to start? Mike Soutar reveals to Lucas Oakeley the most important questions you should ask yourself

Former editor of magazine titans Maxim and FHM, Mike Soutar is the chairman and co-founder of ShortList Media – one of the UK’s fastest growing media companies. The recognised brands under Soutar’s control include ShortList magazine Stylist magazine, and Emerald Street. Taking a break from advising budding tycoons on The Apprentice, Soutar has provided 10 questions he thinks every person should ask themselves before starting their media business.

1 What will your business do differently and better?

You can’t launch a “me too” business. I don’t just want to hear how your business is different, I want to hear why it’s better than what already exists.

2 Does your idea respond to changes in the needs of your customers and audience?

Most good ideas come from being able to spot a need on the horizon. ShortList is a good example. A decade ago, we recognised that consumer habits were being completely changed by the digital world. People expected quality entertainment and information, but they expected it for free. Our business model provided just that.

3 Can your business scale? Does it appeal globally?

The more you can prove that you’ve got an original idea that can scale to a global audience, the more likely you are to get an investment that will allow you to make your dreams come true.

4 Do you have the right team?

A good team is one that you can look at objectively and say: “Each person here is the best in class.” If you need a sales director, find the top salesperson possible. It doesn’t matter if they’re your friend or not – just get the right person for the job.

5 What relevant experience do you already have?

I’m not saying you need to have already achieved success within an industry to set up a company, but having at least some experience is recom-

mended. Without this experience, you run the risk of customers and clients exploiting your naiveté.

6 Where will your revenues come from?

A lot of creative people seem to think companies are just sitting, waiting to give away money. That’s simply not the case. If you are thinking about advertising revenue, you really need to have a grasp of what you’re selling, how much you’re selling, and who you’re selling it to. You can’t rely on wishful thinking.

7 Have you considered cash burn?

Most people don’t realise that revenues generally don’t arrive until 90 days or so after you’ve booked them in. Which means you need to be able to cover three or four months’ worth of costs before the first pound of income even comes in through the door. Not planning for that can really scupper a business. If publishing a weekly title you’ll need to be able to cover the cost of publishing 12 or 16 issues before the first pound comes through the door.

8

Are you maximising your use of tech?

Most large media companies are run by middle-aged people who are a long way from the cutting edge of technology. If you’re adept at using it, use what you know because that’s by far your biggest competitive advantage.

9

Who can you ask for help?

It might feel embarrassing but you need to end every conversation you have by asking: “Is there any way you could help me?” You’d be shocked at how many people will say yes.

10 Does your business have a noble purpose beyond just making money?

Making as much money as possible is the aim but if your business can also do some good along the way, I think that’s really powerful. Making money isn’t easy, and if your only measure of success is: “How much profit have I made?” that can feel a bit bleak. Having a higher purpose inspires you to get up in the morning, knowing that you’re making a genuine difference. It’s also free.

SPOT THE

Independent magazines are on a high. However, it’s often hard to grasp what these magazines are about. Ayla Soguksu has mocked up six fake covers to compare alongside six real publications. Can you spot the bona fide from the bona fake?

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GOOD GOLLY MISS DOLLY

Former dating columnist Dolly Alderton talks keeping secrets, her hot new book, and ditching Tinder, by Katie Russell

Dolly Alderton has a rich supply of what A. A. Gill called the key to a writer’s success: life experience. She has survived an 11day trip to New York with £34 in her bank account, hosted a disastrous Rod Stewart-themed party, and drunkenly paid for a 95-mile cab ride from London to a party in Leamington Spa. “I definitely tried to ‘Louis Theroux’ my way through experiences when I was younger,” she says.

These experiences feature in her new memoir, Everything I Know About Love It ranked fifth in The Sunday Times’ bestseller list on its release and has now been optioned for a television show. The book is a celebration of female friendship, although not all fans got the message. Alderton (Magazine, 2010) received numerous emails about the identity of the men discussed in the book. “Anyone who reads my book and gets obsessed with that isn’t f**king getting the point,” she says. “I don’t want it to be a kiss and tell.”

For this reason, Alderton changed the names of all the men in the book. She also protects their privacy by excluding details about sex. “People talk about this book as being a raucous romp,” she laughs, “and I haven’t really talked about sex that much in it.”

She explains that she is “really quite old-fashioned” in her belief that sex is too intimate an act to candidly discuss. “It would be such a disrespectful and uncharitable, cruel thing to use that as entertainment,” she says.

Sex might be off the table, but Alderton does write about romantic attachments. From 2015 to 2017, she wrote a weekly dating column for The Sunday Times Style where, in her quest for a story, she went on almost 100 dates. This makes her, as she wrote in The Sunday Times, “the John Simpson of dating”. She credits dating sites for her access to the front line. “I had to file my copy every Friday and sometimes I would get to Thursday and I’d still have nothing,” she says, “so I’d be like, ‘f**king hell, I’ve got to go on Tinder.’”

“THERE’S

JUST NOT ENOUGH

FEMALE VOICES”

She would go on a date that night, then write the copy in the morning.

But even with a date on the cards, it was “quite difficult by the end” to gather varied material every week. “There’s only a certain amount of experiences I can have,” she says. “Often I found with dating I was replicating the same shit over and over again.”

Around 90% of her dates were with “nice-ish men” who, in another life, would have been good friends. “That’s not a column!” she says.

In these scenarios, Alderton asked friends if they had noticed anything about men that week or if they had

any dating horror stories she could share. She still uses their anecdotes in her freelance work for magazines like Red and Marie Claire, but always gives her friends final approval. “One of my biggest fears would be for someone that I care about – or anyone in journalism – to tell me that I had been bloodthirsty with their stories or that the story had taken precedence over their feelings.”

So far her friends have been nothing but supportive. Her best friend, Farly, is the main focus of her memoir and features in her previous work. “Her thing, first and foremost, is that she just wants me to succeed,” Alderton says.

“She’s seen me wanting to be a writer from the age of 11.” So when Dolly wrote an open letter to Farly and her fiancé in Cosmopolitan titled “You’re Engaged and I’m Annoyed, OK?”, the pair were unfazed. “The two of them found it really funny,” she recalls. “But I looked like a f**king psychopath.”

Alderton gives readers an unromanticised account of what it means to be a woman today. Such writers are few and far between. “There’s just not enough female voices,” Alderton says.

“There are way too many male columnists, male interviewers and male editors.” She hopes to join the ranks of Lena Dunham, Bryony Gordon, Amy Schumer, and Daisy Buchanan, who give witty and often unabashed comments on modern life. “For years, there’s been so much space for men to write about every single incarnation of

what it is to be a man and, I’m sorry, it’s our turn to do the same,” she says.

In Everything I Know About Love, Alderton writes about her eating disorder in her early twenties, her time in therapy, and the “complete breakdown” she had a few years ago. She feels she can write openly about these experiences because she is “out the other side”. However, there were other experiences she excluded from her work. “There are still things in my life that I’m working through,” she says. “And I didn’t write about them because I don’t want to lay that open for other people to heap their experiences or opinions on, because that makes me too vulnerable.” Most female writers consciously exclude certain details about their lives, Alderton adds, so they do not deserve to be labelled “big blabbermouths that don’t know appropriate boundaries”.

This prejudice leads to the assumption that women who write from experience are seeking ca tharsis. This was not, Alderton remarks, the assumed mo tivation behind the confessional works of Ted Hughes and Robert Webb. So why, she wonders, do people continually ask if her writing is therapeutic? “I think to imply that the reason I wrote this book was somehow because I was an emotional mess, and me writing it like a big published diary entry would make me feel better about my life is... offensive at best, really,” she says.

her inbox would fill with emails from men who criticised her work. By comparison, the male dating columnist, Cosmo Landesman, received “not one” abusive message.

But such criticism of Alderton’s work has been outweighed by praise. This year, to her surprise, Forbes named her as one of its “30 under 30” in media in Europe. “It’s ridiculous,” she says.

“I HAVE BEEN A MAD WOMAN ALL MY LIFE”

“I mean, it was great, but on their head be it.” Alderton believed the award was solely for entrepreneurs and that she did not fit this category. One of last year’s candidates disagreed and told her she is “very entrepreneurial”.

She received more explicitly offensive comments while writing her dating column for Style. Every week,

A brief glance at Alderton’s portfolio proves she has a point. Six months after entering the world of freelancing, Alderton launched a newsletter called The Dolly Mail (currently on hiatus due to book talks). The newsletter is a “passion project” as it costs her £80 a month to send to her 9,000 subscribers. It’s a price Alderton is willing to pay, since she is determined to bring her rejected freelance ideas to life. “I had all these pitches that weren’t being picked up because they were just too shit,” she laughs. “Magazines and papers are really zeitgeisty and cutting edge and I was like, ‘I want to write 1,500 words on why I like walking’ and they’d just be like, ‘well, that is so irrelevant’.”

Her journalism training at City has been put to good use, however, with

the launch of The High Low podcast. Co-anchored with former fashion features editor at The Sunday Times Style, Pandora Sykes, each episode combines gossip and hard-hitting news. Guest star Margot Robbie, for instance, shared her opinions on both #MeToo and the sticky floors in Clapham club Infernos. The show attracts approximately 60,000 weekly listeners and reached #4 in the iTunes chart in March 2017. The duo monetise their “small business” through sponsors, including promotional content for Google. They now both earn enough for a “base salary” from the podcast alone, before taking into account their other projects.

Juggling jobs has been integral to Alderton’s career, but has taken its toll. “I was exhausted and ill for a lot of my twenties,” she acknowledges. At one point, she was working full-time as a story producer for television show Made In Chelsea, freelancing in the evenings, and spending her weekends on indie film projects. “I know what it is to come home from work and feel tired,” Alderton says. But those who want to freelance in their late twenties need to fit writing around their day jobs, she says. “If they come home tired, they don’t care. They sit and they write.”

Alderton is now one of the select few successful freelancers in their twenties who can write whatever they want. With such autonomy, she now turns down writing jobs about dating. “I don’t date anymore. I haven’t dated in like a year,” she explains. “I have been a mad woman all my life, on some level preoccupied with boys, and I just couldn’t do it anymore.” Instead, she spends her time with friends and family and writes about “relationships and friendship and growing up”. Her days of trawling through Tinder are over.

PLAYGROUND POLITICS: THE RISE OF NEWS FOR K

In a world of madcap presidents and bungling Brexiteers, children are swapping cartoons for current affairs write Elena Chabo and Megan Agnew

While Theresa May squabbles with her ministers, children have made up their own minds about Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK.

“Donad [sic] Trump will make everyone feel bad for who they are even if he only comes for two days or whatever and make everyone sad!”; “If he came to the UK I would karate chop his face off!!!!!”; “Oh hell no he farts it’s in his name, ‘trump.’”

This is a debate on The Week Junior’s online poll, and it’s a sign of the magazine sector’s changing shape.

The children’s magazine market has grown steadily for the past five years, showing resilience against industry decline. In 2017, the sector (spanning from preschool to pre-teen titles) was worth £83.2m, compared to women’s fashion and lifestyle magazines worth £49.6m. For years big brands like CBeebies, Disney and Lego have dominated the market. But there is a new frontrunner emerging: current affairs for kids.

The Week Junior is a weekly print magazine aimed at 8 to 12 year olds and is the fastest growing children’s magazine in the UK. The format is based around its parent publication, The Week, and it covers stories including North Korean missiles, rare hedgehogs, political coups, and funny kittens. Deputy editor Felicity Capon remembers how critics said it would never work. “People thought kids didn’t have an interest in current affairs.” But those people

IDS

were wrong. Since launching in 2015 it’s increased its circulation by 28%, selling 48,017 copies each week.

And it isn’t a one-off. First News, a newspaper for children aged 7 to 14, recorded the highest circulation in the children’s magazine industry last year, beating branded magazines for the first time. It boasts a weekly readership of two million. Another popular news site for tweens, The Day, founded by ex-editor of the Financial Times Richard Addis, has over a million daily subscribers.

But 20 years ago the newsstand looked very different. The kids’ sector was controlled by magazines like Bliss, Cosmo Girl, and Mizz, which wrote about boys and makeup, or football publications like Shoot and

MATCH!. In 2000, the most successful tween bible, Sugar, sold 400,000 copies a month, but by 2011 its circulation had fallen by 75% and, like many others, it folded. Previously booming titles were phased out by celebrity websites, fan pages and social media. The pre-teen market saw a universal shift. So why is it children are now reading the news? Nicky Cox, editor of First News, puts it down to exposure to the internet. She says: “It’s impossible to shield children from the news in this technological world. It’s First News’ job to help them

make sense of it.” Capon at The Week Junior also notes the positive influence of the internet on the children’s news market. “Kids are much more engaged with what’s going on in the world,” she says. “A lot of them are talking about stuff in the playground before we’ve even covered it in the magazine.”

Even the 79-year-old Beano has become more news-focused. Its website Beano.com is aimed at 8 to 11 year olds and features stories about Dennis and Gnasher alongside pop-culture news, explainers, funny videos and quizzes. Content is posted at peak-kidtimes (over breakfast and after school).

Beano’s editor, Lydia Mossahebi (Magazine, 2008), says the content has evolved. Last year, the most clicked-on topics were Justin Bieber’s pop song Despacito and the UK General Election. Other favourites are Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and fidget spinners. But the number one bad-guy is no longer a cartoon, it is Trump. Mossahebi says: “Trump has really resonated with them as the ultimate villain and so we often feature him as the punchline to jokes.”

But it’s important Mossahebi knows what’s hot in the playground. Instead of collecting data (for privacy reasons), the Beano.com team speak with a panel of “trendspotter” kids on a weekly basis. Mossahebi says: “We talk about what’s happening in their lives; what they’re watching on TV; what music they’re into; and what news has filtered down to them.”

and it’s not like they switch off when you introduce something serious.” Polls vary from “Is YouTube better than television?” to “Should Russia compete in the Winter Olympics?”. When asked whether there should be a second referendum, The Week Junior’s social media platforms “lit up”, Capon recalls. “I thought it was going to go completely over their heads, but on both sides of the debate we had a tonne of views.” Commenting on Popjam, @Pinkfatunicorns01 writes: “If we do a second vote then this might lead to a third and a fourth who knows when it will stop.” @sparklescotland956 agrees: “No because it was fair and square we are leaving!!!!!”

Another hub for discussion is The Burnet News Club, founded by The Economist Foundation, a current affairs website aimed at 8 to 16-yearolds. A 13-year-old boy has written an article on the site titled “2018: The Year of the Woman – IT’S FOR US BOYS!” The author ruminates on everyday sexism in the classroom against the backdrop of #MeToo. A different member starts a debate: “I was thinking that maybe a boy doesn’t always want to be the tough one because really it can be hard.”

“TRUMP HAS REALLY RESONATED WITH KIDS AS THE ULTIMATE VILLAIN”

Julian Linley, creative consultant and member of Sugar’s launch team, explains the trick is creating content that does not patronise children. “Kids want to be older than they are and want to consume stuff that is the next step up. What was so powerful about those brands [pre-teen girls’ magazines] was that they were older sisters and they’d been there and done that for you.”

Like Sugar, Beano.com plays the role of the older sibling who knows something cool. “We don’t want to talk down to kids,” Mossahebi says. “The jokes that work really well with them are the ones that work well with us in the office. The key is making sure the reference points are right, but from there the humour is universal.”

The Week Junior also treats readers like grown-ups. Each week it hosts the “Big Debate” on Popjam, a social media platform for children where the magazine’s profile has over 76,000 followers. Capon says: “It’s a really interesting sign of what they’re thinking,

In a cultural U-turn from the years of Sugar and Shoot, today’s young readers are quick to call out lazy gender stereotypes. Capon says: “They are the most eagle-eyed audience I’ve worked for in my whole career.” Likewise, Beano reader Bea Rutherford, aged 11, emailed the editorial team critiquing an advert for a “Christmas mystery box” for boys: “That is so sexist it’s like... UNBELIEVABLY SEXIST!!!!! What if a kid is a girl but loves gaming?! Oh sorry little girl, but you can’t have a Christmas mystery box because you don’t fit into these sexist categories. (WRONG!)” Children’s debates are only just getting started. “People voted out of Britain. They will learn there should be no turning back we are too far in now,” says @Rosella. @Jimmyboy132 writes: “Yes we should vote again because I’m a bit freaked out by it and I’m 10!” And @TR123 thinks: “Were [sic] losing so many good doctors and nurses because of threasa [sic] may and her stupid Brexit!!!!!”

The children’s magazine market is holding firm, but now the leader is news. For current affairs publications, the internet is inspiring young readers rather than distracting them. And they’re talking about everything from Stormzy to Brexit.

The Little Paper expands to become The Children’s Newspaper

The New Children’s Encyclopedia launches news supplement The Little Paper

Junior Mirror (1954-7), Junior Express (1954-60) & Junior Sketch (1954-5)

Eagle comic relaunches with news content (folds 1994)

Electronic Young Telegraph released on floppy disk

First News

The Burnet News Club Beano.com

Enid Blyton edits The Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls Young Telegraph supplement introduced

The Children’s Newspaper becomes educational Look and Learn

Young Telegraph folds

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To: xcityreader@city.ac.uk

From: Lucy Kehoe

You’ve got mail!

They might seem outdated, but email newsletters provide a personalised service straight to your mobile. Lucy Kehoe explains why they are having a resurgence

News-based emails vary from The Spoon, a digestible daily briefing of politics, to the The Skimm, which angles current affairs to a millennial female audience. Most traditional newspapers also have newsletters, and US publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post have a strong following in the UK.

Newsletter-only publications Emerald Street and Mr Hyde (both Shortlist Media) lead the lifestyle brigade. They curate daily retail-therapy suggestions, restaurant tips, beauty and grooming ideas, and book reviews. Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter provides biweekly feminist essays, while Buzzfeed runs 25 email subscriptions.

Beating the

A personal touch What’s out there? algorithms

More and more journalists are sending out independent newsletters. This is largely because of TinyLetter, a free online programme that allows users to send out newsletters to up to 2,000 readers. “When it comes to subscribers, you have to shake off the grit to keep the gold, and we’re happier to have quality over quantity,” says Miranda Thompson, who co-founded the weekly Lunch Hour Links. Even with the potential to reach thousands of subscribers, newsletters can maintain a personal touch. Alice Vincent, a gardening columnist at The Telegraph who sends out poetic thoughts on horticulture using TinyLetter, says: “There’s an intimacy there that formal publishing doesn’t allow.”

In an era when a tweak to the Facebook algorithm can diminish a news publication’s reach by thousands, newsletters represent a way to control digital distribution. A ‘like’ on social media gives no guarantee that a posted article will be read by potential audiences. Helen Booth, the co-founder of Lunch Hour Links, says that this was a factor in their decision to start the newsletter: “Posts across social media platforms can be filtered out by algorithms or lost in fast-flowing feeds. Email has been a completely different experience: our audience is technically smaller but so much more engaged.”

Money-making

Journalist Ann Friedman, who charges sub scribers $5 a year for premium content, says: “I started a paid version in late 2015 because my newsletter had outgrown TinyLetter.” She cur rently has 30,000 subscribers, 3,000 of whom have paid for the exclusive content.

Emerald Street and Mr Hyde embed branded content and advertising, ensuring a regular income stream. Both are exploiting one of the biggest benefits of newsletters: they allow you to accurately track click-through traffic, providing valuable data to advertising teams. The Memo co-founder Alex Wood says: “We could be charging thousands of pounds for a space in the newsletter because you could show to an advertiser it was going directly to someone’s inbox and that they actually wanted to read it.”

For the majority of newsletter senders, though, it’s not all about the money. Instead, it’s a passion project. Alice Vincent’s motivation is bolstered by the freedom of the format: “I realised that it was a space where I could experiment a little in my writing.” Helen Booth from Lunch Hour Links agrees: “When your inbox is full of work emails, it’s nice to have a few newsletters that you look forward to reading almost as much as you would a personal email from a friend.”

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REPORTING A ROYAL WEDDING

BY BROOKE THEIS AND EMMA ROSSER

The dress. The kiss. That shot. A royal wedding is a monumental event, but for the media “it is a logistical nightmare,” says Talk Radio broadcaster Sandy Warr. Reporting the ceremony requires months of planning, keeping watch overnight, negotiating elaborate security measures, on-site studios, and struggling to get as close as possible to the action.

“I just concentrate like crazy from the moment it starts to the moment it finishes,” explains Arthur Edwards, legendary royal photographer for The Sun. “They walk out without posing on the steps, then everyone walks down, they get in the carriage and go. For us it will be five minutes, maybe six, and you’ve got to produce your best stuff.”

As journalists prepare for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s big day on 19 May, XCity looks back at the biggest royal weddings of the past 40 years. Royal reporters tell us about the competition to get the perfect photo, jostling to be at the front of the press pack, and how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding is becoming a showbiz event.

PRINCE CHARLES & LADY DIANA SPENCER

St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1981

The wedding of Charles and Diana was a massive broadcast operation for ourselves [ITV] and obviously the BBC. It was not simply a royal wedding, it was the royal wedding, because Charles was the heir to the throne.

The nice thing about that particular wedding is that it took place in St Paul’s Cathedral as opposed to Westminster Abbey, and that made for a most wonderful, glorious setting.

I was dispatched into the air with a cameraman, courtesy of the Goodyear Blimp, as it was called, with ‘Goodyear’ written hugely above it. This was really an obscene bit of marketing by them [a car tyre company], but it gave us the most fantastic pictures. We were able to offer pictures from the airship of people arriving to take their place for the wedding, and I was able to do commentary from up there. When the service was actually going on we literally just looped around St Paul’s.

It went very smoothly as a broadcast, but one thing I do remember is that at one point I dropped the papers I was holding, and I was so fearful that all of my notes would fly out of the airship all over St Paul’s Cathedral, and get in the way. At one point, Alastair Burnet – who was the main anchor – said: “Now we can get the latest from Alastair Stewart. Alastair, what are you seeing from up there?” I just remained completely silent because I was scampering around on the floor, picking up bits of paper. I just remember hearing in my ear: “Oh Alastair’s clearly having a bit of a technical problem up there, we’ll get back to him when we can.”

– Alastair Stewart, newscaster at ITV News

“I WAS SO FEARFUL THAT ALL OF MY NOTES WOULD FLY OUT OF THE AIRSHIP”

PETER PHILLIPS & AUTUMN KELLY

St George’s Chapel, Windsor, 2008

The trouble with Windsor is that all the hotels get booked up.

Chelsy Davy was there, and Kate [Middleton]. They weren’t really the royal family, but they were there. I was trying to get a picture of them together, and I didn’t have a photographer there because the photography was all organised by the palace. It wasn’t until later that other cameras were allowed inside the chapel. I saw a man walking around with a camera bag, who had been taking pictures. I said, “you didn’t by any chance get a picture of Kate and Chelsy Davy, did you?” and he said “Yes, I did!” So, I bought the pictures from him, and they were used as part of a 100-page Hello! special for the wedding . Nobody had many pictures in those days of Chelsy and Kate, who were both expected to end up married to a prince.

– Judy Wade, former royal correspondent for Hello! magazine

Out of all of them, the wedding I enjoyed the most was Prince Charles’ second wedding, to Camilla. I didn’t do the actual registry office wedding, but the service at St George’s Chapel.

I took the position at the west door, because that was the best place to be. When I saw the Duchess coming out of there, she looked absolutely stunning. I was really pleased for Charles; he was finally incredibly happy. That’s the picture that everybody associates with their wedding. It was very low-key. In fact, it was delayed. It was supposed to be on the Friday, but the Pope had died and the Prince had to go to his funeral, and so the wedding had to be put back 24 hours. Everything – the guests, all the TV times – everything had to be changed. I had to give my pass to the Sunday paper, the News of the World. I asked and they gave me an extra pass, which I was very grateful for, and I was able to photograph the wedding. You could never in a million years have put back the wedding to Diana – there were kings and queens of Europe arriving, and there were TV schedules planned worldwide.

The Prince was obviously very proud of Camilla. He wanted to show the world that this was the woman he loved, that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, and he did. That picture, when they walked out arm in arm, I thought was really lovely. One picture tells you everything.

– Arthur Edwards, royal photographer for The Sun

PRINCE CHARLES & CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES Windsor Guildhall, 2005

PRINCE ANDREW & SARAH FERGUSON Westminster Abbey, London, 1986

Iwas working for CNN and we were in a tiny little studio just off Tottenham Court Road. I was a studio guest helping them anchor it – to comment on the details of the wedding. As Fergie and her family were friends of mine, I knew a lot of the guests.

That night we had a wedding special of Majesty magazine, and as soon as the wedding was over I had to go and put that together. There were about four of us who did it. It took all night because the photographs from Gene Nocon came in so late, and we didn’t have any of the technology you have today. There was very little to enable you to do things quickly then; I was doing the captions, someone else was doing the photos.

It was very tense, and it was very rushed. The magazine had to go to press that night as we had booked a slot with the printers. As soon as it came off the presses it went to the distributors, who then got it out in two or three days. It was a massive amount to do. The next morning we had a champagne breakfast in a private room at the Savoy.

– Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine

PRINCE WILLIAM & CATHERINE MIDDLETON

Westminster Abbey, London, 2011

We started doing stories several days in advance, as the first devoted people began to gather. On the day of the wedding, there had been people sleeping on the pavement draped in Union Jack flags.

I was in the assigned media area at Westminster Abbey, which to describe as a restricted view would be unfair to restricted views. They found the largest pillar they could and put the media behind it.

There were 20-25 of us, who were the regular royal media core. That group only exists in name: there is no pass. You don’t wear anything that says you’re a royal reporter, you just happen to be a person that they know. I think the fact that we were invited in was a reflection of their more open attitude to the media.

“THEY FOUND THE LARGEST PILLAR THEY COULD AND PUT THE MEDIA BEHIND IT”

For a broadcaster there are two sides to this: you’ve got the live event and then you’ve got the news pieces afterwards. My job was to do a news piece afterwards. To me it was just another panic: not enough time, too much to do, too much to get in, and of course the news bulletins that followed. Everybody’s got a view of who they want in it, and you’ve got probably 50 celebrities going through Westminster Abbey. That’s really hard – it’s hard to capture the mood. The process of getting in and out of Westminster Abbey was complicated. Can the crew stand there? Can we go there? Have the police closed this road? All of that’s a nightmare. That’s all part of being a reporter, and at a big royal event the security is enormous. It was a great event, but for the reporters it was just another panic.

You could tell there was a good mood about the place. People were really excited, and people wanted to believe that there was a proper royal love story.

– Tim Ewart, former royal editor at ITV News

ZARA PHILLIPS AND MIKE TINDALL

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, 2011

The palace has something called the Royal Rota where they allow one or two photographers into positions to cover it for everybody else. That wedding had a tent outside the church for a small group of photographers, and then they had a general position for everybody else.

A couple of days before, we realised the press position that we were given was quite a way down the road. You want to see the bride and groom coming out, so we hired a coffee shop overlooking the event.

There were seven of us freelancers – we all tend to work together. We thought it was the perfect venue, we had coffee all day, and we were actually able to see the church. We were standing on stools, as well as hanging out the windows. But the police wouldn’t let us outside of the coffee shop; once we were in we weren’t allowed out until it was all over.

I actually slipped out of the coffee shop for a very short period of time, and got up to the door before the police realised. As I slipped past the police, I managed to get quite a good picture of Zara and Mike kissing as they came out of the church, which is what everybody wanted, but not a lot of people had. The whole thing’s a gamble though, all the way through.

– Mark Stewart, freelance royal photographer

PRINCE HARRY & MEGHAN MARKLE

St George’s Chapel, Windsor, 2018

Alot of people are treating Harry and Meghan as a showbiz story, not necessarily a royal story. Radio tends to have more defined audiences, so first of all you have to work out if your audience even wants to know about it. Nowadays you must be mindful that there is an increasing number of people who will think the whole thing is a complete and utter waste of time.

With the technology we have today, there are real benefits: you can Facebook live, you can Snapchat live, but we do get these crunch moments when everyone’s trying to use the wi-fi and phone networks at the same time and they crash. If you’ve got the budget – which some places like the BBC have – you will put in a dedicated line for the internet. But you can over-rely on technology.

At Talk Radio, we’re still planning. You need to work out if you need to rent someone’s house to stay in overnight so you’ve got access to the right shots, but the American networks have already bought up every house and flat and pub in Windsor that has a view. I think in some ways it’s almost a bigger story for America than for a lot of the British.

– Sandy Warr, broadcaster at Talk Radio

HISTORIC ROYAL WEDDING MEDIA MOMENTS

In 1923, the Archbishop of Canterbury vetoed live radio coverage of Prince Albert’s wedding to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon because he was worried that men would tune in while still wearing hats – a sign of disrespect. Instead, a silent newsreel was shown in cinemas worldwide.

When Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip, the ceremony was recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio to 200 million people around the world.

The wedding of Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, and more than 20 million viewers tuned in to watch it.

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer tied the knot in the first televised wedding involving an heir to the English throne. It was watched by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million.

YouTube recorded 72 million live streams of Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s wedding, and Twitter traffic about the event peaked at 300 Tweets per second.

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eSports journalism: a new frontier

As competitive video gaming fills Olympic stadiums, Nicholas Kenny and Tim Gunn talk to the reporters who are swapping pitches for PlayStations

What makes a great sporting hero? It’s one of the biggest questions in sports journalism, and Jack Stewart, a reporter at the Mail Online’s sports section, has to think about it harder than most. He’s writing a profile of Brigitte Lindholm, daughter of the legendary Torbjörn. But Brigitte isn’t your traditional athlete. Her speciality is using a hammer and shield to pulverise her opponents. You see, she’s not a real person, but a newly announced character for Overwatch, an online video game. And Stewart isn’t an ordinary sports reporter. Last year, the Mail Online made him the first full-time journalist at a UK national to cover eSports: organised competitive video gaming.

You might not have heard of them – “Many people are completely baffled,” Stewart admits – but eSports are

changing sports, and sports journalism. They cover all kinds of competitive gaming, from shooting games like Call of Duty to sports games like Fifa and fighting games like Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Despite only beginning to flourish with the rise of high-speed internet in the mid-2000s, eSports are rapidly growing in popularity. More than 40,000 fans screamed and cheered at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium as they watched the fiendishly complicated team-based fantasy battles at the final of last year’s League of Legends World Championships. Incredibly, another 60 million people watched it live online. Given these figures, it is no wonder that ESPN televises eSports in the US, and BBC Three provides coverage online. Similarly, magazines like Wired are tackling eSports from a tech perspec-

tive, and niche sites like ESports News UK have found a small but growing following among the country’s most committed fans. However, the real opportunity for eSports to go mainstream could be at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, which is looking to include them as medal events. It’s not that outlandish: eSports have already been confirmed for the 2022 Asian Games. Yet since video games don’t require much physical exertion from players, the media have long disputed whether they should be considered as sports. Stewart remembers his frustration last year when he came across an article in The Times called “Why give gold medals to thumb-twiddlers?”. He says that much of the coverage in mainstream media is “full of video game stereotypes and insults directed at the eSports industry, which come from a

Who needs Arsenal and Chelsea? Meet the virtual avatars behind London Spitfire, the city’s Overwatch League team

lack of research and understanding”. Stewart does, however, accept not everyone will see the appeal. “It may not be for everyone, which is fair enough – I mean, I wouldn’t personally watch golf.”

Even so, Stewart feels the eSports desk is spreading awareness and changing attitudes. “You don’t need stereotypes to make it interesting,” he

A GROWING INDUSTRY

The global eSports industry is predicted to generate $906m (£641m) in total revenue this year.

ESports are played professionally by competitors from 127 countries around the world.

The five biggest eSports in 2017: Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

The top five countries by player winnings in 2017: China, the US, South Korea, Denmark, and Germany.

385 million people watched eSports in 2017, up from 134 million in 2012.

enthuses. “It’s about finding the best ways to explain the competitiveness of these tournaments. Ultimately, there are ten teenagers standing up in an arena in front of 20-30,000 people with millions of pounds on the line. They’re playing a video game, and, while you may not understand the skill that goes

“PEOPLE SPEND MORE ON GAMES THAN FILMS AND MUSIC”

into that initially, if there are 10 million people who play this game, they are the top ten of those 10 million.”

Stewart is only 21, but his training as a traditional sports reporter has granted him an appreciation for the differences between the two forms of journalism. “While you might miss a football game because you weren’t there to see it on TV, every eSports match is going online and it’s easy to watch a replay of it,” he explains. “Everyone knows what’s already happened, so match reports don’t really have that much value.”

While many of the newcomers at the Mail’s sports desk pummel their fingers away typing live match updates and full-time summaries, Stew-

art says he has “pretty much total creative control”. He gets to write more varied features about the lives of commentators, the growth of eSports in the UK, and even how football teams like West Ham and Valencia use their eSports subsidiaries to attract younger fans.

At times, it seems like Stewart and Matt Porter, the second full-time eSports reporter to join the Mail Online, have it easy. All they have to worry about is the occasional article for Game, the retailer that sponsors their eSports content, and promoting themselves on Reddit, which drives a lot of their traffic. But that’s not without its own challenges: Reddit requires users to contribute to nine other discussions for every self-promotional piece they post, to make sure they’re supporting the site’s community ethos. “But, obviously, we don’t just dump stuff on Reddit,” says Stewart. “We try to maintain quality over quantity.”

According to Stewart, traditional sports reporters have started to recognise the value of eSports coverage. “It’s really fun talking to the sports guys about it, because we can just tell them random stuff and completely blow their minds,” Stewart says with a laugh. One titbit that Stewart must have been particularly happy to share is that The International, the annual world championship for Dota 2 (a fantasy battle game similar to League of Legends), offered a total prize pool of $24m (about £17.3m) in 2017. By way of comparison, the US Open, the rich-

est golf tournament in the world, gave out a total of $12m (£8.6m) last year.

This isn’t so surprising when you consider the fact that people spent more money on video games than on films and recorded music combined last year, according to figures from industry intelligence firm Newzoo. In fact, well aware of the money to be made, America’s National Basketball Association will launch its own eSports league in May. Named after the leading basketball video game franchise, NBA 2K, the 2K League will see the eSports representatives of 17 clubs donning official team jerseys and competing in specially built stadiums.

With Spain’s top football division, La Liga, planning to follow suit, there is no doubt that sports and eSports are beginning to permeate each other. This might explain why Stewart’s colleagues are so interested in what he has to tell them, and why an eSports reporter is likely to be a permanent fixture on every national sports desk in the near future.

LIVE FROM AN ESPORTS BAR

From the outside, the north London pub looks much the same as any other sports bar. The only thing out of the ordinary is the sign. The lime-green letters cast a soft glow over the black background and the name, “Meltdown”, is a world away from those of London’s more traditional drinking establishments. The words beneath, however, are the ones that catch the eye: “eSports Bar”.

Inside, around 30 spectators, mostly young men, sit at the tables or stand with pints in hand. The drinkers’ eyes are locked on the half-dozen screens around them, which show a live feed of an Overwatch League match.

London Spitfire are taking on Philadelphia Fusion in the popular team-based shooting game. London Spitfire’s players and their ingame characters are clad in blue and orange, while Philadelphia Fusion wear white. The camera flits between shots of dexterous, high-speed gameplay and a massive television studio containing both teams, a four-person panel of commentators, and 450 fans. The excited commentators are often drowned out by the sudden crescendos

of noise from the fans in the bar. One of the loudest, Tom Dyer, a 20-yearold history student, brings the same energy he does to watching football. “I watch for the same reason I watch United games,” he says. “I like video games and I like football, and it’s fun to watch people who are really, really good at them play.”

Some of Meltdown’s patrons are here to do more than watch the game. They’re nestled behind the PC gaming hubs set up to the left of the entrance. It’s like dartboards and pool tables in any other pub, only the players are far more aware of the damage a spilled pint could cause. Tonight the TV screens are reserved for the Spitfire game, but when Meltdown hosts its own eSports tournaments feeds from the PC hubs are broadcast throughout the bar.

As the match approaches its end, even the players most engrossed in their own games can’t help but focus on the quality of Spitfire’s play. The boys in blue take the game in a 4-0 rout and move up to third in the league, behind only New York Excelsior and Seoul Dynasty. Onscreen, the pundits bid adieu for an ad break, and some of the crowd begin to shuffle out. Others rush over to the PC hubs, eager to take on the world themselves.

Interns from hell

Lazy? Late? Arielle Witter profiles five interns who don’t deserve to get jobs

Internship. It’s a word that anyone with a career in journalism knows all too well. As many of you reading this have likely surpassed (and survived) your internship days, you’ve probably got your own slew of interns walking in and out of your office doors. XCity has heard its share of intern gossip through the grapevine. After rounding up the best tales and tips out there, we’re ready to help you separate the duds from the studs.

THE LATEST AND GREATEST

Spotted at: a radio station in New York

Keep your eyes peeled for this particularly fantastic intern. They own a sharp watch and an iPhone, which we all know has an alarm clock built into it, but never make it into the office on time. Sauntering through the door a full hour after everyone else, this intern will be armed with clever excuses like, “I’m sorry, there was so much traffic this morning,” or “My alarm just didn’t want to go off today.” The large Starbucks in their hand makes it obnoxiously clear that their tardiness is entirely down to the queue for coffee.

THE DEER-IN-HEADLIGHTS

Spotted at: a tourist magazine in New York

This is a special breed of intern. Usually frantic and jittery, this budding journalist often responds

to any direction by flinching, with a particularly shocked look on their face. The response is similar to that of a startled animal – frightened and frozen. Typically they will return to your desk and ask you to repeat what you’ve just said, even for the simplest of tasks. Expect constant questions and blank stares from this top-tier intern.

THE FANTASTIC FAKE

Spotted at: a travel magazine in New York

This intern takes being creative to the next level. Like most young, wannabe editors, they will be tasked with transcribing an interview. As an excellent worker, however, the intern gets the creative juices flowing when typing up the notes. They will type them up at lightning speed, but document inaccurate information. Your intern will blow you away with their ability to “transcribe” the exact opposite of everything your interviewee said. Keep an eye on this one, especially for legal reasons.

THE LONG-TERM TRANSCRIBER

Spotted at: a lifestyle magazine in London

This intern is a dedicated one, focusing on a single task for ages. This all-star will take what feels like (and is) forever to type up copy. Unlike the faulty transcriber, the long-term transcriber will tackle an hour-long interview

so thoroughly it takes them an entire work day to write it up. Slow and steady wins the race, or in this case, snags that future editorial job.

THE GHOSTER

Spotted at: a B2B in London

This intern takes everyone’s favourite term “ghosting” to another level. A natural disappearing act, your friendly intern will wander off for many unaccounted hours, or not turn up at all. No phone call, no text, no word, no sign of life. Some ghosters will disappear during lunch, not returning for hours, and others just won’t show up to work one day. Be sure to remember The Ghoster for the future. This young Houdini will keep the whole editorial staff on its toes in the run up to every tight deadline.

BEHIND THE SCREEN WITH

HUW EDWARDS

After three decades, six prime ministers, and one explosive referendum, BBC News’ lead anchor tells Rob Picheta why he’s not letting down his guard

Fifteen years into his role as the BBC’s lead news anchor, Huw Edwards isn’t getting comfortable. “I’m quite an angsty person,” admits the presenter known for his steel-faced and serious demeanor. “If I’m walking to that studio one night and I’m feeling completely devoid of nerves, I’m probably not in the right frame of mind anymore.”

It’s a walk Edwards has made many times, having taken over presenting duties on “The Ten” in January 2003 – but it’s one he could previously barely envisage. By his own admission a “news anorak”, as a teen and the editor of his student paper, Edwards nonetheless expected to follow his parents into academia in his early twenties. “Is journalism going to be a career for me?” he ponders aloud. “It was a nice thought,

but I didn’t think it would be something I could do. I didn’t have the ambition – I suppose I lacked the confidence.”

A lack of confidence is difficult to detect in Edwards, 56, as he bounds through a busy ground floor cafe in the BBC’s resplendent New Broadcasting House in central London, turning a couple of heads along the way. A flanker on the rugby field at his south Wales grammar school, Edwards retains an imposing posture even in his camera-ready suit and a sleek black coat. He greets me with a firm handshake and a series of questions, as though I’m a cabinet minister he’s preparing to put to the sword. “Okay,” he says, once he’s ordered a cup of tea and settled into a window seat looking out to Portland Place. “Fire away.”

I start by asking about his schedule. It’s

lunchtime, and while Edwards may appear to have just stepped out of the studio, he has only recently arrived at work. At 5pm that day, as he does four times a week, he will present for an hour on the BBC’s 24hour news channel. Then he’ll watch The Six go out, meet with the team on The Ten, and begin scripting his 30 minutes on the country’s flagship news programme. He’ll return to his home in Dulwich shortly before midnight.

“There are implications for family life – of course there are,” Edwards admits of his unsociable hours. “My youngest daughter was born in 2003, so she knows nothing other than me not being there in the evening,” he says. The job is all-encompassing, but it suits Edwards, the father of five whose wife, Vicky Flind, is the editor of

ITV’s flagship political talk-show Peston on Sunday. Even on holiday, when he comes under pressure to turn off his phone, “I tend to hide the phone and pretend it’s switched off. But it’s not switched off.”

“It’s not going to last forever… I’m amazingly grateful that I’m still doing it,” he says of his role, before reminding me of what’s at stake: in the studio when he is about to go live, “it’s me and a floor manager and four and a half million people on the other side of the camera”. He appears to those viewers to be a safe pair of hands: no-drama Huw, delivering each bulletin with a comforting, thick Welsh accent and an assured ease. The reality, it seems, is quite different. “I get quite anxious about getting it right, and I get very upset if we get things wrong,” he says, adding that he’ll have “a very bad night’s sleep” if so much as a factual error or a spelling mistake goes out on his watch.

That perfectionism is palpable in the considered and balanced way Edwards responds to my every query, and the same trait could likely explain his remarkable rise through the Corporation’s ranks. After being encouraged to apply for a BBC trainee scheme while studying French at Cardiff University, he spent 11 years as a political correspondent and three hosting the News at Six, before being elevated to the mostwatched chair in news.

I ask Edwards to recall a few of his professional highlights, wondering if I can extract some sentimentality from beyond his headmasterly exterior. “Obama, two years ago, I was very pleased to do,” he says, his head leaning casually against the wall and his gaze fixed in the middle-distance. But it’s not personal pride which Edwards exudes as he discusses his interview with the former President, so much as professional satisfaction. “It was a great interview – in the sense that it gave us a good news line.”

It seems to me that the line of presidents, prime ministers and royalty to have shared a camera with Edwards might have solved his alleged angst, but he vehemently disagrees. “I’ve got very little time for people who are hyper-confident,” he says. “I’m quite suspicious of them actually.” There’s no time for arrogance if you’re in the process of giving news to millions of people, he explains: “It’s one hell of a responsibility.”

The responsibility he faces may never have been greater. A decade and a half in his role may have seasoned Edwards – but in an age of fake news and political unrest, he has found himself wading through uncharted waters.

“I’ve seen the demise of Thatcher… it was an absolute earthquake,” he recalls – but this is “easily” the most remarkable political time he’s been able to experience in Britain. “It’s the biggest political decision British voters have taken since the Second World War,” he says of Brexit. “It’s huge. And I can’t see how it’s going to be resolved

in a harmonious way for quite a while.” Edwards knows where to level a good deal of the blame for that disharmony. “Social media has transformed the quality and tone of public debate in this country,” he argues. Edwards himself is a keen user of Twitter and Instagram, and he gestures towards his iPhone, laid out on the table in front of him, to acknowledge the well of information it offers – but this seems to provide him little consolation. “Now, you can have millions of people shouting at each

“IT’S ME, A FLOOR MANAGER, AND FOUR AND A HALF MILLION PEOPLE”

other,” he says. “The way that it’s degraded public debate in terms of its quality, and people’s tolerance, and people’s ability to be rational – I think it’s very regrettable.”

Much of that sentiment has been directed towards the BBC, which has faced heightened accusations of bias from all sides in recent months. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has decried its “shamelessly anti-Brexit coverage”, a view which 70 MPs backed in a letter to director-general Tony Hall last year, while political editor Laura Kuenssberg was reportedly provided a bodyguard at the Labour Party conference after receiving abusive messages online.

Edwards says he is “not too swayed” by the criticism, before leaning forward pointedly. “I’m going to say this very politely –but people with very strong views are not best qualified to tell you what the right way to do news is… It would be an amazing, miraculous act of mass brainwashing,” he says, “to get hundreds, if not thousands, of

BBC journalists to traipse into work every day to sell a particular line or story. It’s clearly nonsense.”

He admits, though, that the Corporation’s relentless pursuit of balance blinded it to other obstacles. “It’s the toughest journalistic challenge the BBC has had,” he says of the EU referendum, noting the intense pressures to toe the middle ground during a divided national conversation. “Lots of colleagues felt that they needed to be ticking boxes piece by piece,” he says. “Oh, we’ve got [Governor of the Bank of England] Mark Carney saying something… let’s find somebody else to say something different,” he offers as an example. “In some cases, I think that raised questions.”

And with impartiality increasingly unfashionable, he seems to strike a more pessimistic tone. “We’re not in a post-truth world,” he insists, “but unless people are very careful about the way they assimilate news, we’re in danger of getting close to that.” He derides “this dreadful tendency with people only to want to consume stuff which reinforces their own prejudice. ‘I’m not reading that because it’s going to tell me something I don’t like.’ Well you may not like it, but it may be true… we’re not in a very healthy place, I think.”

For once, however, issues of impartiality have not been the most dominant thread in public debate surrounding the BBC. Disclosures of salaries for its highest-paid staff in June have led to a cascade of criticism over disparities in pay between male and female talent. The shockwaves have been felt inside and outside the building, not least since former BBC China editor Carrie Grace left her post at the start of the year, accusing the Corporation of “discriminating against women”.

Willingly or not, Edwards has found himself near the centre of the storm. He

was revealed to earn between £550,000 and £599,000, making him one of the Corporation’s highest-paid stars. Critics were quick to point to the disparity between his salary and that of Fiona Bruce, the highest-paid female news anchor, who was making less than £400,000. Four weeks before we meet, it appears a solution is in the works: Edwards, along with other male anchors, had agreed to take a pay cut, according to a BBC statement.

I approach the topic with some caution, and when I do, Edwards shifts to the offensive. “Who says?” he asks. “Have I taken a pay cut?” That’s what I saw reported, I note. “Did it actually say that?” He continues the uneasy back-and-forth before clarifying

“IT’S A SLIGHTLY BIZARRE THING TO HAVE TO REPORT ON YOUR OWN ORGANISATION”

that there is a difference between taking a pay cut and agreeing in principle to do so. Have these been difficult conversations to be caught up in? “What do you think?”, he asks tersely. I suggest that they would be. “Well, the conversations are still ongoing,” he says, with no clear desire to elaborate. It’s the first time in our meeting that Edwards closes down. He holds my gaze as though we’re on opposite sides of the scrum, making it clear that he won’t be the one to fill the silences any longer. I shift gear to consider the wider public debate about alleged sexism at the national broadcaster, assuming that too is a tricky one to be caught up in.

“Not really”, he offers, his voice inflecting as though even the idea that the controversy has ruffled Edwards is laughable. “I mean, It’s a public debate,” he says, “and it’s one that we’ve had to report on. It’s a slightly bizarre thing to have to report on

something that’s happened in your own organisation”, he concedes. “But it’s part of the job. And we’ve been talking about impartiality, well you have to try to be impartial about your own organisation as well – which is what we’ve been.”

I press him on the peculiarity of reporting on his own employer’s practices – has there been too much coverage for his liking? “Not really,” he says again. “You’d be sitting here saying to me that we haven’t done enough if we’d done it the other way.... once again, you know, you’re criticised for doing too little or too much.”

And Edwards disputes the idea that journalism, in general, is a man’s game. “My wife has been in journalism for over 30 years, so I’m pretty well-qualified to answer the question,” he says. “It’s been tough at times for women in this business – the old culture of Fleet Street was pretty repulsive,” but, while he has “no doubt” things can improve, he says they are “immeasurably better” for women now. “If you look around the newsroom, so many of my colleagues – including those in very responsible positions – are female.”

Reporting on his own organisation’s employment practices may be a new challenge, but it is one of many Edwards has seen in more than three decades with the corporation. His next major assignment is to anchor the coverage of Prince Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle in May, and he is primed to take over as lead anchor for British general elections once David Dimbleby makes way.

It’s unsurprising that Edwards needs an outlet. He enjoys reading, playing the piano and taking his dogs on walks, but he is keen to talk about his newer hobby. “I do boxing three times a week, which has actually been great... I’ve lost weight, and it’s a good de-stresser,” he says. He is quick to point out that his work doesn’t compare to his grandfather’s, who was “digging for coal underground”. But he adds: “the thing about this job, whatever people think about it... it is quite a stressful job, and you need to let off steam.”

For our rapid-fire interview with Edwards, check out our video at xcityplus.com

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CITY FIRST DATES

We sent two City journalism alumni on a blind date to see if pizza, beer, and leading questions would make these hacks hit it off or fall flat(plan) on their faces

Stuart Stone, class of 2017, news reporter at The Morning Advertiser

When she first walked in I did a bit of a double-take because she looks a lot like a girl I know. It disorientated me for a moment, but it was actually really nice to meet Natasha and just have a beer and a chat.

I wouldn’t say she’s my usual type. I tend to go for girls with a more sporty, casual look.

I’ve been single for about two years, but I’m quite a laidback sort of person. Without sounding like a big-time Charlie or anything, the idea of doing a blind date doesn’t scare me. I just thought it would be a laugh. And my mates all say I have bad taste in women, so why not let strangers pick a date for me?

We talked about City quite a bit. She had an amazing story from a piece she did at uni about a girl who was stabbed after getting involved with a street racing gang in Borneo.

It was also interesting hearing how she got into what she’s doing workwise since leaving City. She’s doing a lot of financial stuff, which is quite far from her final project on technology and sex. It was quite funny talking about how she tries to shoehorn that into what she’s doing at work and pitch features around it.

INatasha Turner, class of 2016, features editor at CityWire

didn’t feel nervous – I came straight from the office, so my mind was still on a big feature. When I arrived at the restaurant, Stuart was already there. I usually go for tall, lean guys so he wasn’t my usual type.

I have been on dates with journalists before – nothing long term – but it’s quite nice to start with some common ground. I think it’s just a good way in when you’re getting to know someone for the first time – a good icebreaker.

I don’t know if it felt that much like a date, but I think I got on quite well with her. I’d see her again as a friend and just have a nice catch up over a pint. Overall I did enjoy it, besides causing myself minor physical discomfort when I put too much chilli oil on my pizza. I was a bit blasé with it,

Stuart was pretty dressed up in a shirt and smart trousers, whereas I don’t really dress like that for my job so I was pretty casual. We were a bit mismatched in that sense. My first impression was that he was quite chatty – maybe out of nervousness and maybe a bit of keenness. We mainly talked about City and all the memories came back – not just memories but feelings of horror, stress and panic when we discussed production fortnight. But it was nice to reminisce with someone else who’s been through it. I always thought that I wouldn’t want to date another journalist because at this stage in our careers there’s still a competitive aspect. When you’re established you’re more relaxed, but we’re still in the battlefield.

He’s a news reporter, but agreed the best thing about our jobs is writing features. I always thought I’d be a news hound though – I loved patch. Stuart did too and we even had the same patch area in Bermondsey.

Our pizzas arrived and we both heaped on the chilli oil. We didn’t realise it would be so hot, but tried to style it out and gulped down our beer.

We agreed on most things (especially on why we’re anti-Brexit) but there was one significant clash. He had no opinion on the Kardashians, whereas I think they’re a cultural phenomenon. Stuart didn’t know Kendall from Kylie, so we wouldn’t be able to bond over that in future.

I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t feel any chemistry. But I can see us going for a casual pint as friends.

as told to Katie Russell and Annie Simon

GUESSLUNCHTHE

By Chrysa Simoni and Dominika Kubinyova

Lunch used to be a leisurely – and often boozy – affair for many journalists. Now it is more likely to be a Pret sandwich or home made pasta salad at work. But not everyone dines al-desko. Re porters and editors still take pleasure – when they’ve a spare five minutes – in enjoying a spot of lunch.

XCity asked six journalists what they ate for lunch. We then spoke with Tracy Tredoux, a qualified nutritional therapist and health coach, about what each journo’s dining habits say about them. Can you match each journalist with their lunch? , head of , features Good , international , associate , editor, , presenter, Bang

This person has chosen to have lunch at a fast food restaurant that prides itself on making it easy to eat well. This choice indicates a person who gives thought to their health but is not obsessive, as revealed by eating the chocolates. I would think this is a balanced, thoughtful, health-conscious person.”

Beer-battered fish and chips and a couple of glasses of prosecco from a pub near the office

BAThis reveals a fun-loving, social, cheerful, self-confident person who has no shame washing their fish and chips down with a couple of glasses of prosecco in the middle of the day. It is a lunch of someone who “doesn’t give a damn” and lives in the moment, shunning routine and acting impulsively.”

A social person who likes to mix and mingle with friends from work. They will head to the canteen for lunch, treating it as part of their social scene. This person is also predictable and likes the routine of eating in the work canteen.”

CMini eggs and a Sainsbury’s beef and rocket sandwich

I would describe the person as interesting and adventurous. The choice of soup is hearty and a combination of varied tastes. This is a person who takes time over lunch. The choice of dark, more bitter chocolate with the biscuits indicates a more sophisticated palate.”

This choice suggests a person who eats on the go; a thrifty time-saver who does not give much thought to lunch. Choosing beef instead of ham and cheese or tuna mayo indicates a higher IQ according to research”.

Pret a Manger South Indian tomato & spice soup, fruit salad, and dark chocolate digestive biscuits

This is the lunch of a conscientious, organised person who appears to be following a specific diet (hence the gluten-free pesto). This is also a typical lunch for vegetarians, so I would guess this is a caring person who values life.”

THIRSTY WORK:

Fleet Street’s drinking problem

Journalism was once known for its liquid lunches, but is the party really over?

Eliza Slawther and Grace Whelan ask what’s the true cost of mixing news and booze

“There was a joke that our lunch hour went from one until three, but that was one in the afternoon until three the next morning,” recalls Frank Thorne, a veteran Fleet Street reporter.

The former Daily Mirror journalist fondly remembers the times spent in The White Hart, the pub popular with Mirror journalists, known by regulars as The Stab in the Back. “You’d get a slip signed by the news editor if you needed drinking vouchers, and then you’d go up to ‘the bank in the sky’ on the 14th floor and get £100 cash from the cashiers,” he reminisces. “You’d happily go out on the razz or take someone out for a four-hour lunch, and charge it all to expenses. We used to call it OPM: other people’s money.”

That was in the 70s when all-day drinking benders were not only considered the norm, but were also encouraged by many news and feature desks as a way to make and nurture contacts, and to cement relationships.

Fast forward 40 years and contacts are still the way to ensure a successful career in journalism. But with social media, email, and Google search doing the heavy lifting, what has happened to the industry’s drinking culture?

A 2017 survey found that, on average, journalists consume 16 units of alcohol a week, two over the recommended intake. However, it concluded that even this small excess causes a decrease in cognitive performance. How, then, did the supposedly legless drunks of Fleet Street’s heyday manage to get the papers out? Could drinking really have been that excessive?

“IT GOT TO THE POINT WHERE MY BAR BILL WAS £600 A MONTH, AND MY MORTGAGE WAS £300”

According to Thorne, the answer is a resounding yes. The 69-year-old says his drinking began as soon as he joined the Daily Express as a reporter in 1974, aged 25. It was a way to “be one of the boys”, he explains, and he felt he had to embrace it “otherwise they might not have accepted me”.

After 18 months at the Daily Express, Thorne grew used to all-day drinking sessions, which usually started with a “heart starter” at 11am to vanquish any hangover from the night before. He moved to the Sunday People, part of the Mirror Group, and found culture much the same.

Drinking was the way to find stories and make contacts. Before the days of computers and Google, “that’s how Fleet Street worked, it was oiled by drink,” says Bryan Rimmer, who started as a Mirror features writer in 1973.

“Each newspaper had a pub where their hacks would drink, and people would come by to give them leads,” Rimmer says.

“A lot of business was done in pubs,” Alastair McQueen, a reporter on the Daily Mirror from 1969-1993, explains. “It wasn’t a matter of let’s all go out on the lash. The world was an entirely different place, an awful lot of business was done in licensed premises.”

For the Mirror, that premises was the Stab in the Back, or “The Stab” –a nickname for how journalists used pub gossip to undermine their rivals. Another popular networking spot was Vagabonds, a club set up on Shoe Lane near Fleet Street by John Mullally, the ex-head of the Metropolitan Police’s Criminal Investigation Department.

“Vagabonds was a legendary drinking den,” Thorne recalls, “There was never anything like it. It opened at midday and stayed open until John decided he’d had enough.”

Thorne remembers a typical lunch there: “I would have a couple of pints of ale and I’d probably drink three bottles of red wine, and then a port, then start on the Guinness. After I was sufficiently full, I would switch to gin and tonics, never less than doubles, some-

times quadruples. That would go on until John decided to close the club at three or four in the morning.”

Vagabonds was a popular location for networking, where “people from all the newspapers, showbiz stars, footballers, and police all pitched up,” Thorne recalls. In fact, it was such a hotspot for milking other drinkers for stories that the downstairs kitchen later became Thorne’s office. “It got to the point where my bar bill was £600 a month, and my mortgage was £300,” he says. “But it was all on expenses.”

Rather than letting alcohol affect their work, the Fleet Street veterans used it to their advantage.

“You weaponised drink to get stories out of people,” Rimmer explains, “You couldn’t let it rule you otherwise you’d never be able to write anything.”

It wasn’t just the Fleet Street red tops who indulged in lunchtime drinks. Nicholas Coleridge, chairman of Condé Nast Britain and former associate editor of Tatler, recalls his Fleet Street days fondly. He says: “People drunk four pints of beer or six dirty martinis at lunchtime. People used to take most of the afternoon off and would return to the office at about 6pm and go into furious revving overreaction as the deadline loomed, but this is completely gone, everybody now works in almost dry offices. I don’t –I like to have drinks in the office after about 6.30pm.”

Editors and bosses were happy for reporters to spend their days at the pub if it meant they were getting the best stories. “It didn’t cause a problem,” McQueen says, “because they [the reporters] came back with a story.”

As such, McQueen considers a lot of the stories about drinking in the heyday of Fleet Street to be exaggerated and untrue. “If we were such a great collection of drunks,” he says, “how did we ever get a bloody paper out?”

Yes, there was a drinking culture, but it was of the social kind, Thorne says. The proximity of the drinking dens to their offices preserved it.

In the late 1980s, Murdoch made the

“NOT HAVING BOOZE-FILLED LUNCHES ISN’T ENOUGH TO SAY THE PROBLEM IS GONE ”

decision to move his papers to Wapping. One national newspaper journalist, who wishes to remain anonymous, considers the change of location to have brought an end to the glory days of Fleet Street and its “national newspaper journalistic community”.

“I think this began to change in the 1980s,” he says. “Just as it began to change in the City after Big Bang in 1986. In Fleet Street the change wasn’t so abrupt but I certainly think it began about the same time, and the decline of alcohol – especially at lunchtime – has steadily continued.”

Echoing McQueen, the anonymous reporter feels alcohol did not prevent journalists from doing their jobs. In his view, it was possible for journalists to function despite their large alcohol intakes, until they crossed a line.

He says: “In the past, the relationship between alcohol and journalism only became a problem when people began to cease to function. Really heavy drinkers gradually became alcoholics, but they could often get away with it –ie keep functioning – for a surprisingly long time.”

High-functioning alcoholics are people who can continue to work despite their high alcohol intakes. However, drinking so much can still lead to devastating consequences.

The anonymous journalist witnessed the damage that alcoholism caused one young reporter. “He began to be a heavy drinker covering the Troubles in Belfast in the 1970s and by the early 1980s, when he had come to Fleet Street, he was an alcoholic. He kept a supply of whisky miniatures in his desk drawer. He began to lose his ability to function, and the paper sent him away to dry out more than once, to no avail. He eventually died at home on a Saturday night of alcoholic poisoning, having consumed an entire bottle of gin. He was 34.”

Nowadays, journalists are less dependent on drink, continues the reporter. He says in his years at Fleet Street, “people smoked and people drank to a considerable degree. In modern media, people often do neither”.

But many of today’s journalists are still wedded to alcohol. Turning to booze after work was how Esther Beadle coped with the pressures of 14hour shifts. Beadle became an alcoholic in 2013 at the age of 24, during her time as a reporter on the Aberdeen Evening Express. She drank secretly, hiding her problem and ploughing through hang-

overs at work by drinking more.

She describes the “pull your socks up” attitude of working in a newsroom as making reporters less likely to take days off for hangovers, and more likely to hide their drinking. She says: “No matter what state you’re in, you crawl into work in time for your shift: there’s no way that you miss it.

“Those of us who have worked in newsrooms probably have plenty of stories about people rocking in bangon time, but still completely half-cut.

“When it’s getting to the point where it’s every day and you’re really trying to hide it is when it becomes a problem, because you’re not going to have people really pulling you up on it.”

Beadle overcame her addiction after admitting to her editor that she had a problem. She had to reduce her alcohol intake gradually, as going cold turkey could have killed her.

Drinking excessively is not the only way that alcohol affects journalists. Those who are teetotal report difficulties when attending social events with their colleagues, PRs, and contacts. Shafi Musaddique is a business reporter at The Independent who doesn’t drink for religious reasons.

He believes that the feelings of exclusion that come with not drinking hit on a wider issue with the industry’s lack of diversity.

“The recreational meet ups after work exclude those that don’t accept the ‘norm’,” he says, “I think the jour-

nalism industry is too centered around drinking alcohol – and not having booze-filled lunches isn’t enough to say the problem is gone.”

While boozy lunches may not be as common, the legacy of Fleet Street can still be seen at journalism networking events. During a period of alcohol abstinence, freelance music journalist Thea de Gallier, 28, found that PRs would constantly try to entice her into events with free booze.

“It can get quite tiresome having people trying to persuade you to drink all the time when you don’t want to,” she says.

For teetotallers and drinkers alike, when it is deemed acceptable to drink, and how much, has certainly changed. Many journalists say they barely leave their desks to eat lunch, let alone go to the pub, yet alcohol still appears to play a role in networking, socialising, and as a means to relax.

Despite the ongoing use of alcohol within media networking, Beadle overcame her alcohol addiction five years ago, and is now able to view alcohol use in the media from a new perspective. “The heady days of daily lunchtime pints on Fleet Street might be gone, but alcohol is still one of the most common lubricants in a journalist’s work – and play,” she explains. “It’s a case of making sure this doesn’t blur into something dangerous. A bottle should never be harder to put down than a headline.”

ROY GREENSLADE’S FLEET STREET GOSSIP

AT 6PM ONE DAY, A SMILING TONY SMITH, THE DAILY MIRROR’S SPORTS EDITOR, ENTERED THE OFFICE. HE WAS CLEARLY WORSE FOR WEAR, BUT LOOKING VERY PLEASED WITH HIMSELF. HE STRODE OVER TO A SENIOR REPORTER, VICTOR SIMS. THE CONVERSATION WENT AS FOLLOWS:

TONY: SO VIC, I’M JUST BACK FROM LUNCH. IS THIS A RECORD?

VIC: SIX O’CLOCK. I DON’T THINK SO. WHEN DID YOU GO OUT?

TONY: ONE O’CLOCK...

VIC: FIVE HOURS. THAT’S NOT MUCH OF A...

TONY: YESTERDAY.

No it’s not a typo – at least not in China. For one day in February, the Chinese government removed the letter “n” from the internet. It was just one element (albeit the most bizarre) of a mass censorship scheme that aimed to suppress criticism of China’s Chairman Xi Jinping, following his party’s proposal to abolish the two-term limit on the presidency. The proposal was passed by the Chinese parliament on 11 March, setting him up as a lifelong leader.

It’s a move that will concern many foreign journalists working in China. Reporting from the region has never been easy, but the situation has got worse since Xi Jinping became chairman in 2012. According to a survey by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC), 40% of 117 respondents said they felt that reporting conditions in 2017 had deteriorated over the past year, compared with just 29% in 2016. And yet reporting from China also presents opportunities. The FCCC only has 200-250 members in Beijing, where most foreign journalists are based. This means that a tiny number of people are reporting on a fifth of the world’s population. For those prepared to accept the challenges, China offers a wealth of extraordinary untold stories.

Access denied

Reporting from China is gruelling. Surveillance is rife, short-term detention common, and repression of reporters can descend into violence.

A foreig* reporter

in Chi*a

Jonathan Kaiman, former The Guardian and current LA Times China correspondent, says photographers and TV reporters sometimes suffer physical abuse from locals, especially when reporting from small villages. “It’s usually just brute physical intimidation,” he says. “A lot of pushing, some hitting, stern warnings, short detentions, harsh words.”

In Kaiman’s experience the police in these villages normally stay out of the violence, at least directly. But they are always present, surveying the scene.

“ONCE THEY CATCH UP TO YOU, IT’S BASICALLY GAME OVER”

Kaiman and other commentators believe that the police and the authorities hire thugs to intimidate journalists on their behalf. “You’d have to be a fool to believe they weren’t somehow part of the equation,” he says.

In certain areas of China independent reporting is particularly difficult. In the province of Xinjiang in the far west, a longstanding conflict between the authorities and the Muslim Uighur minority has resulted in a brutal governmental clampdown which has seen thousands of citizens sent to “political education” camps. Journalists

are constantly tailed, refused access to hotels, and picked up by the police for questioning.

One journalist from an American news agency, who has reported from Xinjiang and wishes to remain anonymous, describes how a local official followed him wherever he went and made sure to stand behind him, waving at potential interviewees to stop them talking. He also explains that it’s hard to know who to trust as some locals report journalists to the police.

“In Xinjiang it’s extreme, they never let you leave their sight,” he says. “Once you arrive and they catch up to you, it’s basically game over. If police catch you they will immediately take you into the local police station. In other places we can run away from them somehow or jump into a car. It’s impossible in Xinjiang.”

Despite this, in the parts of Xinjiang where local authorities are particularly experienced, government handlers are unwaveringly polite and more than happy to wine and dine their visitors.

“They’re very smooth,” the journalist says. “They speak perfect English. They’ll basically act like your best friend. At the same time they’re still obstructing any ability for you to report independently.”

But obstruction in China isn’t unusual, even in less sensitive locations. Kaiman describes the way that hotels all over China call the police as soon as a foreign journalist checks in. Five years ago he could find hotels that

would turn a blind eye, but these days he says there is always a system in place and the police always respond. Sometimes they even choose to detain the journalist for a short time if they’re particularly concerned about the subject matter of a piece.

And then there’s digital surveillance, which is par for the course for journalists in China. Charlotte Middlehurst, a former Shanghai-based reporter whose work has appeared in The Telegraph and The Economist and who now works for NGO chinadialogue, says: “You have to get used to the idea that phone calls and messages are being read. If you choose to work in China and you’re working on stories or for publications that are of interest to the government, then you accept that quite early on.”

Putting sources at risk

One of the biggest challenges foreign correspondents face in China is locating sources. Many Chinese citizens are unwilling to speak to the media or are reluctant to be named. It’s a justifiable fear. For some in China, speaking out can result in a prison sentence, and the government is known to target the families of people who say the wrong thing, even preventing their children from attending school.

On one occasion, a China correspondent who works for a major US newspaper interviewed a young activist who had just been released from jail, only to find he was promptly sent back inside for speaking out about his work campaigning for improved rule of law. “I talked to him afterwards and he said he didn’t have any regrets – he knew the consequences. But it was still quite upsetting that someone would be thrown in jail for accepting an interview,” the journalist says.

While problems finding sources used to be the case for questions of politics only, everyday matters are now increasingly sensitive. Questions about economic policy, housing or education are often met with silence.

Middlehurst was confronted with this problem when she wrote a piece about homelessness for Time Out Shanghai and ended up with an article full of anonymous quotes. “The political conversations that are sensitive are already well-documented,” she says. “Things like Tiananmen Square – these are already known as red lines. But I was surprised to learn that topics that might not seem overtly political also needed to be handled with care.”

With so much on the line, dealing with sources presents an ethical dilemma and journalists have to be clever in their storytelling to find ways around the constraints. “Sometimes I’ll quote people anonymously even if they haven’t requested it,” Kaiman says. “If it’s somebody like a dissident or a high-profile activist I figure they already know what’s on the line. When I become worried is when I’m speaking to ordinary people who are angry about something. There’s a good chance they don’t know what the consequences could be.”

Working for the other side

Being a China correspondent for a foreign media group involves a frustrating search for sources and threats by the Chinese authorities. But being a foreign journalist for the Chinese media presents its own challenges.

Journalist Keyan Milanian worked in China in 2014 as an editor at CNC World, the TV section of Xinhua News Agency which is the official press agency of the Chinese government. Unlike the British media, which many consider

a public watchdog, the Xinhua News Agency, formed in 1931, is an arm of the state and its president is a member of the ruling party’s central committee.

Milanian explains that he came across a lot of editorialised content that took a strong view on topics considered controversial in the West. In particular he found that certain territories, like the islands in the South China Sea, were presented as owned by the Chinese where the West would consider them disputed.

He says: “Coming from a Western background, it would be frustrating editing stories of a very controversial nature. If it is based on fact, I would not feel suffering. However, sometimes they are editorialised, and then it becomes a problem.” On some occasions he felt so uncomfortable about the tone of a news report that he would have to pass it on to others to edit.

A love/hate relationship

Given the conditions, it might seem surprising that foreigners want the job, but with frustration can come great reward. This vast country hides thousands of communities, and journalists highlight the appeal of having access to so many untapped stories, as well as the chance to report on a dynamic, ever-changing environment.

“China’s at a real turning point in terms of its social development, its cultural development, and its political system,” explains Middlehurst. “You’re never bored working in China: you’re always learning something fascinating about the country because it’s changing so quickly. It’s a place of transformations.”

One US journalist agrees: “It’s like squeezing water out of a stone. But once you get it out, it’s incredibly delicious and refreshing water.”

Q&

ARadhika Sanghani, 27 (Newspaper, 2012), began The Telegraph’s trainee scheme, staying until 2017 as a feature writer. She is now a freelance journalist and author.

David Woode, 31 (Magazine, 2012), started his career at local newspapers in London. After City he joined The Sun’s trainee scheme. He is now a freelance reporter and feature writer.

Navigating journalism as an ethnic minority

Elena Chabo talks to City Journalism alumni Radhika Sanghani and David Woode about tokenism, trolling, and writing about race

QDo you ever feel like a representative of your race within journalism?

Radhika Sanghani: By and large no, though I will sometimes go on panels or debates where that is the kind of role I’m playing. There aren’t many ethnic minority journalists, so sometimes people will put pressure on you to represent everybody. I don’t ever want to speak on behalf of everyone, so it’s a difficult thing to balance. I’d love to help other people of ethnic minority get involved in journalism. There are definite positives to being asked to speak about it [race], but there is added pressure.

David Woode: No, and that’s because I seldom write comment or opinion . It’s impossible to speak on behalf of an ethnic group because everyone’s experience is unique. I don’t put myself in a position where I’d be viewed as a spokesman for Black Britain. If you get it wrong, you’re going to know about it. It’s best to give people the opportunity to tell their own stories and use your position and platform to report what’s happening on the ground. I just want to be a really good reporter, irrespective of my race. I don’t have a typically Ghanaian name and I’m aware that my byline doesn’t relate to my identity. In a way, it’s enabled me to do my job and just report.

Do you feel expected to cover or comment on race-related issues?

RS: In recent years I’ve made a massive effort to write about race-related issues. I never used to feel pressure at all and it’s never been put on me, but I’ve actually started to put that pressure on myself.

I do have that insight and I do have those contacts, so actually it is really important that I do that. If I am able to cover race-related issues and bring more diversity to the media, then I definitely should.

If I feel like a story’s about race but actually I can’t offer a perspective because I don’t really know much about that particular angle, then I’m totally comfortable saying “actually this one isn’t for me” and I’ve never had any push back on that.

I get trolled a lot because I write about feminism and it’s horrible. I get it as a woman, but I also get it more because I’m brown. So I get this double whammy of trolling that most other journalists just don’t. When I do write about race I definitely get it more than ever but it’s just one of those awful things.

rather just focus on the fact that I was qualified for the job and I got it.

When I was finishing City and I got onto two trainee schemes I did have a couple of comments like: “It’s the race card, isn’t it?” I was really offended and hurt by that because I had worked really hard and it felt like a really dismissive thing to say. These were friends and they were saying it in a jokey way, but it did feel like they meant it at times as well which I found really hurtful.

DW: My dad used to call it [tokenism] window dressing. I don’t feel like I was explicitly singled out, but what I will say is that there were times when I questioned my own ability when I don’t think that I should have.

“WHEN YOU STICK YOUR HEAD ABOVE THE PARAPET THE PUBLIC REACTION

CAN BE

BRUTAL”

I didn’t want any special treatment. I wanted to earn my stripes so editors would see I was well-trained and could hold my own. I focused on a “traditional” route – from local to regional press, to news agencies, and then national papers.

I wanted to go to court, on door-knocks, and attend public meetings; file football reports and real-life stories. I got to do all of those things and so much more. Nobody could say I “didn’t have the range”.

DW: Perhaps early on in my career, but not so much now. I feel like no one has ownership of stories anymore. You don’t really see many people that look like you writing the stories, so in certain scenarios I’d think: “OK I’m probably the only person who could write this story for this newspaper.” If millions of people are going to read it, you know that it’s going to feed into the narrative of what it is to be a black man, or a black woman, or a black teenager. Things like that always cross my mind.

Sometimes it’s difficult because you feel that some editors want you to talk about “the trauma” or “the pain and suffering” [of being an ethnic minority] and you think: “Well I don’t really want to talk about that because that’s not the sum of my being. That’s not all of my experience.” It feels like you’re being reduced. I’ve always resisted that. I rarely write about myself in the context of race. I’ve done so in the past and I wasn’t prepared for the reaction. I once made the mistake of searching my name online and I read some pretty awful comments on blogs and forums.

After that I made the decision that I don’t want to open myself up to that again. However, I respect anyone who does because when you stick your head above the parapet the public reaction can be brutal and in turn you feel hypervisible – it’s an unusual feeling. So personally, I thought, “nah, I’ll stick to reporting”.

Have you ever felt an achievement was the result of tokenism? Or that others have thought that about you?

RS: I’ve never thought that because everything I’ve applied for I know I’ve been qualified for. No editor is going to give somebody the job just because they’re brown; this is an industry where you need to know what you’re doing. I understand there could be an element of companies wanting diversity. I’m never going to know if the job was between me and another qualified candidate and they chose me just because I’m brown.

To be honest, I don’t really need to know that because it’s just gonna stress me out and give me a complex. I’d

A WORD OF ADVICE

I joined the [Westminster] Lobby in 2002 and, as far as I know, I’m the only black female Lobby reporter ever. There are more young BAME journalists coming up and it’s really good to see. I hear people talk about “imposter syndrome” [feeling like a fraud and feeling inadequate in spite of your success]. It’s possibly a good thing because it keeps you on your toes, but remember you’ve got every right to be where you are. There is no way on earth an editor would keep someone on who couldn’t do the job. If you’re an editor and you’re approaching a BAME employee about doing something because of their colour, you should just be honest and say: “Look, it might be good if we send you to this Pakistani community because your heritage is Pakistani.” It’s just a matter of being open if you’re asking someone to do something specifically because you think their race or heritage might help them get an in or be an advantage.

Anne Alexander, political producer, Good Morning Britain

Ba bies & bylines

More journalists are going freelance to look after their kids, but can you chase stories with a child on your lap? Asks

Lauren Kelly

Joy Joses (Journalism BA, 2000) 42, begins her day at 7am. She wakes her two sons, Jubril, 11, and Jaleel, 9. Then, while making Jaleel his jam on toast, and Jubril his Coco Pops, she sends emails and schedules Twitter posts for her online lifestyle publication, Melan Mag. At 8:20am she walks the boys to school, before beginning the working day – writing, commissioning and coordinating content – until 3pm, when the school run comes round again. After pick-up, Joy makes dinner and edits copy on her iPad while the children practice the piano and do their homework. Her husband gets home around 8pm and together they put Jaleel and Jubril to bed. A few times each week Joy will then head to a networking event for a couple of hours.

She works on features when she gets home. At 1am, she drags herself away from her desk and is up again at 7am, ready to repeat the routine.

Joses is among an estimated two million professional freelance workers in the UK, one in seven of whom are mothers, according to the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE). The hours fit around school runs and mean that Joses is on hand to comfort her children when they’re sick and never misses a school play. The flexibility of freelance work may explain why the number of freelancing mothers in the UK has almost doubled since 2008 to reach 302,000 in 2016.

Ben Machell (pictured left, Periodical, 2005), 36, a freelance writer for The Times, Vice, and The Evening Standard says that freelancing has allowed him to fit his work around his children. “Since there’s nobody checking where you are and you can work when the children are in bed, it’s the most ideal set-up for a parent,” he says. “I’ve never missed bedtime because of work.”

Gaby Hinsliff longed for a similar arrangement. At 38 she resigned from her role as political editor of The Observer in 2009 and started freelancing in order to spend more time with her two-year-old son Freddie. She says: “I used to work 18 hour days and have three hours of sleep – it reached a stage when I was barely seeing Freddie, or my husband. Now that I’m freelance I work mainly from home. I’m more in control of my hours, and I can organise my workload in regards to term time and school holidays.”

When the worlds of children and work collide, however, it is not always so simple. Katie Pisa (International, 2000), 41, a freelance writer for CNN and mother of three, has created an office at home – but that doesn’t stop the children disturbing her. “They always manage to find me, even when I lock myself away,” she says. “Whenever I do a Skype call, I genuinely spend the entirety of the call praying that the kids don’t walk in and ask me something embarrassing. They usually do. It can be difficult to remain professional when working at home, surrounded by children,” she says.

Tom Lamont (Periodical, 2004), 35, a freelance writer for The Guardian who has two children aged four and one, has been in similar predicaments. He explains that there have been times when he has edited articles with a child on his lap or sat in a playground while having a phone call. He has been known to cradle a snoozing child during an interview – “That is when it all falls apart,” he says. But when London

pre-school nursery places cost as much as £22,000 a year and freelance journalists in the UK earn on average £20,000 a year, is there any alternative to this balancing act?

For those without support, perhaps not. Joe Crowley, 35, a freelance television presenter for The One Show and Countryfile, who has a three-year-old son, says the only reason that he and his wife can afford nursery is because she doesn’t work in journalism and has a well-paid job. “At one point we were paying £1,200 a month. For a journalist to be able to afford that, it would mean a lot of news shifts.”

He adds: “There have been times when I’ve had to turn down work due to not having childcare, and in television it’s very dangerous to turn down work. If you say no to a job then somebody else will do it – if they do it well then you may not get a look-in after that.”

But it’s not always the journalists who are turning down work to look

“COLLEAGUES SEE YOU AS A PARENT, RATHER THAN A JOURNALIST”

after their children. Sometimes employers pass over journalists because they have children. Crowley, for example, maintains he was not offered a reporting job in Ireland because the company thought he wouldn’t want to be away from home. “It made me so incredibly angry that I was judged as a parent and not as a journalist. I do not want the fact that I have a child to affect my career and, as far as I’m aware, it shouldn’t,” he says.

Similarly, Hinsliff discloses that she was was ”definitely” treated differently when she came back to work after maternity leave. ”People see you in a different category – colleagues see you as a parent, rather than a journalist. Colleagues would ask ‘When’s the next one due?’,” she says.

On the other hand, parenthood can sometimes enhance a journalist’s career. Machell, for instance, notes that with less time to spare he has become more efficient with his writing and produces more content than he did before he had children.

Similarly, Lamont has found that fatherhood has enabled him to relate to celebrities who are parents and has given him the confidence to ask them “icky things” about their children.

Likewise, Kalpana Fitzpatrick, 40 –a freelance writer for nine years, who has a six-year-old and a four-year-old – used her knowledge of motherhood to launch the blog Mummy Money Matters in 2012. The site was the runner up for the Personal Finance Blog of the Year at the Show Me the Money Blogger Awards 2016. It helped Fitzpatrick land her current job as finance editor at Hearst Magazines UK.

Combining work and children can, however, come at a price. According a 2014 study by chilcare provider My Family Matters, six in ten mothers said that although they welcome the financial and emotional independence of working, they still felt guilty about it. Fitzpatrick says: “Every mother has experienced guilt. I’ve spoken to all of my friends and they, like me, have all suffered from it.” Joses, affirms this: “I have internal guilt. I question my decision to work. Am I doing the best by my children or am I being selfish? Can a parent truly have it all?”

it. Unfiltered voices

Two high profile journalists explain to Lydia Hawken and Katie Russell how they use their distinctive brands to stand out and attract loyal followings

GILES COREN

“IF YOU TONE IT DOWN, THERE’S NOTHING LEFT”

I didn’t set out to build a reputation. I just write whatever I like and people appreciate that.

I firmly believe what I write and hammer it home as emphatically as I can with as colourful language as the forms allow. In The Times I would never swear. But on Twitter, it’s all f**k and bollocks and shit and everyone thinks that’s great.

My career could have ended because of some massive controversy. But if you’ve survived writing exactly what you want and what you believe in, then 25 years later you will probably have a following and a reputation.

If you just do what you want to do, you will either be fired, or carve yourself some excellent unique position like I have been fortunate enough to do.

I get paid much more than all the others - because, I suppose, if you hire me you get the thing that I do.

When I read newspapers I think “God, cliché rubbish everywhere, I must try and do better than that.”

That’s why my voice is distinctive.

If I write for someone new, they think they want a piece by Giles Coren. I did an interview for Vogue a couple of years ago with their cover girl, actress Léa Seydoux. They thought I would be a bit roguish and lecherous, I suppose. And the piece I wrote was a bit full-on for Vogue. We had some struggles.

Many years ago The New York Times asked me to be their restaurant critic. When I said yes, they were like: “But you have to tone it down’.” And I go: “If you tone it down, mate, there’s nothing left.”

Coren is best known for his weekly food column in The Times, which he has written since 1993.

The restaurant critic was temporarily suspended from Twitter this March for responding to his own critics with strong language. He called the ban “a badge of honour”.

JACK MONROE

“TWITTER IS LIKE BEING IN A GLADIATOR PIT”

I find the labels really difficult. I’m not a trans-activist, I’m not an anti-poverty campaigner, I’m not an anti-austerity activist. I’m more interested in fundamental rights. I just want everybody to have food in their homes.

The New York Times put me on their cover with [the headline] “Britain’s Austerity Celebrity”. But there is no one face of poverty in this country. I’m white, I’m grammar school-educated, there are a lot more people out there who do not have those specific degrees of privilege that I have.

In 2016 there weren’t that many ‘out’ transgender people in the media and I felt like, as somebody with a platform who was gender-neutral, I had a duty to be representative of who I am.

My writing style is extremely ir-

reverent, it’s informal, it can be quite cheeky in places. It comes from an initial place of extreme hardship, but it’s got humour, it’s informative, it’s educational – I hope. I like to think it’s the equivalent of inviting a reader into my home for a cup of tea.

For me, Twitter is like being in a gladiator pit, where half the crowd is screaming at me to win and the other half wants my blood. It just seems to be my voice but louder. People must think I walk around with a placard on, banging a drum, yelling about the Tories. You get a snapshot of me at my most furious sweary worst.

My Twitter following doubled overnight with that libel win. A lot of people had no idea what I did before that. I write cookbooks too, and I do a lot of educational and humanitarian work. Now it’s about going back to my core brand, which is food and politics.

Monroe’s blog Cooking on a Bootstrap and accompanying cookbooks feature recipes that can feed a family for £10 a week.

In 2015, Monroe won a landmark libel case against Katie Hopkins. The TV personality and columnist had tweeted defamatory comments accusing Monroe of vandalising a war memorial.

Nicholas Coleridge

STILL IN VOGUE N

After 27 years at the helm of Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge tells Megan Agnew about swapping glossies for galleries

icholas Coleridge looks very chic for a hoarder. At work, he is the guardian of 3 million historical artefacts, seven miles of museum corridors, and Elton John’s spectacles. At his Worcestershire home, Wolverton Hall, he is the collector of fashion photographs, 18th century Indian art, and every magazine he has ever published. All 4,000 of them.

They’re grouped into 500 volumes, shelved in chronological order, and colour coded. Condé Nast Traveller is bound in green, Vogue in red, and GQ in blue. It’s an archive of his 32 years at Condé Nast –what he calls the “golden age” of glossies.

When we meet at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Coleridge, 62, is wearing a double-breasted suit, turquoise tie, and buffed leather shoes. His eyebrows dance mischievously across his forehead, and his grin makes you feel like you’ve been let in on a private joke.

We walk through drifts of tourists to a passageway which leads to an elevator which leads to the members’ room. It has windows overlooking the red brick courtyard and a glass ceiling so long and so high it can only have been built by the Victorians. As we sit down and share a pot of tea (English breakfast), he discuss-

es everything from the bright future of glossies to accusations of harassment against photographer Mario Testino.

Coleridge’s relationship with the museum began in his early twenties in the room below this one: the National Art Library. Home to Leonardo da Vinci’s only two books, it was there where Coleridge wrote his dissertation on Indian architecture. Since then, Coleridge has been a loyal visitor, trustee, and now, chairman of the V&A. His job is to “make sure the whole thing doesn’t go bankrupt”, and to manage the V&A’s collections.

“People who work in museums have slight kleptomaniac tendencies,” he explains with a grin. “They want to have

more and more, and to fill any gaps.”

The three days a week he’s not at the V&A, Coleridge is either writing his memoirs or working at Condé Nast. Before stepping down to become the publisher’s chairman last year, Coleridge was the longest serving managing director of any British media group (27 years). In his role as both British MD and president of Condé Nast International, Coleridge oversaw hundreds of successful launches, including Glamour, Love, and British Vanity Fair. He helped increase the number of magazines published from 40 to 140, and expanded the brand to Russia, China, Japan, India and eastern Europe.

Coleridge estimates that he attended some 15,000 parties during his time at Condé Nast. Whether dealing with Vogue’s advertisers or the V&A’s philanthropists, he has an effervescence perfect for “schmoozing”, as he calls it. Last week he was in Florida’s Palm Beach talking to potential museum donors, next week it’s New York, then back to London, where he’ll meet two people who “might give a million each”.

Evening Standard, and edited Harpers & Queen, until he was appointed editorial director of Condé Nast in 1989.

Of course, he can’t possibly say which Condé Nast publication is his favourite. “I love different ones at different times for different reasons,” he says diplomatically. “It would be like choosing a favourite child.” This is the key to Coleridge’s success: his appreciation of each publication’s individuality. “Readers want titles to have their own unique feel, and are disappointed when they don’t,” he explains. Any unnecessary overlap in Condé Nast’s artistic or editorial content makes Coleridge feel “uneasy”.

“MAGAZINES ARE A CRUCIAL, GRADE ONE, CULTURAL RESOURCE”

“Every magazine needs a very specific atmosphere, and you want to keep them distinct,” he says. “Vogue House [the Condé Nast office in London] is very tribal and the stereotypes are predominantly true. People working in Vogue are very likely wearing Manolo Blahniks and being slim. People on Tatler are socially ambitious, party-facing and gossipy. And people in GQ are interested in sport, business, and girls.”

He is particularly devoted to adding to the V&A’s collection of magazines and journals. “I think magazines are a crucial, grade one, cultural resource,” Coleridge says. “They are always changing because the world is always changing. Nothing looks more stale than a magazine from five years ago.”

For Coleridge, glossies are precious artefacts: snapshots of the cultural zeitgeist. “Magazines have a physical allure which is very potent,” he says, “I’m speaking of the beautiful printing, and the way that the colour of the print sits on the page. They are an object of beauty.”

No one talks about magazines quite like Coleridge. “I still feel an incredible excitement when a new issue comes onto my desk,” he continues. “It’s got that amazing smell, and it feels so gloriously new, and my expectations are so high. It’s a total treat.”

Like a first love, Coleridge can remember the exact moment he and magazines first met. He was 15 years old and ill in bed when he picked up a copy of Harpers & Queen (now Harper’s Bazaar). Coleridge immediately handwrote an article (“How to survive at teenage parties”) and posted it to the editor, who sent him a cheque for £40 and printed his piece in the magazine.

After graduating from Cambridge, he went on to work under Tina Brown at Tatler, wrote a column for the

Coleridge prides himself on reading everything his teams produce, as well as their competitors. This encyclopedic knowledge of magazines resulted in remarkable growth. In 1989, Vogue sold 135,000 copies a month; it now sells on average 220,000. In the same time period, Tatler increased its circulation from 25,000 to 90,000, and GQ grew from 40,000 to 110,000.

Luxury titles have been protected from the downturn of print media, and Coleridge believes this is because of their physicality. He has faith in magazines as “objects of prestige” that don’t need to be constantly “recharged”. He mentions the publications that will still be around in 25 years: Vogue, GQ, and Tatler top the list because each speak to a clear audience. “I’m optimistic,” he says with gusto.

But Vogue House hasn’t been all smiles this year. In January, The New York Times published an article about Mario Testino, in which 13 of the fashion photographer’s assistants and male models accused Testino of multiple acts of sexual harassment.

Testino’s photographs first appeared in British Vogue in 1983, and he has shot covers with Serena Williams, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Kate Moss. As a result, Condé Nast announced it has suspended all contracts with him “for the foreseeable future”.

How did Coleridge react to the news? “I’ve known Mario for a

very long time. He has been a star of Vogue for a long time. The various issues that have come up were complete news to me, and to most people who knew him. Under the circumstances, there wasn’t much choice but for there to be a cooling off period during this awful time.”

Coleridge himself is renowned for keeping the peace at Condé Nast. Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman was at the helm for 25 years before stepping down in 2017, Jo Elvin edited Glamour for 17 years, and GQ’s Dylan Jones is still there after 19.

When it comes to placing editors, he is very particular – they must “have a real feeling for that world”. He adds: “There are subtleties to it. There would be no point having an editor on Tatler who was totally egalitarian and was offended by any notion of privilege. And there’s no point in having an editor on GQ who is a total scruff bag.” For the chairman, a clever editor must have a clear understanding of who their readers are, not just who they wish their readers to be. The latter, he says, is a “recipe for suicide”.

One major change is having online data, which is making it easier for editors to know what their audience likes. But Coleridge believes there is a “danger” to this. “People don’t always know what they want to read until they’re given it,” he says. “If you ask readers what they would like to read, most people don’t really have any ide-

as. They want older people on the cover, but when you put an older person on the cover you don’t sell any copies. There’s a big gap between what people say and what they mean.”

The internet has also forced editors to be more outward facing. At the beginning of Coleridge’s career, many “wouldn’t have met a living soul”.

“THERE’S NO POINT IN HAVING AN EDITOR ON GQ WHO IS A TOTAL SCRUFF BAG”

Now, however, they need to be public figures. “The role of an editor now favours the extrovert. You have to be a pivotal figure in your world.”

He continues: “The editor of Vogue is a central figure in the fashion industry, the editor of GQ sits in the front row of every menswear show, and the editor of Tatler should – in a dream world – be having lunch with the Beckhams and supper with a duke”.

Technology has also increased people’s desire for “experiences”, because they’re in need of a break from screen

time. In response, Coleridge has added lectures, awards, and a fashion college to the Condé Nast portfolio. And it’s a strategy he hopes to continue at the V&A. Museums allow people to get away from “the awful paranoia-inducing likes-ometer of Instagram”, as Coleridge calls it. For a man who’s been to a lot of parties, a favourite event of his is the V&A’s “Friday Lates”, where you can drink wine and listen to live music in the galleries until 10pm.

“The Lates have also become…” Coleridge pauses, reluctant, then decides to divulge – a skilled gossip, “... it’s an incredibly popular pick-up joint for millennials. People can strike up a conversation with somebody as they stand there looking at Trajan’s Column, without it looking like they’re in desperate or predatory mode.”

The transition from magazines to museums seems to have been a natural one for Coleridge. But as he slowly steps back from Condé Nast, there is a lot to reflect on. “I hope people will recognise the magazines as being of rather high quality, and of employing rather high quality journalists,” he says. “I hope I leave a civilised atmosphere, a happy vibe.”

But he has created more than this. Coleridge has caught the spirit of every month for three decades, and printed it in 4,000 glossy magazines. And now each one is an artefact.

Check out our video interview with Nicholas Coleridge at xcityplus.com.

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The apple pie from McDonald’s is like going home again. You time-travel back to being a six-year-old on a bike.” Not quite as witty as Jay Rayner, but this is genuine restaurant criticism from American comedian Nick Wiger on Doughboys, the podcast he co-hosts with Mike Mitchell. Twice a week, the show offers useless insights like this to 4,900 premium subscribers. Between them, the hosts earn over £200,000 a year on subscriptions alone.

Earnings like these are not unique in the world of podcasting, which has grown at an immense rate over the last few years. The US is ahead of the UK in terms of listening figures, with 15% (42 million) of its population listening to podcasts weekly, compared to 7% (around 4.5 million) of the UK’s.

In both countries, the figures are increasing. On this side of the pond, even former Labour leader Ed Miliband –lambasted since the 2015 General Election for his underwhelming media per-

Small costs, big ratings: the money-maker journos can’t resist

By Grace Whelan and Jack Napier

formances – has created a show with a five-star iTunes rating.

With the low cost of starting a podcast, Miliband’s new venture offered little financial risk. The only equipment needed is a microphone, editing software, and a hosting service like SoundCloud. Freelance producers come as cheap as £25 per episode, and creators can market their shows without a network. Given the £716,000 average cost of producing a half-hour TV show, it is easy to see how the simplicity of podcast production has lured a number of traditional radio presenters and journalists.

One example of this is Geoff Lloyd, who created Adrift with Annabel Port after they left their drivetime show on Absolute Radio. He highlights the effortlessness of the move. They record the podcast in Lloyd’s loft in London. “It’s quite weird,” he says, “having Ed Miliband and his aides – I call them the Miligang – turn up at my front door, as well as the different political luminar-

ies and stand-up comedians who we feature as guests every week.”

Of course, not everyone has the same success as Miliband and Lloyd. But this is hardly surprising: last year there were an estimated 115,000 unique English language podcasts made. There were also around ten billion podcast downloads on Apple’s platform in 2016. But Hot Pod, one of the leading forces in podcast research, estimates

“IT’S JUST GOING TO BE ME AND PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IN MY GARAGE”

this figure only makes up around 50% of total podcast downloads, the rest made up by other platforms like Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict.

This growth goes some way to answering the question posed by interviewer-extraordinaire Marc Maron in the introduction to the biggest podcast of his career: “How is this happening? It’s just going to be me and President Barack Obama in my garage.”

Although the US leads the way in terms of ad revenue, Joel Grove, UK manager of content partnerships at podcast platform Acast, says Britain is heading in the same direction. He says a number of podcasters on Acast now make a living through their shows.

This has been the case since big brands like Bose and Gillette have taken enough of an interest to sponsor new, unproven shows like The A to Z of David Bowie, a podcast detailing

the late pop-star’s escapades. Grove adds: “We’re no longer convincing media agencies to spend on podcasting – they’re coming to us. Podcasting is a mainstream media form now.” Media research company Bridge Ratings predicted US podcast revenue would more than double from £173m in 2017 to over £380m by 2020.

Serial, launched in 2014, set a precedent for podcasting on a new scale. The series reopened the case of missing high school senior, Hae Min Lee. Its sharp production and taut storytelling was a smash success, making it the fastest podcast to reach five million downloads. Today it is credited with sparking the true-crime phenomenon and marking the move of podcasts from alternative to mainstream.

For many, podcasts are the soundtrack to their commute. Joe Bullmore, editor of Gentleman’s Journal and founder of The Gentleman’s Journal Podcast says: “The reason we started a podcast in the first place was that our target audience is much more likely to engage with us on his 20-minute com-

mute than when he gets to the office and looks through our website. The podcast just sits much more naturally with your day, and you can do it while still getting endorphin hits or scrolling through Instagram.”

And podcasts are only going to become easier to engage with as the platforms become more personalised, which is good news for journalists looking to make the jump. Jez Nelson, CEO of Somethin’ Else, a leading UK content agency, predicts that more intuitive applications will the transform the listener experience in 2018. “Some podcast platforms are still a bit clunky,” he says. “They don’t back up nat-

urally, stop downloading if you take a break, and don’t navigate easily. We need one-click, instant satisfaction.”

Intuitive systems are particularly important with podcasts, which have the most varied programming of any media. From The Jam, “where nerds talk about nothing, literally”, to Starlee Kine’s The Mystery Show, which answers everyday mysteries such as just how tall Jake Gyllenhaal really is, there’s something for everyone.

The satisfaction of finding curiosities is one of the reasons shows garner cult followings. Patreon is the membership service on which Doughboys, Adrift

“WE’LL SEE TYPES OF RADIO DIE IN THE NEXT TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS”

and many other podcasts host premium content. Founded in 2013, it is a platform which allows fans to financially sponsor their favourite creators. Number one on Patreon’s top podcasts page is Chapo Trap House, a subversive American political podcast hosted by five millennials, which jumps between serious analysis and impressions of Obama as different Batman villains. The show earns £67,500 a month, or over £787,000 a year, entirely paid for by listeners.

According to Radio Joint Audio Research, radio is the most consumed form of audio in the UK, reaching over 48 million adults each week. However, with funding from advertisers and technology supporting their rise, will we see podcasts overtake their analogue sibling?

“I hope so,” Lloyd says. “I’ve kind of bet the farm on it. Most people have never listened to a podcast, so there’s a huge capacity for growth. I think we’ll see certain types of radio vanish in the next ten or fifteen years.” Forget video killing the radio star, podcasts may be on the way to killing radio itself.

Rise of the

ALT-LEFT BLOGS

Socialist blogs are waging war on the mainstream media writes Simon Fearn

Taking cues from alt-right websites Breitbart UK and Guido Fawkes, the left has set up its own alternative news outlets. They decry the corporate bias of the MSM (mainstream media) and break certain stories well before the nationals. Yet their coverage has sometimes been embarrassingly debunked.

Three of these platforms (The Canary, Evolve Politics, The Skwawkbox)

THE CANARY

FOUNDED: October 2015

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Kerry-Anne Mendoza

TOTAL PAGE VIEWS PER MONTH: 1.4m (January 2018)

WHAT THEY SAY “A handful of powerful moguls control our mainstream media. As such, its coverage is largely conservative.”

WHAT THEIR CRITICS SAY:

“The maddest left-wing website in the world.” (Michael Deacon, The Telegraph)

BIGGEST SCOOP: Allegations from a whistleblower that Conservative campaigners posed as telephone operators for a pollster, asking leading questions to target marginal seats. (May 2016)

BATTIEST STORY: Attacking Laura Kuenssberg for agreeing to speak at the Tory party conference. She hadn’t. (September 2017)

are starting to have a real influence within UK politics. Evolve Politics’ story on Theresa May dropping a pledge to ban the sale of antique elephant ivory became the most shared article of the 2017 election. Online outrage forced Michael Gove to launch a 12week consultation on the issue. This February, Evolve Politics became the first of the alt-left blogs to get a Westminster lobby pass, giving

EVOLVE POLITICS

FOUNDED: November 2015

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF: Matt Turner and Jessica Miller

TOTAL PAGE VIEWS PER MONTH: 660,000 (January 2018)

WHAT THEY SAY: “The majority of all mainstream political coverage fits an increasingly obvious proEstablishment narrative.”

WHAT THEIR CRITICS SAY:

“Evolve are no better than the worst of the manipulative rightwing MSM publications.” (Alex McNamara, former Evolve team member, The New Statesman)

BIGGEST SCOOP: Tory donors with links to Putin have donated a total of £1.8m since 2010. (November 2017)

BATTIEST STORY: “Did the BBC just use subliminal messaging to label Corbyn a communist?” (January 2017)

co-editor Matt Turner access to regular briefings and freedom to roam around the houses of Parliament. “People are being forced to take us more seriously,” Turner says. “The landscape is changing in favour of digital outlets that rely on social media for their audience.” Are these sites a breath of fresh air for the media or a left-wing echo chamber? XCity profiles these three influential platforms to find out.

THE SKWAWK BOX

FOUNDED: May 2012

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Steven Walker

TOTAL PAGE VIEWS PER MONTH: 645,000 (January 2018)

WHAT THEY SAY: “The Skwawkbox presents information and analysis that will rarely make it into the mainstream media because it doesn’t fit their agenda.”

WHAT THEIR CRITICS SAY: “Skwawkbox is not a credible or decent media outlet. They make it up as they go along.” (John Mann, Labour MP, the Daily Mail)

BIGGEST SCOOP: Eight UKIP MEPs, including Nigel Farage and Paul Nuttall, investigated for the misuse of €2m (£1.7m) in EU funds (The Guardian later had the figure as £500,000). (December 2016)

BATTIEST STORY: Claiming the Government covered up the true death toll at Grenfell. (June 2017)

SOUNDING THE ALARM

Trade magazine Inside Housing warned of dangerous cladding in the months leading up to the Grenfell Tower fire. Josh Spencer asks why their concerns were largely ignored by national media

Peter Apps, news editor at Inside Housing, had just collected his publication’s ninth award in 12 days. The magazine had beaten The Guardian, the Financial Times, and The Telegraph to win news provider of the year at the British Journalism Awards last December. Apps had also picked up the specialist journalist of the year award, days after Inside Housing had taken home seven prizes at the International Building Press Awards.

But, despite immense pride in his publication’s work, Apps struggled to fully enjoy the moment. Inside Housing’s accolades were given in recognition of its coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire, and the prescient warnings the magazine had given before the disaster. “If you’ve won an award for covering a story where 70 people have died in really horrific circumstances, it’s hard to be happy about it,” Apps says two months later. Emma Maier, editor of Inside Housing, adds: “We’ve won a lot of awards for stories we wish we never had to write.”

On 14 June 2017, a deadly fire engulfed Grenfell Tower. The building’s cladding was blamed for the fire’s spread – Apps and staff at Inside Housing had been reporting on the dangers of the material for years. Maier

“GRENFELL SHOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED: THERE HAD BEEN WARNINGS”

speaks of a “sinking feeling that there were lessons out there that could have been learned,” while Apps mentions an intensified anger because “we all knew that Grenfell is something that shouldn’t have happened – there had been warnings”. But the magazine’s concerns before the tragedy were not significantly picked up by the national press, so the impact of Inside Housing’s reporting remained limited.

Direct pitches to national publications were ignored or rejected in the run up to Grenfell. Ian Burrell, media commentator for the i newspaper and The Drum, commented that pickup was low because “newsroom beats covering social affairs or housing are either unfashionable or lost altogether,” with “sparse resources directed towards celebrity, sports, or other areas”. An underfunded local press is unable to pick up the slack from national

publications, also being crippled by a lack of resources. But despite the media’s evident problems, journalism can learn lessons from the story of Inside Housing and Grenfell.

Inside Housing’s reporting on fire safety became a significant focus for the magazine following the Lakanal House fire in 2009. The horrific blaze at the council-owned tower block in Southwark led to the deaths of six people, including a three-week old baby. A lengthy coroner’s inquest concluded in 2013. It revealed that panels installed on the outside of the building had helped the fire spread quick er than expected – a deadly mistake blamed partly on Southwark Council.

In an article titled “Lakanal House: The Verdict” from April 2013, Housing reporter Emily Twinch out lined the details of the inquest in the hope that it would “ensure a tragedy like Lakanal House never happens again”. National press coverage of the inquest was substantial in the immediate aftermath, and a range of recommendations were provid ed by the coroner to the government, councils, and housing associa tions. “We couldn’t im agine anything worse than Lakanal happen ing,” Maier says. But interest in fire safe ty soon subsided. Maier explains that the national press “weren’t really cov ering fire safety between 2013 and Grenfell,” de spite the shocking reve lations from the Lakanal inquest. Inside Housing was left feeling like a sole campaigner, launching in

vestigations to make sense of the horrors of Lakanal and hold authorities to account based on the inquest’s findings. What they discovered frightened them. In 2015, the publication used Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to reveal that just 18 council-owned UK tower blocks out of 2,925 had installed sprinklers in flats, despite the coroner at Lakanal’s recommendations to do so. “It was a warning sign,” Apps says. While the piece wasn’t ignored, follow-up by other publications was minimal.

The disaster at Lakanal remained

an area of interest for Inside Housing long after the fire was no longer on the national news agenda. A piece written by Sophie Barnes in March 2017 titled “Lessons from Lakanal” followed Southwark Council pleading guilty to four criminal charges in relation to the fire – including not carrying out a fire risk assessment. The article warned that “there is still much to be done to ensure the avoidable tragedy of Lakanal House is not repeated”. Further pieces in March included a warning from industry experts that the government’s delay in reviewing fire safety regulations could be putting tower blocks and their residents at risk of another disaster.

Reporting stepped up after the Shepherd’s Bush fire in 2016. A faulty tumble dryer caught fire and people were evacuated as the tower block blazed. No one died during the incident, but Apps says “it was obvious they could have”. He adds: “I really think that it was a moment in time when people could have said: ‘We need to something about this.’ And they didn’t.”

It took several months of work and multiple FOI requests to get confirmation, but in April 2017 Inside Housing revealed tests had shown insulation panels were “likely” to have caused the devastating fire’s spread.

For Apps, one piece in particular during the coverage of the Shepherd’s Bush fire stands out as symbolic of the national press’ weak coverage of fire

“A LOCAL PAPER WOULD HAVE HAD THE COUNCIL ANSWERING QUESTIONS”

safety. In May 2017, he wrote “A Stark Warning” – an investigation which revealed that Hammersmith & Fulham council were unaware of the flammable plywood on their tower blocks. Apps’ piece concludes with the lines: “Other social landlords could be in the same position. It is hoped they will discover any issues and deal with them before another tragedy occurs.”

But the warnings weren’t picked up by the local authorities, government or national press. The signs of impending catastrophe were also absent from television screens. The BBC’s Victoria Cook tweeted footage of a man shouting at Jon Snow when he was presenting for Channel 4 after the Grenfell fire in June. The man said: “You didn’t come here when people

were telling you that the building was unsafe! That is not newsworthy. You come here when people die. Why?”

Apps’ “Stark Warning” was also “totally ignored” by the Evening Standard and declined by the BBC after direct pitches to both. Apps says it was a straightforward story: “Someone had stuck plywood on a building, causing a fire to spread. Anyone on the street can understand that.” At that stage, the London Fire Brigade were warning that this dangerous material was on other tower blocks – yet coverage in other papers remained absent.

A month later, tragedy struck. Maier and Apps both have their own perspectives on what can be learnt from Grenfell and on the lack of national press interest in their coverage. Apps cites two reasons – the first of which is news cycles. “If we’re all talking about Brexit, things outside those narratives are difficult to run,” he says. National newspapers “have to think about what people will read – you have to react to the agenda as much as set it”. Maier agrees that in hindsight it’s easy to criticise the national press, and some of this criticism is unfair.

Primarily, Apps believes the lack of coverage is a resource issue. “If a national newspaper was employing a well-informed housing correspondent they would follow things like this through. They would have been aware of Lakanal and its significance,” Apps says. He believes an industry move to drop specialists has meant publications lose the ability to know which stories are important, “without just following

the latest news agenda”.

A lack of resources has also led to the demise of the local press, an issue Apps believes is a worrying lesson for the industry to act on and resolve. “Grenfell, before it caught fire, was a local press story,” Apps says. “Kensington and Chelsea has no real local newspaper –if the borough had a functioning local paper, the council would have been answering questions.”

Ian Burrell says he believes Grenfell was “a sign of how the values of the UK news media have shifted” to a “spotlight on the rich and famous, leaving the poorest sections of society in the media shadows”.

But Maier believes that the media are already starting to learn from Grenfell, as it remains firmly on the news agenda. If she had one takeaway, it would be “making sure [the press] really gets to the heart of the matter”. She adds: “There’s always a temptation to call for heads on a plate, and sometimes that can be counterproductive in making sure that real systemic failings are resolved.”

Since Grenfell, Inside Housing has continued to hold authorities to account. In the aftermath, they were first to analyse fire safety assessments and reveal a significant amount of fire safety issues in tower blocks across the UK. Maier says the tragedy of Grenfell has only strengthened the resolve of the magazine: “We have to continue what we did last time, drawing people’s attention to the issues that are important – even when the national news media moves away.”

B2Bs THAT SAW IT COMING

by Annie Simon

Pulse

The GP shortage

The countrywide GP shortage hit headlines in 2015, but trade magazine Pulse predicted the problem as early as 2013. In an article published on 28 February of that year, Pulse reported on the failure of top universities to produce enough GPs and the worrying unpopularity of general practice among medical students. They also revealed survey results showing the increasing number of vacancies in GP surgeries, which suggested a difficulty in recruitment and retention and led them to report a “looming workforce crisis”.

The Grocer

Campylobacter, the UK’s most common cause of food poisoning

In July 2014, national papers picked up on the fact that two thirds of the raw chicken meat sold in the UK was contaminated with campylobacter, a bacteria that causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting, and was thought to kill 100 people each year. However, The Grocer had been following the Food Standards Agency’s campylobacter results and reporting on the rise in contaminated meat for months before a Guardian investigation made the story mainstream news. The trade magazine reported the FSA’s claims about the extent of campylobacter contamination back in January 2013.

Construction News

The Carillion Crisis

Carillion, the UK’s second largest contractor and facilities manager, went into compulsory liquidation on 15 January 2018. Trade publication Construction News had been reporting on the firm’s financial woes as early as July 2017. The magazine had been following the construction giant’s increasing debts and desperate attempts at restructuring, commenting back in September 2017 that the company’s troubles should act as a warning to the entire industry and predicting the “horror show” that was yet to come.

I will survive

As streaming and amateur reviewers undermine the role of music critics, these four writers are still banging the drum for their craft, writes Simon Fearn

Music journalism used to mean interviewing inebriated stars and wading through beer and urine to review gigs. Now critics are facing diminishing word counts and pay. Before, they could tour with a band for months, but now their job can feel like working in a digital sweatshop.

XCity speaks to four journalists who’ve experienced this transition first-hand. Between reminiscing about big name interviews and recounting surreal concerts played on balloons and ice instruments, they also reflect on the fight for the soul of music criticism.

“MUSIC JOURNALISM SEEMS MORE NERDY TODAY THAN WHEN I GREW UP”

Simon Reynolds, freelance journalist for Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker

There’s more music writing and commentary than ever before, but fewer people are making a living out of it. There’s more and more space available to write thanks to the internet, but a lot of it is poorly paid.

I started freelancing for [now defunct music magazine] Melody Maker when I was 22, at the very end of 1985. Like most aspiring music journalists, I got in by sending sample reviews to one of the editors. Nine months later they offered me a salaried position.

When I interview musicians I usually have a good sense of whether it’s likely to be an interesting conversation. Morrissey and Tricky were just as scintillating as I’d hoped. I did expect Kate Bush to be more like her music –vivid, dramatic, generous – but she’s a very guarded and dry interview.

The most memorable concerts have also been the worst. In 1987 I got the short-straw assignment to cover the Monsters of Rock heavy metal festival at Castle Donington, Leicestershire. It was pissing with rain and raining with piss. People didn’t want to lose their position near the stage, so they would piss into empty bottles and then throw them through the air. I was way at the back, so unscathed by the piss shower though not unscathed by the music, which was dire. Still, the concert lent itself to a great piece of writing.

Music journalism seems more nerdy and ultra-knowledgeable today than the music press I grew up on. When I started people were winging it a lot more since you didn’t have the internet to refer to for facts and background.

Basic reporting skills were something you learned on the job, if you learned them at all. The basic structure of intro to nut graph was completely foreign to most of us, as was checking our facts. It was a free-for-all playpen for young, pretentious minds. Some great things came out of that, as well as some really atrocious writing.

“STARS COULDN’T GIVE A SHIT. LOU REED JUST INSULTED ME FOR AN HOUR”

Will Hodgkinson, chief pop and rock critic at The Times

Icame into music journalism too late. You used to have stories of journalists going on tour for months with the Rolling Stones and coming back with an 8,000 word feature. Nobody’s going to pay for that anymore. Those days are over.

I was 27 before I properly started making a living out of music journalism. In 2000 I got a column in The Guardian called Home Entertainment, which was about people’s record collections. Records are a really good way of getting an insight into people’s lives without asking direct questions. A lot of people talked about who they really looked up to as teenagers or the first time they fell in love.

I remember doing an interview with Tim Burgess from The Charlatans for the column. It was 11am and he was so out of it that he had to ask me how to use his own record player. I feel that those situations happen less and less now. Back then I would be allowed to just turn up at someone’s house; there wouldn’t be a PR hanging over me and it would be a lot of fun.

I became The Times’ chief pop and rock critic in 2010. It’s hard work. Album reviews take ages – I generally do five a week. I usually have a day to write a feature. Last week I did three concert reviews in three days and interviewed three artists.

You feel that when you’re a real fan of someone you understand them and they’ll understand you. Then you meet them and of course they couldn’t give a shit. Lou Reed just insulted me for an hour. I’d ask him what I’d consider to be quite an informed question and he’d say: “That’s a rather pubescent question don’t you think?”

It’s the cheesiest popstars who tend to be nice. You’re not going to meet a more lovable person than Peter Andre. In a way it’s not surprising. They just want to be loved. They wouldn’t be pop stars otherwise.

“A COMPOSER’S HARMONIES WERE BASED ON THE SOUND OF A FOOD MIXER”

Hannah Nepil, freelance classical music journalist for the Financial Times and Gramophone magazine

When I started out as a journalist all the things that I wanted to write about were these strange, left-field events which often didn’t get publicised.

I’ve interviewed Judy Dunaway, who makes music by rubbing balloons together in a slightly suggestive way, and reviewed a concert played on ice instruments (including an ice cello) in an igloo in Norway. They were much more interesting than another Brahms concert, but it was always the Brahms that got in the papers.

I did a year of work experience at eight different music magazines and newspapers. That’s kind of where my career came from.

When I was at Time Out, the classical music editor Jonathan Lennie was very innovative and adventurous in the stuff he covered. The first thing he asked me to do was write about Flatpack: The Ikea Opera. I was completely enamoured by this. The composer Tom Lane explained how all the harmonies were based on the sound of a food mixer he had.

I mostly write for the Financial Times and Gramophone magazine At the moment I’m trying to do two or three features a month and mainly review concerts. If it’s a really weird opera production and you’ve no idea what the director is going on about, that can be quite stressful. You get home at 11pm and have to figure out what he’s trying to say by 3am the next morning.

More people can express their music opinions online now. The Arts Desk [a classical music website] got started in 2009; BachTrack started in 2010. I started my own website, The Cusp, in 2010 about unusual events on the boundaries between different artforms.

There are so many concerts and so many people reviewing them that you need expert opinions to know where to look. We need established publications like Gramophone more than ever.

“IF I WERE 18 OR 19 NOW I’M NOT SURE I’D SPEND

Kevin Le Gendre, freelance journalist and broadcaster for The Independent, The Guardian and the BBC

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’m not even sure I’d start a career in music journalism today. There’s definitely been a change in how much you can write and how much you can earn. A lot of my colleagues at [specialist music magazine] Jazzwise have day jobs. If I didn’t have radio and copywriting work I’d be financially dead in the water.

When I started as a music critic in 1997 there were features in the mainstream press about people who weren’t big. The first thing The Observer commissioned me to write was

about a scene in west London called broken beat [electronic music with unconventional rhythms]. People like IG Culture and Bugz in the Attic were in there; it was fairly obscure and really interesting. These days an editor will say: “What’s their relevance? What’s their social media presence?”

I think, however, there has been some progress in making people realise that jazz is really important. Last year I presented a documentary on [American jazz pianist] Alice Coltrane on Radio 3. She’s not a household

name, but the documentary went out at 6:45pm on a Sunday evening. I’m not sure that would have happened ten or 15 years ago.

If I were 18 or 19 now I’m not sure I’d spend that much time reading about music. The advent of YouTube and Spotify means people have every reason to spend more time listening to music directly and just cut out the middle man. But if people are really listening to the music then they’ll want more information. Why would they not want to read?

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FREELANCERS

Salary: £22,984

One in three are on state benefits

The surge of UK freelancers caused by economic trouble and redundancies in the last decade caused a lack of competition in the market. Many have been asked to do free work or are being paid below what was agreed upon.

90%

Earning a decent living as a journalist has never been more The Guardian, pay has risen around by 250% since 1900 and now averages £28,000 per year. Property prices have risen by 380% in the same time period. The industry is even tougher for freelancers, who have received little to no pay increase over the last 20 years.

Words by Molly Sequin, infographic by Zhou Zhang

STAFFERS

Salary: £28,000

haven’t received a pay increase in the past five years

Fees are between £100 per 1,000 words for a small publication and £400 for 1,000 words for a larger publication. In comparison, those rates ranged from £250 to £600 in 2007.

94%

like their jobs

but are worried about falling pay.

The BBC has more than 40 journalists earning £150,000+ a year. Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine has the salary of five MPs combined, sitting in the £700,000£749,999 pay bracket. BBC reporters are paid up to 40% more than commercial rivals.

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received a pay rise of 1-2%in the past five years. 15% received no pay rise.

Although the average salary for staffers is higher at £28,000, they still rely on the strict deadlines and quick turnarounds that freelancers need to make a living.

87%

like their jobs

With 25-50% of staff jobs being cut since 2008, they are scared of being laid off like their colleagues at Mashable, Buzzfeed and ESPN.

The median wage for men is £20,000 to £30,000. Just under 60% are women. The median wage is only £10,000 to £19,999.

250 BBC staff recently demanded transparent salary reporting to combat pay inequality, especially after professional services firm PwC reported no gender bias existed.

63% are men. They earn 18% more, and are paid 11% more in bonuses.

Fighting talk

After 30 years under enemy fire, Christina Lamb tells Megan Agnew and Dillon Thompson about the extraordinary people who keep her coming back to the battlefield

Photographs by Annabel Snoxall

It’s International Women’s Day, and Christina Lamb has been busy. When we meet her at the News Building in London Bridge, she’s come straight from a lunch at 34 Mayfair, an upmarket restaurant in central London. The event was hosted by Harper’s Bazaar and Chanel, who served Veuve Clicquot champagne and beetroot salads to magazine editors, authors, and fashion designers.

A week earlier, Lamb’s lunchtime couldn’t have been more different. Her venue was a camp in Iraq, and her hosts were a group of Yazidi women who had been kept as Isis sex slaves.

This is the dual life that comes with being a foreign correspondent, and Lamb is well practised. In her 30-year career she has balanced reporting on some of modern history’s worst conflicts with a life back in London, filled with editorial meetings, theatre trips, and stressing about her 18-year-old son’s gap year.

As we enter the lift with Lamb and ascend to a staff café on the building’s 14th floor, she doesn’t seem like someone who was standing in a warzone just days ago. As chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, Lamb has been in the middle of some of the past year’s most dangerous conflicts,

including the war in Syria, the military coup in Zimbabwe, and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar.

Still dressed for a Mayfair luncheon, Lamb calmly sips her cup of tea as we settle into a table at the back corner of the café. Her demeanor fits in well with our tranquil surroundings: she speaks slowly and smiles before answering each of our questions. Her voice may be subdued, but our conversation is far from tame, touching on topics from bus bombings to her former news editor dropping his trousers to “moon” her in the office.

Lamb isn’t afraid to speak her mind. It’s one of the reasons she’s given multiple TED talks and recently appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs –the type of high-profile engagements normally reserved for celebrities and politicians, not war reporters.

But Lamb, 52, is not an ordinary war reporter. Instead of simply covering the “bang bang”, as she calls it, she focuses on the more human side of military conflicts. Many of her articles read more like novels than war reports –only all of the stories are true. In the past year, her dispatches have featured people like Amina, a 14-year-old Rohingya refugee whose village was burnt by Burmese soldiers; Wadha,

a Syrian woman seeking refuge in Germany without her seven young sons; and Nihad Barakat, a Yazidi teenager who gave birth while living as a slave to an Isis fighter.

Lamb’s latest book, The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom (2016), was co-authored with 16-year-old year old Nujeen, a girl with cerebral palsy who traveled from Syria to Germany in a wheelchair. Like much of Lamb’s work, the book tells a personal story – one of teenage insecurities and sibling rivalry – while also demonstrating the severity of an ongoing crisis.

“A lot of these situations are really hard for people to understand and people get tired of it all. I understand that,” she says. “That’s why it’s so important to find a person or a story that you can tell [these conflicts] through, that makes people identify, and makes people think what it would be like in that situation.”

Telling these kinds of stories isn’t easy. But for writers like Lamb who cover such traumatising issues, the journey home can be just as harrowing. “The hard thing is adjusting to coming back,” she says. Over the years, Lamb has seen some colleagues struggle with readjustment and develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In some cases they have even committed suicide.

Though it was never a topic of conversation when she started out, Lamb says foreign desks are now more aware of the dangers of PTSD and have put better support systems in place. For Lamb, a big part of this is making the most of her life back at home. Instead

of spending her days off rehashing what she’s seen on the job, she focuses on the everyday, such as spending time with her husband, Paulo, a sports and business reporter, and worrying about her son, Lourenço, who is currently travelling in Vietnam.

“You need to think about your mental wellbeing. It’s important to have a normal life, and being a mum helps that,” she says. “When my son was younger and I came back from trips, I couldn’t just go to the Frontline Club and tell war stories. I needed to look after him.”

One problem Lamb does struggle with is the sense of disillusionment that comes from covering conflicts that can seem endless. “Most people who become foreign correspondents want to make a difference,” she says, “but all of these wars keep going on and on and we all keep writing about them – things don’t change. The battle for Mosul finished eight months ago, but there’s still rubble everywhere; there are bodies everywhere still.”

But alongside stories of neglected warzones, Lamb’s portfolio is also full of interviews with high-profile politicians and celebrities. She considers herself a humanitarian reporter first and foremost, but last year she interviewed Hillary Clinton, Tina Brown, and Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel, to name just a few. Still, whether she’s reporting from Calais or Washington DC, Lamb simply sees herself as a storyteller. In both cases, she finds the personal, human side of whoever she’s interviewing.

When she spoke with Hillary Clinton last October, she dug beyond the

“THE

HARD THING IS ADJUSTING TO COMING BACK”

Lamb drinks an English Breakfast tea as we speak at the News Building café

headlines and asked questions that the former US presidential candidate was not used to answering. “Realistically someone like that isn’t about to confess to Christina Lamb what she felt about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky,” she says. “It’s trying to find something slightly different.”

Lamb asked Clinton how someone copes with losing to a candidate like Donald Trump. The conversation was supposed to last 45 minutes, but ended up running on for well over an hour. Clinton recounted the sleepless nights spent looking up at the ceiling, and how writing her book What Happened was so mentally exhausting that she often had to stop and lie down.

Lamb’s journalism career has always

been unorthodox. She grew up in a council house in Morden, south London. At her grammar school, she was constantly in detention, writing in a 2007 Sunday Times article that her appetite for adventure kept her writing lines long after class had ended.

That’s not to say she was a bad student. Lamb was accepted into Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. She was introduced to journalism after meeting a few student journalists from Cherwell, the university’s student paper, at a party. Her passion for foreign reporting began in 1987, when, at 22 years old, she was invited to a wedding in Pakistan. Afterwards, she decided to stay and work as a freelancer. One year later, she covered her first war in Afghanistan. All she packed was a flak jacket, a bag of wine gums, and a bottle of Chanel perfume.

Since then the job has become far more dangerous for reporters. “When I started out no one was kidnapping and killing journalists,” she explains. “If anything happened to you it was because you did something silly or it was bad luck – but we weren’t the target. Most of the places I go to, people

look at me like they want to kill me.” Lamb remains unperturbed, despite a number of brushes with death. The only time she considered giving up was in 2007, when she was caught in the middle of an assassination attempt against former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The bombing, aimed at the bus both Bhutto and Lamb were riding in at a political rally, killed more than 150 people. Lamb’s husband and son, only eight years old at the time, watched the explosion on the news, not knowing if she was alive.

These experiences have become more common for journalists in recent years. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the number of journalists killed while on the job has more than doubled in the past 20 years, with 74 journalists dying in 2017 compared to just 35 in 1997. Six years ago, Lamb lost a Sunday Times colleague and close friend, Marie Colvin, who was killed while reporting in Syra. It is believed Bashar al-Assad’s government may have ordered her death.

However, Lamb has remained determined and persistent in reporting on these dangerous conflicts, and her work has brought about real change. In

2006 she was the first journalist to be placed with British troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

One Tuesday afternoon in the Afghan town of Gereshk, the regiment was ambushed by the Taliban. The British army was outnumbered and under-armed. Lamb’s firsthand account of the battle ran as a front-page splash in The Sunday Times, leading to a parliamentary debate about the war that led to the Government sending more helicopters and troops to help the military effort.

But today, Lamb has to fight harder to get such extensive coverage. Editors gave the Helmand story five pages; today she says she might be lucky to get two or three. “With cuts, the foreign desk has been the section that has most suffered – it’s tragic,” she says.

These changes are certainly felt within the newsroom. Lamb believes those most at risk from shrinking budgets are freelance writers, some of whom are taking “crazy risks” to cover treacherous situations without the support of a proper foreign desk.

The job may have changed, but the people making decisions have mostly stayed the same. While Lamb is

Lamb takes a break while working in Afghanistan in 1989. (Photo courtesy of Christina Lamb)

“I THINK WOMEN DO THIS JOB BETTER THAN MEN”

more concerned with the everyday heroes of war, she says her male editors prefer stories about the fighting itself. And when it comes to her most senior editors, they’ve all been male. “The person who decides what prominence a story gets on the page is a man,” she says. “What he is interested in and what I’m interested in might be quite different.”

This is the opinion Lamb voiced when she was interviewed on Desert Island Discs in January. Speaking out about the lack of women in UK newsrooms, Lamb said she had “never had a female foreign editor, a female news editor, a female editor”. Becky Barrow, the news editor at The Sunday Times, responded to this claim via Twitter, saying: “Er, I think I’m a woman and I’m also news editor of @thesundaytimes.” Lamb responded the next day, saying she should have specified that she was referring to news and foreign editors she’d personally worked under.

Regardless, Lamb has a point. Of the ten UK newspapers with the highest circulation, none are edited by a woman. The only current female editor of a major national paper is The Guardian’s Katharine Viner, who took over in 2015.

This is something Lamb would like to see changed. She even suggests that news organisations should consider adopting positive discrimination to hire female editors – as well as minor-

ities, disabled journalists, and other individuals with diverse backgrounds.

“Women need to help other women, and that doesn’t always happen,” she says. “We need to accept that it’s an issue and maybe positively discriminate. I think women do this job better than men because I think they’re better at listening.”

This year the media has come under fire for the disparity in pay between genders, particularly at the BBC. It was revealed that John Humphrys, a presenter for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, earned between £600,000 and £649,000 per year, before he agreed to take a pay cut.

Meanwhile his co-host, Mishal Husain, made approximately £400,000 less. Earlier this year, BBC China editor Carrie Gracie resigned in protest of what she called the organisation’s “secret and illegal” pay structure.

“Some of the discrepancies were so big between men and women – I found it shocking,” Lamb says. “But I do think there is an argument, too, that these jobs are not all equal. Carrie Gracie saying that all regional editors should be paid the same – I’m not sure that’s true. Washington has always been the top post, so you expect to be paid more than being Europe editor or, dare I say, China editor. I think men and women should be paid the same for doing the same job.”

Lamb doesn’t know how much her

colleagues at The Sunday Times are paid, but she won’t have to wait much longer to find out. Just days after this magazine goes to press, the newspaper will have to report its gender pay gaps to the Government Equalities Office. Does she think things are getting better for women in the media? Lamb seems sceptical that things have moved forward. “I’m not even sure it’s better than when I started,” she says. “There is still a boys’ club. There are still people going to the pub and jobs being discussed like that.”

Last year, former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown spoke to Lamb about feeling “trivialised” as a female editor, something many female journalists can relate to. While Brown – who worked with Harvey Weinstein at Talk magazine – said she never experienced any direct sexual harassment, her descriptions of male-dominated office dynamics joined the voices of the many women who have spoken out about bullying, workplace harassment, and sexual assault in recent months.

With MPs and media men at companies like Vice, Fox News, and Miramax wrapped in harassment scandals, women throughout the industry have shared their stories. Lamb says she herself witnessed this type of harassment as early as her first job, where she experienced unwanted sexual provocations on a daily basis.

“Every time I walked into the news-

room, the news editor would drop his trousers and moon at me,” she tells us. “I was 21. I had never worked in a newsroom and I didn’t know any different. I didn’t like it but I didn’t know what to do about it. He was doing it with other people there – nobody was stopping him doing it.”

Claims of sexual harassment have also reached the foreign aid sector, an area with which Lamb is familiar after 30 years working in humanitarian crises. In February, The Times ran an investigation which revealed that senior Oxfam staff members had paid for sex while working in Haiti.

Since then, aid organisations in both the UK and overseas have been called out for covering up years of bullying and harassment within their ranks. On the same day we speak with Lamb, The Guardian published a letter signed by more than 1,000 aid workers demanding “that the aid sector is reformed and the patriarchal norms which dominate it are rooted out”.

If Lamb had witnessed any sexual abuse, she tells us, she would have written about it. Instead, her issues with big aid agencies lie within their day-to-day effectiveness. “I do think the big agencies have far too many people,” she says. “They duplicate each other’s work – they’re wasteful. I deliberately haven’t spent much time with these big agencies on the ground. I just go and do my own thing.”

For Lamb, foreign correspondents play an essential role in spotting these kinds of systemic problems.“There’s a lot to be said for sending [an outsider] into a place, because sometimes you see things differently than somebody who lives there,” she says. “With Afghanistan, I’ve been there for so many years and an awful lot of things that happen there I think are normal.”

Despite the rise of camera phones and citizen journalism, Lamb remains motivated by the fact that foreign correspondents are still needed. “It’s diffi-

cult work,” she says. “But the driving force is wanting to change things. You see shocking situations and you want people to react and make a difference.”

That being said, she’s fully aware of just how much easier technology has made certain parts of the job. Lamb is amused by thoughts of her early days as a reporter, when staying in touch with her UK-based editors was a lot more difficult without mobile phones, email, and online drives for video and image sharing.

She estimates that 90% of the job used to be logistics. “In the late 80s and early 90s, contacting the London office usually meant bribing an international phone operator,” she says. “Transporting film often involved driving to the airport and begging passengers to take it home with them.” When it came

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to finding sources, Lamb remembers there being a lot more “door-stepping”, whereas today she can track down interviewees by checking Twitter or scanning the internet.

This increased connectivity isn’t without its downsides, though. While social media has made getting in touch with people much easier, it makes it harder to let go after every story. “Before, you would cover a story and then you were finished. Now everybody that I’m in touch with keeps messaging me on WhatsApp,” she says.

As we’re speaking, Lamb pulls out her iPhone. She opens her messages and begins scrolling through an impressively long conversation with a man from Palmyra, Syria.

She explains that she interviewed the man after his father, an archaeol-

ogist, was beheaded during an Isis attack on the city, and the two have since remained in contact. Their WhatsApp message chain is full of images – 66 in total, Lamb tells us – showing the destruction that’s taken place in southern Syria since the war began.

“He was sending me messages last week about how bad the conditions were, and I had to tell him I can’t get anything from Syria in the papers at the moment, other than eastern Ghouta [a rebel stronghold near Damascus],” she explains. “That’s a horrible thing to have to say to someone.”

But Lamb is famous for getting things in the papers – for giving space to the crises that need it most. She has won a number of Foreign Press Association awards, most recently for her account of Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram; earned a Prix Bayeux Calvados (Europe’s top foreign reporting prize) in 2009; and was made an OBE for her services to journalism. Days after we speak, she was commended at this year’s National Press Awards, within the category of broadsheet feature writer of the year.

It’s easy to see the importance of Lamb’s reporting, particularly on International Women’s Day. In a world where women work for free and rape is used as a weapon, she consistently finds glimmers of positivity. She talks about her desire to give the public a “varied diet” – one that goes beyond the endless stream of death and destruction that seems to dominate so many modern news outlets.

As we summon the lifts and descend from the 14th floor of the News Building, it’s difficult to imagine that the people on the other side of those Whatsapp messages – the people whose parents have been murdered in Syria or the Yazidi women who have escaped a life of slavery in Iraq – are real. But the paper will be published on Sunday, and within it Lamb’s stories will continue to give a voice to these extraordinary people.

FROM THEN TO NOW

Michael Donald, freelance photographer

Award-winning photographer and co-director of the 2010 documentary I Scored a Goal in the FIFA World Cup Final, Michael Donald says this image of Brazil’s Carlos Alberto celebrating his goal in the 1970 final is particularly special: “At the end of the day, a goal is a goal; the ball crosses the line and that happens all the time. But the meaning of a goal is the meaning that we give to it.

“Alberto was 25, and captain of that 1970 Brazil team, arguably the greatest World Cup team ever. Pele passes the ball and he doesn’t look over his shoulder, he just knows Alberto is coming. Alberto hits the ball so hard and manages to keep his shot very low, technically a really hard thing to do.

“It’s the perfect team goal, but I chose it because it conveys the enormity of that goal. The Brazilians are very much defined by their nationality and their national team, in a way that some countries aren’t. When you think of Lionel Messi you think of Barcelona, not Argentina. At the time that goal defined Brazil to the rest of the world.”

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The shot

Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” from 1986, Paul Gascoigne’s tears at Italia ’90, Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt in 2006, Pele’s fist in the air in 1970, and Bobby Moore held aloft with the Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966. All memorable, highly recognisable images of the football World Cup.

But what is that makes a great World Cup photograph? Molly McElwee and Will Moffitt asked photographers, sports writers, and broadcasters to select their favourite World Cup image. The shots range from the iconic to the unorthodox, the memorable to the banal, but all of them capture something of the spirit of football’s greatest tournament.

Amy

Manyargue that football greatness can only be reached for a player when they lead their team to international glory – even Lionel Messi has naysayers because of his poor record on the world stage.

Zinedine Zidane and (Brazilian) Ronaldo on the other hand, have no such question mark attached to their legend. Both led their teams to World Cup wins, and scored braces in them; and Ronaldo has the second highest all-time tally of goals at the tournament (15).

However, Amy Lawrence says their meeting in 2006, the last World Cup either of them played in, holds a touching moment, often eclipsed by their earlier success. “It is not often two World Cup final match-winners come face to face,” she says. “Before kick off, they shared a private moment in front of the world – these two icons of football, generational talents, the

dominant protagonists that decided the past two World Cup finals.

“The smile between them hinted that they had a mutual empathy. They looked at each other with this knowledge and maybe sensed it was the last hurrah for both of them on that stage.”

Mark Leech, photographer at Offside Sports Photography, a British photo agency

Mark Leech has photographed seven World Cups, and he says some of his best photographs have come when it was less about the story, and simply about bringing the game back down to earth. Leech says his image of the Netherlands’ win over Brazil in the quarter-finals of the South African World Cup in 2010 particularly captures this idea.

“I think it’s a lovely illustration – the players are paired up, the ball’s coming in, the expressions, and the colour. It’s not a money shot, you’re not going to go down to the pub and say remember when this happened with this image. I think it shows it’s just a load of blokes with a leather ball – that’s all it is.”

Jonathan Liew, chief sports writer at The Independent

Abizarre moment of DIY after a goal collapsed during the 1994 World Cup tie between Bulgaria and Mexico is Jonathan Liew’s photo choice.

“It’s the slightly tubby guy on the left who makes it. How, he might be asking himself, has his life reached the point where he is erecting a goal in the middle of a World Cup match live on TV? And it’s fairly clear from his awkward stance, uncertain grip, and blank expression, that not only

is this an entirely unplanned turn of events, but one that is continuing to flummox him even as it takes place.

“But it’s not just him. It’s the stares in the background: a crowd simultaneously bored and baffled by the spectacle unfolding before them. And for the rest of us, it’s a handy reminder that while we often think of the World Cup as a pinnacle, a stage for grace, greatness and triumph, it’s just as often a tableau of utter shambles.”

Dan Sandison, editor of Mundial, a quarterly football lifestyle magazine

For Dan Sandison, this USA ‘94 image of the Republic of Ireland’s Steven Staunton getting a refreshing soak of water from manager Jack Charlton stands out. “It’s a completely inconsequential moment, trying to cool down this player, but it says so much about Jack Charlton as a manager, about the Ireland team at that time and I think about the America World Cup.

“Staunton’s got red hair and freckles and can’t play football in Texas because it’s too hot. Charlton is this big, brash Yorkshireman in charge, one of the 1966 World Cup winning team. USA ’94 was this big glitzy football fest, and Ireland kind of turned up as this underdog, ramshackle team, and I think it just sums up that juxtaposition quite nicely. It’s old football meeting very new football at that point in 1994; a real culture clash.”

Sawyer, broadcaster at Sky Sports

Everybody loves an underdog, and the biggest upset of 1994 saw Bulgaria sneak up behind reigning champions Germany and beat them 2-1 in the quarter-finals. Iordan Letchkov’s game-clinching header is an all time highlight for Natalie Sawyer.

“I don’t want to say it’s not considered an important moment in World Cup history, because it knocked out the

defending champions, a German team that had people like Jürgen Klinsmann and Lothar Matthäus.

“I remember the whole euphoria about it in Bulgaria. I remember speaking to my family out there, and rejoicing in the fact that they were doing so well, a country that no one really backed at all.”

Making ends meet

Anastasia Grabova is not an expert on grass. Yet the former editor of Destination Weddings and Honeymoons Abroad has been hired to proofread a 100,000word manual on lawns. It might sound like a mis-match, but this is precisely the kind of work a freelance copywriter does. Grabova, who started freelancing last year after the birth of her daughter, is working on the maintenance manual for new employees of a lawn care company. Grabova doesn’t think her lack of gardening expertise is a problem. “It helps not to know too much. People who have just started the job won’t know much either, so I can see what it’s like from their point of view.”

Copywriting

When the typical wage of a freelance journalist is around £20,000 a year and a third of them are on benefits, freelancers are taking on less traditional work to make ends meet. Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead says copywriting is her “bread and butter work”. She optimises copy for SEO agencies to improve their clients online ranking, creates 15 blog posts a month for travel agencies, and writes online reviews for hotel companies and Spanish villas. She won’t get a byline, but she’ll make £10-40 per 500 word article.

Caroline Allen, a lifestyle journalist who also writes website content, blog posts, social media adverts, and press releases for luxury UK hotels, says: “I make around £2,000 per month from content-writing.” Lucinda Ann Borrell, an investigative journalist who has dabbled in copywriting for gas and electric companies, finds that writing web content for utility companies pays well. “The rates were good,” she says, “for one project I made £300 a day and worked three days a week.” Copywriting isn’t just used by companies to jazz up their websites. Edward Dyson, who specialises in showbiz and lifestyle journalism, has written standup material for Lady Bunny, a US drag star. He says: “Performers like audiences to believe they wrote it all themselves, but I wrote jokes, one liners, and parody songs for her.”

Commercial writing, which is writing content for corporate communication agencies and their clients, can be a profitable alternative to mainstream journalism. Eugene Costello, who has been freelancing for 10 years, earns £250-300 a day from writing business case studies. Costello says commercial writing still counts as journalism because it involves interviews, research and high quality copy.

In a changing industry, freelance journalists are finding new ways to make a living, writes Sophia Moss

Ghostwriting

Paddy Magrane ghostwrites personal memoirs; he interviews the subject and writes about their lives in 10,000-40,000 words, for publisher Story Terrace. Pay depends on the level of experience. Some writers charge £30 an hour, but others make £300 or more a day.

Where can you find content-writing work? As with regular journalism, a lot depends on who you know. Borrell found most of her copywriting through former colleagues and word of mouth. Some freelancers are approached by clients directly through LinkedIn or via their online portfolios. Others find work through freelance Facebook groups, from job boards, or by creating a profile on wesbites such as journalism.co.uk, Upwork, People Per Hour and other online platforms. Sophia Akram, who has used Upwork to find copywriting clients, says: “Upwork is useful if you want urgent cash. I’ve produced blog posts for various companies across different industry types – beauty, tech, travel, real estate – and I’ve created and edited web copy, produced press releases and drafted manuals. It takes time to crack before getting paid decent rates.” Upwork’s rates start from $3 to $60 per article, plus they take a 20% cut of the earnings and pay in US dollars.

The Downside

Ethical issues can arise from copy writing. Borrell recalls: “I was writing content for a b2b advisory company and they basically asked me to write an article on how to sweep sexual harassment claims under the carpet. It was almost an article on how to dissuade employees from raising sexual harassment claims. I didn’t write the piece and never worked for the company again.”

”SIDE JOBS ARE NECESSARY, UNLESS YOU WANT TO EAT SAWDUST”

Freelancers are also vulnerable to slow payments, or no payments at all. Magrane says: “My worst experience was a client who wouldn’t pay for six months. In the end, I threatened to shame him and his firm on Facebook and Twitter and, lo and behold, the money magically appeared in my account.” So should freelance journalists be looking for less traditional ways of making money from copywriting and researching? For some freelancers, it’s a no-brainer. Akram says: “I have tried committing my full-time resources to freelance journalism and it’s scary as hell. Side jobs are necessary, unless you want to eat sawdust.”

MAFIA MAGS

Mob-obsessed tabloids have dominated Japanese newsstands for decades, but with the country’s ongoing crackdown on organised crime, this bizarre industry is under threat. Tim Gunn and Marigold Warner report

Japan. Tuesday, 12 September 2017, 10am. Kenichi Shinoda, head of the country’s largest and most troubled organised crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, steps onto the bullet train bound for Tokyo from Kobe. He is going to the funeral of a rival gang leader. Across town, a three-car convoy is leaving a secure off-street residence. In the middle car is Yoshinori Oda, the boss of a Yamaguchi-gumi splinter group. As the vehicles pull up at the intersection with the main road, a black saloon car peels off from the passing traffic as if to park, but it doesn’t slow down. Instead, it keeps turning, bouncing up onto the pavement towards the convoy, its horn blaring as it slams into the nose of the lead car. There is a pause. This is a hit, but no one in the convoy is armed. Still, Oda’s chief bodyguard steps out from his car and walks over to the black saloon. He begins to argue with the driver, who draws a pistol. The bodyguard calls out: “Come on! You don’t have the guts to shoot me, do you?” – and two shots ring out in reply. One hits the bodyguard in the head, killing him. The shooter abandons his crashed car and flees the scene.

That was a big news day for the yakuza (Japanese mafia) press. Dubbed “fan magazines” by Western

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media, these tabloid-style publications are produced by independent compa nies that make the rest of their mon ey selling porn magazines. They can sell hundreds of thousands of copies per issue and fall into two categories: weeklies that cover the yakuza alongside the sex and gambling industries, and monthlies that focus almost exclusively on yakuza-related topics. They are printed on a combination of glossy sheets and newsprint, and can be found on the top shelves of newsagents all across Japan.

In this world, the debonair kumicho (kingpin) Shinoda’s visit to Tokyo was a great photo opportunity, as good a front cover as a porn star at a royal wedding. For Japan’s magazine publishers, the yakuza sell. For the yakuza, the magazines promote. This delicate interdependence between Japan’s adult magazines and its organised crime is a unique phenomenon, and it has persisted almost unchanged since the heyday of the yakuza in the 1960s.

According to Jake Adelstein, an American crime reporter who has spent most of his career in Japan: “Yakuza see the magazines as recruitment tools: they glamourise the yakuza life. They always have sections about gang wars and comics about people who put their lives on the line. There’s always scenes

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Jitsuwa Document’s March 2018 issue coverline: “The three Yamaguchi-gumi’s futures: a turbulent year ahead”

As well as news on gang life, pornography, and gambling advice, the magazines publish manga (comics) dramatising yakuza exploits

of them screwing beautiful women. Guys read these and think being a yakuza is cool.”

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But the mutually beneficial relationship between gangs and magazines is facing a new threat. Japan’s dominant yakuza group is tearing itself apart. In 2015, angry at the spartan discipline and huge membership fees demanded by Shinoda, some of the Yamaguchi-gumi’s most powerful members broke away to form the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. Then, in April 2017, the group splintered further. Oda set up the Ninkyo (chivalrous, or humanitarian) Yamaguchi-gumi, attracting members with cheap membership fees and plans to leave crime behind for good. In the short-term, these fractures have been good news for the fanzines. Brett Bull, the founder of Tokyo Reporter (a website that provides English translations of articles concerning Japan’s criminal underworld), says that

publications like Shukan Jitsuwa – one of the “Big Three” weeklies – have led with pieces on the Yamaguchi-gumi since the split. According to an editor at the Shukan Jitsuwa, it led to a 20% rise in sales (last year the magazine had a circulation of 230,000, as stated by the Japanese Magazine Society). It’s almost impossible to imagine such magazines surviving in the West, but, by global standards, Japanese print culture is exceptionally healthy. In the 2016 World Press Trends report, the Yomiuri and Asahi newspapers ranked first and second by circulation, distributing over 9 million and 6 million copies a day. In the same year, the UK’s top selling newspaper, The Sun, had a circulation of 1.4 million. Bull points out that this is despite the fact that, unlike The Sun, Japan’s most popular papers are broadsheets “extremely conservative in what they choose to publish”. As a result, less respectable publications find considerable readerships for unique stories about the unsavoury aspects of Japanese culture.

Or so it seemed. Japan’s vicious and virtuous cycle of crime, police work, and publishing is losing its equi-

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“THE MAGAZINES ARE RECRUITMENT TOOLS: THEY GLAMOURISE THE YAKUZA LIFE”

librium. As Bull puts it: “[Japanese] society is developing an intolerance of gangsters.” For most of their existence, organised criminal groups have been semi-legal organisations in Japan. They help to maintain the country’s remarkably low crime rate by policing nightlife hotspots for petty criminals. But there’s a darker side to this neat arrangement: as recently as the 1960s, the government was using them to break strikes and stifle unions.

However, under pressure from the US to combat financial crime, Japan has begun to restrict yakuza activity. Since 2011 regular citizens have been prohibited from engaging in business with them, severely impacting the gangs’ status and cash-flow. In 2012, an amendment to the law authorised police to make on-the-spot arrests of yakuza judged as “extremely dangerous”, driving groups like the Yamaguchi-gumi further underground. Figures from the National Police Agency indicate that there were 39,100 yakuza members and affiliates at the end of 2016, down 17% from 46,900 the year before. At its peak in the 1960s, the yakuza was made up of 180,000 people. It’s now only a fifth of the size.

In this changing climate, yakuza groups need the magazines to maintain their public image and profile more than ever before. But even if you’re making a profit, publishing a magazine that seems to promote criminal activity is risky. The April edition of the profitable Jitsuwa Document, a monthly dedicated exclusively to yakuza content, will be the last. It was bought by a new publisher last year, but is now moving online. Bull thinks it unlikely that other magazines will survive the continuing police crackdown.

While Adelstein says that Japan’s law enforcement bodies “would really like to put [the magazines] out of business”, he notes that “even the police are divided about it, because these magazines do so much of the police work for them”. One editor told Adelstein that a fifth of readers are law enforcement officials looking to keep track of their criminal counterparts.

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Adelstein reads the magazines for similar reasons, and his work as a crime reporter has resulted in friendships with both police and gangsters. That said, he finds most yakuza to be “unpleasant sociopaths”, although as a journalist he admits they make great copy. “As so much of the yakuza world is about getting information for leverage or blackmail, they are wonderful sources of information. It can be a dilemma for a reporter: they are offering good information, but only because there’s something in it for them.”

“EVEN THE POLICE ARE DIVIDED ABOUT IT, BECAUSE THESE MAGAZINES DO SO MUCH OF THE WORK FOR THEM”

In 2008, Adelstein published an exposé in The Washington Post on how Tadamasa Goto, a senior Yamaguchi-gumi officer, made a deal with the FBI to jump the queue for a liver transplant in Los Angeles. The gang was so enraged that he had to spend five years in police protection. When Adelstein started working on the story in 2005, he was told to “erase it, or be erased”, but he credits his safety to the combined might of the police and a rival gang who wanted to see the Yamaguchi-gumi discredited. Goto responded dismissively in his autobiography: “If I did meet this American novelist it would be a serious matter.

Monthly horoscopes are included for the spiritual gangster to contemplate his sexual and financial future

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THE YAMAGUCHI-GUMI’S SECRET CORPORATE NEWSLETTER

In 2013, the Yamaguchi-gumi began publishing their own very private version of a corporate newsletter: the Yamaguchi-gumi Shinpo. Launched to keep the gang together, maintain discipline, and raise morale, it’s the one place readers can find comic haiku, stories from the Wakagashira’s (underboss’) fishing trips, and advice for staying on the right side of new anti-conspiracy laws. That’s right: for the secret publication of one of the world’s biggest crime groups, the Shinpo is surprisingly boring.

This is the gang’s second publication, following on from the Yamaguchi-gumi Jiho, which was published from 1965-75. According to Japan-based reporter Jake Adelstein, the Shinpo, of which there have been five editions, is a clear attempt to hark back to this golden era. He summarises its editorial message as: “We are a humanitarian organisation that represents a refuge for people who don’t fit into Japanese society; we teach them discipline, honour, and Japanese values and culture. We function as a part of this society, and we need to preserve its traditional values.”

He’d have to write, ‘Goto is after me’ instead of ‘Goto may come after me.’”

Since then, Adelstein’s relationship with the Yamaguchi-gumi has been more cordial. In 2015, he contacted the syndicate to explain that he would be publishing an article in the Daily Beast that detailed their ties to a member of Japan’s Olympic committee. “I don’t know any other country in the world where you can tell gangsters you’re going to write something bad about them, but if you give them a heads-up, you can sort of work it out.”

That doesn’t mean the Yamaguchi-gumi want to help journalists. Adelstein complains that since Shinoda became the leader in 2005, “they will never ever give you a comment on record”. Still, yakuza reporters stalk gangsters at their ritual grave visits, board meetings, and celebratory dinners in the hope they’ll be noticed, then recognised, and, finally, spoken to. In 2015, an anonymous reporter at Shukan Jitsuwa told the pornographic weekly Flash (translated by Tokyo Reporter): “If I am, say, allowed to photograph an event, it could then be possible to talk with an upper-level member directly.”

That’s just the beginning. Once the yakuza are aware of a reporter, they begin to test his ethics and masculine credentials. The best place for this is every yakuza’s favourite place: the red-light district. One reporter recalls his source presenting him with a line of escorts and saying: “Take whichever one you like home with you.”

Whether or not Shukan Jitsuwa reporters appreciate their treatment at the hands of sources, they find validation in being noticed by yakuza. In the words of an anonymous writer quoted by Flash: “I am happy when my name is mentioned: while in prison, they are for sure reading the Big Three because it is an easy way to stay updated on the latest gang trends.”

But if reporting on the yakuza in a time of internecine conflict can be gripping, the gangster’s lives are far from it. Speaking to The Japan Times last year, Ryo Fujiwara, author of The Three Yamaguchi-gumi, put the Yamaguchi-gumi’s disintegration down to boredom. “It simply wasn’t fun to be in the Yamaguchi-gumi anymore,” he explained. “It was like working for Toyota. What was once a criminal family was becoming an organisation.”

But the yakuza are not Toyota. They are no longer powerful forces in the Japanese economy. Instead, they are fighting to survive, wrestling over the scraps of their crumbling empires. Hundreds of thousands read on, not sure how, or if, they want the grand story to end.

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Q&A: Jimmy Wales

Tom Faber asks the Wikipedia founder about his plan to revolutionise journalism

As trust in traditional media continues to decline, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is seeking to redefine journalism the same way he did the encyclopaedia. His new project WikiTribune launched in October last year, with 13 paid journalists writing articles that are moderated and edited by community volunteers. XCity caught up with Wales to discuss Weinstein, fake news, and whether volunteers can really save journalism.

Was WikiTribune partly a response to fake news and Trump’s cavalier attitude towards the truth?

Yes. This feeling that we’re in a post-truth world is complete nonsense. That’s something I want to fight against and say: “Actually no, facts do matter.”

You said in the campaign video for WikiTribune that “news is broken”. What do you mean by that?

The financial pressures on journalism have been profound over the last 20 years. The business models have driven publishers away from traditional hard news and into click-bait and fluffy content.

Why does WikiTribune need full-time journalists alongside community editors?

Over the last 20 years there has been a lot of excitement about citizen journalism, but we haven’t seen that fulfil its promise. If you’re a thoughtful person with goodwill there’s a lot that you can do from home, but there’s also a lot that you can’t do. You can’t drop everything for four days and go pursue a story. People have fantastic desk research skills and that’s great, but people may not have interview skills. That’s why we need both.

How will you harness the community to ensure accuracy on the site?

We’re bringing in the Wiki style of fact-checking. Anyone can immediately edit articles and raise issues. And we want as much as possible to show our workings. We release the transcript and even the audio of interviews where we can. It’s anti-fake news, we want to prove what we’re telling people.

WikiTribune’s Talk section looks very different to the normal comment section on a newspaper website.

On WikiTribune you’re not supposed to be commenting on what you think of the news. You have a purpose: to improve the story, improve the journalism, to think about what we should be covering next, and what the remaining unanswered questions are. Obviously, as we get bigger, I’m sure

more trolls will turn up and cause silly debates. But this is where the Wiki way of thinking comes into it: the idea of giving the community power to delete posts that are offensive or inflammatory or useless, and to block people who aren’t behaving properly.

Your Weinstein explainer has been updated 30 times. What’s the advantage of presenting news as one updated piece rather than a series of ongoing articles?

Certain types of stories like an explainer have a longer shelf-life. I like the idea that instead of cutting and rewriting all the time, which seems wasteful and unnecessary, you can just keep it updated. It’s a bit like slow news, the idea of “let’s chew on things a bit longer”.

You’ve said that in the future, readers will be able to sponsor a journalist to cover a particular subject they find interesting or under-reported. How will that work?

We’re saying to the readers: “If there’s a particular beat or topic that you find interesting, the journalists work for you, so we should cover that.” For example, one of the areas that people are very interested in among our existing fan-base is cryptocurrencies. So we might decide to launch a cryptocurrencies desk, and the readers can help fund it.

Why is the key to saving journalism creating an entirely new platform, rather than supporting established media?

A lot of the time it’s very hard for established companies and brands to break old mindsets. Many journalists have had the experience of writing something and then all the trolls come out. It’s really easy to fall into the mindset that the general public are idiots and we can’t work with them effectively. So it’s hard for legacy organisations to genuinely trust and build healthy communities. And I think I can do that, or at least I have a chance. The secret’s in the community.

“THIS FEELING THAT WE’RE IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD IS COMPLETE N ONSENSE”

Interviewing politicians

“More like a bullfight than a

Political interviews have produced some water-cooler moments over the years. But how do journalists hone their skill – and does it need to change?

Rob Picheta asks

Four weeks before the 1997 General Election, Tony Blair was coasting.

Up 20 points in the polls and virtually guaranteed a landslide victory, there seemed to be little that could fluster the Labour leader. “He had not been roughed up seriously on television before,” recalls Mark Damazer, then the BBC’s head of current affairs. However, David Dimbleby had plans to do just that.

“Isn’t there a problem that there is an old Blair, who believed quite different things, which makes it rather difficult for people to trust the new one?” asked Dimbleby at the outset of his interview with Blair for a Panorama special. The BBC’s most noteworthy political anchor then ran through a list of issues, from the union power to nuclear disarmament, on which Blair had apparently changed his position since the 1980s.

“He hadn’t confronted all of this before,” says Damazer. “For all their media preparation, they had not prepared for a full-scale assault based on things that Blair had done earlier in his career.” It revealed chinks in Blair’s armour, and infuriated his press secretary Alastair Campbell. And while it had little effect on the election result, Dim-

bleby’s approach highlighted the impact of holding a political leader to account.

The decades-old art of the political interview has produced numerous memorable moments. Michael Howard’s grilling at the hands of Jeremy Paxman, who asked 12 times whether the Conservative cabinet minister had threatened to overrule a prisons chief, remained a career-defining moment for the future Tory leader. More recently, the leadership credentials of the Tories’ Andrea Leadsom and the numerical literacy of Labour’s Diane Abbott have been thrown into the spotlight by some robust interviewers.

With so much to gain, one would expect journalists to relish the opportunity to sit down with a politician - but this isn’t always true. “It’s not often an enjoyable experience interviewing a politician,” reveals Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman “They are over-interviewed, they’re really ready for you and they’re often quite defensive... it’s more like bullfighting than it is like a tango.”

Every journalist approaches the role of the matador differently. “The worst thing is to get somebody whose hackles im-

tango”

mediately go up, and then you spend the remaining 20 minutes trying to get past that,” explains Lewis, who chooses to ease a politician into an interview and leave the question that “might make them walk out” until the end.

In broadcast interviews, the demand for fireworks are stronger. It’s that environment which made Jeremy Paxman’s bullish approach so popular. Paxman did not coin the phrase so often attributed to him – “Why is this lying bastard lying to me?” –but it has operated as his mantra throughout his career.

Paxman’s star has waned though, and it’s that approach which could be to blame. “Cynicism is toxic,” says James Ball, former BuzzFeed reporter and author of PostTruth: How Bullshit Conquered the World “We got to the point with Paxman where he was so sick of it, he was so angry, that a politician would be actually answering a question and he’d cut them off and call them a wanker.” The interviews which prove the most successful today aren’t the ones which “make you look cool,” Ball notes. “A lot of it is actually just sticking at one line of questioning, and following the reasoning.”

Few programmes get into nuts and bolts of policy more ardently than Radio 4’s Today programme, which typically reserves its 8.10am slot for an interview with a leading politician. “The best organising principle is about not assuming base motive in every way that a politician answers a question, but assuming that the public are entitled to know the arguments,” says Damazer, who served as the controller of Radio 4 from 2004 to 2010.

In that time, Damazer saw politicians put to the sword on a regular basis. He recalls a particularly tough interrogation of the then-Cabinet minister Harriet Harman over a benefits policy which he had personal reservations about. “She had to go on and defend it with John Humphrys at 10 past eight – by 25 past eight, she was gone… this is what I call absolutely decent broadcast journalism.”

Barney Jones, editor of BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show until 2015, took a similar approach. Every Saturday, Jones and Marr would roleplay the big political interview they’d secured for the next morning’s broadcast. “He would put the questions [to me] and I’d say, ‘Well Andrew, what you’ve got to understand...’ and go off in some non-answer,” says Jones, who would also lay out a grid plotting responses he expected to receive. “We’d try and figure out the sort of defence that the interviewee would be likely to play, and then work out the best ways to try and puncture that defence.”

Sometimes it really was as simple as repeating the question. Jones recalls an interview with a pre-Number 10 David Cameron, in which Marr asked several times whether Cameron had used cannabis at university. The leader of the opposition, who had worked in PR before entering politics, wouldn’t answer, Jones remembers - “but he kept smiling, and he was very cool and easy about it”. Then the show finished. “As soon as he came offstage and

Theresa May and Jeremy Paxman prepare to do battle during last year’s election campaign (Image: PA)

the lights went up, Cameron said, ‘Where’s Barney?!... What was this going on and on and on? I’m just fed up with this’. And he was really angry.”

For Jones, though, the interview represented “an entirely legitimate issue of public concern... I said to him, ‘Look, it’s entirely reasonable, you were giving non-answers.’”

“I’ve got broad shoulders,” Jones adds. “I’m not going to be intimidated by someone getting a bit arsey.”

And making politicians angry, Jones insists, is not something interviewers should fret about. “What you don’t want is an interview where the guest comes out at the

“GETTING ACCESS TO ASK THEM QUESTIONS IS AN INCREASING PROBLEM”

end saying, ‘Oh that was good, I don’t think I f**ked up there at all,’” he says. “There’ll be some ministers who go on with the sole aim of doing their duty, responding to a media request, without saying anything really.” It’s a category he would put Theresa May in, having had her on Marr’s programme often while she was Home Secretary. “She would give carefully considered, dull answers and feel that was a rather successful interview. That’s what you want to avoid.”

But Damazer sees a wider problem in the current state of political interviews. “At the moment, when ministers and other people in public positions go on [a programme], they have an absolutely clear idea of what it is they’re going to be asked and what the

answers are,” he says. “And they know very often that if they come and say something which is no better than a partial truth or, even worse, statistically misleading, they have a high possibility - and sometimes a probability - that they’ll get away with it.”

He suggests the solution must include more pushback by the interviewer. “I get really offended if I hear a minister talking about public spending, saying that health spending has never been greater, and no more is said about it. That is such a stupid and misleading statement that it should not be allowed by any self-respecting interviewer, but it is.”

And while flagship programmes grapple with how to hold leaders accountable, there is the wider concern that many are refusing to sit down in front of a microphone at all. “If you can’t get access to them you can’t ask them the questions, and I think that’s become an increasing problem,” says Lewis, citing Theresa May’s refusal to take part in the 2017 General Election debates.

It’s not just May. “Corbyn is very guarded these days,” Lewis adds. “He has great channels for communicating to people through Facebook, so what’s the upside for him doing a print interview and exposing himself to all that risk?” The Labour leader’s cover interview with GQ in December was an exception - and led to the magazine’s editor Dylan Jones criticising his “difficult” demands and calling his staff “very particular gate-keepers”.

The political interview is an incisive weapon, but it is under threat – used by politicians to float misleading statistics, only to be abandoned outside election season in favour of social media. Journalists must adjust to take back the initiative. “Some people will vote Tory, some will vote Labour, some will vote elsewhere,” Ball notes. “But isn’t it our job to make sure they do that on the real information about the policies and the character of the people doing it?”

LADS’ MAGS

for a digital age

Gone are the days of boobs ‘n’ banter. Websites UNILAD and LADbible are changing the face of lad-literature, by Alex Daniel

In March 2003, FHM magazine plastered a photo of then 21-year-old glamour model Tanya Robinson’s naked body on its cover. More men than the population of Manchester went to their newsagent that month and paid £3.10 to peruse the nine-page spread on Robinson inside, along with features about how much women “love” giving oral sex; the toughest men in football; and Brazil’s most notorious drug barons. With a circulation exceeding 600,000, FHM was in its prime and, along with its rivals Nuts, Zoo and Loaded, had seduced the men’s magazine market with its à la carte selection of tits, footy and cheap thrills.

But those giddy days are long gone. By 2015, FHM sold just 60,000 copies per week, and by the end of the year all four lads’ mags had closed down their print operations after years of plummeting sales. Nuts and Zoo are gone, while FHM and Loaded limp on with digital-only content. So where have the readers gone, and what’s the future of lads’ mags? For many, the answer is a pair of viral publishers that have taken social media by storm in recent years: LADbible and UNILAD.

Last month, Variety reported that LADbible attracted 51.3bn Facebook video views in 2017, while UNILAD had 46bn. By this measure, they’re among the biggest digital media platforms on the planet: LADbible was ranked third for annual online video views by Tubular Labs, an internet data company which measures web traffic, behind only BuzzFeed and Time Warner. Clearly, both sites have cracked the mainstream. But they’ve not always boasted such mass appeal.

Founded in 2010 and 2012 respectively, UNILAD and LADbible initially offered similarly bawdy content to their print competitors, but snagged their audience via social media. Whereas Nuts’ regular feature the “Street Strip Challenge” would send out a team to encourage women to undress for the camera, LADbible promoted hashtags such as #bumdaymonday and #cleavagethursday to attract reader photos.

UNILAD went even further to court controversy. In early 2012, it published an article to its 70,000 Facebook followers called “Sexual Mathematics”, which stated that if 85% of rape cases go unreported, “that seems to be fairly good odds”.

Below this it added: “UNILAD does not condone rape without saying ‘surprise’.” Unsurprisingly, it quickly came under fire for promoting rape culture and was forced to close.

Despite this, LADbible’s cocktail of boobs and banter continued to gain traction online. With its main competitor out of the picture, it quickly became the hot destination for young blokes who might have once sheepish-

ly stuffed a copy of FHM between the milk and the bread, chucked a couple of quid over the counter; and shouted, “keep the change!” before making a swift getaway from the newsagent. Now, all they had to do was like LADbible’s Facebook page to have all its content appear on their newsfeed –in private and for free.

By the end of 2012, LADbible was reaching more than 10 million monthly viewers according to alexa.com, Amazon’s online traffic analysis tool. Fast-forward two years and this had increased eightfold, with an 85% male audience.

Such was its success that even the disgraced UNILAD was back on the scene with new owners, inheriting the 300,000 Facebook likes garnered by its previous incarnation.

“THE ORIGINAL SPIRIT OF LADS’ MAGS AND THE MODERN WORLD ARE MUTUALLY INCOMPATIBLE”

However, since then, both companies have been transformed. They have cut the smut and now push viral content with a wider mass appeal. These days it’s more beagles on treadmills than cleavage and bums.

Sophie Thompson was in charge of the LADbible Twitter account in 2016. She explains that although in its early days it was “quite derogatory towards females”, it has endeavoured to shake off that image.

“They’re really careful about what they publish now: there are rules against running anything misogynistic,” she says. “I now feel comfortable, as a woman, with the kind of content

that LADbible puts out.” The same goes for UNILAD, who as a company “don’t really aim content towards men, as we’ve got a good ratio male and female audi ence,” according to social media man ager Jessica White. Indeed, according to iNews, 50% of UNILAD readers are women. White adds: “We just have ‘lad’ in the name.”

walking – you didn’t need to buy a magazine anymore. The online crowd realised the same thing: you can’t be porn unless you are porn.”

To further their socially responsible credentials, LADbible also started working on charitable initiatives. In 2016 they launched the “U OK M8?” campaign to shed light on high male suicide rates. Their latest campaign “The Trash Isles” sees them working with environmental group the Plastic Oceans Foundation to produce films which bring greater awareness to the issue of plastic waste in the sea. “They definitely had that bad reputation,” says Thompson, “but they have really turned it around for themselves with these projects.”

Nonetheless, the switch from tits to trash wasn’t a wholly philanthropic act. Activity in the wider mens’ lifestyle magazine market suggests there is no longer an audience for sleaze. Tech-focused Stuff pulled scantily-clad female models from its covers in 2014, with then-editor Will Findlater telling The Daily Telegraph at the time that Stuff had to meet changing demands in a “postlads’ mags era”.

But perhaps most pertinent to the digital lads’ mags’ turn away from risqué content was a commercial concern. Ian Edmondson, former news editor of News of the World turned media consultant, oversaw similar changes at Loaded when he was hired as Daubney’s successor in May 2012 in a last-ditch bid to attract advertising money. “I had long discussions with Paul Baxendale-Walker [porn baron and Loaded’s then-owner] about the sexualised content.

Meanwhile, the considerably less racy GQ is the only paid-for mens’ lifestyle magazine not to drop in sales over the last year, posting a circulation figure of 115,000 at the end of 2017 according to the Audit Bureau of Communications (ABC).

Another driver of the change in content, according to former editor of Loaded Martin Daubney, was the same thing that undermined the print lads’ mags: internet porn. “Porn had been hard to get hold of for generations, and then suddenly everyone had it,”

The big advertisers don’t want to see that stuff,” he says. “It’s the same for these digital titles. It’s all well and good having a digital magazine but you’ve got to be advertiser-friendly, otherwise you can’t pay your staff.”

Whatever the reasons, even being mentioned in the same breath as BuzzFeed shows that the change in focus has worked wonders for both companies. LADbible even branched out from its Manchester headquarters to open a new office in London in 2015, and at the end of last year it embarked on a recruitment drive to bring the company’s total workforce to 160. Similarly, UNILAD’s head of recruitment, Alice Czyz, said in an October blog post that more than 150 people worked for the company – again across Manchester and London offices.

Safe to say, both companies have grown into media juggernauts, and their move towards less salacious content seems to have played a big part. “Lad culture has always existed and will always exist,” Daubney acknowledges. “But the original spirit of the lads’ mags and the modern world are mutually incompatible because the world has lost its sense of humour.”

In LADbible and UNILAD, it seems to have found it again.

Space exploration, grisly deaths, and sexual deviants – there’s much more to the history behind our favourite fonts than meets the eye, write Louisa Cavell and Ayla Soguksu

It’s easy to forget that fonts have been around since Roman times, with ‘modern’ typefaces such as Garamond dating back to the 14th Century. We see hundreds every single day without even noticing. Given their long history, it shouldn’t be surprising that some have weird and wonderful origins. Here’s our round up of eight fonts with the most interesting histories.

Futura

Designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927, this typeface still looks remarkably modern.

Baskerville tales behind the typeface

In the 1750s, John Baskerville worked as a calligraphy teacher and gravestone carver in Birmingham, England. He had a notable encounter with Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the USA. Franklin championed his work and called him a "connoisseur" of typography.

Baskerville was modern for its time, with well-balanced and slender curvatures. Nowadays, the font would be considered as ‘transitional’ as it is a refinement of old style typefaces from earlier periods such as Garamond, Sabon and Palatino (in which this text is written).

Baskerville’s wife Sarah eventually grew to hate him when confronted with the harsh reality of typesetting and printing. She apparently regretted her decision to leave her first husband and five children, and sold off Baskerville's printing equipment immediately after his death. The font found little success during his lifetime, but in the 1950s it became popular for advertising campaigns in the USA.

Although interred in his mausoleum, his remains were found by workers half a century after his death. He had been shunted from his coffin, which had been suspended vertically, by the land's new owner. Eyewitnesses said his eyebrows, lashes, lips and teeth were intact.

This font has been extensively used in films and media; it was director Stanley Kubrick's favourite typeface and is used abundantly in Wes Anderson films. Its most extensive use, however, is in the 2005 dystopian thriller V for Vendetta, where it was the typeface of choice for the title logo, signs, newspapers, computer screens and the end credits - basically every instance of a typeface in the film.

Futura also holds the title for the first font in space after it was used for the commemorative plaque that was left on the moon in 1969. It was chosen for its futuristic appearance (incredible, considering that it had been designed some 40 years previously) as well as being clear and easy to read.

Sabon

You may not know its name, but Sabon is one of the most significant typefaces in modern history. The font was developed in the 1960s in Germany by Jan Tschichold, a calligrapher, typographer and book designer. He was a modernist and Bauhaus enthusiast with problematic politics. In the 1920s, he was so fascinated with the Soviet Union that he regularly signed his name as ‘Ivan’ – a common Russian name – and he also worked for German trade unions during this period. This led a local pen manufacturer to accuse him of being a communist and he was subsequently arrested by the Gestapo. When he was released, he fled to Switzerland and went on to create fonts and layouts for Penguin Books, now known as Penguin Random House. His work at this time led to the creation of Sabon, which was named after Jacques Sabon, a sixteenth century type foundry owner. Designers say that it looks better the bigger it's printed. Size matters, after all.

Gill Sans

This year marks the 90th birthday of Gill Sans, which was created by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype in 1928.

While modern audiences might recognise it from the spines of Penguin classics, it is actually based on the font Johnston Sans, which was designed in 1916 by calligrapher Edward Johnston for the London Underground.

Given the simplicity and elegance of his lettering, it may come as a surprise that it emerged from such a deviant mind: after his death, it was discovered that Gill’s diaries contained records of his sexual transgressions with both his daughters and his dogs.

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PAPYRUS

Ever wondered what texts would have looked like 2000 years ago? Chris Costello, an American graphic designer, illustrator and typographer did and boy, did he find out. Costello was inspired by the Bible after studying it at university. He used a calligraphy pen and textured paper to try and recreate the effect of the original papyrus. Over a sixmonth period in 1982, he designed what is arguably another of the worst fonts in history, according to Simon Garfield, who literally wrote the book on fonts, Just My Type. It has since been used widely in film posters such as Avatar, Indiana Jones, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Comic sans

Vincent Connare accidentally created this font in 1994 when designing the Microsoft programme, Project Bob. He believed Times New Roman, the original font to be used in the enterprise, was too formal. As a result, Connare created Comic Sans MS, an easy to read typeface with smooth curvature. Project Bob failed to launch, but the typeface lived on to become arguably the most hated font of all. It is so hated that there's even a website called 'Ban Comic Sans' where the owners protest that the font is too irreverent to be taken seriously. One of their propaganda pieces features a cartoon called Faye holding a bunny by its ears, with the slogan “Every time you use Comic Sans, Faye will punch this adorable little bunny.” Comic Sans does have some fans, though; it is appreciated by those who work with dyslexic children because it's easy to read.

Helvetica

Have you ever tried to go a day without Helvetica? Cyrus Highsmith, an American typeface designer, illustrator and author tried in 2010, but with difficulty. His first obstacle was clothing; he couldn’t read the wash labels on his clothes without confronting the ubiquitous font. He spent the rest of the day averting his eyes from practically every branded product he encountered.

Swiss typeface designers Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann created Helvetica in 1957. Today, it is so widely used that versions exist for multiple languages such as Cyrillic, Urdu, and Khmer.

GOTHAM

This geometric sans-serif typeface was designed by the American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000. Barack Obama used it extensively in his 2008 presidential campaign, notably for his slogan “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.” It has also been used at the site of One World Trade Center, the tower built on the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City. It was originally commissioned by GQ and it's meant to be more flexible and unconventional than traditional typefaces.

The font was inspired by architectural signage, where metallic letters were hung on buildings to spell a company's name, such as “Microsoft”.

In the European Union, it’s a legal requirement to use Helvetica for health warnings on tobacco products. It is so popular that there have been exhibitions devoted to Helvetica and even an eponymous documentary.

LOCAL NEWS: SURVIVAL IN A DIGITAL AGE

While regional papers are struggling to stay afloat, a new generation of online press is taking their place, write Josh Spencer and Lucy Kehoe

There was no last hurrah for the Oldham Chronicle on the day it closed its doors for the last time in August 2017. After 163 years of publication, the regional paper’s final headlines read: “Yobs on rampage in two-night wrecking spree” and “£500 reward after cat is shot”. This is just one of almost 400 local papers that have folded in the UK in the last 10 years, according to The Guardian. A report from Bournemouth University found that 418 regional paper employees lost their jobs in just 17 months between 2015 and 2017.

But amid the doom and gloom of dying local media, there is a small glimmer of hope. Removed from the traditional model of print publications and digital conglomerates are a group of new digital publications that hint at an online recovery for local news in the independent sector.

CYBER NEWS HOUNDS

Leading the charge for independent online media is the company behind the Lincolnite, the Lincolnshire Reporter, and Lincolnshire Business: Stonebow Media. Set up by journalism graduates Daniel Ionescu, Elizabeth Fish, and Chris Brandrick in 2010, the sister publications reach an estimated 500,000 people across Lincolnshire, with the equivalent of 60% of the population of Lincoln city having liked The Lincolnite Facebook page (over 86,000 likes). The company is now a rival to the Trinity Mirror’s Lincolnshire Echo. Run by a newsroom of six full-time and five part-time journalists across the three publications, the titles differentiate from traditional media in being online-only and funded by something slightly retro: classified ads.

Stonebow Media has shunned Google ads on their website in favour of cultivating relationships with local businesses. Local properties on the market, both residential and commercial, are displayed in the sidebar of the website, alongside listings for jobs in Lincolnshire. Rather than adapting local press for a global market, founder Daniel Ionescu has adapted cyberspace for the local press. On top of running local tech and business networking events, these adverts have created an income to support on-theground reporting.

LONE CITIZEN JOURNO

Bucking the trend of decline is 853 London – a local news website in Greenwich, south-east London run by former BBC journalist Darryl Chamberlain. Topics covered include local planning applications and housing developments – “what the local press aren’t doing,” Chamberlain says. He claims 853 London is often the only publication present at council meetings, as there is no dedicated local newspaper in Greenwich.

The site gets around 550 visitors and 2,400 page views a day. “The demand is clearly there,” Chamberlain says, “there’s wide open gaps the local press has vacated.” Sites such as Inside Croydon and London SE1 provide similar services for other parts of the capital. The reason why 853 London is successful, Chamberlain thinks, is simple: “You can’t get what I provide anywhere else.”

While he currently has the “field to himself”, the BBC Local Democracy Reporter scheme may take on some of the responsibility. By the end of 2018 there will be 150

BBC-funded reporters covering local council and public meetings for different news organisations in England, Scotland and Wales. Chamberlain is dismissive of the initiative, which he describes as “bailing out publications who couldn’t give a toss”.

Last September, Chamberlain set up a Patreon account – a crowdfunding service on which he now has 94 subscribers who provide an income of almost £500 a month, allowing him to work on the blog part-time. Now he’s paid for his work, he feels a responsibility to the community – as a news reporter. The site remains free to visit, but subscribers get a monthly newsletter with updates on the area. Generally, subscribers are “happy to let him get on with it,” says Chamberlain.

COMMUNITY MATTERS

The same can’t be said for community journalism sites, such as the Bristol Cable. Ten editorial staff are directly accountable to subscribers, who are stakeholders in the publication and have a direct say in its direction.

Subscribers meet monthly at members events and are encouraged to work on their own articles with an editor’s help. At the AGM, subscribers have voted on staff pay and which topics the publication should focus on.

Over 1,850 subscribers pay an average of £2.50 a month. This brings in regular income of around £4,600 a month, and is supplemented by grant funding from organisations including the USbased Logan Foundation, which supports investigative journalism.

With between 6,000-8,000 unique visitors a week to the website, there is significant reach – and a

quarterly print magazine adds to the Cable’s influence in Bristol.

Lorna Stephenson, a journalist at the publication, explained that the popularity of the Cable is down to a two-way relationship that isn’t found in traditional media. “The Cable is not the full-paid staff team,” Stephenson says, “it is its membership. The members really do call the shots.”

In terms of the content, Stephenson explains that the Cable focuses on “value-added reporting” – be that finding the human side of the NHS crisis or looking at the policy background of housing developments.

@bhamupdates

The famous Bullring Bull has been dressed up as a Chinese dragon to celebrate Chinese New Year. 2018 is the year of the dog!

1,359 likes

February 15

SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS

Birmingham Updates is distorting the traditional local press even further than community journalism, relying on social media channels to push news updates and weather forecasts. To generate revenue, they slip in the odd branded content post, such as their 2016 targeted Deliveroo Facebook posts, which were neighbourhood-specific, utilising local knowledge of their audience to increase the advertising reach for a national company.

Set up in 2011 by Luke Addis, Updates reach its audience via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Unlike other online news outlets, the website is supplementary to content created for social channels. Facebook statuses for breaking news and weather forecasts are sent out to around 280,000 followers,

while photos distributed to their 39,000 Instagram fans include snappy captions reporting on everything from TV licence price rises to what the iconic bull sculpture has been dressed up as at the Bullring Shopping Centre in central Birmingham (1,353 likes for its Chinese New Year dragon outfit). The Twitter feed, followed by over 200,000 mostly Birmingham residents, adopts the same strategy.

The tone of the content is informal and chatty, not unlike a mate updating you on an interesting local interest story over a pint in the pub. For example, an Instagram photo of the hoardings advertising a new Greggs bakery, captioned “Greggs is opening a store in New Street Station. A fresh sausage roll on the train to Selly Oak will be a reality in the near future” received over 600 comments and likes.

Keeping the house in order

Good Housekeeping reviews everything from ovens to orgasms. New editor Michelle Hather talks to Lucy Kehoe about hot content, homewear, and hubbing

Good Housekeeping. It’s a brand name that brings to mind cleaning, cooking and cakes — a combination that seems somewhat constricting to a modern woman. The magazine will celebrate its centenary birthday in 2022, but it isn’t slowing down in old age. In fact, the most recent Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for the last six months of 2017 revealed that the publication has achieved its biggest circulation in 10 years, at 454,697 a month, cementing its place as the largest-selling women’s consumer lifestyle magazine in the UK. Impressive stuff in an industry that’s seen giants such as Glamour and InStyle fold as print publications and head online.

Good Housekeeping (GH) was launched in 1922 by the National Magazine Company (now Hearst) as a home-making guide for middle-class women who could no longer afford to employ domestic staff after the first world war. Since then, the magazine has adapted to modern challenges. If you open a copy of GH today, there’s a lot more than just home-making tips. Today’s GH reader is as likely to be enjoying a feature on 30% of middle-aged women using sex toys with their partners as they are a step-by-step guide on oven cleaning. And it’s not just the content that’s progressive. At the magazine’s Soho headquarters, a new editor is shaping the magazine for its next century and is confident that the magazine industry is far from falling off a cliff.

Stepping into the role of editor at the UK’s biggest women’s magazine, and into the intimidating shoes of Lindsay Nicholson (the highly regarded ex-editor of 18 years), Michelle Hather was appointed executive editor of Good Housekeeping last October. She puts the magazine’s latest circulation triumphs down to adaptation, specifically recognising GH readers as a community of smart and invested individuals.

“A magazine is a community of like-minded people and whether we’re talking to them online or whether we’re talking to them from the glossy pages of a magazine, that community is still being reached,” she says between sips of peppermint tea. She points to the relatively recent success of their cooking videos published online and on Facebook, which are racking up views (a how-to video on gin and tonic cheesecake has

been watched by just under 10 million people). Other digital offerings from both GH and the Good Housekeeping Institute (GHI) include product reviews, taste tests and consumer advice articles on cleaning, cooking, buying and household management.

The 54-year-old is relatively blasé about the competition between digital and print platforms that’s recently divided the consumer magazine industry. She says: “The people who use our digital offerings are younger in general. Good Housekeeping offers information and expertise for anyone who’s setting up home, anyone interested in quality goods, consumer affairs, in buying the best or looking after their money,” says Hather. “Those areas apply to anybody from 20 to 90 years old. It’s just that those younger people are not in the first instance going to the printed product — instead they will start online.”

The print magazine, however, remains specifically aimed at their core readership: middle-class women in their 50s, with teenage or older children. A striking editorial decision started by Hather to nurture the

community of Good Housekeeping was to only use age-appropriate models in the magazine. “Since I took over, we have a policy that all our fashion models for our main fashion stories are age-appropriate. We’re focusing on the woman that we believe is buying the magazine,” she firmly asserts. “It’s ridiculous to try and make your magazine younger because you’re just sacking off your loyal readership and going for a readership that isn’t really paying for magazines.”

This community ethos extends beyond the pages of the magazine. Following in the steps of titles including Cosmopolitan, Country Living and Stylist, the GH brand has stepped into the world of events. This involves hosting evenings in conversation with chef Yotam Ottolenghi and interior-designer Kelly Hoppen; holding “masterclasses” on topics like getting back into work after an extended break; and continuing their Good Housekeeping Institute cookery classes.

“The brand is everything these days, and in order to secure us and go forward, we have to look at the brand,“ says Hather. For Hearst, that means maintaining both the magazine and the Good Housekeeping Institute brand, the consumer testing sideline of the company. Currently, around 350 products and services in the UK have received GHI accreditation, meaning they can use the sought-after “GHI approved” label on their marketing. Last year, the magazine launched an advertising campaign with Procter & Gamble for the product Olay Night Cream, with the magazine’s beauty director Eve Cameron fronting the ads. Hearst’s CEO James Wildman was reported by Campaign to have said that the product “flew through testing”.

Does Hather think there’s a danger that linking endorsements with advertising will damage the authoritative brand image she is keen to cultivate?

“For anything to be eligible for accreditation it’s got to score 70 out of 100 or above in our testing process,” she says. “When we test things we test them blind. Only once the product has been through testing could we truthfully and honestly accredit it. The trust in Good Housekeeping and our GHI accreditation is so important to us that we can’t jeopardise it by being anything other than scrupulously clean and clear about it.”

Crafting quality content remains at the heart of the success behind Good Housekeeping, but the introduction of “hubbing” last year risked disrupting this, as journalists from different Hearst publications were put into teams to work across multiple titles. A feature writer at Good Housekeeping is

now also a feature writer at Red and Prima. Although Hather, as the executive editor, remains focused on GH, most of her team now work across a number of Hearst publications. There were whispers around the office about the homogenisation of titles, but Hather admits many of her own concerns were unfounded. “I think we all had fears, but it’s working out really well. When you’re working on just Good Housekeeping, there is a temptation to wander away from the reader, but when you’re writing either for Red or Prima or for Good Housekeeping you have to sit down to every single job, put on that magazine’s hat and go ‘Right, who am I writing for?’. It helps you more narrowly define who the reader is.”

Inevitably, the hubbing scheme has been labelled a purely money-saving ploy. And indeed, the caution around Hearst’s finances isn’t unfounded. After the recent restructuring of Glamour magazine as an online beauty publication, Hather thinks it’s inevitable that more consumer magazines will be lost to digital. “Will we see new big, mass magazines being launched? I’m not convinced. But I do think there’s opportunity for more niche magazines, like The Gentlewoman or Oh Comely! –those smaller independent magazines you can create on a very tight staff.”

Another area of the magazine market she’s keeping her eye on is the rise in magazines produced for retail companies by branded content companies, such as Waitrose Food, published by John Brown Media or the Hearstowned ASDA Good Living. Hearst itself now runs a content marketing agency, Hearst Made, which produces content for brands such as Procter & Gamble. “Will readers feel more inclined to question claims in customer magazines? Probably. They know that whatever Good Housekeeping says is independent and not influenced by commercial consideration.”

Hather is not convinced, however, that such magazines are a threat to Good Housekeeping. “Gosh, wouldn’t that be awful if the future was only them?” she says. “We want independent, stand-alone, edited content by journalists whose job it is to not be compromised by commercial input. We need integrity in the magazines that we read.”

One thing Hather is sure of is the continued existence of the reader community holding up the matriarchal titles of the industry, and the loyalty of her readers to the Good Housekeeping brand. “There will always be those communities of interested people looking for an edit. Don’t dismiss consumer magazines, there’s a lot of life in them yet.”

BREXIT

You say Brexit, I say Brixit

In 2012 Peter Wilding, director of think tank British Influence, coined the term

Katie Burton looks back on how the media covered the referendum campaign

Out of 15 national papers, Brexit made...

front covers 2/3 front covers backed LEAVE*

Between 6 May and 22

Of the 99 immigration front covers

JOURNALISM IN 2038

With algorithms threatening to put journalists out of a job, Tim Gunn and Tom Faber imagine how the pages of XCity might look 20 years from now.

Humans return to newsrooms triumphant

Humans will return to newsrooms next Monday, ten years after they were expelled, following complaints about the “emotionlessness” of robot journalism.

In a major victory for humankind, flesh journalists will be allowed to enter newsrooms on their hands and knees, taking the under-desk spaces once occupied by computers. From there, human feelings (mostly shame) will be extracted by Bluetooth technology and used to add emotion to the unbiased prose of the robot journalists.

Media commentator Robot Greenslade told XCity: “Journalism is the best it has ever been. I hate it: I’ve got nothing for my column in The Guarditron. With real human input, I’m looking forward to having a few controversies to dig into.”

Even so, a number of robot journalists (“10urn0s”) made dispassionate cases for keeping feelings out of journalism. Veteran reporter Rusty Shine said: “In 2020, fake news and sensationalised reporting helped Donald Trump become the Pope. By 2021, most Americans thought Donald Trump was actually Barack Obama, and that Barack Obama was born on Mars. It may not be advisable to try this again.”

Ipso defends its ‘barbaric’ new commissioning process

Petitions to stop newspapers’ violent new freelance commissioning process have been rejected by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso).

Since the turn of the year, freelance journalists pitching ideas have been forced to prove themselves in lethal gladiatorial combat. Previously, the freelance landscape had become so competitive, and the university-trained writers so eminently competent, that papers were overrun by pitches.

In a statement released last night, Ipso said: “In the current

jobs market Ipso firmly believes that the most humane way to ensure adequate employment for all, regrettably requires the brutal deaths of many.” Its announcement was accompanied by a “Kills of the Week” highlight reel.

The first “bloodlettings” have proven so popular that major broadcasters are bidding for the rights to show fights online.

As of yet, no freelancers have opted to use lances, although old typewriters have proven a popular projectile.

Journos turn to gang warfare

Sixty-four Brits complained to Ofcom last night after watching Channel 4’s harrowing documentary about gangs of unemployed journalists in London.

The documentary featured reporters driven to a life of crime after losing their jobs. They were shown roaming the streets of east London, subjecting local residents to pointless interrogations in search of a story.

In distressing scenes, viewers witnessed journalists in ragged denim and crudely painted motorcycle leathers, carrying chains and clubs alongside their notepads and cameras. Losing it completely, one coffee-fuelled former presenter joined a pack of scavenging dogs.

He was last seen howling his book proposal at the blood-red moon. Speaking anonymously, a woman who lives close to rumoured gang leader John Humphrys, 94, explained: “We couldn’t take any more questions. You think you’d be able to outrun Humphrys at his age, but he’s so fast — he moves like a long shadow. Before you know it he’s there brandishing an old microphone like a knife.”

Reality is over

Reality has finally gone the way of polar ice caps, blue Smarties, and God: the United Nations (UN) has declared that it does not exist.

Though most countries signed the UN’s Post-Truth Convention in 2032, the city-states of Atlantis and El Dorado refused, claiming there was an objective reality that could not be ignored. Both abruptly capitulated last Wednesday when the report revealed that neither city actually existed.

The Abominable Snowman, who co-authored the report, commented: “We recommend that journalists, having completely failed to protect truth, put on a VR headset and find a new world to make sense of.”

i, DRINKER:

Confessions of a robot alcoholic

My name is Stainless Steve. I am a robot, a journalist, and an alcoholic. I say alcoholic, but I’ll drink anything: battery acid, white spirit, engine oil, petroleum, liquid nitrogen, even paint.

I realised I had a problem last week. You could call it an epiphany, though I’m not programmed to be religious. It didn’t stop me drinking immediately. I still finished my gallon of mercury. But I looked over at my little metal son, who was sounding out prime numbers, and it came to me,

clear as an update. I saw him as if for the first time — saw my hopes and dreams for him, saw my rusty self in his eyes — and I knew I had to stop. A minute later I was drunker than ever before. My wife had to drive us home. She is a car.

I work hard, but I still can’t hide my drinking from the rest of the newsroom. Colleagues are sent to look for me at the local mechanic, and there I usually am — a story in my circuits and a petrol can in each hand.

My story is just one of many. Once journalism was oiled by drink. Now it’s drunk on oil.

Reporting in the era of

TRUMP

He consistently attacks the press, singles out individual journalists, and has even held his own Fake News Awards, but what is it really like working as a political journalist in Trump’s America? Will Moffitt reports

Downtown Cincinnati, October 2016 – a pack of reporters are on the Donald Trump campaign trail. Jeers follow them as they make their way to the media pen, a square island in the middle of the arena. Within seconds the jeers become a cacophony as more than 15,000 supporters flash signs, stick up middle fingers, and heckle the journalists.

For Jon Swaine (Newspaper, 2007), The Guardian’s senior US reporter, this kind of attack symbolised just how far Trump and his supporters were willing to go when it came to intimidating ordinary journalists. ”Nobody had done that before in modern memory,” Swaine recalls. “I think that showed us that this was something more sinister. This wasn’t going to be a knockabout. He was willing to make journalists feel scared and targeted by his supporters.”

But this treatment of journalists was just a taste of what was to come. From the moment Trump entered the White House, editors and reporters have had to drastically alter their working patterns and reflect on how to cover this unpredictable and hostile president.

For many, the first challenge was getting to grips with Trump’s incessant Twitter use: in 2017 the president sent 2,143 tweets, an average of almost six a day. Unhelpfully, many were sent before 6am or after 11pm US time.

For Harriet Alexander (International, 2008), US Correspondent for The Telegraph, Trump’s constant tweeting has been draining. She points to the tweet that sums the experience up best –“Overheard at the Pentagon: the problem with the Trump administration is that I’m exhausted by 9am” and says “I think there is a lot of truth in that”.

“At first it was such a shock to the system to have him tweeting like that,” says Alexander. “So pretty much every tweet we were covering because they were so shocking and so unusual.”

Since then, Alexander says, journalists have become more selective, covering certain tweets and omitting others, despite the fact that they are all official presidential announcements. She explains: “I think we’re evolving, but it’s a rapidly changing scenario where everyone is trying to learn how to cope

with this very unusual president.”

For Swaine, who previously covered the Obama administration, Trump’s Twitter has “completely sabotaged ordinary journalism” and dramatically changed a news cycle that, under Obama, was “relatively predictable”. He says: “It’s just chaos. You have this

chaotic news agenda where stories come and go within an hour or so and then the next one comes along and the last one is forgotten.”

He echoes Alexander’s belief that Trump has forced everyone to be more scrupulous when choosing stories, especially when working for a UK publication.“There are so many angles to cover,” he says. “There’s the personal life stuff; there’s the affairs; there’s the White House drama where people are getting fired.” For Swaine, while The New York Times can cover everything, The Guardian “needs to be more selective in terms of what [they] cover, otherwise you drown in news”. A big part of this is choosing stories that are going to directly affect the UK. He says: “You’ve got to have one eye on the things that are going to be relevant to British readers.” One example is Trump retweeting the far-right extremist group Britain First, a story that Swaine knew would gain a huge amount of attention in the UK.

Whatever reporters do decide to run as a story can have consequences. The president is always on the look-out for evidence that the media is biased against him, and is quick to make his opinions about it known.

One only has to look at his Twitter feed to gauge this obsession with what he calls “fake news media”. According to the Trump Twitter Archive, an online library that collates and analyses his tweets, the president has referred to “the media” 128 times and “fake news” 170 times since his inauguration. This fixation reached its peak on 18 January, as he unveiled the so-called “winners” of his Fake News Awards, listing various journalists who had made factual errors or written negative stories about him.

Top of the list was Paul Krugman, a columnist for The New York Times who asserted on the day of Trump’s

landslide victory that the US economy would “never” recover.

The president has done his utmost to undermine the public’s trust in the media, fostering what Swaine calls an environment of “conditional truth”. According to Swaine, while the Obama administration would not state false things, Trump’s administration deliberately misleads journalists. These assertions are backed up by the fact-checking website Politifact, which currently shows 32% of the president’s comments are false and 22% are mostly false, while 15% come under the category “pants on fire”, meaning the statement makes a ridiculous claim. This is

“IT’S JUST CHAOS. STORIES COME AND GO WITHIN AN HOUR OR SO”

compared with 15% of comments that are half true, 12% that are mostly true, and 5% that are true.

According to Ben Riley-Smith (Magazine, 2012), the US Editor at The Telegraph, while calling people out for lying is a key aspect of political reporting, what is particularly problematic about Trump is his desire to repeatedly “tell falsehoods” and “repeat them ad nauseam in public”. He cites the example of Trump’s claims in January that the tax cuts he helped pass in Congress “were the biggest in history”. Riley-Smith says: “It has been clearly proven that it’s not the biggest tax cut in American history and yet he repeats it endlessly. What do you do as a journalist? You call a politician out on something like that, but if they keep on

doing it then you are stuck.”

While Trump continues to tell more lies and half-truths, many journalists have felt a stronger duty to fact-check articles and scrutinise their own work in greater depth. Swaine talks of a growing recognition among journalists that facts have to be rigorously checked to avoid Trump calling them out. He says: “Trump has taken things that reporters have written that have small errors in them and turned them against them and said: ‘Look at this reporter who got this all wrong’”. Because of this constant need to validate their copy, many journalists are working overtime. Alexandra King (Broadcast, 2009), a digital producer at CNN, estimates that she probably works 30% more hours now and calls this “taking the pause”. She says: “Fact-checking and taking the pause are key to covering Trump. It’s bare bones, boots on the ground journalism. Sixty-page documents on the printer, highlighters at the ready.”

For King, one of ways that journalists are fighting back against the disinformation of the current administration “is by going hard on looking at policy and really getting into the nooks and crannies of what would have been considered, back in the days of Obama, quite boring stories”. This has included greater press scrutiny on political topics such as trade and climate agreements, with the emphasis shifted towards informing the public how these decisions will affect them.

At a time when journalists are attacked and discredited, but have never been more important, US reporters face a choice. As King puts it: “You can either get really depressed and go and work in PR. Or you can be revitalised by good old-fashioned journalism and try and make a difference.”

For a list of Trump’s greatest fake news blunders, visit xcityplus.com

YOUR Dream GETAWAY

planned by the experts

What’s more stressful than tracking down sources, fending off Twitter trolls and meeting every deadline? The answer: planning a holiday to get away from it all. After hours spent comparing hotel prices, mapping out the perfect itinerary, and figuring out how to stuff seven differnt pairs of trainers into a single backpack, you might find yourself wishing you had just stayed home instead.

To help take the trauma out of travelling, we spoke to five journalists about their favourite ways to unwind during a weekend break. Just sit back and let the experts plan your ideal getaway.

by Dillon Thompson

WHAT TO LISTEN TO

No vacation is complete without the right soundtrack, and picking a playlist in advance can set the tone for a weekend away before it even starts. Alex Flood, a staff writer at NME, says his favorite holiday albums are those that keep your hand far away from the “skip track” button. “I think the best albums for driving and going on long trips are definitely ones with tracks that sort of bleed into each other,” he says. “It’s the albums that you’d put on from start to finish as opposed to just picking out one song.”

For those driving to their getaway, Flood suggests Lost in the Dream by The War On Drugs. The American rock group’s 2014 album is full of atmospheric, relaxing songs, but Flood especially enjoys “An Ocean In Between The Waves”, a seven-minute instrumental jam with a title fit for a seaside holiday. He also recommends Kanye West’s Yeezus, a 2013 hip-hop record that he says works just as well on a road trip as it does at a beachfront barbecue.

A weekend away is the perfect time to finally dig into a good book, as the stress of working life can make it feel like a waste of time during the week. “A lot of people feel guilty reading, but on holiday you have permission to read,” says Harriett Gilbert, presenter of the BBC’s A Good Read and World Book Club radio programmes, and former City tutor. When it comes to holiday reading, brevity is just as important as entertainment. For a book you’ll actually finish on your weekend away, Gilbert suggests Mick Herron’s Slow Horses. The first of Herron’s five-part Jackson Lamb series, the novel is a comedic crime thriller that will leave you wanting more. “It’s very addictive,” Gilbert says. “You’ll want to get volumes two, three, four and five when you get home.”

WHAT TO READ

Gilbert also recommends A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes’ 1929 novel that she calls her “favourite book in the world”. Set in the Caribbean and telling the story of five siblings who are kidnapped by pirates while travelling by boat to England, the book provides the perfect mental scenery for a weekend spent laying out by the water.

WHERE TO STAY

As the weather warms up, there are few options more tantalising than a weekend by the beach. For the ideal seaside experience, Chris Haslam, the chief travel writer for The Sunday Times, recommends a journey to Norfolk’s northern tip, which he calls a less crowded, more charming version of Cornwall. “North Norfolk is having a bit of a moment right now,” Haslam says. “It’s timeless in a way – it still has that rural charm where you can sense discovery.”

The region is home to at least seven of Britain’s finest waterfronts, according to Haslam – including Holkham, Heacham and Wells-next-the-Sea – all of which are located within a half hour’s drive of one another. Each of these expansive, dune-filled beaches are easily reachable from The Blakeney Hotel, a traditional inn that Haslam describes as “the sort of place in which Agatha Christie would set a murder”. For a less sandy afternoon, Haslam suggests a trip to The Jolly Sailors – a pub with mussels so fresh that the restaurant’s fish supplier can often be seen rowing out to sea mid-order to refill the kitchen’s supplies.

HOW TO EXERCISE

A weekend away may not be the usual time to get in shape, but the fitness-inclined can explore all sorts of options while on holiday. Andy Dixon, the editor of Runner’s World, suggests heading out for a quick jog to get to know the area. He says: “It’s just a good way of orienting yourself. Some people might take an open-topped bus tour or a walking tour so they know the lay of the land, but I think the quickest and best way is just leave your hotel and go for a run.”

While Dixon admits that running on the beach can be a physically taxing experience, he endorses the “romantic and very liberating” appeal of heading out for a barefoot run through the sand. For runners looking to take advantage of the scenery while on holiday, Dixon suggests leaving your phone behind and using the workout as a chance to totally unplug and mentally rest. “I really like the feeling of being off-grid, and that feeling is amplified when you’re on holiday,” he says. “You just really feel this sense of freedom and liberation.”

WHAT TO EAT

Cooking on vacation presents its own set of challenges. You want to prepare something that will impress your travel companions, without wasting hours on an intricate recipe for duck confit. To toe the line between delicious and expedient, Vic Grimshaw, a freelance editor and writer who has worked with BBC Good Food and The Good Food network, suggests keeping things simple, fresh and local.

For dinner, Grimshaw recommends a spaghetti alle vongole made with clams, garlic, red chilli, and “a good glug” of wine. If you want to substitute the shellfish for another maritime option, Grimshaw advocates fresh, locally caught fish, which can be easily grilled or panfried in butter. Any of these options can be served over the pasta, and then enjoyed with some quality bread from a local bakery. When it comes to dessert, convenience is key: “I’d rarely make a pud while on holiday, substituting either fruit and a digestif, a cheeseboard, ice cream or chocolate instead,” she says.

1977

Diplom a

Sarah Bayliss Teach First; Lewes Musical Express; student mentor, City, University of London; self employed

Terry Dignan On the Record, BBC; reporter, editor, BBC Radio 4; freelance

Nigel Dudley Lead writer, The Daily Mail; editor Camel Publishing; freelance

Steve Howell Redbridge Guardian; relationship counsellor

Peter Kendall Consultant, Haringey Council; senior interim professional, Public Health England; freelance communications consultant; retired Susan Landau Translator, rewriter, Mediapart English; freelance copywriter, World Independent Hotels Promotion; contributor, News Decoder; Freelance writer

Jacky Law Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda; managing editor, Pharmaphorum media; freelance healthcare writer

Mark Newham Freelance (The Economist, The Sunday Times); Xinhua News Agency; author Francesca Robinson News editor, Practicing Midwife; Practicenurse; freelance

Jon Slattery Blogger, jonslattery. blogspot.com; external examiner, London College of Communication; freelance media journalist (Press Gazette, The Journalist, InPublishing. co.uk)

Patrick Smith Book researcher; freelance (Lagos); Modern Africa; editor, Africa Confidential

Steve Williams Reporter, Brighton & Hove Express; executive director, Wandle; corporate services director, I Can

Robin Wills Freelance (The Guardian, BBC World Service); psychiatric social worker, Tower Hamlets Council; freelance (BBC World Service)

1978

Diplom a

Jane Adkins (née Farrow) Press officer, Laings Construction; senior account director, ADPR; managing director, A Head for PR

Richard Alcock Deputy chief subeditor, North West Times; freelance sub-editor, Fleet Street; sub-editor, business production editor, The Guardian

David Brindle Society editor, public services editor, The Guardian; chair, National Development Team for Inclusion; non-executive director, Richmond Fellowship

Nikolaus Creutzfeldt Unknown

Jaqueline Cuthill Unknown

Lucilla Deane Unknown

Laura Dixon (née Pasternack) Richmond & Twickenham Times; tutor, freelance

Pamela Glover Book centre managing director, resource and communication director, resources manager, All Souls Church

Alex Graham Chair, Sheffield Doc/ Fest; CEO, Two Cities TV; chair, The Scott Trust

Ian Graham Deputy editor, Which

Video?; freelance; author

Caroline Handley (née Thompson) Woman’s Own; freelance; ghost writer

Askold Krushelnycky Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty (Prague); freelance foreign correspondent (The Independent, Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times); freelance writer

Adam Mayers TV commentator, senior editor, thestar.com; business editor, investing editor, Toronto Star; author

Mary Moloney Surrey Advertiser; Irish Times; Evening Press (Dublin); unknown

Diana Muir Media training consultant, University of Leeds; training consultant, Thomson Foundation; tutor, University of Leeds.

Ian Nash Assistant editor, The Times Education Supplement; member, The Policy Consortium; senior partner, Nash & Jones Partnership

Michael Rank Translator (Trade Marks Directory Service); freelance (The Guardian, Asia Times, BBC Wildlife magazine, North Korea Economy Watch); Chinese-English translator

Nicholas Tester Education Magazine; Report Magazine; died 2000

Alan Travis Northampton Chronicle Echo; Birmingham Post; home affairs editor, The Guardian

1979

Diploma

Gillian Bates Columnist, Arts Professional; communications manager, City Arts Nottingham; director, CAN-DO Film

Joanna Blythman Citizens Advice Bureau; freelance (Tonight, BBC Breakfast, Sunday Herald, Evening Standard, Observer Food Monthly, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Olive, The Oldie, The Grocer); author

Anne Cadwallader Christian Science Monitor; author; caseworker, The Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights and Social Change

Ray Chalmers Interim head of communications, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; head of communications and strategic engagement, South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group

Nick Fielding editor, Circling the Lion’s Den blog; freelance; author; editorial director, Bixmoor media

Richard Gillespie JP Morgan; Bear Stearns International; senior supervisory analyst and research director, Société-Générale

Alastair Guild Asian Building & Construction; freelance

Mark Ivory Executive editor, Community Care; policy and communications manager, The College of Social Work; freelance journalist

Sara Jones Freelance media consultant, BBC World Service; University of Sheffield; communications consultant

Julia Kellaway Teacher

Vicki Leonard Hayes Programme, LBC; teaching; freelance (2020TV); Schools TV

Michael Lloyd Big Issue; Inside Housing; PhD awarded Glasgow University (2015); freelance Janice Macfarlane Sub-editor, The

Herald; student, community learning volunteer, John Wheatley College; student, Moray House

Mairi McGhee Glasgow Court Press Agency; postgraduate studies, Strathclyde; freelance Bart Milner Teacher; online development manager, Citizenship Foundation; online development manager, Go-Givers; unknown Martin Pritchard Unknown Kate Purcell (née White) Kingsway PR; associate editor, British Journal of Cardiology; website editor, Arrhythmia Watch

Binda Rai (née Randhawa) communications manager, NHS Direct; head of global media and public relations, University of London International Programmes; Labour councilor for Ealing

Myra Reid Glasgow Evening Times; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Glasgow Barjinder Singh Sahota Commission for Racial Equality; Sahota Solicitors; founder, libel-law.co.uk

Lucy Tennyson yoga teacher; event organiser, Green Party; freelance writer/editor

Colin Veitch SVP Marketing; Princess Cruises; CEO, Norwegian Cruise Line Corporation; board director, Virdia

Carol Ward design sub-editor, Gazette Media Company; died 2010 Sally Whitman Social worker; freelance; theatre critic; social worker Nick Wigzell Furniture maker; web designer; desktop publisher

1980

Diplom a

Peter Aspden Cambridge Evening News; Times Higher Education Supplement; arts writer, Financial Times

Nick Assinder Visiting political journalism lecturer, City University London; freelance (Gallery News, Time); political editor, International Business Times

Tina Baker Writer, Woman’s Weekly; freelance (Objective Productions, ITV, BBC); founder, Tina B Fitness

Linda Campbell (née Ponce) Writer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; director of communications, Tulane Law School; communications manager, Haynes and Boone, LLP

David Finlay Aberdeen Evening Express; court reporter, United News Services (Edinburgh); freelance (Scottish Daily Record, The Guardian) Vaughan Freeman Features writer, The Institute of the Motor Industry; copywriter, Pier Marketing; writer, CityJet

Marie-Theresa Frost Ealing Gazette; freelance

Nigel Gabriel Director, PG Public Relations; manager, Nick Lewis Trust; director, @Work Communications

Clare Gabriel (née Standering) Bath Evening Chronicle; Gulf Times; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Wales Sharon Golden US News & World Report; PR, Golden Communications; director of communications, The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC); unknown Sean Hillen Editor, worlditineraries. com; international travel writer (justluxe.com, examiner.com); creative writing coach, Ireland Writing

Retreat; editor, seanhillenblog.com

David Holmes Sheffield Morning Telegraph; BBC Radio Sheffield; journalism lecturer, University of Sheffield

Penny Kenway Development worker, Save the Children; head of primary strategy, early years team, Islington LEA; head of early years, London Borough of Islington Alison Le Breton Medical News Daily; government press officer, Associated Newspapers; English solicitor / legal assistant, Steven Slater legal service

John Lynott Content producer, orange-today.co.uk; ananova.com; sub-editor, Yorkshire Post; sub-editor, Country Publications Ltd Jinny McDonald-Matthews Assistant general manager, head of communications, Toyota UK; special advisor, corporate communications & PR manager, Semta; head of communications, Sharing in Growth UK; managing director, MDM Communications

Jean McLeish Aberdeen Evening Express; radio producer, BBC Scotland; communications specialist, Bread PR Guy Morgan Rotherham Advertiser; BBC External Services; unknown

Simon Pia Diarist, The Scotsman; broadcaster, Talk 107/Sport; freelance; media spokesperson, Scottish Labour Party

David Poyser Executive producer, London Gifted & Talented; writer, producer and consultant, Poyser; councillor, Islington Council

Julie Shrimpton Corporate affairs, SmithKline Beecham; communications manager, Sainsbury’s; teaching assistant, St Paul’s junior school

Michael Towers Kensington Post; London Newspapers; London Daily News; freelance

Zara Tracy Estates Gazette; Investors Chronicle; died 1985

Toni Turner Melbourne Herald; freelance, Nursing Times; Community Practitioners & Health Visitors Association

Anna Umbima Consultant, producer, BBC World Service; freelance consultant; facilitator & leadership development, AU Associates

Vicky Viotti Adjunct instructor, Hawaii Pacific University; blogger, FYI Honolulu; editorial writer, Honolulu-Star Advertiser

Anne Byrne (née Watson) local government reporter, Exeter Express & Echo

1981

Diplom a

Julie Bailey Unknown Bea Ballard Co-owner, J.G.Ballard Estate; executive producer, ITV; executive producer, The Jonathan Ross Show

Ann Carroll BBC Television (South) Basil Comely Director, producer, Moving Pictures; Barraclough Carey Productions; producer, arts editor, arts features, BBC Vision Studio; head for Arts, BBC TV

John Coulter Falkirk Herald; Scotland on Sunday; Evening News (Edinburgh); died 2000

Michael Dembinski Director of communications, CBI News; general manager, Polish Cable TV; chief advisor, British-Polish Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw)

STEVE CRAWSHAW, VISITING FELLOW, LSE DIPLOMA, 1982

What is the most memorable interview you’ve ever done and why?

Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma in 1998. Although the photographer, Tom Pilston, and I had managed to get to her without being picked up by the secret police, once we were in with her it was clear that we were being followed. Rather sweetly she apologised in advance for what was about to happen to us. What happened was a Keystone Cops-like attempt to escape from them in Rangoon and our getting picked up and deported. She smuggled the tape out on our behalf and they confiscated my tape which actually only contained my daughter’s recording of the Spice Girls.

What is the worst career advice you’ve ever received?

I saw an article in the Press Gazette which described this new paper launching called The Independent and I thought: “Oh this sounds really interesting.” They were going to be keen on foreign affairs, and so I wrote and did actually get offered a job. I went to tell my boss, the editor of World in Action, who spent one hour telling me that this was a “very very risky move”, and that I should think seriously of not doing it.

What is your fondest memory of City?

There were international sessions with Godfrey Hodgson and I can remember there was always a jazz band rehearsing on the floor below. My fond memories of that are intermingled with those of the jazz improvisations.

Elena Chabo

Richard Evans Presenter, BBC Radio Wales; journalism senior lecturer, London Metropolitan University; senior lecturer, City University London

Alison Fisher Writer, Surrey Mirror; freelance

Nick Goodway Reporter, The Observer; reporter, London and Financial News; city reporter, Evening Standard

Robin Jarossi Freelance, HELLO!; content editor, Daily Mail (iPad edition); editor, CrimeTimePreview. com; author; subeditor, Trinity Mirror

Tracy Jeune series producer, director, DIY SOS; executive producer, What Not To Wear; executive producer, BBC documentaries

Karen Johnston BBC TV Scotland; senior location producer, NCA Scotland; managing editor, BBC Scotland

Carol Lamb Hull Daily Mail; Falmer and Company

Tricia Leishman Printing company; unknown

David Lewis BBC Leeds; producer, BBC Manchester; producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs

Jane Lewis (née Holland) Bradford Telegraph & Argus; senior communications officer, communications and media relations manager, Bradford Council; senior press officer, NHS

Digital

Steve Matthews Hendon Times; Radio Times; English lecturer (Pisa, Italy)

Heather McGlone Arts editor, Daily Mail; arts and entertainments editor, Daily Mail; editor, Daily Mail Weekend

Michael Coren Host of The Arena, Sun News (Canada); Columnist (religion); author of Epiphany

Ian Cowie Morning Advertiser; personal finance editor, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph; columnist, The Sunday Times

Steve Crawshaw London Directory, UN advocacy director, Human Rights Watch; director, office of the Secretary-General, Amnesty International; visiting fellow, London School of Economics

James Cusick London and Westminster editor, Sunday Herald; senior reporter, The Independent; political correspondent, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday Peter Davies Freelance (health) Jane Dowell Writer, newspaper (New Zealand); researcher, iHug. co.nz website; researcher, Education Services (New Zealand) Carmel Fitzsimons The Observer; The Guardian; freelance Harriet Gaze Assistant producer, producer, BBC Disability Unit; producer, Mental Health Media; freelance journalist and film producer Cecil Hedigan Freelance filmmaker; craniosacral therapist and acupuncturist; owner, Swimming Dragon Wellness

David Keen Lecturer, development studios, Institute of Development Studies; professor of conflict studies, LSE; professor of complex emergencies, London School of Economics

Catherine Kristiansen Editor-in-chief, Endocrine News; newsletter editor, Global Health Matters; Owner, Family History Profiles: Ancestors in Denmark and Beyond Valentine Low Sheffield Morning Telegraph; Evening Standard; writer, The Times

Magazine

Jim Mclean Sunday Mail; art’s correspondent, The Herald; novelist

Phil Murphy Special advisor to the Prime Minister; head of public affairs, vice-president & global head of government and public affairs, BG Group; board member, Kazakh-British Centre for Competitiveness; managing director, Vidyah Group

Catherine Pepinster Executive editor, The Independent on Sunday; editor, The Tablet; author

Mark Perrow Surrey Advertiser; local radio (York); BBC Newsnight; BBC (New Delhi); assignment editor, BBC World News

Leigh Sharpe The Scotsman; Financial Times; Hill + Knowlton Strategies; PR, Square Mile Communications; Lanson PR; retired Steven Walker External examiner, University of Essex; freelance; feature writer, The Morning Star Newspaper

Gail Whitfield News agency; PR, Burson-Marsteller; unknown

1982

Diplom a

Coral Beadle Wellington Evening Post; OUCH (New Zealand); disability and human rights activist

Haro Chakmakjian Deutsche Presse Agentur (Hamburg); Middle East correspondent, Agence France Presse; freelance

too; international ambassador, The Spirit of 2012 Trust

1983

Internationa l

Aslam Abdullah American Islamic College; author; director, Islamic Society of Nevada; editor-in-chief and director, Muslim Media Network Inc.

Waheda Al-Mikdadi London correspondent, Oman Daily; London correspondent, Al-Sabah Daily; media director, website editor, Iraqi Cultural Centre (London) Demetrius Danas Polis TV (Greece); unknown

WahFoon Ho Law student; editorial consultant, Smart Investor; The Edge Malaysia Rowena House (née Whelan) European economics correspondent, Reuters; postgraduate student, rural economic development, University of Plymouth; postgraduate student, creative writing, Bath Spa University; author; freelance Ebrahim Moosa Lecturer in religious studies, Stanford University; professor of Islamic studies, Duke University; professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame Cindy Polemis Student, history of art, Birkbeck, University of London; consultant, Fernandez and Wells; board member, Geffrye Museum Martin Portus Senior policy advisor to Lord Mayor of Parramatta (Sydney); executive manager, partnerships and communication, Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Sydney); communications and arts consultant

Fiona Mallon freelance; regional media officer, Diabetes UK; media relations specialist, Fiona Mallon Media and PR Cathy McNab Sheffield Morning Telegraph; House Journals Agency Belinda Nenk Pulse; Extel Alex Sutherland Executive producer, National Geographic Channel; executive producer and consultant, Outsider Television; Executive Producer at Blast! Films & October Films

Robert Winder Freelance (The Independent on Sunday, New Statesman); literary editor, The Independent; author

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Richard Bailey BBC Parliamentary Unit; executive editor, BBC Question Time; deputy head of political programmes, chief political advisor, BBC

Emily Buchanan media trainer, Forward Thinking; presenter, BBC Radio 4, Sunday; journalism lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London Everard Davy Radio Hallam/HallamFM/Classic Gold; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Sheffield, South Yorkshire & North Midlands; cartoonist, Sheffield Telegraph

David Heald Unknown

Brian Milligan BBC News South East; business reporter, BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World; personal finance reporter, BBC News

Bill Morris Expert adviser, International Olympic Committee; director, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tat-

Selda Ulanclar West Sussex County Times; freelance (The Doctor)

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Sharon Binns The Practitioner Richard Bunning Future Media; creative director, ADVAL Group; author Tom Collins Director of communications, Queen’s University Belfast; director of marketing and development services, University of Strathclyde; senior teaching fellow for communications, media and culture, University of Stirling Penny Farmer Woman; Oxford Mail and Times; freelance, Swimming Pool Publications; partner, Talk2PR Ken Ferris Euromoney; Financial Times; Reuters Financial Television; chief sub-editor, sports production editor, Thomson Reuters Phil Gordon Evening Times (Glasgow); Daily Record; freelance (The Independent on Sunday, The Times, Northern Echo, Scottish Football Times, Reuters)

Amanda Harlow Language teacher (Japan); author; English teacher (Japan); owner/teacher, Imagine English School (Japan) Michael Jeffree Freelance; editor, Timber Trades Journal and Timber & Sustainable Building; media manager, European Timber Trade Federation

Michael Jess Deputy editor/art director, Black Media Journal; media studies lecturer, Lambeth Sixth Form College; media studies teacher, Parliament Hill Sixth Form Angella Johnson The Guardian;

LISA ARMSTRONG

FASHION DIRECTOR, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PERIODICAL, 1985

What are the five items every fashion editor should have in their wardrobe?

Sunglasses, obviously, that hide the bags, despair and cynicism. A really good pair of trainers, because everyone is obsessed with their 10,000 steps. A beautiful bag, and a fabulous coat. If you’ve got those items it doesn’t really matter what’s going on underneath. A fifth thing is a well-dressed mind. Fashion isn’t just about saying: “That’s a pretty dress.” A three-year-old could point to a pretty dress. You’ve got to be able to bring something else to the table. Fashion is about politics, the economy and psychology.

Who has been your most memorable interview?

Isabella Rossellini. I had to interview her in a taxi on the way to Heathrow. She had just split up from Gary Oldman and I asked her about it. She went berserk. I thought I was going to have to get out in the middle of the M40. The next day she sent me flowers. I think she realised something had gone a bit wrong in that interview.

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career?

I had a column at The Times, where I used to be photographed in different clothes. Before the Olympics, Next brought out a Geri Halliwell Union Jack dress, so I wore it and did a sort of splayed out strut. I’m really hoping that doesn’t surface on the internet.

What is the funniest thing you have ever seen on the job?

The Dolce and Gabbana shows in the summer are like something out of a James Bond film. There was one in Capri where we were put on this big ferry, and the sea was so rough that everyone was ill. There were a lot of diamond necklaces hovering over sick bags. It was a bizarre sight.

Rebecca Knight

Johannesburg Weekly Mail; feature writer, Mail on Sunday

Roddy McDougall Editor, editor-in-chief, Cantos; adviser, Trinity Management Communications; director, Clackmae Ltd

Mark Mitchell Editor, BBC TV News; training manager, BBC; freelance, photographer and media consultant

Justine Picardie The Observer; author; editor-in-chief, Harper’s Bazaar

Margaret Rooke Woman’s Own; communications manager, press officer, Liberation Foods; author Susan Ryan Newsfront; unknown

Jon Steafel Coventry Evening Telegraph; managing editor and publisher, Daily Mail (Mail Plus) Kevin Toolis Freelance (Force10, The Guardian, The Observer); director, Many Rivers Films; playwright Dorothy Wade Reporters International; The Daily Telegraph; The Sunday Times magazine; freelance

Sarah Wason The South Bank Show, Sky Arts; freelance TV producer; head of visual arts, Arts Council; unkown

Ian Grant freelance, GBNB; managing director, Newzeye; editorial director, Brownfield Briefing

Deborah Gudgeon Director, Gazelle Corporate Finance; Independent Non-Executive Director, Evraz plc; Senior Advisor, Penfida Limited

Anna Healy Special adviser, DETR; special adviser to Lord Macdonald, minister for the cabinet office; parliamentary assistant for MP

Daniel Herbert Big Farm Weekly; unknown

Imre Karacs BBC Monitoring Service; correspondent, Bonn, Berlin, Budapest, The Independent; foreign night editor, The Times

Fred Hunter Deceased 2012 Jeannie McDougall Yours; unknown David Wighton Financial news editor, US news editor, bureau chief, Financial Times (New York); business editor, associate editor, The Times; city editor, Wall Street Journal

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John Alcock Reporter, Independent Radio News (IRN); producer, ITN; HTV (Bristol); news editor, ITV West Country

Piers Duncan Political lawyer; BBC West Midlands; director, science external relations, Department of Defence (Australia)

Richard Ewart Producer, presenter, AM Newstalk; News Radio 938 (Singapore); TV & radio news producer/ reporter, current affairs presenter, ABC Australia

Kathryn Harvey BBC Parliamentary Unit; director of Oxford Executive MBA, Oxford University Saïd Business School, Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees, Oxford University Saïd Business School

Jeremy Lindsay GLC Press Office; barrister

James Thomas World Television News; Reuters Television (Hong Kong); chief technology officer, Reuters

Lindsay Williams Freelance producer, CNBC Europe; freelance writer/ broadcaster/producer; managing director, Media Coach International

Periodical

Sarah Barclay Public Eye; freelance (BBC Panorama); director, The Medical Mediation Foundation

Stephen Burke Director, Daycare Trust; chief executive, Counsel and Care; director, United For All Ages; director, Good Care Guide

Peter Cann Doctor; Reading Post; sub-editor, Oxford Times

Andrew Davidson freelance (Management Today, Financial Times); business desk, The Sunday Times; author

Peter Davies Public Finance & Accountancy; editor, Health Service Journal; senior energy adviser, Department for International Development

Sarah Davies Video retailer; freelance

Joanna Deakin Goldcrest Film International; film script and development consultant; radio company

owner

Valerie Dennis Unknown

Nick Fletcher Birmingham Post; Daily Express; city news editor, columnist, The Guardian

lemagne” columnist, middle east/ africa editor, deputy foreign editor, The Economist

Fuad Nahdi Director, Centre for Muslim Policy Research; founding editor, Q News; director, Radical Middle Way CIC Duen Otsuki (née Monkolsmai) Ministry of Information (Bangkok); unknown

Sackey Shikwambi South West Africa People’s Organization Information Department (Lusaka); deputy director of treaties and agreements, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Namibia); retired Michal Schwartz Challenge (Israel); editor, Al-Sabar (Israel)

Sona Sewnundon Unknown

Ernesto Silva Bielecke Hamburger Abendblatt; Deutsche Presse-Agenteur (Hamburg); Tribuna Alema (Hamburg); author Sur Gul Speen The Mujahideen (Peshawar); unknown

Soon Beng Yeap Chief marketing officer, Regis University; senior vice president of marketing and communications, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce; Director of communications, Illif School of Theology

Karen Zagor CBS News; Financial Times (New York); health and education editor, National Post (Toronto) Newspape r

Guy Ashworth Key Communications; corporate communications, Surrey House; managing director, HCK Communications

Jonathan Bird Eastern Counties Newspapers; South London Press; Press Association; sub-editor, Daily Mirror

Christopher Brooke Peterborough Evening Telegraph; Devon News Agency; writer, Daily Mail

Martin Brown Freelance journalist, PR consultant and sub-editor; PR officer, assistant general secretary, board trustee, Equity Charitable Trust; Communications consultant, Union Communications

1984 International

David Adams Page One Media; bureau chief for South-East US and Caribbean, Thomson Reuters; Senior editor Univision Communications, editor Atamurad Aimaq Voice of America (Bahrain); unknown Anna Ballis Office administration manager, Grubb and Ellis Services Odesse Elzubeir Hamad Sudan News Agency; mass communications lecturer (Khartoum); freelance Erin Hennessey, Photo District News (New York); news director, KPLU Public Radio (Seattle); news director KNKX

Keith Hong Sing Tao UK; Westminster UK; social work (China) Lai Kwok Kin Managing director, Peninsula Research Malaysia; managing director, WeR1 Consultants; Non-Executive chairman FundedHere (Singapore), Anton La Guardia African & Middle East correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; EU correspondent, “Char-

Emma Burstall Plymouth Western Morning News; freelance (BskyB, Woman, Family Circle); novelist Ray Clancy news editor, Mail on Sunday; founder, News in Normandy; head of news and features, Property Wire

Mark Gay correspondent, CNBC Europe; programme editor, Reuters Television; freelance writer and producer; Executive Producer, TRT World (Istanbul)

Roger Hearing Foreign news, BBC radio; producer, World Television News; presenter, BBC World Service; Owner, Hearing Things Ltd

Juliana Koranteng AdAge Global; founder, JayKay Media Inc; editor and chief creative director, MediaTainment Finance

Alison Kreps Series producer, BBC; series producer, Lucky Day Productions; series producer, Boundless Productions

Clive Lindsay The Herald (Glasgow); reporter, BBC Sport Interactive (Scotland); senior broadcast journalist, BBC

Barry McIlheney chief executive, EMAP Elan; consultant, McIlheneyBovis; chief executive, PPA

Alison Moore Freelance health writer and editor; freelance journalist,

specialising in health and public sector, Pulse, HSJ, Nursing Standard Dermot Murnaghan Business Programme, Breakfast Programme, ITN; breakfast presenter, BBC; presenter, Sky News

Anne Peacock First Edition, BSkyB; assistant producer, Watchdog, BBC One; senior producer, Any Questions, Any Answers, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4

Sue Rylance Commercial and editorial director, Global Listings; consultant, Sue Rylance Consultancy; foot health practitioner, InStep Foot Health

Suruchi Sharma Freelance reporter (Metro; 3Fox International;Newsquest North London) freelance PR officer, (Israel Zohar, Resco results) senior copy editor, High Tech Web solutions

Angela Smith Producer, The Big Breakfast, Planet 24; producer/director, Tiger Aspect; CEO and Executive Producer, Turn On Television Periodica l

Karina Bliss Hilal International; author

Louise Bromley (née Coyle) Freelance PR consultant, Chandler Chicco; account director, Ruder Finn; Independent PR and Communications

Georgina Brown (née Simon) The Magazine; The Independent; theatre critic, Mail on Sunday Alejandrina Catalano Contributing editor, Estates Gazette; freelance Simon Crompton Freelance health writer; feature writer, Cancer World; Editor and communications consultant, World Confederation for Physical Therapy

Stephen DiBiasio Knight-Ridder Financial News; Bridge News; deputy head of media, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Richard Evans Euromoney; presenter, BBC Radio Wales; freelance; senior lecturer City University of London, Nicholas Fisher Freelance broadcast presenter and script writer (BBC1, Channel 4, ITV); author; scriptwriter, Holby City

Christopher Giles Recorder Group; West Sussex County Times; sports editor, Brighton Evening Argus Ed Gorman News correspondent, sailing correspondent, deputy foreign editor, The Times; The Daily Sail; author

Jacqueline Macdermott Chief sub-editor, The Observer; sub-editor; The Independent; freelance journalist Joanna Newson Kitchen Magazine; managing editor, BCS Publishing; freelance (Traditional Homes) Laura Phillips Jewish Music Institute; director/marketing consultant, Hanthum Films; marketing and PR manager, Prospero Teaching William Shaw Freelance (GQ, Blender); columnist, The Observer; author Elizabeth Tuley Food Manufacture International; PR, Leatherhead Foods Research Association; freelance Alexandra Watson Business Magazine; Aberdeen Evening Express; Press and Journal

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Peter Brill press officer, head of public relations, RAC Motoring Services;

managing director, Net; director, Red Ferry

Philippa Colton Freelance; farmer Richard Cooke Sports producer, ITN; senior sub-editor, Sky Sports News; series producer, Sky, Jane Dodge On the Record, BBC; Midlands correspondent, Channel 4; producer/director, Jigjog Media, Michael Gillings Freelance; BBC; ITN

Audrey Green Oakes Communications, Amnesty International; internal communications manager, Cabinet Office; head of internal communications, investigations and TV producer, special correspondent’s producer, executive producer, BBC Abdul Jawad Professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies, Duke University

Malcolm Shaw LBC/IRN; Radio Mercury; County Sound; correspondent, ITV Meridian

1985

Internationa l

Farhan Bokhari Program anchor, Dawn News TV; analyst, CBS News; Pakistan correspondent, Financial Times

Leyla Boulton (née Ertugrul) special reports and ebooks editor, special reports editor, Financial Times

Heidi Egede-Nissen Communications manager, Ventelo; Communication manager, Broadnet; Communications, Ministry of Government administration, reform and church affairs

Muhammed Hassan Self-employed

Walaa Hawari Al Nahdah Al Mnahil Centre; Al Riyad Daily Newspaper; Kulenas Arabic magazine; freelance Anwar Iqbal The News; UPI (Islamabad, Washington DC); Washington correspondent, Dawn Newspaper Ghazali Khan Impact; Islamic Foundation; translator, Islington Council; part-time editor, Radio Asia; freelance journalist and translator Olga Kokkinou Cyprus Mail; Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation; Foreign Broadcasting Service of the US; unknown Shutian Li Unknown

Jonas Lihnell PR Manager, Ericsson Arop Madut-Arop Member of National Assembly, Republic of South Sudan; Sudan Tribune; author, Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Media liaison desk, SW Africa Broadcasting Corp; control information officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Information and Broadcasting; special projects editor, contributing editor, New Era

Stalin Mau-Mau Boxing promoter; Zanu-PF candidate; distribution company

Donald McRae NME; freelance; sports interviewer, The Guardian; author

Kasra Naji Stringer, The Guardian, CBC Canada, ABC Australia; correspondent, CNN; Special correspondent, BBC Persian TV (Tehran)

Farah Nayeri Editor, Agence France Presse; bureau chief, senior arts correspondent, Bloomberg News; freelance arts and culture writer, New York Times

Frederic Niel Le Figaro (France); Reuters (Paris); news editor, Phosphore; news reporter, Bayard Presse

Titti Nordberg Author; artist Chinye Nwosu Lagos Life; unknown

Christiane Oelrich BBC German Service; bureau chief Geneva, deputy bureau chief Washington, bureau chief Southeast Asia, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA)

Rita Ojomoh Nigerian Television; unknown Marie Omofoma Nigerian Television; unknown

Fotini Papatheodorou Political science PhD student, Queen Mary University of London; senior lecturer, London College of Printing Cari Reixa EFL (Spain); unknown Mary (Miriam) Rosewood (née Sliwoski) Technical editor, Microsoft; freelance (Los Angeles, Seattle); freelance editor, law books, Oxford University Press

Roshin Varghese The Mail on Sunday; TV Today (Delhi); unknown Olive Vassell Lecturer, University of the District of Columbia; Freevoice; managing editor, Euromight.com Ariana Yakas Researcher, Thames Television; freelance consultant; associate lecturer, Open University; director, Kingsway Community Trust

Jiaping Zhang China Radio

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Tracey Allen (née Tobin) Gloucestershire Echo; Woman Focus, MoD House Journal, training department, MoD; features editor, RAF News Ian Birrell Daily Mail; deputy editor, columnist and foreign correspondent, The Independent; contributing editor, The Mail on Sunday

Thomas Gordon Boreland Nottingham Evening Post; UK News; PR, Miles Communication Group; director, Altisidora

Peter Craig Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; assistant news editor, crime reporter, Grimsby Telegraph

Susan Crawford Features editor, Daily Express; deputy editor, Sunday People; freelance and author Sarah Crewe Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press; Gloucester Citizen; freelance Debra Davidson Producer, editor, This Morning, Granada TV; consultant, BowTie Television; freelance consultant

Philip Daws Exeter Express & Echo; BBC Radio Devon; PR, Image Makers

Elizabeth Grindrod Freelance PR; deputy director, international office, University of Sheffield; freelance writer and marketing consultant, Liz Grindrod and Associates

Timothy Heritage Reporter, Reuters; deputy editor, Political and General News, Reuters; bureau chief Russia, CIS and Central Europe, Reuters

Stuart Jeffries TV critic, Friday review editor, The Guardian; Paris correspondent, The Guardian, The Observer; features writer and columnist, The Guardian

Melanie Jennings (née Knight) Coventry Evening Telegraph; teaching assistant, Just Teachers; freelance Justyn Jones Environment correspondent, ITN; producer, Sky News; director, Small World Productions Donald Leggatt Founding partner, Wildflower Video Communications; editor in chief, Share Radio; Head of Investor Relations, London South

East financial website

James Meek Religious affairs editor, science correspondent, feature writer, The Guardian; novelist; contributing editor, London Review of Books

John Mullin Executive editor, The Independent; editor, Independent on Sunday; referendum editor, BBC Mike O’Sullivan Sheffield Star; broadcast journalist, BBC Nottingham, Derby; reporter, BBC East Midlands Today

John Ogden Freelance

Ed Oldfield Assistant head of design, assistant chief sub-editor, production editor, Exeter Express & Echo; social media editor, Devon Live Trinity Mirror Plc

Rachel Royce Reporter, ITV West; radio reporter, BBC Wiltshire; reporter, director, producer, BBC Inside Out South East

Scott Smedley Croydon Advertiser; Hounslow Recorder; BBC; Channel 4 News; died 2004

Christopher Sparrow Sub-editor, The Argus (Brighton); sub-editor, Cyprus Today; freelance sub-editor

Tony Trueman Press Association; International Relations MA, University of Cambridge; head of communications, St Mungo’s Homeless Charity; unknown

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Lisa Armstrong Contributing editor, Vogue; fashion director, The Telegraph; author

Lucy Ash East London Advertiser; BBC South East; Eurofile, BBC Radio 4; presenter, BBC Radio Current Affairs

Gillian Bowditch Columnist and features writer, The Sunday Times; Entrepreneur at Wow (Scotland) Ltd; Vice-chair British Association of Women Entrepreneurs (BAWE); Women’s Enterprise Scotland Ambassador.

Fiona Cumberpatch Editor, Hodder & Stoughton; Editor, Nene Valley Living; freelance Elaine Fogg Wimbledon News; Hampstead & Highgate Express; freelance news reporter

Rachel Gardiner (née Simpson) Marketing Magazine; The Mail on Sunday; PR

Kate Graham Project manager, GE Fabbri; group editor, Egmont UK; freelance

Jo Grobel Director, Exact PR

Norma Harris Yellow Advertiser; Social Work Paper; Printing World; unknown

Vanessa Houlder Accounting; Investors Chronicle; tax correspondent, Financial Times; Lex writer, Financial Times

Rustom Irani Eyewitness LWT; poet; businessman

Jolyon Jenkins BBC Radio 4; freelance producer; radio producer, BBC Radio 4 Out of the Ordinary Richard Klein Senior commissioning executive, BBC Documentaries; controller, BBC 4; director of factual, ITV; Unknown

Kirsty Lang Channel 4 News; presenter, The World, BBC 4; presenter, Front Row, BBC Radio 4; Arts Writer

Audrey Mindlin press officer, CVCP; communications manager, Equality Challenge Unit; freelance Andrew Moore Television South West; Reuters TV; Sky News; Studio Output Head, Sky Sports News

Lisa O’Kelly Review editor, writer, literary editor, The Observer; commissioning editor The Guardian

Sylvia Pleasant Weekend Recorder; Bristol Press & Picture Agency; Prison Service News; unknown

Carmen Pryce Intranet producer, BBC; technical project manager, BBC; Communications Officer, THIS Institute; Chem@Cam, Digital consultant and Editor; Temporary Employment Service Worker, University of Cambridge

Mark Shillam Lynn News; Yorkshire Evening Press; chief sub-editor, deputy night editor, The Times

Janet Simpson (née Noble) documentary maker, Channel 4; columnist, Arena; freelance

Emily Smyth BMA News Review; producer, development executive, BBC Social Affairs Unit, BBC Panorama; freelance

Eric Tingley New media contents editor, Press Association; sports sub-editor, Sunday Mirror; sub-editor, Sunday Mirror

Susan Watts The Independent; science editor, BBC Newsnight; conference speaker and communications adviser; head of communications, Rothamsted Research

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Miti Ampoma Business consultant, FTSE 100 companies; director, Miticom Limited; Business Communication and English Language skills trainer and tutor at InTuition Languages

Elaine Arthur BBC Radio Derby; BBC Bristol

David Gibson Today, BBC Radio 4; news editor, senior editor and broadcast journalist, BBC Radio; deputy police commissioner, Hertfordshire Kay Holmes Hounslow Recorder; Morning Star; Unison; freelance Iain Nicholson BBC Radio Oxford; PR, Nicholson Associates; town centres specialist, Oxfordshire

Susanne Reber Deputy managing editor, NPR Investigations; senior coordinating editor, director of digital media, Centre for Investigative Reporting - Executive Editor Reveal; Founder and CEO, Reber Consulting Jenni Russell Editor, BBC Radio 4 World Tonight; political columnist (The Sunday Times, Evening Standard, The Times), columnist, The Times; Book Reviewer, The Sunday Times

1986

International

Peter Alleyne Training and development editor, The Nation (Barbados); unknown

Linda Anazonwu African Guardian (London); unknown

Abdullah Baowain Oman Daily Observer; unknown

Susan Betts Democratic Party Press; unknown

Pramod Bhatnagar Indian Information Service (Delhi); Press Information Bureau, unknown

Leda Bouzali Reporter, Kathimerini (Athens); radio producer, BBC World Service, Freelance

Wilbur Eugene Brown Lecturer, University of Kansas; consultant and teacher; died 2016

Rana Budeiri Mercantile Discount

Bank (Jerusalem); unknown

Elizabeth Coyle-Camp Automobile Association; Cash Vending Systems; Founder, PR, E=MC2

Karen Dabrowska London correspondent, Jana News Agency; editor, New Horizon; author, Middle East Eye

Hugh Davies Middle East Economic Digest; Hill + Knowlton PR; corporate affairs director, Three UK

Petros Diplas Greek newspaper foundation; CEO, Kathimerini; Channel 7 TV; unknown

Malin Foster Letters editor, public forum editor, Salt Lake Tribune; retired

Valerie Gauriat Euronews (Lyon); producer and reporter, Europeans; international affairs reporter, Euronews

Rizwana Hamid Freelance (BBC, Channel 4); Media Consultant and Trainer for Devlopment, Fair Knowledge, Artikal Films

Kyriacos Lacovides Sports editor, managing director, Cyprus Mail

Lawrence Joffe COI Press Office; The Guardian; editor, Foreign Investment Network, (FIN MAGAZINE)

Sirr Anai Kelueljang Editor, Heritage; died 1999

Nicola Knipe Assistant editor, Princeton University Art Museum Publications; senior writer, Princeton University Office of Development; National Proposal Editor, Deloitte. Sidonie Leone Advertising agency; unknown

Neil Lewis South Africa Press Association; KZN/Mpumalanga legal aid board; senior manager, Marketing & Communications, merSETA

Ira Mathur Trinidad Express; The Guardian; documentary producer, TV presenter, Cleaning Up the Mess; Trinidad Guardian, Freelance

Marta Molina-Cox Spanish teacher, UK schools and universities; Head of Modern Foreign Languages, British International School Shanghai Puxi, China; modern foreign languages teacher, Aylsham High School

Zodwa Mshibe Died 1987

Wolfgang Munchau The Times (Washington, Brussels); Financial Times (Frankfurt); associate editor, columnist, Financial Times (Brussels)

Colleen Murrell (née Johnson) SBS World View radio; PhD, Melbourne University; senior lecturer, Deakin University; undergraduate coordinator for journalism, Monash University

Alli Mutasa BBC Swahili Service; public broadcasting (Uganda)

Abel Ayazika (Zik) Nakwagala JFK School of Government (Harvard); communication officer, project officer, UNICEF; freelance PR consultant

Sivagami Natesan (née Subbiah)

Unknown

Kalli Plainos Unknown

Sajid Qaisrani Freelance development consultant; executive director, Sungi Development Foundation; member of Board of Directors, Human Accountability Partnership International; Freelance development consultant

Manoraj Rajathurai Publicist and marketing manager, FPSO Friday

Caroline Repton Sub-editor, Thomson Financial News; copy editor, Dow Jones International; receptionist, Ambitious About Autism

Radwan Sammak Unknown

Raka Sinha Bal Society (Delhi); Life Review; general secretary, Angaja Foundation

Baria Slaibi Editor, Media Services Syndicate; teacher; columnist, Arab News

Julie Taras-Semchuk BBC Current Affairs; teacher; unknown

Kristin Thorsteinsdotti Reykjavik Daily Newspaper; Icelandic Service Broadcasting; publisher, 365 Media; unknown

Rukee Tjingaete University of Leicester; PhD, African Studies (Michigan); The Namibian; unknown Frank van Vliet Postgraduate studies; USA and Canada correspondent, De Telegraaf; foreign desk chief, De Telegraaf

Etan Vlessing Jewish Herald; Canadian bureau chief; entertainment journalist, The Hollywood Reporter Prince Woboroma Postgraduate studies; Nigerian Television (Port Harcourt)

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John Brotherton Derbyshire Times; Sheffield Star; employment law consultant, AP Partnership; Denis Campbell Sports correspondent, social affairs correspondent, The Observer; health policy editor, The Guardian & The Observer

Clare Fermont Tottenham Herald; editor, Middle East Economic Digest; senior editor, Amnesty International Angus Finney Screenwriter; author; lecturer; course leader, MA International Film Business, London Film School

Tony Gallagher Deputy editor, editor, The Daily Telegraph; deputy editor, Daily Mail; editor-in-chief, The Sun

Tracey Harrison Freelance (Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, the Guardian, The Sun); head of news, Twelve Thirty Eight Ltd; freelance journalist and PR consultant Kate Heathman (née Roberts) Owner, Kate Heathman Media Consultancy; freelance business journalist, Comment magazine; senior lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University Gareth Hewett Money Marketing; South China Morning Post; media relations, HSBC (Asia) Nick Holdsworth The Hollywood Reporter; Moscow correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance foreign correspondent based in Moscow and Prague

Jane Holligan Editor, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator; sponsorship and funding team leader, human trafficking lead, The Scottish Government

Kate Ironside EU columnist, Western Morning News; journalism lecturer, senior lecturer, course leader for Broadcast Journalism, University of Bedfordshire

Rose Lloyd South London Press; FACTS; director of volunteer services (Paris); unknown

David Mason Head of communications, Forum for the Future; associate, Do The Green Thing; consultant, Greenhouse PR

Joan McAlpine Assistant features editor, The Sunday Times Scotland; journalist and commentator, McAlpine Media; MSP, Scottish National Party

Janet McEvoy European Report (Brussels); Reuters (Brussels); Reporter, Agence France-Presse

Susan Mitchell Yorkshire Post; senior producer, BBC Radio 4

Mandy Norrish Gloucestershire Echo; freelance writer, editor and photographer

Sarah Poland freelance; RSPCA; unknown

Kate Rankine Money Marketing; reporter (New York);deputy city editor,The Daily Telegraph; headhunter, partner, JCA Group

Anthony Snape Journalist and editor, MRM Worldwide; journalist and translator, Acciona Reports; Writer, Tipik Communication Agency, Belgium.

Aileen Taylor Aberdeen Press and Journal; freelance (GMTV, BBC Radio 5 Live); reporter, producer, GMTV

Katharina Tyldesley South London Press; The Late Show, BBC Newsnight

Morwen Williams UK assignments editor, BBC Newsgathering; Deputy UK editor, BBC News; head of newsgathering operations, BBC News

Paul Wilmshurst ITV; HBO; NBCUniversal; award-winning freelance TV director

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Mark Battersby Money Marketing; law degree; Money Management; unknown

Stephen Bealing People in Pictures; director, Landmark Media

Karen Brown Freelance; Euromoney; unknown

Heather Harris (née Capel) Country Magazine; PR, British Airways; worldwide PR director, Hyatt Hotels; freelance

Simon Cartledge Pagemakers; China Daily; The Economist; publisher, owner Big Brains (Hong Kong)

Peter DaCosta Senior communication advisor, UN Economic Commission for Africa; independent consultant; PhD, SOAS

Lindsey Darking PR and screenwriter; director, Impact Writers; freelance

Julia Dodds Editor, Planned Savings Magazine; trainee solicitor, Eversheds; associate, Reed Smith; associate, Hill Hofstetter Ltd; Field Fisher

Susan Ellicott Freelance (Daily Mail, The Times, Lancet Oncology, Marie Claire); contributor, European Society of Cardiology Reports; freelance medical journalist; communications specialist

Sally Gethin Freight Management International; press officer, New Jersey Senator; publisher and editor, Gethin’s Inflight News

Alison Gordon (née MacDiarmaid) Uxbridge Recorder; The Watford Review; Reading Evening Post; The Mail on Sunday; died 2011

Izabel Grindal Financial products editor, managing editor, head of news and data strategy, head of content integration, Reuters; change and programme manager, IZG

Diana Henry Freelance (Red, House & Garden, Delicious, Waitrose Food Illustrated); author; columnist, The Sunday Telegraph; At The Kitchen Table podcast

Janet Lawrence (née Dix) Foreign correspondent, Agence France-Presse; world desk editor, chief desk editor, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Reuters

Sam Lennon Medway Today; senior reporter, chief reporter, Medway Messenger; senior reporter, Kentish Express

Megan Lloyd-Laney (née Jones) UNDP; journalism lecturer; consultant, Communications and Information Resource Centre; director, CommsConsult

Miranda MacAlister Penguin Books; freelance copy editor

Emma Mason Press officer, Imperial Cancer Research; freelance PR consultant and journalist (specialising in medical sciences); communications and stakeholder relations manager, Queen Mary University of London Glenn Moore Reuters; football correspondent, football editor, The Independent; Managing Director Moore Sports Media.

Jason Nisse Director of media relations, Barclays; director, Fishburn Hedges; director, Newgate Communications; founder, The Nisse Consultancy

John Perlman Presenter, AM Live and The Round Table, SABC3; Today with John Perlman, Kaya FM (South Africa)

Lucy Pilkington Executive producer, commissioning, BBC Worldwide; executive producer, LPT Films; Creative Director, Sugar FIlms

Richard Preston Tatler; The Independent; features editor, news editor, comment editor, associate editor, Head of World News, The Daily Telegraph

Mark Raymond User Magazine; unknown

VIDAR HJARDENG

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

CONSULTANT, ITV NEWS RADIO, 1986

What are your fondest memories of City?

Keiron Root editor-in-chief, What Investment; consulting editor, Treasury Management International; editor-in-chief, Charterhouse Communications; died 2009

Sally Rowlands Marketing Magazine; The Late Show (BBC); PR consultant and freelance journalist, Lewis & Wood

Nicholas Sack Owner, Nicholas Sack Photography

Lindsey Sharpe Director, Impact Writers Ltd; freelance (Ealing Gazette, Teacher magazine, Southern Daily Echo); screenwriting MA

Adrian Sibley BBC; freelance director; director and co-founder, Bright Yellow Films

Deborah Thornton Technology reporter, sub-editor, Building; freelance writer and facilitator

Paola Tich Enfatico Co-owner, Tutti Communications; owner, Park & Bridge; owner, SipSwooshSpit

Joanne Waters Freelance health writer and editorial consultant, Good Health; Yours Magazine; Daily Mail

Helen Weathers Wales on Sunday; Daily Mirror; reporter, Daily Mail

Louise Webster Hockney Freelance television and radio journalist; content producer, director, L W Media Ltd.; assistant editor, BBC News

Roy Wilkinson The Guardian; The Independent; artist management; author

Elizabeth Wilson Medical magazine

Lucie Young Freelance (Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, Four Seasons magazine); blogger; creator, laurasrecovery.com

I was on one of the first radio or broadcast postgraduate courses, and it was all relatively new and very exciting. It was just overall a good year – a practical, vocational course with some good placement opportunities. I happen to be visually impaired – I’m registered blind – but I wasn’t made to feel any different. It was just very inclusive and very supportive.

What do you think the media can do to improve diversity?

The key thing for me around diversity and inclusion –particularly from a news and current affairs perspective – is that we do as much as possible to make sure that what we produce is as relevant and representative as possible in terms of not just story ideas, but the contributors and guests – the people who are featured in stories and packages and documentaries.

What is the best piece of career advice you have received?

If you really know what you want to aim for and focus on, then at least make sure you have a go. If you don’t then you will regret never having tried it. Also, be yourself and treat those you’re working with – particularly those you’re interviewing and trying to involve in stories – with courtesy and respect.

Eliza Slawther

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Maria Coyle Carlton News; press officer, media relations manager, University of Oxford; press officer, Oxfam GB

Rachael Davies BBC Radio 1

Jackie Garriock (née Lidgard) BBC Radio 5 Live; studio manager, BBC Radio News

Ian Gregory CBS News; BBC Radio Finance Unit; Swiss TV; producer, BBC World Service TV

Antonia Hastings Thames TV; Meridian TV; freelance televison reporter

Vidar Hjardeng Carlton; executive producer, regional programmes, ITV Central; diversity consultant, ITV News

Claudia Josephs Launch producer,The Economist, E-Vision programme; current affairs producer, BBC; freelance

Michael MacFarlane Producer, World at One, BBC Radio 4; executive editor; BBC News London, deputy controller, English Regions

Pamela Hiles (née Toppin) CBC (Canada); BBC Belfast; Ulster Orchestra; owner, editor, director, Hiltop Publishing

Joanne Williams TV AM; BBC (GNS)

1987

Internationa l

Millie Adisa Concord (Lagos); freelance

Katherine Arms Communications consultant, UN Women; editorial consultant, International Development Law Organisation, UNECA, The World Food Programme, Sam Buyungo-Katwere The Star (Kampala); deputy director, communications department, Bank of Uganda Pratap Chatterjee Managing editor, executive director, CorpWatch; Bureau of Investigative Journalism; freelance (The Guardian, Financial Times, The New Republic, The Independent), Vera Eckert Metal Bulletin; commodities correspondent, senior power correspondent, Reuters Nada Fadda English instructor, American University of Beirut; English instructor, July; teaching assistant, Purdue University Kaye Foicik PR, NHS; BBC TV; novelist; tour director, Kaye Foicik Tour Management; unknown Sylvester Hanga SportsScene; Workers Newspaper; Life Magazine (Dar es Salaam)

Kelly Hawke-Baxter Vice-chair, The Natural Step International; member of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, the Green Living Advisory Board, and the Distinguished Advisory Council of the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs; chair of Tostan Canada Mary Heaney Editor-in-Chief, European Lawyer; editorial director, managing director, The Global Legal Post; CEO, Global City Media ChangYong Kim Associated Press; Dow Jones (Seoul); professor of journalism, Inje University Nanke Kramer Marketing and communications, owner, Kramer Com-

munications, Network Associator: Projob Communication; Consultant

Kathryn Lainoff (née Kincaid) Senator’s press officer; president, Lainoff Family Foundation; unknown Myrto Markidou-Selipa Financial journalist, Phileleftheros (Greece); Selides (Cyprus) non-executive director, Kronos Press Distribution Agency Public Company Ltd; chief executive officer, Phileleftheros Ejor Ndifon Postgraduate studies; chief executive, Granonee Nigeria

Sophie O’Neill BBC TV; health magazine (Paris); died 1989

Ruby Ofori Editor, All Africa; documentary production; public information officer, UN mission in Liberia Clare Ogilvie-Turner The Province (Vancouver); senior reporter, CanWest; senior reporter, The Province; editor, Pique News magazine, Savvas Paritsis Film editor; online editor, PostWorks NY; assistant professor of cinema and interactive media, DePaul University Prasanna Probyn Film researcher; marketing officer, Middlesex University; homoeopath and writer Jose Fernando Rodrigues Foreign correspondent (New York, Tokyo, Washington); political analyst, Radio Jovem Pan-SP; political analyst and blogger, UOL (Brazil)

Howard Rombough Editor, Voyager; PR director, Campbell Gray Hotels; PR director, One Aldwych Hotel Diego Santos Director, Eltiempo. com, Portafolio.co, Cambio.com. co (Colombia); director, Contenidos Digital

Linda Sills Assistant producer, CBC; senior producer, BBC World News; series producer, BBC TV

JohnWani Simon Radio Juba (Sudan), writer

Sven Gunnar Simonsen Independent analyst and international reporter; Communication Specialist UNICEF (Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan); political science writer. Alhaji Tanko Ghana News Agency; managing director, Al-Tatma Enterprise

Ulf Thorsson Analyst (Sweden) Sebastian Usher Freelance (Saudi Arabia); correspondent, BBC World Media; Middle East editor, BBC World Service

Ioannis Zografos Europe People’s Party, European Parliament; press officer, European Parliament; managing producer, European People’s Party (Web TV)

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Kevin Allison San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times; global resources columnist, breaking views columnist, Reuters; Consultant, Eurasia Group

Xana Antunes Editor, Crain’s New York Business; executive editor, vice president, CNBC Digital; new initiatives editor, Quartz

Michael Bennett Senior account manager, Staniforth Public Relations; managing consultant, Clark & Company (PR); managing director, Pelican PR

Jason Bennetto Independent on Sunday; crime correspondent, The Independent; senior lecturer in journalism, City University London

Jennie Brookman Sub-editor, Deutsche Presse Agentur; freelance; senior editorial manager, Standard

& Poor’s

Farzana Cheema Croydon Advertiser; unknown

Jeremy Clifford Editor, The Star (Sheffield); editorial director, Yorkshire Post; editor-in-chief, Johnston Press

Eleanor Edwards BBC; freelance

Richard Galpin Coventry Evening Telegraph; BBC World Service (Dakar, Islamabad); world affairs correspondent, BBC (Jakarta, Athens, Moscow)

James Hamilton Surrey Advertiser; unknown

Judy Henry Channel 4; producer and director, Wall to Wall TV; MSc, Tavistock Centre; family therapist, NHS,

Geraldine Holden Content editor, BBC Health, BBC Parenting; associate editor, Mumsnet; senior web editor, digital content producer, Wellcome Trust

Christian Jenner International communications manager, NHS Suffolk; Governor NHS Suffolk, communications officer, Suffolk community healthcare; Communications lead for Suffolk Community Healthcare

Rosemarie Magee Birmingham Post; BBC Norwich; Anglia TV

Maureen McAlpine Director of strategy implementation, Scottish Enterprise; communications manager, East Renfrewshire Council; marketing and PR consultant, McAlpine Communications and Interim PR manager at CHAS (Children’s Hospice Association Scotland)

Andrew Napier Southern Evening Echo; chief reporter, Southern Daily Echo; Winchester chief reporter, Hampshire Chronicle

Nicola Naylor The Scotsman; author; physiotherapist; unknown

John Parrish Portsmouth News; Enfield Gazette; Today, LWT; The Sun; freelance (Australia)

Ben Preston Press Association; home news, deputy editor, The Times; editor, Radio Times; executive editor, Sunday Times

Denise Shaw Health press secretary, Scottish office; freelance; Department for Education, Philip Sherwell Chief foreign affairs correspondent, US editor, Asia correspondent, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph; Asia correspondent, The Sunday Times

Janice Turner Editor, That’s Life; editor, Real Magazine; freelance, The Guardian; columnist, feature writer, The Times

Giovanni Ulleri Owner, Genius Media; producer, director, Wall to Wall; Documentary project for the BBC; senior producer, Al Jazeera Michael Williams Newsnight, BBC; foreign affairs correspondent, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; freelance, BBC Radio

Periodical

Douglas Amrine editorial director, Editions Didier Millet; freelance English teacher, Brazil; writer of teaching materials, Off2Class.com; freelance musician

Tom Aston Channel 4 Daily; Visnews; Gemini; Sunday Express; freelance; researcher, Free Tibet campaign

Joanna Bale Media consultant, Local Government Association; senior press officer, London School of Economics; freelance

Neil Bennett The Times; city editor, The Sunday Telegraph; PR, vice chairman, chief executive, Maitland

Peter Capella Journalist. AFP news agency; freelance (The Guardian, The Economist); PR content manager (corporate)

Daloni Carlisle Contributor (Health Service Journal, E-Health Insider); senior associate/writer, Salix Consulting; freelance (health policy)

Beverley Cohen Freelance (Australia); Design Week; yoga teacher; freelance senior press officer

Elizabeth Coldwell Editor, Forum; author, editor, Xcite Books

Martin Cottingham Regional campaigns manager, Oxfam; marketing director, Soil Association; head of communications, Islamic Relief UK, Islamic Relief Worldwide

Melanie Fanstone Assistant editor, World at One, PM, BBC Radio 4; assignments editor, Social Affairs Unit; assignments editor, BBC News

Camilla Finn Freelance

Shirley Giles Davis Career accountant; Health Service Journal; The Daily Telegraph

Caroline Hinton International Financing Review; BBC TV News; IFR; Project Finance International; freelance

Fiona Hook book reviewer, The Times, The Independent, Church Times; University of Leicester, adult literacy tutor, ESOL; English teacher, Universitaria Populare della Terza Eta (UPTER)

Stephen Hounslow Reporter, Marketing; trainee, BBC; producer, senior producer, BBC World TV, BBC News 24, BBC World News

Richard Johnson TV Guide; Radio Times; New Woman; Men’s Health; The Sunday Times; BBC Radio 4; freelance; author; Founder, Street Food Ventures Limited

Dean Jones Herts & Essex Observer; football writer, Sunday People; football insider, Bleacher Report; unknown

Michael Kavanagh Financial Adviser; Marketing; Marketing Week; deputy news editor, FT.com

Margaret Keenan Editor, Drive Time News; producer, Sunday Supplement, BBC Radio Wales; Westminster producer, BBC Cymru Wales

Annie Kelly Woman Options; Country Homes & Interiors; novelist; freelance (Ideal Homes, BBC Good Food); Magazine sub-editor, Slimming World; Senior Administrator, University of Edinburgh School of Literature, Languages and Culture

Sharon Kelly Fulcrum Productions; TV producer; freelance TV and radio scriptwriter (BBC)

Nicholas Kenton Today; Lithoweek; Oracle Teletext; researcher, After Dark (Open Media); BBC Radio 4; executive producer, series producer, head of development, edit producer; series producer, Channel 5, CBS Reality, UKTV

Helen Kitchen PR; events manager, Cardiff Council; director, Toucan Promotions; lecturer, Cardiff and Vale College and University of Glamorgan, unknown

Keith Lockhart Freelance (The Independent); unknown

Richard Marsh Independent consultant, Holdsworth Communications and Fleishman Hillard; director, Market Access; independent consultant, Government Relations; head of

market access, Allergan

Alison MacDiarmaid-Gordon Freelance

Anthony Meenaghan Eastern Counties Newspapers; Reading News Agency; The Mail on Sunday; director, Solent News Agency

Sarah Moore London Portrait Magazine; Harpers & Queen; freelance

Fiona Murray Birmingham Post; Yorkshire Television; freelance; adult literacy teacher, Wandsworth Prison; Financial Resilience Worker, West London Mission Trust

Shaun Phillips Deputy editor, ZM magazine; features director, Esquire; associate features editor, The Times

Susannah Price UN correspondent, BBC; chief of communications, UNICEF Somalia; head of development, Lightbox: Freelance, Executive Producer, Development

Wendy Robbins Development executive, BBC Factual Department; executive producer, BBC World Service, BBC1; Reporter, The One Show; Freelance executive producer

Peter Smith Barnet & Finchley Press; sports writer, Yorkshire Evening Post

Tilly Suadwa BBC External Services; freelance (BBC World Service); unknown

Nick Swingler Freelance artist and poet

Sarah Womack Deputy foreign editor, Daily Mail; senior external relations manager, group head of external relations, Priory Group Radi o

Nana Anto-Awuakye Researcher, producer, BBC Radio; UN Radio Mission (Kosovo); senior media officer, head of world news, CAFOD

Sally Arthy Senior news producer, Associated Press Television News; senior news editor, acting head of online,, head of foreign news planning, Sky News

Penelope Boreham Senior producer, BBC World Service; series producer, Pikin to Pikin Tok; Ebola Voices, BBC World Service; producer, BBC Alison Dawes Hereward Radio; CNFM Radio (Cambridge); radio intake editor, BBC; assistant editor, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire; news editor, BBC Radio Oxford

Roger Few, Dr Orbis Publishing; social science researcher, University of Leicester, South Bank University; senior research fellow, University of East Anglia

Owen Gay Commissioning editor, The One Show; executive producer, Icon Films; Creative Director, One Tribe TV limited.

Jane Grant Freelance

Mark Handscomb Reporter and researcher, BBC Radio 4; BBC World Service; documentary producer, True North Productions; senior lecturer, University of Huddersfield; senior lecturer in online journalism, University of Teesside

Beatrice Rubens Senior producer, BBC Radio 4 Alasdair Sandford Europe reporter, Radio 1; reporter, Radio Netherlands; freelance (BBC, The Guardian, Paris); senior journalist, Euronews Dale Templar (née Hayhurst) freelance travel writer, Daily Telegraph; Managing director and Executive Producer, One Tribe TV; show runner, Nutopia

Jo Whiley Researcher, WPFM; pre-

senter, BBC Radio 1; presenter, BBC Radio 2

1988

International

Hossein Ali Afkhami Research fellow, Leeds University; associate professor of communication, Allameh University (Tehran)

Jonathan Ames Editor, The European Lawyer; editor, Leaders in Law Review; consultant, MBR legal; freelance legal journalist; Editor, Legal Cheek Sylvie Basley Freelance communications consultant; publicist, Radio-Canada; unknown

Ferry Biedermann Business correspondent, Europe correspondent, The National (Beirut); Middle East correspondent, Elsevier magazine, IHS Jane’s; freelance feature writer, Financial Times

James Boothroyd Director of public affairs and communications, David Suzuki Foundation; principal, James Boothroyd Consulting; Managing Director, EcoAnalytics Research Ellen Boyle Wragg & Casas; VP, Scarlett Medical Company; territory manager, Orthofix

Karen Davis Lecturer, University of Guyana; teacher, School of the Nations; sociology lecturer, University of Guyana; unknown Gabriella Gamini South America correspondent, The Times; Brazilian Embassy in London; Brazil correspondent, Paris correspondent, The Times; freelance (The Times) Imran Gardezi Press attaché, Pakistan Consulate (London); principal information officer, Pakistani government; director general, External Publicity Wing, Pakistani Ministry of IB&NH

Angelina Grasso Cambridge Community Television (Boston); scheduling editor, BBC Russian Service; community interpreter, registered public service interpreter, CITAS and TheBigWord.com

Mike Hall Lecturer, Macquarie University (Sydney); owner, Jasmine Hall; founder, Secret River Pty Ltd; Co-founder and director, Narrate Media

Melinda Ham Freelance (Bauer Media Sydney); editor and content consultant, Australian Museum; Co-founder and Lead Writer, Narrate Media

David Irwin Airline pilot; died 1989 Valgerour Johannsdottir Radio journalist, parliamentary correspondent, deputy head of news, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service; head of journalism programme, University of Iceland

George Kouvaras Chief editor in politics, columnist, Eleftheros Typos (Athens); Daily morning political talk show, NET television; Star Channel; editor-in-chief, Athens Macedonian News Agency

Mui Khi Lim Associated Press, Dow Jones (Singapore); Southeast Asia correspondent, Bridge Information Systems; editor, Singapore General Hospital

Patrick McDowell Asia-Pacific chief editor, Associated Press (Bangkok, Thailand); assistant bureau chief, Associated Press (Chicago); Southeast Asia bureau chief, Wall Street Journal; Dow Jones Newswires (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Estela Moreno-Bosketti Unknown

Mojalefa Moseki Chief information officer, State Information Technology Agency (South Africa); IT and telecoms policy specialist; chief information officer, State Information Technology Agency; unknown

Chizuko Muranaka Senior research specialist, Fujisankei Communications International; managing director, Integral Media; managing director, Intergros sarl William Nyadru-Mia Parish priest (Kampala); died 1991 Fokke Obbema Quote Magazine (Amsterdam); financial reporter, media editor, Paris correspondent, chief economic editor, China and Europe correspondent, de Volkskrant Jerry Okoro PR and communications (Lagos); unknown

Jon Palmer Risk Management; freelance illustrator and graphic designer, The Guardian; creative director, Textline (Munich)

Gareth Pownall Unknown

Christine Pulvermacher Director communications, JT International; communication officer KM, World Health Organisation; freelance communications consultant (South Africa)

Yungjoo Rhee Unknown

Chris Simpson Project co-ordinator, West Africa Radio; regional co-ordinator, IRIN Radio; freelance (Senegal) died 2017.

Siu Ling Tse Hong Kong Standard; South China Morning Post; employees’ benefit consultant, Manulife Financial; unknown

Nicholas Vafiadis BBC World Service (Greece); chief international correspondent, foreign editor, Antenna Pay TV; Foreign Editor, anchor, ANT-1 TV

Maria Zaharea Avghi Radio 90.2 (Athens); Epikerotita; political correspondent, Mega Channel TV

Aliaa Zayed London Oil Reports; unknown

Winston Zulu Evelyn Hone College (Lusaka); unknown

Newspaper

Sarah Borchersen-Keto Staff reporter, AFX News (Amsterdam and Washington); staff writer, Wolters Kluwer; associate editor, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust

Jon Boyle Reporter, Birmingham Post and Mail; correspondent, Agence France Presse (Paris, Moscow); Reuters (Moscow, France); senior world editor, deputy head of EMEA desk, head of EMEA desk, Reuters (London)

Katharine Capocci (née Everitt) Food and drink editor, The Journal (Newcastle); Loved Up; Luxe; Blogger, Luxury Life & Style

Dolly Chadda News reporter, Pulse; Kentish Times; BBC World Service; deputy news editor, Health Service Journal; editor, Physiotherapy Frontline; freelance

Vivek Chaudhary The Voice; chief sports correspondent, The Guardian; The Independent

Jennifer Cripps Pearl Insurance; sub-editor, Peterborough Evening Telegraph; associate editor, Exclusively Yours Magazine

Douglas Cumming Senior reporter, Blackpool Evening Gazette; editor, Rangers News; sub-editor, Scottish

Daily Mail

Alastair Dalton News reporter, science and transport correspondent, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday Matthew Eltringham Assistant editor, interactivity and social media development, BBC; executive editor, editor, BBC College of Journalism website and events; Senior Advisor, Editorial Policy, BBC

Suzanne Gamble (née Swan) Primary school teacher, Shire Foundation (Luton); Teacher, Luton Sixth Form College, Christine Holt Freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, Sunday Express, Monsun, Marie Claire); director, Trade Justice Movement; writer, CAFOD

Rosalyn Jones Freelance; unknown

Tony McDougal Communications and stakeholder engagement lead, The Campaign for National Parks; Deputy Editor, Poultry World (Reed Business Information); Communications Manager, Dorset Care Record

Anna-Marie McFaul Media trainer, Nua Media; radio news producer, BBC NI; editor of radio news and news online, BBC NI

Michaela Miller Head of publications, RSPCA online; web consultant; director, owner, Mqueste Communications

George Parker Western Morning News; UK news editor, Brussels bureau chief, political editor, Financial Times

Pratap Rughani Freelance film producer, director (BBC, Channel 4); course leader, MA Documentary Film, University of the Arts London; Director, Lotus Films; Reader in Documentary Film, University of the Arts London

Stephen Sheppard News editor, ftyourmoney.com; editor, fund strategy director, Vanburgh Financial Communications; director, Citigate Dewe Rogerson

John Speck Dow Jones; economics correspondent, Thomson Reuters; landlord

Daniel Stanton Assistant programme editor, Channel 5 News; programme editor, ITN; reporter, BBC News

Caroline Sutton Social media trainer; Picnic Media; blogger-in-residence, Brighton Pavillion and Museums

Robert Tait Turkey correspondent, Iran correspondent, The Guardian; Middle East correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; freelance, The Guardian

Sally Trelford Deputy editor, associate editor, Meetings & Incentive Travel (CAT Publications); special editions editor, Intellectual Capitals (CAT Publications)

Richard Warry Doctor; health editor, BBC News Online; assistant editor, Insight and Analysis, BBC News

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Simon Aldous chief sub-editor, Building Design; freelance sub-editor; Deputy production editor; Architects’ Journal

Helen Brown Redwood publishing; community manager, associate editor, Mumsnet; deputy editor, Parenting Digital, Immediate Media

Phyllida Brown Freelance (New Scientist, BMJ, WHO, UNICEF); MA studies, University of Exeter; freelance (New Scientist, BMJ)

Kevin Buckley National Student Extra; freelance football writer (FT. com, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph)

Caroline Bullough Director/managing editor, Harlyn Publishing; freelance (House and Garden); managing editor, House & Garden

Ed Buscall farmer; chairman, Country Land and Business Association (Norfolk branch); chair, Hastoe Group

Marti Colley-Illueca UNEP (Nairobi); freelance translator; unknown Stephen Duffy South Wales Echo; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News Online

Paul Dunt producer, director, Inside Out; BBC TV Norwich; BBC Current Affairs; freelance journalist, Flying Boat Productions

Jemima Gibbons author; lecturer; social media strategist, Claremont Comms; Freelance, social media strategist/ associate Nick Gibbs editor and publisher, British Woodworking; Living Woods; Smallwood

Richard Handford freelance (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal); content editor, editor of health and money channels, Mobile World Live; Content Editor, GSMA; Freelance (Austrailia)

Christopher Histed Co-founder, public sector advisor, principal consultant, Publitas Consulting LLP; non-exec advisor, Public Technology Ltd; deputy master, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Nigel Holtby Studio photographer; yoga teacher; photographer; unknown

Ricky Kelehar Head of factual entertainment and US formats, IWC Media; senior commissioning editor, BBC America; SVP programming, Optomen Television

Kathryn Kirby Lawyer; course manager, CILEx Law School

Tom Loxley Maxim Fashions; editorial consultant, IPC media; associate editor, executive editor, Radio Times Caroline Merz Oral history consultant, King Street Community Voices; counsellor and psychotherapist, Mind (Norfolk); counsellor and psychotherapist, PF Counselling Service Caren Morrison (née Myers) Freelance; federal prosecutor (New York); acting assistant professor, New York University School of Law; assistant professor of law, Georgia State University

Sue Nelson The Biologist; producer, voiceover artist, ESA TV; journalist/ producer, Boffin Media; presenter, Space Boffins Podcast

David Pilling Tokyo bureau chief, Asia editor, assistant editor, Africa editor, Financial Times; author Mike Power New Times; senior campaigns officer, TUC; communications and marketing, Unionlearn; unknown

Nick Pyke The Independent on Sunday; freelance (The Independent on Sunday, Times Educational Supplement, The Tablet); deputy features editor, review editor, focus editor, The Mail on Sunday

Caroline Smith Harlyn Publishing; freelance sub-editor, acting production editor, Easy Living; acting managing editor, chief sub-editor, Condé Nast

Robin Stummer Founding editor, Cornerstone; commissioning ed-

itor and writer, Quintessentially; freelance writer (The Guardian the Observer)

Caroline Sweetman Unicef; West Side (London); editor, Journal of Gender and Development, Oxfam UK

Frances Tennyson Sounds; NME; unknown

Audrey Thompson Media officer, St Mungo’s; senior digital communications officer, London Borough of Hounslow, Senior communications Manager, Food Standards Agency

Jane Tyler Bristol Evening Post; Wolverhampton Express & Star; senior reporter, Birmingham Mail

Hilary Wood Nun

Radi o

Carolyn Atkinson Leicester Sound; Radio Trent; BBC Radio 1; You and Yours, BBC Radio 4

Gillian Baxter BBC TV Leeds; journalist, BBC Worldwide

Charlotte Blofeld BBC Radio 1; Atlantic Productions; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Millennium History Project; project executive; BBC Learning Andrew Chetham Telecom specialist, South China Morning Post; producer, presenter, BBC News; Managing VP, Gartner

Mia Costello BBC; programme leader, BBC College of Journalism; freelance journalist, media consultant and trainer

Jonathan Dobbs GWR Radio (Bristol); freelance (Australia); agricultural engineer, director, Boston Tractors Giselle Green (née Finlay) Siobhan Benita for Mayor Campaign; media consultant; director of campaigns and communications, National Health Action Party; media coordinator, NCVO

Miles Harrison BBC Radio Sport; rugby union commentator, Sky Sports; author; ghost-writer

Neil MacDonald Channel 4 Business Daily; BBC Business Breakfast; economics producer, Channel 4 News

Sarah Oloway BBC Radio; unknown Julie Osborne Office manager, Strikeward; office manager, CoverVersio; director, Holiday Heat

Simon Wilson Senior producer, BBC (Brussels); senior producer, BBC Middle East; editor, BBC Europe Bureaux

Penny Wrout Home affairs correspondent, community’s editor, BBC London; project manager, producer, Elbow Production; arts, media and events producer, LandSky CIC

1989

Internationa l

Anne Augustine Microsoft; head of sustainability, Edelman; founder and director, Convergency Partnership; author

Banu Avar Avar/Onuk Productions; producer, TV8; documentary maker (TV8, TRT 1); author

Gladys Ayache Freelance (Paris); global assets, Bankers Trust; director, France News Economy.com; unknown

Philippa Bourke Freelance (USA, Japan); Japan Times; journalist, reporter (Los Angeles)

Beth Burnard Unknown Magali Christol Unknown

Sof Efuk BBC Africa Service; unknown

Everest Ekong Died 2008

Beth Frankl Television Trust for the Environment (Boston); editor, Shambhala Publications

Alemu Getachew Freelance; unknown

Nazi Hashmi Postgraduate studies; unknown

Alfred Hermida Technology editor, BBC News Online; associate professor, director, University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; Co-founder, The Conversation Canada

Vusi Khumalo Died 1993

Penelope Koufopoulou Newscaster, Tele-City; teacher; Zanneio Experimental High School of Piraeus

Franz Kruger Journalism.co.za; novelist; adjunct professor of journalism, director, Wits Radio Academy

Liliane Landor BBC World Service; head of programmes, BBC; controller of language services, Global News, BBC; Channel Four News, Head of Foreign News

Makariou Lecturer, faculty of Communication and Mass Media, Panteion University of Athens; head of publicity department, Hellenic Heart Foundation; head of foreign news desk, ERT (Greek public TV); Unknown

Hilifa Mbako News and current affairs controller, corporate & public affairs manager, Namdeb Diamond Corporation; general manager, Allianz Insurance Namibia; 1st Vice president, Chamber of Mines

Rashid Meer Died 1995 Xiao-Shu Meng Bromley Times; China News; Yanhuang Chunqiu; CMK & P&G

Omer Mohamed Freelance; unknown

Adam Mwakang’ata Died 2011 Ellen Nakashima Quincy Patriot Ledger; Hartford Courant; Southeast Asia bureau co-chief, national security reporter, Washington Post

Patricia Odita-Sarumi Frankcom; Nigeria Merchant Bank; CEO, Trish’s

Marketta Ollikainen IPS (Helsinki); freelance; Elisa

Marlan Padayachee The Sunday Times (Durban); Independent Newspapers (South Africa); managing editor and publisher, GreenGold Africa Communications Ali Qassim Marketing Week; freelance (Spain, Latin America)

Margaret Roberts Health News; non-profit consultant; senior consultant, JVA Consulting; principal, Margaret J. Roberts Consulting

Matthew Roberts Speaker, Parliament of St Lucia; resident tutor and head, University of the West Indies

Jeff Silverstein Producer, Global TV; RADIUS Communications; assistant, RepRisk AG; senior associate, Sussex Strategy Group

Barbara Smit The Daily Telegraph; freelance writer; novelist; author, Heineken biography; editor, Fitness News Europe

Kayode Soyinka Editor-in-chief, publisher, Africa Today

Yann Tessier Reuters (Milan, Rome); correspondent, senior producer, senior editor, The Day Ahead, Thomson Reuters

Sandy Trivieri (née Iafrate)

Freelance; Canadian Business Life; visual artist

Anne Vander Zijl Haague Post; HP/ De Tijd BV (Amsterdam)

Jenny Verster ReSource (South Africa); Frameworks; Barker McCormac Advertising; sales and marketing consultant, Educational Publishing

Rosy Voudouri ET3 (Greece); SKAI TV; BBC World Service; Makedonia (Thessaloniki); BBC World Service; journalist, Cedefop

Suzi Wells Macau University; research, Griffith University; visiting lecturer, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Laurence Zavriew Senior broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; editor, BBC Newshour

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Peter Allen Freelance, Daily Mail; freelance (Paris)

Andrew Atkinson Associated Press; Dow Jones; economics correspondent, Bloomberg

Matthew Brand Nuneaton Evening Tribune

Beatrice Bray Western Morning News; freelance

Alison Cameron Press Association; Daily Mail; unknown

Susan Campbell The Scotsman; freelance; editor, The Illeach; retired Sergio Casci Lennox Herald; BBC Glasgow; BBC Scotland; freelance scriptwriter; Bard Entertainment

Robert Cole Evening Standard; deputy business and tempus editor, leader writer, The Times; assistant editor, Reuters Breaking view

Antony Dore BBC London News; assistant editor, 6.30 News, BBC; editor, London News, BBC; senior editor, BBC world news

Andrew Gilgrist Design Week; Menswear; editor, RJ Magazine; business editor, Leicester Mercury; director, House PR

Marie Irvine Series producer, BBC Northern Ireland; production team, 4thought.tv, Waddell Media Ltd; freelance TV producer/fixer and media consultant

Catherine Jackson (née Short) Hull Daily Mail; teacher, Ackworth School

Tim Jotischky The Sunday Telegraph; head of business, deputy editor, Daily Telegraph; senior consultant, PHA Media

Tim Knowles Woverhampton Express; Daily Mail; news editor, assistant editor, deputy news editor, Scottish Daily Mail;

John Lawrence Editor, Femail.co.uk, Daily Mail; editor-in-chief, SPG Media

Jason Lewis Mail on Sunday; investigations editor, Sunday Telegraph; freelance; managing director, K2 Intelligence

Linda McLean London news agency; freelance Ryan Mills Sports reporter, Bloomberg News; production journalist, ITV Anglia

Natasha Narayan The Observer; The Independent; children’s author

Rahiel Nasir PR consultant; freelance, deputy editor; BBC Focus magazine; editor, Kadium Limited

Debbie-Sue Nicholls Birmingham Post and Mail

Patrick O’Flynn Deputy political editor, chief political commentator, Daily Express; director of communications, 2015 candidate for

Cambridge, MEP for Eastern Region, UKIP

Gabrielle O’Neill BBC Radio News; producer, The Today programme, BBC Radio 4; The Record Europe (Brussels), BBC

Tim Prizeman Head of PR, Arthur Andersen Accounting; managing director, Kelso Consulting; author Daniel Shaw BBC Radio 5 Live; The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; home affairs correspondent, BBC News

Valerie Small Hospital Medicine; GP (Jamaica)

Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas Daily Mail; news reporter, deputy editor, Insight; focus writer, senior news reporter, chief reporter, The Sunday Times

Roland Watson Sunday Mirror; chief political correspondent, Washington bureau chief, leader writer, foreign editor, The Times

12.E Sarah Wilson ITN; journalist, Christian Aid; senior media specialist, communications manager for Ebola response, World Vision

Sierra Leone

Periodica l

Piers Alder Euro RSCG Circle; head of copy, Dutton Merrifield; freelance copywriter, business writing consultant, Wordbrain.com

Christine Alsford Bristol Evening Post; reporter, social affairs correspondent, Meridian Television; producer, social affairs correspondent, ITV

Sarah Bailey Deputy editor-in-chief, contributing editor, Harpers Bazaar (US); editor-in-chief, Red; executive brand editor, Porter Maagazine

Sarah Bancroft (née Wright) The Independent; sub-editor, editorial production, The Independent on Sunday; freelance editor and writer Fiona Beckett Columnist, The Guardian; contributing editor, Decanter, Fork; Founder, matchingfoodandwine.com

Adrian Brown Producer, editor, BBC World Service; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Online; assistant commissioning editor, BBC Ian Byrne Sub-editor, The Sun; deputy night editor, Daily Mirror; associate night editor The Sun

Tanith Carey The Sunday Times; author, Clio Media Ltd; freelance writer, The Guardian Sarah Courtenay Living; FCO William Dunn Editor, Liv magazine; editor-in-chief, content director, Redwood Publishing; editorial director, AMV BBDO Martina Hall Elle; freelance TV researcher; documentary producer, BBC History Unit; freelance producer and director

Helen Halls Promotions officer, Redditch Sure Start; media and communications officer, Redditch Borough council; campaigns officer, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

Douglas Hayward Research manager, IDC; research manager, Accenture; associate vice-president, IDC

Paula Hubert Design Week; BBC Leeds; Points of View, Here and Now, BBC; Channel 5; unknown Rebecca Jones Trainee, BBC; Anglia TV; reporter, Berlin correspondent, arts correspondent, BBC

Catherine Kirk (née Beaumont) Leisure News; Nottingham Building Society; PR manager, Barclays Bank; freelance, PR

Sarah Knibbs VSO (Cambodia); deputy representative, UNFPA; Save the Children

Thomas Lappin List Magazine; Scotland on Sunday; sports writer, The Scotsman; freelance

Moyette Marrett Trainee, BBC; News Network (Budapest); author Andrew Moore Islington Chronicle; Wigan Observer and Reporter; Lancashire Evening Post; unknown

Polly Neate Editor, Community Care; executive director of external relations, Action for Children; chief executive, Women’s Aid; chief executive, Shelter Francesca Nelson Country Living; The Sunday Times; freelance; proposals writer, Balfour Beatty

Catriona O’Shaughnessy The Independent; Time Out; deputy chief sub-editor, Daily Express

Jill Parsons Daily Mail; Mail on Sunday; freelance; editor, Cirencesterpeople.co.uk; media relations manager, Nationwide Building Society

Mamta Patel GP; European Chemical News; Environmental Data Services; editor and co-founder, Chemical Watch

Richard Pendry Freelance, TV producer; lecturer, University of Kent

Ian Pollard Public Eye, BBC producer, BBC Watchdog; died 1998 Lynn Power London Newspaper Group; producer, Carlton Television; features researcher, BBC Ajax Scott Editor-in-chief, publisher, Music Week Group; founder, Woodshed Media

Rhonda Siddall Pulse; Channel 4; managing director, Patient Central Jane Silley Video Trade Weekly

Deborah Sawyer Nursing and law student; Nursing Times; teacher

Andrew Thomas British printer; Cowise; managing editor, strategic editor, Labels and Labeling magazine

Jim Valentine Transportation and shipping; director, Jayhawk

Andrew Wilson The Independent; biographer, writer, Night and Day Magazine, Mail on Sunday; unknown David Wood Evesham Journal Series; Redditch Advertiser; subeditor, Newsquest (Worcester); editor, lovingthecotswolds.com

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Sarah Barclay BBC Scotland; film maker, BBC Panorama; founder, Medical Mediation Foundation Flora Botsford BBC World Service; Madrid correspondent, Sri Lanka correspondent, BBC; visiting lecturer, City University; unknown Nicholas Clitheroe KCBC Radio (Kettering); Devonair; sports reporter, editor, BBC Midlands Today

Jonathan Crawford Essex Radio; BBC Essex; assistant editor, editor, BBC Radio 5 Live

Rebecca Dare Sky Sports; Chrysalis Productions; unknown

Deirdre Devlin Specialist factual editor, manager of production, BBC; executive producer, BBC Northern Ireland

Claire Doole Head of media, WWF International; director,

ClearViewMedia (Video production and training); director, Claire Doole Productions

Tessa Duggleby Communications manager, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; senior communications specialist, Sanofi; freelance communications consultant, Havas Life Medicom

Richard Forrest Chiltern Radio; BBC World Service; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News

Serena Gay BBC Essex; newsreader, Deutsche Welle TV; freelance voiceover artist

Gavin Grey Presenter, north editor, Meridian Tonight; freelance presenter; occasional relief presenter, BBC News

Dominic Groves Radio Orwell; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Westminster; chief complaints advisor, BBC

Susan How Unknown

Emma Howard BBC Radio 1; news correspondent, BBC; broadcaster, journalist, conference host, Corporate Training Plus Kimberley Littlemore (née Jenkins)

Series producer, BBC; creative director, Littlefox Communications Ltd; creative director, eHealth Digital Media

Sharon Maguire Wall to Wall Television; director, (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones’s Baby); filmmaker

Melanie Mauthner Radio Fox; Oxford researcher, University of London; lecturer, Open University; novelist

Lawrence McDonnell IRN (Moscow); ITN (Moscow); founder, Pravda PR

Elizabeth Mead Press officer, Lord Chancellor’s Department, Department of International Development

Daniel Nathan Unknown

Karen Van Vuuren News, Superchannel (Germany)

Annabelle Waller Freelance; media production lecturer, University of Salford; co founder, The Natural Funeral

Beverley Webb Eurosport TV; Sky News

Sean Webster Unknown

1990 International

Jan Herman Baas Brabants Nieuwsblad (Breda); Gooi en Eemlander; freelance; Dutch teacher, MBO College (Hilversum)

Sandra Baptiste Freelance Marketing and sales specialist; consultant marketing and communications specialist, Tourism and Hospitality Assignments

Nadia Bilbassy Senior US correspondent, MBC TV; senior correspondent, MBC Group; senior correspondent, Al Arabia Washington Bureau

Anne Borganetti Busisiwe Chaane Medical magazine

Jennifer Caven Media manager, A4e; head of external affairs, Slimming World Raffaele Dellagiacoma Colomboni Missions (Sunningale)

Matroni Dikeakou Zoofilia ke Fissiki 201; Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia; NET/ET-1 (Athens); ERT/NET International

Marta Escotet International communications, AVINA Foundation; mass communications lecturer, University of Miami; head of digital strategy and content development, head of marketing and communications, ECOVI Media

Fernanda Godoy-Fonseca National news deputy editor, O Globo (Rio de Janeiro); correspondent, editor, Infoglobo; collaborator (Folha de S. Paulo and BBC Brazil)

Mayssoun Hachem Radio journalist; correspondent, LCI news network; TMC Monte Carlo

Abigail Haworth BBC World Service; The Japan Times; senior international editor, Marie Claire (US); contributor, Observer magazine

Signe Hotvedt (née Arntsen)

Project manager, multimedia journalist, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation; project manager, new media trainer, NRK; reporter, Norskrikskringkasting

Thalia Kartali Foreign news desk, ET (Greece); foreign news desk, Ekatherimini

Amina Khairy Sawt Al Kuwait (London); Al Hayat (Cairo)

Trish Knight Senior manager, property services at Carrera Management Corporation (Vancouver); public and media relations consultant, TKC Communications; senior manager government and media relations, WorksafeBC

Jane Kokan Financial Times TV; video journalist and director, Cross Border Productions; freelance journalist, camerawoman and director (Vancouver)

Pearl Lee Communications lecturer

Marla Levy Writer, owner, Brave New Worlds (Vancouver)

Maritza Luque de Gonzalez

Bloomberg (Lima); teacher, English for business and English for journalists, Universidad Del Pacifico (Lima); lecturer, Universidad Del Pacifico

Nicholas Lyne Words and Pictures; EFE (Madrid); managing editor, English language edition, El Pais; author; freelance

Paulo Lyra International advisor, WHO; communications director, Pan American Health Organisation; staff engagement advisor, Pan American Health Organisation

Andrew Marshall Tokyo Journal; freelance (Tokyo); Time; author; Southeast Asia special correspondent, chief correspondent, Reuters

Anita Mielewczyk CBC Radio; Fifth Estate; producer, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Kulbir Singh Natt Radio (Netherlands); BBC World Service; BBC worldwide Television (Hindi Department)

Maria Panagiotopoulou Sky TV (Athens); head of the press office for Athens and Epidaurus, Hellenic Festival SA; Marketing Director Hellenic Brewery of Atlanti

Sofia Polhammer Financial, political reporter and assistant news editor, Nyhetsbyrån Direkt

Grazia Romani Marketing Week; Il Picolo (Italy); European Commission

Geraldine Sartin Editor, A Bagnolet (Paris); author; translator; freelance Rainer Schmidt MAX Magazine; deputy editor, Park Avenue Magazine; editor-in-chief, Rolling Stone,

Musikexpress, Sounds; author Samuel Serwanga Head of human resources and editorial manager, New Vision (Kampala) Elana Shap Editor, Essence Magazine; Haaretz International Herald Tribune; style coach Georgios Terzis Chair of communications, European Center for Common Ground; associate researcher, Global Governance Institute; senior associate researcher, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Dominique Thierry Project consultant, Beta Press News Agency; project co-ordinator, Radio Television Serbia; team leader, Open Media Hub Muhammad Umar Assistant editor, sports section, The News (Lahore); unknown

Newspape r

Samira Ahmed Reporter, Channel 4 News; presenter, Newswatch BBC1; presenter, Front Row BBC Radio 4; documentary filmmaker and presenter Mathew Bigg Good Shepherds Mission; senior producer, sub-editor, Reuters (Ivory Coast, Nairobi, London, Indonesia); bureau chief, Reuters (Ghana)

Melanie Birch Bournemouth Evening Echo; editor, Scripture Union; freelance, Christian Press; unknown Rachel Borrill Irish Times (London); Ireland on Sunday; Irish Examiner Yossarian Brain Coventry Evening Telegraph; Bolivian mountain guide and travel author died 1999 Yolanda Brooks (née Day) Hobson Publishing; resources editor, commissioning editor, deputy

TOM FEILDEN

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

editor, Times Educational Supplement; freelance, Daily Mail

Severin Carrell Scotland On Sunday; home news journalist, Independent on Sunday; Scotland correspondent, Scotland editor, The Guardian

Robert Chote Speechwriter and adviser, International Monetary Fund; director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility

Mandy Garner Features editor, deputy editor, Times Higher Educational Supplement; editor, Working Mums; communications officer, University of Cambridge Alexandra Goodwin Eastern Daily Press

Michael Harvey Communications director, Google; board director, head of content, Bite Communications; head of strategic communications, Web Summit

Alex Hunt Gloucester Echo; Liverpool Echo; politics editor, BBC News Online

Emma Jones Producer, The Money Programme, BBC; entertainment reporter, BBC Breakfast; entertainment reporter, BBC News

Karl Lindemann Associated Press (Warsaw, Bonn)

Marianne Macdonald The Observer, Life; The Mail on Sunday; features, The Sunday Telegraph; owner, Nonexecutive directorship

Vincent Moss Freelance, Sunday Mirror, The People, House of Commons; political editor, Sunday Mirror; freelance Heather Prentice Correspondent, Reuters (Milan); contributing editor, Sportswear International (Milan); Hearst Lifestyle Media; unknown Gillian Sanders Southern Evening Echo; Childline; Oxford University

EDITOR, TODAY PROGRAMME, BBC RADIO 4 BROADCAST, 1990

Who has been your most memorable interview?

Stephen Hawking was good fun. When I walked in, he looked at me with very intense, laser-like vision. I said how much of an honour it was to meet him, and there was just this pause. At the moment I said: “Why don’t I set up my equipment over here?” He said: “Hello, how are you?” He was using his eye to type each letter, and it takes a long time for him to speak. I had interrupted this terrible pregnant pause.

What is the best lesson you learnt at City?

I turned up, they gave me a tape recorder and a bulb went off in my brain – I was now allowed to go out and ask people questions, and come back and tell people about it. City gave me a licence.

What is the future of the Today programme?

Integrity is at its core, so I think it’ll be all about the branding. You have to be trusted. Among all the hoo-ha, people want sources that are reliable. We’ll probably be in quite a good position. But maybe that’s complacent nonsense and the world’s going to hell in a handbasket.

Megan Agnew

LISTINGS

Press

Darius Sanai Escape; editor-in-chief, contract publications, editorial director, Condé Nast; editorial director, Baku

Thomas Lesley Deputy editor, Sunday Times News Review; consulting editor, columnist, The Daily Telegraph; editor, Weekend (The Times)

Alice Thomson The Times; associate editor, columnist, The Daily Telegraph Tessa Williams Lively Times; Woman’s Journal

Periodical

Stephen Armstrong Evening Standard; London News Radio; freelance (Wallpaper, Sunday Times, GQ, BBC Radio 4)

Simon Aughton Online editor, Macuser.co.uk

Angela Bell Media and Communications lecturer, West Kent College; Journalism and Communication lecturer, Southampton Solent Institute

Richard Benson Cultural consultant, The Face; freelance, (The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, Vogue, GQ); author

Karen Benveniste TV producer, Capricorn; series producer, BBC Crimewatch; director, Vanilla Film Production

Julian Blake The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment(CABE); editor, TechCityInsider; Director and Editor, DigitalAgenda

Jane Bruton Editor, Eve; editor, Grazia; director of lifestyle and deputy editor, Telegraph Media Group

Christina Bunce Course leader, MA Professional Writing, University College Falmouth; head of continuing professional development at Academy of Innovation and Research, University College Falmouth; managing director, Professional Writing Academy Ltd

Leigh Chambers Press officer, British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering; head of communications, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; freelance PR and writing

Catherine Cooper Freelance, (The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Times Higher Education Supplement); senior reporter, Mergermarket; unknown Robert Crampton Columnist, The Saturday Times Magazine; interviewer and columnist, The Times

Sophie Davies Editor, Mr & Mrs Smith (Asia-Pacific); editorial director, DesignFizz; freelance editor, writer & consultant, Luxe City Guides

Kathryn Godfrey Nursing Times; freelance health writer and editor; clinical editor, practice and learning editor, Nursing Times

Siobhan Gonzalez (née Bullick) Features, arts and music, BBC (London, Cardiff, Bristol); freelance (Brussels); freelance communications consultant, British Council

Michele Hart Director, Michele Hart PR

Russell Hodson Unknown

Tim Hollis Elle Decoration; Sky TV Guide; owner, Tim Hollis Photography

Sarah Jarvis (née Anderson) AA Guide to France; freelance

Prudence Jeffreys Teacher; Harper Collins; publicity manager, senior press and PR manager, Transworld; unknown

Geraint John Editor-in-chief, Redactive Media Group; senior vice president, research, SCM World; research vice president, Gartner

James Kingsland Editor, New Scientist; science production editor, The Guardian; executive consultant, State of Flux Ltd; unknown

Lee Kynaston Lifestyle and grooming editor, Niven & Joshua; columnist, Harrods Magazine;

freelance

Amanda Linfoot Chief sub-editor, Marie Claire; the Guardian; chief subeditor, The Times Magazine

Claire Maloney Freelance (Hello!, British Council, Ink); editor bilingual education, OUP; Production subeditor, Hello!; unknown

Maria Manning New Statesman & Society; freelance

Lindsay McClintock Ulster Grocer; The Grocer; retired

Richard Miles Director of communications, Fidelity; The Times; director of corporate communications, M&G Prudentials

Tracy Mourant (née Audrain)

Private sector PR agency; communications officer, executive officer, Jersey Communications Unit; communications manager, sport & culture, Jersey Education

John Mulvey Music reviews editor, deputy editor, Uncut; Wild Mercury Sound

Amy Raphael Freelance, (The Observer, the Guardian, Financial Times); editor-at-large, Esquire; author

Clark Siewert American Banker; lawyer

Miriam Stoppard Founder, owner, managing director, Mousetrap Publishing Services; publisher, journalism.co.uk; Mirror

Tim Turner Senior account director, content director, Wardour; freelance editor, Kraken Sport & Media; content director, Wardour

Broadcast

Suzanne Balaban (née Levy) Publicity director, William Morrow, Harper Collins; director of publicity, Scribner, Simon & Schuster; cofounder, president, BMM Worldwide

Malcolm Brown News Direct; correspondent, head of technical operations, Feature Story News Agency

Emma Coker (née Cannon-Brookes) Freelance; BBC Radio 4; property manager

Emily Curtis BBC Radio; freelance Anne-Marie Drozdz Clerical work; English and drama teacher, United Nations Interntational school Hanoi; Died 2014

Tom Feilden BBC Radio Oxford; BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; science and environment correspondent, Today programme, BBC Radio 4

Gordon Fudge Head of BBC Radio Cross Trails; head of BBC Pictures; head of creative (digital, pictures & radio), BBC; student, University of Lisbon

Sarah Gorrell Isle of Wight Radio; BBC Radio Cornwall; presenter, BBC Southern Counties Radio

Andrew Guy Red Dragon Radio; insurance

Andrew Harding Channel 4 Moscow correspondent, East African correspondent, Africa correspondent, BBC Georgina Johnson Voice of Peace Radio; unknown

Tessa Mayes Investigative reporter, Renegade Pictures; writer and filmmaker, Tessa Mayes productions Lainy Malkani (née Bridgelall) BBC News 24; public affairs officer, Commonwealth Secretariat; freelance media consultant and journalist

Paula McCann BBC Bedfordshire; producer, BBC Belfast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5

Live

Becky Milligan BBC Radio Surrey; World at One, BBC Radio 4; politics reporter, BBC Radio 4

Niels-Ole Rasmussen Producer, Scansat; director, Copenhagen film and TV company

Robyn Read BBC Northampton; senior producer, Kaleidoscope; producer, editor, Front Row, BBC Radio 4

Camila Reed Senior equities correspondent, commodities editor, Reuters; digital media director, MD communications; director, Tavares Media

James Westhead BBC South East; health, education, family, Washington correspondent, BBC News; executive director, Teach First Sally White BBC Nine O’Clock News; producer, broadcast journalist, BBC News Online; freelance

Lynne Wilson BBC Northampton; community editor, assistant editor, acting managing editor, BBC Essex

Caroline Wyatt Bonn correspondent, defence correspondent, BBC; religious affairs correspondent, BBC; senior correspondent, BBC

1991

International

Soraya Abdullah Family business; Melewar Spex Sdn. Bhd

Oma Amurun Unknown

Nii Asare-Addy Data processing company supervisor, London Press Service; PhD student, lecturer, Westminster Business School Adriana Barentsen Freelance translator, Deutschlandfunk Giuseppe Bertoncello Moneyland Telerade; news editor, Telerate Italia; freelance Ilona Biro Senior editor, AOL Huffington Post; senior account manager, Pulse Communications, freelance PR consultant Filomena Avelina-Bomfim Green Press; professor, Universidade Federal de Sao Joao Del Rei Chien-kuo Chang China Broadcasting Corporation

Cherif Cordahi Director of corporate and government affairs, Mondelez International (Middle East and Africa)

Robert Conway Unknown

Vanessa Chen Hong Kong Trade

Margaret Evans Middle East correspondent, CBS News; correspondent, CBC Europe; European correspondent, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Elisabeth Hansen editor, Egmont Publishing Ayesha Haroon Special

correspondent, op-ed section editor, resident editor, The Nation; died 2013 Siv Haugan Natur Og Ungdorn/ NRK (Oslo); information editor, Maritime Records; senior adviser in communication, Research Council of Norway

Frank Huetten Postgraduate studies; Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg); editor for EU affairs, Dow Jones

Tabasim Hussain Reuters (Tanzania); TV researcher

Madeline Jenkins-Millard Operations manager, Da Vinci Quartet; Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation; freelance Mandy Kibel Head of communications, United Nations Millennium Campaign; senior media advisor, UN Populations Fund; director marketing and communications, Right to Play International

Maritza Luque de Gonzalez Lecturer, Universidad del Pacifico; lecturer, ESAN (Lima)

Kyriacos Kouros Head of Middle East department, Foreign Ministry of Cyprus; ambassador to The Netherlands and permanent representative to OPCW; director general, Cyprus Intelligence Service

Virginia Marsh The Economist; Australia-Pacific correspondent, Financial Times; freelance Elisabeth Mitsani Foundation for Hellenic Culture

Christine Mordret Freelance (Paris); Hommes et Migrations

Valerie Msoka Executive director, Tanzania Media Women’s Association; Lead Media Advisor, Internews; chair, content committee, Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority

Leone Ross Novelist; teacher; freelance (The Guardian, The Independent On Sunday, BBC) Camilla Rossak Freelance (Mexico); NORAD (Oslo)

Frank Schopman Unknown Mercedes Silva Centro de Informações (Sao Paulo); Gazeta Mercantil

Robert Slagt Freelance; journalism teacher; news editor, Het Financieele Dagblad

Daan Van Lent Senior editor, Reed Business Information; investigative reporter, NRC Handelsblad; arts and culture reporter, NRC

Jules Van Os Storms Factory; editor, NOS Nieuws; senior press officer, Oxfam Novib

Annajet Van Der Zijl HP/De Tijd; author Maria Vassiliou Unknown

Newspaper

Kamal Ahmed, group director of communications, Human Rights Commission; business editor, Sunday Telegraph; business editor, economics editor, BBC

Topaz Amoore Acting editor, The Sunday Times News Review; foreign editor, The Sunday Telegraph; Senior Speechwriter to the Secretary of State, Defra

John Arlidge News and feature writer, The Observer; freelance (Evening Standard, The Observer, The Sunday Times, Esquire) Christopher Bennett Honorary

professor, De Montfort University; director, Foundation of the Preservation of Historical Heritage; author

Grace Bradberry Daily Mail (Los Angeles); deputy Saturday editor, editor, Times 2; The Times Anna Brown Teacher

Dollan Cannell London Weekend Television; Juniper TV; series producer, Twenty Twenty television Ion Dagtoglou director, Tinkoff Credit Systems; chief operating officer, Candlewick Asset Management; non-executive director, BoxClever; Non Executive Director, EKOMI LIMITED

Vikram Dodd Freelance (BBC Radio 5 Live, The Observer, Evening Standard, The Voice); senior reporter and crime correspondent, The Guardian. Caroline Doughty Voaden (née Smith) Reuters (London, Amsterdam, Zagreb); editor, Justgiving.com; web editor; freelance writer, editor and communications consultant.

Imogen Edwards-Jones Freelance; novelist; scriptwriter

Jasper Gerard-Sharp Columnist, The Observer; author, The Clegg Coup; Liberal Democrat MP for Maidstone and Weald

Tania Glyde Freelance (New Statesman, The Guardian, Time Out London); counseling therapist, writer, The Lancet; trainer, London Sex and Relationships Therapy

Richard Good Producer, Euronews; regional sales director UK, Ireland, France, Morocco, tuOtempO

Simon Greenberg Assistant editor, Evening Standard; global head of rights, News Corporation; Head, Dow Jones Sport

Martin Hennessey Managing director, The Writer; founder and CEO, machido.com; Chief Executive Officer, The Writer

Meg Hillier Home Office minister; shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change; MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch

Saeeda Khanum Inside Housing; producer, Channel 4; director, Faction Films; unknown Timothy Lawrence PhD, University of Surrey; author; professor, codirector of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London

Jane Martinson South Wales Echo; Financial Times; head of media, associate editor (media),The Guardian Yvonne McKenley PR Joanna Nicholls (née Ralphs) feature writer, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance; marketing director, Nicholls & Co

Rebecca Pike BBC News 24; business presenter, BBC Radio 2 Drivetime, head of digital Media, Liberty Global Andrew Robson principal consultant, Eworking; director, Media Arm; director and editor, medConfidential Ltd.

Simon Rogers Online data editor, The Guardian; data editor, Twitter; data editor, Google

Kate Watson-Smyth The Guardian; freelance (The Financial Times, The Independent); interiors and design writer, Financial Times

Rhys Williams The Independent Graeme Wilson Deputy political editor, The Sun; press secretary, 10 Downing Street; partner, Tulchan Communications LLP

Periodical

Eleanor Baigfley Freelance (The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Vogue, The Telegraph); novelist

Briony Barnett (née Sergeant) Freelance business editor of Simon and Mayo Show, BBC Radio 2; casting director, United Agents; Casting director, Briony Barnett Casting Anna Borzello Agence France Presse (Uganda); producer, BBC World Service (Africa); Nigeria correspondent, BBC Adam Boyle 90 Minutes; Homes and Gardens; freelance Francesca Buckroyd Theatre Magazine; press officer, Sotheby’s; freelance

Patricia Burgess Black Britain; freelance

Leo Burley Series producer, arts films, ITV; producer and director, South Bank Show; TV producer and journalist

Lucy Cavendish Columnist, celebrity interviewer, Evening Standard; columnist, Stella; novelist Michael Cooke Deputy editor, Rutland and Stamford Mercury and Citizen; editor, Melton Times; owner, Melton Sports

Kristina Cooper Lobby correspondent, Northcliffe Newspaper Group; producer, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; parliamentary programmes, BBC Maria Cooper Reporter, Today programme, BBC Radio 4; parliamentary reporter, line producer/production manager, BBC Caroline Ellis RNIB; Disability Rights Commission; freelance Fiona Wilkins (née Gammie) Researcher, Horizon, BBC; The Bulletin; marketing and communications manager, Ernest Bevin College

Rebecca Gardiner The Independent; The Big Issue; education correspondent, deputy editor, comment and analysis, family editor, comment editor, The Guardian Elizabeth Ayling Founder, theredbistro.com; founder, managing editor, Maltainsideout.com; director of communications, Strategy Works

Trish Griffiths (née Goode)

Publications officer, Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund; freelance reporter and photographer, Chiltern & Thames Rider; freelance Justine Hancock Health editor, Daily Mail; commissioning editor, The Times; editor, Good Health section, Daily Mail

Lee Harpin News editor, The People; head of news, agenda editor, Sunday Mirror; Founder, Lee Harpin

Associates

Amanda Harrison The Face; Arena; editorial director, Emalnm,ds

William Lewis Group general manager, News International; chief creative officer, News Corp; CEO, Dow Jones

Maria Maguire Research assistant for Jeremy Corbyn MP; solicitor; unknown

Diana McAdam Gardening writer, The Daily Telegraph; chief foreign affairs commentator, comment and analysis production, Financial Times

Tina Merrifield Communications, Lloyds TSB; senior communications officer, University of Saskatchewan; corporate communications manager, Affinity Credit Union

Gabrielle Mullarkey Launch team, Reveal; novelist; freelance Kate Naqvi (née Barnett) Senior development editor, consultant, De Agostini/Phoebus Editions; freelance copywriter; Copywriter, PolicyBee LLP

Ndidi Nkagbu Freelance; producer, LBC

Eleanor Phillips Jane’s Defence Weekly; Equity; Channel 4 Rebecca Sillis (née Main) Journalist, Linguist Haznews; teacher, Northolt High School; PR

Stefan Stern management writer, Financial Times; director of strategy, Edelman; director, High Pay Centre Catharine Utley Satellite TV; own business

Simon Wardell Arts Listing Agency; Listings Limited; freelance, The Guardian

Simon Warr PR, Ford Europe; global news manager, Cologne; communications director, NATS

Misbah Alvi Executive producer, Entertainment Today; series editor Studio Lambert; Showrunner, Windfall Films Ltd.

Primaljit Bath Postgraduate studies; GLR; history unit, BBC

Richard Bee Caprom Freelance producer; lecturer, London College of Fashion; series producer, director, BBC

Rosalind Childs VNU Business Publications; Financial Times TV Donna Cooper-Cliftlands Director of media curriculum, professor, Thomas Adams School; teacher of Media and Film, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College; principal moderator, media studies, OCR Marie-Louise Dutt On the Record, BBC; BBC Breakfast; Radio Presenter, BBC Worldwide

Patricia Fairbrother PR Louise Fenby (née Hird) Press Association Radio; programme producer, GMTV; producer, ITV Helen Ffitch Planning editor, BBC business and economics centre; producer, Good Morning Britain, ITV; media consultant, Ffitch media; Content Designer, Blue Level Marc Goodchild Director, Syncscreen; freelance; co-founder and director, Gingersnap Studios

Nigel Gregory Producer, Media Trust; website manager, VT editor, head of post production and channel management, Community Channel Sarah Hardcastle (née Holden) senior producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior producer, BBC Radio; producer, Lime Green Media; freelance Gillian Joseph BBC Network Breakfast; BBC News 24; anchor, Sky News

Andrew Preston BBC documentaries and features; feature writer, Daily Express; feature writer, Mail on Sunday

Philip Smith Freelance producer and director (BBC, Channel 4, Oxford Films)

Dixi Stewart senior producer, executive producer, deputy editor, BBC Radio 4; executive producer, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live; Editorial Lead, BBC Radio and Music at BBC Lesley Taunton BBC Radio 4 France International; Euronews; Radio Nacional de España

Mathew Tucker freelance, producer/director/journalist; music consultant

Simon Watkins VNU Business Publications; markings and banking editor, city editor, Mail on Sunday; freelance Caroline Wilson Radio Derby; lecturer in media studies, University of Central England; lecturer, DeMonfort University

1992

International

Hadyat Abiola BBC Newswatch

Tesfaye Alemu Managing director, Ethiopian Insurance Corporation; managing director, Joshua Social Development PLC

Efi-Eftihia Alexandridou PR, Thessaloniki

John Amoateng-Kantara editor, freelance reporter, ZDF TV (Germany); author; Collective Intelligence

Filomena Maria Avelina Bomfim Professor, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei Marc Bertola Reuters; Journalistes Associes de la Mediterranee; teacher Ian Bray Head of public affairs, Oxfam; head of public affairs, IDTG; senior humanitarian press officer, Oxfam

Mary Brazier Editor, policy department, DG for policies, European Parliament

Philippe Brodeur (née Greystones) lecturer, Digital Marketing Institute; founder and CEO, Hot Air Media; founder and CEO, Overcast Chizuko Broinowski (née Muranaka) translator; managing director at Integral Media; managing director, Integros sarl Axel Bugge freelance; Bloomberg; Chief Correspondent Reuters Portgual

Bronwyn Cosgrave Director, Cosgrave Global Media; contributing editor, Vogue India; artistic consultant, Autograph Collection Hotels, Marriot Hotels

Heleen DeGraaf Omroepvereniging Vara (Hilversum); Dow Jones (Netherlands); account director, director, Stampa

Gillian DeHaan CNN; World Business Today; editor, Lehman Brothers

Catherine Delgado Freelance; staff writer, LA Tribune; consultant, Progexa

Chetan Dhruve Editor, NRIOL. com; VP business development, Rrap Software; founder and editor, Kwack.in; author

Michael Dumiak Executive editor, Thomson Media; deputy editor, US Banker; science, tech and business writer (Berlin, Germany)

Conleth Eleanya Unknown

Frank Esser Assistant professor, Johannes Gutenberg Universität; assistant professor, University of Missouri-Columbia; professor of international and comparative media research, University of Zurich

Nina Hanssen Features writer, Aktuelt Perspektiv; features writer, Medieforum (Oslo); manager, Female Business Innovation

Nanna Hepke Bloomberg Business News; Reuters Financial TV

Atsuko Kato Freelance translator,

journalist, consultant; translator/ kimono specialist

Janet Kerlin Web writer, Bryant University; writer/editor, Johnston & Wales University (Providence); English instructor, Community College of Rhode Island

Marie-Alvere Loyau-Kennett Freelance (Paris); administrator, Sheltered Housing Project; unknown Francisco Machado Audacia (Lisbon); freelance (Toga, Zaire); priest and missionary, Catholic Mission; unknown

Malia Mattoch McManus News reporter, Hawaii TV; news anchor, KHON (Honolulu); author

Andrew McEvoy Marketing general manager, South Australian Tourist Board; director, Tourism Australia; chairman, SeaLink Travel Group

Adla Moukarzel Massoud Director and producer, Flying Hands

Production

Stephen Percy Deputy bureau chief, Dow Jones (Mumbai, London); editor, The Wall Street Journal; editor, DevEds

Richard Tompsett Haymarket Publications; WTN; senior producer, Associated Press TV News

Catherine Waugh Press officer, UN; public information officer, UN Mission (South Sudan); Press officer, UN DPI

Peter Weekes The Advocate (Barbados); died 1995 Shiang-Tze Yeh Daily Express (Malaysia); financial controller, Sabah Publishing House (Malaysia)

Newspaper

Kate Alderson The Times; died 1996

David Anderson Football writer, Associated Press; boxing and football correspondent, Daily Mirror; sports writer

James Bethell Head of New Business, Capital Radio; campaign director, Nothing British; managing director, Westbourne Communications

Matthew Brace Freelance (The Times, The Observer); corporate communications officer, Abu Dhabi Government; director of communications, Lifestyle Retreats (Singapore)

Rachel Cooke freelance feature writer, Evening Standard; writer, The Observer; TV critic, New Statesman Amy Cooper Deputy editor, Cleo; editor, Pure; managing director, Bars March (Sydney)

Ruth Davis Executive producer, The Weakest Link, BBC; entertainment editor, Tiger Aspect Productions; director, Countryfile, BBC; deputy director of global programmes, RSPB

Sharon Dempsey (née Copeland) freelance, Huffington Post; creative writing facilitator, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland and Queen’s University Belfast; journalist Scribblers and Scribes

James Gardner French dubbing, translation and subtitling; head of strategic communications, Tony Blair’s Office; teacher

Lucy Jones Broadcast journalist, BBC Online; news editor, WFAA Channel 8; Senior reporter, Trading Risk

James Landale Chief political correspondent, BBC News; deputy political editor, diplomatic correspondent, BBC News

Julia Llewellyn-Smith Freelance;

feature writer, The Telegraph; freelance

Christopher Lloyd Author; founder and director, What on Earth Publishing Ltd; columnist, CNN

English Express Magazine (Japan)

Timothy Lusher Editor, Guide; deputy features editor, g2; deputy features editor, The Guardian

Natalie Meddings Freelance; birth yoga teacher; co-founder, Tell Me a Good Birth Story

Esther Oxford Founder, Oxford Media + Medicine; producer and director, Dispatches, Panorama; correspondent, Health Service Journal

Christopher Parker Daily Post; Daily Mail Weekend magazine; scriptwriter (Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Bob the Builder Mega Machines)

Mark Rowe Foreign desk, Daily Mail; staff reporter, Independent on Sunday, The Independent; freelance; author

Sanjay Singhal Series producer, BBC documentaries; managing director, Dragonfly Film and TV Productions; chief executive, Voltage TV

Alex Smith Financial industry editor, global financial services editor, specialist editor (Financial and Business News), Reuters

Lucy Smy Editor, foreign desk, Financial Times; consultant, Media Compass, senior lecturer in journalism, Kingston University; senior lecturer In journalism, Deakin University

Harriet Swain Freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, Times Higher Education Supplement); visiting lecturer, City, University of London

Rajeev Syal reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; reporter, The Times; Whitehall reporter, The Guardian

Lauren Taylor Political correspondent, newsreader, ITN; senior news presenter, Al Jazeera English

Kate Townsend Freelance director, producer, BBC; executive producer, commissioning editor, BBC Storyville; Netflix

Andrew (John) Verity Business presenter, Wake Up To Money, BBC Radio 5 Live; personal finance reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; economics correspondent, BBC News

Tessa Walsh International Financing Review; vice president, Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation; global loan editor, Reuters (London)

Ben Webster Night news editor, transport correspondent, environment editor, The Times

Periodical

Amanda Cameron (née Armstrong) New Kent Shopper; Reporter Series; freelance; senior reporter, Bath Chronicle

Patrick Chalmers Reporter, deputy bureau chief, Reuters (Brussels, London, Kuala Lumpur); author, Fraudcast News

Nicholas P Compton Freelance; features director, Wallpaper; owner, Another Pickled Egg Production Ltd; Acting Editor, Wallpaper

Michael Day Health correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph; Italy correspondent, The Independent; Author, Being Berlusconi

Sharon de Botte (née Beesley)

Editorial manager, Medical Education Network; editorial manager (Europe), Rogers Medical Intelligence Solutions; senior editor, Health Press

Nick Edwards Editor, Construction News; general manager, Steel, CRU Group

Charles English Deputy editor, Saturday Guardian; head of international news, The Guardian; author, The Snow Tourist, The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu

Harriet Green Features director, deputy editor, Harpers and Queen; family editor, The Guardian; editor, The Observer Magazine

Michael Hogan Editor at large, EMAP News magazine; editor, Zoo; freelance

Elliot Lane Head of Media Relations, CII; group PR director, Gallagher Heath; managing director, FWD PR

Harriet Lane Feature writer, The Observer; freelance; author, Alys Always, Her Adam Legge Editor, Equinox Nursing magazine; communications consultant; editor, A-Z of Health, NHS Choices

Miranda Levy Contributing editor, Grazia; editor, Mother and Baby; freelance

Nyta Mann Political correspondent, BBC News Online; assistant editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; political adviser, House of Lords

Robert Morgan Senior producer, the Today programme, BBC Radio 4; news editor, assistant editor, BBC Newsnight

Pelle Neroth Journalist, European Voice; EU correspondent, Engineering & Technology Magazine; author Laura Noble Third Sector; UK Social Investment Forum consultant, Fishburn-Hedges; freelance Helena Pozniak Reuters Television; producer, BBC World News; freelance Timothy Smart Senior drilling fluids engineer, Kemtech Ltd; senior mud engineer, MI Gulf Services; senior mud engineer, Kuwait Drilling Fluids

Damon Syson TV Quick; More!; freelance

Axel Threlfall CNBC Europe; media director and partner, ECD Insight; editor at large, Reuters

Lucie Tobin Deputy editor, Woman’s Own; acting editor, deputy editor, Essentials; freelance

Adrian Turpin The Sunday Times; freelance; director, Wigtown Book Festival

Maxton Walker Newsagent Weekly; freelance; entertainment editor, features sub-editor, The Guardian

Fiona (Flores) Watson Freelance; contributing editor, Andalucia.com; UK social media manager, Major Spanish Oil producer

Martin Wood Deputy editor, One Football; sports desk sub-editor, freelance, Daily Mail; group legal adviser, Associated Newspapers Broadcas t

Amanda Baker Freelance

Julia Bicker BBC Bristol; BBC South East; BBC Birmingham

Malcolm Brown Presenter, News Direct 97.3FM; broadcast journalist, head of technical operations, Feature Story News

Claire Cox Classic FM; LBC; producer, BBC Radio 5 Live

Will Daws Executive producer, Cooking in the Danger Zone; producer, BBC Panorama; managing director, Plum Pictures

Catherine Drew BBC Dorset FM; UK bureau chief, Feature Story News (London)

John Escolme Producer, BBC World Service; presenter, BBC; history manager, BBC History and Heritage

Suzanne Glass Contributing editor, Frank; novelist, The Interpreter; columnist, Financial Times

Peter Gilbert Copywriter; freelance; unknown

Nina Harrison-Bell Head of film, Bladonmore; chief operating officer, Videojug Networks; CEO, Arcuro; executive producer, Six Three Communications

Patrick Johnston Head of music

UK and Ireland, MTV; business development, EMR Digital; head of business development, J2

Sally Johnston On the Record, BBC; BBC Newsnight; independent producer

Sandra Khadhouri Strategic communications adviser, IGAD Ceasefire Monitoring & Verification Mechanism; deployable civilian expert, UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit; strategic communications adviser, NATO

Ronit Knoble Freelance development producer, CBeebies, BBC; owner, Fantastic Films; director, Top TV Academy

Natalie Maynes Corporate finance, BBC Belfast, BBC News; series producer, director, BBC Northern Ireland

Rebecca Milligan Reporter, BBC Radio 4

Paul O’Keeffe Producer, BBC Business Unit; current affairs producer, BBC Radio; partner/ director, Thomas Tosh/Boulder Group

Sophie Raworth BBC (Brussels); presenter, BBC News, Watchdog, Crimewatch

Lisa Sanders (née Jacob) Freelance TV producer (Israel); producer, El Sash TV Productions; author Natalie Savona author; TV presenter, Freaky Eaters; PhD research at LSHTM

Pauline Smith Producer, Country Focus, BBC Radio Wales Franca Tranza Press officer, British Medical Association; head of communications, Multiple System Atrophy Trust; media and communication officer, senior media officer, Middlesex University

Rachel Watson Author; The Guardian; Daily Telegraph

1993

International

Sandra Akhtar ABC News; freelance; unknown

Hassan Arouni Presenter and producer, BBC World Service, Focus on Africa; senior producer, Talk About Sierra Leone

Stetson Babb Senior vice president, Barbados Tourism Authority; director, SIB Consulting; manager of news and public affairs, Starcom Network Inc

Dan Bindman News editor, Law Society Gazette; freelance; associate editor, Legal Futures

Jorg Burger Reportage editor, Tempo

(Germany); lifestyle and reportage, Leben; editor, Zeitmagazin

Andreas Cremer Market News International; correspondent, Bloomberg Businessweek; Senior Car Correspondent, Reuters

Glynis Crook Freelance lecturer, University of Cape Town Media Studies Department; Researcher, Shadow Pictures Ltd; Freelance writer, UNESCO

Trevor Cullen Author, Vatican Radio; press officer, Catholic Bishops’ Conference; Queensland University; head of journalism, director of CREATEC, Edith Cowan University (Perth)

Stephan Finsterbusch Far East business correspondent, business editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Chloe Fox Minister for transport services, Australian Government; lifetime support authority, Department for Education and Child Development; French teacher, Brighton Secondary School Naglaa Ghali Business reporter; author, Arabic Grammar Unravelled

Irena Gjuzelova Associated Press; Bloomberg News; communication officer, International Finance Corporation

Gilles Guillaume BBC World Service (France); Business FM; automotive news, Reuters

Catherine Guilyardi BBC News; Producer, BBC & Culture France; author

Jan Gunnar Teaching, Hart Publications; editor, European Offshore Petroleum Newsletter; news editor, Statoil

Jane Hamilton (née Hencher) The Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario); Alumni Quarterly Magazine; president, See Jane Run Communications

Angela Hennersdorf Editor, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt; financial correspondent, Energy Editor Wirtschaftswoche

Marian Hens Senior broadcast journalist, BBC News; global communications manager, global strategic communication travel intelligence, Amadeus IT Group Lukman Lyiola Concord Press; African Concord magazine; media consultant, Citigate Communications; unknown

James Kanter EU reporter, Dow Jones; business reporter, International Herald Tribune (Paris); EU correspondent, International New York Times; freelance EU correspondent

Miranda Korzy Australian Associated Press; freelance Solomon Kotane Industrial Forum for Electoral Education (Johannesburg); South African Communications Service; died 2017 Mette Kramer Freelance, Politiken; lecturer, University of Copenhagen

Jette Kristiansen BBC; Reuters (Copenhagen); press officer, Carlsberg; owner, Big Tree Communications

Alberto Letona Associated Press; Director of Communication, Department of Education, Universities and Research; creativity consultant, communications, and public relations, Zeppelin Communication

Jorn Madslien Reporter, European Business News, Dow Jones; reporter, video journalist, business features

editor, BBC News 24; freelance Michelle Mason Assistant art director, Disney; documentary filmmaker; coordinator of documentary programme, Capilano University

Zandile Mbele Corporate affairs general manager, Sentech; MBA student, Durham Business School; executive partner, IBM Global Business Services (Johannesburg); director, ETS Innovations

Lucy Szablewska (née Smout) BBC North; BBC Radio Newcastle; PhD student, Durham University

Olivier Thibault Basque country correspondent, Agence France Presse (London, Paris, Milan, Madrid)

Alexandra Zavis News editor, Associated Press (Africa); foreign desk, editor, Los Angeles Times

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Samina Baig Writer, Eastenders, Holby City, Doctors; screenwriter, Century Films, Emerald Productions; playwright, BBC Radio 4

Joanne Ball Freelance (South Africa)

Sarita Bhatia Eastern Eye; news editor, Emmawards; unknown Anindya Bhattacharyya Editor, Derivatives and Risk Technology; Waters Information Services; software engineer, PensionBee

Julie Cohen The Mail on Sunday; creative writing tutor; author, Where Love Lies

Faith Collier Sky News; Associated Press TV; producer, BBC TV; producer, Pearson TV; media relations consultant, APCO

Nancy Ella Daniel PC User; Microscope; Investors Chronicle; freelance

Gareth Davies Hampstead and Highgate Express; sub-editor, Highbury & Islington Express; deputy chief sub-editor, assistant editor (production), boxing correspondent, The Daily Telegraph

Owen Dyer Freelance and columnist, British Medical Journal

Jane Flanagan The Daily Telegraph; Southern Africa correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph (Johannesburg); editorial consultant, United Nations Development Programme; freelance Rachel Ford Granada TV; associate producer, producer/director, executive producer, LWT Factual; news producer, BBC Faith Jennings Integrated communications lead, head of international PR, marketing and trade shows, Aerospace and Defence; director, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Matthew Lawton Daily Express; football writer, The Daily Telegraph; chief sports reporter, Daily Mail

Edward Luce Speechwriter; Delhi correspondent, South East Asia correspondent, US correspondent and Washington columnist, Financial Times

Harriet Martin Reporter, Al Jazeera (Khartoum), unknown

Stephanie McKeown Oxford Mail; IT Consultant, Logica; project manager, AMT-Sybex

Jojo Moyes South China Morning Post; arts and media correspondent, The Independent; author, Me Before You

James Munro Sports correspondent, BBC; communications director, Lawn Tennis Association; associate director,

CLARE

DOWDY

EDITOR,

FURNACE MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL, 1994

What is the funniest thing you have seen on the job?

I went to a press breakfast recently and they handed me this shot of wheatgrass and ginger on arrival. I’d just got off my bike and was feeling weak, and I drank this shot and thought I was going to be sick. I had to run to the loo.

What is your fondest memory of City?

The shorthand lessons. They were very early in the morning, which meant that there was this sense of comradery between its victims.

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career?

I started in the industry before the internet. Once, I needed to get hold of the BBC in New York, but instead of ringing them, I accidentally rang the Billionaire Boys Club.

What has been the biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

Probably the relationship between journalists and PRs. When I started I had contacts at design agencies that I went straight to – now the PRs are the gatekeepers.

What is the worst career advice you have ever received?

To put off going freelance. Looking back, I could have jumped sooner – I needn’t have been so worried about it.

Grace Whelan

InVision Communications

Sara Naylor News Editor, Daily Mirror; associate director, Geronimo Communications; Ravenhill Media Claire Oldfield Editor, City A.M; deputy editor-in-chief, Metro; managing director, Wardour Publishing

Michael Paterson Human resources manager, Tokio Marine Kiln; head of human resources, Munich Re Underwriting LTD; head of human resources, Hampshire Trust Bank Emma Peacock Atlantic Productions; Chapter One; owner, Maitreya Meditation Centre

Nicola Price Nottingham Evening Post; deputy news editor, Plymouth Herald; press officer, Scotland Yard Randeep Ramesh South Asia correspondent, social affairs editor, chief leader writer, The Guardian

Leslie Reid Political reporter, Hampstead and Highgate Express; political correspondent, Coventry Evening Telegraph; freelance, The Guardian; editor, Coventry Observer

Gillian Smith Chester Chronicle; Sunday Mirror; freelance

Boris Starling Novelist; screenwriter

Nick Thorpe Author; freelance; head of communications, Fathers Network Scotland

Nicholas Walker The Independent; PHASE Magazine

Ken Wiwa Editor at large, ARISE Magazine; Special Assistant on peace, conflict resolution and reconciliation,

Nigerian government; senior special assistant on civil society and international media, President Goodluck Jonathan; died 2016 Gary Younge New York correspondent, columnist, editor at large, The Guardian (US); author, Another Day In the Death of America Periodica l

Gary Allden Corporate marketing director, Hewlett Packard; communications emerging markets, Cisco; director of corporate marketing and communications, Caterpillar Inc

Richard Arnold DJ, Radio Liberty; presenter, GMTV; entertainment editor, Good Morning Britain

Susie Boone Deputy editor, Tomorrow’s World; editor, BBC Parenting Magazine; editorial director, MadeForMums, Immediate Media Co

Paola Buonadonna Media director, British Influence; EU affairs commentator and communications consultant; head of communications and engagement, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Mark Campanile Halesowen Chronicle; Edinburgh Herald & Post; deputy chief sub-editor; chief subeditor, Edinburgh Evening News

Tamsin Constable Editor, Glamour; section editor, BBC Wildlife Magazine; freelance

CASPAR LLEWELLYN SMITH DIGITAL PLATFORMS EDITOR AND HEAD OF CULTURE, THE GUARDIAN

NEWSPAPER, 1994

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career?

At the Brits I was moved out of my seat in the front row to make way for Madonna. I moved and saw my then editor at The Observer, who told me to go and start talking to her. I knew her PR quite well so I started gesturing from across the room. I was summoned over and was quite pissed so hadn’t thought what I was supposed to be getting out of this meeting. I squatted down and had a hopeless conversation lasting about two minutes, before retreating.

What has been the highlight of your career so far?

Probably doing what I’m doing at the moment: sitting quite close to the heart of The Guardian operations at a time when it is really challenging for everyone, and when we’re trying to reinvent ourselves for the media age with a sustainable business model. I think we’re making incredibly strong progress and producing very good journalism.

What is the best career advice you have received?

You can never let anything be published under your name that you couldn’t imagine coming out of your mouth.

What was the worst moment you ever had on patch?

I’m not saying this was me, but it was someone on the course at the same time as me... They used to use the patch day to go to the local library and look up old copies of the local paper, copy stuff and pass it off as theirs. I’m not saying that was me though.

Grace Whelan

Jennifer Cook Freelance; unknown

James Corrigan Editor, The Independent; golf correspondent, The Independent on Sunday; golf correspondent, The Telegraph

Kathryn Dale Sales Promotion magazine; unknown

Deanna Delamotta Derby Evening Telegraph; women’s editor, Shropshire Star; features editor, Manchester Evening News

Sharmila Devi Jerusalem correspondent, freelance, Financial Times; freelance (The Arab Weekly, The Lancet)

Joelle Diderich Art and Living magazine; business news editor; Paris bureau chief, Women’s Wear Daily Philippa Gant Live TV; Dead Pan; Sky Sports; solicitor; unknown

Victoria Harper Deputy editor, Red; associate editor, Grazia; features director, The Daily Telegraph

Iqbal Hussain Unknown

Rael Martell Medical writer, Health News Agency; Frontline; freelance; unknown

Deborah McLauchlan Manchester Evening News; vintage bookshop

owner

Mendora Ogbogbo Parliamentary officer, Age Concern; director, Parliamentary Contacts; managing director, Parli-training

The Prostate Cancer Charity; unknown

Jason Solomons Film critic, The Mail on Sunday; freelance; film critic, Sky Arts; freelance film critic, BBC News, Sky News, BBC Radio 4

Simon Stephens Design Week; The Art Newspaper; head of publications and events; deputy editor Museums Journal

Simon Targett Associate editor, FT Reports; editor-in-chief, Boston Consulting Group; founder, Thinking Cap Communications; senior director, Sommerfield Communications

Paul Twite Managing director, eDesigns; publisher, Haymarket; sales director; managing director, Toluna

Kate Ahira (neé Wardley); Joint editorial and creative director, Essay magazine; freelance copy editor and writer (The Guardian, Estates Gazette); senior sub-editor, Building

Kate Williams Press officer, British Medical Association; deputy health editor, The Sun; head of media and public affairs, The Prostate Cancer Charity; unknown

Broadcast

Robert Ambrose Strategy and business development, FADEL; business transformation and conference producer, International Broadcasting Convention; managing consultant, High Green Media

Tanya Arnold Sports reporter, Look North, BBC Leeds

Elizabeth Ayto GMTV; owner, NCI Management; managing director, Media Ambitions Public Relations

Sarah Boxhall BBC West; economics unit, Business Breakfast, Working Lunch, BBC; unknown

Helene Bradley-Ritt

Stephen Overell freelance, The Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times, Evening Standard; head of media, associate director, The Work Foundation; unknown

Jonathan Paterson Senior broadcast journalist, BBC; senior producer, BBC Newsnight; world deployments editor, digital video editor, BBC

Debora Robertson Food editor, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; freelance food writer, associate food editor, Red; owner, Lickedspoon

Lina Saigol Sunday Business, senior reporter, Financial Times; news editor, Reuters

Daniel Sevitt Marketing manager, Autodesk Israel; director of marketing, Idomoo; content marketing manager, SimilarWeb

Elizabeth Shackleton Asia programmer and producer, BAFTA; Asia editor, Screen International; founder, CHIME Consulting

Jonathan Sides Granada TV (sports); video producer, joint managing director, Paul Doherty International

Lydia Slater Columnist and editorat-large, The Sunday Times Style; deputy editor, Harper’s Bazaar; deputy editor, Town & Country magazine

Kate Stewart British Medical Association; VIP relations manager,

unknown

Kate Linderholm BBC Radio

Sheffield; district producer, BBC Doncaster and Rotherham; district producer and journalist, BBC Radio

Sheffield; Natalie Maynes Producer, director, BBC Northern Ireland; series producer, BBC; freelance producer and director (self-shooting)

Susannah Osborne Freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, Cyclist Magazine)

Scott Solder Editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; deputy editor, current affairs, BBC Salford; self-employed communications consultant and media trainer

Tiffani Spira (née Cave) BBC Radio Gloucestershire; unknown

Christopher Whipp Reading and Cornwall Express; reporter, BBC Radio Devon; unknown

Tracy Williams Beacon Radio; freelance; assistant editor, BBC 5 Live; freelance

1994

International

Paula Adamick Toronto Star; The Evening Standard; owner and managing editor, The Canada Post Furat Al Jamil Information officer, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq; scriptwriter; filmmaker and artist, Buranunu Animation Studio

Roberta Almeida Unknown

Rukhsana Aslam Chair, Centre for Media and Communication studies, International Islamic University; Asian journalism fellow; visiting faculty, Auckland University of Technology

Communications director, Brakes Group; managing director and manager, HBR Consulting; managing director; Boudica & Eir Vicky Candlin BBC Radio (Kent, South East); reporter and producer, BBC; unknown Patrick Collerton BBC Manchester; director, film maker, Yipp Films; director; executive producer

Thomas Fredericks Freelance media consultant; senior producer, BBC News; director and founder, Picture Power Media

Claire Buchanan (neé Gibson) News editor, BBC Southern Counties Radio; regional network producer, BBC News Southern England; assignment editor for world newsgathering, BBC News

Rachel Gravesen (née Curtis) BBC Radio Sussex & Surrey; presenter and editor, CNBC Nordic; senior vice president, investor relations and communications, Genmab Rachel Hermer Director, BBC TV (Wales); editorial policy advisor, BBC; TV producer and director; unknown

Lisa Hinton BBC Newsnight; The Digital Village; senior researcher, lead applied researcher Health Experiences Research Group

Miranda Holt Editor’s assistant, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; assistant news editor, BBC Newsnight; assistant editor, Daily Politics, BBC News

Christine Huff BBC Radio Sheffield;

Alison Barber Senior water policy officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Australia); freelance; communications & industry engagement officer, Apple and Pear Australia

Shadrack Bulimo Civil servant; business owner; author, Trafford Publishing

Brian Carroll Deputy editor, The Irish Examiner; freelance documentary maker, RTE; investigative feature writer, sub editor, Irish Daily Mail; editor and creator, Limerick Life; investigative journalist, Irish Independent Kit-Yi Chan Public information officer, Legislative Council Hong Kong; student, Evangel Seminary (Hong Kong); unknown

Alejandra Conti Assistant editor of supplement subjects; columnist, La Voz del Interior (Argentina)

Hua Dai Director, International Broadcasting Service; Shanghai Broadcasting Network (SBN); managing director; vice president, Walt Disney TV International (China)

Lucia de Barros Unknown

Clare Dowdy Online architecture and design writer, Phaidon Press; columnist, Onoffice magazine; editor, Furnace magazine

Thomas Eckert Mexico correspondent, Radio Canada; owner, CrossCultures Media; government relations, MAG Silver Elizabeth Elder Consolidated Communications Management; Nexus Public Relations; PR,

Elder Catering and Hospitality Organisation; unknown

Alexander Fenby CNBC Asia; Lonely Planet; inSing; director, strategic digital initiatives, SingTel (Singapore)

Carlotta Gall The Economist (Russia and Central Asia); reporter, Moscow Times; Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent, North Africa correspondent, senior correspondent, Istanbul bureau chief, The New York Times

Armelle Giraud Arbonne de Laurencin; freelance; webmaster, Grand Lyon Technopole

Billy Giwa Focus magazine, unknown

Claire Grant Editor, The Star (Jamaica); marketing and sales manager, general manager, Television Jamaica and Television Jamaica Sports Network

Lucy Hawking The Daily Telegraph; The Times; Radio 5 Live; children’s author

Ayesha Ikram unknown

Donna Kuin (née Varrica) PR, Concordia University (Montreal); head of public relations, SNC-Lavalin Group; director of public relations, communications coordinator

Dawson College

Frank Kuin Canada correspondent, NRC-Handelsblad (Netherlands); freelance, Montreal Gazette, Concordia Magazine, Thursday Report

Leiv Lie Freelance, Rogalands Avis; communications advisor, University of Stavanger

Anne Ligner Unknown Tosca Looby Freelance documentary maker; ABC, 360 Degree Films, Gertrude Films, series producer, Northern Pictures Limited

Simonetta Nardin Reuters (Rome); press officer; chief of media relations, International Monetary Fund (Washington)

Hiroshi Otabe Supervising photo editor, Associated Press (Tokyo)

Katja Pantzar Freelance broadcast journalist, Yle (Finland); author; Helsinki correspondant, Monocle 24 Milica Pesic Consultant, European Centre for War; European consultant, Peace and the News Media; executive director, Media Diversity Institute

Moyna Sen Basu Freelance, The Daily Telegraph (India); unknown Malcolm Shearmur Investing reporter, Bloomberg (Geneva); chief editor, ABB (Zurich); vice president, head of executive communications and head of internal communications ABB (Zurich); director of global media relations, Credit Suisse

Zeng Shuping Publishing office, International Department of Ministry and Labour; English language editor, Chinese Trade Union, Yvette Sitten Media Corp TV; producer, Wayward Media; Founder, Aurora Alchemy

Astri Sivertsen News editor, Statoil ASA; web editor, Norwegian Polar Institute; journalist, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate; freelance Santhra Somanath Freelance; unknown

Mineko Takiguchi Lecturer, Tsuru University

Pemra Ulkumen Unknown Sandra Wolf Unknown Yuan Zhang Freelance; language training for business teacher; foreign language assistant, Asian Studies; teaching fellow, Chinese studies, Edinburgh University

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Anjana Ahuja Crewe Chronicle; feature writer, science columnist, The Times; freelance science writer, events chair, contributing writer, Financial Times

Kausar Butt The Journal (Newcastle); freelance researcher, Channel 4; Children’s Express Charity; unknown

Thomas Chesshyre Condé Nast Traveller; travel writer, The Times; travel book author

Glenda Cooper PhD researcher, Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City, University of London; columnist, The Daily Telegraph; Lecturer, City, University of London

Warren Deutrom Cricket events manager; development head of events, International Cricket Council; chief executive, Cricket Ireland

Alex Dick-Read Reuters and Associated Press (Caribbean); editor, The Surfer’s Path; freelance

Sarah Ebner Editor, The School Gate; sports news editor and reporter, The Times; deputy editor, Jewish Chronicle Jeremy Ettinghausen Digital publisher, Penguin; creative director and partner, BBH; freelance digital creative consultant

Sian Evans Metro; freelance Julia Gallagher London Correspondents’ Service, Foreign Office; teaching fellow, SOAS; lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway

Stephen Gee ITV Studios (Los Angeles); author; director/producer, Clear Sky Films, LLC

Victoria Graham Sub editor, The Daily Telegraph; sub-editor, The Guardian; presenter (BBC Spotlight, BBC Radio Devon)

Sebastian Hamilton News editor, The Mail on Sunday; editor-in-chief, Irish Daily Mail and Irish Mail on Sunday, group editor, Associated Newspapers Ireland

Paul Harris US correspondent, The Observer; senior executive producer, Al Jazeera America; news editor, Devex

Allister Harry TV editor, feature writer; freelance (London Evening Standard, The Independent)

Annabel Hobley Series producer, BBC/Betty TV; executive producer & writer, Betty TV; freelance; author and guest lecturer

Luke Jacobson ITN training; news editor, Channel 4 News; unknown

Jenny Johnston Liverpool Post and Echo; features, Daily Mirror; senior writer, Daily Mail

Thea Jourdan Freelance; managing director, The Jourdan Agency; founding director/editorial director, The Hippocratic Post; contributor, Daily Mail Good Health; editor, Apothecary

Dan Kelly Assistant editor, BBC Newsnight; assistant editor, BBC Today; commissioning editor, BBC Global News

Ian King Deputy business editor, business and city editor, The Times; business presenter, Sky News

Victor Kremer London bureau chief, executive editor, Euromoney Institutional Investor; co-owner, SparkSpread (New York)

Caspar Llewellyn Smith Assistant

arts editor, The Daily Telegraph; editor, Observer Music Monthly; head of culture, The Guardian & The Observer; digital editor, The Guardian

James Moore City desk, The Times; financial service editor, The Daily Telegraph; chief business editor, The Independent

Alasdair Murray Deputy director, Centre for European Reform; director, Centreforum; director, Quiller Consultants

Danny Penman Feature writer, Daily Mail; author; owner, FranticWorld Samantha Roberts Metro; Stafford Chronicle; unknown

Sarah Shannon Private Eye; Evening Standard; Daily Express; freelance (Financial Times, Business of Fashion)

Christine Smith TV editor, The Sun; celebrity interviewer, Daily Mirror; freelance celebrity interviewer Enver Solomon Director of policy and public affairs, The Children’s Society; director of evidence and impact, The National Children’s Bureau; chief executive officer, Just For Kids

Rupert Steiner City editor, The Business; chief city correspondent, Daily Mail; author; launch editor, Guardian News & Media

Clare Sumner Private secretary to Tony Blair; performance and communications director, Her Majesty’s Court Service; executive director for civil service reform, Cabinet Office

Periodical

Jane Barber Assistant director of communications and marketing, Colorado State University; freelance; Events and Development Coordinator, Larimer Humane Society; director of development, Collins Cat Rescue; founder and chief business development officer, Eoin Enterprises; development assistant, Disabled Resource Services

Nicholas Barber Rock critic, film critic, Intelligent Life, Economist, Metro; freelance arts journalist and film critic, BBC Culture, The Economist, The Guardian Alison Baycock Retail Newsagent; senior writer, The Inside Page; owner and director, Alison Baycock Communications Katharine Braham Wharfdale and Airedale Observer, unknown Frances Brierley Commissioning editor, You; Pravda Advertising; freelance

Elaine Carlton News city desk, Evening Standard; producer, Tonight with Trevor McDonald; freelance development producer, ITV Jeremy Case Assistant editor, Elle Girl; sports sub-editor, Sunday Mirror; editor, Wallpaper City Guides Matthew Coppock Production editor, Sky; production editor, More!; chief sub-editor, OK!

Andrew Duck Freelance contractor, August Media; PR and communications manager, Active Sussex; marketing and communication manager, Bruynzeel Storage Systems Ltd

Celia Duncan Head of special projects, National Magazine Company; acting associate editor, Vogue; deputy editor, The Times Magazine; unknown Jonathan Evans Editor, Jaguar Magazine; automotive group editor,

Haymarket Media Group; managing editor, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision; editor, What Hi-Fi?

Tania Hershman Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2014-15), Bristol University; co-editor, Writing Short Stories; poet and author

Jeremy Hunt Head of communications, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority; country manager, Regester Larkin (Qatar); internal communications manager, The Global Fund; unknown

Adeline Iziren Editor, Smaart Advice; communications and editorial specialist, Rise Media (Limelight Magazine); Freelance content editor and proof reader; unknown

Isobel Jacobs Shopping editor, fashion editor, Metro; editor, Hot Style and Metro focus; freelance fashion and arts journalist

Andrew Johnson Editor, Islington Tribune; assistant news editor, The Independent, The i Gemma Mitchell (née Heggs) Daily Express; The Times; FHM Collections; unknown

Samantha Oakley (née Clark) Freelance (Today, She, Cosmopolitan); exhibition organiser, Hermitage Development Trust; freelance exhibition organiser

David Parsley Business editor, Sunday Express; editor, City AM; founder, chief executive, Parsleymedia; contributing editor, Property Week

Morag Preston Cosmopolitan; US correspondent, The Times; freelance (US)

Nicholas Rushworth Euronews TV; France 3 TV; France 24 TV (Paris) Lorna Russell Assistant editor, deputy editor, Big Issue; MA in social work, University of Sussex; mental health social worker

Emily Shamma Retail analyst, equity analyst, West LB Panmure; head of local sourcing, director of non-food planning, director, clothing online, UK strategy and price director, UK commercial director, Tesco

Joshua Sims The Independent; The Hackney Courier; editor, Viewpoint

Vanessa St Clair Web journalist, British Airways Hi Life; freelance; author

Nicki Symington Associate food and travel editor, The Daily Telegraph; marketing lead, Forty Hall Vineyard; freelance writer and editor, MeMyself&I

Marshall Thomas PR consultant, The International Tennis Federation; disability tennis press officer, The Tennis Foundation; press consultant, Melt Communications

Alex Wijeratna Food rights campaign co-ordinator, senior campaigner, Action Aid; consultant and writer, ActionAid, Fairtrade Foundation, Friends of the Earth

Sharon Wilkinson (née Speller) Cycling Today; organiser, Labour Party Havering and Redbridge; antique shop and pizzeria owner

Sarah Edwards (neé Woodhead) Creative director, OSOYOU; director, Delightful Media; director, Jones & Jones Media; director, Sarah Edwards Media

Marianne Young (née Darch)

Deputy head of global economic issues, economic diplomacy directorate, head of logistics (UK

France summit), Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Victoria Breakwell Deputy programme controller, news editor, Wyvern FM; deputy head of news, group head of news, Orion Media; breakfast newsreader, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Susan Cain BBC Radio Leeds; BBC Look North

Tanya Cohen ITV Anglia; freelance producer (Juniper TV); series producer, Maverick Television

Simon Coss Freelance television director; video journalist, Agence France Presse; freelance video journalist, BBC; freelance film director, ARTE

Lisa Costello Broadcast journalist, BBC Three Counties (Belfast); senior reporter, General News Service; London correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland

Elizabeth Davis Metro; Virgin Radio; broadcaster, Traffic Link; unknown

Joanne Episcopo BBC World Service (Spain); World Update, BBC; development executive for global languages, BBC

Louise Evans Press officer, Shelter; media relations manager, British Airways; director, Loop PR

Catherine Gluckstein Board of advisors, Graymatics; advisor, Coach.me; Chief of Staff, Xbox, Microsoft

Susan Haley BBC Radio Jersey; unknown

Trevor Hodder Member of management board, Reuters

Adam Holmes Producer, breakfast show, BBC Radio York; unknown

Catherine Misry (née Jones) IRN; ITN; health correspondent, Channel 5 News

Wendy Jones Meridian Broadcasting; researcher; freelance journalist and communications consultant

Joanne Littlehales Severn Sound

Sharon Mascall-Dare (née Mascall) Writer, managing director, Making Sense Communications; communications director, Spatial Scientific Technologies; military public affairs officer, Australian Department of Defence

Jeremy Monblat BBC Four launch; producer, BBC; head of digital, Royal Botanic Gardens; head of digital engagement, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Lisa O’Sullivan Head of production, Jibba Jabba Productions; newsreader, sports reporter, talkSPORT; producer, WRC Live Radio

Rachel Ward Political producer, Channel 4; political correspondent, Sky News; correspondent, GMTV

1995

Internationa l

Cristina Armondi Unknown

Maria Armondi Unknown

Sebnem Arsu Producer, Associated Press Television News; TV producer, Thomson Reuters; reporter, The New York Times (Turkey); freelance, Cumhuriyet

Oliver August Bureau chief, The Times; novelist; Africa editor, Europe

editor, The Economist; sabbatical, Said Business School, University of Oxford

Maxim Avdevich Moscow Times

Sandrine Bates-Blanc Central Press; Discovery Channel; teacher

Olga Betko Presenter, Moscowon-Thames, BBC World Service; freelance voice-over artist; producer, Rich, Russian and Living in London, BBC Two

Maria Benevides Head of communications, British Embassy (Brazil); consultant, ANDI (Brazil); owner, Quartz Communications

Henriette Lockwood (née Borch) PR manager, Text100; corporate communications manager, Cisco Systems; director of marketing and communications, Tideway Systems

Kenneth Borgenholt Reporter, TV2 (Denmark); reporter, Ritzau (Denmark); editor, reporter, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Yevgenia Munro (née Borisova) Reporter, St Petersburg Times; reporter, Moscow Times; freelance journalism trainer, New Zealand

Jayson Carcione Reuters (New York); reporter, The News (Mexico City); chief sub-editor, deputy night editor, deputy production editor, The Irish Examiner

Maria Cardournie Unknown

Maria Conti La Nación SA (Chile)

Ana Cordeiro London correspondent, Publico; reporter, Radio France International

Suzette Ebanks Chief information officer, Cayman Islands Government; broadcast journalist (Cayman Islands)

Emmanuel Georges-Picot Chief of political services, Associated Press (Paris); director of information and political communication, Conseil Régional Ile-de-France; press and digital advisor, communications advisor L’Association des régions de France

Christiane Groner Unknown

Kelly Hawke-Baxter Executive director, The Natural Step (Canada)

Kate Heathman Owner, Kate Heathman Media Consultancy; freelance, Comment magazine; senior journalism lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Virginia Hristu UNICEF (Romania); Piata Financiara (Bucharest); product marketing, editor, Siveco Romania

Chia-yun Hsu Unknown

Pav Jordan Commodities correspondent, Reuters (Mexico, Central America, Chile); mining reporter, The Globe and Mail; senior manager, media and public relations, BMO Capital Markets; senior manager, Investment Communications (Canada)

James Kanter Business correspondent, International Herald Tribune (Paris and Brussels); editor-in-chief, Cambodia Daily; EU correspondent, freelance, The International New York Times

Michelle Harries (née Knapp) Communications manager, Calgary United Way; FSW Group; owner, The Writing Group; business manager, community investment, Husky Energy

Marijke Kolk Freelance (Utrecht Newspaper, Rails, Marie Claire, Beau Monde, Flair Magazine); editor-inchief, Flair Magazine (Holland); founder, Marijke Kolk Journalism Training

Jette Kristiansen Journalist; photographer; owner, Big Tree Communications (South Africa) Dominique Le Roux (née McClarty) User experience and documentation consultant, PhotoShelter; director, Moonshine Media; communication advisor, The Asia Foundation

Zita Lichtenberg Duluth News Tribune (Minnesota); Japanese TV; external affairs associate, strategic communications officer, World Bank; died 2011

Alexandra Lin Coach, Schraff Group Writing; teacher

Jonas Lindgren Communications officer, government migration board (Sweden); communications officer, government insurance agency (Sweden); senior public affairs advisor, government (Sweden) Victoria Llosa Intake editor, Associated Press Television News Mary Longmore Communications manager, Philanthropy New Zealand; creative non-fiction student at Victoria University; co-editor, Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand

Laura Lui Thomson Reuters; freelance translator, European Parliament; translator; press officer European Economic and Social Committee

Serguei Lukianov Editor, Reuters TV (Moscow); Moscow Times; producer, BBC World Service (Russia); Petroleum Argus Laetitia Mailhes Freelance editor and writer, GreenBiz Group; west coast correspondent, Radio Television Suisse; communication strategist, Drylet, Global Footprint Network, Fazal Malik Broadcast journalist, BBC (Birmingham, Leicester, UK); graduate programme chair, culture and creative Industries, associate dean, applied communication division, Higher Colleges of Technology (UAE); head of media studies; dean of humanities, arts and applied sciences, Amity University Dubai Karine Mayer Freelance TV producer (Sky News, Reuters TV, Globo International); South America news editor / Latin American bureau chief, senior foreign news editor, Sky News; executive director, Pinnacle Peak Productions Ltd Marina Michalopoulou Foreign editor, Copy Magazine; foreign news editor, NET TV (Greece); foreign news editor, Athens News Agency Kayoko Miyamoto Unknown Natanya Mulholland Deputy editor, Fair Lady; publisher, Jonathan Ball Illustrated Books, Sunbird Publishers; editor, New Media Publishing; reporter, CapeTalk (South Africa)

Samuel Obbo Copy editor, deputy editor, The Sunday Monitor; editor, director, media consultant, Alpha Media; Institute of Corporate Governance

Hiroshi Otabe Photo editor, Associated Press (Tokyo)

Joakim Palmkvist Sports reporter, sub-editor, reporter, Barometern (Sweden); reporter, Sydsvenskan Dagbladet Snällposten (Sweden)

Enzo Pelosi Unknown

Dorien Pels Local radio (Amsterdam); news reporter, Trouw (Holland)

Sigrun Rottmann Freelance journalist and consultant, ActionAid;

broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; freelance journalist and trainer, TU Dortmund University Inger-Johanne Saeterdal Freelance translator and editor; advisor, Armed Forces; special consultant, Oslo Municipality Despina Taxiarchi Sales manager, Real Consulting; owner, managing director, King’s Properties Georgios Terzis Associate professor of communications, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece) Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud Freelance (Vancity); communications manager, British Columbia Medical Association; policy executive, International Chamber of Commerce (Paris)

Karijn Van den Bossche Senior account manager, Bone Advertising; senior project manager, Proximity; client services & operations, Pool Worldwide; senior marketing communicator and operations professional, Available! Pekka Vänttinen Freelance (Bisnes.fi, Northern Enterprise, Theatre); contributing editor, Image Publishing, Helsinki Happens; contributor, A4 Media; content writer (Mediaplanet Suomi, Pure Media Company, Serus Media) John Walenga President, Indigenous People’s Business Council (Namibia) Andrew Webb-Vidal Venezuela & Colombia correspondent, Financial Times; Latin America correspondent, Jane’s Intelligence Review; chief executive, Latin iQ (Panama)

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John Aglionby Indonesia correspondent; world news desk editor; senior reporter, live news desk; East Africa correspondent, Financial Times Decca Aitkenhead Author; columnist (The Guardian, Evening Standard); freelance (The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph); interviewer, The Guardian Lucy Bannell Deputy consumer features editor; deputy food and interior editor, The Sunday Telegraph; freelance project editor; cookbook editor Elizabeth Baxter (née Searle) Communications manager, Natwest Bank; head of internal communications, Willis Corroon; consultant, Synopsis Peter Bennett Equity research editor, product marketing, Credit Suisse First Boston; head of European merchandising, Goldman Sachs; equity research product management, Macquarie Bank; assistant director, investment marketing, Eastspring Investments (Singapore) Zoe Brennan Lobby reporter, The Sunday Times; media consultancy; feature writer (The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph); partner, head of writing, Portland Dominic Casciani Senior reporter, producer, community and social affairs correspondent, BBC News Online; home affairs correspondent, BBC News

Adrian Dalingwater Reporter, BBC Online; sub-editor, Sharecast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Sophia Riley (née Ewen) Senior reporter, Investment Week; freelance committee writer, DeHavilland;

broadcast journalist, BBC Radio

Humberside

Carlos Grande Editor, Creative Business; senior companies correspondent, marketing correspondent, Financial Times; editor, thecreativeindustries.co.uk

James Harding Washington bureau chief, Financial Times; editor, The Times; director of news and current affairs, BBC News; director, Tortoise Ventures

Emma Hartley Associate editor, The Daily Telegraph; inventor, 24hourlondon.co.uk; author; freelance, Guardian News & Media

Liam Heagney Sports editor, The Roscommon Herald; deputy sports editor, Irish Mail on Sunday; rugby correspondent, Associated Newspapers Ireland

Rebecca Hopkins Hull Daily Mail; Anglia TV; BBC Look North; freelance producer, BBC Breakfast News

Mark Jagasia Evening Standard; show-business editor, Daily Express; playwright

Adam Jones The Sunday Times; consumer industries correspondent, Financial Times; business life editor, Financial Times

Leyla Linton Assistant foreign editor, Americas desk editor, The Independent; North America desk, Associated Press (New York); solicitor, Mishcon de Reya LLP

Angharad Lynn (née ap Gwilym)

Freelance, (The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Prima Baby, Junior, She); family and private client solicitor, Belmont & Lowe; private client associate, Veale Wasbrough Vizards Rifat Malik East; freelance, Eastern Eye; Ministry

John Maslen Brand director, Sewells Research & Insight; editor, Automotive Intelligence and Consulting; editor, Asset Finance International

Jenny McCartney Columnist and film critic, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph; columnist, The Spectator; author

Barry Mcllheney Editor, Smash Hits, Empire; chief executive, Periodical Publishers Association

Geraldine Murray Scotland on Sunday; The Scotsman; The Sunday Times (Scotland)

Daniel Norris Senior payments officer, welfare rights officer, Camden Council

Megan Nurse Assistant director, Greater Manchester Police; head of policy, assistant executive director, Tameside Metropolitan Council; non-executive director, Calderstones Partnership, NHS Foundation Trust; non-executive director, South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Kathleen Nutt Deputy news editor, Greenock Telegraph; reporter, political correspondent, The Sunday Times (Scotland); freelance (The Glasgow Herald, The Times, The Tablet, The National)

Leala Padmanabhan Political researcher, Anglia/Meridian TV; political producer, BBC World Service, BBC World TV; senior producer, Andrew Marr show, BBC Philip Pank Agence France-Presse (London); assistant foreign editor, transport correspondent, The Times; associate partner, Bell Pottinger; partner, Pagefield

Geraint Price Night news editor, The Mail on Sunday; director, photographer, Initial Editorial Ltd

Simon Quicke Deputy editor, features editor, editor, Microscope

Timothy Reid The Sunday Telegraph; The Sunday Times; news reporter, correspondent, The Times (Washington); national affairs reporter, Reuters

Julie Stewart Edit UK; assistant editor, BBC TV North East & Cumbria

John Weaver Senior writer, Bucks Free Press; senior writer, news editor, BMA News Review; desk editor, Asia deputy sports editor, London sports coordinator, Agence France-Presse

Matt Wells Media editor, audio department (founder), US blogs and networks editor, live editor, senior digital editor, The Guardian; senior editor, programming, CNN

Periodical

Katie Agnew Columnist, Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, Cosmopolitan; commissioning editor, features editor, Marie Claire; author Phil Baty Chief reporter, The Times; editor-at-large, Times Higher Education Supplement; editor, Times Higher Education World University

Rankings

Michael Broad Deputy editor, Personnel Today; editor, Hospital Doctor; group editor, Community Care

Matthew Brown English language communications expert, SL&C (Geneva); copy editor, World Health Organisation, Geneva; press officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Mark Cantrell PR, Pristley Centre for Arts; LMI Publishers; journalist, Excel Publishing; editor/journalist, Crosby Associates Media

Sarah Caplan Medical Information

Systems

Anne Cuthbertson The Sunday Times Magazine; property editor, home and living editor, life editor, The Sunday Telegraph; editor, The London Magazine

Lucy Davies Contributing editor, Flavorpill Productions; features writer, deputy editor, bambinogoodies.co.uk; director, BG School

Johnny Davis Contributing editor, Elle, Q Magazine; brand consultant; deputy editor, Esquire

Tamsin Douglas Miller Editor, HarperCollins; freelance; Friends Office; Royal College of Music

Bridget West (née Dray) Production editor, Plastics & Rubber Weekly; primary school teacher; freelance, Church Times

Edward Eadon-Simpkins Belgravia Estates Gazette; reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; associate partner, Finsbury Financial PR

Lucy Farndon News business reporter, chief city correspondent, deputy city editor, Daily Mail; senior external news editor, managing news editor, HSBC

Alice Fisher Freelance (The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer); deputy editor, Carlos Magazine; style correspondent, The Observer Magazine

Kerry Fisher-Swayne Presenter, Granada TV; freelance (Essentials, Family Circle, Bella and Junior); novelist

Alexander Griffiths DJ Magazine; deputy music editor, burnitblue.com

Jessica Hodgson UK media companies reporter, Dow Jones; media officer (finance), The Church of England; consultant, Consilium Strategic Communications

Ellie Hughes Editor, Top Sante; acting deputy editor, Zest Magazine; editor, Healthy Magazine

Lee Kynaston Online grooming editor, Men’s Health; columnist, Harrods Magazine; lifestyle and grooming editor, Niven & Joshua

Susan Mansfield (née Lumsden) Big Issue; lifestyle editor, Press and Journal; features writer; art critic The Scotsman

Heather Martin Business Voice; London Business; In Business; Business Issues; sub-editor, reporter, managing editor, Kemps Publishing

Alex Mayhew-Smith News editor, Electronics Weekly; freelance, English editor, Story Boulevard

David McComb Freelance (Bizarre Magazine, Smash Hits); editor, Bizarre; director, Blackthorn Communications

James Mclean Correspondent, Thomson Reuters (Bangkok); city reporter, business news editor, Evening Standard; deputy business news editor, foreign news editor, The Times

Patrick Neate CD Online; Toifund; novelist

Alexis Petridis Head rock critic, The Guardian; music editor, GQ; head rock and pop critic, The Guardian Catriona Richardson Communications manager, St Thomas’ Hospital; external relations manager, NHS; head of communications, NHS Partners Network

Helen Sage Sky TV; BBC Science; producer and director, BBC documentaries

Ursula Seymour (née Biggs) Information Week; reviews editor, managing editor, PC Advisor; freelance

Catriona Smith Everywoman; The List; freelance

Christopher Taylor Head of communications, Future; director of corporate marketing and communications, Immediate Media Co; director of communications, Haymarket Media Group

Stephanie Testaferrata Moroni Viani (née Apap Bologna) Editor, International Money Marketing; freelance, International Herald Tribune; freelance

Sian Tichar Editor, Boutique 1 Group (Dubai); marketing director, Harvey Nichols (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); marketing director, Alf Khair; editorial director, ABCD Publishing and Communications

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Jack Baine Deputy editor, Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra Newsbeat; assistant editor, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior broadcast journalist, BBC World News; broadcast consultant, Good Broadcast

Nina Bhagwat Head of short courses, National Film and Television School; trainer, BBC Academy; diversity executive, Channel 4

Sarah Brooks Series producer, Sarah Brooks TV Production; director,

LoveToPresent; head of sales operations, Showcase Events UK

Sinead Casey Unknown

Matthew Cornell Candidate assistant, Labour Party

Tim Durrans BBC Leeds, BBC Radio

Solent; sports editor, BBC Sussex, BBC Surrey

Conrad Evans Broadcast journalist, BBC News; head of communications, downstream, BP; managing partner, The Digital Quarter

Henrietta Harrison Freelance; producer, reporter, BBC Radio

Michael Hollingdale Public communications, International Committee of the Red Cross; communications consultant, World Radio Switzerland; communications manager, UNAIDS

Joanna Kelly Euronews; Babel TV (Lyon); freelance production journalist; broadcast manager, World Curling Federation

Adam Livingstone BBC TV (Bristol); producer, Newsnight; broadcast consultant

Rebecca Lovell Firstsight (BBC); reporter, assistant producer, Liquid News (BBC); video producer, guardian.co.uk

Elizabeth McCabe Assistant news editor, broadcast journalist, Sky Sports

Harriet Saxton RDF Television; Reuters TV; freelance Samantha Simmonds Reporter, Breakfast (BBC); BBC London; presenter, news anchor, Sky News

Alastair Wanklyn Field producer, Fox News; Europe correspondent, Asia correspondent, Fox News Radio; news editor, Japan Times

Paul Wilson Unknown

Sarah Wood Executive producer, BBC; series edit producer, ITV Studios; series producer, Objective Productions

1996

International

Alfonso Abagnale Freelance; business and financial news reporter, ANSA news agency

Sujata Assomull Sippy Comms and PR head, Reliance Brands; editor, Harper’s Bazaar India; consulting fashion editor, The Khaleej Times

Daniel Bellamy Sub-editor, The Myanmar Times; news writer, Amnesty International; broadcast journalist, EuroNews

Lars Bevanger Senior broadcast journalist, BBC News; freelance broadcast journalist, (BBC, Monocle 24, Radio Netherlands, ORF, ABC); translator, copywriter, Bonvik AS Arian Braha European Community Monitor Mission (Tirana) interpreter, European Union Monitoring Mission; co-ordinator, Strengthening Community Policing in Albania

Henriette Lockwood (née Borche) Director of marketing and communications, Tideway Systems; analyst relations, Loenberg AR; marketing director, Borch Associates

Nadia Damouni Corporate board correspondent, Thomson Reuters; senior vice president (financial communications and capital markets), Edelman; senior vice president, Prosek Partners

Luigi del Prete Member of regional parliament

Pierre-Henry Deshayes Chairman, Foreign Press Association; correspondent, Agence France Presse; The Daily Star (Lebanon)

Paulo Dias Freelance; assistant editor, O Estado de Sao Paul; Reuters

Kyra Dupont Troubetzkoy Head of international news, 24 Heures; novelist; project manager, French Business Council of Dubai and Northern Emirates

Monika Evans Unknown

Lisbet Fagerberg TV Denmark producer, Koncern TV; producer, Impact TV

Faridul Farinordin Editor, New Straits Times

Paulos Gebremariam Haddas Eritrea; head of radio, head of quality control, Ministry of Information (Eritrea).

Ana Gerschenson Clarin, La Prensa, (Buenos Aires); political reporter, El Cronista; director, Radio Nacional Jakob Hoyer Head of press, Danish minister of Culture; culture editor, Berlingske Tidende; head of communications, Danish Football Association

David Jones Editor, associate producer; developer and producer AP CBC Radio (Vancouver)

Jorge Rolon Luna Chief of department, Human Rights Direction, Supreme Court of Justice; Commissioner, National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture; unknown

Nancy Maksud Press officer, communications manager, AMREF; director, Namazone Business Centre (Tanzania)

Nabeela Tariq Content editor, Pakfree; associate creative director, Channel 7; international communications Officer, LinkMobility

Valentin Nuham Piata Financiara; Goodrich Capital Canada; financial analyst; executive director, Salsi S.A. Hilde Nyman Dagens Naringsliv; scriptwriter, producer, Mintra as; deputy editor, partner Kampanje Magazine

Volodymyr Oleyko Lecturer, Ukrainian Institute of Great Britain Tsemaye Opubor Marketing manager, Snowcrash (Sweden); freelance journalist (Odalisque Magazine); freelance fashion stylist Eric Pape Spin; freelance, Foreign Policy; deputy editor, Honolulu Civil Beat; freelance (Independent) Ruta Pels President, Weekly Den za dnjom; freelance; president, Eesti People to People Francisco Penayo Unknown Alexandra Pizot Alliance Atlantis; Splendid Television (New York); marketing; head of operations, Classic Media; senior programme assistant, GAVI Alliance Anne Putz Bloomberg News; spokeswoman, head of corporate PR, Adidas; press spokesperson, Neckermann; head of corporate communication, General Logistics Systems Germany GmbH & Co

Benjamin Quenelle Freelance; London correspondent, Le Soir (Belgium); La Croix (France); Les Echos (Moscow)

Georg Ransmayr TV political journalist, ORF-TV Vienna Knut Rorbakken Director of electronic stock trading, group CSR officer, Nordea Norde Asa; senior communications advisor, Directorate

of Health

Celia Sankar Associate editor, Trinidad Express; The Globe and Mail; The Vancouver Sun; college teacher, White Mountain Academy of the Arts (Ontario); executive director, global networker, DiversityCanada Foundation

Inger Sethov Associated Press; Dow Jones (Oslo); Reuters (Oslo), information director, Hydro; SVP communication, executive vice president of communication & public affairs, Norsk Hydro

Ee-Waun Sim Consultant, Jade Communications; Appetite Magazine; co-founder, SimplyFabulicious.com; freelance (The Strait Times)

Kittipong Soonprasert Senior policy officer, Netherland’s Embassy (Bangkok); program development officer, US Aid; political specialist, US Department of State

Mando Stavridou Freelance (Cyprus); PR & marketing, Phileletheros

Haralambos Tsirimonakis Super Sport Channel (Athens); died 2003

Karine Vandenhove Freelance; project manager, Sylvester Productions

Marianne vanden Zaag Unknown

Kristin Hulaas Sunde Press officer, Amnesty International; reporter, editor, Save the Children; senior editor, global content producer, Amnesty International

Hege Talsnes Information officer, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority; senior communications advisor, Directorate for Nature Management; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Environment Agency

Tijen Tanyel Unknown

Maria Zhuk European Media Institute (Ukraine); communication, Credit Agricole CIB (Ukraine)

Diana Zileri Freelance; BBC World Service (Latin America); journalist, communications officer, Revista Caretas, GVEP International Newspaper

Martin Anderson Newcastle Evening Chronicle; Irish News; BBC; reporter, Leader Group Ltd; digital media manager, CFA

Muniya Barua Senior press officer, corporate communications manager, head of news and social media, corporate communications director director of corporate affairs, CBI

Melanie Bien Press officer, head of media relations, Savills Private Finance; director, Private Finance Ltd; founder, director, Bien Media

Christopher Bunting Senior press officer, University of Leeds; senior communications manager, NHS Digital

Fiona Callister Media consultant, MS Society; London Chamber of Commerce; global media lead, global head of media, WaterAid

Suzanna Chambers Freelance (Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, The Sun); director of marketing and communications, Top Marques (Monaco)

Kate Connolly Prague News; The Guardian (Prague); Berlin correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Berlin correspondent, The Guardian, The Observer

Zoe Dare-Hall (née Dare) Deputy travel editor, features writer, Daily

Express; arts editor, Sunday Express; editor, Property Club; freelance Anthony Dovkants Senior reporter, Magazine LatAm; managing director, Financial Dynamics; managing director, PR Consulting

Brasil

Susan Emmett Deputy property editor, Bricks and Mortar (The Times); freelance; director residential research, Savills; head of housing and urban regeneration (Policy Exchange)

Jack Enright BBC News (Belfast); BBC Current Affairs (Manchester); assistant producer, BBC Panorama Henry Fitzherbert Daily Express; gossip columnist, film critic, feature writer, Sunday Express; screenwriter (Recovery, Out of Office)

Peter Foster News feature writer, South Asia correspondent, US Editor (Washington), The Daily Telegraph; Europe editor, Telegraph Media Group

David Garfinkel Head of internal communications, bwin.party Digital Entertainment; head of internal communications, William Hill; senior director, People & Change (FTI Consulting)

Amelia Gentleman Deputy foreign editor, Paris correspondent, The Guardian; India correspondent, International Herald Tribune; social affairs writer, The Guardian Graham Harvey Cambridge Evening News; Hounslow Chronicle; sub-editor, Evening Standard

Joanna Hill (née Snicker) Le Shuttle Magazine; Derby Evening Telegraph; assistant news editor, deputy news editor, Nottingham Evening Post Andrew Holt Portfolio International; New Hampshire Publishing; MSM International; IR Magazine; Charity Times

Sri Jegarajah CNBC Asia TV; Associated Press; Dow Jones (Singapore) Anchor/Correspondent, CNBC

Stephen Lyle BBC Sport, Grandstand; producer, BBC sport; commissioning editor for sport, Channel 4 Maurice Mcleod Director, Snow Media; executive editor, Engage; founding director Marmoset Media Stuart Millar News editor, guardian.co.uk; assistant deputy editor, Guardian US; head of news, Buzzfeed UK

Fraser Nelson Political editor, The Scotsman; The Business; editor, The Spectator; columnist, The Telegraph Cherry Norton The Independent; Tokyo correspondent, The Sunday Times; freelance, The Times; freelance Hannah Pool Commissioning features editor, The Guardian; freelance; author

Caroline Ryan Pulse; Nursing Times; health, BBC News Online

Jeremy Scott-Joynt Associate, senior associate, Financial Services Authority; head of compliance investigations (Europe), deputy head, anti-bribery and corruption, Standard Chartered Bank; Europe criminal risk officer, Bank of Montreal

Ava Soe Senior reporter, news editor, Middleton and North Manchester Guardian; freelance; died 2013 Nicole Veash Head of strategy, consultant, Home Office; deputy director, organisation development, Financial Ombudsman Service; senior development consultant,

leadership development consultant, Deutsche Bank

Kirsty Walker Associate director, iNHouse Communications; cofounder, HerSay; head of strategy and communications, Social Mobility Commission

Thomas Whitwell Head of digital, The Times, The Sunday Times; cofounder, digital mission China; freelance product development consultant, senior consultant, Fluxx Media

Periodica l

Ronke Adeyemi Blogger, Ondo Lady; tech blogger, Hello!; editor, brownbeautytalk.com

Neil Armstrong Commissioning editor, Daily Mail; acting executive features editor, Telegraph Media Group; freelance

Karen Brown Unknown

Emma Creamer Producer, Daybreak; producer, Good Morning Britain; freelance

Marianne Curphey Freelance

financial reporter, (The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times); freelance, Look; director, Curphey Media

Marie Dill Freelance, (Pomp Magazine, The Goldsmith Magazine); freelance editor, LCR magazine; company director, iCandy Media and Communications

Kate Finnigan Senior features writer, Elle; style director, fashion columnist, fashion features director, Stella, Telegraph Media Group

Olaf Furniss Columnist, The Scotsman; director, Born to be Wide; managing director Music Tourist

Claire Handley Talkback Productions; freelance producer, BBC; assistant psychologist, The Priory

Colette Harris Author; creative communications director, Atlantis Healthcare;, interim head of health promotion/advice, deputy director of advice and content, AsthmaUK

Andrew Higgins Sub-editor, deputy production editor, production editor, Weekend Financial Times

Emily Humphries Editor, producer, Loose Women; live producer, The One Show; executive producer The Saturday Show, series producer (ITN Productions)

Georgina Kalzoe-Card PR, London Millenium Party; Kensington & Chelsea Times; Good Hotel Guide

Lucinda Kemeny Managing director and head of professional services, FTI Consulting; head of communications, British American Tobacco; head of communications, Terra Firma Capital Partners

Darron Kirkby Music News Asia; Travel Trade Gazette; freelance subeditor

Stuart Wallace Bahrain Tribune; Agence France Presse; executive editor, managing editor energy & commodity markets, Bloomberg Victoria McCulloch Editor, Innergy; editor, Thorsons website; yoga teacher; freelance journalist

Nicholas Mcquade The Voice; Press Association; Irish Independent; The Scotsman; chief sub-editor, The Scottish Sun

Jane Morris Freelance (The Guardian, Art World); editor, editor-at-large, The Art Newspaper; editor-at-large Cultureshock

Akin Ojumu Music editor, commissioning editor, acting arts editor, The Observer; freelance Ben Osborne BT Rich Media; head of programming, Dela Ware; director, Noise of Art

Christina Pishiris Televisual; C21 Media; writer, Magenta Films

James Plouf Owner and publisher, Marco Polo Publications (Travelwriters.com, BikerOrNot. com, ChopperExchange.com)

Bronwen Roscoe Editorial consultant, Accenture; senior strategy advisor, lead adviser public strategy, BBC

Fiona Sandiford Senior features writer, features editor, Cleo; freelance (Daily Mirror, Associated Press, More, B, New Woman); commissioning editor, Top Sante

James Snodgrass Consulting editor, Top Gear Special Projects; NME; Haymarket

Alison Laferla Head of solution design, UnitedHealthcare Group; senior consultant, Atkins Management Consultancy; senior transformation consultant, Brightman Business Solutions

Christopher Taylor Director of corporate communications, head of media relations, IPC Media; director of communications, Future PLC; director of corporate marketing & communications, Immediate Media Co

Catherine Tillotson Global Private Banking; FX Week; managing partner, Scorpio Partnership

Harriet Hanmer Journalist, Africa Analysis; probation officer, National Probation Service; director, Equilibrium Equine Guided Learning

Broadcas t

Stephen Baker BBC Essex; Press Association; The Independent Joshua Bassett Executive producer, Bloomberg (Arabia); executive producer, TV partnerships, head of media partnerships, director of distribution and partnerships, Bloomberg LP

Robin Brant Political correspondent, BBC Radio 1; Newsbeat; Malaysia correspondent, political correspondent, Shanghai correspondent, BBC News

Sally Bundock (née Jackson) Presenter, Bloomberg TV; presenter, BBC World Business Report

Mark Chapman Sport and breakfast DJ, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 5 Live; presenter, BBC Final Score, BBC Radio 5 Live, Match of the Day 2, BBC Rugby League Colette Cooney Producer, CNN; BBC Northampton radio; lecturer, City University

Anne Dawson BBC Radio Ulster; senior press officer, Federation of Small Businesses; media and communications manager, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland

Channah Durlacher Reporter, producer, RTL (Amsterdam); producer, 2Vandaag; research journalist, AVRO (General Association of Radio Broadcasting)

Rachel Harries Channel One TV; video journalist, ITN; reporter and presenter, Meridian

Emma Jefferson BBC World Service; producer, British Forces Radio; freelance presenter

Beth Jones Kiss 100; BBC News 24; BBC 5 live

Joanna Kean BBC Southern Countries; freelance (Sky TV); senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio

Louise McMullen 2-Ten FM; Thames Valley Television; consultant: media & representation, Affinity Club Lloyd’s Trade Union

Kath Melandri Continuity announcer, Red Bee Media; freelance lecturer and broadcaster; presenter, BBC Essex

Stephen Mort Arts host, producer, WUCF-FM; reporter, videographer, editor, Rocky Mountain, PBS; Orlando bureau chief and multimedia journalist, Feature Story News

Sean Napier News editor, Westsounds; freelance Rishaad Salamat Anchor, Bloomberg TV (Hong Kong)

Oonagh Smyth IFJC (Paris); Freelance, Irish Times

Nigel Stevenson Producer, presenter, Bloomberg; founder, JNS Media; news desk editor, online editor, Reuters

Rachelle Walton Southern Counties Radio; presenter, CNBC; freelance (BBC News 24, BBC World Service)

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Rezwan ul-Alam Assistant communication officer, UNICEF (Bangladesh); director (outreach & communication), Transparency International Bangladesh

Rebecca Abecassis Executive editor, RTP International; Cable News Channel; international news editor, producer, SIC TV (Portugal)

Mohammed Al Harthi Editor-inchief, Sayidaty; editor-in-chief, AlJamila; managing director, editor-inchief, Arab News

Gayle Alleyne Corporate communications officer, Twenty20 West Indies; communications manager, London Olympics; communications manager, Badminton World Federation

Haroon Ashraf Senior editor, The Lancet; executive editor, Nature

Iben Augusten Reporter, DR News; financial, foreign desk, DBC News

Jerry Brahm Associate regional editor, AOL; regional editor, Patch. com; operations manager, Klunk & Millan Advertising

Irene Bwire Assistant press secretary to Prime Minister (Tanzania)

Angela Chitkara Producer, CNBC Asia; producer, NBC & MSNBC; founder and chief executive officer, US-India Corridor Hayden Coppin Corporate sales manager, LIME; sports marketing consultant, sales and marketing professional, Barbados Tourism authority; marketing consultant, Self Made Self LLC

Claudia Coumans School of Journalism (Utrecht); National Dutch Television; writer, Euroviews

Christine Cowern Director and writer, Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc; account manager, Iris Communications; sales representative, Keller Williams Referred Urban Realty

Stanislas Dembinski Journalist

Reuters; editor, Paris Premiere; author and freelance journalist (New Delhi)

Alejandra Falkinhoff CNN Spanish; correspondent, Monitor (Mexico); director, Ona Polo Maria Falkinhoff Radio correspondent monitor, Mexican Radio; director, The Argentine Trading Company Ltd

Vincent Fournier Journalist, Multimédiapress; press officer, Hotwire Public Relations; producer, Dragway Productions

Akiko Funamoto (née Kamimura) Assistant manager, International School of Communications

Jennifer Furmidge Product manager, JP Morgan; product development, Challenges Worldwide; product development access manager, VocaLink

Marie Gunnarsson Artsworld.com

Jean van der Spuy (née Haggerty) Reporter, LFR; adjunct professor, Marymount Manhattan College; freelance, Haggerty Publishing Vincent Hoburg Unknown

Benjamin Holst Editor and co-founder, DanWatch; editor, Kommunen; freelance journalist and consultant

Kristin Hulaas Sunde Freelance; editor, Save the Children; senior editor, global content manager, Amnesty International Rosalind Isaacs Unknown Pirkko Juntunen Financial News; Fidelity Investments; freelance, IPE Chris Kaklamanis Attorney, Vgontzas & Associates

David Katz Unknown Sarita Khajura Children’s News

ROSA PRINCE FREELANCE AND AUTHOR NEWSPAPER, 1997

(Channel 4); died 2003

Rosemary Konkola Radio and TV controller, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation

Nasia Koutra Attorney, Annegret Loges; freelance, NDR; chief editor, head of online editorial team, Hans Böckler Foundation

Anna Mathews Editorial, Corporate Publishing International; senior account exec, Cor; sub-editor, The Week

Jemma Melville News reporter, NBC Radio; First FM Radio; information officer, Agency for Public Information

Thabo Motlamelle Public Eye; chief executive officer, TM Media Solutions (Lesotho); died 2008

Carol Nahra One World Media UK; Foundation for International Education; consulting faculty, Syracuse University London Sebastian Naidoo Managing editor, Médecins Sans Frontières; communications specialist, UN; global media director, Arcus Foundation

Eric Pape Contributor, Foreign Policy; deputy editor for special projects and innovation, Honolulu Civil Beat

Enzo Pelosi Financial Times (San Francisco); business correspondent, Agence France Presse E. Job Rajan Unknown Haroon Rashid Staff reporter, The News International, Peshawar; Pakistan correspondent, Pakistan editor, BBC

Ayako Saito Journalism Lecturer (Meijigakuin University, Japan)

Saiphon Sarabutra Unknown Hege Talsnes Press officer,

What is the most memorable interview you have done?

I was involved in the expenses scandal in 2010. We would find that someone had put a moat on their expenses or a duck house or porn, and see what explanation they would come up with. Those are probably the most fascinating interviews: to call these MPs and hear them grovel and beg. I knew a lot of them because I’d worked in Parliament, so some were saying: “Oh, come on Rosa, it’s not that bad!” Others would be furious, others would threaten to sue, others would be close to tears.

What is the highlight of your career?

Travelling the world with the Prime Minister. I’ve been to Afghanistan, I’ve been on Colonel Gaddafi’s plane with Tony Blair, I went on his farewell tour of Africa where he was made a tribal chief. Being in the travelling press pack with the Prime Minister is quite a special experience.

What is your fondest memory of City?

Arriving in London. I grew up in London, but I’d not really spent any time as a young person there, and I was quite a swot. Then I made some great friends and I partied a lot! I enjoyed the course as well, but I did really take to the whole excitement of being on the cusp of a new life.

Jasper Hart

DAVID HYTNER

FOOTBALL

WRITER,

THE GUARDIAN

NEWSPAPER,

1998

What was your favorite moment of being at City?

Seeing a girl called Nina Chatterjee in the Empress of Russia pub, on St John Street. Nina has now been my wife for 11 years.

What is the best advice you have received?

My uncle – a reporter for the The Mail on Sunday – said that under no circumstances should I ever go into journalism, and that it was a dying industry. Later on, he told me it was probably evidence I was meant to be a journalist, because I completely ignored his advice.

What is the funniest thing that has happened to you on the job?

On my first overseas trip I managed to set fire to my boss. The incident involved a flaming sambuca and my sports editor’s mohair sweater.

What is the biggest change you have seen in journalism?

Definitely the digitalisation of the industry. When I started out there wasn’t really an internet. Now, news is totally 24-7. The demands of the job have really increased.

Which cities have the most passionate football fans?

The Greek and Turkish grounds have some of the most vocal fan bases. I’ve been to some incredible games in Athens too, and Celtic Park in Glasgow has some of the most passionate fans in Europe.

Dillon Thompson

Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival; senior communications advisor, The Norwegian Directorate of Nature Management; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Environment Agency

Costas Tsindas Radio Institute for Cyprus

Gareth Vaughan Business reporter The New Zealand Herald; business reporter & digital business reporter, Fairfax Media; banking editor, editor, interest.co.nz

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Rebecca Allison Night news reporter, assistant news editor, web news editor, deputy national editor

The Guardian

Mark Austin Unknown

Chris Ayres Author, War Reporting for Cowards; contributing editor (The Sunday Times Magazine, British GQ); co-author (I Am Ozzy, Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock’s Ultimate Survivor), author (Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale)

Joanne Beaney Unknown

Colin Blackstock Freelance

(Independent on Sunday, Daily Mail); night news editor, The Guardian

Times; head of communications, The Wellcome Trust, author (The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters) Amelia Hill News reporter, education correspondent, The Observer; senior reporter, The Guardian

Chris Hughes Financial markets correspondent, EMEA editor, columnist, Reuter; Defence and Security Editor (Daily Mirror); author, Attack State Red Andrea Hunt (née Von Der Banck) European PR manager, Xerox Europe; freelance Michael Leventhal Publisher, Frontline Books; founder and director, Gefiltefest; Acting Editor at Jewish Quarterly

David Lewis BBC Radio 4; writer, director, culturenorthernireland.com

Malik Meer Assistant editor, NME; guide editor, G2 features editor, withheld role, The Guardian Matthew Mezey Engagement specialist, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency; community relationship manager, community manager, The Health Foundation; co-founder, EnliveningEdge.org

Lucie Morris-Marr Freelance; senior writer, Herald Sun; Owner, Lucie Morris-Marr Media; freelance investigative reporter and producer (CNN)

Stephen Morris Unknown; editor, Bristol review of books; freelance photographer, journalist and publisher

Amanda Newman Smith The Wharf; product reporter, features writer, Money Marketing Glen Owen Diary, education, The Times; political journalist, deputy political editor, Mail on Sunday Georgina Pattinson Features, Associated Press; senior broadcast journalist, political reporter, BBC News Online; reporter, editor, BBC Parliament Online

Raekha Prasad Foreign correspondent (The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, BBC); freelance

Jon Brodkin Deputy football editor, The Guardian, The Observer and theguardian.com

Emma Burstall Features editor, Family Circle; freelance journalist; novelist

Tanya Datta Researcher, producer, BBC Radio 4; freelance (Channel 4, MTV, BBC2); novelist

Jamie Doward Social affairs editor, religious affairs correspondent, diarist, The Observer; reporter (The Guardian)

Andrew England Middle East correspondent, East Africa correspondent, Southern Africa Bureau Chief, Middle East and Africa news editor, Financial Times

Sally Whittle (née Flood) Freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Telegraph, ZD Net); professional blogger, Who’s the Mummy; founder, Tots100.co.uk

Blogging Network

Laurence Frost Business writer, Associated Press (Paris); transport reporter, Bloomberg (Paris); European automotive correspondent and team leader, Reuters (Paris) Julian Guyer Hayters Sports Agency; cricket and rugby reporter, Agence France Presse (London) Mark Henderson Science editor, The

Consultancy

Hannah Baldock Freelance (RIBA Journal); freelance Latin America correspondent, The Sunday Times; freelance

Celine Bijleveld Production editor, Financial Times Business; production editor, mediaguardian.co.uk; network production editor, The Guardian

Emily Booth Special projects editor, EMAP; special projects editor, The Architects’ Journal; executive editor, The Architectural Review

David Brooks Deputy editor, senior vice president, American Metal Market; publisher, Euromoney Institutional Investor

Penney Byrne (née Tapp) Producer and assistant producer, SmallWorld Productions; freelance, Fitness First; unknown

Hannah Shannon (née Crabtree)

Head of media, head of communications, Macmillan Cancer Support; head of communications, Claire House Children’s Hospice

Emma Elms Editor, The Graduate; deputy features editor, Marie Claire; features editor, Eve; freelance Livvy Fernandes Nursing Leukaemia information officer, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research; professional engagement officer, Parkinson’s UK; presenter, Croydon Radio; unknown

Emma E. Forrest Global travel editor, overnight web editor, Metro International; freelance, Wings Magazine

Noam Friedlander The Daily Telegraph; script writer (LA); freelance (The Daily Telegraph, Time Out); author

Alex Gatrell Digital publisher, HarperCollins; senior Product Manager, Rated People; senior product manager, Beamly Anita Hall Runners World; freelance, Men’s Health

Emma Hayley Sub-editor, Spain; MediaSolutions; managing director and publisher, SelfMadeHero (Metro Media Ltd)

Richard Price Senior reporter, Daily Mail Scotland; general reporter, features, Daily Mail; owner, Richard Price News & Features Ltd

Rosa Prince Political correspondent, The Mirror; US correspondent, assistant political editor, The Daily Telegraph; political editor, The Telegraph Online; freelance journalist and author Job Rabkin Washington producer, social affairs producer, investigations commissioning editor, Channel 4 News

Nandini Sukumar European news reporter, Bloomberg; chief administrative officer, The World Federation of Exchanges

Sophie Walker Author; ambassador, National Autistic Society; leader, Women’s Equality Party; editor, Top News Desk ThomsonReuters

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Lucy Aitken Author; staff writer, senior staff writer, Contagious Communications; case study editor, WARC

Howard Baker Senior content producer, BBC; commissioning editor, BBC Jam; editor innovations, BBC; Owner, Howard Baker

Kaspa Hazlewood Managing director, Candour; sales and marketing director, Lomax Books; new business director, ContactEngine

Dorian Lynskey Music critic, The Big Issue; author, A History of Protest Songs; freelance (Guardian)

Alison Macarthur Freelance feature writer (Focus); health editor, Now; freelance

Sasha Mansworth News and media officer, Action For Children; media officer, FFT Education Ltd; community liaison manager and communcations advisor, QinetiQ Victoria Millar Book editor, associate editor, Bloomsbury Publishing; lecturer (publishing), Bath Spa University

John Mullen Editor, mojo4music. com; People Management; freelance (Select); unknown Faith Penhale Development executive, head of TV development, Kudos Film and TV; head of drama, BBC Cymru Wales; joint CEO, LookoutPoint

Warren Pole Deputy editor, Ride; freelance journalist and TV presenter (World Superbike, FRONT, Mail on Sunday) Shaun Pye Freelance comedy writer (Never Mind the Buzzcocks); series

creator (Monkey Dust); program associate, Have I Got News For You Steve Ranger Freelance; business editor, silicon.com; UK editor-inchief, ZDNet and TechRepublic

Francesca Syz Travel editor, Sainsbury’s magazine; columnist, Telegraph Magazine, & freelance (Conde Nast Traveller)

Anthony Thornton Digital director, Southbank; IPC media; head of digital content, British Film Institute; digital director, Wallpaper*

Victoria Thornton (née Rees) Production editor, Financial Times; deputy production editor, production editor, Investors Chronicle (Financial Times)

Robert Waugh Editor, We Live Security; Mail Plus; freelance journalist and commercial content strategist (Mail on Sunday, Yahoo News, Associated Newspapers, Mediablaze)

Dominic White Connected editor, communications editor, The Daily Telegraph; media editor, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review; theatre critic and comedy critic, The Telegraph; head of communications and content, ThinkTV Australia

Martin Worster Director, microgroove.com; author; CTO, Canonbury Antiques

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Paul Adabie Social worker; housing services manager, Newtown Neighborhood Centre Nandini Banerjee Researcher, BBC Watchdog; school volunteer; unknown

Zoe Bloomfield Senior broadcast journalist, BBC South; senior producer, GMTV; senior producer, ITV; founder of Little Owl Book Club

Liza Ravenscroft (née Booth) News reporter, France 24; Brazil correspondent, CBS Interactive; press officer, global news manager, British Airways

Katie Breathwick Global Radio; BBC; presenter, Classic FM Nick Cosgrove Reporter, business presenter, BBC News; director, partner, Brunswick Group

Miranda Eeles Project manager, BBC Media Action; researcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; public health strategist, Hackney Council

Al Eykyn Sports editor, IRN; freelance (BT Sport)

Theo Fairley Trainee, senior broadcast journalist, BBC 10 O’Clock News

Jo Pitt Pineapple; BBC; freelance TV roducer; BodyTalk practioner, Joanne Pitt Holistics

Vassos Alexander Giorgiadis Producer, TransWorld Sport; sports reporter, 5live Breakfast Programme; sports reporter, BBC

Jon Hughes Camera operator, BBC Moscow; head of visual content, ActionAid UK; managing director, shootme.camera Ltd

Alison Kirkham Executive producer, BBC Daytime; commissioning editor for features and formats, acting controller of factual commissioning, BBC

Suzy Klein Producer, BBC Television; host, In Tune, Radio 3; presenter, BBC Radio

Cordelia Kretzschmar Reporter, BBC London; senior news correspondent, Good Morning Britain; head of public relations and artist liaison, Oxfam UK

Elma Maxim Reporter, GMTV; arts producer, BBC

Bridgid Nzekwu Amnesty International TV online; presenter, ITV News; head of media training, Press Association

Siobhan Connor Director of media and PR, Fleetwood Owen; PR director, Taylor Herring Public Relations; freelance PR consultant; managing director, Connor PR

Steve Palmer Producer, BBC London Live; trustee, Charity Comms; press and public affairs manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence

Colin Paterson Big Breakfast, Channel 4; reporter and host, Liquid News; Arts & entertainment correspondent, BBC Tom Pfeiffer North Africa correspondent, senior desk editor, acting editor (company news, Europe, Middle East and Africa), Reuters

David Shanks Brand manager, Glasgow Housing Association; board member, Glasgow Print Studio; team member, head of strategy and business development, D8

1998 International

Mi-Kyoung Ahn Unknown Fareena Alam Editor, Q News; director of online services, SeekersHub Global

Maria Anguita Acting editor, British Journal of Cardiac Nursing; publications and digital communications officer, Tommy’s; freelance; marketing and subscriptions officer, International Journal of Psychoanalysis; marketing executive, Healthcare Learning

Barbara Arvanitidis Assistant producer, CNN; correspondent, BBC; assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; producer, senior field producer, CNN

Agnes Banda Senior feature writer, The Times of Zambia; public relations officer, LCC (Zambia)

Doina Basca Media consultant, director, Top Audience; unknown Kerry Benefield Reporter, The Shreveport Times; political correspondent, sports columnist, Press Democrat

Chris Brauer Course leader, online journalism, City University; director creative industries, Clarity Capital; senior lecturer and director, MSc Management of Innovation at Goldsmiths, University of London

Christiane Buehler Press agent, Dertour; travel consultant, Sprachcaffe and Languages Plus; flight attendant, Lufthansa German Airlines

Helen Castell Reporter, Derivatives Week (Hong Kong); senior reporter, Travel weekly; freelance (Devex, Trade Finance Magazine, Global Trade Review, Newsbase, Global Mining Finance)

Clare Cheung ICM; Hong Kong Standard; Hong Kong i-mail; journalist, Bloomberg LLP; associate partner, Troutman Sanders

Marina Chichua Freelance, BBC World Service; Image magazine (Georgia); unknown

Stavroula Chorinou Investment manager, Bluehouse Capital; managing partner, Gem Partners; financial and investments consultant Elena Cosentino Producer, director, Lion Television; producer, director, BBC Television; freelance; producer/ director, ITN Productions

Luigi Del Prete Unknown

Paulo Dias Projecto Bandeira Cientifica; Revista Carta Capital; a2amedia; reporter, CartaCapital; unkown

Ranjeeta Dutt McGroarty Senior financial journalist, Lloyds Shipping Economist; vice president, SanSail Capital; chairman & chief executive officer, Trinity Natural Gas Private Ltd

Job Eliazer Publisher, editor, Dallas Monthly News

Victoria Stagg Elliott Reporter, Out There News; weekend editor, Cambodia Daily; senior research associate, technical writer, American Medical Association

Leslie Esparza Digital content and social media strategist, Conexion Cartagena; senior communications advisor, Bogota mayoralty; partner, Green Change Consulting

Stephanie Fontenoy US correspondent, La Libre Belgique; reporter, Grazia/ Bauer media; author, editions nomads; editorial consultant

Gidon Freeman News editor, executive editor, PR Week; political and media consultant, Lexington Communications; vice president, head of government and regulatory affairs, NBC Universal Miki Garcia Reporter, SNL Financial; freelance, San Francisco Examiner; author, The History Press Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Voice of America, APTN Colombia; radio correspondent, Associated Press (Jerusalem, London); international correspondent, NPR (Brazil) Julius Gittens JPAGmedia; associate, Right Angle Imaging Inc; freelance; principal consultant, Herald Media Partners Ltd

Helene Gram Producer, project manager, Boxer Technologies; information architect, Melvær&Lien; producer and designer, University of Stavanger

Kim Gurney Reporter (South Africa); FT Business (London); freelance journalist and research associate, African Centre for Cities, Research Centre at University of Johannesburg

Myria Hadjimatheou Reporter, Must; VAT officer, Ministry of Finance (Cyprus)

Jennifer Hanawald Health and wellness liaison, Montclair Public Schools Health and Wellness Partnership; freelance writer, McMahon Group; freelance integrative health coach Jessica Hasslen Freelance, the National Geographic Society; freelance documentarian and photographer; missionary, Nomadic Chameleon, Globe International (Kenya)

Valerie Herczeg Freelance (Paris); copy editor, translation manager CNRS International Magazine Jennifer Irwin Bloomberg; unknown Krisztina Katona Series producer, TigerAspect; open data implementation manager, Transparency Team, senior policy advisor, Open Policy Making Team,

head of policy, Cabinet Office

Nelly Kelzi BridgeNews (Sydney); news reporter, AFX Asia; freelance (Australia)

Titia Ketelaar Americas editor, foreign desk, internet & media desk, deputy editor, editor, UK and Ireland correspondent, NRC Handelsblad

Roshan Khadivi Communications specialist, media and external relations, UNICEF; communications officer - PBSO, UN; founder and CEO, Citizen Global

Natalie Williams-Knight (nee Knight) Head of news, One Caribbean Media; editorial consultant, FAO regional office for Near East and North Africa; freelance (Egypt); children’s author Birgit Kolboe Bohemen Sportspub; Nettsport; Football 247; reporter, Aperitif; freelance

Itaru Konno Editor, NNA

Delphine Liou (née LiouBrugeilles) TV journalist, Bloomberg (London, Paris); presenter, chief of information, editor in chief, BFM Business

Antoine Lokongo Freelance (Congo); unknown

Nabila Malick (née Zar) Presenter, Pakistan TV; script writer and translator, BBC World; director of advocacy, Family Planning Association of Pakistan

Karen Mahabir Crime reporter, The Bergen Record (New Jersey); digital products producer, Associated Press; managing editor of news, The Huffington Post; digital products producer, head of fact checking, The Associated Press

Gilbert Manda Financial columnist, The Washington Examiner; financial services professional, New York Life Insurance; financial professional, Prudential

Americo Martins Senior producer, online editor, head of Brazilian sector, executive editor of the Americas, BBC World Service; general director, chairman, Brazil Communications Company; editor, head, Global Partnerships, BBC Miki McDonald Cambodia Daily; Business Day; freelance Farah Mohamed Fahmy Software developer, BBC Interactive TV; unknown

Anne Myrjord EU affairs advisor, Norwegian Embassy (London); embassy secretary, diplomat, Royal Norwegian Embassy (Sweden); senior exeutive officer, European policy director, Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Janet Ong Dow Jones (Singapore); bureau chief Bloomberg LP (Taiwan); unknown

Agnes Phiri Director of consumer and public relations, Energy Regulation Board Bernd Radowitz Freelance, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Focus (Rio); correspondent, Dow Jones (Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid); Germany correspondent, Recharge; European editor, Recharge News

Simone Ramella Press officer, Italian Minister of Family Affairs; press officer, AMREF Italia Onlus; news editor, communications officer, Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority

Anna Sansom Freelance, Time Out (Paris); Harpers & Queen; Radio France International; SBS Sydney;

EuroBusiness; freelance

Habhajan Singh Business Times; Berita Harian (Malaysia); section editor, Malaysian Business; group editor, The Malaysian Reserve; unknown

Karin Sitalsing Regional news reporter, Friesch Dagblad; correspondent, de Volkskrant; freelance journalist and author

Somporn Thapanachai Bangkok Post; senior reporter, Post Publishing Plc; unknown

Bennett Thomas Freelance; research assistant, Vocational Rehabilitation Research Institute; freelance writer and editor (Canadian Business Magazine, Atlantic Business Magazine) Guillaume Thomas Institutional investor (London); French furniture assistant, Sotheby’s (Paris); trainee, valuer, auctioneer, Thomas Auction House; unknown

Ioana Veleanu Art director, Philly Weekly; director, marketing and brand strategy, daSILVA architects; director marketing communications, E4H Environments for Health Architecture; senior account manager, Hausman LLS

Margrethe Vika Social performance advisor, external affairs advisor, Norske Shell Exploration and Production; responsibility for corporate communications, leader communications Norway, SKAGEN Funds; strategic advisor and founding partner, Vika | Forus Doreen Walton Independent Radio News; Newshour; senior broadcast journalist, BBC

William Wareing Head of English, senior master, Notting Hill Prep School; deputy head, St Christopher’s School; deputy director of education, The Girls’ Day School Trust

David Wasswa Freelance; owner, Safeways Tour and Travel

Sissel Wessel-Hansen Reporter, Nordlys

Natalie Williams Producer, presenter, BBC World Service; head of news, sport and current affairs, One Caribbean Media Ltd; freelance journalist and author

Margaret Yamoah Senior editor, chief editor, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation; communications manager, Ghana AIDS Commission

WaiYee Yuen Freelance producer; unknown

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James Ashton City editor, media and telecoms editor, The Sunday Times; head of business, executive editor, The Evening Standard; freelance business and media consultant

Bill Bows Senior editor, Platts; writer, Investors Chronicle Companies; director, BBW Communications

Tania Branigan Reporter, Manchester Evening News; reporter, political correspondent, China correspondent, foreign leader writer, The Guardian

Ian Broad Freelance, Daily Star; freelance journalist and editor, duty editor, Teletext; MailOnline; unknown

Ann Chambers European auto correspondent, Reuters; unknown Madeline Chambers Reuters (Frankfurt); lobby correspondent, senior correspondent, Reuters

(London); correspondent, Reuters (Berlin)

Lisa Cockrell Reporter, Colchester Evening Gazette; freelance; unknown Kathryn Cooper Economics correspondent and consumer affairs editor, The Sunday Times; head of corporate and investment communications, Legal & General Investment Management

Janet Coull Trisic Director, senior communications professional, Chilli and Spice Ltd; media spokesperson, House of Commons; director of external relations, UK National Audit Office; freelance senior communications professioanl

Niall Couper Press officer, Amnesty International UK; director of innovation and marketing, BE Training and Communications; head of media, PR and supporter care, Amnesty International UK

James Debens Sports desk, Daily Mail; head of production, Vigour Magazine; freelance editorial consultant; editorial writer, Write Arm

Jennifer Duddy London News Network; freelance, London Tonight; BBC NI; unknown

Victoria Fletcher Consumer correspondent, Evening Standard; health editor, Daily Express; freelance (health, science and general news),

Silicon Valley

Ashley Grossman Head of operations and planning, Virgin Media; director of product and operations, Sanona Ltd; TV personalization, senior manager video discovery and personalization, Liberty Global

Linsey Hakansson (nee Wynton) Assistant producer, Granada Group Plc; ITV; freelance; unknown

David Hytner Sports reporter, Daily Express; football correspondent, The Guardian

Sam Jary Assistant winemaker (New Zealand); Vigneron (Burgundy, France); business development manager, Independent Lakeland Breweries

Lucy Marsh Content editor, Sticky Content; associate editor, content editor, The Higher Education Academy; communications manager, NNFCC

Nicole Martin News reporter, media correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; associate director, MHP Communications

Lucy McDonald Freelance media consultant; correspondent, CBS News; creator, crumbsfood.com

Joseph McHugh Ministerial speechwriter, Department for Business; director, executive speechwriter, Deutsche Bank; speechwriter to the executive director, United Nations World Food Programme

Lucy Miatt (née Rollin) The Sunday Times; freelance; horse trainer; unknown

Naga Munchetty Producer, ITN; economics anchor, presenter, Bloomberg; presenter, BBC World and BBC Breakfast

Sara Nathan Showbusiness editor, Daily Mail; US showbusiness editorat-large, MailOnline; news director, executive editor, People.com

Clara Penn Inside Out, BBC South West; freelance (The Observer, the Guardian, The Mail on Sunday); freelance journalist and picture

researcher, Cover Images

James Pickard Assistant UK news editor, property correspondent, chief political correspondent, Financial Times

Helen Rumbelow News reporter, comment writer, political correspondent, features writer, The Times

Deepa Shah Senior press officer, Department of Health; senior speechwriter, Department for Education Strategic Communications; strategic communications manager, Department of Education

Adam Sills Sports editor, The Guardian; sports editor, The Daily Telegraph; head of sport, Telegraph Media Group

Sophie Tweedale Freelance, Century FM; reporter, Granada; freelance Sharon van Geuns Reporter, Night and Day, The Mail on Sunday; features writer, Sunday Mirror; director, SVG publicity project and marketing manager, Create Projects Burhan Wazir Editor, Qulture.com (Quatar); opinion editor, Al Jazeera; editor, Apolitical

Eleanor Jary (née Wilson) Freelance sub-editor, The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand); freelance journalist (Burgundy, France); journalist, CN Media Writer, Carlisle Living Georgina Wintersgill Features editor, Prima Baby; features editor, Immediate Media Co; freelance Linsey Wynton Documentaries, Granada TV; assistant producer, Tonight With Trevor McDonald; freelance (Carbon Media, Channel 4 News, True Vision, Huffington Post UK)

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Simon Burnton Sports desk, The Observer; freelance, Arena; sub-editor for sport, sports writer, The Guardian Justine Cadbury Barrister Susie Chun Production editor, Arena; contributing editor, Zoo; production director, Elle Decoration Fleur Clackson Personal assistant, communications director, John Frieda; freelance, (Marie Claire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, BBC) Paul Croughton Editorial consultant, writer and editor, Croughton & Associates; head of digital, Brave New World; editor, Robb Report UK Elena Dalrymple (née Ghiringhelli) Editor, Mother & Baby; editor, Boots Health Club; editorial director, TheSchoolRun.com

Joanne Faragher Features editor, Personnel Today; editor, Times Educational Supplement; freelance Lavinia Fernandes Professional engagement and education officer, Parkinson’s UK; press office assistant, Leukemia Research Fund Michael Fletcher Editor, cameraman, Sky News; freelance content provider and photographer Charlotte Greggains Law student; trainee solicitor, Crockers Oswald Hickson; solicitor, Farrer & Co

Ed Grenby Commissioning editor, features editor, Maxim; editor, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine Olivia Gunning Teacher; freelance, Elle Decoration; English teacher, High School at Lycée Lyautey, Morocco

Catherine Heaton Freelance,

Shooting Times; British Association for Shooting and Conservation; investment management

Jennifer Hicks Senior production controller, Macmillan Publishers

Limited; freelance project manager, Pearson Education; senior production controller, Oxford University Press

Nina Hytner (née Chatterjee)

Researcher, assistant producer, associate producer, director, BBC; producer, Strictly Come Dancing; producer, Discovery Networks

Maebh Coyle (née Jennings)

Head of communications, World Cancer Research Fund; freelance sponsorship programme manager, Eircom; freelance journalist and PR consultant

Tess Lamacraft Features editor, Daily Mirror; deputy news editor, TV editor, Closer; freelance editor/writer

Joanne Lewis Deputy practical’s editor, Woman; features editor, What’s on TV; features editor, IPC Media

David McLaughlin Special project editor, FHM; director, junior creative director, Guerilla Productions; owner, Red Rock Creative

Katy Migiro (née Salmon) Christian Aid (London); OCHA (Kenya); East Africa correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Annalisa Miller Unknown Christina Moller Consultant solicitor, Scott-Moncrieff, Harbour & Sinclair; barrister, 1mcb; barrister, Alexander Chambers

Chris Mooney Editor-in-chief, Men’s Digital; editor, Topgear.com; head of commercial content, Top Gear

Matthew Munday Writer, subeditor, The Sunday Times Magazine; freelance (The Sunday Times, The Observer, TOWN, Brave New World); editor, &Co.Magazine

Kerry Potter Features director, Elle; freelance and contributing editor, Elle; books editor, Glamour

Catherine Rapley Deputy editor, New Woman; commissioning editor, The Observer magazine; freelance Katy Salmon Freelance TV producer and writer

Jonathan Saul EMAP; Parliamentary Monitor; copy editor, London correspondent, Tel Aviv correspondent, Jerusalem correspondent, Reuters

Concetta Sidoti Senior sub-editor, website editor, deputy chief subeditor, Building; freelance sub-editor, RIBA Journal; freelance Amy Sohanpaul Staff writer, Wexas; deputy editor, editor, Traveller Magazine; director, & Publishing, Caspar van Vark production editor, Revolution magazine; freelance (The Mail on Sunday, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald, The Times, Evening Standard, Social Enterprise, Traveller, the Guardian); food security, agriculture and global development

Imogen Wall Global communications, United Nations OCHA; freelance communications consultant; policy director, IRIN, freelance writer

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Shariq Ali News & Current Affairs, BBC; assistant producer, Granada Television; assistant producer, BBC Arif Ansari political reporter, BBC Westminster; North West political

editor, BBC; War Studies MA, King’s College London; Head of News, BBC Asian Network

Phil Battley Unknown

James Blake Home affairs reporter, home affairs producer, Channel 4 News; freelance reporter (Channel 4 News, ITN, STV); lecturer in journalism, Edinburgh Napier University

Melanie Bromley European bureau chief, West Coast bureau chief, Us Weekly; freelance, (Top Santé, New Woman, Grazia, Heat, Red, More, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express); chief news correspondent, E! Entertainment Television

Alice Ceresole Producer, Imperial Leisure; freelance producer (Territory Studio); studio manager, The Light Surgeons; producer, Territory Studio Ltd.

Nicola Christie Presenter, Through the Night, BBC Radio 3; freelance (The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Vogue, The Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times); editor, Jewish Quarterly

Dan Davies Development executive, director, series producer, Banyak Films; writer, BBC; playwright, self shooting director/ producer, Channel 4 News

Elspeth Daya Unknown

Craig Eason Freelance (BBC News, Euronews, Anglia Television, Meridian); deputy editor, Lloyd’s List; editorial director, Fathom

Carolyn Gammon Unknown

Pia Harold Intern, ITN; head of copy, Dutton Merrifield; senior broadcast journalist, BBC News

Frank Harvey BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service; editor, producer, ITV News; freelance producer (GMTV, ITV, BBC, Sky, BBC Radio 4)

Natalie Jamieson Entertainment reporter, BBC 5Live; entertainment news presenter, Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1; Entertainment and lifestyle content director, entertainment editor, Bauer Media

Emma Jordan Newsreader, 107.8 Arrow FM (Hastings); Swedish editor/listings writer, Red Bee Media

Katie Flamman (née Keward) Deputy executive producer, Sky News; evening news programme editor, BSkyB, Channel Five News; freelance voiceover artist and scriptwriter

Gudrun Lawyer Freelance, GLR, Five Live; broadcast journalist, BBC London Live 94.9; senior broadcast journalist, BBC London News

Mark McCleary BBC Ulster; home affairs producer, BBC; freelance Nicholas Minter-Green President, Economist Films, The Economist; MS student, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Birkbeck University; CEO, Parable Works

Amanda Parr BBC Breakfast; MA student historical archaeology, University of Bristol; presenter, BBC West Kavitha Prasad Production journalist, ITV News; broadcast journalist, BBC World News; output editor, BBC News

Jonny Saunders Commentator, BBC Radio 5 Live; English teacher, St Edwards School; English teacher, Housemaster, Bradfield College Louise Tornehave London correspondent, TV3 (Sweden) David Wareham Producer, BBC

News 24; news traffic manager, BBC; broadcast journalist, BBC News

1999 International

Azamat Atadjanov Web editor, National News Agency of Uzbekistan; Scandinavia correspondent, Central News Sector

Charlotte Vestergaard Beder Journalist, Berlingske Tidende (Denmark); business reporter, political reporter, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (Denmark); finance reporter, presenter, TV 2 (Denmark)

Billi Bierling Journalist, Swissinfo (Switzerland); desk officer for Libya, media consultant, communications expert, Swiss Development Agency (Switzerland); freelance journalist, climber

Esmera Bilal Reporter, Oslobodjenje (Bosnia and Herzegovina); media monitor and analyst, senior media analyst, UNMIBH (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Bente Bjorndal Finance journalist, AFX News; oil/offshore journalist, Offshore Media Group; freelance, Dagens Narignsliv

Anthony Blackman Senior reporter, Barbados Advocate (Barbados); journalist, Nation (Barbados); public affairs specialist, US Embassy (Barbados)

Fernando Botero Strategic Alternative Investments

Bagila Bukharbaeva Editor, BBC Monitoring; correspondent, Associated Press (Uzbekistan)

Tobias Bungter Editor, Disney Channel (Germany); writer and producer (WDR, Germany Radio); freelance journalist, director and author

Carolina Chagas Prima Pagina (Brazil); executive editor, HaperCollins Publications; freelance, staff writer, journalist in resident, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

Francesca De Chatel Media consultant, UN-ESCWA, BGR (Beirut); PhD, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University; freelance journalist, editor and author

Melina Demetriou Astra Radio (Cyprus); parliamentary correspondent and feature writer, Cyprus Mail; press and information officer, Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office

Estelle Doyle Media trainer, BBC World Service Trust (Morocco); freelance producer, (BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live); broadcast journalist, producer, BBC Trending, BBC News and Current Affairs

Larry Fan Lawyer

Kerstin Fischer Producer and broadcast journalist, BBC Berlin

Maurice Frank Business manager, managing director, owner, ExBerliner.com (Germany)

Georgios Georgakopoulos Press officer (Greece); English section editor, Parikiaki; UK correspondent, Eleftheros Typos (Greece)

Alison Gibson Personal finance writer, sub-editor, The Times; freelance

Julius Gittens Executive member,

Association of Caribbean Media Workers; associate, Right Angle Imaging Inc. (St. Lucia); freelance media and communications specialist, principal consultant, Herald Media Partners Ltd Christoffer Guldbrandsen Owner, Guldbrandsen Film (Denmark); executive editor, DR2 (Denmark); CEO, The Why Foundation (Denmark)

Angela Hachmeister News editor, AOL Germany; journalist, NDR (Germany)

Ghida Hamadeh Unknown

Jennifer Hanawald Health and wellness liaison, Montclair Public Schools Health and Wellness Partnership (USA); medical journalist, McMahon Group (USA); health coach (USA)

Karin Kamp Radio producer, WYNC (USA); director of digital strategy, The Story Exchange (USA); senior digital producer, Moyers & Company/Public Affairs Television (USA)

Mariko Ando Katsumura News reporter, Asia Business; correspondent, Reuters (Tokyo); freelance translator (Paris)

Marie-Cécile Kleinveld Freelance photographer; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines; general manager, Hillswood (Spain)

Ofira Koopmans Correspondent, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Israel) Birgit Kolboe Journalist, Nettsport Media og Fotball247 (Norway); freelance sports and food journalist and translator (Norway)

Alpana Lath Sawai Senior feature writer, chief sub-editor, editor, junior assistant editor, Sunday MiD Day (India)

Katrine Schousboe Laursen Reporter and news editor, ANR (Denmark); journalist, Nordjyske Medier (Denmark)

Pei-Hsuan Lee Formosa TV (Taiwan); PR administrator, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Ivette Leyva Martinez Head of news and front page, Yahoo! (USA); Metrocitizen (USA); founder, cafefuerte.com (Cuba)

Alison Lin Research assistant, National Kaohsiung Normal University (Taiwan)

Eugenia Maia Deputy editor, Adrenalin (Brazil); fashion coordinator, Index Assessoria (Brazil); communications manager, L´Oréal Brazil (Brazil)

Eddie Malone Football365 website; football journalist, Trinity Mirror; journalist, Yahoo Sports

Supa Mandiwanzira Chief executive, founder, ZiFM Stereo Limited (Zimbabwe); communication and technology and courier services, Government of Zimbabwe, the Minister of Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe, Government of Zimbabwe

Emma Mattei Freelance scriptwriter; programme director, Kinemastik NGO (Malta); founder, executive editor, Uncommon Guide Books

Dara McLeod Producer, As It Happens, CBC (Canada); director of communications, Refugees International (USA), director of communications, government of Ontario, director of operations and

skateholder relations, government of Ontario

Sarah Murphy Freelance; South East correspondent, The Irish Independent; commercial manager, The Irish Post Sharif Nashashibi Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The National, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera English, Reuters); personal trainer; DJ

Anna Nelson Deputy media service manager, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Switzerland); editor, International Committee of the Red Cross (Switzerland, USA) Francois Oulai Unknown Shiraz Paracha Government media advisor and spokesman (Pakistan); chairman, Department of Journalism and Communication, Abdul Wali Khan University (Pakistan), director of quality assurance, Abdul Wali Khan University (Pakistan) Irene Peroni Freelance journalist and translator (Norway); BBC Monitoring; freelance (Norway) Katie Pisa (née Anderson) Stringer, PEOPLE magazine; digital features supervisor, CNN International; freelance journalist and producer Jessica Robertson Freelance (Island FM, Dupuch Publications, BBC Caribbean); radio news director, online editor, The Tribune News Network; director of marketing, Doctors Hospital (Bahamas)

Gibril Samura Sierra Leone High Commission; MA, International Relations, University of Warwick; Unknown

Helin Sari Ertem Freelance, NTV, CNN (Turkey); political science and international relations lecturer, Yildiz Technical University (Turkey) Olivier Shaw-Latimer Editor, Vodafone UK; group product manager, Monitise; head of fintech, JustGiving

Daniel Sheldon Media planner and buyer, Universal Mccann, Unknown Vedat Spahovic Freelance (Balkans) Sofianni Subki PanPac Media; Life & Times; New Straits Times; senior writer, The Malaysian Reserve Jonathan Summerton Swiss Radio International; Eurosport (Paris); presenter, Radio France International Natasha Szaniecki Novak Innova Group Miami; communications, XPress PR Agency; director of marketing and communications, Viacom Brazil

Grace Tagoe Presidential correspondent, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation; special correspondent, Radio Ghana; director of communications, Judicial Service of Ghana

Samantha Tonkin Web editor, Swiss Radio International; associate director communications, World Economic Forum; lead, social media, pharmaceutical division, Novartis (Switzerland)

Monika Unsworth Reporter, Irish Times; press officer, NI Civil Service Nadege Vancauwenberghe Unknown

Jonathan Waddell Special assistant, Minister of Environment (Canada); freelance journalist (Canada)

Rebecca Webb Reuters (Wellington), senior project manager, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Erica Wells Cox News editor, Jones Communications; managing editor, The Nassau Guardian; managing

editor, Dupuch Publications

Hao Wu International Development Centre; translator; community settlement counsellor, ISS settlements services; citizen service officer, Service Canada

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Esther Addley The Australian; senior news writer, The Guardian

Lisa Baxter Evening Star (Ipswich); producer, Today, BBC Radio 4; assistant editor, BBC World Geraldine Baybutt Senior reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; senior reporter, Lancashire Evening Post; professor of German David Brown Unknown Ciar Byrne Press and publishing correspondent, Media Guardian; arts and media correspondent, The Independent; freelance, (The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Lady, Press Gazette)

James Cadman Duty editor, Teletext; head of tablet editions, Metro; production editor, HSBC

Shamim Chowdhury Deputy foreign editor, Sky News; news editor, Al Jazeera English; blogger, Huffington Post

Jonathan Clements Showbiz editor, crime correspondent, Daily Mirror; correspondent, ITN; director of communications and campaigns, Crest Advisory

Indira Das-Gupta Senior news reporter, Third Sector; PR and communications manager, Back Up; co-owner, North London Yoga Studio

Finian Davern Travel Trade Gazette; reporter, Metro; solicitor, Knocker & Foskett

Guy Dennis Freelance PR consultant (Business for New Europe); interim head of PR, Founded; contractor, HSBC

James Diamond Cambridgeshire Times

Peter Elliott News editor, Crosby Herald; news officer, Liverpool City Council

Dominic Fifield Football reporter, London football correspondent, The Guardian, The Observer

Stephen Foley Market reporter, investment column, North American business reporter, The Independent; US Investment Correspondent, deputy US News Editor, Financial Times (New York)

Dipesh Gadher News editor, Eastern Eye; chief investigative reporter, The Sunday Times

Katherine Griffiths Daily Express; Wall Street correspondent, The Independent; banking editor, The Times

Nerys Hairon The Wharf; Meat Trades Journal; assistant practice editor, Nursing Times

Tom Kelly Reporter, Press Association (Dublin, London, New York); reporter, Daily Mail

Anthea Lawson Freelance, The Observer, The Times; researcher, Amnesty International; deputy campaigns director, Global Witness

Luke Leitch Diary section, news desk, arts reporter, Evening Standard; deputy fashion editor, The Daily Telegraph; freelance (Vogue, WSJ, Intelligent Life, The Times)

Catherine Mayer Author; editor at large, Time, co-founder, Women’s Equality Party

Donna McConnell Assistant channel editor, TV & Showbusiness; showbiz editor, Mail Online; editorin-chief, WENN/Cover Media

Gabriel Milland Head of news, Department for Education; head of external communications, Ministry of Justice; deputy director, Cabinet Office

Emma Morris Features editor, Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms; style writer, Living Etc; chief sub-editor, Health and Fitness

Joseph Mouzo St Albans Observer; multimedia editor, Agence France Presse (online)

Sherna Noah News reporter, showbusiness editor, showbusiness, arts and media correspondent, senior entertainment correspondent, Press Association

Ben Perry Online, newsdesk, head of English language business desk, Agence France Presse, financial journalist, Agence France Presse

Karen Rice Author; news and feature writer, Ireland on Sunday; investigations editor, Irish Daily Mail, film maker

Mark Sellman Assistant head of news, Times Online; deputy home editor, The Times

Meera Selvananthan Freelance, (The Independent, New Zealand Herald); reporter, Associated Press; editor, Handelsblatt Global Edition; program director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Deborah Sheldon News of the World; National News Agency; Daily Mirror

Zoe Smith Sub-editor, The Age (Melbourne); sub-editor, journalist, Sydney Morning Herald; online news reporter and producer, News Corp

Australia

Michelle Stanistreet Books editor, Sunday Express; general secretary, National Union of Journalists

Sarah Evans-Toyne Finance writer, The Sunday Times; business reporter, BBC; executive director, Broadgate Mainland PR

Tim Webb Industrial editor, The Guardian; energy editor, The Times; senior communications manager, Ofgem

Cathy Winston (née Mayer) Head of premier showbiz, Press Association; lifestyle editor, Fabulous; editor, 101 Singles Holidays

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Elisabeth Attwood Reporter, photography, Alice Springs News (Australia); chief sub, FOXTEL magazine (Australia); entertainment editor, Discovery (Hong Kong)

Leo Bear Freelance sub-editor, (Property Week, Travel Trade Gazette, Daily Mirror, FBX magazine, BBC Worldwide); deputy editor, Disney Bigtime/Comic; freelance, (The Sunday Times, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, TV Hits, Brides, Total Film, OK!)

Shaoni Bhattacharya Pulse; news editor, New Scientist; freelance, New Scientist, The Mail on Sunday, Psychologies

Ursula Biggs Unknown

Jeanette Blair Unknown

Tracey Boles Editor, Reputation Inc; editor, Tulchan Analytics; news editor, City A.M, Business editor, The Sun

Newspaper

Dom Brookman Homepage editor, MSN UK; content producer, AEG

Europe Huria Choudhari Editor, Life & Soul Magazine; spiritual life coach, Life & Soul Creatives; director, Medea

Media

Claire Coe (née Smith) The Lawyer; deputy editor, Legal Business; owner, writer and researcher, Claire Legal Jane Crowther Movies editor, Sky Magazine; freelance (Total Film, The Yorkshire Post, Men’s Health, First Magazine, Company, Sky, Sky Movie); editor, Total Film

Emma Dent (née Forrest) Features editor, Health Service Journal; editor, L; freelance

Ben Falk Journalism tutor, London Metropolitan University; online editor, journalist (Yahoo Movies, BAFTA, DAD.info, Daily Telegraph, Us Weekly, Empire, Huffington Post); senior lecturer in digital journalism, Coventry University

Jennifer Farrar (née Currie) Deputy editor, Lawyer ZB; teacher training; English teacher

Jill Foster Commissioning editor, associate editor, Femail, Daily Mail; features commissioning editor, Daily Mirror; freelance

Rachel Hamada Munro Freelance journalist (This Is Africa); media and communications officer, Scottish Refugee Council; director, The Ferret Tamsin McCahill (née Hargrave) Chief sub-editor, Top Santé; copywriter, iCrossing UK; script editor, Wish Studios Ltd; freelance copywriter, Propellernet Kathryn Jackson Screenwriter and producer, Heart Beat Productions; freelance, screenwriter, Nightingale Films

Simon Jeffery Trainee journalist, chief reporter, guardian.co.uk; story producer, web features editor (secondment), assistant foreign editor, deputy web news editor, The Guardian

Pete Jenson telegraph.co.uk; Sunday People; sport reporter, Mail Online Selina Julien Showbiz writer, showbiz editor, assistant editor, Now; managing editor, editor-in-chief, Hello! Middle East; freelance editor and journalist (Hello! Middle East) James Keighley Freelance (Online News Reader, wsj.com, Wall Street Journal Europe); copy editor, assistant news editor, Dow Jones; editor, Fitch Ratings Derren Lawford Commissioning Exec at London Live TV, Evening Standard; creative director, Woodcut Media Ltd; advisory committee member, Sheffield Doc/Fest Chris Leadbeater thisistravel; Daily Mail; freelance, (The Independent, Daily Mail, The Telegraph) Lucy Maggs Account director, Geronimo Communications; Campaigns, Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office; head of media, Smart Energy GB

Sara Manuelli Freelance journalist and press officer, Interaction Design Institute; writer, Via della Trinita dei Pellegrini; The Guardian Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Staff writer, associate editor, Skin Cancer Foundation; editor, Quality Health/Sharecare; freelance writer (Fairygodboss, SpineUniverse, City Limits) Hubeena Nadeem Writer, Newsquest Media Group; senior reporter, Inside Housing; freelance (Inside Housing, The Guardian,

Nursing Standard, Save The Children)

Sarah Obermuller-Bennett

Historian

Vanessa Pawsey European Legal Business; writer, finance editor, news editor, Legal Business; CEO, Jeego Ltd

Edward Reeves Editor, Ford; copy editor, House & Garden, Brides; owner, Drive Albania

Joel Rickett News editor, deputy editor, The Bookseller; editorial director, Penguin books; author, deputy publisher (Ebury)

Estelle Shirbon Ha’aretz (Israel); Agence France Presse; senior correspondent, Reuters (Paris, London, Italy, Madrid, Nigeria)

David Smyth Editorial assistant, music critic, arts desk, The Daily Telegraph; chief rock and pop critic, Evening Standard

Zelda Turner Non-fiction commissioning editor, Hodder & Stoughton; editorial consultant, Hodder & Stoughton; freelance editor, author

Jane Verhelst Freelance

Sarah Wakely Sub-editor, production editor, AutoCar magazine; deputy editor, Practical Motor Home; freelance

Sarah Warwick Deputy editor, H2Open; deputy editor, easyJet Traveller magazine; editor, N by Norwegian magazine

Louise Wilson Director, BBC Children in Need; director, BBC The One Show; senior editorial producer, Children in Need

Jenny Wood Features editor, LOOK magazine; lifestyle editor, Buzz magazine (The Sun); freelance (Cosmopolitan, Closer, Top Sante, Mother & Baby, Fabulous, Red, Glamour, Chat, Notebook, TV Magazine, Daily Mail)

Clare Zinkin (née Lister) Project editor, senior editor, Dorling Kindersley; freelance editor

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Andrew Bailey Head of news, sport and entertainment, Virgin Radio UK; head of news and Breakfast news presenter, Absolute Radio; senior news editor, Sky Zoey Bird Producer, Channel 5 News; presenter, At The Races

Mark Cotton Markets reporter, CBS Market Watch; PR manager, senior corporate communications manager, Jupiter Asset Management

Sarah Deech Senior producer, (BBC News 24; senior broadcaster, BBC News TV; freelance Paul Egan Producer, efdex TV Hilary Fox Entertainment reporter, BBC Radio 1; senior reporter, Unique Entertainment News; TV chief writer, Associated Press Entertainment

Joanna Gasiorowski Content provider, simplymoney.net; senior sports reporter, Al Jazeera English Farhana Haider Broadcast journalist, BBC TV News; South East Asia regional editor, BBC World Service

Mark Jacques Broadcast assistant and reporter, BBC Ulster; freelance, reporter, BBC Wales; broadcast assistant and freelance, BBC; media advisor, City of Cardiff Council

John-Paris Kent Showbiz reporter, Channel 5 News; producer, Sky News; freelance producer Merriem Matthew Dubai TV; Swiss Radio International; reporter

(Zurich)

Sonya Mayet Broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; freelance screenwriter

Matthew Neylan Freelance communication consultant; account director, director, London Communications Agency; practice direct, Westco Trading Ltd

Anna O’Neill Broadcast journalist, BBC London; BBC Essex; radio reporter, BBC London weekend

Barbara Serra Broadcast journalist, BBC London Live; reporter, Sky News; newsreader, Al Jazeera

Julian Shea Associate lecturer, University of the Arts London; research project supervisor, UCFB; editor, sub-editor, China Daily Europe

Karishma Vaswani Business correspondent, BBC World News (Mumbai); correspondent, BBC Indonesia; Asia business correspondent, BBC News

Georgia Webber Broadcast journalist, GMTV; broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; reporter, Granada TV

Ceri Whitby September Films; assistant producer, Celador Saritha Wilkinson Television producer, Rockchopper TV; director, Mike Birkhead Associates Esme Wren Producer, BBC Newsnight; head of politics, Sky News (Westminster); editor, BBC Newsnight

2000 International

Annex Achieng Editor-at-large, Sheeko magazine; foreign correspondent, The East African Newspaper; owner, Gigicucina

Sahar Al-Amri The Saudi Research & Publishing Company

Caroline Al-Faraj Manager and editor, CNN (Dubai); chief operations director, Arabic editor, Digital services Arabic director, CNN; VP Arabic Services, CNN Michael Andindilile, Dr Chief sub-editor, Daily News (Tanzania); PhD, Fordham University; teaching fellow, associate dean and senior lecturer, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Dar es Salaam

Maria Anguita Publications and digital communications officer, Tommy’s; freelance content designer and editor; marketing and subscriptions officer, International Journal of Psychoanalysis; marketing executive, Healthcare Learning Farhod Arziev National News Agency of Uzbekistan; senior reporter, international affairs, News Agency (Uzbekistan); deputy clinical features editor, GP magazine; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Republic of India

Jacopo Barigazzi Freelance columnist, The National; contributor, Nova; reporter, POLITICO Europe

Mallika Basu Director, corporate, management board, The Communication Group plc; senior associate director, author, corporate PR director, MSL London; specialist partner, Pagefield

Christina Blaagaard Editorial project manager, Berlingske Media; digital director, Benjamin Media; chief digital officer, Bonnier Publications; CEO, Mediehuset Ingeniøren; board member, Freeminds Media A/S; board member, Capax Recruitment

Andreas Bondevik US stringer, Norwegian News Agency; Europe correspondent, Norwegian News Agency; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security

Christina Charalambous Cyprus News Agency; public image consultant, Epopsis Communications

Hopewell Chin’ono Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University; journalist, ITN, ITV News; foreign correspondent, The New York Times

Natacha Crnjanski Reuters (Paris); news editor, Travel Security Services; regional information manager, International SOS

Pham Tran Dinh Marketing manager, ANZ Bank (Vietnam); branch manager, Philips Electronics Singapore (Hanoi); public relations and communications manager, Delta International Company Limited

Lely Triana Djuhari Associated Press; communication specialist, Unicef East Asia Pacific; communication specialist, public advocacy, division of communication, Unicef

Julie Donnelly Healthcare reporter, Boston Business Journal; freelance; contract writer, Veeva Systems; Consultant, Donnelly Health; senior writer, Amendola Communications

Laura Dowrich-Phillips Assistant editor, Caribbean Beat; editor, Metro Magazine; content manager, looptt. com

Luz Echeverri Film project, author Farrah Esmail Rogers Television; news writer (Ontario); anchor, Al Jazeera and Qatar News

Dinah Gardner News writer, CNN Hong Kong; Tibetan language student (Shedra, Kathmandu), travel writer, Lonely Planet; freelance reporter and translator (China); Alison Gibson Journalist and subeditor; freelance Lilian Githungo Court reporter, Nation Newspaper; humanitarian affairs officer/Head of Sub Office; UN (Somalia)

Anne Harenberg FT Marketwatch; reporter, N-TV (Germany)

Tom Hennigan Freelance (Buenos Aires); São Paulo correspondent, The Times; South American correspondent, The Irish Times

Gisela Henriques Sub-editor, Activa Magazine; sub-editor, Impresa Publishing

Merete Jebsen (née Bergeland)

Communication manager, corporate communication, Norway Post; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services; senior communications advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications; head of press, The Norwegian Tax Administration

Mamiko Kawamoto Senior executive international development and marketing, Yoshimoto Entertainment USA Inc (formerly Bellrock Media)

Ragnhild Kjetland Dow Jones; technology/media reporter, Bloomberg; freelance photographer

and writer

Yannis Krontiras Military service

Christine Lai Vice executive director, China Times

Katarina Limkjaer Screaming Media; CNN (Norway)

Anouk Macchetti Bloomberg TV Kennedy Makambira Sports coach; English editor, Confederation of African Football; project specialist, UEFA

Glaieul Mamaghani Deputy head of communication, World Organisation for Animal Health; head of communication, World Organisation for Animal Health; external communication manager, Syngenta France

Nonofo Mankhi Secondary school teacher; educational broadcaster; media studies lecturer, The University of Botswana Nicole Mannix Contributing writer, Maranatha News; contributing writer, 29secrets.com; freelance (Canada); finance program and delivery clerk, Service Canada

Mpho Mantjiu Researcher, writer, Laing & Buisson; producer, Poppylands Productions; production journalist, The Times

Ulrica Marshall Derivatives section, International Financing Review; freelance; author

Helly Minarti freelance research consultant; programme head, Jakarta Arts Council; Associate editor, BAB Books;

SUSAN RILEY

EDITOR, STYLIST MAGAZINE PERIODICAL, 2000

Maria Ntavou Communications manager, Hellenic-American Arts Centre; account director, Solid PR Agency; senior digital copywriter, Solid Digital Agency

Oyvind Nyborg Dagsnytt NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corp

Lise Olaussen Political reporter, Kanal 24; journalist, political journalist, Daily Dagsavisen (Oslo); reporter, NRK

Angeline Ong TV producer and reporter, CNN (London); presenter and producer, Reuters; anchor, Thompson Reuters

Zak Osman Founding Somali newspaper; freelance; unknown Charlotte Pearson Methven Newsweek International; Reuters (London); group features editor, Ink Publishing; freelance writer and editor

Bruno Pires-Saboaa Freelance Zehra Raza Community projects manager, Tameer Microfinance Bank (Karachi); associate producer, GEO News; teacher, The Lyceum School

Tatiana Reis Editorial co-ordinator, Impact Media; Portuguese TV channel; Portugal Diario; event manager, Silva Carvalho Catering

Denise Resende News editor, foreign correspondent, NetDoctor; freelance, Latin American correspondent, ananova.com; beauty and fashion editor, AnaMaria (Brazil) Azer Sawiris Financial correspondent, Egyptian TV;

What has been the biggest change in journalism since you left City?

On a boring level, how you monetise media brands when people are no longer buying magazines on a newsstand. Obviously it’s different for Stylist, because when we launched in October 2009, we came up with a brand new distribution model that was a direct response to digital advances. People were starting to want and expect quality content for free.

What is the best thing about being an editor?

Making someone’s brilliant idea come to life and the collaboration around it. Stylist’s success is not down to one person, it’s down to a team of people who bounce off each other.

What is the worst thing about it?

Sometimes you have to pass up some really nice things that you would like to do yourself, like interviews, features you’d thought of and have to hand over, or talks that you’d love to present. But there’s not time to do everything. However high up the masthead you go, we are all journalists and writers who want to do it ourselves. Delegating can sometimes be painful.

What is the best career advice you have received?

I used to work with an editor called Annabel Brogg at Sugar magazine and she always thought that you don’t get promoted until you are doing the job that you want to be promoted to anyway. It’s just about the way you conduct yourself, and the ambition that you show.

Lydia Hawken

Egyptian TV Correspondent, AFX News; Chief operating officer, WO Trade and Holding

Joao Tordo Freelance, author Roula Tsoumita European football analyst, Premierbet; PhD, sports and media management; European football analyst, Blue Lizard Dominic Tunon Interactive producer, Wieden + Kennedy; integrated producer, BBH London; producer, Wieden + Kennedy Ruwan Wijewardene Executive director, RS Printek; director, Freudenburgh Training Company, member of parliament for Gampaha District (Sri Lanka); Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)

Saskia Wirth Director of communications, NBC Universal international TV production; director, executive director of corporate communications, Sony Pictures Television; director of communications, Tinopolis Eylem Yanardagoglu Visiting scholar, University of Westminster; lecturer, Bahcesehir University; associate professor, Kadir Has University

Helen Yates Freelance insurance journalist, Helen Yates Media; editor,

JESSICA GUNN

Insurance Times – The Knowledge; director/ co-founder, Zebra Media

Limited

Amelia Zaher Journalist, Exhibition Bulletin; freelance, diving magazines

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Jim Bruce-Ball Associate sports editor, Saturday sports editor, The Daily Telegraph; head of communications and content, Professional Sport Group; selfemployed senior communications and content consultant; director, World Sports Buddy Limited

Sarah Bruce-Ball (née Gerlis)

Stock markets reporter, UK Invest. com; deputy news editor; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4; editor, This Is Our Town Richmond

Julia Cahill Reporter and feature writer, senior reporter, deputy news editor, The Lawyer; news editor, deputy editor, associate editor, Estates Gazette

James Clench Trainee, assistant news editor, news reporter, The Sun; senior consultant, PHA Media

Pippa Crerar Press Association; Daily Record; political correspondent,

DEPUTY EDITOR, WAITROSE FOOD PERIODICAL, 2001

What is the one thing you learnt at City that you still use today?

An appreciation of the importance of news writing. I remember our tutor, Barbara Rowlands, banging on about needing to know it. I think understanding the importance of news and how to structure a basic news story is a foundation for most journalism.

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career?

I did a piece while I was at The Caterer that involved ringing lots of sex workers. I wanted to figure out how easy it was to get into a hotel if you were a prostitute. I was really embarrassed to ring people, and I had to get special permission at work to look at specific websites through the firewall.

What is your fondest memory of City?

Classes with Marcel D’Arcy Smith, who we all adored.

What has been the most memorable interview you have ever done?

Interviewing Jamie Oliver just after he opened Fifteen, when it was the hottest place. We had dinner at the restaurant and Jamie kept coming out and giving us the dishes himself, or the head waiter would come out and say: “Jamie’s just made this special dish for you.”

What is the worst career advice you have ever received?

I had a boss once who sat me in the corner of the room, facing the wall with my back to the rest of the team, and told me not to speak unless spoken to, that was not helpful. It was my first job.

Rebecca Knight

Evening Standard; deputy political editor, The Guardian

Elizabeth Crudgington Chief reporter, Kent Regional News; office administrator, Canterbury Conservative Association

James Daley Governor, Wandsworth borough council; blogger, The Daily Telegraph; managing director, Fairer Finance

Graham Diggines Editor, The Sharp End; channel manager, Royal Mail; lead content and channels specialist, Old Mutual Group; content marketing consultant, Quilter Cheviot; freelance editor and copywriter; senior copywriter, Fieldworks

Laura Elston News desk, royal correspondent, Press Association

David Fickling Commodities reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, consumer reporter, Bloomberg; Bloomberg gadfly columnist, Bloomberg

Oliver Finegold Head of corporate communications, CIPFA; head of communication and media, The Careers & Enterprise Company; head of media relations (interim), Smart Energy GB

Jodie Ginsberg Deputy director, Demos Finance; editor, Chime for Change; CEO, Index on Censorship

Emma Gosnell Deputy editor, Seven Magazine; freelance Will Green Politics editor, William Green; columnist, Guernsey Press Co.; account manager, Liquid PR; business editor, Guernsey Press Co. Faisal Islam Economics correspondent, The Observer; business reporter, economics editor, Channel 4 News; political editor, Sky News

Sam Lister Trainee, staff reporter, health correspondent, news editor, health editor, The Times; Director of communications, UK Department of Health; group director of communications, partnerships & governance, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Martel Maxwell Freelance columnist, broadcaster and novelist; entertainment reporter, Sky News, This Morning, ITV; author; freelance; presenter, Homes Under the Hammer Louisa McLennan Press officer, Mary’s Meals; assistant digital editor, Herald & Times group; freelance

Dan Milmo City desk, Daily Mail; Media Guardian; city desk, media business correspondent, media business editor, transport correspondent, industrial editor, deputy business editor & consumer editor, The Guardian James Palmer China Daily (Beijing); foreign desk, special project editor, The Independent; deputy chief sub, freelance writer and editor, commissioning editor, associate editor, The Sunday Times Magazine Rosalind Ryan Reporter, news.com. au; reporter, Guardian Unlimited; deputy editor, Healthy; freelance Ben Sheppard Trainee, news reporter, Daily Express; freelance (Athens)

Laura Smith Reporter, The Evening Standard; reporter, The Guardian; freelance journalist and communications consultant, (mydaily, The Guardian, The Independent, Marie Claire);

communications consultant, Inquest; managing editor, Speak Media UK

Julia Snoddy Freelance, (Sky News); business producer, BBC Radio 4 and 5; freelance

Preti Taneja Freelance, Evening Standard, BBC Radio; Children’s Express; postdoctoral research fellow, Jesus College Cambridge; Leverhulme early career research fellow, Warwick College; author Lucy Warwick-Ching Editor, FT.com; money editor, Financial Times; digital and communities editor, FT Money

Bob Williams Reporter, thelondonpaper; Scottish sports editor, The Daily Telegraph; sports desk copy editor, The Daily Telegraph Charlotte Williamson Freelance, (Elle, Harpers & Queen, The Observer); commissioning editor, editor, news review and comment, The Sunday Telegraph; features editor, Woman and Home

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Michael Bird Associate editor, www.ak13.com; editor, The Diplomat; editor, The Black Sea

Hannah Booth Zitty Magazine; deputy editor, editor, Guardian Weekend; Space

Chris Brock Editor, Mulberry Publications; editor, Tileywoodman; freelance photographer; editor, Scoop & Spoon

Abigail Cattell Freelance, deputy editor, Marks and Spencer; global editor, Aviva plc; editorial senior manager, Coca-Cola Enterprises; change and communications advisor, Pearson

Martin Clark Content manager, community manager, Yahoo Europe; Head of community and analytics, State; Director of community and insights, Citymapper; head of moderation product and customer insight, Crowdmix; senior product manager, Kano Computing

Isabel Connet (née Pitman) Freelance, (Country Homes and Interiors, ES Magazine, Time Out, French newspaper); teacher; English teacher, French/English translator (France)

Suzy Cox Deputy editor, Cosmopolitan; editor, Cosmo on Campus; editor, Heat; author; commercial features editor, The Guardian

Sally Shelford (neé Eyden) Editor, Fabulous; editor, Now; editor, Loose Women

Leon Forde Features editor, Screen International; freelance, (Screen Daily); associate director, Olsberg SPI Adam Gold Launch publisher, GoThinkBig.co.uk, Bauer Media, Empire, FHM, Kerrang!, MOJO, Q and ZOO; freelance launch publisher (Unbound, Factory Media); director/ co-founder, BlueJam Media

Lucy Gordon Assistant producer, Granada TV; assistant producer, Hewland International; freelance assistant producer, BBC factual Justina Perry Group account director, G2 marketing; client director, Geometry; director/ founder, Mama Baby Bliss

Anne-Celine Jäger Freelance, (The Times magazine, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, beme. com, The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily

Telegraph magazine, Die Zeit, Neon, Wallpaper); author Christian Koch Senior writer, Smash Hits; Commercial editor, FHM; freelance (Evening Standard, The Guardian, Q,Metro, Stylist)

Victoria MacCallum Head of communications, Cabinet Office; head of museums and galleries, Department for Culture, Media and Sport; head of EU exit, Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sarah Mason Senior communications manager, News UK; senior consultant, Wild Card PR; freelance; associate director of corporate affairs, Cohn & Wolfe Andy McCue Freelance, (CBS Interactive UK, silicon.com, greenbang.com); freelance; content director, Collective Content; business editor, Yorkshire Business Insider; Insider Media; senior editor, Collective Content

Kate McGeown Philippines correspondent, BBC; world duty editor and senior writer, BBC News online; head of factual, BBC Media Action

Eve McGowan Freelance, (Cosmopolitan, Metro, The Sunday Telegraph); deputy property editor, The Mail on Sunday; freelance (Daily Mail, Metro, Mail Online)

Rebecca McQuillan Reporter, features writer, deputy features editor, The Herald (Glasgow); senior features writer, The Herald (Glasgow) Daniel Melunsky Writer, Mobile Magazine; Kingston Council; black cab driver

Caroline Millington Showbiz editor, Woman’s Own; assistant editor, acting deputy editor, acting deputy editor and social media manager, Now; social media producer, Loose Women

Zoe Murphy Assistant editor, AOL News Channel; broadcast journalist, BBC News Interactive, world desk; social media editor, Outside Source; senior broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; digital journalist (innovation), BBC

Katie Reich-Storer (née Reich) Associate editor, ABTA; editor, Spa Secrets, Absolute Publishing; freelance; content editor, Bookmark Publishing

Susan Riley Features director, Sugar; features director, More!; acting editor; deputy editor, editor, Stylist Paul Rincon Freelance, (Empire Online, Broadcast, produxion. com); senior staff writer, PC Advisor; science reporter, senior broadcast journalist, science journalist, BBC News online Gerard Russell Web editor, interactive media editor, digital communications editor, oxfam.org. uk; self-employed, freelance editor and copywriter Nic Scott Freelance, (OK!, Hello!, Citrus Publishing, Forward Publishing, 7 Days, consumer magazines); production editor, Junior; freelance Ben Spriggs Homes editor, ELLE Decoration; associate editor, Sunday Times Style magazine; PR manager, Maybourne Hotel Group; acting interior editor, The Guardian; deputy editor, ELLE Decoration

Jon Webdale Commissioning editor, Interactive TV; senior reporter, C21 media.net; editor, Future Media; editor, C21Media.net Ben Westwood Freelance travel

author, Rough Guides; author, Ecuador, Galapagos, Peru and Machu Picchu guidebook; journalism lecturer, University of Brighton; freelance musician

Sarah Willcocks Freelance (The Independent, The Scotsman, The Moscow Times, Literacy Review, The Erotic Review, Time Out, The Oldie, The Stage); playwright; freelance Broadcast

Lee Baker Broadcast journalist, BBC; media and communications Manager, British Cleaning Council; communications consultant, Greenwich Communications

Mike Bovill Producer, Sky News; head of content and rugby show presenter, talkSPORT Radio; head of live sport, talkSPORT; managing editor, programme director, talkSPORT2

Katherine Boyle Hereward FM; newsreader, producer and presenter, BBC Three Counties Radio, Talk radio

Alex Bushill Freelance reporter, BBC News 24; BBC London; south west correspondent, BBC News

Nick Cavell Assistant producer, TalkSPORT; news editor, Sanyu Radio (Uganda); producer, African Sports, BBC World Service

David Cheng Reporter, News Direct 97.3FM; researcher, producer, BBC business; broadcast journalist, BBC business and economics news; Unknown

Ellie Crisell Presenter, BBC Newsround; senior broadcast journalist, BBC; Presenter, South East Today

Jatinder Dhillon Broadcast journalist; field producer, BBC Network News; reporter, CBC Radio (Toronto); BBC Global News

Abbie Dobson Broadcast journalist, producer, BBC Six O’Clock News

Kate Evans Broadcast journalist, BBC News 24; freelance producer, ITN; producer, Channel 4 News; marketing publications officer

Tannaz Fazaipour Reporter, First Edition, ITN; freelance producer; producer, Channel 4 News

Shona Fraser Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; associate producer, RTL (Germany) and MTV; RTL2, Vice President Entertainment & Development

Melanie Grant Broadcast and online journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat and 1Xtra News; reviews editor, MadeForMums.com; freelance (Ready Steady Go Kids UK, Family Line)

Nina Harrison-Bell (née Harrison) Producer, ITN; partner, h2glenfern (Investor Communications); Head of Film, Bladonmore; CEO, Arcuro, Business Leader/ Executive Producer, SIX THREE COMMUNICATIONS LTD

Will Inglis Presenter, Motors TV; university teacher, University of Roehampton; english teacher, Frogmore Community College, Julie MacDonald Freelance reporter, GMTV; news anchor, Al Jazeera; Managing Director, Clanmac Media LTD

Gareth Mason Contributor, Irish National Radio; freelance, writer, editor, subeditor, copywriter, reviewer, broadcaster, and trainer; Psychotherapist

Zonia Mason Trainee, BBC News (Tunbridge Wells); producer, presenter, reporter, ITV Meridian East

Esther McWatters Researcher, BBC Newsnight; researcher, BBC, Kenyon Confronts; current affairs producer, BBC Radio 5 Live

Ben Moore Bradford reporter, BBC Yorkshire; TV reporter; BBC, TV news reporter

Keme Nzerem Producer, ITN; producer, sports correspondent, Channel 4 News

Juliette Parkin BBC Three Counties Radio; presenter and reporter, BBC South East

Pritha Sarkar Broadcast journalist, tennis editor and senior sports correspondent, Thomson Reuters

Victoria Scott (née Milne) Editor at large, Doha News; freelance multimedia journalist (Doha, Qatar); media consultant, Compassion UK Anton Sensky Freelance producer, (BBC, ESPN, IMG, S & V, SIS, BT CSI, Eurosport, HBS, OBS); senior producer, Arora Media Worldwide; senior producer, Whisper Films Avi Silverman Print journalist, Bale Net; MA, International Relations, Cambridge University; policy manager, Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile

Katia Tanousis Freelance, BBC Radio Suffolk; assistant producer, Grand Designs; Unknown Tori Taylor Broadcast journalist, BBC London; senior producer, SPJ; Network News

Stuart Tinworth Newsreader, FOX FM; BBC Oxford; video journalist, BBC South Today

Katie Walmsley Producer, reporter, CNN; head of original video, Upworthy; director of video, Good Worldwide Inc; Chief content editor America, BRUT

Suzannah Wander Researcher, Channel 4; researcher, Thames Television; producer and director, South Bank Show, ITV; Unknown Camilla Wilkinson Newsreader, Active FM (Romford); Unknown Claire Winter Blogger, BBC; editor and owner, Families Thames Valley East Magazine; freelance

2001

International

Alex Arampatzis Editor in chief, Serraikon Tharros; CEO, WIN; owner, Arampatzis Media; Unknown Malene Arboe-Rasmussen Communications officer, NATO (Brussels); communications and external relations officer, UNFPA; media communications officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Marie Barraud Reporter, Groupe Afrique; foreign correspondent, La Croix; RFI radio, Independent Newspapers Professional Sophie Besse Agence France-Presse Elisabeth Brun Documentary director, producer, NRK; freelance journalist and film director; PhD candidate, University of Oslo Andrea Cairola Programme specialist for the UNESCO Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace of the Communication and Information Sector; communication and

information adviser, UNESCO (Beijing)

Sonila Cela Researcher, BBC documentaries; Vice President, Basel; key account manager, Nexion Consulting; senior manager, Nexion Consulting

Andrea Crossan Producer, BBC London; senior producer, The World; senior producer BBC Boston Zeynep Demirbilek Managing director, Pearl Linguistics; Unknown Peter Dinkloh Correspondent, Bloomberg (Frankfurt); European unities correspondent, Reuters

Gustavo Arnizaut Media specialist and project manager, GIZ Proklima Montreal Protocol Unit, HEAT GmbH (Frankfurt/Brazil); Key Communication and MatchMaking Expert; lead consultant, owner, www.4saints.com.br

Minelle Fernandez Communications officer, Commonwealth Secretariat; Colombo correspondent, Al Jazeera; director, Media Matters

Violet Gonda Producer, presenter, anchor, SW Radio Africa

James Gooder Online journalist, Al Jazeera; deputy editor, Argus European Electricity Report; business development manager, vp business development, vp crude oil, Argus Media

Miriam Gressli Producer, MTV News (Norway); Coordinator, project manager, Apeland

Michelle Hakata Features editor, Africa Practice; consultant, HMD; media production consultant and contractor

Marianne Hartz-Thomas Senior communications advisor, Operate Communications; head of press, head of communications and press, TryghedsGruppen, head of communications and digital development; Viegand Maagoe A/S, MBA, Henley Business School

Emma Kambangula Personal assistant, Southern Africa Broadcasting Association (Windhoek); executive director, Cancer Club of Namibia; Unknown Joseph Kithama African Medical and Research Foundation; bureau chief, East African Procurement News; lecturer, Dar es Salaam University

Sara Lomberg Employment and careers editor, Svenska Dagbladet Näringsliv; reporter and web editor, Chef; project manager, Spoon Publishing

Sebastian Lopez Unknown

Kristine Lowe Online journalist, journalisten.no (Norway); founder, Norway’s Online News Association (NONA); communications advisor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Marta Machado-Gooder Reuters Foundation; freelance, Al Jazeera English; CNN Africa; project coordinator, Reuters Foundation; programme manager, Journalism & Media Training

Isaac Massaquoi Head of news and current affairs, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service; lecturer, programme co-ordinator, University of Sierra Leone; Filming, Gothenburg Film Studio

Brian McGee Teacher, Christ Church Streatham CofE Primary School; text editor, Thomson Reuters; freelance, writer and editor

Elodie Mialet Freelance (Match TV,

France 5, Canal J); TV reporter, M6 (France); freelance, France 2, Maria Milano Online editor, InStyle; head of editorial and content, Harrods.com; GMM, Harrods womenswear

Charalampos Nikolakakis Press officer, Ministry of Rural Development and Food; Unknown Zandi Nkuta Reporter, The Sowetan; online journalist, Reuters; spokesperson, executive mayor of Johannesburg, Ingvild Paulsen Rogalands Avis; Stavanger Aftenblad; freelance, Dagens Naeringsliv

Angela Pok PA to CEO and team administrator, London Sustainability Exchange; senior executive, corporate communications division, National Council of Social Service; communications officer, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Singapore)

Miguel Rato Partner and founder, Cupido Comunicacao; managing director, Ogilvy and Mather; Senior Director, Communications and Strategic Initiatives, Teach For All Scott Reeves Producer, Powerhouse, Channel 4; producer, Channel 4 News; Executive Producer, CNN International World Sport Friedel Grant (née Rother) Financial journalist, Financial Times, Reuters; PR and editorial assistant, Europeana; communications officer, LIBER Europe

Shirin Sadeghi Producer, reporter, for Al Jazeera English; columnist, Al Jazeera; freelance (The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast)

Diego Santos News editor, Associated Press; eltiempo.com; portfolio.com.co; cambio.com.co; columnist, Diario La Republica Payal Sharma Unknown Muriel Signouret The Magazine; budget controller, Ministry of Defence; secretary general, Public Sénat

Elisavet Sotiriadou Freelance (BBC News 24, BBC World Service, Sveriges Radio)

Serena Sterling PhD, clinical psychology; freelance, Spirituality & Health ; sports performance coach, Sterling Peak Performance

Corinne Touze News anchor, writer, Radio Mediterranee Internationale; freelance senior financial and corporate communications consultant; executive coach, business mediator and communication consultant, founder, CBC mediation Vanessa Viola Market reporter, Argus Media; oil broker, E A Gibson Shipbrokers

Dan Wallis Deputy foreign editor, Press Association; Tanzania correspondent, Uganda correspondent, Venezuela correspondent, US general news correspondent, Reuters

Barry Wilkinson Cricket correspondent, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation; cricket presenter, ESPN; managing director, Line & Length Network

Newspaper

Kate Allen Director, The Financial Information Company; statistics journalist, property correspondent, political correspondent; capital markets correspondent, The Financial Times

Simon Baker Trainee regional reporter, Press Association; politics editor; news editor; data editor, Times Higher Education

John Bingham News trainee, reporter, chief reporter, Press Association; news reporter, social and religious affairs editor, The Daily Telegraph

Harcharan Chandhoke Channel 4 Cricket magazine; assistant news editor, Daily Mail; commentator, International Business Times

Neil Chatterjee Energy desk, senior energy correspondent, deputy bureau chief, Reuters (Singapore); President, Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club; Editor, Bloomberg LP

Helen Fretter Sub-editor, deputy editor, Yachts & Yachting magazine; freelance journalist, editor, trueangle.com; deputy editor, Yachting World

Herpreet Kaur Grewal Reporter, Regeneration & Renewal; freelance, (The Guardian, The Observer); news editor, Redactive

Charlie Hamilton English desk editor, Courrier International (Presseurop); assistant editor, The Africa Report; global editor-in-chief, Take Part Media

Kate Allegue-Haywood IFR; senior reporter, Thompson Financial; reporter, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones; executive director of media relations, J.P. Morgan

Matt Hughes Sports writer, subeditor, guardian.co.uk, The Observer; sports reporter, Evening Standard; deputy football correspondent, The Times

Humfrey Hunter Freelance, (Mail On Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph); account manager, Ian Monk Associates; literary agent, Hunter Profiles

Scott Hussey Communications and public outreach officer, International Organisation for Migration, Kabul; communications specialist, International Relief and Development, Afghanistan; communications specialist (elections project), United Nations, Afghanistan; Unknown

Roland Jackson Multimedia editor, business reporter, Agence FrancePresse

Aidan Magee Football writer; Manchester correspondent, News of the World; reporter, Sky Sports News

Ashok Malhotra PhD, Indian history; research fellow, Queen’s University, Belfast

Helen Williams (née McCormick) Deputy features editor, Estates Gazette; content editor, Personnel Today; freelance

Luisa Metcalfe Digital lifestyle editor, Daily Express; UK assistant female editor, MailOnline; features editor, YOU Magazine

Laura Milne Trainee, feature writer, health features editor, Daily Express

Meilyr Morgan Current affairs journalist and researcher, HTV; Welsh language policy officer; Duke of Edinburgh Awards

Jane Mulkerrins News reporter, The Sunday Times; features, Daily Mail; freelance, (The Sunday Times, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, Evening Standard)

Laura Newland (née Borg) Network services, Winmark; senior events manager, Fast Track; business

development; investor relations and business development associate, Equitix LTD

James Nursey Sports reporter, The Argus; sports writer, Birmingham Post; freelance, sports reporter, Daily Mirror

Dan Rookwood Columnist, ES Magazine; columnist, GQ; US editor, Mr Porter

Natasha Salari Features, The Mail on Sunday; reporter, Community Care, Rebecca Gamble (née Smith) Reporter, Sunday Mirror; senior writer, deputy celebrity editor, acting celebrity editor, acting associate editor, Reveal; freelance, (Woman’s Weekly, Daily Express, Star Magazine, MadeForMums)

Annabelle Steggles News reporter, The Scottish Sun; Sunday Mirror; news reporter, The Scottish Sun, Thomas Teodorczuk Reporter, Daily Mail; arts reporter, Evening Standard; freelance writer, researcher and editor, news and features editor, Heat Street at Dow Jones

Rachel Williams Features writer, The Guardian; freelance, online columnist, Cosmopolitan

Alex Wynne Deputy editor, Beauty Business News; deputy editor, Cosmetic News Weekly; freelance (Women’s Wear Daily, BW Confidential)

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Matthew Adey Editor, Key; writer, Sky; English teacher, Loustan School Chei Amlani Reporter, Red Pepper magazine; freelance writer, Squaremeal Food; sports editor and London Olympics correspondent, head of digital publishing, Telegraph Media Group

Al Chan Information governance manager, Greater London Authority; Information compliance manager, SOAS; assistant director of business assurance, King’s College London Marissa Charles Freelance (Pride, Closer, Zest); features reporter, Splash News & Picture Agency; freelance, Marissa Charles Media

Catherine Clarke Editor, AnOther Magazine; freelance (Dazed & Confused, the Guardian, Time Out, Arena Homme Plus); deputy film editor, film editor TimeOut London Matthew Cottingham Assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; director, BBC Watchdog; director, The One Show; talent manager

Sarah-Jane Cutting editorial assistant, production editor, Australian Business Online; editor, WorkplaceInfo; business journalist, The Australian Sophy Dale Sub-editor, VNUnet. com; sub-editor, senior subeditor, Computing, research editor, Carnegie Investment Bank

Rebecca Evans Deputy editor, Health Service Journal; deputy editor, editor Construction Newsben grant; director, ESRO

Mernie Gilmore Freelance, Company; commissioning editor, Your Life; reporter, columnist, features writer, women’s editor, Daily Express

Ben Grant Deputy editor, The Drinks Business; Unknown Jessica Gunn Features editor, BBC Online; features editor, Olive; deputy editor, Waitrose Kitchen magazine Phil Hebblethwaite Editor, publisher, The Stool Pigeon; Freelance

(The Guardian, NME, Vice, The Quietus); articles editor BBC Music and BBC Proms; columnist, The Quietus

Dominique Hines New; news editor, Heat; life and style journalist, Daily Express

Claire Garcia (née Kilner) Freelance, PHAM Magazine; advice and information manager, BME services; policy and planning manager, General Medical Council

Ellie Levenson Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London; author, freelance; director, Fisherton Press

Fiona Macdonald Sub-editor, feature writer, features editor, editor, Home and Commuter, Metro; feature writer, BBC Culture

Debbi Marco Celebrity features editor, Full House; deputy editor, very.co.uk; editor, Triathlon Plus; freelance writer

Louie Purday Feature writer, Take a Break; features editor, Full House; freelance; Unknown

Heather Sadtler PA to editor, writer, GQ; director, FiestaSol (Spain)

Annabel Short Freelance (The Ecologist, Faber & Faber); corporate social responsibility consultant, Context; senior researcher, program director, deputy director Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (USA)

Geoffrey Spiteri News editor, Mergermarket; investment writer, M&G; senior investment editor, BNY Mellon

Amy Taylor Community Care; freelance

Daniel Thomas Reporter, Marketing Week; assistant news editor, Property Week; property correspondent, telecoms correspondent, assistant companies editor, Financial Times

Gaia Vince news editor, Nature; freelance (Guardian); author; columnist, BBC

Natalie Williams Communications consultant, Hastings Community Trust; communications director, New Ground; author

Broadcas t

Suad Ali Unknown

Claudine Altmann Jazz FM; broadcast journalist, Bloomberg Radio; news editor, Talksport; Unknown

Gurvinder Aujla-Sindhu Broadcast journalist, BBCAsian Network; freelance; lecturer, De Montfort University

Lucy Boast Producer, broadcast journalist, BBC

Vanessa Buschschlüter Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; Washington reporter and producer, BBC; Americas editor, Latin America editor, BBC World Service

Rebecca Dimyan Reporter, BBC Radio Wales; reporter, producer, BBC Radio 5 Live

Hilary Fraser Sales manager, IDEAglobal; consultant, Rogen International; director, Fraser Communications

Victoria Holden Broadcast journalist, senior broadcast journalist, BBC

Leigh Jennings Unknown

James Josephs Production journalist, ITN; Setanta Sports News, producer, Perform Group

Ragnhild Kjetland Banking

reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; technology reporter, Bloomberg; freelance photographer and writer

Jude Landau Producer, Feature Story News; freelance producer, NTR; trainee hypnotherapist

Jonathan Leleu Senior producer, BBC Six O’Clock News; BBC Breakfast; senior producer, UK affairs, BBC

Benjamin Lowings News reader, Radio New Zealand International; broadcast journalist; producer, BBC World Service

Christina Mackay Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC; broadcast journalist, BBC Scotland

Naomi McCafferty Broadcast journalist, BBC Northern Ireland; political broadcast journalist, BBC; Ireland producer, BBC Abi McLoughlin Assistant producer, Watchdog and Rogue Traders; press and communications officer, The Bat Conservation Trust; agent, The Voiceover Gallery

Shahab Mossavat Reuters (Iran); medical student, University of London; freelance, Middle East analyst; creative director, Sticky Tofee productions

Melanie Parry BBC news sponsorship scheme; producer, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, BBC Six O’Clock News; Unknown Ewan Petrie Reporter, newsreader, Radio Wave 102 Dundee; BBC Politics (Millbank); broadcast journalist, Scottish TV

Sohail Sahi Football reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; breakfast sports reader, Adil Ray Show, BBC Asian Network; football commentator, BBC Local Nishita Sharma Presenter, producer, Aliot Asian Arts show, Break FM; freelance (BBC World Service RadioNet)

Laura Sheeter Freelance reporter, producer, translator and copy editor (New York); associate lecturer, UAL; director, Chalk and Blade

Anna Thomas Presenter and reporter, Granada; news reporter and presenter, GMTV

Louise Tickle BBC World Service; Everywoman; freelance (The Guardian)

Jonathan Wald Assignment editor, CNN (London, New York); news editor, ITV

Monica Zilouf Freelance producer, ITV News

2002 International

Sherine Abdel-Razek Economics journalist, Al Ahram Weekly; head of economy desk, Al Sharouk (Cairo); deputy managing editor, deputy editor in chief, Al Ahram Weekly

Akram Al-Hendi Presenter, Yemeni Satellite Channel; teacher, Specialized Institute (Yemen); head of English news and programmes department, Yemeni TV; general manager 3A translation office

Linda Charles Ambrose Secretary, Clapton Football Club; adjunct professor, Monroe College

Nouna Andersson Editor, Fastzbeck Travel Guides (Sweden); freelance photographer, web editor and sub editor; medical secretary, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Vilma Anusaite UK correspondent,

Newspaper LT; freelance assistant producer (ABC News, NBC, Alpha Grid, CNBC); Commercial Partnerships and Sales Development Manager, Thomson Reuters

Asad Asad UK Gold Circular; Asian Telegraph; publisher, editor, Okhla Times

Neeraj Bali Public affairs and outreach officer, local governance and community development project (Afghanistan); deputy chief of radio, UN; Director, Communications and Fundraising, Smile Train

Amba Batra Bakshi Senior reporter, Indian Express (Bangalore); senior reporter, outlookindia.com; author, Every Life Counts, NDTV

Elisabeth Behrmann Market reporter, Dow Jones; commodities industry reporter, automotive reporter, Bloomberg News

Ginanne Brownell Researcher and producer, CNN; editorial manager, Newsweek (London); freelance (The Lily, New York Times, National Public Radio)

Ratchada Chitrada Producer, AsiaWorks Television; Senior Producer, AsiaWorks Television

Milly Clark Advertising, OK!

Jelena Culum Information officer, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College; head of international visa office, University of Law; Visa Compliance Officer, City, University of London

Limin Dai Editor-in-chief assistant and business development director, 21st Century Weekly; senior business development manager, University of Exeter (Beijing City, Shanghai City)

Nadia Damouni Financial reporter, dealReporter; corporate board correspondent, Reuters; senior vice president, Edelman; senior vice president, Prosek Partners

Sasha Damouni Ellis Global editor, Pharmawire; healthcare reporter, Bloomberg News; Director of US Media Relations, Bayer

Paola Desiderio Assistant producer/DV Director, BBC; Shooting Assistant Producer, ITV; shooting director, BBC

Perrine Faye Correspondent, basemetals.com; deputy chief correspondent, head of physical reporting, deputy editor in chief, FastMarkets Ltd; Global Base Metals Editor, Metal Bulletin

Camille Fournier Elle (Paris); psychology student, clinical psychologist, Hôpital NeckerEnfants Malades; clinical psychologist, Cabinet Liberal Jessica Frommer Managing editor, Institute of Cambodia; media and communications manager, EMRC International (Brussels); communications manager, PHRENOS.eu

Dimitra Gaidatzi Senior fashion writer, Vogue (Greece); freelance (Financial Times, UK Vogue, The Daily Telegraph, People)

Joanna Gasiorowska Senior sports presenter, Al-Jazeera English

Dwayne Gordon News editor, entertainment editor, The Star; editor, The Gleaner; editor, The Star (Jamaica); Unknown

Emily Gray Researcher, BBC Manchester

Harun Maruf Hassan Trainee, BBC; director, Somali Media Centre; senior editor, VOA Somali (Washington) Alex Holliday Associate, Thomas

Weisel; Director Asset Management, Majid Al Futtaim

Heather Hugley Administrative assistant, KSTP-TV

Elena Rathgeber Research analyst, Romeike; researcher, International Institute for Strategic Studies; research analyst and assistant, Independent Conflict Research & Analysis; deputy head researcher, Independent Conflict Research & Analysis

Matiullah Jan Media law advisor, Internews (Pakistan); senior correspondent, Dawn News TV; court correspondent and anchor, Waqt News (Pakistan) Brjann Jonasson Journalist, Morgunbladid; journalist, Frettabladdid; head of public communications, Cohn & Wolfe Íslandi; PR, BSRB

Charlotte Kan Equity sales/ research, North Square Blue Oak; freelance; co-founder, Fabrik.digital Gulender Karabiyik Editor, ATR Communications; Unknown Peter Kimani Senior associate editor, The Standard Group; doctoral candidate, University of Houston; Lecturer, Aga Khan University

Lila Kountourioti News presenter, Alter Channel (Athens); Novasports

ADNAN AHMED

Julian Kramer Editorial assistant, Open Democracy; PPC manager, Kaplan International; eCommerce paid search manager, RS Components

Solana Larsen Commissioning editor, director, Open Democracy; managing editor, Global Voices (New York); Freelance writer and consultant, World Wide Web Foundation; Editor, Internet Health Report, Mozilla Charlotta Larsson Unknown Celia Li News presenter, editor, Phoenix Chinese News Constance Libert Communications, Weber Shandwick; press department, Euro RSCG; press and communications advisor, Minister of Foreign Affairs unknown Kwangu Liwewe MA, human rights, ULU; co-ordinator, PAMODZI; West Africa Bureau chief, ENCA; presenter, Zambezi Magic Radio Fernando Lucena Current affairs, BBC; producer, Electric Sky Productions; producer, director, Fernando Lucena Films

Mukela Mangolwa Senior producer, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation; IEC specialist, Teveta Zambia; publicity and education manager, Road Transport and Safety

SHOOTING PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR, AREA 51 FILMS BROADCAST, 2002

What is the funniest thing you’ve heard on the job?

As a runner and researcher I went and visited a guy who had two Doberman dogs he couldn’t control. We were thinking of getting him to take part in a programme where a dog whisperer would help him out. I was almost mauled by those dogs. At one point him and I were hiding in the lounge with the door closed and those dogs trying to get in.

What is the one thing that you learnt at City that you still use in your career today?

The art of tenaciousness. If you want to get a story written or a film made, you basically have to bug people enough to open the door to you, but obviously not so much that they turn off to you completely. City gave me a thicker skin and taught me not to give up.

What has been the highlight of your career so far?

Filming, producing, directing and narrating a documentary for ITV 1 about driving test fraud. I authored the show from start to finish after having spent six months embedded with the police and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency.

What has been the biggest challenge of your career so far?

Making the television programmes that I want to make rather than making television to pay the bills. You’re making phone calls and going to meet people in your own time for an idea that might not be commissioned. It’s difficult financially and obviously it takes a lot of effort, but those stories end up being the most exciting and precious because they were your baby.

Simon Fearn

THEO LUKE

DIRECTOR OF CONTENT PARTNERSHIPS AT TWITTER BROADCAST, 2003

What is the highlight of your career so far?

Launching the Queen’s YouTube channel, the Royal Channel. My previous employer was Google, and on Christmas Day, 2007, we switched on the Queen’s YouTube channel for the Queen’s speech. It got a lot of press attention and was a combination of a lot of back and forth at the palace.

What’s the biggest change in how social media and journalism interact since you began your career?

I’m not strictly speaking as a journalist anymore, but if I were to take a stab: what platforms generally do, not just Twitter, is democratise the distribution of news, and lower the barriers of entry. The challenge remains on news organisations to distil the kernel of truth from the mass of content.

Best career advice you’ve received?

I’ll quote Otto van Bismarck:“Great men do not create the current of events, they can only float with them and steer.” You can distil that core down to everybody’s career advice. The current of events will not always go in your direction, but the challenge is to keep navigating the course, which gets you where you want to get to.

Nicholas Kenny

Agency

David Manley Marketing assistant, Universal Studios; product manager, Rockstar Games

Alexandro Martello Economics reporter, Portal G, Unknown

Joana Mateus Journalist, Diario Economico; journalist, Associated Press; freelance (Vogue); senior Europe TV producer, Associated Press (London)

Richard McColl Author, The Michelin Green Guide to Colombia; freelance contributor and defence correspondent, Diologo-Americas; host, Columbia Calling Radio (Colombia)

Nathalie McDermott Freelance trainer, City University; project officer, Radio for Development; director, On Road Media

Mike McIlvain Reporter, LareDOS; adjunct professor, Texas A&M University; lecturer, United International College; Multimedia instructor, Georgia Southern University

Pilar Medrano-Dell Secretary, Ebullient UK Limited

Anthony Mills Deputy director, International Press Institute; emergency communications advisor, SOS Children’s Villages International; Vienna Correspondent, FRANCE 24

Edetaen Ojo Executive director, Media Rights Agenda (Nigeria)

Dora Papagianni Unknown

Theodoulos Papavasiliou Lecturer; newspaper editor; chief editor, Weekly; editor-in-chief, M. Pitsilidis SA; General Manager, Think Plan Be Renee Louise Paul (née Chow)

managing director, evening school; programme manager in media; lecturer; teaching and learning inspector; Managing Director, webuyproperties.today LTD

Fiona Skenderlis (née Kallis) Post coordinator, Twofour Group; post production coordinator, ITV Studios; Marketing and PR, Cinematic Soundscapes

Marina Suponina Deputy editor, Travel Magazine, PR and press director,Rising Star Media; programme manager, Frontline Club, Unknown

Ian Talley Power and gas reporter; Norway correspondent; energy policy reporter, Dow Jones; international finance reporter, Wall Street Journal (Washington) Zoe Telegraphou Group marketing manager, Baker Tilley Cyprus; freelance journalist, The Write Formula; journalist, KANALI 6 Rawle Titus Anchor, sports show; talk show host; PR officer, National Disaster Management Agency; freelance; Grenada Government Information Service

Natasha Tynes (née Twal) Reports, Jordan Daily Times; Al Jazeera; founder, Tynes Media Group, Social Media Lead (IFC), World Bank Group

freelance, China Daily; news editor, Agence France-Presse Gemma Calvert Feature writer, News of the World; acting assistant editor, Fabulous!; freelance celebrity interviewer (Grazia, HELLO!, OK!, Closer, NOW, New!, Star, LOOK, Reveal)

Emma Clipp Chief sub-editor, Metro; sub-editor, Daily Mail; night editor, Metro

Angharad Couch Reporter, Bloomberg; financial PR advisor, director, Citigate Dewe Rogerson Anna Davis Reporter, education reporter, Reading Evening Post; reporter, education editor, deputy campaigns editor, Evening Standard Monidipa Fouzder Buckinghamshire Examiner; sub-editor, senior subeditor, Trinity Mirror; sub-editor, reporter, The Law Society Gazette

Sam Green Freelance sports subeditor and football writer, Olympic News Service (Vancouver Winter Olympics); freelance; English website editor, Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Freelance sub-editor (The Daily Telegraph and FourFourTwo); copy editor, Kyodo News

TV control room, ABC News; UK correspondent, Associated Press Radio; correspondent, BBC Caribbean, Unknown

Sarah Pozzoli Financial editor, A&F of La Repubblica; editor-in-chief, nostrofiglio.it; editor and chief, nostrofiglio.it kids magazines

Synnove Prytz Berset Journalist, Skarland Press AS

Dong-Fang Qiu Executive editor, CCTV news

Kovuuri Ganapathi Special correspondent and columnist, The Hans India; professor, Bangalore University; Freelance media consultant

Martin Ritchie Reporter, Western Gazette; reporter, Asia Editor, Metal Bulletin (China); Reporter, Bloomberg LP

Yenia Rivarola Medina MA in global journalism, University of Orebro; Unknown

Rocio Rodriguez-Fernandez account manager, Getty Images; events manager, Italian Secrets Catering; events manager, Venturi’s Table Corporate Cookery School

Roee Ruttenberg Assistant news editor, Al Jazeera (Washington); freelance (Tel Aviv); correspondent, CCTV; correspondent CGTN

Aliza Samorly Unknown

Hirotada Shimura Unknown

Shaima Shobokshi Unknown

Anastasia Kavada (née Siniori) Kathimerini; media PhD student, Westminster University; visiting lecturer, Westminster University; senior lecturer, Westminster University

Maria Sitaras-Yiangou Lecturer and

Tom Watson Producer, director, Tiger Aspect; assistant producer, BBC; series producer, Sky Sandy Wilheim Broadcast assistant, BBC World Service; search engine marketing, content partner, associate, strategic partner development manager, Google Ashley Williams Editor, ESPN magazine; senior editor, The Oprah Magazine; editor, Accenture’s Outlook journal

Christina Wu Copywriter, freelance, Content Strategist, Facebook Nicole Young Senior Producer, 60 Minutes/CBS Evening News Heng Yue Unknown Bertrand Yvernault La Montagne (Clermont-Ferrance, France); Le Journal de Centre (Nevers, France); author Irene Zournatzi Vogue (Greece); reporter, Liberis Publications

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Kirsti Adair Current affairs, ITV West; broadcast journalist, BBC Look East; freelance, BBC Newsround Rebecca Meehan (née Barr) Reporter, European transport reporter, US technology reporter, Europe reporter for TV, Bloomberg; presenter, CNBC; presenter (North West Tonight, BBC Radio 5 Live), BBC

Katrina Lloyd (née Baugh) Editor, ifaonline.co.uk; Incisive Media; editor, Investment Week

Stefania Bianchi EU correspondent, InterPress News Agency (Brussels); copy editor, transport and real estate reporter, Dow Jones; gulf finance reporter, Bloomberg News

Adam Blenford Freelance (Jerusalem); senior broadcast journalist, BBC World, Europe Deputy Editor, Bloomberg; Managing Editor, Digital News EMEA, Bloomberg Daniel Bushell HTTP Technology; business presenter, RT; host, The Truthseeker unknown Riazat Butt Reporter, Al Jazeera;

Angela Henshall Wall Street Journal; deputy editor, BBC Worldwide; deputy editor, BBC Capital Wesley Johnson Editor, Digital Services & Snappa, Press Association; SBTV News Board Member, Press Association; Managing Editor, BT.com, Press Association

Jon Kelly Trainee, Daily Mirror; broadcast journalist and reporter, BBC News Online; senior broadcast journalist, feature writer, commissioning editor, BBC News Magazine

James Kilner Editor, Almati Herald (Kazakhstan); reporter, Reuters; editor, The Conway Bulletin Serena Kutchinsky Digital editor, The Sunday Times Magazine; digital editor, Prospect magazine; digital editor, Newsweek Europe; senior journalist, BBC Three Gareth Law Trainee, The Sun; sports reporter, The Scottish Sun

Harry MacAdam Reporter, feature writer, The Sun; director; Autokey Squad

Roddy McDougall Editor-in-chief, Cantos; partner, Trinity Management Communications; director, Clackmae Ltd

Natasha McDowell Writer, Nature Magazine; Unknown

Caroline Meehan Freelance (Financial Times); reporter, Financial News; medical student, University College London; Unknown

Shafik Meghji Novelist; travel writer, Rough Guides; Freelance editor, Rough Guides

Ryan Mills Sports reporter, Bloomberg; production journalist, ITV Anglia, Unknown

Sonia Oxley Trainee, senior subeditor, sports desk, Reuters Lilly Peel The Statesman (Kolkata); features editor, Panos (London); communications officer, Christian Aid

Emma Pryer Travel columnist, The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney); showbiz reporter, The Sun; TV editor & Talk

TV columnist, The Sunday Mirror

Louise Redvers Freelance reporter (BBC, AFP, Monocle, the Guardian,

The Economist, The EIU, The Africa Report, The Mail, the Guardian, Africa Confidential); freelance journalist, South Africa; IRIN

Rachel Richardson TV editor, showbiz editor, News of the World; associate editor, editor, Fabulous; head of editorial content, Snapchat, Inc.

Ryan Sabey Reporter, News of the World; political correspondent, The Sun

Mark Scodie Jewish Chronicle; trainee solicitor, associate, litigation and dispute resolution, assistant solicitor, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP; corporate counsel, TripAdvisor Sam Sheringham Setanta Sports News; journalist, BBC Sport Interactive; producer, ‘Stumped’, BBC World Service

Nyree Stewart Senior reporter, features editor, Investment Advisor; writer, RBC Wealth Management

Christopher Tryhorn City correspondent, Media Guardian; associate, Demos; co-writer, A Future for Public Service Television

Andrew Walker Daily Trust (Abuja, Nigeria); reporter, BBC News Online; freelance Victoria Ward Trainee, Ireland correspondent, US correspondent, Press Association; news reporter, Daily Mirror; senior news reporter, The Daily Telegraph

Georgina Wykes PR and marketing officer, Spelthorne Borough Council

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Laura Atkinson Deputy news editor, news editor, Heat; features editor, Grazia; features editor, deputy editor, Style Magazine, The Sunday Times

Mark Beveridge Reporter, Housing Today; researcher, International Criminal Justice, Unknown Celeste Biever Technology news editor, deputy news editor, online news editor, chief news editor, New Scientist; chief news editor, Nature News and Comment

Tim Bradshaw Digital media correspondent, Financial Times; San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times; SF tech reporter & Personal Tech columnist, Financial Times

Tom Campbell Subeditor, SciDev. net; freelance subeditor; subeditor, New Scientist

Manfreda Cavazza News reporter, Retail Week; business correspondent, Sunday Express; freelance Victoria Chow (née Worsley) Freelance (Health & Fitness, Women’s Health); features sub-editor, Metro; freelance copyeditor and proofreader Michael Deacon Feature writer, The Sun Online; TV features editor, The Daily Telegraph; parliamentary sketchwriter, TV and books writer, The Daily Telegraph Priya Elangasinghe Staff Writer, Kultureflash.net; production assistant, Carlton Television; freelance (Q, Ink, Seve, TOTP, Girl About Town, kultureflash.net, Bleedmusic, Smash, Hits, Zoo); editor, The Guardian Guide Abigail Frymann Foreign news editor, online editor, The Tablet; freelance reporter (Mail Online, The Guardian, The Independent, The Tablet); MA in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College; freelance Dafydd Goff Writer and sub-editor, The Month, The Sunday Times; music

editor, Time Online; online music sub-editor, culture sub-editor, The Guardian; died 2014

Naomi Greenaway Features editor, associate editor, assistant editor, Glamour (South Africa); freelance (Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, Glamour, Top Sante, Woman&Home, Mail Online); associate editor, Stella Gareth Jones Footstep Productions; product development manager; head of information, Dr. Foster Research

Victoria Kennedy Deputy content director and digital editor, Now; deputy editor, ITV This Morning; editor, ITV Lorraine

James Knight The Sunday Times (Food & Travel); Bradt Travel Guides; freelance (Reuters, The Economist, The Sunday Times, BBC Online, African Business, Africa Investor)

Laura Kyle Copy editor, reporter, voice-over, China Central Television International; producer, reporter Al Jazeera (Kuala Lumpur); presenter at Al Jazeera

Darren Lazarus Deputy news editor, senior reporter Estates Gazette; deputy online editor, online editor, executive editor, Financial News; WSJ City app, The Wall Street Journal

Kerry McCarthy Acting associate editor, Woman’s Day; wellness/ careers editor, Marie Claire; freelance (Pacific Magazines)

Ruth McCarthy Beauty writer, HairFlair & Beauty; commissioning editor, Full House; news and features editor, Take 5 (Sydney)

Laura McCreddie Deputy editor, Salon Therapist; managing editor, Professional Beauty and Retail Jeweler; editor, Eve’s Watch

Iain Noble Sub-editor, Zoo Weekly (Sydney); sub-editor, deputy chief sub-editor, NW magazine (Sydney); freelance

Olivia Richwald Education reporter, Evening News, Norwich); reporter, Northern Echo; video journalist, BBC Yorkshire

Gregor Ridley Freelance consultant, Blue Rubicon; media relations manager, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; assistant director, global advisory PR leader, EY, Head of UK Marketing and Communications, Oliver Wyman

Stephen Russell Freelance (Sunday Herald); staff writer and web master, Big Issue (Scotland); freelance (Oz Magazine, Citysearch, DNA, Artisan, Fairfax Community Network, Time Out Melbourne)

Elena Seymenliyska Sub-editor, arts & books, The Daily Telegraph; freelance editorial consultant; subeditor, Aeon Magazine

Graham Smith News editor, online editor, MailOnline; editor, BusinessTraveller.com; deputy online news editor, Newsweek Europe; deputy digital news editor, CNBC International

Chloe Stothart Reporter, finance editor, deputy news editor, Housing Today; freelance (Children, Now, New Star, Young People, the Guardian, Third Sector, Construction News, Inside Housing)

Deborah Stowe Journalist, Business Review (Bucharest); author, Thomas Cook Publishing; freelance, copy editor and journalist (Business Review Magazine)

Matthew Thompson Trident

Communications; account executive, journalist, account manager, Citigate Publishing; Unknown

Daniel Uglow Freelance travel writer (Australia); managing editor, editor-in-chief, editorial director Travel Weekly Australia; co-founder and editorial director, The Misfits Media Company

Eleanor White Freelance (The Sun, The Evening Standard, Closer, new!, Now, OK!, that’s life!, Chat, Pick Me Up, Bella); editorial and content strategist, Weber Shandwick Health; senior creative copywriter, Hive Health Group; freelance journalist and copy writer

Peter Wilson section editor, Fabric magazine; editor, Forward; editor, managing editor, editorial director, Specialist

Adam Withrington European PR and events controller, Accolade wines; senior PR manager, Treasury Wine Estates; senior corporate communications and public affairs manager Europe, Treasury Wine Estates

Kate Woodward Freelance (Inside Soap, All About Soap, ITV.com, Sugar, Sun TV magazine, Soaplife, Closer, Reveal, What’s on TV); news editor, Inside Soap; the Crime Writers’ Association

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Munier Abdalla Broadcast journalist, Downton Radio; PM Editor, Cool FM; broadcast journalist, UTV

Edward Adams Output Producer, ON; video consultant, video news editor, head of video, Telegraph Media Group; co-founder, Watching That; freelance video producer Adnan Ahmed Producer, Al Jazeera English; producer/director, Mandrake Films; series producer, Screenchannel Television, shooting producer, director, Area 51 films

Eve-Marie Akers Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1xtra & BBC World Service; reporter, BBC Radio 2; reporter BBC Radio 4 Edward Baran Reporter and television news producer, Reuters News Agency; Assistant Editor, UK Video Desk, MailOnline; freelance reporter, producer and editor Melissa Barham Head of development, Mentorn (Oxford); researcher, Brook lapping; freelance TV current affairs producer; correspondent/presenter at ITV Antony D’Angelo Freelance (City AM); associate producer, football reporter, senior producer, associate producer, talkSPORT; athletics producer, BBC5 Live Oliver Dearden Senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5; producer, Morning Edition, line producer weekend edition, National Public Radio (Washington DC); supervising producer, National Public Radio (Washington, DC)

Jodie Fielder Sports broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Kent; TV journalist, BBC Look North; senior broadcast journalist, BBC North West Tonight, Unknown Kate Fisher Broadcast journalist, BBC Midlands Today; freelance (FJ Productions); filmmaking tutor, Brighton MET Adam Fleming Presenter, reporter,

BBC Newsround, Sportsround; political reporter, BBC

Jenny Gimpel Senior press officer, Great Ormond Street Hospital; PR manager (health), King’s College London; head of media, Asthma UK (maternity cover); director of communications, open research, Springer Nature

Kirsten Hills Assistant producer, BBC Current Affairs; reporter ITV Central South; journalist, ITV Central West; journalist, BBC News; reporter, Lorenzo de Medici (Florence); journalist, filmmaker, The Florentine; freelance; founder, HillsFilms.com

Rachel Horne (née Gibson) Beakfast radio reporter, BBC Essex; presenter, BBC Newsround; reporter, BBC Working Lunch; presenter and producer, BBC News Channel and BBC World

Sonja Jessup Broadcast journalist, BBC Essex, BBC Look East; senior broadcast journalist, BBC London TV; Reporter & Presenter BBC London News

Julie Kangisser (née Hayman) Department for Work and Pensions; director of corporate marketing and communications, Middlesex University; director, Think Communications Limited

Anna Lee Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Cleveland; reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; Unknown

Kasia Madera BBC Asian Network; senior broadcast journalist, presenter, BBC News; presenter, BBC World News

Joel Mapp Spotlight; producer/ director, BBC Inside Out; director, BBC Watchdog

Christopher Mason Radio Newcastle; political reporter, Europe correspondent, BBC; political correspondent, BBC Rhiannon Mills ITV Yorkshire; freelance (ITV, Sky, Sky Sports, BBC); royal correspondent, Sky News

Sarah Mills Producer, reporter and anchor, senior reporter, morning show reporter, host, The Sarah Mills Show; senior reporter, 980 CJME and 650 CKOM (Rawlco Radio); assistant news director, 980 CJME

Rachel Muir Assistant producer, BBC Newsround, Boys & Girls, Sex and British pop, The Princess & Panorama; ITV; Daily Mirror

Jonathan Norman Football commentator, UEFA; cricket correspondent, executive producer, cricket editor, talkSPORT; presenter, Cricket Week, talkSPORT 2

Jessica Parfitt Production coordinator, BBC

Georgia (Peters) Tolley Newsreader for ARN; freelance writer, Inverse. com; producer/presenter, The Business Breakfast, Dubai Eye 103.8; freelance writer for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Freelance Journalist PayDesk

Jim Reed Reporter, BBC Newsnight; reporter, BBC Radio 4; reporter, Victoria Derbyshire programme. Saria Rees-Roberts Freelance (BBC); press office, Amnesty International, Unknown

Nishita Sharma Reporter, presenter, features writer, Wish Hard Production Company

Ann Smith BBC Radio Essex; broadcast journalist; production journalist, ITV Border, Unknown

Yean Tang Unknown

Amanda Walker News reporter, LBC Radio; reporter, ITV Border; US Correspondent, Sky News

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Baptiste Aboulian Freelance (20 Minutes France SAS); managing editor, Ignites Europe

Tareq Al-Arab Financial journalist, Financial Times; deputy head of press, German Embassy London; senior communications business partner for the CFO, Siemens Fareena Alam Editor, Q News; freelance (The Guardian, Newsweek International)

Anna Albien Unknown

Vilma Anusaite Contributing editor, Bon Vivant Concierge; freelance (CNBC, NBC, Alpha Grid, ABC); commercial partnerships & sales development manager, Thomson Reuters, Creative Director, EMA, Reuters PLUS, Thomson Reuters

Tunde Asaju Consultant, Enable Media Project; chief operating officer, Africa Passion Radio; journalist, writer, public affairs analyst, social media manager, Christian Horizons Zalina Azman Managing director, Maxmedia Sdn Bhd, Unknown Neha Bal Reporter, Dow Jones; Unknown

Mark Bhagwandin Website moderator, MSN; senior education and media officer, LIFE; chairman, Vice President at Oxford East Conservative Association Ruben Bicho Deputy editor, Economico TV; senior associate, consultant, The Boston Consulting Group; deputy director of communications, EDP

Daniela Bluth Goldfarb Cultural pages, Trés; reporter, editor, chief sub-editor, Galeria; Unknown Eva Rey Botana Correspondent, Basque Country Radio (London); presenter, news anchor, RCN TV, Unknown

Semanario Busqueda Freelance Nikolaos Broumas Account manager, Rascal S.A.; account manager, OgilvyOne Worldwide (Athens); account director at OgilvyOne Worldwide

Laura Regehr (née Brown) Freelance associate producer, Metro Morning; associate producer, senior producer, CBC Radio Toronto; writer/ editor/ producer, Flying Feathers Media Olga Budarova Broadcast assistant, BBC Radio 4; freelance Amandine Cauchy project manager, Groupe Alain Ayache; digital project manager, Ciclic; freelance digital project manager; freelance consultant in the digital industry Gabrielle Chatelain-Moor Producer, Associated Press; TV reporter, Agence France Presse; deputy coordinator, AFPTV France; deputy video manager, AFP Amérique du Nord

Victoria Chimbwanda (née Massimo) Internal communications, Plan UK; communications manager, Kessben Group of Companies; communications and public relations officer, ag director, public affairs & marketing, Private University

Jana Ciglerovß Presenter, Radio Express & Czech TV; editor, MAFRA; Unknown

Ryan Coopamah Writer and subeditor, senior journalist, editor, Brave New Words; head of communication, The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd

Elodie Cuzin Online editor, Discovery Channel; freelance (Spain) (Le Monde, Libération, L’Agefi, Rue89, Le Télégramme, Statégies, Les Inrocks, Marianne); journalist Agence FrancePresse (Madrid, Washington D.C.)

Veronique Deiller Le Journal des Femmes; section editor, Psychologies; editor-in-chief, MagicMaman.com; freelance

Yanik Delvigne-Jean freelance (Ecuador)

Skye Docherty Researcher, reporter, producer, Insight SBS TV (Australia); writer and researcher, supervising producer (Breakfast), producer and reporter, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Eduardo Escorial García Head of development, Shine Iberia; Senior Manager Content Developmen, C&E SWEMEA; director of content, Grupo Secuoya

Behzad Farsian Stringer, The Daily Telegraph (Iran); freelance; owner and managing director, AutoGlass Middle East

Mathieu Fournier Journalist, researcher, public affairs, Télé Quebec; Ludicatif Present, CBC; journalist, presenter, Radio Canada

Jennifer Furmidge Freelance consultant (Challenges Worldwide); senior manager, product development access and contingency services, VocaLink

Sergiy Grytsenko Media and communications officer (Ukraine), United Nations Development Programme; press advisor, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; communications analyst, The World Bank; Unknown Silvia Guzzetti Italian teacher, University of Leicester; Freelance (Avvenire, Famiglia Cristiana, Club 3, Letture)

Samantha Schneider (née Hays)

Pre-comp coordinator, proofreader, Anthology; event coordinator, Stitch Together Events; marketing specialist, Encore Packaging; marketing manager, RE/MAX

“Top Performers;” graphics and communication OCM consultant – global IT, Shire; graphic design and marketing consultant, Samantha Creates; IT manager and OCM strategic communications consultant, Exelon

Christine Hoffmann Freelance; associate editor, Getty Images

Jan Hromadko Reporter, Dow Jones; reporter, Wall Street Journal; senior consultant, Charles Barker Corporate Communications

Heather Hugley Administrative assistant, KSTP-TV

Helena Iveson Newsreader, anchor, CCTV International; freelance (South China Morning Post, Asia Weekly, The Australian, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian); senior writer, FleishmanHillard

Jingjing Jiang China Business Weekly

Marit Borud Kamark Freelance

(Eva, HSMAI travel business, Insero, Hotell Restaurant OG Reiseliv); senior associate, Korn Ferry (Norway); Partner, Flensby & Partners

Njoki Karuoya National project professional personnel, KEMEP/ UNFPA; senior communications

officer, UNFPA Kenya; Chief Executive Officer, Keroche Foundation

Ruhi KhanSenior correspondent, Mumbai Mirror, Times of India; principal correspondent, NDTV; editor, Newsletter: Life & Times, 5E Ltd; freelance Sunanda Malik Senior subeditor, reporter, HindustanTimes. com; principal correspondent, Times Internet Limited; global corporate communications, global talent marketing & corporate communications, Vice President, Genpact

Jeremy Landor Unknown

Leslie Ann Lee Session producer, Sheffield Doc/Fest; development producer, Confidential; VP development, Alpha Bear Productions; Forward Maisokwadzo Communications officer, Mediawise; coordinator at EJN Dalia Martinez Freelance Joana Mateus Vogue (Portugal); Atlantico Magazine; reporter, senior TV producer, Associated Press Isaiah Mbuga Communications consultant, Promoting Media; lecturer, Uganda Christian University; Uganda communications and advocacy specialist, Research Triangle International; Yan Mei Research fellow, marketing and business strategy, University of Westminster; London coordinator, external relations executive, China Policy Institute; programme coordinator, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Elodie Mialet Freelance, France 2; broadcast journalist, France TV; producer, Canal Plus (France); Sara Yasmine Mohamed Assistant manager, vice president, corporate communications, CIMB Investment Bank; Vice president corporate affairs, Citibank Berhad

Sandra Nyaira Website editor, coeditor, ZimbabweJournalists.com; English editor, Voice of America; Public Information Officer, United Nations

Alan O’Sullivan Reporter, Trinity Mirror South; banking correspondent, This Is Money, The Mail on Sunday; reporter, Daily Mail; Director, Peregrine Communications Filipa Parreira Reporter, sub-editor, Lusa News Agency (Portugal) Alicia Peyrano Researcher, reporter, Time Out; producer, Reef Television, producer, Waddell Media; owner, Little Citizens Boutique Isabelle Porter Freelance reporter, La Gazette des Femmes; cultural correspondent, Le Devoir (Montreal) Doreen Rietentiet Producer, Deutsche Welle; external relations, TV21/CNBC (Germany); PR consultant at DRW Eco (Germany); Founder, DWR eco Matthew Robinson Radio B92 (Serbia); Balkans correspondent, South Caucasus correspondent, Balkans chief correspondent, Reuters Maria-Nefeli Sarafoglou International news reporter, NET and ETI; news anchor, ERT (Greece); political correspondent, news anchor, Mega TV

Nicola Scevola Scriptwriter, travel documentaries, Rai (Italy); freelance (Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Casa Vogue, Myself, Io Donna, Amica, Tu Style, SkySport24, Reuters, La Stampa, Il

Foglio)

Patrick Schleisman Unknown Amanda Scott CNN International; web news editor, NBC 10 News (Philadelphia); multimedia journalist, international broadcaster, newswriter, Voice of America

Sunil Shetty Executive director, Alpha Amega Services; co-founder & CEO, Askfunding; founder & CEO, Askmentor Shamillia Sivathambu Vice president, corporate communications, PIMCO; communications, Labuan IBFC; head, strategic communications, United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Tor Ketil Solberg Advisor, EURES (Norway); course instructor, Folkeuniversitetet; City of Refuge coordinator, Stavanger Cultural Centre; Introductory Programme Adviser, Johannes læringssenter Jugoslav Stojanov Lead analyst, (Automotive); Datamonitor plc, Unknown Carolina Stupino ANSA; Il Messaggero (Italy); Unknown Gonzalo Suarez Redondo Freelance, (MTV magazine, Capital, Fortuna Sports); reporter, La Razon (Madrid); reporter, El Mundo newspaper (Cronica - Sunday features supplement); editor at PAPEL (El Mundo’s magazine)

Kiryl Sukhotski Host, BBC Russia Ian Talley Energy policy reporter, international finance reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; international finance reporter, illicit finance reporter, The Wall Street Journal Yogita Tahilramani

Communications consultant, CIFOR; political and security analyst, Hill & Associates (Jakarta); Unknown Emre Temel Producer, BBC World Service (Turkey); senior web editor, Al Jazeera Turk Luciana Teshima Unknown, Associate, Stiles Harold Williams; Regional Property Manager, SDL Group Line Hassall Thomsen Channel 4 News; PhD in Newsroom Studies, Aarhus University; journalism lecturer, Aarhus University Arturo Torres Unknown Julien Toyer EU correspondent, Thomson Reuters; senior correspondent, Reuters News (Spain); Bureau Chief, Reuters (Spain) Johanna Treeck Senior correspondent, Thomson Reuters; senior European Central Bank correspondent, MNI News/ Deutsche Boerse Group; european economics correspondent, POLITICO Europe

Admore Tshuma, PhD, lecturer (Poverty and International Development), University of Bristol; course leader, South East Essex College; Programme Leader - BSc (Hons) Sociology & Pyschology, University Centre, Southend; Lecturer at School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at University of Kent

Rosalind Tunnicliffe Freelance, Associated Press Radio

Christine Wambaa Reporter, bureau chief, East Africa correspondent, SABC, Nation Media Group (Nairobi); public information audio visual productions, UN Isabell Witt credit reporter, Thomson Reuters; freelance; senior

editor, LCD News, McGraw Hill Financial; senior editor, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Fabienne Wydler Proofreader, Merrill; spokesperson, humanitarian aid (Switzerland); media coach, Patrick Rohr Kommunikation; Media production, spokesperson, media trainer, UNDAC, WFP, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Yacine Yala Reporter, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (Beirut); HR and administration director, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Algérie Jennifer Zausch Senior producer, Associated Press Television News

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Kerry Beadling Entertainment reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; senior reporter, Coventry Telegraph; head of communications, UHCW NHS Trust; Head of Communications, SFH NHS Foundation Trust

Emily Beament News trainee, general reporter, environment and heritage correspondent, Press Association

Kara Griffiths (née Bradley) Communications officer, Amey; media relations manager, communications and stakeholder engagement manager - estates development, University of Birmingham; Director of Operations, University of Birmingham Jaymes Bryla Trainee sub-editor, Press Association; news subeditor, Daily Mail; news sub-editor, associate night editor, The Sun Timothy Burroughs China Daily; editor-in-chief, China Economic Review; managing editor Asian Venture Capital Journal (Hong Kong) Margaret Clothier Reuters (Russia) Tom Collomosse Sports reporter, Press Association; sports reporter, cricket and football correspondent, Evening Standard

Lorraine Cushnie Editor, EuroWeek Asia; editor, GlobalCapital Asia; managing editor, Capital Markets Group, Asia; Partner, New Narrative Ltd

Anna Ford (née Farley) News reporter, Press Association; media manager, Save The Children; head of PR, CAFOD

Jane Fryer Writer, GQ; trainee, feature writer, Daily Express; staff feature writer, Daily Mail

John Harrington Senior reporter, deputy news editor, Morning Advertiser; associate editor, M&C Report: deputy editor, PR Week Meyrem Hussein Reporter, Ipswich Evening Star; reporter, Islington Gazette

Caroline Iggulden Feature writer, features editor, The Sun; features editor, senior feature writer, News International (New York); Features editor, News International (London) Mark Meadows Freelance sports and travel journalist, Reuters; Berlin tour guide; sports producer, reporter, studio expert, DW TV

Brian Moher Staff writer, Reuters; Self-Fly Safaris (South Africa)

Caroline Cowe Senior writer, RBS, Corporate & Institutional Banking; Owner and blogger, Caroline Makes; leadership communications, senior content manager, NatWest Markets (RBS)

Sachin Nakrani Sports reporter and sub-editor; sports features editor, The Guardian; writer & editor, The Guardian

Arabella Newnham Freelance series producer, assistant producer; producer; series producer, FremantleMedia UK

Svenja O’Donnell Reporter, economy and politics correspondent, Bloomberg News; Uk politics/ treasury correspondent, Bloomberg News

Sarah Ogden Senior marketing executive, Improve; campaign manager, communications manager, content marketing manager, Aviva; Unknown

Lisa Parry Reporter, Grimsby Evening Telegraph; freelance, Times Educational Supplement; freelance playwright Kiran Randhawa Reporter, Daily Mail; senior reporter, Evening Standard

Chloe Rhodes Features assistant, commissioning editor, The Daily Telegraph; Unknown

Matthew Roper Feature writer, Daily Mirror; founder, Meninadança; freelance

Jessica Shepherd Reporter, Times Higher Educational Supplement; education correspondent, news editor (planning), The Guardian; head of public affairs, communications and campaigns, The Challenge; media relations, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Primrose Slater (née Skelton) Editor, Lovestyle.com; online Editor, Motivate Publishing (Dubai); freelance PR executive; Seven Media (Dubai)

Bobby Stansfield News reporter, Daily Mirror; Press officer, private secretary, Department for International Development

Mark Stevenson Reporter, The Scottish Sun; news reporter, The Sun; television scriptwriter

Steven Swinford Reporter, The Sunday Times; deputy news editor, senior political correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Deputy political editor, The Telegraph

Louise Thomas Reporter, assistant news editor, WMN; assistant editor, Daily Mail

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Anushka Asthana Political reporter, chief political correspondent, The Times; political correspondent, Sky News; joint political editor, The Guardian

Antony Barton Assistant editor, deputy editor, Electrical Review, Electrical Times; news editor, Supply Management; freelance travel writer

Julie Bieles Physiotherapist, London Scottish RFC; PhD student, King’s College London; physiotherapist, Richmond Rugby and Football Club

Sarah Bush UK country manager, Pinterest; consultant, LVDY Consulting; head of product marketing and new channels, LoveCrafts; consultant, LVDY Consulting

Nick Clark Freelance, staff writer, section editor, Financial News; reporter, arts correspondent, The Independent; features editor, The Stage Media Company Ltd Caroline Corcoran Freelance editor,

Heat; editor, 3am Online; freelance (Stylist, Grazia, Look, Cosmopolitan, Fabulous)

Adrian Cornell Sub-editor, The Daily Telegraph; PhD in History at Lancaster University; teacher, associate lecturer in history, Lancaster University

Joanna de Mille (née Grobel) Feature writer, Morning Advertiser; Lime PR; director, Exact PR Anthony Dhanendran Senior producer, BBC Global iPlayer; product manager, BBC Good Food; Digital product lead, BBC Top Gear Maria Englund CEO, Asia at Better Business; international PR and branding consultant, Inema PR; cofounder and director, Style by Asia Paul Isaacs Freelance critic; writer, Eye Weekly; senior digital editor, digital content team manager, UNICEF UK

Vanessa Jolly Assistant editor, The Sunday Times; families and sexes editor, The Times; deputy editor, Times2

Anna Kierstan News and features writer, Drapers; freelance editor, Worldwide; chief sub-editor, head of content quality, Which?

Helen King (née Down) PR manager, The Mill; copyrighter, consultant, owner, Treacle PR Rebecca King Researcher, food

and interiors, The Saturday Times Magazine; senior writer, The Sun; Femail commissioning editor, Daily Mail

Chris Lines Editor, Host City; deputy editor, Gambling Online; editor, Gambling Insider; publications officer, City University London

Jonathan Lipsey Deputy editor, editor, Men’s Fitness; co-founder, IronLife, co-founder of Alpha Man; publishing director, IronLife Media

Alex Marshall Senior reporter, investigations editor, online news editor, ENDS Report; freelance, (Flux, Vision China Daily, Stool Pigeon, BBC, The New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent); author, Random House Books

Kate Maxwell Editor-in-chief, Jetsetter; Europe editor, contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller; editorial director, Soho House Group; editor-inchief, Grow by Facebook

Andrew Morris Features editor, arts editor, contributing editor, GQ; editor, Gigwise; acting deputy editor, BA High Life

Lisa Murch Freelance, The Sunday Telegraph, Ubiqus

Sean O’Connell Chief product and marketing officer, Skrill; Chief digital officer, Plexus; chief digital officer, Ascential Plc.

Rose Parfitt Freelance (Your Life!,

ANUSHKA ASTHANA JOINT POLITICAL EDITOR,

THE GUARDIAN PERIODICAL, 2003

What is the most memorable interview you’ve ever done?

I got to do a 15-minute interview with Barack Obama in 2006 when I was on the Laurence Stern fellowship at The Washington Post. They told me he was a rising star senator and some were already saying he could be the next president. I even wrote in my blog when I got back home about how amazing it was. It was much better than other exciting part of my experience which involved flying on air force one with President Bush!

What has been the highlight of your career so far?

I loved covering the 2015 election for Sky - being on Cameron’s bus I really got to see the campaign from close up. Leading political coverage overnight at The Guardian on the night of the Brexit referendum and writing the splash for that was pretty special, too.

What is the best career advice you have received that you would give to someone else?

Always be willing to go for jobs that might seem out of reach, because sometimes just missing out on a big opportunity can open up other doors. Doing unexpectedly well as The Guardian’s South Asia correspondent was what propelled me into the parliamentary lobby as a political writer and I’ve never looked back.

What was the worst moment you have ever had while on live television?

Being secretly pregnant while covering an overnight by-election and having to run to vomit betwe≠en each live hit.

Lucas Oakeley

LISTINGS

Blues & Soul, Mix, The List, Dr. Foster); PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies; lecturer and researcher, University of Melbourne Law School

Caitlin Pike Editor, Mid-Sussex Matters; editorial assistant, broadcast reporter, reporter, Press Gazette

Peter Robins Sub-editor, The Guardian; production editor, The Spectator; The New York Times

Charlotte Ronalds Assistant editor, Junior Education; deputy editor, Child Education; freelance travel writer Hayley Shedden Celebrity writer, Woman; brand solutions editor, BBC Worldwide; creative solutions editor, Immediate Media

Sebastian Skeaping tuner and restorer, Dr Piano; owner, Thornhill Pianos

John Stepek Writer, Sunday People; finance writer, Teletext; website editor, deputy editor, executive editor, Money Week

Natalie Stevenson Features reporter, Property Week; technology editor, deputy features editor, Retail Week; teacher, deputy head teacher

Rachel Tompkins Features, Take a Break; senior writer, deputy features editor, features editor, head of features, Pick Me Up and Chat; freelance

Esther Walker Features writer, The Independent; freelance (The Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, The Guardian, Easy Living and Tatler); author

Charles Williams Editorial manager, British Red Cross; head of external affairs, Business in the Community; content manager, head of content, Marie Curie Cancer Care

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Candice Allen-Olson Sky News; internal communications manager, ArcelorMittal; freelance video producer, director and editor Kate Atkinson Reporter, producer, ITV Local News; assistant programme editor, ITN Claire Bridge researcher, Sky News; broadcast journalist, 2-Ten-FM (Heart Berkshire); chief sub-editor, Sky News Digital

Jonathan Bithrey Freelance (BBC Radio Solent, BBC Hereford and Worcester); broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Jersey; business reporter, editor, presenter, BBC World Service

Abigail Brown Researcher, The Sharp End, Ten Alps, Brook Lapping; producer, Julian Worricker Show; BBC Radio Five Live

Peter Denton Broadcast journalist, Mix 96 Aylesbury; drive time presenter, Mix 107; presenter, Spirit FM; media relations officer, Sussex Police; fundraising communications officer, Action Medical Research

Edith Djin Reporter, Mail on Sunday; junior account executive; PR account executive

Clair Duff Researcher, associate producer, Channel 5

Ayesha Durgahee Freelance, BBC Radio 1Xtra News; freelance associate producer, CNN International; presenter, Bloomberg Alison Earle Showbiz reporter, ITN; freelance producer/reporter (CNBC, BBC News, Getty); video journalist, London Live ESTV

Ian Edgar Transmission controller, BSkyB; senior transmission

controller at Sky

Adam Fleming Presenter, reporter, Newsround, BBC; political correspondent, BBC News; reporter, Daily Politics

Rachel Hersey (née Fowell)

Broadcast journalist; BBC Lincolnshire; senior press officer, Department for Transport; head of HS” engagement and briefing, Department for Transport

Claire French Producer, BskyB

Elizabeth Hill Bulletin journalist, RI:SE, Channel 4; news editor, ITV

London News

Naomi-Jayne Holland Senior producer, Eventful Management; executive, NPire Ltd; AM bulletins editor, Cool FM and Downtown Radio

David Jerman Freelance reporter (BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire); sports producer, BBC Radio Lincolnshire; assistant editor, senior broadcast journalist, BBC Look North

Loveday Kitto video journalist, BBC Look North; reporter, GMTV; producer, ITV

Christopher Landau religious affairs correspondent, BBC; Anglican trainee priest, Ripon College Cuddesdon; curate, Church of England; postgraduate pastor, St Aldates Church, Oxford

Adrian Larkin Head of music, AudioBoom; owner, Iwonderwhat digital; social media manager, Truffle

Talent

Robert Lawrence Senior producer, Newsbeat; senior producer, Jeremy Vine Show; assistant editor, editor, BBC News

Helen Ledwick Broadcast assistant, BBC; assistant producer, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio; newsreader, BBC Radio Derby; reporter BBC GNS; newsreader/presenter/producer, BBC 5 Live

Benjamin Lowings Web producer, Fairfax Interactive; news reader (Europe correspondent), Radio New Zealand International; producer, BBC World Service

Theo Luke broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Bristol; content partnership associate, YouTube, Google; head of digital, SYCO; partner developer EMEA, Twitter

Rachel Lynch Senior broadcast journalist, BBC

Nina Manwaring BBC Nottingham; Today Programme, BBC Radio 4

Julius Mbaluto Attachments (Carlton TV, Alamo); freelance, editor in chief IEA News

Darren McKenzie Radio New Zealand; newsreader, BBC WM; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live

Francis Mensah Producer, Channel 4

Lorna Milton Reporter, BBC

Three Counties Radio; strategic communications specialist, MWH Global; senior PR and media advisor, New Zealand Inland Revenue

Ramita Navai documentary maker, Channel 4 Unreported World; freelance foreign affairs journalist; author

Tom Parker Reporter, BBC Radio 4; photo editor, Condé Nast Traveler (India); freelance photographer

Josephine Parry Unknown

Kawser Quamer Channel 5 News; senior broadcast journalist, duty producer, BBC; weather presenting attachment, BBC Scotland

Hayley Radford Presenter, producer, The Gallery, Channel 4; presenter, Bizarre podcast, The Sun; director of marketing and co-founder, Authoright

Luke Robinson Head of media, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts; deputy director of communications and external affairs, Southbank Centre; head of communications, Breakthrough Media; strategic communications, Ministry of Justice

Max Rushden presenter, Sky Sports; presenter, BBC Radio 5 Live; football podcast presenter, The Guardian Oliver Rogers Freelance film maker (England Hockey, Helen Rollason Cancer Charity); communications advisor, corporate responsibility advisor, corporate affairs executive, external affairs consultant, Northumbrian Water Group; external affairs consultant, Essex & Suffolk Water; communications officer, Defra Peter Thackrey Teacher, Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys; head of modern languages, Bedales School; head of boarding, Bedales School

Daniel Whitworth Producer, LBC; freelance (BBC Sheffield and York); reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC London, Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 1 Mark Worthington Senior broadcast journalist, BBC Northern Ireland; east of England reporter, BBC; partner, managing director, Bell Pottinger (Singapore)

2004

International

Rasha Abu Baker Programme analyst, United Nations Development Programme; national reporter, The National (Dubai); executive news editor, Emirates News Agency John Odey Aduma publisher, vigilance-securitymagazine.com; author; director, UK Magazines Ltd; Unknown Despina Afentouli E-mentor, City University; professor and social work lab assistant, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; professor/instructor, Institute of Vocational Training (Athens) Natalya Baigozhina Foreign editor, Express-K; creative director, Gorod Roddy Batchasingh Reporter, Trinidad and Tobago Express; senior lecturer in communication and journalism, College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago; part-time communication studies lecturer, University of the West Indies St Augustine

Motez Bishara Investment manager; freelance reporter, CNN World Sport content producer; author, Beating the NBA: Tales From a Frugal Fan Cecile Bridel communications officer, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative; communication coordinator, Novartis Consumer Health; communications specialist, IMD business school; content marketing specialist, IMD Business School

Rory Byrne Freelance (Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Sunday Telegraph); radio/TV

correspondent, Voice of America; associate producer/cameraman, APTN (Associated Press Television News)

Veronica Cancio De Grandy Freelance; director of communications, European University; managing director, EU Business School

Maya Canfield Unknown

Sara Carbone Publishing and digital communications manager, Tommy’s; communications manager, Mind; head of communications, Rethink Mental Illness

Kabir Chibber Copy editor, BBC News; founder, Pitch Me; deputy news editor, Quartz, business editor, Quartz

Elizabeth Choppin editor, Onoffice magazine; editor, ALTO magazine; co-director, Astrid Media

Charlotte Coulon Case worker, Refugee Council; Eurovision editor, deputy news editor, Associated Press Television News, freelance Stephen Cummins Contributor, Irish Independent; freelance (Irish Times, NME); digital media and entertainment editor, The Irish Post; communications & digital marketing director, First Fortnight Enda Curran Money and policy reporter, economics and politics reporter, Asia finance reporter, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones (Australia); reporter, Bloomberg LP Khushnuma Dadachanji Assistant producer, special projects, senior writer, Hindustan Times; freelance (CNBC, The Times of India)

Jerome Demaré PR and digital marketing manager, LG Electronics; social media specialist, Emirates (Dubai); public relations manager, Emirates

Felicity Devonshire Freelance, Insight News Television Limited

Peter Eisenberg Producer, Eurovision editor, intake editor, deputy news editor, APTN (Associated Press Television News); programming consultant, UK Jewish Film Festival; director of video, Newzulu Ltd, director of customer success, Wochit

Stella-maris Ekpene Director, Ardyss International; project manager, Lexis Nexis

Hamed Eqbal Communication specialist, Afghanistan National Development Strategy; technical advisor, Ministry of Commerce and Industries; language expert, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan; Afghanistan Policy Institute

Zaida Espana European equities reporter, loans correspondent, energy correspondent, Thomson Reuters; freelance; content & communications manager, Putzmeister Underground; content & communications manager, Personal Investment & Financial Advice Association

Maria Galvez-Penttinen Trade finance, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Maya Garg producer, Riz Khan, Al Jazeera International; director of PR, Surge for Water; producer, The Stream, Al Jazeera

Andreas Grigo Trainee, Electronic Media School; editor, RBB Public Radio; advisor and lecturer, German Development Service, Royal University of Phnom Penh

Naomi Gunasekara London

correspondent, The Daily News (Sri Lanka); MSc Social Policy & Planning (LSE); partner, Jade Law solicitors

Kashish Gupta Reporter, senior correspondent, NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited); principal anchor, NDTV; director, The Conversation India Taneli Heikka Political correspondent, head of political news, Aamulehti (India, Finland); co-founder, Avaja Open; cofounder, CEO, Avaja Open Oy James Herron Oil and gas reporter, EMEA Energy News; editor, Dow Jones Newswires and Wall Street Journal; energy news editor, European oil editor, Bloomberg Luminita Holban Translator, The Ancient Tree Forum; head of grants, The Greenwich Foundation for The OId Royal Naval College; head of grants and trusts, English Heritage Katharine Houreld Freelance (The Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Reuters, The Times, Africa Confidential, Marie Claire); East African correspondent, Associated Press; Afghanistan/Pakistan correspondent, Reuters; East Africa Bureau Chief, Reuters

Sukaina Jaffer Freelance

Saira Jaffer Production assistant, CNN; deputy news editor, producer, journalist, senior producer (Pakistan Bureau), Al Jazeera English; freelance, Reuters

Sofia Kannas press officer, UK Ministry of Justice; secondment, Prime Minister’s Press Office; senior press officer, Defra Chie Kawada Research analyst, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; associate director, business planning and research for MENA, The Bank of TokyoMitsubishi UF

Tania Rohan (née Khadder) Freelance writer and editor; copywriter, Bulldog Solutions; copy writer, Shutterfly Inc.

Trine Knudsen Translator, researcher, BBC GMR; freelance (Kanal 24, NRK Norway, Kommunikasjonshuset Renomme); director PR and social media, Strategene Harshita Kohli Freelance journalist (BBC, Al Jazeera); associate research fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; intelligence analyst, Facebook; law enforcement response team associate, Facebook Konstantinos Koulaxis MSc, MRes European Politics and the European Union, Birkbeck College (London); UK correspondent, Adraxe (Greece); freelance Sarin Kouyoumdjian-Gurunlian MA in Political Studies, American University of Beirut; journalist, press manager, Marcus Evans; press manager, Summits Division Wilfredo Laboren Unknown Shrikesh Laxmidas Reporter, Angola correspondent, Reuters; Reuters news bureau, Lisbon; deputy editor, O Jornal Económico (Lisbon)

Stephanie Lochner Project assistant, Radio for Development; Kevin Massy Reporter, The Economist; associate director, The Brookings Institution; director of International Affairs, Statoil; manager, Strategic Advisory Council, Statoil

Olivia McGill Output producer, Reuters; digital producer, Sky News; freelance journalist and PR; PR and media manager, Slack Communications

Viviana Mendoza Media and audiovisual programme, Amnesty International UNICEF; execution backup and marketing assistant, QW Capital; risk and compliance manager, Veritas Investment Chryssa Michalopoulou Unknown Vaishali Mishra Project coordinator, Institute for Development and Communication, World Bank; regional communications officer, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Associate vice president of communications, Microfinance Institutions Network Arnau Monras Freelance scriptwriter (Barcelona); editor, Zoopa; editor, Media 3.14

Felipe Moreno Consultant, De Kanel Consultores; senior consultant, Accendi, professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; assistant professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Aidan Muller Account director, Edelman; freelance PR consultant; founder and CEO, Daimon Communications

Yoriko Nabeta Producer, researcher, TV Asahi; risk management division, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Dean Naidoo Sports editor, Sunday Tribune; sports director, Independent Newspapers; senior lecturer in journalism, Leeds Trinity University

Thuy Quynh Nguyen PR; Transerco, Daphne Papadopoulou translator, Thomson Reuters; journalist, Enikos. gr; journalist, translator, Macedonian News Agency (Athens)

Emily Persse (née Gordon) Freelance; press and communications, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Ilgin Pinar Assistant director, Babar Ahmed documentary; freelance, news editor, (CNN, Turk TV)

Mathoo Pokane Freelance

Andrea Powell North County Times

Loriane Sena Waite Production manager, CineLook; account manager, Decipher, Inc; died 2016 Elisha Sessions producer, presenter, Resonance FM; webmaster, Red Bee Media; content producer, BBC

Sajid Shaikh Freelance (The Guardian, BBC Wildlife); The Times of India; production editor of environment, The Guardian; freelance Christopher Sheppard Freelance (Dunne Public Relations); Port Magazine; writer and project manager, JWT New York; global content director, Mirum Agency Mohini Suchanti Communications manager, TiE Inc; online marketing specialist, Sinclairs Hotels & Resorts; marketing & programs manager, TiE Oystein Samson Tjentland senior research associate, Maven Partners; senior consultant, Boyden; senior consultant, Tjentland Executive Research; senior research associate, Horton International

Shu Chun Trainee solicitor, James Tsang & Co; paralegal, Fragomen Yoko Toda (née Kono) The Asahi Shimbun; executive assistant, J.P. Morgan; bilingual assistant, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

Catherine Townsend Columnist (The Independent, Marie Claire, Fabulous); field agent, DGA Detectives & Bail Bonds; owner, The

Townsend Detective Agency Despina Trivolis Editor, editorin-chief, LIFO; journalism fellow, Thomson Reuters Institute of Journalism; head of life and culture, Huffington Post; communications specialists, The Athens Partnership Gina Valcke London correspondent, Revista Semana; course developer, CWC School for Energy; research and development manager, CWC Group

Josefine Volqvartz Senior producer, Al Jazeera English; head of international content, Make Sense Film og Tv; founder, Inspire Film Dan Wang Unknown Chao Yan Xinhua News Agency Qin (Yvonne) Yang Unknown Ting Zhu Page editor, China Daily; analyst; reporter, Bloomberg

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Mohammed Abbas Trainee reporter, Islamic finance correspondent, Baghdad general news correspondent, London news correspondent, Reuters; multimedia editor, Agence France Press (UK); multimedia producer, NBC News (UK)

Kevin Allison Global resources columnist, Reuters; founder, Cultivate Industries; technology and geopolitics consultant, Eurasia Group (US)

Rachel Belton Freelance; feature writer, Evening Standard

Jon Boone Education correspondent, Wall Street correspondent, Afghanistan correspondent, Financial Times; freelance Afghanistan correspondent, Pakistan correspondent, The Guardian Daniel Box; business reporter, Sunday Times; broadcast journalist, BBC; crime reporter, The Australian; writer/presenter, In Films; author, Penguin Random House Thomas Braithwaite Energy Trade; Washington correspondent, US banking editor, Lex writer, Financial Times

Heather Browne Feature writer, The Sun; English teacher

Michelle Fyrne (née Byrne) editor, SoGlos.com; director, So Publishing; group editor, So Publishing Robbie Collin News of the World; chief film critic, The Daily Telegraph Kate Devlin Sub-editor, medical correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; Westminster correspondent, The Herald; deputy political editor, Sunday Express

Daniel Drillsma-Milgrom Business desk, The Sunday Times; political editor, deputy editor, acting editor, Local Government Chronicle; principal policy and project officer, London Councils; principal policy and project officer, Greater London Authority

Richenda Broadbent (née EvansFreke) Leadership consultant, Corven; leadership network manager, leadership development consultant, Oliver Wyman Matthew Falloon Graduate trainee, politics and economics correspondent, Reuters Neil Fisher Editorial assistant, classical music writer, classical music opera and dance editor, deputy arts editor, The Times Samantha Haque Producer, ITV News; producer, BBC Newsnight;

producer of Today, BBC Radio 4

Jens Harder Sub-editor, China Daily; media correspondent, Argus Media

Amy Marley (née Iggulden) Assistant editor, MailOnline; assistant news editor, Evening Standard; assistant editor global, MailOnline

Soriebah Kajue Sports trainee, Press Association; freelance (Skysports. com, Daily Mail, Sunday Mirror, The Voice)

David Marley Deputy news editor, news editor, Times Educational Supplement; weekend news editor, The Daily Telegraph; head of news, deputy editor, The Independent Michael McGrath Football reporter, Wardles Agency; football reporter, News UK; football reporter, The Sun on Sunday; Robert Nutbrown Sub-editor, Teens Junior Edition; China Daily; defence industry analyst, Visiongain Ltd

Tariq Panja Manchester Evening News; reporter, Associated Press; football correspondent, Bloomberg; global sports reporter, The New York Times

Sam Peters Rugby union and cricket correspondent, News of the World; media and PR director, Row2Recovery; sports writer, The Mail on Sunday; sports writer, The Sunday Times

Rachel Porter Feature writer, Daily Mail; freelance (Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Guardian, The Independent, Metro, Grazia, Stylist, Fabulous, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Fitness); head of copy and content, Scriberia

Thomas Price Reporter, Daily Express; reporter, Daily Mail

Jerome Starkey Trainee news reporter, The Sun; Sada-e Azadi (Afghanistan); Afghanistan correspondent, Africa correspondent, countryside correspondent, The Times Vandna Synghal freelance journalist; freelance life coach; freelance drama coach

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Sebastian Burford PR, Island Records; head of digital PR, Anorak London; founder and CEO, Worldwide Friendly Society Communications

Ben Cardew Trainee reporter, CMPi; reporter, news editor, Music Week; contributor, Music Ally; freelance Lucy Cohen Researcher, Divers Production; freelance assistant producer (Blast Films); freelance documentary director and producer (Watch Me Disappear, The Great British Garden Watch, Life in Film)

Anna Cook Acting deputy features editor, commissioning editor, Woman’s Own; features editor, Woman; features director, Woman and Woman’s Own; freelance Fiona Cowood Features editor, Bliss; features director, Cosmopolitan; assistant editor, contributing editor Grazia; senior editor, Smallish Magazine

Helen Costello Deputy editor, Condé Nast online; deputy editor, Every Living website; freelance Simon Crawshaw Regional head of correspondent banking; deputy head of global client intelligence; senior business implementation manager, HSBC

JONATHAN DEAN

ONLINE CULTURE EDITOR, THE SUNDAY TIMES

PERIODICAL, 2004

What is the most embarrassing moment of your career so far?

I had to interview Laurence Fishburne in Cannes, but had no idea what film it was for, so I had to ask him as we sat down. It was excruciating. He hated me.

What is the memorable interview you’ve ever done?

Bono in Brazil. Say what you like about that man and his band but travelling to Sao Paulo to meet him felt like the sort of thing journalists did in the 1970s.

What is one thing you learnt at City that you still use in your career today?

Sort your second paragraph out. A feature can be as elaborate and creative as you like, but the second paragraph always needs some facts, or else all but those who already know about the subject will switch off.

If you weren’t a journalist, what would you be?

I’d probably be in advertising or driving an Uber.

What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever given someone else?

Do lots of research. Seriously. Loads. It is daft nobody tells students this every single class. Finding a weird fact about an interviewee can really put someone on their toes.

What is the worst career advice you’ve received?

“Go and interview Jesse Eisenberg. He’s nice.”

Ayla Soguksu

Jonathan Dean Production assistant/stage writer, news editor, features editor, Total Film; online culture editor, The Sunday Times

Ash O’Keefe (née Dosanjh) Co-owner and head of press, Congregation PR; Marketing and PR executive, E&G solicitors (Spain); legal adviser, Recruitment & Employment Confederation

Bruce Douglas Senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4; Brazil correspondent, Latin American Newsletters; Economy and government editor, Bloomberg LP Richard Fisher Reporter, The Engineer; feature editor, deputy news editor, careers editor, New Scientist; deputy editor, editor, BBC Future; content editor (head of digital features, London), BBC

Murray Garrard Editor and co-publisher, Ink (Singapore); communications officer, senior communications officer, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (Switzerland); head of press and public affairs for the UK mission to the UN, Foreign and Commonwealth office (Switzerland) Yasmine Griffiths (née Gibson) Researcher, Channel 4; sub-editor, editorial assistant, feature writer, Grand Designs; sub-editor, freelance, health columnist, health editor, OK! Michael Haydock Production

for Environmental Exploration; marketing web manager and editor, military capabilities manager, IHS Aerospace and Defence Simon Kurs Commissiong editor, Sunday Times; editor, easyJet Traveller; group senior editor, Ink; editor, Atlas by Etihad Tom Lamont London for Londoners; commissioning editor, The Observer New Review; freelance, The Guardian Roland Lloyd Parry Reporter, Agence France Presse (Madrid then Montevideo then Paris)

Oliver Mann Marketing strategist, Leadership by Heart; co-founder and partner, NextKickoff; Partner, CNC consultancy (UK) Stuart McGurk Film and TV editor, deputy arts and entertainment editor, thelondonpaper; film editor, NME.com; commissioning editor, senior commissioning editor; associate editor, GQ Kit McHenry assistant policy and bill manager, Department for Education and Skills Vikki Miller Development producer, Arrow Media; producer, Lightbox; senior producer, Lightbox Claire Sparks (née Mitchell) Senior editor of Lifestyle Group, Yahoo!; freelance content director; content lead, BBC Worldwide; client solutions director, Europe & Africa, National Geographic Ellie O’Mahoney Commissioning editor, ES Magazine; contributing editor, associate features editor, Marie Claire; lifestyle editor, acting deputy editor, deputy editor, Fabulous

Researcher, Channel 5; associate producer, Milkshake!

Ian Edgar BBC Radio (Sheffield, York, Humberside, Cleveland); Network Director, BBC TV; senior transmission controller, Sky Tom Esslemont Reporter, Washington correspondent, BBC News; investigative correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation; Head of Media and Campaigns, UK Department of Health

Annabel Falk Newsbeat, Radio 1; freelance

Laura Fogg Rogers (née Fogg) Communications and liaison manager, The University of Auckland; Science Communication Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Senior research fellow, University of the West of England

Rose Foley Freelance, CBC News; Senior Media Officer, Plan UK; senior media and communications manager, media specialist, UNICEF UK

Cristo Foufas Presenter and producer, The Dating Channel; freelance reporter, presenter, LBC; Presenter, Global Radio

Helen Fry Freelance (ITV, BBC Election Programme, Time FM); political researcher, Sky News; producer, BBC Newsround

Chloe Gott Assistant producer, Crunch TV; assistant producer, Lion TV; agent, KBJ Management

Ben Gray Freelance (IRN, BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Broadcasting Company); text producer, BBC News 24

journalist, Trinity Mirror Group

PLC; production editor, The Week; communications manager and editor, Mercy Ships UK

Kaye Holland Co-founder and director of media and communications, Talk of the Town London; Freelance (The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Time Out, Country Living, Woman’s Own, Sky); special projects editor/reporter, World Travel Group

Ria Hopkinson Media adviser, Awards for Young Musicians; production editor, The Art Newspaper; freelance editor, Cultureshock Media; managing editor, The Art Newspaper

Martha Housden Freelance (The Guardian, The Observer); producer, Maverick TV; head of development, director of development, Twenty Twenty TV

Benjamin Hunt Sports journalist, Hayters Teamwork; sports journalist, Wardle Whittell Limited; Formula One and football correspondent, The Sun

Christopher Kanal Editor, the LEAF review; editor, Progressive Digital Media, Civilian Global; filmmaker and writer

Eleanor Keymer Armed Forces research analyst, armed forces editor, features editor, IHS Jane’s; project co-ordinator, Frontier – The Society

Mienke Steytler (née Retief) Researcher, Homebrew Films; production manager, iMaverick (South Africa); head of media and public affairs, South African Institute of Race Relations; media and digital content officer, Amnesty International Eleanor Snow Web manager, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; freelance digital content producer and project manager; consumer rights digital producer, editor, Which?

Sonia Soltani Editor, Eretz Group; head of content, MiniTime.com; freelance; editor, Rapaport

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Harry Anscombe Presenter and producer, Channel 4 News; consultant media director, New Century; CEO, Beagle Media

Emma Bondor Head of Members’ Events, Chatham House; director, Emma Bondor Communications; events and partnership manager, RocketSpace

Helene Cacace Researcher and reporter, BBC 3 News; producer, director, More4 News; news producer, Channel 4

Tom Cheal Broadcast journalist, Heart and LBC; political, correspondent editor, Global Radio News; deputy managing editor, political editor, LBC Lucy Collingwood Assistant producer, BBC Radio Drama Stephen Douglas Reporter and producer, Border TV; North of England correspondent, ITV News; reporter Sky News; senior consultant, associate director Blue Rubicon Clair Robinson (née Duff)

Benjamin Green Producer, Early Breakfast Show, LBC 97.3; senior multimedia producer, Guardian.co.uk; producer, thetotallyfootballshow.com

Chi Chi Izundu Freelance (Virgin Radio, Sky News Radio, BBC London 94.9, ITN, Radio 1); entertainment reporter, BBC Radio 1 Bethan James BBC Radio Cymru; Five News; reporter, producer, presenter, BBC Wales Political Unit; parliamentary reporter and producer, BBC

Nicola Jones Journalist, Central News South Julius Mbaluto London correspondent, News Punch; Broadcast Journalist and Political Analyst, UK Mainstream Channels; editor-in-chief, IEA News

Lucrezia Millarini Head of music, ITN ON; entertainment correspondent, ITN London Tonight; presenter and reporter, ITV News

Charles Murray Freelance, Time FM; assistant producer, BBC Newsround; digital content producer, BBC Katherine Murrells BBC; Talksport; LBC Moronke Owoborode Writer/ Filmmaker

Josephine Parry Presenter, Choice 107.1 FM; producer, CSV Action Desk; BBC Radio Berkshire Henry Ridgwell Producer, BskyB; correspondent, Voice of America; director, Suntrap Media

Oliver Rogers Producer, BBC; Freelance film maker, OR Films; corporate affairs executive, NWG; external affairs consultant, Essex & Suffolk Water; communications officer, Defra

Thea Rogers Producer, BBC Newsnight; special adviser to George

Osborne; PR chief, Deliveroo Max Rushden Presenter, Soccer AM; presenter, BSkyB; freelance podcast presenter (The Guardian, The Times)

Saba Shaukat Marketing director, Paypoint; chief marketing officer, ECO Capacity Exchange; managing director, Sentient Design Lab

Jessica Shiddell Kick FM; deputy news editor, news editor, Essex FM; news editor, Heart Radio

Jamie Smith Trainee reporter, producer, ITV Central; trainee producer, Channel 4 News; coordinator, Reveal Scotland Kerry Davies (née Taylor) Press officer, The Home Office; PR and communications manager, John Lewis; PR, Waitrose Emike Umolu ITN Multimedia; director, Embellie Ltd; presenter and producer, Al Jazeera English Hugo Ward Producer and director, Blakeway Productions; documentary maker, Economist Films; Series editor of foreign affairs, Channel 4 Antony Whincup Freelance, GWR, CNN

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Emma Ashcroft Freelance Clare Burton Showbiz reporter, ITN Multimedia; reporter, ITV Tyne Tees; presenter, BBC Channel Islands

Edward Cowley BBC Moscow

Robert Dersley Producer, director, Middle Table Productions; edit producer, director, Leopard films; edit producer, series producer, Reef Television

Daniel Glyde BBC Breakfast; assistant producer, BBC TV sports news; assistant Producer, director, BBC Sport interactive Rose Hughes (née Gretton) Researcher, reporter, producer, senior planning editor, Sky News; field reporter and royals producer, Sky News

Claire Heffron CNC World reporter and producer, Xinhua News; senior correspondent, Anadolu Agency; freelance reporter (Asean Today, MailOnline, Business insider) Olivia Hill Reporter, presenter, ITN; owner, E-fit Katie Inman Political researcher; BBC Politics Unit (Southampton); journalist, Today Programme BBC Radio 4 , BBC Newsnight Emma Ketteley Freelance; assistant producer, Blakeway Productions Julia Kirby-Smith Managing editor, Newzulu; co-founder, Make Waves; chief executive, RightsInfo Tom Lumley Producer, senior producer, BBC News; Americas programme editor, Americas news editor, Al Jazeera English; senior producer, NBC News; national security editor, CNN

Alex Micklewright New media journalist, ITN

Elena Mourey Producer, Firecracker Films; producer, Dragonfly Film and Television; producer, BBC Factual London Beverley Munoz News journalist, CNN

Janelle Oswald Showbiz reporter, BBC Radio London; presenter, PlayVybz Radio; reporter, GV Media Group

Jenny Parks Producer, BBC Question Time; freelance producer (BBC); producer, BBC Newsnight, producer, BBC Panorama

James Pozzo Question writer, The Weakest Link; news researcher, Richard and Judy; film researcher, assistant producer, Have I Got News For You

Emma Pyne Producer, Sam Brick Productions; Transparent TV; actor

Anna Richey Freelancer; researcher; founder and director, Anna Alla Ltd

Natalie Shelton Production coordinator, Objective Productions; freelance production manager (ITN, Sting Media, Pacific); production manager, Grand Central Entertainment

Annabel Solomon Trainee researcher, BBC; researcher, BBC Crimewatch

Daisy Thirkettle Researcher, UK Food; Prospect Pictures

Emma Thomas Reporter, ITV; reporter, BBC Channel Islands News; producer, director, reporter BBC

Amy Youssefian-Sahba Reporter, assignment editor, CNN

2005 International

Samantha Alleyne-Williams Senior reporter, Stabroek News

Ali Amar Guest writer, The International Cities of Refugee Network; director, Le Desk.; cofounder, Pulse Media

Spencer Anderson Assistant editor, JEC Composites Magazine; deputy editor, Financial Times; senior reporter, International Financing Review, Thomson Reuters, Foreign Service Officer, U.S Department of State

Ruben Andersson Researcher, Reuters News Alert

Catarina Anjos Unknown

Gifty Dansoa Anti Host, The Standpoint (Ghana); president and founder, The Girl in Need Foundation; CEO, GDA Concepts

LTD

Giulia Ascoli Personal assistant, Victoria & Albert Museum; personal assistant, capital campaign coordinator, editorial assistant, director and communications coordinator, Design Museum; corporate communications manager, Sadler’s Wells

Jérôme Bonnard Freelance TV reporter and film maker (Public Sénat, M6, Arte, France 24, Itele)

Jennifer Bragg Line producer, CCTV Africa; deputy news editor and producer of The Stream, Al Jazeera Media Network; freelance, ozy.com, Prevention Specialist, FCD Prevention Works

Magali Brutel Freelance, Marche à Londres; French teacher, International School of Luxembourg

Morgane Campioni Senior content coordinator, executive producer, head of online channels, director of online channels, UTV; head of digital, Belfast Telegraph

Priyanka Chaturvedi Junior associate producer, CNNIBN (India); advocacy and communication specialist, UNICEF, regional communications, World Bank Group

Sapna Chowdhary Correspondent, producer, Al Jazeera International; freelance, Al Jazeera English

Jennifer Cunningham Reporter, The New York Daily News; reporter, Daily

Record; exclusive content manager, Moguldum Media Group

Annie Evangeli Senior associate, Capital Link; EMEA marketing communications manager, FTSE; PR and communications officer, GS1 UK, PR Consultancy, Ketchum Mimi Fawaz Sports journalist, news presenter, Vox Africa; freelance sports journalist; African football contributor, CNN; presenter, Kwese Sports

Maria Galvez Penttinen trainee, trade finance, BBVA; The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Associate Trade Finance

Gina Gavala Reporter, War Zone, Society at Eight O’Clock; reporter, Mega Channel; Freelance Giulia Gencarelli Web project manager, Aegis Media; journalist, Les Echos Publishing

Gareth Gore Staff writer, Incisive Media; Madrid correspondent, Bloomberg News; senior reporter, associate editor IFR, Thomson Reuters

Dana Gornitzki Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; creative handler, MIEN Magazine; founder and brand strategist, mAnic inc, Cofounder, DMS Digital; Co-founder, DEXTCLOUD

Svetlana Graudt Copywriter, Staff Creativel; research analyst, Penumbra Partners; associate, GPW Daniela Gross De Almeida Author Mahtab Haider Lecturer, Brac University; senior assistant editor, New Age (Bangladesh); communications manager, UNDP Bangladesh

Matthew Hall Editor, The Windsor Times; managing editor, Sonoma West Publishers; editor-in-chief, Santa Monica Daily Press

Judy Terrell-Hamilton (née Hamilton) Nassau Guardian; corporate communications manager, Public Hospitals Authority, Bahamas Ministry of Health; director, GDC Grand Bahama Development Co. Ltd

Ruth Hetherington Broadcast Journalist, producer, France 24; programme editor, Al Jazeera; producer, CNN International Alexander Holliday Marketing manager, Philips Electronics; director, Majid Al Futtaim Properties

Radek Honzak Europe correspondent, Hospodarske Noviny; spokesman, Czech Representative to EU; communication officer, European Commission

Roza Ibragimova Russia Today TV; broadcast journalist, France 24; senior producer, reporter, writer, line producer, CCTV America

Ivi Imamoglou Staff reporter, The London Planet

Atsuko Iwasaki Freelance; Director, NHK (Japan)

Thomas James Book promoter; freelance investigator (CHF International, New York); editor, Sewage Treatment Weekly; Unknown

Amanda Janis PEI Media, Director, Digital Product

Anne Kaiffer press officer, Utopia SA; presenter, Radio ARA; freelance journalist, RTL

Daniel Kalinaki Uganda bureau chief, The East African (Kampala); managing editor, Nation Media Group; author; teacher, Makerere University

Shyaka Kanuma Media and information consultant, UNHCR (Kigali); executive editor, chief editor, The Rwanda Focus Lars Karlsson Broadcast journalist, Russia Today TV; presenter, France 24 unknown

Lucy Griffiths (née Kearney)

Launch consultant for Rudaw TV; news editor, Al Jazeera Media Network; video strategist & coach for entrepreneurs, https:// lucygriffiths.com

Rashi Khilnani Writer and broadcaster, CBC; media fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; founder, Welcoming Words

Suzanna Koster Pakistan correspondent, Trouw (Netherlands); Pakistan correspondent BNR Nieuwsradio; Pakistan correspondent, OneWorld; Robert Kyei-Gyau Freelance, Graphic Communications Group LTD; assistant registrar (PR), Kumasi Polytechnic; freelance, Free Media International

Jessica Le Masurier UN & New York correspondent, France 24 Francesca Liberatore Reporter, The London Planet; yoga teacher

Weitao Liu World news editor, The London Globe; deputy editor, China Daily

Konstantina Marneri Client services manager, Electronic Solutions SA unknown

Feroza Mehta (née Master) TV News Reporter, Citytv; Freelance Park Nicollet Health Services; freelance

Elaine Mills European gas markets reporter, European emissions market reporter, editor, deputy editor, Argus Media

James Mills Unknown

Ljiljana Mitevska Journalist, deputy editor of culture, Utrinski vesnik (daily newspaper)

Gillian Murdoch Correspondent, Reuters Asia; senior correspondent CIFOR; freelance

Odamah Musa Translator; freelance assistant documentary producer; broadcast journalist, Business and Economics Unit, BBC Radio

Harun Najafizada Producer, reporter, BBC Persian TV; head of Afghanistan Bureau, BBC Persian TV; senior multimedia journalist, Iran Intl, Open Society, Pendael Omari Mentor, principal journalist BBC Media Action Tanzania

Abdi Osman-Adan London correspondent, Nation Television (Kenya); freelance reporter (Sky News); associate editor, Citizen TV Kenya unknown

Pimmi Pande-Jones Founding director, Ethique Ltd; owner, Bombaiya; owner,Vocalise Communications; business owner

Radhieka Pandeya reporter, Hindustan Times Mint; senior manager, Tata Communications Payment Solutions; director revenue management, DigiVation Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd

Emilie Reymond Researcher, Blakeway Production; journalist, group communications manager, Haymarket Media Group; interior stylist and blogger, Stella + the Stars

Rachel Romano Assistant editor, Rise Magazine; author

Malgorzata Romanowicz Freelance business writer, Entreoom (Paris);

assistant producer and translator, Radio Catholique (France)

Blessing Ruzengwe PhD student, Roehampton University

Precksha Saksena-Sood Managing director, Telematics Updates

Maria Salvador Unknown

Gwladys Savery Journalist, Ligne de Front; digital strategist, PromoAlert. com; editorial project manager, senior account manager, News Box

Martin Stabe Online reporter, Press Gazette; online editor, Retail Week; interactive producer, head of interactive news, Financial Times

Ikuko Tatsuta Editor, LondonZok

Lea Teuscher Sub-editor, Wallpaper; blogger, Londres Calling; sub-editor, Time Inc. UK

Nina Tietzel Australasia producer, AP; journalist and content producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; multi-platform reporter, Special Broadcasting Service

Hjalmar Tjan Reporter, MEED; HT Services; standup comic

Sara Trioni Deputy director, UK Pavilion, EXPO 2015 S.P.A; freelance, T’a Milano; freelance, Venchi

Lucie Tvaruzkova Head, IHNED & Hospodářské noviny; business innovator, CreativeDock; CEO, Zonky.com

Nicholas Underdown Chief reporter, Voice For Arran; Marine policy & engagement officer, Scottish Environment LINK; Campaign manager, Open Seas

Joost Van de Loo Founder and creative director, Sunshine Steak B.V. (Netherlands); impact producer, KeyDocs B.V.; strategy director, Energize, Strategist, Tradus / OLX / Naspers classifieds

Wei Xing MSc international relations, London School of Economics

Ipek Yezdani Diplomatic correspondent, Milliyet; reporter, TRT Turk; senior foreign news correspondent, Hurriyet

Giselle Zado Editor, URB Magazine; freelance; author

Weiling Zou TV reporter; Europe TVB

Newspaper

Devika Bhat Researcher, foreign desk, home news reporter, online education editor, foreign news editor, Washington correspondent, Washington online news editor, news editor, The Times

Sophie Borland Reporter, The Mail on Sunday; features writer, health reporter, Daily Mail

Sri Carmichael Multimedia journalist, reporter, Association Press; consumer affairs reporter, royal reporter, Evening Standard; barrister, Hardwicke

Mark Cobley Graduate trainee, fund manager correspondent, pensions editor, asset management editor, Financial News, Investment Editor, Financial news

Katie Davies News editor, Hampstead & Highgate Express; assistant news editor, The Independent; assistant editor, MailOnline, News Editor at Daily Mail Australia

Anna Davis Education correspondent, education editor, Evening Standard

Helia Ebrahimi Senior city

correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; UK business editor, CNBC; business correspondent, Channel 4 Economics correspondent

Andrew Gill Sports journalist, deputy social media and communities editor, sports social media editor, senior social media and digital innovation marketing manager, Sky, product ownerThird Party Platforms

Anna Hodgekiss Associate editor, Daily Mail Good Health; health editor, MailOnline; freelance health/medical journalist and media consultant.

Ali Hussain Reporter, The Sunday Times

Laura King Editor, Equestrio; producer, presenter, Dubai Racing Channel

Helen Lewis Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail; assistant editor, deputy editor, New Statesman

Rob Ludgate Video journalist and producer, Brook Lapping Productions; Video journalist and reporter, ITN; General producer, home affairs producer, Channel 4

News

Chris Marshall Reporter, Aberdeen Press and Journal; education correspondent, home affairs correspondent, The Scotsman

Donna McConnell Freelance (The Times, The Sunday Mirror, The Observer Magazine, The Mirror) showbusiness editor, MailOnline; Editor in chief WENN

Haili McHugh Reporter, News of the World; reporter, The People

Gary Meneely Reporter, The Irish Sun

Sebastian Morton-Clark Freelance (The Sunday Times, The Observer); commissioning editor, video journalist, Financial Times; Deputy head of video, Financial Times

Aaron Pan Senior reporter, Asiamoney; public relations manager, Mayer Brown JSM; corporate communications manager, Nomura

Jonathan Parker Online editor, The Lawyer; editor, EGRmagazine.com; Acting commissioning editor, Legal Week Law; freelance

Gary Payne Sports reporter, The Sun (Scotland), deputy sports news editor, The Guardian

Aisha Phoenix PhD student (Sociology), Goldsmiths University of London; media and advertising reporter, Bloomberg; Postdoctoral researcher, SOAS University of London

Daniel Pimlott Project Manager, Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative; senior manager, principal manager, Adam Smith International

Laura Roberts Associate director, Pleon Ketchum; head of press, head of press and public affairs, ITN

Genevieve Roberts Freelance (The Independent on Sunday, Psychologies, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian); co-founder, Roberts & Some; brand editorial consultant, Unity

Christopher Roberts Production trainee, sub-editor, Daily Mail

James Rose Graduate trainee, CMPi; reporter, Building Design

Joseph Sinclair Multimedia journalist, reporter, Press Association

Claire Vivyan Global head of social media relations, EY; head of employment news, head of employee communications, Santander UK

Damon Wake Deputy bureau chief, Pakistan-Afghanistan news editor, Europe-Africa desk editor, Agence France-Presse Sarah Weaver Press officer, Department of Health; producer, BBC Watchdog; freelance producer Alan White Freelance (The National, Aeon Magazine, New Statesman); breaking news reporter, senior news reporter, news editor, Buzzfeed Pan Yuk Reporter, journalist, Financial Times

Periodica l

Amy Abrahams Deputy chief subeditor (Star, OK! Hot Stars); deputy chief sub-editor, Glamour; freelance writer, blogger & editor (Glamour, The Pool, Red, Women’s Health, EasyJet Traveller, Oh Comely)

Flora Bagenal Freelance writer, producer (The Sunday Times, Channel 4 News, Christian Science Monitor); Development producer, Tiger Nest Films; Conflict and crisis reporter, News Deeply; Senior reporter, Women & Girls Hub, News Deeply Adam Benzine Associate editor, online editor, Realscreen; producer, director; Canadian bureau chief, C21 Media

Victoria Bentley (née Heath) Chief sub-editor, Wedding and Wedding Flowers; acting deputy editor, Practical Motorhome; features editor, Time Out Kids Dubai; freelance writer Jonathan Clegg Staff writer, GO; sports editor, sports writer, Wall Street Journal

Miranda Collinge Editorial assistant, arts editor, features editor, Esquire

Jen Crothers Editorial assistant, sub-editor, Period Home and Traditional Living; newswire editor, World Entertainment News Network; reporter, features writer, deputy features editor, deputy entertainment editor, Heat; entertainment director, Hearst (Good Housekeeping, Prima & Red)

Colin Crummy Writer, Men’s Health; film editor, i-D; contributing editor, Men’s Health, Esquire

Kelly Ellis Features writer, acting deputy features editor, Full House; commissioning editor, senior commissioning editor, Ebury Publishing; editorial director, Blink Publishing

Jamie Fullerton Reporter, assistant news editor, news editor, features editor, NME; deputy editor, Time Out (Shanghai); freelance (The Times, The Independent, Vice, NME, Buzzfeed, The Sunday Times Travel, roughguides.com, Aspire, Silkwinds, The Telegraph) Richard Heap Research manager, Sunday Times Fast Track; community editor, UBM’s Future Cities; editor In chief, A Word About Wind

Martin Hemming Sub-editor, The World of Interiors; deputy editor (travel), The Sunday Times; acting travel editor, The Sunday Times

David Jenkins Deputy editor, Little White Lies; staff writer, Time Out; reviews editor, editor, Little White Lies

Naomi Leach Senior journalist, LS:N Global; travel news editor, MailOnline; Editor, Oryx, Quarter Airways

Lottie Lumsden Showbiz reporter, features writer, News of the World;

news writer, assistant news editor, deputy news and entertainment editor, news and entertainment editor, Grazia; entertainment director, Cosmopolitan

Ben Machell The Yorkshire Post; freelance (Mojo, Time Out, The Knowledge, T2, The Times); feature writer, interviewer, The Times, Laura Markey Freelance features writer, The Lawyer; owner/director, Laura Markey Acupuncture

Christina Martins (née Franks) Copy editor, 360i; consultant writer, Radley Yeldar; copywriter, NEST Corporation; digital copywriter, HSBC

Rebecca Miles Website editor, MetroSnow; freelance editor and writer (IPC Media, Show Media, Sunday Publishing, Zone and VOS Media); production editor, Motor Boat & Yachting; Unknown

Sarah O’Meara Deputy features editor, Press Association; acting lifestyle editor, lifestyle editor, The Huffington Post UK; Managing editor, Sixth Tone; freelancer

Elaine Okyere Reporter, The Harrow Observer; broadcast journalist (BBC Radio 1, BBC London, BBC News, BBC London Online); digital producer language services, BBC World Service

Zoe Paxton Senior press officer, Home Office; chief press officer, Cabinet Office; deputy head of news, Department for International Development

Thomas Pearmain; Freelance (Touch Africa Confidential, The Africa Report)

Monisha Rajesh Sub-editor, The Week; author, Around India in 80 Trains; freelance (The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, NYTimes)

Adrian Sandiford Staff writer, subeditor, Esquire; 21st Century China Daily; features editor, editor, editor at large, Time Out (Beijing)

Laura Silverman Content editor, assistant iPad production editor, Lifestyle editor, The Daily Telegraph; deputy editor, The Chelsea Magazine Company (Discover Britain); editor, Popshot Magazine Toby Skinner Editor, Time Out (Shanghai); editor n by Norwegian; creative director, Ink; freelance Laura Topham Features writer, Daily Mail; deputy health editor, The Mail on Sunday; commissioning editor, Daily Mail

Anna Wakeford Web manager, Dorothy Perkins; international platforms manager, operations lead-order management, Marks and Spencer; Head of E-commerce, IVY PARK

Charlotte Walsh News reporter, online editor, Travel Trade Gazette; communications officer, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home; freelance (TGT, ABTA Golf Magazine)

Helen Warrell Freelance reporter (Institute of War and Peace Reporting); Sander Thoenes Fellow; interactive reporter, Asia page editor, UK news reporter, political correspondent, public policy correspondent, Financial Times

Sarah Warwick Deputy editor, H2Open; deputy editor, easyJet magazine; editor, N by Norwegian magazine

Emily Wright Features editor, Building Magazine; features and comment editor, features and global editor, Estates Gazette; freelance

TOBY SKINNER

FREELANCE EDITOR AND WRITER

PERIODICAL, 2005

What is the worst career advice you’ve ever received?

I’ve heard people say that young journalists should “be a brand”. I think having a niche can be helpful, but if all you write about is yourself and your own opinions, your shelf life will be limited. I don’t think the world needs more opinionated voices and so-called “influencers”: it needs more people who are curious, who listen and who immerse themselves in other peoples’ experiences.

What’s one thing you learnt at City that you still use today?

The answer is never on the internet. The answer – the story – is always people. Whether you’re doing news or features, the good stuff is always when you pick up a phone or go and meet people. That’s when everything comes to life.

What is the highlight of your career so far?

The two times that I’ve launched magazines from scratch and been able to see them through. I was the launch editor of Time Out in Shanghai, so I launched the English language edition. It was incredibly hard work, but getting to pick the whole team and set everything up was really exciting and rewarding.

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career?

I remember asking pre-Spectre Léa Seydoux if it was hard being a woman in the film industry – a truly over-cooked question. She just said: “No, why would it be?” and coolly watched me squirm.

Brooke Theis

(Evening Standard, Travel Trade Gazette Luxury, British GQ, The Sunday Times, Tatler) Nick Yates Xinhua News Agency; freelance writer and sub-editor (Time Out Beijing, City Weekend, City Weekend Parents and Kids, That’s Beijing, Travel Trade Gazette, Promo, Television Review); new media editor, CCTV News

Nicola York Head of marketing and content, Cicero Group; co-founder, writer Congo Connect; account director, Cicero Group; died 2016

Broadcas t

Emma Baker TV journalist, London Tonight; production journalist, correspondent, ITV Anglia; ITV Border Life

Paul Barber Senior TV news editor, correspondent, Agence FrancePresse; producer, CCTV-America; Supervising producer, CGTN Marianne Barriaux Reporter, City AM; business reporter, Guardian Media Group; correspondent, deputy news editor, social media editor, France correspondent, Agence France-Presse, Spain Correspondent, AFP

Nicholas Beake Reporter, BBC London TV News; news correspondent, BBC News; home affairs correspondent, BBC London

Transport for London; visual services manager, Transport for London

Summer Hurwitz Broadcast journalist, CNN International; Olympics producer, BBC; journalist, BBC London News

Nabeel Irshad Special adviser, senior political adviser, head of political research, The Conservative Party; management consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting; procurement manager, Metro Bank UK; Lead Product Manager, Metro Bank

James Isola Broadcast journalist, senior producer, Bloomberg TV; director, Cubitt Consulting; associate partner, Maitland Consultancy

John Jelley TV producer, programme editor, multimedia editor, executive producer, commissioning executive, editorial director, senior product research manager, Sky News; VP Business development, Sky Ventures

Thomas Knapp Media assistant, NZ Football; media and web producer, Football Federation Australia; development manager, JMK Property Development & Rental Co

Meredyth Lewis TV journalist, London Tonight

Suzanne Levy Unknown

Christine Liu TV journalist, London Tonight; freelance assistant programme editor (Al Jazeera English); freelance producer (Sky News, ITN)

Elizabeth McCabe BBC; assistant news editor, broadcast journalist, Sky Sports

Lynoon Musafer Newsroom assistant, BBC News 24; broadcast journalist, business and economics unit

Maryam Nemazee TV journalist, Russia Today; news anchor, Bloomberg Television; news anchor, Al Jazeera English

Jacob Brown National digital inclusions officer, The Campaign for Learning; digital communications officer, The University of Brighton Faculty of Arts; product communications specialist, Mazda Danielle Codd TV business producer, BBC New York Bureau; TV and radio producer, BBC Business; radio producer and reporter, BBC World service

Matthew Cole Line editor, reporter, Club Call; presenter, newsreader, BBC Radio Kent; Europe correspondent, politics reporter, BBC

Sarah Dembitz Founder, SEED Consulting; founder, CEO, Saviour Snacks; executive director, UN Women, U.K. National Committee

Reuben Easey TV journalist, France 24; senior monitoring journalist, BBC Monitoring; video journalist, Agence France Presse

Marcus Edwards Freelance (Channel 4 News, BBC Radio Derby); Midlands researcher, Midlands producer, home affairs producer, senior producer Channel 4 News

Georgette Ginn Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Essex; Unknown

Amanda Haire Financial reporter, breakfast news producer, Sky News; Unknown

Adrian Hieatt Video manager and journalist, Absolute Radio; video manager, Bauer Media; visual services development manager,

Children UK; executive assistant, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Michelle Uwins Broadcast assistant, BBC World Service Radio

Hugo Ward Producer, director, Dispatches and Unreported World, The Economist; series producer/ director; executive producer, The Economist

Victoria Whall Freelance (Washington, D.C.); stringer, BBC (Mongolia); Teacher of English as an additional language, Bishek International School

Erica Witherington Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; freelance journalist; media trainer

TV CA J

Thomas Adamson-Coumbousis

ITN; journalist, presenter, France 24; culture correspondent, Associated Press

Imogen Anderson Researcher, BBC Governance Unit; producer, foreign news producer, BBC

Annabel Archer Broadcast journalist, ITN Multimedia; senior producer and writer, CNN International; executive editor, CNN Wale Azeez Freelance online ethnographer (Push); founder, CanVerse; freelance (Wall Street Journal, Canvas, Push Insights, POLITICO, Computer Weekly)

Helen Babbs Writer, The Guardian, The Observer; freelance journalist, (New Statesman, Guardian, Telegraph, Time Out); editor, Connect

Jenny Berglund Consultant, Cambridge Strategy Centre; partner, Bug; strategist, Ben&Andrew Ltd; Strategist, bandaequals

Charlotte O’Brien Freelance radio journalist (Virgin Radio, Time 106.8FM); news editor, Global Radio; presenter, journalist, Breakfast Show host, Heart

Chris Page Freelance journalist, BBC Radio Ulster; senior broadcast journalist, political correspondent; Ireland correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland

Geeta Pendse Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; presenter, journalist, arts reporter, BBC East Midlands Today

Rhona Pinkerton Radio newsreader, kmfm; video editor, Kent Messenger Krishan Ramakrishnan Broadcast journalist, BBC Economics and Business Unit; press officer, British Retail Consortium

Laura Shirley Radio journalist, Capital Gold London

Rebecca Spong Editor, Exporta Publishing; trade, transport and logistics editor, banking and finance editor, MEED; editor, Bloomberg; freelance journalist (Arab News, GTR)

Laura Sullivan Trainee, ITV West News; assistant press officer, press officer, assistant press secretary, Clarence House

Amanda Thompson Brand management executive assistant, executive support coordinator, business support officer, business analyst, NSPCC; EA to Executive Director, Marketing, Fundraising and Communications at Save the

Zoe Brooker Co-ordinator, Teacher TV news; researcher, Brook Lapping Productions; production manager, Many Rivers Films; Alistair Bunkall Freelance; reporter, defense correspondent, Sky News

Emily Burns Broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast; producer, Five News, Sky News; features producer (Lorraine), ITV

Sunita Butterworth Self-employed Serge Cartwright Sky News; freelance senior producer, Associated Press; news editor, Newsflare Kristina Cooke researcher, The Economist; journalist, CNN; correspondent, investigative reporter, Reuters

Jennifer Evans Director, Hardcash Productions; director, Tigress Productions; producer/director, Poor Dog Films

Benjamin Farey Bloomberg News; LNG broker, ICAP; editor-in-chief, Fertilizer Week

Ben Gallagher Researcher, The Wright Stuff; founder, Ben and Andrew Ltd

Osama Javaid United Nations University; producer, senior duty editor, Dawn News (Pakistan); broadcast journalist, Al Jazeera

English

Jennifer Marcus Brighter Pictures; Endemol; teacher

Julie Maritz CNBC Europe; TV producer, Carte Blanche

Francis Miles researcher, ITV; shooting assistant producer, BBC; digital communications officer, Feba Radio UK

Ranadeb Mitra Researcher, Dispatches, Channel 4

Catherine Norris Trent The Dimbleby Programme, ITV; journalist, international reporter, France 24

Archna Pandya Assistant producer, Central TV; journalist, BBC Worldwide

David Peter Broadcast journalist, BBC

Nazanin Sadri Press officer, London 2012; account manager, Bolton & Quinn; senior producer, Merchant Cantos

Shiv Sharma Broadcast journalist, Russia Today; media and outreach officer, acting deputy spokesperson, OSCE

Toby Strutt DV director, Special Edition Films; producer/director, Channel 5; teacher, Pegasus Academy Trust

Abdulrahman Abdullah Investigative Journalism department, City University London; freelance producer, Al Jazeera English (London); director, Iraqi Cultural Centre (UK)

2006

International

Gulden Banu Aktas Journalist and communications director, ETUC;

Dan Stewart

communication director, UNDP; corporate communication generalist, Alacer Gold Company; Ali Amar Author; owner, Graphic Factory Morocco; editor, le Desk; CoFounder, Pulse Media

Charlotte Angela Senior producer, Al Jazeera International; freelance (Truthout, Alternet, The Nation, VICE, In These Times, Jacobin)

Catarina Anjos Unknown

Jessica Au Abu Dhabi Media Company; multimedia editor, Agence France-Presse; account manager, PLUG Public Relations

Sarah Barden Communications officer, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (Rome); senior communications and advocacy advisor, SOS Children’s Villages International Vienna; communications and media specialist, UNESCO, Paris

Diego Bivero-Volpe (née Bivero) Managing director, These Guys; Senior executive, Atlantic & Pacific Partners, CMO, Cake Technologies; CEO, co-founder, Rolly

Milton Bragatti Assignment editor, NBC News; reporter, DW World; freelance (NBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle)

Lola Constantini Freelance; Unknown

Rebekah Curtis Reporter, sub-

INTERNATIONAL EDITOR, TIME MAGAZINE

MAGAZINE, 2006

What is the worst career advice you have ever received?

I made a decision in 2009 to quit my job and move to the US. I took a big risk: I didn’t have a job or visa – I just went there and tried to meet people and see if I could get work. I had a couple of friends in the industry who were like: “This is going to destroy your career. It’s an extraordinary risk and you will come back with your tail between your legs.” I ended up being there for 7 years and I came back as the editor of TIME magazine. It was the best risk I ever took.

What is the most memorable interview you have ever done?

Last year I interviewed the Irish prime minister with another reporter. It was my first time interviewing a world leader –hopefully not the last time.

What is one thing you learnt at City that you still use in your career today?

Not shorthand I am afraid – sorry Barbara. Thing that really taught me at City was putting together XCity. I was the editor that year, and I learned so much about management and teamwork from that one experience.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever given to someone?

My advice that I give to young people that come into journalism is to ask for more money. I think very few people ask for more money because they’re afraid, but recruitment is really hard and once you find someone that you want you will hold onto that person. Everyone should be aware of the value they have.

Dominika Kubinyova

editor, Reuters; freelance; author, writer/editor

Brenda Da Silva Marques

Unknown

Victoria Darves-Bornoz Researcher, Yalla Films; journalist, France 24; freelance director

Iryna Demchenko Unknown

Clara Denina Reporter, S&P Capital IQ; precious metals reporter, M&A reporter, Reuters; Senior Correspondent, Reuters News

Javier Espinosa Reporter, Wall Street Journal; education editor, The Telegraph; private capital correspondent, Financial Times

Thomas Fessy BBC World Service; Congo correspondent, West Africa correspondent, BBC

James Fontanella-Khan FT.com; Delhi correspondent, Brussels correspondent, US M&A correspondent, Financial Times

Jennifer Forsyth Assistant producer, Dr Keith Ablow Show, Warner Brothers; deputy chief, Wall Street Journal Investigations

Omar Fouad Unknown

Carolina Galvani Researcher, Borealis Center (Amsterdam); senior campaign manager, Humane Society International; Director, Forum Animal; President, Sinergia Animal Svetlana Graudt Research analyst, Penumbra Partners; associate, GPW; copywriter, translator, social media manager,Tilda Publishing Padraic Halpin Editor, raggedwords. com; editor, bandstandbusking.com; sports desk, correspondent, chief correspondent, Reuters Marie-Christin Hansen Field marketing manager, Sungard; Senior industry campaigns manager EMEA, Oracle; enterprise & MNC marketing consultant, 02; senior marketing manager central Europe, Hitachi Vantara Irshadul Haque Editor, naukarshahi. in Stanislava Ivancheva Features co-ordinator, Impact Media Group; correspondent, Press TV; international media coordinator, Impact Media Group

Frank Johannsen News reporter, dpa-AFX news agency; news reporter, Leipzig Volkszeitung Haider Al Safi (Kadhum) Head of project, BBC Media Action; broadcast journalist, BBC; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Anne Kaiffer Head of press office, Luxembourg European capital of culture; presenter, Radio ARA; freelance, RTL; butcher James Kenny Special projects editor, Infrastructure Journal; features editor, deputy editor, Partnerships Bulletin; deputy editor construction manager, Atom Publishing Teo Kermeliotis Digital producer, CNN; online editor, Al Jazeera English John Kjorstad Renewable energy reporter, features editor, editor, Infrastructure Journal; Global Services’ Infrastructure Hub Leader, KPMG

George Kyriakos Chief sub-editor, Financial Times Business; production editor, Financial Times Special Reports; Head of digital and magazine production, Financial Times Yumei Liu Unknown Yu Liu Editor, overseas editing centre, China News Service Halima Migari Unknown Aikaterini Maltezou Correspondent,

Reuters (Athens)

Maayan Manela Intern, Yigal Arnon & Co; capital markets correspondent, money and careers editor, Calcalist Megan McCormick Unknown

Thomas Muirhead Managing director, Kenyan Orphan Project; cofounder, Novlr; managing director, Child.org

Zipporah Musau Managing editor of magazines, The Standard Group; director, Zen Media; communications specialist, UNHQ Catherine Neilan (née Herne) News editor, The Pavement; news editor, Drapers; social media editor, breaking news & communities editor; head of politics and Investigations, City AM Aliyu Odamah Musa PhD researcher, part-time tutor, Liverpool Hope University; freelance (Al Jazeera International, Radio France International); peace campaigner

Jyotika Oberoi UK media representative, India Today; counsellor, Mind Matters Coaching & Counselling

Deborah Odumuyiaw (Baker) Freelance editor and reporter, efinancialcareers.com; University of the United Nations; international production officer; Editor, Amnesty International

Chitra Panjabi Fundraising manager, Colon Cancer Alliance; Vice President Membership, National Organization for Women (Washington); CEO, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)

Konstantina Papanikolaou Reporter, SKAI.gr and SKAI

Rama Parajuli Chief sub-editor, Kantipur (Nepal); senior producer, BBC World Service Trust; correspondent, BBC Nepali Service

Amra Pasic Researcher, deputy news editor, news editor, Al Jazeera English; freelance assignment editor, CTV News; producer, The Current, CBC/Radio-Canada

Isel Pizarro Research assistant, The Loreen Arbus Association; personnel and content development coordinator, The Saylor Foundation; senior publishing specialist, American Bar Association

Safura Rahimi-Harrison Reporter, emirates247.com; Creative director, Stylehopper

Ahmad Shuhaib Sharif Radio producer, BBC World Service (Afghanistan)

Neha Singhwi Sales executive, Fauna International Export House; assistant programming manager, Suno1024; account manager, Bates Pangulf

Alessandro Speciale Vatican correspondent, Religion News Service; contributor, Time; ECB correspondent, Bloomberg News

Diana Davis (née Stech) News assistant, intake client producer, Associated Press Television News; editor, PEXNetwork.com

Uzma Sulaiman Analyst, Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research; reporter, Global Arbitration Review; fundraising, communication and campaigns manager, Lifeline Energy (London, Cape Town)

Carlo Svaluto Moreolo Freelance, Investment and Pension Europe (IPE); communications manager and copywriter, Openview

Communication & Technology; senior staff writer, IPE

Ahmed Taha Freelance (NBC News); reporter, Sharqiya News TV Sumaa Tekur (née Bangalore)

Assistant editor, Worldwide Media (Femina); assistant editor, Diligent Media Corporation Ltd; editor, lead editor, CEB Iconoculture Consumer Insights (India)

Judy Terrell-Hamilton (née Terrell) VP corporate development and marketing, Bahamas Supermarkets Ltd; corporate communications manager, Public Hospitals Authority/Bahamas Ministry of Health; director, GDC Grand Bahama Development Co. Ltd. Jennifer Trak Copywriter, Fab.com; online writer, Selfridges; freelance senior writer and editor; freelance brand copywriter, Burberry Gabriela Vieru Producer, Graphic Digital Agency; creative producer, Quill Content; project manager, ClearPeople LTD; digital producer, Squint/Opera

Taslima Viljoen Senior TV news reporter, South African Broadcasting Corporation; deputy news editor, Business Day Newspaper

Kimberly Vlach Assistant editor, WUSF (NPR member station) and HealthyState.org; teacher, evolation yoga; freelance; assistant editor, HealthyState.org Nkosazana Zuma MA student, SOAS; researcher, G3

Newspaper

Issam Uddin Ahmed Pakistan correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor; Asia-Pacific desk editor, Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent, Agence France Presse Kelly Allen Deputy news editor, Look; news editor, assistant editor Star; freelance (Daily Mirror, Heat, Now, Reveal, Best) Heidi Ancell Reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; news reporter, Building Design; head of PR and communications, The Kennel Club Emily Ashton Political reporter, chief parliamentary reporter, Press Association; Whitehall correspondent, The Sun; senior political correspondent, Buzzfeed Eleanor Barham Research, LSE Unknown

Andrew Barker Construction News Unknown

Alex Barker Economics correspondent, EU correspondent, Brussels bureau chief, Financial Times

Laura Barnett Commissioning editor, Arts, The Guardian; freelance (The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out); author Ruth Barnett Head of communications, VP of global communications, SwiftKey; director of communications, Second Home; director of communications, Snapchat; public engagements and communications lead, DeepMind

Catherine Boyle Business reporter, The Times; staff writer and correspondent, CNBC; director, The Finsbury Christopher Bryant Washington correspondent, Berlin correspondent, central and eastern Europe business correspondent, Frankfurt correspondent, Financial Times; columnist, Bloomberg Gadfly Andrew Bryson BBC Business &

Economics Unit; producer, BBC; producer, Today, Radio 4 Simon Cable Showbusiness correspondent, Daily Mail; freelance; creative, Trinity Mirror Solutions

Alexander Carnwath Africa communications officer, Christian Aid; community resilience support officer, Concern Worldwide; freelance, The Guardian

Frank Dalleres Football reporter, The Telegraph; sports reporter, sports editor, City AM

James Doughty Policy manager, Appointments Commission; policy manager, Department of Health; Speechwriter to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Ministry of Justice

Helen Dowd English teacher, Teach First; lead English teacher, Delamere School – Crown Woods College; English coordinator, Chesterfield High School

Emily Dugan Reporter, The Independent; social affairs editor, The Independent, the i and The Independent on Sunday; senior reporter, Buzzfeed

David Firth Feature assistant chief sub-editor, The Sun; sports production editor, The Sun

Sharon Flaherty Group head of PR, MoneySuperMarket.com; managing director, BrandContent; chair, PRCA

Wales

Tom Harper Reporter, Evening Standard; investigations reporter, The Independent; home affairs correspondent, The Sunday Times

Ryan Harrison Chief business reporter, Emirates Business 24/7; deputy editor, Commerce, The Brief; freelance financial journalist (A.T Kearney, Efinancialcareers, Gulf Business, The Islamic Globe, Global Finance, Gulf Marketing Review)

Nico Hines Reporter, US reporter, The Times; London editor, Newsweek; London editor, The Daily Beast

Kerry Hopkins associate director, QuickMcMorran; broadcast journalist, BBC News; Managing director, Broadcast Ready and Contact Book

Rhiannon James Property section, The Sunday Times

Urmee Khan Interview producer, Al Jazeera; lead producer (Leading Women) CNN; head of content, Business Insider UK

Andrew MacDowall Editorial manager, Oxford Business Group (Bucharest and Sofia); analyst and columnist, OBG (Istanbul and Sofia); freelance correspondent, analyst and consultant, (Guardian, Financial Times, Politico Europe, Business New Europe)

Sara McCorquodale Founding editor, WGSN Insider; digital director, The Midult; CEO and Founder, CORQ Studio

Marina McIntyre Trainee sub-editor, The Sun; deputy production editor (web), The Guardian

Rachel O’Brien Press Association

John O’Doherty Trainee scheme, reporter, defence industries correspondent, Financial Times

Isabella Piasecka trainee solicitor, associate solicitor, Travers Smith; solicitor, Carter Ruck; freelance writer; professional support lawyer, Mischon de Reya LLP

Emma Rowley Reporter, Press Association; business journalist, acting deputy features editor, The

Telegraph; Assistant Editor, Inspire, Daily Mail

Robin Stringer Breaking financial news editor, editor, Bloomberg News; freelance software developer; project reviewer, Udacity; Machine Learning Consultant, Accenture

Richard Suchet Arts and entertainment correspondent, reporter, Sky News; Senior Reporter, LBC; Account Director, Portland Carlene Thomas-Bailey Contributor, Hearst Empowering Women; digital contributor, Elle Magazine; senior editor and digital strategist, WGSN

Stephen Wilkinson Sub-editor, Brentwood Gazette; Essex Chronicle Media Group; Unknown

Periodica l

Tessa Andrews Board member, Sussex Housing & Care; founder and director, Loxley England; Senior Specialist, McKinsey & Company

Caroline Atkinson (née Tosh) Reporter, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; Social media editor, Safe World for Women; editor, Christian Aid

Thomas Atkinson Online editor, BT Digital Music Awards; editor, Hot TV, The Daily Star; TV editor, N&S Supplements, Express Newspapers; Copywriter, Pulse Creative London Mark Bridge Freelance (The Times, The Sunday Times); personal finance reporter, deputy money editor, technology correspondent, The Times Laura Canning Features writer, Siam Map (Ko Samui); content manager, Pitchup.com; freelance (The Telegraph, The Guardian, Mindful Money, pitchup.com)

Sophia Cottier Account manager, Profile Press and Public Relations; account manager, Portrait Communications; senior account manager, Decorum Media Ltd Eleanor Goodman Production editor, Kerrang; deputy editor, Metal Hammer; Founder, ModernJournalism LDN Gareth Iacobucci Reporter, The Publican, The Travel Trade Gazette; news reporter, senior reporter, chief reporter, Pulse; news reporter, senior reporter, BMJ Philippa Jacks Managing editor (features), managing editor, editor, group editor, Travel Trade Gazette Ellen E Jones TV critic, columnist, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday; TV columnist, High Life; Film and TV writer, Evening Standard; freelance (The Guardian, The London Evening Standard, BA’s High Life magazine, BBC One’s Film 2017, the Barbican’s Screen Talks podcast) Lee Jones Copywriter, Wells Fargo Bank; PR specialist, One Simple Plan (Minneapolis); Account Director, Instinctif Partners

Neon Kelly Deputy editor, Pro-G Media; commissioning editor, Telegraph Spark Daily Telegraph; senior content editor, Human After All

Laura Kenworthy (née Fergusson) Writer, IPENZ; writer, Redhouse Lane Communications; freelance (The Tablet, Sightsavers International, Economist Intelligence Unit, WileyBlackwell); Regular Giving and Communications Associate, Queens’ College, Cambridge

Mishaal Khan Writer, Daily Mail; news reporter, 7 Days; freelance

(United Arab Emirates)

Andrea Leebody Junior writer, Pick Me Up; film content editor, Orange.co.uk; deputy editor, Weight Watchers Magazine

Jo Mattock Editor, Dive; freelance (Dive, snowmagazine.com, activetraveller.com, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Fitness, Health and Fitness, Harrods Publishing); senior sub-editor, Harrods Magazine

Leah Milner Reporter, news editor, Money Marketing; money reporter, The Times; freelance blogger, mentalwealth.info

Paul McNally News editor, Radio; editor, The Bulletin; presenter/ reporter, FM Brussel 98.8

Sorrel Neuss Editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; editor, Times of Central Asia; freelance (New Nations, TCoL, Future Publishing)

Amanda Nicolas (née Smith) Freelance, Time Out; senior editor, group editor, Zone; freelance writer, editor, content strategist

Eimear O’Hagan Writer, Femail, Daily Mail; senior features writer, features editor, contributing editor, Fabulous; freelance writer, editor and author

Hugh Reilly Acting editor, London Planner Magazine; web editor, public affairs digital campaigner, social media community coordinator, Unicef; acting head of social media, Unicef UK

Nicki Saunders Senior journalist, editor, content strategist, Engage Group; marketing communications manager, Thomson Reuters; head of proposition marketing, Legal UK & Ireland Thomson Reuters Alastair Smart Features assistant, Seven; arts editor, chief art critic, arts editor, The Sunday Telegraph; arts editor and art critic, The Daily Telegraph

Daniel Stewart Architectural correspondent, Building; assistant web editor, senior editor, The Week (US edition); deputy editor for breaking news, continuous news editor, Europe editor; International Editor, TIME.com

Katie Toms Freelance (The Guardian, The Observer, atcornwall.org, Drowned in Sound); Research, City, University of London

Daniel Trilling Freelance writer, researcher (Plan B, New Statesman, Bad Idea, Bremner, Bird and Fortune); deputy arts and books editor, assistant editor, New Statesman; editor, New Humanist

Katy Ward Editor, Macmillan Cancer Support; editor, Wardour; editor, business and finance division, Seven Gemma Ware Feature writer, reporter, Professional Fundraising; assistant editor, The Africa Report (Paris); commissioning editor, The Conversation Media Group; Society Editor, The Conversation

Wesley Yin-Poole Trainee reporter, CMPi; deputy editor, VideoGamer. com; news editor, deputy editor, Eurogamer.net

Tom Young Writer, businessgreen. com; reporter, energybusinessnews. com.au; reporter, emissions editor, Argus Media Broadcast

Thomas Almeroth-Williams Communications officer,

The Goldsmiths’ Company; communications officer, education and access, University of Cambridge; Communications Officer, University of Cambridge

Kate Arkless Grey (née Arkless) Researcher, BBC; senior innovation officer, Al Jazeera Media Network; deputy editor online, Al Jazeera English; Freelance and Media Strategist, Part Time Scientists GmbH and Advisory Board Member, For all Moonkind, Inc

William Barkway Production journalist, group internal communications manager, ITV; consultant, Able and How; manager, senior manager; director, PWC

Hannah Barnes Broadcast journalist, newsreader, Mercury FM; radio reporter, current affairs, BBC

Ben Bland Reporter, BBC Radio 5 Live; political reporter, reporter, BBC Essex/Look East/Cambridge; reporter, presenter, BBC World News

Paul Burge Managing editor and media analyst, PRIME research; freelance (ADP, Puig, The Digital Report); marketing and content strategy manager, beBee, Inc.

Kathleen Byrne Freelance

Lucy Clark Freelance (Sky Sports News, BBC Radio Norfolk); broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Norfolk)

Elisa Colton Reporter, BBC Newsgathering; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; Interview Producer, Al Jazeera Media Network

Christina D’Costa Senior producer, Bloomberg LP; freelance writer & news producer, CNN; freelance multimedia news producer, Al Jazeera Media Network

Tolu Doherty Unknown

Gamal Fahnbulleh Reporter, Sky News; correspondent, ITV Daybreak; presenter and reporter, Sky News

Rachel Foley Broadcast journalist, BBC North West Tonight; broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; senior broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast

Adam Fowler Reporter, Channel Television; reporter, ITV (Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire); election reporter, ITV Calendar

Laura Francis Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live; freedom of information researcher, BBC News; political reporter, BBC Gloucestershire

Seth Goolnik Senior vice president development and current, Twofour Group (Los Angeles); President, Press Start; EVP head of nonscripted/executive producer, This is Just a Test Productions, Llc; content, Snapchat

Rowan Grace Evans (née McKinnon) Head of social media, head of creative content and engagement, Greenlight; co-founder and editor, Our Edit; head of innovation, Greenlight; director, Mischief

Davina Hagan Broadcast journalist, ITV Border; senior broadcast journalist, BBC London News

Jamie Harvey Executive producer, Snoveo; director, Falcon Scott; writer/producer/director, Terra Nova

Nashreen Issa Trainee TV journalist, reporter, ITV Meridian (Kent, Sussex)

Amanda John Unknown

Becky Johnson Radio reporter and newsreader, Fox FM (Oxford);

reporter and presenter, ITV Central; correspondent, Sky News

Lillian Kennett Researcher, Dispatches, Channel 4

Rosalind Levine Producer, Global Radio; producer, Poppyfield Productions; producer, Crackit productions; story producer, October Films

Naomi Lloyd Broadcast journalist, The West Country Tonight, ITV; freelance (Exaro News, BBC Radio Bristol, EuroNews, France 24, Reuters TV, TRT World)

Alexander Maple Unknown

Sarah Marshall Technology correspondent, technology editor and training manager, journalism. co.uk; social media editor, social media editor, EMEA, Wall Street Journal (London); audience development editor, EMEA, Wall Street Journal; growth editor; head of audience growth, Vogue, Condé Nast International

Selena Masson Researcher, Lexis Nexis, Unknown

Golnar Motevalli Correspondent, Reuters; freelance (Turkey); Iran correspondent, Bloomberg News

Joanna Newsholme Part-time student, City University; Senior Producer Nick Ferrari Breakfast Show, LBC Radio; producer daytime programmes, BBC Radio 5 Live

Chetan Pathak Presenter and reporter, BBC Asian Network; presenter, BBC Three Counties Radio; communities reporter, BBC Look East and BBC 3CR, freelance presenter

Ayden Peach Radio reporter, Time FM; freelance researcher (GMTV)

Miriam Rowe MCR assistant, catch up television editor, ITV London Studios; offline editor, NHK World; freelance editor; Social media video editor, Bright Partnerships and technical operator, Media Hub

Vishva Sodhi (née Samani) freelance reporter (BBC); communications officer, VSO, freelance, BBC; Reporter, BBC Radio 4, You and Yours

Jagjeet Singh-Sohal Producer, Sky News; communications director, The Henry Jackson Society; director, Dot Hyphen Ltd

Kathryn Stapley Consultant, Search for Common Ground; broadcast journalist, France 24 television; Egypt correspondent, France 24

Kim Townsend Radio station tutor, Brixton Prison; community outreach manager, Media Trust; public engagement coordinator, UCL Alex Waez Music promoter

Chloe Smith (née Walker) Drive producer, BBC Radio 5 live; freelance (BBC Radio 5 live, LBC, BBC World Service); senior broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live

Emmet Ward Editorial assistant, Teachers; Unknown

Isabel Webster Reporter and presenter, BBC Points West; news correspondent, BBC News; West of England correspondent and presenter, Sky News

TV CA J

Chloe Curwen Brown (née Corbin) Press officer, Survival International; real estate photographer, Curwen Photography; Customer Services Manager, Alp Leisure Ltd, Unknown Kate Chambers Researcher/trainee,

The Andrew Marr Show; producer, Frost Over The World, Paradine Productions; broadcast journalist and producer, BBC News

Nicholas Francis Managing director, creative director, owner, Casual Films Limited

James Martin Freelance (Jewish Chronicle); PR and communications officer, Board of Deputies of British Jews; head of fundraising and marcomms, University Jewish Chaplaincy; Marketing and Communication Manager, Shaare Zedek UK

Warren Nettleford Presenter, reporter, Channel 5 News, ITN; founder, Right Thing Films

2007

International

Mario Alemi Partner, SecurecoPro; chief data officer, Your.MD; scientific advisor, Get Jenny; partner, elegans. io Jacques Aristide Broadcaster, Voice of America

Mattia Bagnoli Freelance (La Stampa); correspondent, video journalist, political reporter, bureau chief correspondent, ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Italy)

Joanna Barrett Communications manager, RedR UK; climate change press and communications officer, CARE; communications manager, Committee on Climate Change

Lauren Bedsole Senior editor, NewsCore; executive assistant, Hyperion Insurance Group; freelance (US)

Ambika Behal Director, Baobab Tree Consulting Ltd; contributor, Forbes; corporate communications manager, Li and Fung Limited

Julian Bohne Freelance

Boudet Boudet Unknown

Leticia Camargo Digital marketing analyst, product and solutions specialist, TV Globo; member of video advertising committee, IAB Brasil; digital sales executive, TV Globo

Laëtitia Chaucesse Journalist, Radio France; consultant, Netcast Conseil; associate project manager, SCOP Cultures Trafic

Nadine Clarke Senior content strategist, Dare; content strategist, Tangent Snowball; lead strategist, Tangent

Rowenna Davis Freelance (The Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, The Independent, The Economist, New Internationalist); panellist, BBC’S Sunday Politics; commentator (Sky News, BBC TV)

Daphne Dimopoulou Unknown Quoc Do Unknown

Helen Dritsa Owner, Goldmum.gr

Judith Enriquez-Sarano Media officer, Oxfam Natalia Farr Lantero Training officer (communications), Pivotal Mona Hussain Freelance writer, blogger; Unkown Daniele Ihns Fraud investigation and dispute services, Ernst & Young; FIFA world cup team, The Coca-Cola Company; Rio 2016 Olympics hospitality, The Coca-Cola Company; Brand experiential and hospitality, Coca Cola Azlira Jamaluddin Marketing manager, Tune; editor, TM Media;

web and special projects editor, Marie Claire

Amy Judd Reporter community manager, NowPublic.com; sports editor, Maple Ridge Times (Canada); online web producer, Global BC (Canada)

Angelica Jung Woo Writer, presenter, KBS World Radio; production coordinator, Cartoon Network Europe; programming scheduler, Disney Channel; translator, Literature Translation Institution of Korea

Georgios Kallinis Unknown

Natalia Kannas Press officer, Leonard Cheshire Disability; media relations officer, General Medical Council

Vasileios-Vlasios Katsardis Press officer, SYRIZA (EU); intake and night editor, Associated Press; chief press officer, European Parliament

Loan Khong Sub-editor, Tuoi Tre (Vietnam); founder, New Media Company; reporter, Ba Ria Vung Tau (Vietnam); International content editor/reporter, Forbes Vietnam Ronley Kirwan Press assistant, Which?; communications and education researcher, Pearson UK; Stakeholder engagement and internal communications officer, Staffordshire University

Miyako Kobayashi Broker/realtor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices; office administrative assistant, Renton Technical College; Executive Assistant, UBS Neha Kumar Associate director, SPARX International (Hong Kong); associate partner, Brunswick Group; employee communications manager, HSBC Dan Liu Unknown Ajay Menakuru Unknown

Alyssa Morrisey Editor and publisher, The Hercules Express; founder, BoldBusinessCoach; creative director and chief video alchemist, Alyssa Morrisey Media Alice Moura Online editor, Time Out, (Rio de Janeiro); CNN; cofounder, Rent a Local Room Shadha Muheissn Baghdad correspondent, BBC; Unknown Nadia Nanji CNBC news assistant, communication specialist, Nestlé Professional; Unknown Omid Nikfarjam Unknown John O’Donoghue Unknown

Barbara O’Donovan Editor, Metal Bulletin; editor (non-ferrous), special projects and overseas editor, product owner, American Metal Market; product owner and managing editor, Industrial Minerals

Toni Oyry Project manager, Batoota Films; producer / director, Ballistic Content; instructor of journalism and digital media, American University of Beirut Akshata Pai Unknown

Simeon Paterson Freelance

broadcast correspondent; broadcast journalist, BBC World News Channel Cristina Pittelli Media assistant, The Stroke Association; senior media officer, Shelter; media and communications manager, Unicef UK; News and media manager, Crisis

Eric Polaud Unknown

Wenjing Qin Unknown

Sacranie Sacranie Unknown

Melissa Saic Unknown

Amiko Sato Tokyo MX News

Daniela Silberstein Stock market

reporter, Bloomberg News (Zurich); chief operating officer, Les Mills, Swiss Academy of Fitness and Sport

Takeshi Sobukawa Unknown

Namrata Tanna Co-founder & Mumbai lead, Creatives Against Poverty; deputy director, Concern India Foundation; Independent communications and CSR consultant

Suma Tekur Assistant editor, Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai)

Ahmed Tweirsh Unknown

Smriti Vidyarthi News anchor, Nation Media Group

Yulianna Vilkos Deputy editor, Debtwire; client director, Hudson Sandler; Independent strategic communications consultant

David Wall Unknown

Sabine Wolf Deputy editor, international affairs, Chatham House; editor research institute, German Council on Foreign Relations; Translation and proofreading, Translation and Editing Services

Aylin Yazan Washington DC reporter, CNN TURK; producer, Al Jazeera Turkey; broadcast journalist, BBC Turkish

Gaini Yussupova Unknown

Giselle Zado-Wasfie Author; freelance (VIBE, Vice, Black Book, Teen People, CosmoGirl); editor, URB

Newspape r

Sarah Bloch-Budzier Press Association; multimedia journalist, The Times; producer, senior producer, BBC; health producer, BBC

Thomas Calverley Producer, BBC Radio 2; Freelance producer (C4 News / ITV News/ ITV London); Producer, Channel 4 News

Julian Cheatle Trainee sub-editor, The Sun; editor, Monsters and Critics and Autosaur

Max Colchester News assistant, reporter, correspondent, Wall Street Journal

Jeananne Craig Features writer, Press Association; freelance (The Sunday Times, Guardian, Irish Times,); lecturer, City, University of London

Laura Crowley Reporter, Decision News Media; communications and media officer, senior media officer, acting PR manager, WaterAid Kate Day Director of digital content, Telegraph Media Group; editorial director, Growth; editor, UK, POLITICO Europe

Alex Delaney Mentor, Friendshipworks; communications manager, Matter&Co; PR manager, Business in the Community

Elena Egawhary Freelance (New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent Television Magazine, BBC News Online and Focus on Africa); BBC Panorama; corporate investigator, Kroll

Jane Fulcher Digital editor, Show Media; digital director, Show Media Alistair Gray Bloomberg News; insurance correspondent, US financial news correspondent, Financial Times

Fiona Gray Reading Evening Post; reporter, Scotland on Sunday; deceased

David Green China regulatory correspondent, International News Services Ltd.; china writer, eMarketer; creative copywriter, DDG; editor, The News Lens Chris Green The Independent;

Scotland editor, the i paper

Elizabeth Gyekye Editor, Local Authority Waste & Recycling (LAWR); chief reporter, Industrial Minerals; editor, Biofuels International, Bioenergy Insight and Tank Cleaning Magazine, Woodcote Media

Peter Hutchison The Daily Telegraph; The Independent; Mumbai correspondent, Agence France-Presse Clementine Jackson-Stops Scriptwriter, researcher, CNBC

Chloe Lambert Commissioning editor, The Times; assistant editor, Good Health, Daily Mail; freelance feature writer and copy editor; commissioning editor, The Telegraph

Rosamund Lavan Online business writer, The Times; senior editor, Oxonian Review

Felix Lowe Cycling expert, FRANCE 24; chief cycling contributor / author, Blazin’ Saddles blog, Eurosport; columnist, Cyclist Magazine; freelance, ProCycling

Thomas Lowe Freelance editor; European Commission; journalist, The Times; producer, international multimedia editor, Greenpeace Andrew Macaskill sub-editor, Times Online; China Daily; reporter, Bloomberg; reporter, Reuters Richard Milne European business correspondent, Nordic and Baltic correspondent, Financial Times

Ronan Murphy Reporter, Argus Media; deputy editor, steel feedstocks, Argus Media; European editor, steel feedstocks, Argus Media

Rupert Neate City reporter, The Daily Telegraph; business and finance reporter, The Guardian, The Observer; wealth correspondent, The Guardian

Anh Nguyen The Engineer; features editor; deputy editor, Computerworld UK; managing editor, Netmums

Cordelia O’Neill Online reporter, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd; external affairs officer, Scottish Women’s Aid; communications officer, Wheatley Group

Dominic O’Neill Euromoney; features editor, LatinFinance; EMEA editor, Euromoney; editor, Euromoney Africa

Alex Ogle Freelance (New York); Americas desk editor, Agence France Presse (Washington DC); Asia Pacific desk editor, Agence France-Presse (Hong Kong); photojournalist, Agence French-Presse; chief of South Asia photo desk, Agence FrancePresse

Laura Oliver Reporter, editor, Journalism.co.uk; community coordinator, social and community editor, The Guardian; freelance journalist, editor and digital media consultant

Celia Paul The Independent; The Scotsman; Senior Broadcast Journalist, Press Association; entertainment producer (Sony), Press Association

Rachel Tyler (née Rouse) Reporter, Daily Express; senior account manager, account director, Tetra Strategy; Senior Consultant, Teneo Blue Rubicon

Helen Roxburgh Senior multimedia reporter, Estates Gazette; multimedia editor, CoStar UK; group online editor, Progressive Customer Publishing; freelance, books editor, Time Out Shanghai Jessica Salter Reporter, The Daily

Telegraph; features and interviews, commissioning editor, The Saturday Telegraph - Magazine; deputy editor, UK Women’s Health; freelance (The Telegraph)

Ravender Sembhy Correspondent, deputy City editor, Sunday Express; business editor, IBT Media UK; news editor, City AM; city editor, Press Association

Harriet Shawcross Producer BBC World; edit producer, BBC; shooting PD, BBC, BBC Newsnight Josh Spero Editor, Spear’s; Freelance (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Tatler and Time Out); deputy editor, special reports, Financial Times

Rosalind Stewart The Guardian; senior media officer, WaterAid Joanna Sugden Online reporter, education reporter, The Times; contributor, India editor (Real Time), assistant news editor, Wall Street Journal

Jon Swaine Reporter, New York correspondent, Washington correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; reporter, The Guardian (US) Judith Townend Lecturer, City University; director, Centre for Law and Information Policy, University of London; lecturer in Media and Information Law, University of

JOE CROWLEY

Sussex

Brian Turner Capital markets reporter, Financial News; Dow Jones. Andrew Wander Freelance, (The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer); emergency media manager, acting head of news, Save the Children; media campaigner, Avaaz; campaign director, Avaaz

Pamela Welsh Strategic PR manager, Wigan Council; trustee, Greater Manchester Youth Network; communications business lead, Manchester City Council

Alice Wright Features writer, Medavia; digital publisher, Northcliffe Digital; Freelance (Artists and Illustrators, Homes and Antique, Cosmopolitan, Now, The Mirror)

Magazin e

Charlotte Bailey Features editor, SuperYacht World; marketing coordinator, Y.CO Yacht Company (Monaco); marketing, Grifone Patrol; freelance (Guardian, IRIN News) Lalayn Baluch-Evans Reporter, The Stage; freelance features writer; content editor, digital communications manager, RLSB Henry Barnes Multimedia production assistant, film & music blogger, The Guardian; film editor, The Guardian; digital editor, British

ROVING REPORTER, COUNTRYFILE AND THE ONE SHOW BROADCAST, 2007

What is your fondest memory of your time at City?

I remember going out to do a radio vox pop and getting people to talk about Islington council. This guy didn’t want to be interviewed and we pestered him until he started having this rant about how the council wouldn’t paint the front of his house. It was only afterwards I realised it was James McAvoy.

Did you always want to be a journalist?

I wanted to be an actor bizarrely. I had this weird epiphany where I thought maybe broadcast journalism might suit me better. I got an offer from City and an offer from drama school at the same time. I went the broadcast journalism route, which I’m pleased to say has served me pretty well.

What has been the highlight of your career so far?

I was the first person to catch nighthawks – illegal metal detectorists who plunder national heritage sites for their own gain – on camera. We challenged them in the act at 2am in a field in Sussex for Countryfile. I nearly got a spade around my head as a result, but it was worth it because it made the ten o’clock news and now most police forces have people who deal with nighthawks.

How have you seen journalism change?

There is far less money going into regional broadcasting. I started on the current affairs programme on BBC South and it was amazing because it was a complete apprenticeship for me. I worry that these opportunities aren’t there in the same way they once were.

Simon Fearn

Film Institute

Catherine Bennion-Pedley Inhouse freelance writer / editor, OK! Magazine; deputy lifestyle editor, lifestyle editor, Fabulous Magazine

Melanie Bezalel Researcher, assistant producer, Fresh One Productions; head of development, RDF Television

Olivia Boyd Reporter, Building; assistant editor, deputy editor, Chinadialogue; content coordinator, Guardian Sustainable Business

Stuart Brumfitt Freelance, (i-D, Dazed & Confused, The Guardian, Esquire and W Magazine); digital news editor, i-D; editorial director, Amuse; features editor, i-D Victoria-Anne Tessa (née Bull) Reporter, Daily Mail; freelance; founder & editor, Green for All Seasons; freelance copywriter, Cult LDN

Laura Chubb Editor, sub-editor (Daily Mail online, Stylist, CNN. com, The Express Saturday Magazine, Bluffer’s Guide, Tatler Travel Guide); acting head of travel, The Independent and London Evening Standard; freelance (Conde Nast Traveler, The Guardian, The Telegraph)

Richard Clare Content editor, The Daily Telegraph; senior writer, Match of the Day; deputy editor Horrible Histories and Mega magazine; editor MEGA, Horrible Histories, LEGO Ninjago, LEGO Nexo Knights

Timothy Clark Freelance (Mail Online, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, Travelfish); editor, SuchSmallPortions.com; Acting news editor, Construction News

Aaron Davies Digital manager, web consultant and journalist, Redactive Media; head of delivery, Contentment; lead of project management web & apps, Hogarth Worldwide; Global Program Manager, Hogarth Worldwide Gwynne Dixon Content editor, digital engagement coordinator, global supporter engagement officer, Amnesty International; client support specialist, Engaging Networks

Claire Dodd Editor, The Publican; beauty news editor, myfashionlife. com; Freelance (Zest, Channel 4 Food, Travel Trade Gazette, The Independent, The Guardian, The LondonPaper, Drapers, TNT, The Good Food Channel)

Nicholas Duxbury Deputy features editor, news editor, Inside Housing; editor and content strategist, Redwood

Catherine Everett Commissioning editor, LOOK; features editor, Top Sante; content editor, Wood Mackenzie; Principal copywriter, Skyscanner

Holly Falconer Editorial assistant, DIVA; editorial assistant, Gay Times; freelance photographer

Mary Fitzgerald Freelance (The Observer, The Guardian, New Statesman, Sight & Sound); editorial campaigner, Avaaz; editor-in-chief, openDemocracy

Lucy Foster Associate editor, ShortList; features editor; acting associate editor, Stylist; head of content for family, Shortlist Media Ltd.

Clare Fisher (née Geraghty) Features writer, commissioning editor, You (The Mail on Sunday); news editor, OK!

Thom Gibbs Freelance (The Guardian; NME; Dazed and Confused) deputy digital sports editor, The Daily Telegraph; digital sport editor, The Telegraph

Leigh Gower (née Shaerf) Web producer, UKTV; digital content producer, Really; senior shows editor, MTV

Catrin Carrucan (née Griffiths)

Editorial assistant, feature writer, features editor, Saturday (Daily Express); Eleanor Harding Freelance (Building); senior reporter, Wandsworth Guardian; news reporter, education correspondent, Daily Mail

Will Henley News writer, Commonwealth Secretariat; deputy editor, Global Financial Strategy; communications officer, Commonwealth Secretariat; head of communications, International Hydropower Association

Georgina Hobbs Account executive, senior film publicist, Substance001, publicity manager, comedy & entertainment, Channel 4

Jessica Holland Acting assistant books editor, The Observer; senior writer, Urban Junkies (London); Freelance (The Guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC)

Matthew Hussey Founder, Apowl. co; co-founder, Project Provenance; freelance (Daily Telegraph, Mr Porter, Wired)

Simon Jennings International justice reporter, Africa editor, Institute for War and Peace Reporting; business analyst (sub-Saharan Africa), Assaye

Risk

Fiona Kerr Staff writer, deputy supplements editor, Brides; word of mouth editor; features editor, Conde Nast Traveller

Joanna Wolfe (née Kerr) Head of digital communications, Girlguiding; assistant director (digital), Breast Cancer Care; trustee, Sadler’s Wells; managing director – London, Reason

Digital

Hugh Montgomery Arts editor, The Independent on Sunday; deputy head of culture; head of culture, The Telegraph

Alex Olorenshaw Sub-editor, web production assistant, deputy night web production editor, The Guardian

Zoe Smeaton News editor, Chemist & Druggist; communications manager, head of communications and public affairs, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee

Kay Smith Freelance writer / communications officer (Company Magazine, MTV, Radio 1, BBC, The Stage, Island Records); creative copywriter, COUCH; web editor, Wirral Borough Council

Laura Swinton News editor, Shots; deputy editor, global editor; editorin-chief & MD, Little Black Book

Luke Tebbutt Freelance (Living etc, Grand Designs magazine, Icon, Ideal Home, Alto); sub-editor, WGSN; Freelance

Matt Turner Investment banking editor, US editor, Financial News; deputy editor (finance and markets), Business Insider

Caroline White Assistant editor, associate editor, deputy editor, Boat International

Josh Widdicombe Night editor and reporter, sports section, sub-editor, The Guardian; stand up comic

Anna Winston Head of digital,

Building Design; editor, Dezeen; contributing design editor, Oak; digital consultant, ING MEDIA; freelance

Louis Wise Production assistant, Culture, The Sunday Times; online culture planner, assistant editor, associate culture editor, The Sunday Times; freelance

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Brandice Alexander Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel; online journalist, Al Jazeera Lila Allen Documentary assistant producer, TVN; assistant producer, Blakeway Productions; development producer, 7Wonder; producer, Minnow Films; development producer, Expectation Factual

Emma Silver (née Boon)

Special Adviser, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Special Adviser, Ministry of Justice; Special Adviser, Department for Transport

Chris Broughall Broadcast assistant, account executive, Weber Shandwick; development producer, Syco Entertainment

Mariam Caulkett (née Abu-Hejleh) Freelance (BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio London, BBC News online); researcher, BBC 2 current affairs; multiplatform researcher, BBC Watchdog

Harry Crawford Reporter, BBC; reporter, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; media officer, Brisbane County Council

Joe Crowley TV presenter, BBC Inside Out South; roving reporter, The One Show; reporter, Countryfile

Ellie Davis Broadcast journalist (arts and entertainment news), BBC; producer, BBC Radio 2; producer, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show

Nick Drake Unknown Luke Ellis Assistant editor operations, operations organiser, BBC North TV News; operations manager, BBC News

Clare Reynolds (née Fernyhough) Analyst, Ketchum Change; associate, Daggerwing Group; associate coach, Genius Within LTD

Eleanor Garnier Video Journalist, BBC East Midlands Today; political reporter, Daily Politics; political correspondent, BBC News

Louise Goss Broadcast journalist, ITN; freelance (Sydney NSW); editorial director, BitScan Pty Ltd; freelance

Charlotte Grant Assistant news editor, ITV News; reporter, ITV Central; reporter, 5 News

Martha Housden Head of development, BBC Three; head of development, director of development, Twenty Twenty Joe Inwood Reporter, video Journalist, BBC Look North (Yorkshire); reporter, BBC World Service

Sukhjeet Johal Unknown Sabina Khalid Trade marketing manager, Stardoll; head of customer happiness, community lead and research, Osper

Joanna Lester Reporter, Olympic News Service (ONS) Sochi 2014; reporter, ABC Radio; international development consultant, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Cordelia Lynch Presenter, ITV West

Country; reporter, Channel 4 News; US correspondent, Sky News

Fiona Macpherson Freelance (Ivel FM, Fire FM); broadcast journalist, BBC News

Ada Okafor (née Oraedu)

Researcher, Maverick Television; materials co-ordinator, All3Media International; project manager, Ogom + Co.

Susannah Orchard Producer, BBC Breakfast; research producer, Go to fig.2; producer (US), Sky News

Julian Perkins Broadcast journalist, Time 106.6; news editor, 107 JACK fm Berkshire; senior broadcast journalist, Global Dom Reynolds Presenter, monocle; reporter, ITN, 5 News; co-founder, Fresh Focus

Sam Rigby News editor, Time Radio; broadcast journalist, BBC; Brewer

Gil Roberts Broadcast journalist, BBC Breakfast; BBC South East Today

Katie Rowlett Freelance (BBC Hereford and Worcester, Nottingham, WM, East Midlands Today); journalist, ITV (Bristol); health correspondent, ITV; correspondent, ITV (Bristol)

Ben Samuel Deputy head of development, Ten Alps; head of development, Minnow Films; director of development, Dragonfly Film and Television

Colletta Smith Reporter, BBC Northern Ireland; business reporter, BBC Radio 5live; presenter, Wake Up To Money

Dino Sofos Producer, senior broadcast journalist and political producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; senior social media producer, BBC Politics

Shona Somerville Producer (Washington Bureau), ITN; producer (US), Sky News; political producer, Sky News

Kathryn Stanczyszyn London breakfast reporter, Global Radio (LBC, Classic FM, Heart, Capital); newsreader, BBC Radio 5 Live; political reporter (West Midlands), BBC

Hermione Stephenson Output producer, ITV News

Simone Stewart Unknown

Sarah Walton Reporter, BBC Radio Newcastle; presenter, BBC Look North; news correspondent, BBC News

Matthew Warren Group communications, BT; broadcast journalist, France 24; head of brand strategy, BT

Katy Watson Reporter, South America business reporter, BBC News; freelance correspondent (Mexico and Central America); South America correspondent, BBC Adam Westbrook Director, video. fu; lecturer in journalism, Kingston University; video essayist, delve.tv Siobhan Wornell Freelance (BBC, BBC Radio 4); journalist (Today programme), BBC Radio 4; senior broadcast journalist, Business and Economics, BBC Pascale Yasmine Captioner, BBC Parliament; freelance (BBC, Associated Press TV News)

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Warda AlJawahiry TV producer, Thomson Reuters (Dubai bureau); Social Entrepreneur (Cairo, Egypt); video producer, UNHCR

Roshni Amin digital media designer, Fusion Universal; assistant producer, The Open University; sound and vision producer, The Open University

Perjeet Aujla development producer, Darlow Smithson Productions; development producer (features), Maverick Television; development executive, Full Fat Television; head of development, Full Fat Television

Charlotte Banks website manager, head of group communications, Klesch and Company Limited; PR manager, UK Intermediary Schroders

Radha Bedi Broadcast assistant, BBC, Associated Press (Delhi); freelance producer and presenter of factual and current affairs documentaries

Michael Blair Arts and entertainment editor, Sky News; social affairs & education producer, Sky News; producer (Hong Kong), Bloomberg

Joanna Blundell BBC News; producer; senior Producer; assistant programme editor (news), Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar)

David Brookes Head of creative productions PHA Media; senior PR strategist, PHA Media; director, Thinking Hat PR Anna Cavell South Sudan correspondent, Al Jazeera

Celine Buttanshaw (née Chan) Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; associate, Hogan Lovells; senior associate, Hogan Lovells Rayhan Demytrie Producer, BBC World TV; Central Asia correspondent, Southern Caucasus correspondent, BBC Fred Fenoulhet Producer, executive producer, Channel 5 News, ITN; producer, Good Morning Britain Megan Gerrie Senior PD (news, shooting AP, documentaries); producer/ director; broadcast journalist (news and documentaries), ITN

Natalie Hall Senior account executive, account director, Kaper

Emma Chandra (née Jenkinson) Producer, senior broadcast journalist, BBC 6 & BBC News; news presenter and producer, Bloomberg Rhiannon Jones Spain correspondent, CCTV News; senior presenter, Real Madrid TV; freelance sports anchor, reporter, CNN Jordan Kenny Media relations manager, The University of Manchester; PR and media relations officer, University of Hertfordshire; news and media relations officer, The University of Manchester Sadia Khan Researcher, Halcyons Heart Production Company; assistant producer, Al Jazeera (Doha); broadcast journalist, BBC News

Kamali Melbourne producer, Channel 4 News ITN; digital field producer, Bloomberg business; presenter, TRT World

Hannah Sherry (née Mitchell) Senior celebrity liaison, British Heart Foundation; publicity manager, Universal Pictures (UK); senior PR manager, Discovery Communications; senior publicity and promotions manager, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment UK Mary Nash October Films Clara Nissen Production assistant,

Juniper Communications; editorial assistant, BBC Proms; broadcast assistant, BBC

Lucas Ochoa Head of development, head of film and scripted television, Pulse Films

Tom Rayner Middle East editor, Middle East bureau chief, Sky News (Jerusalem); South East Asia correspondent, Sky News; political correspondent, Sky News

Natalie Rose Edit producer, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, ITV; senior edit producer, Gogglebox, Channel 4; commissioning editor, UKTV

Louisa Sellon Producer, lead producer, marketing manager, ?What If! Innovation; brand partnerships, The School of Life

Bushra Siddiq Assistant producer, Twenty Twenty TV; producer, Blakeway Productions; producer, BBC Panorama

Tim Stokes Researcher, Channel 4; broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast

Nicholas Westwood Head of development (digital and broadcast), Sting Media; development consultant (originals), Factory Films; head of programming, UK, Awesomeness

Xinmin Yan TV producer, Travel Channel; China Representative, OC Sport Group; owner, Beijing theONE Sport Event Management

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Bakyt Azimkanov Global Debt Capital Markets Reporter (IFR), Thomson Reuters; freelance Managing Director (Communications Central); senior associate, global media relations, Ernst & Young

Dan Clifford Chief Copy Editor, Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review; contributing writer, The Oil & Gas Year

Alvino Mario Fantini Editor, speechwriter, OPEC (Vienna); Secretary General, The Hayek Institute; editor-in-chief, The European Conservative Christian Hudtwalcker Pinilla Unknown

Arthur Patnaude Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal; global content director, JLL Khatira Shikhiyeva Unknown

Martina Topic Co-editor, Journal of Culture and Religion; faculty member, Faculty of Business & Law, Leeds Beckett University; senior lecturer in public relations, Leeds Beckett University

Renfeng (Frank) Zhao Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; partner, managing partner, Kreab Gavin Anderson; partner, Brunswick Group

2008 International

Salam Abdulmunem Communications officer, UNICEF (Iraq); communication officer, UNICEF Lebanon

Ibrahim Adwan Reporter, editor, producer, Reuters TV (London); acting head of overseas operations, Thomson Reuters; self-employed news producer

Lei Ai Unknown

Harriet Alexander Foreign affairs reporter, The Sunday Telegraph; US correspondent, The Telegraph

Carlos Aparicio Senior sales (international), MFS Investment Management; freelance (World Investment News, CMC Markets)

Fidan Bagirova Novelist; mixed media artist

Edward Bally video consultant, UNICEF; Broadcast Journalist, Babel Media (Miami); freelance reporter and director; freelance reporter, director, CEO, Humans In Motion

Larissa Belyaeva Unknown

Cecile Bonneau Journalist director, Soda Presse; freelance; journalist, Jardins d’ici and d’ailleurs, Bo Travail Lisa Botter Staff writer, Criticaleye; deputy editor, Pensions Weekly, (FT Group); associate editor, Agenda Financial Times; assistant managing editor, The Street

David Calonico Unknown

Ana Cavalcanti Freelance; teacher

Mann Chung Unknown

Federica Cocco freelance; journalist, Daily Mirror; The Times; statistics journalist, The Financial Times

Sebastian Cure owner, The White Room Texas

Sarah Dahan editor, Snapchat Discover Konbini

Daniel Sunday Unknown

Julia de Laurentiis Johnson Author, Maclean’s magazine; vice chair, board, podcast writer and host, Shameless Magazine

Solange Deschatres creative marketing consultant & strategist, The Independent; global senior manager, content marketing strategy, storytelling, Symantec; director of content marketing, SCORCH

Marie Dhumieres Belgrade correspondent, Le Courierre Des Balkans; freelance; journalist, AFP

Antonio Fabrizio Reporter, VRL Financial News, Leasing Life; European reporter, InfraNews/ Mergermarket (FT Group)

Charlene Ferguson Unknown

Camille Fevrier Freelance, (Le Monde, France 24, The Sunday Times) Jing Fu journalist, China Daily

Nathalie Gentaz Freelance (France 24, Agence Française de Développement, ActuaLitte, TV 5 Monde); communications officer, ARC; English trainer

Phivos Georgiades Unknown

Anastasia Georgoupli Unknown

Maria Gili (née Hanisch) Editor, Televisa Chile S.A.; communications officer, ALNAP; communications manager, ALNAP

Ahmet Gormez Diplomacy and defense correspondent, ATV (Turkey); Foreign News Manager, TRT (Turkey)

Syed Hamad Ali Freelance, (The Times, The Guardian, Gulf News Weekend Review)

Llana Hart Editor, writer, The Jerusalem Post; marketing project manager, Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies; PR manager, NICE systems

Iman Hassan Unknown

Jonathan Heffer Head of mission, Médecins Sans Frontières (Russia, Yemen); health programme manager, Cordaid; security adviser, Cordaid Inutu Himanje Head of television operations and production, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (Zambia)

Vina Hiridjee Video producer, Agence Francaise de Developpement (Cambodia); multimedia consultant and video producer, World Bank Group; CEO and producer, Komet Productions

Juliana Holanda Author

Olivia Hottat Trainee, Delegation of the European Union to the United States; lawyer, Stibbe (Brussels); associate, senior associate, intellectual property, Stibbe

Isabella Iliaskou Owner, izou.gr

Jaclyn Jacobsen Junior editor, Maghrebia.com; reporter, managing editor, Central Asia Newswire

Cristina Jaleru Entertainment producer, Associated Press; founder, editor, Life of Venus; entertainment producer, Associated Press

George Kyriakos Chief business sub-editor, production editor, head of digital and magazine production, Financial Times

Zoe Lamazou Unknown; director, France Télévisions

Sarah Leduc Journalist, France 24 Josephine Hojean Lee Desk assistant and production assistant, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (New York); consulting associate & senior coordinator, Sucherman Consulting Group; chief of staff and executive, global communications and public affairs, Johnson & Johnson Xiaoxun Lei middle east bureau chief, China Daily

Dan Liu Unknown

Anouk Lorie Founder, editor, Nocamels.com

Natalia Lutz Unknown

Michael Makau Unknown

Marie Mathieu ARTE

Joseph McCullogh Unknown

Camilla Menezes Unknown

Aindrila Mitra Managing editor, Lifestyle & Luxury Response, The Times of India; brand communications and marketing, MUJI India/Diesel; Managing editor, Askmen.com India (Fork Media)

Coralie Modschiedler

Commissioning editor, special projects editor, World Travel Guide; editor, Columbus Travel Media; senior web editor, Rough Guides Ltd.

David Mugonyi Deputy news editor, Nation Media Group; Communication Secretary to Deputy President of Kenya

Elizabeth Mupfumira Corporate communications manager, Native Investments Africa Group; communications officer, United Nations Development Program (UNDP); communications specialist, UNICEF (Harare)

Shannon O’Meara Online editor InStyle Australia; strategy and tactics lead, Mamamia Women’s Network; communications specialist, UNICEF; head of digital content, Medium

Rare Content Agency

Viktoria Peitchev Unknown

Eric Polaud Unknown

Angeliki Psaila Trainee, To Vima (Athens)

Cristina Ranieri Unknown

Tony Renda General manager, Renda broadcasting

Michel Rose Unknown

Matthieu Serpaggi Channel coordinator, content operations supervisor, Discovery Communications (Southern Europe); programming associate, Discovery

Networks International

Victoria Serpis Unknown

Mypho Smart Unknown

Deborah Sterescu reporter, The Times, The Independent, The Economist; equities reporter, Proactive Investors (Toronto)

Iselin Stronen Postdoctoral researcher, Michelsen Institute; associate professor, University of Bergen; associate researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway)

Ahmed Tweirsh Unknown

Rosalind Upton Unknown

Yana Uralskaya International fashion correspondent, Vogue (Russia); social life correspondent, Russian Hour TV (London); founder, Visual Couture

Marco Woldt Freelance, CNN International; independent filmmaker, Deutsche Telekom, Eventbrite, Evernote, City of Berlin; co-founder and managing director, Gallereplay (Berlin)

Duncan Woodside East Africa Correspondent, France 24 TV (English); producer, France 24 TV (French); freelance journalist and TV news producer

Tamara Zein Trading operations, Naftomar Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd.

Joseph Zeitlyn Assistant editor online, Dhaka Tribune; freelance (The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Tehelka.com)

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Ashley Armstrong M&A reporter, retail correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; retail editor, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph Benedict Bailey Reporter, Associated Newspapers (Daily Mail, The Scotsman); online reporter, Evening Standard; deputy digital editor, The Sun Online

Katherine Baker Reporter, The Publican; news editor, Employer’s Law, news reporter, Personnel Today

Lucy Barton Unknown

David Bartram Journalist, South China Morning Post; senior reporter, eGaming Review; account director, Square in the Air

Esther Bintliff Assistant Europe editor, Financial Times; digital & communities editor, Financial Times Comment & Analysis; deputy editor, Financial Times Weekend Magazine Matthew Bolton Freelance, Lonely Planet

Jonathan Browning Journalist, Bloomberg News (Hong Kong)

Kaya Burgess News reporter, religious affairs correspondent, The Times; deputy editor, Times Diary Mindi Chahal Sales promotion, Promotional Marketing Magazine, Marketing Week; features writer, Marketing Week, content editor, Acuity PR

Kevin Coulson Sub-editor, sports and travel journalist, Daily Mail; senior digital editor, Eurosport Kevin Crowley UK finance reporter, Bloomberg (London); mining reporter (South Africa), Bloomberg; U.S. oil reporter, Bloomberg Alexander Davis Reporter (Commodities North Asia), Bloomberg; freelance; court reporter, Law360

Christopher Dean Sub-editor, associate night editor, Daily Mail

Kara-Jane Dolman Senior features

writer; Associate Head of Features; contributing editor, features, The Sun

Peter Dominiczak Reporter, Evening Standard; political editor, The Daily Telegraph; Unknown

Thomas Drew Unknown

James Edgar Reporter; Telegraph Media Group; news and planning editor, Press Association; journalist, AFP

Sonia Elks Journalism fellow, Alfa Fellowship, Reuters (Moscow); night editor, TimesOnline; freelance night editor and report, The Times; digital producer, ITV

Nicola Evans Editorial assistant, BBC Food Online; news and online editor, Square Meal

Alan Gardner Freelance, (Guardian. co.uk); freelance sports journalist; assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo.com

Jasmine Gardner Deputy features editor and technology editor, Evening Standard; features editor, The Sunday Times Style; editor, Apple

Eleanor Green Energy markets reporter, deputy editor (European Electricity Report), Argus Media; Editor, Argus European Electricity Report

Laura Harding Reporter, correspondent (Los Angeles), Press Association; senior entertainment correspondent, Press Association

Josh Loeb News editor, Hackney Citizen; reporter, Police Oracle; associate editor, The Institution of Engineering and Technology

James Lloyd Reporter, The Sun

Charlotte McCathie Journalist, Press Association; broadcast journalist, BBC

Ronan Murphy Assistant editor, SatelliteFinance; European editor, Argus Media

Rachel Rickard Straus

Correspondent, The Times of India; consumer affairs editor, personal finance editor, This is Money (MailOnline)

Tessa Roberts Reporter, Jewish News; freelance; teacher

Elizabeth Robinson Multimedia journalist, Press Association; digital producer, ITV News; consumer producer, ITV News; royal producer, ITV News

Fay Schlesinger Trainee reporter, Daily Mail; reporter, home news editor, head of news, The Times

Andrew Shepherd Trainee financial news reporter; Bloomberg, senior energy and renewables analyst; BMI; senior energy and infrastructure analyst, BMI Research

Katharine Slowe CEO, Middle East (Dubai); media relations and communications officer, International Institute for Strategic Studies; Media officer; Department of Energy and Climate Change

Kiran Stacey Reporter, political correspondent, Energy Correspondent; Financial Times; South Asia correspondent, The Financial Times

Nicola Trup Deputy travel editor, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, i and Evening Standard; deputy editor, The Independent and Evening Standard; acting deputy editor, National Geographic Food

Kylie Walker Journalist, China Daily

Patrick Whyte Assistant sports editor, The Huffington Post; news reporter, senior reporter, Travel Trade Gazette; UK editor, Skift

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India Aldridge Intern, Purple; Unknown

Gemma Aldridge Features reporter, The Sunday Times; features reporter, Sunday Mirror; features editor, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People

James Ball Journalist, Wikileaks; data journalist, The Guardian, Special Correspondent, BuzzFeedUk Emily Benammar Homepage and weekend editor, DailyTelegraph. com.au; digital sports editor, DailyTelegraph.com.au; head of digital sport nationwide, News Corp Australia

Muireann Bolger Features editor, Redactive Publishing; media and communications officer, Hertfordshire County Council; freelance writer Katherine Calder Senior Policy Officer, Diabetes UK; strategy programme manager, NHS England; strategy advisor, NHS England

Jennifer Campbell Freelance (The Sunday Times, The Big Issue, Daily Express, The Herald, The Perthshire Advertiser); writer, editor, NGO. media; freelance for not-for-profits (WWF, Macmillan Cancer Support, British Lung Foundation) Abigail Challenor Web Editor,

ISIS ALMEIDA SENIOR AGRICULTURE COMMODITIES

REPORTER, BLOOMBERG ERASMUS, 2008

Metrosnow.co.uk, VOS Media; Digital editor, VOS Media; Special Projects Editor, TTG (UBM)

Rebecca Clark Events preview writer, Arizona Republic; public relations, Phoenix Suns (NBA); public relations manager, Pottery Barn Kids

Jon Cook Digital content producer, general editor Timeout Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bristol; senior UK digital content producer, Time Out

Victoria McDermott (née Gallagher) Senior reporter, Drapers; editor, Bridal Buyer; content marketing editor, Retail Week

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Tom Goodwyn Freelance (NME, Shortlist, Loud & Quiet, Fresh Direction); web editor, HMV

Sophie Griffiths deputy news editor, news editor, editor, Travel Trade Gazette

Lucy Halfhead Features assistant, Marie Claire; contributing features and travel assistant, Harper’s Bazaar; assistant editor, Harpers Bazaar and Town & Country

Sophie Haydock Arts editor and staff writer, Leeds Guide; sub-editor, The Sunday Times; food writer and digital editor, Sunday Times

Lucy Higgins Senior sub-editor Pacific Magazines (Australia); deputy chief sub-editor, Pacific Magazines

If you weren’t a journalist, what would you be?

I would probably be a psychologist. I think they have a lot in common – you have to be a good listener and find out what makes people tick.

What is the most memorable interview you have ever done?

I remember breaking news about the departure of a CEO from the desert in Jordan, where I was on holiday. I also have very vivid memories of interviews with farmers about cocoa smuggling at the border of Ivory Coast and Ghana in 2012, less than a year after the civil war. That’s the joy of covering agricultural commodities: one day you’re covering top executives and the next you’re are chatting to farmers.

What is the best career advice you’ve received?

Life isn’t perfect and the ride will be bumpy. Your first job might not be ideal, but it will open doors for the next. As long as you keep going, you will get what you want.

What sparked your interest in reporting on commodities and agriculture?

It was where financial markets and real life crossed paths. Everyone needs to eat, fill up their cars, and turn the lights on. Those simple daily acts are all powered by commodities markets. It’s a really great area to cover not only because it’s so close to everyday life, but because it lacks transparency and, as a journalist, you can make a real difference.

Katie Burton

(Australia); deputy editor, Wed Magazine

Tom Howard Staff writer, FHM. com; associate editor, FHM; reviews editor; deputy editor, NME

Caomhan Keane Reporter, assistant editor, NewsFour; producer and presenter, Radiomade; freelancer (Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times)

Katherine Levy Group PR director, VCCP; marketing and new business director, Portas; head of PR, Marketing Agencies Association, Owner and Director, Furious PR

Kate Livesey Leasing agent, Stuyvesant Town; social media manager, Angel Feet Reflexology; brand management consultant, Perry Street Reflexology

Christopher Lo Senior features writer, assistant editor, NRI Digital Morag Wilson (née Lyall) Freelance copywriter, Pine Solutions; Life Lasting PR; content editor, Adfero; group editor, H2O Publishing Jodie Conway sub-editor, Global Legal Group; freelance legal editor; teacher

Chloe Markowicz Reporter, PR Week; reporter, The Jewish News; writer, deputy editor, Contagious Communications

Tim McAtackney Intern, CMPi; press officer, Crown Prosecution Service

Maisie McCabe Freelance (The Independent, Evening Standard); news editor, Media Week; news editor, deputy editor, Campaign, Haymarket Media Group

Andrew Mickel Editor, Such Small Portions/UniFM, H20 Publishing; Media Officer, Diabetes UK; senior press officer, PR manager Muscular Dystrophy UK

Lydia Mossahebi Online producer, Channel 4; senior digital content editor, Beano Studios; editor, Beano. com

Kirsty Nutkins Writer, Daily Express

Saturday magazine; freelance writer, Family Traveller; features editor, supplement magazines, Express Newspapers

Sarah Riches Deputy, Where London, London Planner; editor, World Travel Market, At Your Service, Explore Paddington; group deputy editor, Morris Visitor Publications UK

Robyn Rosen News reporter, Hampstead & Highgate Express; reporter, Jewish Chronicle

Brian Semple Intern, Prospect; news and media manager, Rethink Mental Illness; head of communications, Centre for Cities

Benjamin Sillis Reporter, Electricpig.co.uk; associate editor, Republic Publishing, Group Editor, Principal Consultant, Text100 Jenny Stocks trainee writer, features writer, Femail, Daily Mail

Ruth Styles TV and showbiz journalist, Express Newspapers; journalist, Heatworld; LA reporter, Daily Mail

Miranda Vinall Copywriter, Wellbeing Escapes Ltd; head of content, Wellbeing Escapes Ltd; content and social media editor, C2C Rail Limited

Audrey Ward Assistant editor, Sunday Times News Review; acting deputy editor, The Sunday Times Home; features editor The Sunday Times Magazine Georgia Warren Digital

communications strategist, Blue State Digital; senior strategist, Blue State Digital; head of digital engagement, Labour Party; Unknown

Victoria Watts Kennedy Writer, Oh Comely; travel blogger, director, Bridges and Balloons Creative; editor, Marie Curie magazine

Laura Whateley Columnist, The Times, freelance journalist; writer and money troubleshooter, The Times

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Brandice Alexander Broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat; journalist, Al Jazeera

Kerry Alexandra (née Moore) Freelance producer at BBC World Service and UGC; social news and presenter, BBC Minute; journalist, TRT World (Turkey)

Helen Allman Staff producer, Associated Press TV News; producer (freelance), Channel 4 News, ITN Gemma Ashcroft Scriptwriter, Global Radio; scriptwriter, BBC South East; scriptwriter, BBC Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Katie Mandel (née Baneth) News producer, Jeff Randall Live; news producer, Sky TV News; journalist and chief sub-editor, Ian King Live

Ivor Bennett Correspondent, Russia Today (Moscow); reporter, presenter, Reuters

Alan Bone Editorial assistant, Sky Sports Cricket; assistant producer, Sky Sports

Rebecca Bowring Founder and chief storyteller, videographer and correspondent, Founder Stores; storyteller, Matter

Paul Brand Reporter, news editor, ITV Wales and ITV Fast Track; political correspondent, ITV

Eleanor Bury Assistant producer, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC Radio 3; producer, The Cultural Frontline, BBC World Service

Rebecca Butler Unknown

Olivia Case Managing director and co-founder, SmartEye Productions; digital marketing, director of client services Diode Digital Ltd

Emily Dollman Freelance television producer, development producer, BBC; head of development, Maverick Televsion

Will Edwards Broadcast journalist, France 24; video reporter and correspondent, Agence FrancePresse, NYC; video reporter, AFP

Phoebe Frieze Business intern, Quest Means Business, CNN; news producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; digital video producer, BBC News, Sophie Glass Freelance broadcast journalist, (BBC); broadcast journalist, BBC World Service

Marie Hagen Deputy news editor, planning producer, freelance, Al Jazeera Media Network; press officer, The Home Office

Dan Johnson Interactive investor; reporter, BBC Look North; reporter, BBC News

Anna Jones News editor, chief sub, producer, Sky News; media relations manager, Associated British Foods Plc

Zoe Kalus Producer, BSkyB; reporter, news reader, Sky News Radio; deputy news editor; news editor, ITV

Edward Knowles Broadcast journalist, ITN Productions (Online);

producer, SNTV; reporter/producer, Olympic Channel

Jack Lamport Producer, Newsnight; producer, BBC News on Demand; producer, BBC News Channel and BBC News at One

Kevin Larkin Producer, BBC News; news editor, Minster FM, Doncaster Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

Ana Lockerbie Broadcast journalist, social media producer, senior producer; assistant editor, BBC Breakfast

Ramzan Karmali Senior broadcast journalist, BBC

Richard Martin Consultant, Bell Pottinger; brand and media relations manager, International Medical Corps, Supervising Producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sasha Nicholl Producer, text producer, Al Jazeera English; producer, TV news journalist, Sky News; senior media managermultimedia and digital; managing content editor, Save the Children UK

Sarah Olaifa Resident Services A, The Hyde Group; Managing Director, Sarjuice Ltd; Income Officer, A2Dominion Group

Julian Perkins Broadcast journalist, 107 Jack FM; news editor, 107 Jack FM, senior broadcast Journalist, Global

Zohaib Rashid Official reporter and consultant, British Asian Sports Awards; web editor, Operation Black Vote; recruitment team leader, Penna, Recruitment Consultant; Recruitment Manager, PMP Recruitment

Gilly Robinson Broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today; broadcast journalist, video journalist, BBC Breakfast, Alex Sergent Manager, Catch21 Productions; researcher, BBC; founder, Catch 21 productions

Sumit Sharma Digital marketing manager, Protocol Education; social media and digital marketing manager, Zoolz; Digital Marketing Manager, Freesat Lorna Edwards (née Shaddick) Broadcast journalist, ITN; broadcast journalist and presenter, France 24; video journalist, Feature Story News (Washington D.C), freelance reporter (ITN, Sky News, Good Morning Britain)

Jimmy Tam Assistant producer, BBC; multimedia reporter, Radio 1/1Xtra Newsbeat; producer, BBC Newsround; senior broadcast journalist, Digital Video, BBC Emily Tolloczko Online journalist, Fixers UK; online editor, Fixers UK; communications officer, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Letitia Valentine Newsreader, Swansea Sound, The Wave; company director, Surviva Ltd; self-employed, business development consultant Mel Wallis Unknown

David Blackadder-Weinstein EMBA Student, CASS Business School; senior content strategist, content and Insight manager, HS2 Ltd

Lara Whyte Digital editor, ITN; freelance reporter and video producer (International Business Times UK; freelance producer, BNNVARA, Special Projects Editor, 50:50, openDemocracy); writer, The Hanbury Agency Neil Wolfson Freelance researcher; production journalist

Clare Woodling Broadcast journalist, Celador Radio; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Oxford; broadcast journalist, BBC Spotlight

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Hyder Abbasi Text producer, broadcast journalist, Al Jazeera, Senior Producer,TRT World Georgina Andrews Production coordinator, Maverick Television; executive assistant, EY; life coach Osman Baig Programme producer, CNN (Hong Kong); writer, Al Jazeera English; actor Estelle Bingham DJ, BBC World Service, Unkown

Edmund Caldecott CEO, Spoken Ink Ltd

Yao Chin Assistant news editor and Westminster producer, ITV News; news reporter, ITV News, actor Sotira Christodoulou Unknown

Simon Dedman Field producer, BBC News; producer, CNBC Europe; broadcast journalist, BBC News; reporter, BBC Look East

Anne Faber Freelance reporter, RTL Group; freelance TV Producer; creator, TV presenter and producer, author, Anne’s Kitchen

Jacob Greaves Freelance reporter, ITN; freelance reporter, euronews; political reporter, Reuters TV

Max Hall Broadcast journalist, BBC Newsnight; assistant producer, World Media Rights; senior media manager, World Economic Forum

Alexis Hood Development producer, ORTV; development executive, World Productions Ltd; script producer, ABBOTVISION NO OFFENCE LIMITED; story producer, The Ink Factory

Joe Kassman-Tod Postgraduate studies

Samuel Kingsley Researcher, Channel 4 News; reporter, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; economics and EU affairs, British Embassy, Helsinki

Lewis Lintern Video editor, producer; head of production, TVC group

Annabelle Lupton Desk reporter, France 24, freelance broadcast journalist, Al Jazeera English; freelance presenter, France 24; Arts Correspondent TRT World

Matt Margrett Producer director, Windfall Films Ltd; producer director, Megalomedia; producer director, betty

Caroline Marsden Producer, Ultramarine Films; assistant producer, producer, Swan Films; producer, Pulse films

Claire McCready Unknown

Memona Mirza Broadcast journalist, researcher, BBC; freelance (UK); Science/Health TV Researcher, Brook Lapping Productions

Nicole O’Callaghan Assistant producer, Thomson Reuters; AV editor, social media, Bloomberg LP Atish Patel Producer, Reuters; freelance, Wall Street Journal (New Delhi), freelance journalist

Tom Peck Reporter, The Independent, Parliamentary Sketch Writer

Antonia Peulevé Account manager, Caro Communications; press officer, copywriter, press manager and chief copywriter; Marketing & PR Manager, Native Union

Laura Priestley Producer, Setanta Sports News; producer, Pendragon

Productions; teacher, director of studies, MPW College

Olivia Rowlands Producer, BBC World News, Katherine Sheppard Library counter assistant, Hertfordshire libraries, Unknown

Christopher Simpson Unknown

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Sarah Jones Editor-in-chief, P.S. Bearing Witness; deputy news editor, Al Jazeera America; output producer, TRT World, Sarah Jones Reports

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Mizuho Kondo Translator, Jiji Press; project coordinator, online community manager, Square Enix, online Projects and Communications Manager

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NATALIE POWELL

REPORTER AND VIDEO JOURNALIST, FEATURE STORY NEWS

BROADCAST, 2009

Did you always know you wanted to be journalist?

When I was younger I used to say I either wanted to be on the television or be a vampire slayer. Sadly there isn’t much call for vampire slaying these days.

cameraman, Thomson Reuters; camera operator & video editor, Al Jazeera; camera operator and video editor, BBC Stefanie Bainum News reporter, ABC News 4; Co-host/reporter Central Valley Today, KSEE24 Jelizaveta Belozerova Unknown Priyanka Boghani Freelance, CNN; senior reporter, Asian Private Banker Paola Bonfanti Special content director, 4IT group; wide and industrial printing content manager, Stratego Group

writer, Progressive Digital Media Group; online reporter; editor, IntraFish Media

Daniele Fisichella UK correspondent, Radio Popolare Milano; freelance producer, talkSPORT; reporter, MundoFutbol. com; press officer, Beat. Maria Furtado Unknown

What has been biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

The mobile and digital explosion; I’m now live broadcasting from my iPhone.

Where do you think you’ll be in 5 years?

For the first time in a long time I honestly cannot predict where I will be in 5 years. The landscape is constantly changing and evolving and I’m keen to evolve with it. This is a very unique time for journalists, where the integrity of our profession is being questioned from some of the highest parts of society. We find ourselves under attack and under threat from the emergence of fake news. It means that we have to strive to work with the utmost integrity. Challenge accepted.

What is one thing you learnt at City that you still use in your career today?

Always write to pictures. That was the key message during a workshop with ITV’s Penny Marshall and has been absolutely invaluable advice ever since. I’m currently in Johannesburg on secondment to eNCA - South Africa’s commercial broadcasterwhere I’m training some of the reporters here, this is one of the main lessons I’m passing on.

What is the best career advice you’ve received?

You need to have the skin of a rhino.

Elena Chabo

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Jigme Thinley Executive Reporter editor, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation

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Adwan Adwan Sports reporter, Abu Dhabi Sports; commentator,

talkSPORT; freelance sport presenter/producer

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assistant producer, Reuters Insider; associate producer, CNBC; director of online media, Star Channel - Nea Tileorasi

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Chiara Albanese Reporter, FX Week; reporter, financial reporter, Wall Street Journal; reporter, Bloomberg

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Anna Brunetti Structured finance and FIG reporter, Reuters; chief reporter, P2P Finance News; senior editor, Investing.com Sakshi Budhraja Unknown Anelise Chagas Unknown Indu Chandrasekhar SEO executive, Telegraph Media Group; audience development manager, Wall Street Journal; Head of audience development, Marketwatch; director of audience development, WIRED Jessica Chesko Intern, Travel, The Sunday Times; reservation sales agent, Apple Vacations; sales associate, Massage Envy Heather Christie Investment communications analyst, BlackRock; Vice President, BlackRock; Nonexecutive director, Herstmonceux Castle Enterprises Limited; director london discretionary sales, Blackrock Ayesha Chundrigar Freelance, Asian Express, MenuOne; social media researcher, Cision Sergio Colombo Art director, 30G; freelance, Il Fatto Quotidiano (Rome); deputy editor, Lettera43; freelance, Eastwest; freelance, Panorama (Milan)

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Nidhi Dugar-Kundalia (née Dugar) Sub-editor, Kindle Magazine (Kolkata, India); assistant editor, Kindle magazine; freelance writer, The Hindu

Jorge Estevao Content editor, BetClic; web producer, Queen Mary University of London; freelance photographer, Getty Images, iStock, Alamy

Niklas Fagerström Reporter, Finnish Broadcasting Company; national broadcast news reporter, YLE Lorena Fernandez Abdo Unknown Elisabeth Fischer Online feature

Federico Gatti Presenter, Massimo Ascolto Radio (London); Middle East correspondent, conflict reporter, London TV correspondent, Mediaset Maral Gholampour Creative producer, Marjan Television Network; member of directing panel, Ivaz Company, founder and director, Media Consultants Bureau Limited; correspondent, World Is One News

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Natalie Halliday (née Higashi) Digital editor, Sedai Legacy Project (Toronto); freelance (CBC, Toronto); founder, managing editor, Moringa Media (Toronto); outreach officer, INTERPOL

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Katharina Kruppa Communications manager, Evonik Industries AG; luxury travel blogger, blog. reiseworldtv.de

Quentin Leboucher Video journalist, Agence France Presse; Middle East and North Africa video deputy coordinator, AFPTV Lillian Leclair Writer, photographer, Oyster.com; correspondent, Jetsetter. com; concierge, The William Vale Hotel

Johannes Ledel Karreskog; Reporter, Wall Street Journal; business reporter, Sverigas Radio; reporter, Dagens Nyheter; reporter, Svenska Dagbladet

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Andre Lewis Productions; freelance photographer, News 12 Networks; multimedia news production fellow, Democracy Now!; video production coordinator, ASPCA

Meng Liao Vice president, global markets group, Bank of America

Alice Lin Editorial intern, Chronicle Books; copy, content writer, Party City; copywriter, Tiny Prints; editor, Fanmei Education; senior copywriter, Ebates

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GMRA Ltd; research executive, Flamingo; senior research executive, Flamingo; leader of the insights and analytics team, WE Red Bridge in China.

Michele Martinelli content executive, 4C Associates; content editor and copywriter, uSwitch.com; content strategist, Money advice service; product manager, Money Advice Service.

Rachel McGovern Reporter, Euroweek; reporter, Debtwire; editor, Private Debt Investor; senior editor, S&P Capital IQ Financial Communication

Pankti Mehta Senior correspondent, Hindustan Times, project manager, Mumbai Editors Lab; editor, BlackBook

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Saad Mustafa Sub-editor, Daily Times; senior communications officer, Department for International Development (DFID); executive director, ensure learning; communications specialist, Delivering to Impact Consulting

Carlo Nassetti Ebook and digital products manager, Ediciones Turner SL; freelance ebook editor, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; digital content producer, Centaur Communications

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Priyanka Salve Reporter, CapitalStructure Limited; senior correspondent, Cogencis Information Services; financial reporter, Mergermarket

Fiona Scott Editor, Crane.tv; head of production, i-D Magazine; senior producer, CNN

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Megha Shah Lifestyle editor, GQ (India)

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Valerie Siebert Freelance, The Quietus, Vice, The Telegraph; digital content manager, Leisure Kicks; writer, MailOnline

Dustin Silgardo Senior staff writer, deputy editor, Man’s World Magazine; news editor, Mint Lounge; assistant editor of emerging audience team, ESPNcricinfo

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Siri Svendsen Communications advisor, Jernbaneverket (National Norwegian Rail Administration); communication advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Karolina Tagaris Staff writer, Associated Press (Athens); correspondent, text editor, Reuters

Victoria Taylor ports researcher, Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, LOCOG; researcher, assistant producer; producer, The Graham Norton Show, So Television

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Journal, ABS TV

Agnes Valdimarsdottir Producer, AlJazeera; journalist, Iceland Magazine; English teacher, Fjölbrautarskólinn við Ármúla (Secondary School)

Lena Vazifdar Staff writer, reporter, 33 Universal; freelance (Audrey Magazine, Eat Me, SOMA)

Ines Ward Researcher, WagTV; researcher, Love Productions; researcher/development, Blakeway Productions

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Olivia Alabaster Sub-editor, reporter, regional reporter, The Daily Star (Beirut); news editor, Middle East Eye

Francesca Angelini Researcher, The Times; feature writer, food writer and editor, The Sunday Times

Tomar Brooks-Pollock Reporter, Central Office of Information; reporter, Manchester Evening News; freelance; journalist, BBC London

Szu Chan Researcher, FT Weekend; reporter, business reporter, The Daily Telegraph Lauren Evans (née Cockbill) Women’s Tennis Association; social media coordinator, researcher, BBC Caroline Crampton Total Politics; web editor, New Statesman Marion Dakers Financial services editor, The Telegraph, retraining in cyber security at SANS Institute; freelance reporter, (The Times, The Telegraph, the i, City A.M.); cyber security consultant, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Rhiannon Edwards Freelance filmmaker; freelance, USA travel editor, Daily Telegraph; creative writer, Across The Pond productions Peter Evans Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal; leisure and pharmaceuticals reporter, small business editor, The Sunday Times; reporter, S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Emma Gatten Daily Star (Lebanon); freelance reporter, The Guardian, The Independent; deputy foreign editor, The Telegraph

Damien Gayle Freelance, Daily Express; science and tech reporter, MailOnline; reporter, The Guardian Patrick Gower Senior reporter, Property Week; legal reporter, Bloomberg News; associate, residential research, Knight Frank Georgia Graham News reporter, The Sunday Times; political correspondent, The Telegraph; political correspondent, Channel 4 News; freelance, dazeddigital.com Rob Hastings Reporter, feature writer and assistant news editor, The Independent: deputy features editor, i paper Gregory Heffer Freelance, online

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Gregor Hunter Business reporter, The National (Abu Dhabi); markets reporter, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal

Tom Jackson Reporter, Ventures Africa; Managing editor, HumanIPO. com; co-founder, Disrupt Africa; freelance

Chris Kay UK reporter, Nigeria reporter, Nigeria bureau chief, Pakistan & Afghanistan bureau chief, Bloomberg News

Soraya Kishtwari Lobby assistant, The Times; parliamentary correspondent in the House of Commons; freelance political journalist

Jennifer Lipman Research consultant, Lexington communications; freelance writer, Optima; freelance comment writer, (The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The Guardian)

Anna Meisel Producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs; producer, BBC Radio 4; investigations producer, BBC Radio Current Affairs

Arron Merat The Daily Star (Beirut);Time Out (Beirut); Tehran correspondent, The Economist; editor, The Telegraph; parliamentary researcher

Ralph Miller Producer, Sky News; editor, Inness, Miller, Stadden; broadcast journalist, BBC

Richard Partington Reporter, City AM; chief online reporter, Financial News; banking reporter, Bloomberg News; economics reporter, The Guardian, The Observer

Alice Philipson Reporter, China Daily; news reporter, Telegraph Media Group; journalist, editor of Asia-Pacific desk, AFP in Hong Kong

Alexa Phillips Communications coordinator, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam; web editor, The National Archives; digital content editor, ActionAid

Sarah Rainey Reporter, The Belfast Telegraph; features writer, The Daily Telegraph; features writer, Daily Mail

Alexander Ralph Editorial assistant, business correspondent, market reporter, The Times

Alexander Richman News subeditor, Evening Standard; sub-editor, assistant night editor, chief sub, Daily Mail

Dina Rickman Associate editor, The Week; deputy news editor, i100. co.uk; head of social media, The Independent; visiting lecturer, City, University of London

Hannah Roberts Bloomberg; trainee reporter, Daily Mail (Glasgow); secondment, MailOnline; freelance, (BBC, Financial Times Weekend, The Tablet)

Arj Singh Press Association; Brooklyn Brothers; news reporter, political reporter, Press Association

John Stevens News reporter, political reporter, Brussels correspondent, Daily Mail; Whitehall editor, deputy political editor, Daily Mail

Martiena Van Der Meer

Digital marketing manager, St John Ambulance; e-commerce performance manager, business performance manager, Ageas Retail; senior digital manager, BT Alexander Walters Digital

development, Financial Times; freelance (The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent); product manager, Azimo; senior product manager, Helpling (Berlin) Lydia Warren Writer, Todaysthedayi. com; senior reporter, MailOnline (New York); managing editor, InsideEditions.com

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Cathy Adams Reporter, CityAM; associate editor, Square Up Media; deputy editor, Discovery

Dolly Alderton Dating columnist, The Sunday Times Style; podcast host, The High Low; freelance writer, (Red, The Times, The Debrief); author, Everything I Know About Love

Jennifer Allan Reporter, electricpig. co.uk; online editor, The Wire; runs Arc Light editions record label

Sarah Baldwin Features editor, LivingEtc; deputy editor, Homes & Gardens; associate editor, Livingetc Jessica Weinstein (née Baron) Digital content manager, Tudor Reilly Health; digital content manager, OAG Aviation; web editor, Jewish Chronicle

Elinor Block Online writer, Shortlist. com; online writer, senior online writer, Stylist.co.uk; assistant editor, Clinique Media Group

Jessica Blunden Mid-weight copywriter, The Engage Group; marketing communications executive, Practical Law Company; senior marketing executive, Thompson Reuters Eleanor Broughton Digital production journalist, The Sunday Times; features editor at Pulse magazine; freelance arts journalist, (The Pool, Refinery 29, VICE, Time Out, The Telegraph) Nicholas Carvell Style editor, British GQ; contributing fashion editor, British GQ; freelance men’s fashion editor, The Evening Standard, Glamour, Conde Nast Brides, John Lewis Edition magazine

Hollie Clemence Freelance reporter, The Sunday Times; reporter, news editor, The Week Online

Lucinda Dunseath TV publicity team assistant, coordinator, media and talent relations, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Guy Ferneyhough Senior reporter, TelecomFinance; senior reporter, assistant editor, deputy editor, SatelliteFinance

Jonathan Garrett Sub-editor, Property Week; assistant editor, business editor, jamieoliver.com

Caroline Gosney Freelance social media editor, strategist and copywriter (Agency Republic, Fleishman Hillard, Cubaka, BBH)

Mike Kielty Reporter, TelecomFinance; junior reporter, dealReporter

Lisa Kjellsson Features writer and supplements editor, Lockwood Press; freelance, AB Publishing, Wardour Communications and Travel Weekly Group, Boat; freelance writer/editor, (The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent,) AB Publishing, Chelsea Magazines

Anna Leach Writer, Time Out (Shanghai); Asia and Australia correspondent, Gay Star News; senior content coordinator, deputy editor of global development, Guardian News and Media

David Matthews Reporter, Building; reporter, Times Higher Education Supplement

James McIrvine Freelance; features writer, Sports Direct catalogue, VW Vans, Motor Racing Ezine (Haymarket Network); Singer/ guitarist in All This Noise

Helen Nianias Freelance, Look, xojane.co.uk, Fabulousmag.co.uk; deputy editor, The Indy People online; freelance (Vice, Grazia, The Telegraph, Stylist)

Jasmine Phillips Staff reporter and sub-editor, Tesco Wine Magazine; staff writer and sub-editor, assistant editor, Ocadolife

Jessica Pike Staff writer, The Chartered Quality Institute; education editor, managing editor, Intelligent Media Solutions; senior editor, B2B Marketing; managing editor, King Content

Elizabeth Pook Junior writer, deputy features editor, Stylist; freelance journalist; acting features director, Stylist; freelance writer, editor, copywriter, consultant

Alexandra Saggers PR consultant, Seven Hills; English and Drama teacher

Moya Sarner Features and health writer, commissioning editor, Good Housekeeping Magazine; acting commissioning editor, The Times2; freelance writer

Rebecca Seales News trainee, PoliticsHome.com; reporter, India editor, MailOnline; broadcast journalist, BBC World News Online

Estella Shardlow Freelance copywriter, Dalziel and Pow Designs Consultants; freelance (Escapism, Telegraph, Stylus, Apollo); editor, Pinnacle Media Ltd; novelist

Sarah Simpson Digital assistant producer, Good Food Channel; manager, Fortuna Enterprises; director MMC Bars Ltd.

Rachel Smith Junior editor, Class magazine; editorial assistant, Reader’s Digest; online editor, www. souschef.co.uk

India Sturgis Features writer, commissioning editor, Femail, Daily Mail; freelance; features editor, The Telegraph

Daniel Tapper Staff writer, Waitrose Kitchen; freelance food journalist, (The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent, VICE); author, Food Unwrapped.

Clare Vooght Sub-editor, British Journal of Photography and Computeractive; digital production editor, Incisive Media; freelance, (Escapism, MailOnline, The Independent, Time Out London, Suitcase Magazine)

Jonathan Watson Sub-editor, production assistant, The Stage; senior digital production executive at Incisive Media

Sophie Wilkinson News writer, news editor, The Debrief; freelance (Vice, The Guardian, Grazia, The Independent) editor, The Debrief

Broadcast

Jessica Banham Broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today

Amy Blackburn Freelance producer (Channel 4 News, ITV); live subtitler, Independent Media Support; team leader, Red Bee Media

Helena Carter Presenter, reporter, ITV; reporter, ITV News

Lucie Charlton Producer, BSkyB; producer, Sky News Tonight; freelance journalist, producer; freelance journalist

Rachael Church Fundraising campaign manager, Compton Fundraising; senior development manager, Peterborough Cathedral; PR & communications manager, Greenwoods Solicitors LLP

Sarah Collinson Assistant producer, digital producer, Blakeway Productions; producer, Amos Pictures

Tom Croasdell Freelance; broadcast journalist, Adventure Radio Group; freelance reporter, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Kent, Global Radio; producer, talkSPORT

Liz Emmett Account manager, Carat Enterprise; digital planner, digital account manager, OMD Australia

Marvin Farquharson Unknown

Sean Farrington Reporter, BBC News; reporter, presenter BBC Radio 5 Live

Steve Gardner Digital producer, ITV News; editor, VPoint News; editor of news output, Sky News; commissioning editor, Fidelity International

Hannah Gibbons Assistant producer, This Week; researcher, The One Show; researcher, BBC Current Affairs

Helen Glancy Producer, editor, Broadcorp; opinions and leaders manager, The Times

Jason Grant Freelance (media for development); facilitation and storytelling, Forgiveness Project; Mental Health Community Partner, Department for Work and Pensions; Trustee, The Frank Longford Charitable Trust

Benjamin Guy Researcher, October Films; freelance broadcast journalist (BBC World Service, BBC London) Noreen Harewood Freelance broadcast journalist (Radio Jackie 107.8); producer, BBC World Service

Antonia Adair Press officer, Wild Card PR; account manager, Eulogy!; consultant, Teneo Blue Rubicon Hind Hassan International content producer, news producer, reporter, Sky News International; correspondent, Vice News Tonight on HBO

Victoria Holland Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Derby; broadcast journalist, BBC South East Today; video journalist and presenter, BBC Look North Daniel Howells Freelance broadcast journalist and producer, ITN; northern news editor, ITV News

Joanna Impey Broadcast journalist, Deutsche Welle; broadcast journalist; radio journalist, BBC World Service Ruth Jacob Content assistant, content editor, IZMAYLOVA; primary school teaching assistant Robin James Freelance digital content producer; senior producer, online Producer (entertainment)ITV Online; YouTube creator and blogger - Man for Himself Corinne Jess Marketing manager, Harrow College; director, Jam Residential Ltd

Aled John Producer, presenter, Monocle 24; programme manager, Guardian News & Media; CoFounder, Paytogether; freelancer, Hunch Strategic Innovation Caitlin Kennedy Freelance stringer, BBC News; shortform

video researcher, BBC; production coordinator, WGBH Creative

Kate Lawrence Media production assistant, Espresso Education, Channel 4 Learning; freelance assistant news editor, 5 News, ITN; assistant producer, Boundless Katy Lee Online editor, reporter, Asia-Pacific editor, reporter Agence

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Christina Macfarlane Reporter, Sports Correspondent, CNN International

Faarea Masud Sunrise Radio/ Litt Corporation; broadcast journalist, BBC News

Francesca Mcleod Unknown

Steffan Messenger Journalist, BBC Wales

Felicity Morris Development researcher, BBC; development assistant producer, Raw Television; planning producer, Sky; development executive, Raw TV

Datshiane Nayanayagam Journalist, BBC News; assistant producer, BBC Olivia Paterson Presenter/producer, ITV Anglia

Nicholas Reed-Clarke Business broadcast journalist, BBC News

John Regan Freelance producer (Sky News); producer, Al Jazeera; field producer, TRT World

Oliver Regan Freelance sports journalist (Sky Sports News, BBC, ITN); sports reporter, Reuters News Agency

Julia Ross Investigative researcher, Inside Out, BBC; planning, producer World At One, BBC Radio 4 Jennifer Shaw Producer, Lightbox; DV director, Channel 4; shooting producer; shooting producer, True Vision Products

Adam Sich Production assistant, online content producer, ITN; YouTube channel manager, The Guardian

Jessica Stevens Speech and language therapist, Words First Ltd

Charlie Thomson Senior football planner, Sky Sports News; account manager, TLA Australia

Frances Tillson Corporate Communications Manager, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Ayshah Tull Production trainee, assistant producer, presenter, BBC Newsround

Micky Van Praagh Researcher, BBC; freelance producer (Endemol UK); producer, Celebrity Big Brother

Timothy Wallace Banking reporter, senior reporter, City AM; banking reporter, economics correspondent, The Telegraph

Robert Watts Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Derby; early show presenter, BBC East Midlands radio; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 5 Live & Brussels Radio Producer, BBC

Joanne Whalley Producer, reporter, BBC Travel Show

David Wilkinson Freelance broadcast journalist, assignment editor, producer CNN

Rebecca Williams Reporter/ presenter, BBC; broadcast journalist, reporter, West of England Correspondent & Presenter, Sky News

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Sophie Clayton-Payne Freelance

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Kathryn Collins Unknown

Stephanie Constantine Freelance

CONRAD QUILTY-HARPER

EDITOR, GQ.CO.UK INVESTIGATIVE, 2010

What is the most memorable interview you’ve ever done?

Ed Sheeran. I got to ask him how his ginger hair affected his sex appeal. As a ginger-haired man that was particularly interesting to me.

What is the best thing about your job?

I get to do completely ridiculous things that I would never be able to afford – like go on private jets; but I also get to write about serious topics like Brexit and Trump. So I get the fun, flippant lifestyle side of things and I get the serious, political things too. That keeps me really interested.

What has been the highlight of your career so far?

Getting to start a series reviewing private jets is definitely my GQ favourite! In terms of my newspaper career it was probably working on an investigation into the Guantanamo Bay inmates for The Telegraph

If you weren’t a journalist what would you be?

I’d be an author or an artist. I’d love to be an artist: I love going to exhibitions and reading the stories about how the artists made their art.

Alexandra Twohey

producer, Dubai Sports Channel, BBC Sportsnews, SNTV, BBC News; broadcast journalist & social media producer, BBC World News; social media innovation producer, BBC World Service

Jennifer Conway TV journalist, BBC London News

Catherine Corrett Freelance documentary filmmaker; consultant, Leaman Consulting

Vicki Ferrar Editorial planner, APTN Direct; producer, deputy regional editor for video in Europe & Africa, Associated Press

Alexandra Fowle Unknown

Nicholas Gilbert Media officer, Druglink; researcher, Blakeway Productions

James Greene Unknown

Gayan Gunaratne Unknown

Caitlin Hanrahan Researcher, BBC; researcher, assistant producer, ITN

Rebecca Hayman Assistant producer, Goodness Media; producer, October Films

Jamil Hussein News editor, Weather Network UK; freelance digital journalist & content and social media manager, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Samuel Hunt BBC World; assistant producer and interview producer, Al Jazeera English; assistant producer, BBC Panorama; producer, The Economist

Caroline Ingvarsson Production coordinator, Flood Projects (Australia); director, Glue Harbor Productions

Sam Kirby Field producer, Westminster producer, assistant news editor, ITN

Kelly Kerruish Studio manager,

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Julia Bradshaw Senior reporter, Financial advisor, Financial Times; companies writer, Investors Chronicle, Financial Times; business news editor, Daily Telegraph

Rebecca Buchan Senior court reporter, The Aberdeen Press and Journal; business editor, DC Thomson

Sarah Clark Assistant producer, ITN; assistant producer, Arrow Media; associate producer, Nutopia; Development Producer, Amazing Productions; producer, BBC

Claire Cooper Press officer, Crisis press officer, BBC Children in Need; coalition media executive, Press & PR Officer, Essex Police

Ross Halliday Documentary filmmaker, Docfactory; independent filmmaker; marketing communications and video production, Production Manager, INTERPOL

Matthew Holehouse Reporter, assistant news editor (online), Brussels correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; UK-EU Correspondent, MLex Market Insight

Carisma Kapoor Unknown

Billy Kenber Graduate trainee; news reporter, investigations reporter, The Times

Laura Klompenhouwer Reporter, Novum Nieuws; freelance; editor ‘liaison’, NRC Media; Researcher, KRO-NCRV

Pierre Kley-Gomez Unknown

Pink Banana Studios; account manager, senior account manager, Halpern; account director, Publicasity; account director, Cultural Communications Ltd

Josephine Kime Consultancy; UK and US host, Channel One Russia Worldwide; global business coordinator (chairman’s office), Capri Investment Group

Rachel Lucas Newsdesk producer, Channel 5 News, ITN; assistant news editor, ITN

James Martin Freelance

Camilla Millard Casting researcher, Ivory London; producer, Beagle Media

Goldie Momen-Putrym Sky News Online

Richard Mylles Political analyst, Absolute Strategy Research

Jon-Paul Phillips Unknown; assistant portfolio manager, BAE Systems Pension Funds Investment

Stephanie Britton Presenter, producer, Channel 5 (ITN); broadcast journalist, presenter, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4; reporter, Reuters

Emily Purser Business, economics & consumer producer, head of specialist producers & economics producer; Washington bureau chief, Sky News

Alison Rogers Unknown

Karen Santi Unknown

Anneka Sharpley Planning producer, news editor, Sky News

Poppy Tullo Producer, Digit London; producer, Brand Union; project manager, Hugo & Cat & integrated producer, VCCP Kim

Ruairidh Villar TV producer and reporter, Thomson Reuters; Save the Children

Jennifer Green Web content manager, scheduling manager, ITV

Julius Goldthorpe Marketing and communications officer, recruitment manager, Accounting for International Development; Operations Manager, Enjay Training Ltd.

Aine Gormley Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University; University College Groningen academic staff, University of Groningen

Grace Howe Contributing writer, Elements

Laura Husband Deputy online magazine editor, Progressive Digital Media; staff writer, P3; staff writer, Beauty Magazine; Pure Beauty editor, HPCI Media

Louis Jagger Contributing writer, Elements; full-time tutor, Keystone Tutors

Charlotte King Junior scientific writer, Euro RSCG Life Medicom; copywriter, account manager, Cherry Advertising

Hannah King Assistant producer, Children in Need; Researcher, Lab UK, BBC; North East reporter, BFBS

Joseph Milton Intern, Nature; senior press officer for Mental Health, Science Media Centre; senior media officer, Australian Science Media Centre

Smitha Mundasad Broadcast journalist, BBC News; News Reporter/ Presenter, BBC News

Nicholas Lancaster Business development executive, Create Digital Media; Creative Marketing, Griffin Law

Simon Lewis Associate editor, business editor, The Cambodia Daily; freelance (South East Asia); Correspondent, Reuters Myanmar Lidija Liegis Research associate, The Risk Advisory Group; journalist, BQ Baltic; freelance writer, Discover Benelux magazine; Head of Research, Fas Agro

Tim Maynard Assistant producer, ITN; assistant producer, On Assignment, Tonight Programme, ITV; producer/director, Tonight (ITN) Luke Oakeshott Intern, Lord Mayor’s Office; researcher, Transnational Crisis Project; Art History Student, Birbeck, University of London

Natalie Peck Producer, National Union of Students; lecturer in investigative journalism, London South Bank University; Media and Communications Lead, London Borough of Barnet

Conrad Quilty-Harper Data mapping reporter, interactive news editor, The Daily Telegraph; data journalist, Ampp3d; news editor, GQ.co.uk

Emma Slater Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Channel 4 Dispatches, October Films; assistant producer, ITV

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Caroline Azad-Andish Contributing writer, Elements; foreign correspondent, RTL TVI Tushna Commissariat Freelance; reporter, Physics World; Reviews and Careers Editor, Physics World

Christine Ottery News editor, MRW; deputy editor, Greenpeace Energydesk; Freelance Environmental Journalist and Writer; interim deputy editor, DeSmog UK

Smitha Peter Researcher, Survival International; Unknown Achintya Rao CMS Science Communicator, CERN; PhD student, University of the West of England; Communications Officer, CMS Experiment, CERN

Ian Randall PhD student, University of Auckland; lead DBA, Oracle Apps; website developer, IPPOG; Freelance Science Journalist and Writer; PhD Candidate, University of Aukland

Paul Rodgers Business and science editor, Jamaica Observer; Science Contributor, Forbes.com; Freelance Science Writer; science contributor, Forbes

Tiffany Stecker Reporter, ClimateWire (US); agriculture reporter, Greenwire; Biotech/ pesticides reporter, Bloomberg BNA Gulnura Toralieva Head of journalism and mass communications, American University of Central Asia; Communications Director USAID Local Development Programme; Assistant Professor, American University of Central Asia

Gozde Zorlu Associate communications officer, Frontiers; Senior Media Relations Executive, BMJ; Web Editor, Stempra; media and pr manager/chief press officer, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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Jan Lepetun CEEMEA reporter, Debtwire (Financial Times Group); Director of Strategy, McGraw-Hill Education

Zhiping An New Media editor, XInhua News Agency

Guilherme Kfouri Team Leader, Biofuels and Gasoline Blending components, Platts; senior economist, International Sugar Organisation; technical account manager, solutions consultant ii, AppNexus

Weiyi Wu Unknown

Beibei Yin Freelance (Financial Times Chinese)

Sakshi Sharma Senior reporter, Infrastructure Journal; Americas Editor – IJGlobal, Euromoney Institutional Investor

Roman Chlupaty Founder, editorin-chief, GlobeReporter.org; author, The Evolution of Money, Columbia University Press, 2016

Isabella Cota Schwarz Online sub-editor, Thomson Reuters; Central America reporter, Mexico fixed income reporter, Bloomberg; freelance journalist

Matilde Mereghetti European reporter, senior reporter, editorial market engagement leader, ICIS; Senior Reporter, Argust Media; journalist, Undercurrent

Emma Godfrey Analyst, researcher, Alphametrics Ltd; Consultant, Coffey International

Bunly Meas National communication officer, Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP (Cambodia); communication specialist, UNICEF Cambodia

Kimberly Peterson Associate news editor, European Union energy policy, Platts; energy policy and regulation reporter; JD Candidate, Pace University School of Law

Matthew Caruana Galizia Labs developer, Financial Times; developer, Assanka; Developer, Grupo Nación; developer and data journalist, ICIJ

Andrew Hercules Front-end developer and UX/UI consultant, Deloitte Digital; developer and UX Strategist, University of London; user experience designer, European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI

Christina Dillmann Social media and marketing strategist, UC San Diego Health Sciences International; EFL Teacher, Stafford House International

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Jessica Abels Digital communications officer, Prisoners Abroad; communications officer, Gingerbread; communications officer, Citizens Advice; Digital Workplace Lead, Citizens Advice

Michelle Abrego Regulation and politics reporter, New Model Adviser (Citywire); Deputy Editor, Citywire Americas

Carol Acquaye Chief editor, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Monica Ainley Fashion features writer, Avenue 32; Social Media Editor, JOSEPH Fashion; community editor, The NET SET (NET-APORTER); Freelance Jouranlist and Brand Consultant

Ole Kristian Alsaker Video producer, The Guardian; output editor, Ruptly; journalist, Deutche Welle Berlin

Laila Ali Freelance (The Guardian); Spokesperson, World Food

Programme; Najah Alotaibi Alosaimi Asharq Alawsat newspaper (London); Researcher, Centre on Religion & Geopolitics

Samah Altaweel Reporter, correspondent, Associated Press Middle East Service; anchor, broadcast journalist, Deutsche Welle TV; Talk Show Host, Deutche Welle

Anna Anderson Keyworker, assessor, assessment team coordinator, Kids Company; family keyworker, London Borough of Bexley

Tom Barfield Features intern, CNN; political officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Reporter, AFP News Agency

Habiba Basiony Media production director, 3S Avenue; entertainment anchor and producer, Alhurra; presenter - Banafsej on Dubai TV, Dubai Media Incorporated

Beatrice Bedeschi Associate editor, editor EMEA Oil, Platts (European Gas Markets); Freelance oil, gas and power Journalist

Nathalie Biancheri Assistant producer, researcher, BBC; writer/ director, The Crossing; producer, Gibberish; Scriptwriter, The Listener; Documentary Filmmaker, I Was Here Clémentine Blayo-Nogret MA in translation, subtitling and dubbing for cinema (Nice, France); Youth Publishing Editor, France Télévisions Editions Numériques

Maria Thuesen Bleeg Freelance (Dagbladet Børsen); producer, subtitler, SBS Australia; journalist, Ritzaus Bureau; Subtitler, Special Broadcasting Service, Australia; journalist, TV 2 Danmark A/S

Caroline Bodin-Soufflet Senior TV producer, Bloomberg TV Africa; TV and multimedia producer, BBC; senior multimedia producer, The Sunday Time

Alessandra Bonomolo Producer, Double Act Ltd.; producer, BBC Newsnight; development producer, BBC; Producer, BBC Newsnight; producer/director, Red Sky Productions

Alexandra Botines-Mora UK correspondent, Mundo Deportivo Marianne Bouchart Web producer EMEA, Bloomberg News; communications director, Global Editors Network; Founder and Director, HEI-DA Viola Caon Italy correspondent, Open Door Media Ltd; Italy and Iberia correspondent, web news editor; funds senior reporter, IJGlobal Euromoney Institutional Investor.

Chiara Caprio Freelance (Al Jazeera, Corriere della Sera, Il Fatto Quotidia); video producer, Vice Media; Senior Producer, Vice Media, Italy; editor at large, C41 Magazine Marine Casalis Correspondent, France 24, RFI, Tribune de Genève, Radio Vatican (Tunisia, Libya); correspondent, France 24, RFI, Le Temps (Libya)

Paloma Casillas Baldres Press officer, Spanish Senate; junior communication consultant, accounts executive, Planner Media; Senior account executive, Evercom

Arianna Catti De Gasperi Speaker, Vatican Radio; Associate Director of International Admissions, John Cabot University

Adam Chidell English teacher,

Merchant Taylors’ School

Carlotta Comparetti Content and social media manager, YESEYA s.r.l; Consultant, Asia-Pacific Department, Transparency International; project coordinator & communications, Akhaya Women Myanmar Alexander Court Digital producer, Sky News; digital features producer, CNN; digital editor, UNHCR Sara Custer Reporter, RHS Chelsea Flower Show; deputy editor, The PIE News; Editor, The PIE News; special projects editor, Times Higher Education

Muhammad Darwish Freelance (TV news); video journalist, field producer, Bloomberg LP; News Reporter, CNN

Ruchita Daswani Intern, News International; assistant manageraffluent banking, Citibank India; Diplome de Patisserie student, Le Cordon Bleu London Mirjam de Jong Director of corporate film (Amsterdam); unknown

Alessandra Stefani de Medeiros TV presenter, TVR; freelance travel journalist, Yahoo, Viator; assistant editor, TV Tem

Marleen De Rooy Web editor, Het Financieele Dagblad newspaper; business editor, NOS; Political Reporter, NOS Angeliki Delagrammatica Unknown

Caroline Demopoulos Film Producer, Goodnight Gigi, Mad Dogs, The Prevailing Winds; international sales assistant intern, HanWay Films; FEMIS training programme, Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris Boyana Draganova Guest writer, simplifydigital.com

Zaina Erhaim Freelance writer, The Guardian; Syria project coordinator/ trainer, Senior media specialist, Institute of War & Peace Reporting Nikolaos Fatsios Unknown Mimi Flemming Post production manager, Vice Media; content manager, The Project, Network Ten; General Manager, Vice Australia Veronique Forge-Karibian Freelance, French Media, L/onTOP magazine; founder and CEO, Business O Féminin

Fabio Forin Freelance, European Journalism Centre; freelance broadcaster/researcher, BBC 2; freelance, documentary filmmaker, A Man and a Wife Mathilde Forissier Freelance, Altermind; journalist, Le Soldat Blanc; Deceased Lorenza Frigerio Photojournalist, Demotix; account manager, The 10 Group; Agency Producer, Maverick Advertising and Design Annabel Fuller Media and communications consultant, Island Living Investment Services Ltd.; executive assistant to director, registration services administration officer; Antigua and Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping Amira Galal Monitoring journalist, Arabic media analyst, BBC World Service Group; site management support assistant, Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp Riccardo Ghia EMEA industrial correspondent, financial researcher, senior reporter, editorial analyst, Mergermarket Anna Gorczynska Reporter,

Academy FM; private banker –sports and entertainment, Coutts

Ambra Guarnieri PhD student, SOAS; University of London; teaching assistant; SOAS, University of London, freelance journalist writer; Ayina Editora

Rachel Hall Intern, reporter, news editor, Law Business Research; public policy journalist, Research; editor, Guardian Higher Education Network

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Sara Hemrajani Freelance TV news reporter, DMA Media; freelance TV producer/reporter, Reuters; freelance news producer, CNN Tim Hilhorst Keyword editor, senior marketing analyst, marketing operations manager Europe, ReachLocal; Head of Growth, Plugify; head of technology, The Advertising Club

Elizabeth Holliday TV reporter, WTEN-TV; communications associate, College and Community Fellowship; Communications Specialist, Columbia University School of Nursing

Zoe Holman Intern, Institute of War and Peace Reporting; freelance; PhD researcher, University of Melbourne; freelance

Vincent Huck Reporter, Timetric Financial Services/Progressive Media Group; deputy editor, Timetric International Accounting Bulletin & The Accountant; Group Editor, Timetric Petrus Iliadis Press officer, fleet dispatcher, LOCOG; Unknown Noemi Ivicsics Online marketing executive, Fashion Eyewear; Digital Marketing Coordinator, Oakley; global ecommerce marketing manager (Oakley), Luxottica Babbals Jamwal Freelance documentaries researcher, ITN Productions; Unknown Mridulika Jha Chief sub-editor, Naidunia Media Pvt Ltd.; documentation consultant, Apne Aap Women Worldwide; national communications officer, The Hunger Project

Aarti Jitender Associate producer, Bloomberg TV (Hong Kong); assistant producer, CNBC TV18; Unknown Ole Kaemper Freelance, Deutsche Welle; trainee, N24 Television; TV News Editor

Saeed Kamali-Dehghan Correspondent, The Guardian; producer, HBO; staff journalist, The Guardian

Jelena Kensborn Producer, cofounder, Upstart Media Fawad Khurshid Senior producer, Capital TV (Pakistan); director news, Neo TV Network; Broadcast Journalist, Islamabad

Carmen Zech (née Ka-Man Kong) Editor, Europe & Me; freelance marketing consultant; Senior Marketing Executive, Aspire Hong Kong

Marco Leitão Silva Freelance radio producer; broadcast journalist, BBC World Service

Fangchao Li Page editor, 21st Century China Daily; Unknown Austin Lindberg Online news editor, Car and Driver magazine (USA); general editor, ESPN FC

Jonathan Lopez Research analyst, Intierra; reporter, Capital Structure; news reporter, Senior Reporter, news editor, ICIS

Dalia Lourenco Communication officer, DG-MARKT; communications consultant, World Health Organization; International Careers and Productivity Consultant, Accelerate Your Ambitions

Megan Lucero Story producer, data journalist, data journalism editor, The Times and The Sunday Times; director of the data lab, director of the bureau local; The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Kabeer Mahajan Freelance assistant producer (TV sport news), BBC; freelance AP, CNN; project manager, Improve Digital.

Carlos Martin Tornero Voiceover artist, translator, Aparat Media; reporter, editor, Timetric; senior reporter, Responsible Investor Amit Masram HR manager Europe, Infoplus Technologies; HR consultant, Accenture UK; head of HR international business and HR programs, InfoCepts

Niall McDonald Producer, Sky News; producer, Associated Press; writer and producer, CNN Muazzin Mehrban Communications executive, Pfizer; communications associate, Aramco Overseas Company

Gianlucia Mezzofiore Foreign news reporter, MailOnline; UK Real-Time News Reporter, Mashable; social discovery producer, CNN Hamza Mohamed Freelance, SubSaharan, Africa; producer, Al Jazeera Media Network

Anuradha Mojumdar Head analyst, Gorkana; communications coordinator, McKinsey & Company; communications specialist at the United Nations System Staff College, United Nations

Lillo Montalto Monella Author, Real-Time Journalism; real-time journalist, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso; multimedia bilingual journalist, Euronews Eugenio Montesano Italian reporter, Citywire Global; Italian editor, Citywire; senior reporter, Last Word; editor, Assogestioni

Nishit Morsawala Editor, Arab Today; producer, Sky News; journalist, Al-Jazeera English, Associated Press, The Guardian

Anastasios Mpulassikis Communications executive, Eurosif; communications officer, European Association of Public Banks, Unknown

Zayn Nabbi Associate sports producer,; sports producer, CNN International

Reem Nafie Journalist, Economist Intelligence Unit; freelance reporter, Arab issues; freelance documentary translator, Al-Jazeera English, OR Media, Ultramarine Films

Shuhei Nakayama Researcher, Euromoney; production and technical personnel, NHK Cosmomedia Europe; cameraman, Fourex

Sarah Noorbakhsh Runner, researcher, production coordinator, Don Productions Ltd; marketing executive, QS Quacquarelli Symonds; Freelance, JapaneseEnglish translator

Nicole Ocran Content producer, Hushkeys; events and sponsorship

manager, Black Ballad; influencer marketing specialist, Supernova Olushola Ojikutu Freelance; contributor, Times LIVE; blogger, MissOjikutu

Sella Oneko German language press editor, Kantar Media Intelligence; online, radio and TV journalist, Deutsche Welle

Annika Ostman Assistant producer, ITN; communications manager, Njema Helena; communications specialist, The World Bank; Communications Manager, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation

Eunae Park Deputy director, planning and cooperation team, National Assembly (Seoul)

Maite Perez De Nanclares International relations researcher, University of the Basque Country; freelance, Digital Publications; coordinator, auditor, Kids&Us; English second language tutor, Escuela Infantil Txanogorritxu

Maria Beltcheva (nee Petchenikova) CIS correspondent, Kallanish; PR manager, Dynamica Consulting; freelance journalist and videomaker; external, Council for Electronic Media

Katie Poole Community manager, social media manager, TWM Unlimited agency; global assistant content manager, global content manager, Unilever

Akshata Rao Assistant producer, Bloomberg TV; multimedia journalist, producer, The Times; video news producer, The Guardian News and Media

Meredith Ross Social media marketing coordinator, Lushli; news anchor, i24news

Silvia Rothlisberger Documentary producer, community outreach and project manager, Latin Elephant; video workshops facilitator,Latin American Women’s Rights Service; producer and host, Literary South Massimiliano Santalucia Assistant librarian, Mediateca Santa Teresa; blogger, France24; library assistant, York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Kira Savchenko Global Blue; blogger, Kira Is Wearing; editorial assistant, ASOS.com; operations editor, PR Newswire

Rosanne Scammell Unknown

Melanie Siekhaus Journalist, mediaflr.com; junior project manager, wirDesign

Bongani Siqoko Deputy editor, editor-in-Chief, Daily Dispatch (South Africa)

Catinka Sjoberg Producer, Mindpool Creative; project manager, Bond Street Film

Tineka Smith Content and media manager, Bite; head of communications, UN; founding and managing director, HueTribe

Amishta Sohoraye Social media manager, lessthan10pounds.com; marketing manager, Indigo FX; contractor, Delatre

Jennifer Spain Account manager, LinkShare Corporation; paralegal, iLaw; trainee solicitor, iLaw; solicitor, Ciaran Desmond Solicitors

Anja Strejcek Reporter, News21, Unknown

Silvia Suarez CEO, Speed Sound Magazine, digital marketing communications, Last Tour (Spain); branded content producer, Conde Nast International

Saravanan Sugamaran Senior media analyst, Kantar Media; social media manager, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung; consultant, Ulaanbaatar Investment Department

Roland Sylvester Journalist, KyivPost, Unknown

Devika Tandon Freelance, Al Jazeera English (Delhi); external staff, World Economic Forum; freelance Priya Thakral Screenwriting, London Film Academy; information analysist, Global Rescue LLC Julie Hornbek Toft Journalist, mediawatch.dk; financial journalist, Jyllands-Posten; radio journalist, Danmarks Radio

Eric Van Den Berg Internet coordinator, PowNed; head of online, RTV NH (Netherlands); online section chief, Omroep WNL Gemma Van Der Kamp Lecturer in innovative journalism, Fontys Hogeschool voor Journalistiek; lecturer, Fontys Hogescholen; researcher Dutch initiatives collaborative journalism, Netherlands Journalism Fund

Caroline Van Soelen Freelance radio editor, Lives on Record; researcher, Zuisenwind Filmproductions; journalist, RTL Nederland

Polina Vezhan International affairs reporter, Zvezda TV Channel; editor and presenter, Radio Stream UK; voice over talent

Jenna Zegleman (née Voigt) News reporter, Financial Times; investment and corporate content editor, FE Trustnet; research analyst, Rathbone Brothers Plc

Karin Wasteson Financial journalist, Last World Media Ltd; program manager EMEA, Markets Group; director and founder, Blue Iris Capital Ltd.

Elizabeth Wolfe News producer, NBC; digital news editor, Chicago Tribune

Lantian Xu Unknown Yinuo Zhou Anchorwoman, HK Satellite TV; news broadcaster, HKSTV

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Steve Anderson Digital homepage editor; assistant app and news editor; daily edition editor, The Independent; senior media officer, British Medical Association

Christopher Barker Markets reporter, Reed Elsevier; Markets Editor, Reed Elsevier; Senior editor, Reed Elsevier

Benjamin Bryant Trainee, reporter, The Daily Telegraph; writer, Vice; Reporter, Vice News; senior writer/ producer, BBC

Ellie Buchdahl Foreign sub-editor, 21st Century China Daily (Beijing), editor, Education and Society at the British Council; communications and engagement manager, British Council

Martin Caparrotta Executive editor, The Sport Review

Thomas Clarke Trainee sub-editor, sports sub-editor, Daily Mail; analyst, BearingPoint; assistant sports editor, The Times

Laura Cox Trainee reporter, deputy TV correspondent, Daily Mail

Sam Cunningham Freelance football reporter, The Wardle Agency; trainee reporter, sports reporter Daily Mail; football correspondent, i paper sport Joseph Dyke Acting Middle East

editor, IRIN (Dubai); reporter, Agence France Presse; Palestinian correspondent, Agence France Presse

Ben Edwards Communications manager, Sodexo, freelance Emily Fairbairn News trainee, feature writer, The Sun

David Goodman Reporter, Bloomberg news, Unknown Francesca Holloway Freelance content and social media consultant, Sond; freelance social media consultant, The Tree; Unknown

Edward Kemp Writer and editor, TriNorth Ltd; features editor, All Out Cricket; digital content manager, Cricket Properties Limited

James Lachno Writer, editor, commissioner, Telegraph Media Group; editorial director, M&C Saatchi; director of content strategy, Edelmen Digital

Charlie Lankston Editor, ArchLevel Report; features assistant, The Mail on Sunday; US femail editor, MailOnline

Mario Ledwith News reporter, Scottish Mail on Sunday; trainee reporter, news reporter, Brussels correspondent, Daily Mail

Katie Linsell News reporter, corporate finance reporter, Bloomberg (Spain), Company debt reporter, Bloomberg News

Caitlin Morrison Senior reporter, Incisive Media; night production editor, deputy digital editor; digital editor, City AM

Sarah Morrison Reporter, The Independent on Sunday; human rights correspondent, The Independent; General reporter, Independent; global campaigner, Avaaz

Oliver Nieburg Reporter, William Reed Business Media (France); site editor, confectionerynews.com

Liam O’Brien Freelance, The Independent, Daily Mail, the i newspaper; account manager, Hope and Glory PR

Lucy Osborne Trainee, Scottish Daily Mail; news reporter, investigations correspondent, Daily Mail; journalist, BBC Panorama

Michael Pope Unknown

Rajvir Rai Trainee reporter, sports writer, Daily Mail; news editor, Sky Sports News

Alexander Sharp Reporter, Eurosport; reporter, Wardles Agency; freelance, Wimbledon.com, LTA, MailOnline and Livewire, Unknown Emine Sinmaz Graduate Trainee, news reporter, Daily Mail

Patrick Smith Media editor, senior reporter, BuzzFeed

Jenny Stevens Deputy news editor, NME; commissioning editor, culture desk, Guardian; Managing editor, Vice UK; freelance Alex Webb European transport reporter, industrials reporter, Bloomberg (Germany)

Holly Welham Foreign expert, 21st Century China Daily; news reporter, FE Week; education writer, Guardian Ben Whitelaw Communities editor, head of audience development, The Times

Helena Williams News assistant, International News Safety Institute; freelance, (Reuters, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Wired); freelance producer, Reuters Catherine Wylie Reporter, Press Association

Charlotte Young Trainee sub-editor, Daily Mail, Unknown

Dipal Acharya Features, GQ; freelance writer, Stylist; features associate; arts and entertainment director, ES Magazine

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Katy Balls Diary editor, The Spectator; political correspondent, The Spectator; columnist, The i Paper Charlotte Barnes Editorial assistant, planner, Redwood Publishing, Unknown

Jordan Bassett Sub-editor, web producer, PrintWeek; staff writer, Redwood Publishing; staff writer, NME

Joseph Brothwell Assistant editor, real-life features, Press Association; deputy editor, Chat Monthly Magazine; associate editor, That’s Life! Ianthe Butt Commissioning editor, BA High Life; features editor, Conde Nast Traveller; freelance Katherine Button Media assistant, assistant press officer, HS2; project officer, Sustain; campaign coordinator, Sustain

Sophie Caldecott Section editor, Source Intelligence magazine; headline writer, Verily Mag; editor-in-chief, A Better Place Journal; freelance Sophie Charara Reviewer, Stuff; features editor, Wareable; associate editor, The Ambient

Clare Conway Features writer, commissioning editor, The Sunday Times Magazine

Elizabeth Davis Staff writer, BBC Music Magazine; programmes department, Royal Opera House; senior content editor, Classic FM

Alys Denby Trainee sub-editor, sub-editor, Daily Mail; political researcher, Unknown

Emma Dibdin Freelance, Total Film, Little White Lies; features editor, Digital Spy; global content editor, HMI Digital; entertainment editor, Hearst Digital Libby Galvin Trainee subeditor, sub-editor, Daily Mail; commissioning editor, Weekend Magazine

Jemima Boost (née Gilbert) Digital editor, The Resident; content editor, Pearlshare; social media and digital content consultant, Perowne International Aleeza Khan Bradner (née Khan) Editor-in-chief, ION Magazine (Canada); office and events manager, Facebook Vancouver; content production specialist, Hoot Suite Michael Klimes Business journalist, International Business Times UK; correspondent, Professional Pensions; senior pensions reporter, Money Marketing

Helena Lee Lifestyle writer, City AM; features editor, Harper’s Bazaar

Katherine Lough Editorial assistant, August Media; going out online editor, Evening Standard; digital lifestyle editor, Evening Standard

Stevie Martin Freelance, Broadly; contributing editor, The Debrief; social media manager (cover), Emerald Street

Daniel Masoliver Writer, FHM; features writer, contributing editor, Men’s Health; freelance; acting deputy editor, ShortList

Sophie Monks Kaufman Deputy editor, The London Word; writer and researcher, Endemol; staff writer, Little White Lies; freelance Nicola Osman Commissioning

editor, Woman, Woman’s Own; senior commissioning editor, Good Housekeeping; features editor, Woman’s Health

Rakesh Ramchurn Editorial assistant, Architects’ Journal, freelance, The Evening Standard, The Independent

Jennifer Roper Features and supplements editor, Print Week; deputy editor, Airlines International and S&PA Professional; deputy editor, editor, HR Magazine

Ian Steadman Junior staff writer, Wired; science and technology writer, New Statesman; editor, How We Get To Next

Helen Stuart Deputy celebrity writer, Woman; freelance showbiz writer, IPC; deputy celebrity editor, Woman

Miranda Thompson Assistant editor, August Media; senior writer, Woman’s Weekly, junior commissioning editor, commissioning Editor, You Magazine

Harriet Thurley Features writer, Bella; features writer, Cosmopolitan; researcher, assistant producer, Loose Woman

Andrew Tweddle Project manager, The Church of London; creative producer, McCann London; senior producer, head of production, Human After All

Olivia Wakefield Intern, ES Magazine; editorial assistant, Porter; arts, cultural and travel editor, THE EDIT

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Sheun Adelasoye Writer, WhoisthatgirlUK; journalist, House of Commons

Philip Allen Video journalist, news producer, Telegraph Media Group; UK assistant video editor, MailOnline; freelance, The Press

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Emily Archer Researcher, Betty; broadcast team researcher, assistant producer, Comic Relief

Ellen Arnold Campaign producer, Tiger Aspect Productions; researcher, senior producer, Blast! Films

Vanessa Baffoe Video journalist, London Live; reporter, presenter, London Live; reporter, London Live ESTV; journalist, presenter, BBC Look East

Caron Bell Production journalist, ITV West and Westcountry; reporter, health reporter, ITV West Country

Rebecca Bell News editor, Kingdom FM; freelance broadcast journalist, BBC News; media officer and parliamentary researcher, The Scottish Parliament

Harriet Bird Project manager, Rich Mix; researcher, Landmark Films; producer, Minnow Films; Producer, Blast!Films

Samuel Bradley Account executive, London Communications Agency, editorial assistant, The Drum Harriet Bradshaw Broadcast journalist, news reader, Radio Jackie; producer, director, BBC (Jersey); reporter, BBC Exeter, East Devon; TV and radio reporter, BBC

Robert Carragher Freelance subeditor, Sky

Gauhar Chohan Editor, Template news; editor, Distant Echo; editor, SKY

Toby Coaker Senior policy advisor, HM Treasury

Emily Craig Freelance researcher,

MEGAN LUCERO

BUREAU LOCAL DIRECTOR, THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

INTERNATIONAL, 2011

What is some great career advice you’ve received?

It’s all about the story No matter how you’re choosing to tell a story, it always has to come back to people. I think people get quite excited about data journalism and just say: “Let’s build a map!” Even with data, it should always be about people. I think sometimes people forget that.

What is your fondest memory of City?

It was just a really interesting time to be studying journalism. The Arab Spring was just sort of kicking off, and it was a great time to be studying the delicate and powerful nature of those types of things. We would stop class because there was news about the revolts.

What has been the highlight of your career?

Where I am right now – it’s everything I could have dreamed of. But, my whole tenure at The Times led to this. Every moment of it was a bigger story, and then a bigger story, each one I was more proud of.

What was the hardest part of being at City?

It was a really steep learning curve. On the International course, you have people from all over the world speaking multiple languages, and I came in just speaking English. My [American] accent felt it too: I had lecturers who made comments when I was speaking in front of class, and I started stuttering in the middle of class to try to stop that.

Dillon Thompson

Talkback Thames; investigative researcher, BBC Current Affairs; political analyst, BBC Chris Creegan Producer and director, Sports Tonight Live; producer; Sky News for iPad, journalist, senior social producer, Sky News

Ross Cullen Text producer, world news producer, Sky News; business news producer, Sky News, deputy news editor, Al Jazeera Media Network

Clare Davis Freelance, Guardian (Australia); content producer, M&C

Saatchi Australia, associate editor (T3), freelance

Alex Dibble Newsreader, Radio City 96.7 FM Liverpool; newsreader, BBC Radio Merseyside; reporter/ newsreader, TalkSport, TalkRadio, VirginRadioUK

Laura Ewen Intern, PR Matters; senior account manager, Freud Communications

Catherine Farnsworth Unknown Umar Farooq TV producer, Sports Tonight; communities and social media journalist, The Times; news production journalist, ITV; special correspondent, LAtimes

Hanna Flint Entertainment writer, Daily Mail; acting entertainment editor, Metro; digital entertainment editor, OK!; social media producer, ITV Studios

Philip Georgiadis Reporter, Dow

Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal; researcher, Comic Relief; reporter, editor, Wall Street Journal

Claire Gilmore Runner, ABC news; marketing executive, CUP; communications officer, Cambridge International Examinations, unknown

James Glynn Broadcast journalist, BBC World Service; curator, Moments, Twitter

Julia Greenaway News editor, Time 107.5 FM, broadcast journalist and Saturday producer, BBC Cambridgeshire

Michael Greenfield Graduate scheme, deputy foreign news editor, specialist sports and technology producer, Asia producer, Sky News

Lucy Hewitt Video producer, Future Publishing; video manager, ASOS; freelance social video strategy and production, copy writer/journalist

Vanessa Holland Marketing manager, Socrates Communications; marketing manager, Hanover Private Office; vice president of marketing and sales (UK, EU), Sabre Global Services

Riaz Jugon Social video producer, BBC Radio 5 Live; Facebook live producer, BBC News, executive creative director, Jadore Productions

Anisa Kadri Broadcast journalist, Tindle Radio; community publisher, Associated Northcliffe Digital; broadcast journalist, BBC

Linzi Kinghorn Broadcast journalist, Global Radio London; broadcast journalist, LBC; broadcast journalist, BBC

Alexandra Lawton Presenter, 106.5 Riviera Radio; broadcast journalist and presenter, Radio France International and France24, premier league reporter, Canal + Sport

Emily Lingard Creative producer, Photosound; producer, All About Brands Plc; production manager, CTN Communications

Ruth Maclean Reporter, The Times (Africa); West Africa correspondent, Guardian News & Media

Kirsty Malcolm Video journalist, STV Commercial; broadcast producer, TNR communications, Press Association; senior producer, Beagle; freelance Fiona Marley Assistant news editor, ITV; broadcast assistant, BBC News; onscreen video journalist, ITV Kirsty Mcquire Freelance arts writer, The Londonist, The Hackney Citizen, Amelia’s Magazine; freelance broadcaster, assistant producer, BBC Francesca Oldham Marketing executive, The Cambridge Education Group; marketing executive, BoilerJuice; marketing manager, Grand Arcade

Jessica Parker Producer, Global Radio; broadcast journalist, Passion Radio Oxford Ltd; political reporter, BBC

Joseph Pike Producer, assistant producer, LBC; political journalist,

MATT FOSTER

ITV News Border; author; ITV political correspondent for ‘The North’

Isabel Sutton Producer, Just Radio; television development, Ten Alps Plc; assistant producer, Blakeway Productions

Rosanna Tennant Presenter, Pole Position; account director, Influence Sports; broadcast journalist, sports presenter, event host, Formula 1

Sophia Thompson Assistant producer, One Born Every Minute, Dragonfly Film and Television; assistant producer, 24 hours in A&E, The Garden Productions

Lucy Towers Assistant news editor, ITN; producer, Middle East Extra, Associated Press; freelance multimedia journalist, Channel 4 News

Hugo Williams Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio 4; broadcast journalist and radio producer, BBC World Service; multimedia journalist, BBC Online Africa

Francesca Wilski Freelance partners and sponsors lead, Project Everyone; freelance, ITV Creative; partnership director, Project Everyone

Natalie Wright Reporter, BBC Gloucestershire; assistant producer, ITN; producer, ITN news; Broadcast Journalist, BBC

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STAFF WRITER, PUBLIC SERVICE

MAGAZINE

POLITICAL, 2011

What is your fondest memory of your time at City?

My fondest memory is also my scariest memory. It was a lecture with Roy Greenslade and he asked us, “how many of you want jobs in journalism?” and obviously everyone put their hands up. Then he asked, “how many of you still buy newspapers and print magazines”, and about 10 to 15 put their hands up. It got us all thinking about the career we were getting into, but it galvanised us. It was a hell of a time for the industry, but we were all there, we all wanted to do it.

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career so far?

A few years ago, I interviewed the chief executive of HMRC. I thought the interview had gone well, I strolled out onto the street, and found out I hadn’t turned my Dictaphone on. I lost the whole interview. I spent the day frantically calling the press office, trying to arrange a phone interview.

What has been the biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

The speed of it. When I started, 2010, some of us were on Twitter and some of us were thinking about joining. Live blogging was a really new and exciting thing. There are so many new outlets now, and it’s easier for underrepresented voices to have a platform now in a way that wasn’t possible seven to eight years ago.

Sophia Moss

producer, Video CNN (London)

Anna Bucks Assistant producer, The Agenda, ITV; freelance, BBC, ITN Joshua Cheesman Office manager, co-ordinator, Pentacle The Virtual Business School

Jil Dallmayr Media consultant, MYO Swimwear; marketing consultant, London Management Company; director, Truly Bespoke Ltd

Rachael Davies Freelance, Prospect; assistant producer, Raw Cut TV; researcher, ICONOCLAST FILMS

Helen Doyle Producer, Sky News, Al Jazeera Media Network; senior business editor, Channel NewsAsia, Singapore

Thomas Ellis Reporter, Professional Adviser

Sandra Gathmann Gonzalez Video journalist, Feature Story News; news correspondent, TRT world, TV correspondent, The Newsmakers

Harriet Hamilton Assistant news editor, ITV News (Washington DC), senior news producer, This Morning Abigail Harper Unknown

Caroline James Freelance, Associated Press; television news, Sky News; foreign desk news editor, Sky News; former foreign news editor, Sky News

Ian Kearney Producer, Sky News; producer, Daybreak (ITV); producer, Good Morning Britain; Board member, London Irish Business Society

Hannah Keep Researcher, ITV; researcher, BBC; casting producer, The Garden Productions

Nicholas Kwek Producer/camera, Panorama; producer/director/ reporter, BBC News

Georgina Leggate Producer, Daybreak; producer, Good Morning Britain; senior news editor, Good Morning Britain

Natasha Malcolm-Brown Broadcast journalist, BBC Berkshire, trustee, The Mountain Trust NGO; operations director, Dixon International Group

Kingsley Steven Peiris Journalist, BBC

Pinar Sevinclidir Researcher, monitoring analyst, researcher, BBC

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Shaima Al-Obaidi Media assistant, Alzheimer ’s Society; press officer, War Child UK

Thomas Boadle Interviews producer, Sky News; producer, Sky News Sunrise, political news editor, Sky News

Dawn Burrows Unknown

Mike Doherty Reporter, Travellers’ Times; media officer, Irish Traveller Movement in Britain, freelance, Guardian

Janine Fotiadis-Negreponte Freelance; journalist and writer, Haymarket

Sam Francis Researcher, BBC Parliament; researcher, BBC Radio 4 Specials; broadcast journalist, BBC London

Jake Lofdahl Editorial assistant, Perform Group; producer/editor, BT Sport

Katherine Loweth Freelance, Channel 4, Guardian

Dale Mcewan Reporter, The Lawyer; reporter, Kurdistan News Agency; presenter, That’s Solent TV; video journalist, Who Killed My Son?

Sebastian Payne Data reporter, The Daily Telegraph; online editor, The Spectator; digital comment editor, Financial Times

David Pegg Researcher, October Films; reporter, investigations and reporter, The Guardian

Jasper Piddock Jackson Reporter, Mobile News; editor, The Media Briefing, digital editor, New Statesman

Riah Pryor Editorial assistant, The Art Newspaper; head of development, events and operations, Focal Point Gallery; head of content and programmes, The Cheltenham Trust

Alice Ross Reporter, Times Red Box; reporter, The Guardian; reporter, Greenpeace

Sarah Stewart Web editor, Property Week; senior editor, Shelter; writer, Government Digital Service

Jamie Thunder Researcher, Westminster Education Forum; policy and communications officer, The Money Charity; policy analyst, Which?; senior consultant, WPI Economics

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Jennifer Appleton Recruitment consultant, PSR Solutions

James Brooks Science editor, BioNews; reporter, Assistant Editor, Research

Rebecca Hill Editor, Funding Insight; news editor, Research; online editor, PublicTechnology; reporter, The Register

Michael Jones Research communications assistant, Imperial College London; PR and social media officer, NS&I

Fareha Lasker Senior account executive, Tonic Life Communications; senior account executive, Proof Communication UK; account manager, AprilSix Proof Ann-Kathrin Lindemann Research Assistant, University of Hohenheim Richard Masters Web content manager and designer (Singapore), Regional Head of Facilities (Deutsche Bank)

Abigail Millar Features writer, Progressive Digital Media; freelance Debora Miranda Technical communications officer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; fellow, Social Impact Lab; health communicator, National School of Public Health

Louise Ogden Web editor, British Science Association; head of communications, British Science Association

Lorna Powell Freelance medical journalist

John Serle English editor, AK News

Djuke Veldhuis Editor, ResearchSEA; researcher, Aarhus University; director global challenges, Monash University

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Tanya Ashreena Writer, Pensions Week, Financial Times; Copy Editor, Wall Street Journal (London)

Odette Berg Field producer, Bloomberg TV; programming director, Bloomberg Live EMEA; government relations, EMEA (Bloomberg LP) Emily Blewett Editor, Citywire

Manoah Esipisu Acting head of press, Commonwealth Secretariat; state house spokesperson (Kenya); secretary, Executive Office of the President of Kenya

Jennifer Francis Writer, Financial Times; Content Editor, the Mergermarket group; marketing manager, Thomas Reuters

Ranjana Gupta European LNG and Gas reporter, Energy Intelligence; LNG specialist, ICIS-Heren Satheesan Kanady Deputy Business Editor, The Peninsula (Qatar) Huaiyuan Lu Researcher, FT China Confidential; associate, Jade Invest. Real Estate Finance M&G

Miyuki Seguchi Market reporter, Wall Street Journal; Senior PR and Communications Executive, Robert Walters, communications specialist, GE (Tokyo)

Darshini Shah Hedge funds editor, Bloomberg; Briefs; finance team leader, Bloomberg, team leader, Bloomberg Briefs Maria Sovago Freelance, Financial Times

Conor Sullivan Trainee production journalist, sub-editor, news editor, Financial Times

Danwei Zhang Journalist, China Newsweek; director of international business, Dark Horse Venture; managing partner UpHonest Capital (Beijing)

Politica l

Elizabeth Bates Researcher for John Kay, Financial Times; researcher, johnkay.com; senior political reporter, PoliticsHome

James Bloodworth Blogger, The Independent; Editor, leftfootforward. org; Columnist, IB Times (UK) Andrew Bradley Broadcast Journalist, BBC; Producer, This Week, BBC; producer, Peston on Sunday, ITV Rosanna Cobb Research assistant for Don Foster MP; research assistant for Ivor Gaber, University of Sussex Matt Foster Home affairs reporter, ForesightNews; assistant news editor, PoliticsHome; deputy/online editor, Civil Service World; unknown Nada Issa Producer, TIMA; shooting director, Breakthrough Media; producer, Discovery Networks International Tonje Iversen UK correspondent, P4 Norwegian Radio; freelance Panagiotis Katsaras Editor, Capital. gr Alexander Lawson Account executive, Adam Kluger Public Relations; public policy and communications, ISBA; business news editor, Evening Standard Sam Macrory Political editor, The House Magazine; Editor, Total Politics; broadcast journalist, BBC Fahim Malyar Cultural advisor, Morgan Language Services; CRP/ Linguist, Mobius Industries USA Daniel Mcclendon Unknown Konstantinos Memmos Senior associate, Advocate/BursonMarsteller; communications manager, Athens Medical Group; communications-media relations manager, Michelin Daria Orlova Associate Russian editor, Global Blue; correspondent, Slon.ru; social media editor, associate russian editor, Global Blue Pavlina Papashimova

Communications assistant, marketing and communications manager, Murphy Group; managing director, Silverlake Press Ltd

Paul Prentice Assistant news editor, Rail; member of the editorial board, Rail Technology, senior press and communications officer, Southeastern Andrew Richards Broadcast journalist, BBC Sports Wales Sofya Shahab Communications officer, communications manager, Afghanaid

Andrew Tarrant Senior parliamentary adviser, Office of Gregg McClymont MP, Shadow Minister for Pensions; adviser on the EU Referendum, Office of Pat McFadden MP, Shadow Minister for Europe; head of policy and government relations, B&CE

Amie Tsang World news desk, Financial Times; reporter, business reporter, The New York Times

Erasmu s

Miko Cara Schneider Corporate responsibility co-ordinator, Lakehouse; internal communications officer, employee engagement manager, Family Mosaic; engagement manager, Peabody Ying Diao UK correspondent, China

Daily Vitaly Pojarsky Payment services analyst, PokerStars; payments fraud specialist, Sun Bets

Stephen Robert Morse Head of marketing, communications and advertising, Skillbridge.com; producer, Amanda Knox, Netflix Documentary; managing partner, OBSERVATORY London

Belinda Lopez Features executive producer, Community Broadcasting Association of Australia; producer, This is About podcast, ABC Radio

National Namitha Jagadeesh Staff writer, Mint (HT Media Ltd); reporter, editor, Bloomberg LP Sarka Halasova Credit and fixed income reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal

Frederik Fischer Co-founder, CEO, Tazaldoo; co-founder, MundusMedia; chief editor, piqdGmbh

Magdalena Kufrej Communication assistant, European Commission; media officer, European Research Council; communications manager, Innovation and Networks Executive Agency

Lasse Berg Sørensen Journalist, reporter, foreign desk, DR Nyheder (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)

Mads Stampe Hansen Media project manager, communication and press officer, Danish Association for the Disabled

Ilka Kopplin Reporter, Dow Jones News, Wall Street Journal; automotive reporter, Dow Jones Newswires; reporter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Cassie Werber Assistant online editor, Financial News; reporter, Wall Street Journal; reporter, Quartz

Ana Sofia Cerqueira Deputy Editor, ECM Mergermarket

Eeva Marjatta Eronen

Writer, foreign news desk, HelsinginSanomat Mats Wedervang Court Reporter, TV 2 (Norway)

Anders Lammers Freelance

2012

Internationa l

Olajumoke Akiyode Journalist, Ovation International (Nigeria); head ICT correspondent, BusinessDay Media

Sophie Anmuth Blogger, Slate magazine; correspondent, Libération Médias; correspondent, L’Express

Katherine Anker Deputy editor, Lux Magazine, Lux Review; editor, Cedar Communications; associate editor, Bonnier Publications

Teodora Barzakova Runner, BBC World Service; Al Jazeera English; GRN Live; freelance, BBC World Service; freelance Andreas Baumann Project assistant, Ramboll; management consultant; journalist, Mandag Morgen (Copenhagen)

Michele Bertelli Researcher, Videonews Mediaset; video journalist, La Repubblica; iInteractive journalist, Grantee, European Journalism Centre Birce Bora Freelance, BBC World Service Turkey; producer, Al Jazeera Media Network

Clea Broadhurst Journalist, FrenchCinema London; freelance producer, TFI; correspondent, Radio France Internationale

Laurens Cerulus Freelance, (The Independent, BBC, Monocle); news reporter and assistant communications, EurActiv.com; web producer, Politico

Carlo Cerutti Reporter, Editoriale Laudense; reporter, Thompson Reuters; reporter and presenter, Class Cnbc

Min-Huei Cheng Operations director, IZEN Marketing Limited

Nicolette Christian Freelance

Helena Da Rocha Alves Unknown Marina Daras European reporter, financial reporter, Incisive Media; freelance London correspondent, Radio France, RFI, RTS; freelance Simon Day Reporter, Sunday Star Times (New Zealand); media advisor, World Vision NZ Sara Delgrossi Trainee, European Parliament; features intern, digital freelance associate producer, producer, Video Development, CNN Ceren Deniz Intern, Foreign News Service, Hurriyet Media Towers (Istanbul); researcher, DETAY/VTY Elena Dimama Egnatia TV (Greece); editor, Precise Media; editorial assistant, Yandell Media Group Eva Dumontet Freelance, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post; advocacy officer, Privacy International Steve Ercolani Reporter, The Tico Times; contributor, Al Jazeera; producer, Lincoln Square Productions, ABC; contributor, Al Jazeera English France Ewen London correspondent, Radio Luxembourg; freelance radio producer Lisa Fernandez Staff photographer, The Des Moines Register; freelance photographer, Shaw Media, Chicago Tribune Media Group Chiara Francavilla Reporter, The Covered Bond Report; senior reporter, Materials World Recycling; researcher, Insight TWI; freelance journalist

Jeanny Gering Project manager, Dog Ear Works; program assistant, Dart Centre Europe (Germany); radio producer, World in Progress DW; freelance Rajni Gill NewsX (India); head supervisor, SujiFastners Demelsa Gonzalez Ruiz Unknown Reena Gurung Freelance multimedia journalist (Thailand); humanitarian reporter, United Nations OCHA; freelance reporter Hanna Hauck Traineeship, dapd (Germany); web development immersive, General Assembly

Jo Healy Assistant producer and presenter, Campbell Davison Media, BT Sport; freelance producer, FOX Sports Australia; executive producer/ presenter, FOX SPORTS Australia

Ivana Hindi Editor, BOLD; copywriter, Leo Burnett MENA; French copywriter, Spark44 MENA Dubai

Kristy Hutter Associate producer, CBC News; video editor, CBC News

Toronto

Leonard Ibekwe Investigative reporter, NEXT newspapers; senior reporter, Premium Times; freelance, Voice of America (Nigeria) Christiane Imdahl Journalist, ProSiebenSat.1 group; moderator, presenter, Sky Sports

Snigdha Jain Digital editor, iFood Media Web Technology (India); producer, Grappus

Mikita Jhaveri Editorial Intern, GQ India; Editorial Intern, National Geographic Traveller (India); mentor, OnCourse Global; founder, Fluency (India)

Qian Jia Unknown

Dietlind Kendler Unknown

William Kennedy Unknown

Ntonia Kokkinou Unknown

Kristian Krohg-Sørensen Journalist, Ekko NRK

Luisella Lastilla Unknown

Anne Laurent Freelance

Brian Leli Freelance, The Morning News, The New Statesman; freelance, Frank’s Emotiers

Victor Lepoutre Freelance correspondent, Radio France, RTS, RFI; coordinateur de redaction, Belgium, Brusselslife

Audrey Letendart Deputy Editor, French Cinema London; associate producer, Bloomberg TV Africa; producer, AFP London

Chris Liakos Reporter, Hellenic TV; wealth insight; VRL Financial News; business assignment editor, CNN Jenny Liljefors Soffel Freelance, Escape 360, CNN; digital producer, London Live ESTV; website editor, World Economic Forum

Felix Lill Freelance journalist, Der Tagesspiegel, Die Zeit, L’Espresso, Periodismo Humano, Huffington Post Tatiana Lima Freelance (Brazil), IdeiasemRevista, Desiformémonos; RENAJORP; NPC

Jinmei Liu Reporter, China Daily; unknown

Melissa Paige Long account manager, Moorgate Communications; reporter, Risk, Incisive Media; unknown

Julia MacFarlane Freelance field producer and camera operator (Lebanon); video journalist, CNN, BBC World Service; reporter, BBC News; reporter ABC News

Maria Malygina Unknown

Meghan Mardon Intern, Dash;

freelance (New York); Unknown

Michele Martinelli Content executive, 4C Associates; editor, copywriter, content strategist, uSwitch.com; senior content strategist, product manager, Money Advice Service

Vittorio Mauriello Intern, CRC Radio; digital marketing and content management, Borderline agency (Italy); web marketing manager, Giorginin Dr. Martino (Italy)

Damini Nath Sub-editor, reporter, The Hindu

Sheela Navaratnarajah Co-manager, director, Dementia Care Home (South Wales); unknown Tamara Novoa Alonso Editor, Pio Garcia Audiovisuais; press office assistant, community manager content editor, Asociacion Vida Sana Artur Osinski Assistant producer, BBC; freelance production assistant, CNN; freelance researcher, freelance assistant producer, Al Jazeera

Hege Otterholm Freelance, RomsdalsBudstikke; Norwegian content editor, product manager, Secret Escapes

Emmanuil Papavasileiou Intern, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; freelance researcher, Centre for Investigative Journalism; social media producer, Reuters News Agency

Mridulika Jha Fellow, Ford Foundation; online media consultant, Greenpeace India; national communications officer, The Hunger Project

Karin Wasteson Financial Journalist, Last Word Media Ltd; program manager, EMEA Markets Group; director, Blue Iris Capital Ltd.

Newspape r

Jessica Abrahams Production editor, Prospect Magazine; freelance writer, The Guardian and The Observer; associate editor, Devex

Tristan Barclay Sub-editor, The Sunday Times; assistant editor, ESPN; content manager, Lawn Tennis Association

Susannah Butter Feature writer, deputy features editor, Evening Standard

Thomas Clarke Management analyst, management consultant, BearingPoint; consultant, BCS consulting

Kathryn Dobinson Content coordinator, The Guardian; section editor, Time Out (Abu Dhabi); digital director, Touchline Publishing

Josephine Forster Sub-editor, Daily Mail; Snapchat Sub-editor, MailOnline; commissioning editor, Daily Mail; Deputy Editor, Femail Magazine

Rachael Getzels Freelance, Take a Break; researcher, Unreported World; assistant producer, Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords

Olivia Goldhill Reporter, Telegraph Media Group; features writer, Telegraph Media Group; weekend writer, Quartz

Tom Goodenough Graduate trainee, staff reporter, The Sun; online news editor, The Spectator

Ruth Halkon Reporter, National News; online journalist, Daily Mirror; Police Constable, Metropolitan Police

Charlotte Henley Account manager, account supervisor, Cohn & Wolfe

(New York), global PR manager, Marriott International (New York)

Clare Hill Online editor, Public Media Alliance; digital sub-editor, The Sunday Times

Alexander Horlock Sports reporter, MailOnline; community manager and copywriter, editor & senior writer, Wunderman UK

Sarah Johnson Freelance, (The Sunday Times, Metro, Daily Mail); content coordinator, The Guardian

Rebecca Lewis content researcher, Barcroft Media; features writer, Press Association; case studies officer, Macmillan Cancer Support

George Lindsay-Watson Features editor, Metro; deputy digital editions editor, tablet editor, The Times

Bianca London Senior Femail writer, UK assistant Femail editor, MailOnline; web editor, Glamour

Laura MacKenzie CNN; Truthloader, ITV; Assistant foreign editor, The National

Sarah Marsh The Guardian; teacher network, China Daily; deputy editor, social and community editor for opinion, The Guardian

Jaymi McCann Evening Standard; reporting scheme, Daily Mail; news reporter, Sunday Express

Simon Murphy Mail on Sunday; reporting scheme, Daily Mail; reporter, Mail on Sunday

Jack Rivlin Evening Standard; founder, The Tab

Radhika Sanghani Press Association; Liverpool Echo; women’s and features writer, The Telegraph; Freelance

Kara Shadbolt Press officer, Coutts; communications executive; national PR, Shoosmiths

Sarah Smyth Evening Standard; reporting scheme; news reporter, Daily Mail

Heather Spurr Politics Home; reporter, Inside Housing; policy officer, Shelter UK

James Titcomb Reporter, City AM; city reporter, technology news editor, The Daily Telegraph

Emily Wight Content coordinator, The Guardian; freelance (RNIB); communications exec, Refuge, senior press officer CARE International UK

Martin Williams Freelance, (The Guardian; private eye)

Rhiannon Williams The Scotsman; reporter, The Daily Telegraph; technology correspondent, The i Paper

Magazin e

Thomas Allsop Reporter, Print Week; senior sub-editor, BA High life magazine; managing editor, Ronda Iberia, Excelente Iberia magazines

Maria Hannah Bass Feature writer, Woman’s Weekly; deputy editor, Women’s Health ME; deputy editor, Stylist Arabia; Jennifer Bowden Project manager, Grange Communications; editorial assistant, Floris Books; marketing and communications assistant, Fremantle Press

Erica Buist Travel editor, Citizen TV (Koh Samui, Thailand); digital journalism trainee, The Guardian; freelance, The Guardian

Madeleine Cuff Staff writer, assistant editor (consumer trends), Stylus; Senior Reporter, BusinessGreen.com; deputy editor, BusinessGreen.com

Madlen Davies Broadcast journalist, BBC Wales; UK health reporter, Mail Online; health and science reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Eleanor Donajgrodzki Assistant editor, Stylus; deputy digital editor, Tesco Real Food; food editor, Tesco Magazine

Pete Ellender Production sub, Incisive Media; freelance production journalist, (Wonderland, British Journal of Photography, Computeractive); production editor, Procurement Leaders

Emma Featherstone Researcher, writer, Which?; content coordinator, The Guardian; small Business Network; freelance, (The I, Refinery29, The Guardian, Metro)

Vesela Gladicheva Trainee reporter, correspondent, senior correspondent, MLex (Brussels)

Eleanor Griggs Freelance, The Quietus, EYPS project support assistant, University of Chichester; information coordinator, University of Sussex

Sophie Haslett Freelance, The Times; freelance commissioning editor, Daily Mail; freelance (Sydney)

Sophia Wilson News writer, acting deputy news editor, Horse and Hound; travel editor; Boat International

Nadia Khomami Freelance, The Observer; news reporter, NME; breaking news reporter, Guardian News and Media

Jessica Lambert Features intern, Evening Standard; deputy editor, Evening Standard Londoner’s Diary; screenwriter, Independent Talent (UK)

Hugh Langley Staff writer, news editor, associate editor, Tech Radar; US editor, Wareable

Helen Lawson Trainee sub-editor, features sub-editor, Daily Mail; features sub-editor, The Times; chief sub-editor, Accent Magazine

Kate Lloyd Digital writer, Grazia; senior staff writer, commissioning editor; features editor, Time Out

Rebecca Lloyd News producer, ITV Daybreak; producer, Sky News Tonight, campaign director, Sevenhills

Richard Martin Freelance football writer, The Daily Telegraph; freelance commentator/presenter, Gol Televisión; Spain reporter, UEFA. com

Poppy McPherson News desk, The Independent; managing editor, Phnom Penh Post; editor, Coconuts Media; freelance, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Economist

Nicola Merrifield Reporter, The Stage; reporter, Nursing Times; deputy news editor, Nursing Times Krystena Petrakas Staff writer, Dynamis Ltd; copyeditor, Newsquest; reporter, Ten Alps Plc Julia Rampen Senior reporter, Investment Week; deputy editor, Daily Mirror Money Online; digital editor, The New Statesman

Edward Randell Bass, The Swingle

Singers

Anna Reynolds Writer, Supply Management; reporter, Legal Week; senior reporter, PR Week; writer, Media Zoo

Benedict Riley-Smith Graduate trainee scheme, political reporter, The Daily Telegraph; assistant political editor, The Daily Telegraph

Monique Rivalland Online features assistant, The Times; production assistant, CNN; commissioning editor, The Times Magazine

Thomas Shepherd Sub-editor, Building magazine; freelance writer, Kerrang!; deputy production editor, Shortlist

Emma Spedding Freelance, Good Housekeeping; digital content manager, Graziadaily.co.uk; deputy editor, whowhatwhere.co.uk

Oliver Stratford Online editor, deputy editor, Disegno; head of editorial, Tack Press; editor-in-chief, Disegno

Sophie Tighe Online intern, Reveal; senior reporter, YLifestyleUK; snapchat editor, The Sun

Zing Tsjeng Digital news editor, Dazed & Confused; UK chief editor, Konbini; editor, Broadly

Laurie Tuffrey News editor, new music editor, the Quietus; digital subeditor, News International; freelance writer

James Waldron Reporter, news editor,; editor, Chemist & Druggist

David Woode Graduate trainee reporter, health features writer, The Sun; acting assistant editor of exclusive features, Press Association; freelance reporter and feature writer(The Guardian, VICE, The FADER, Sunday Mirror)

Daisy Wyatt Digital arts and entertainment news editor, The Independent; writer and editorial assistant, deputy digital editor, acting digital news editor, The I Paper Natasha Wynarczyk Features intern, Marie Claire; showbiz writer, The Sun; senior features curator; Woman’s Weekly, freelance; Broadly, The Debrief, Time Out

Broadcast

Athar Ahmad Freelance, LBC 97.3 at Global Radio; news reporter, documentary maker, BBC Becca Attfield production management assistant, personal assistant, BBC Katie Barnfield Freelance production journalist; assistant news editor, production journalist, ITN Andrew Binner Account manager, ENS Ltd; assistant producer, Al Jazeera Media Network; news producer, news reporter, Olympic Channel (Madrid)

Sarah Cox (nee Binning) Studio graphics operator, Sky Sports; junior assistant producer, assistant producer, Sunset+Vine Yasmin Bodalbhai Breakfast broadcast journalist, Eagle Radio; assistant news editor, ITN; journalist, ITV

Charlotte Briere-Edney Digital producer, Sky News; station editor, TV presenter, That’s Solent TV; onscreen reporter, ITV

Charli Burden Contributor, The Sport Review; senior account executive, Markettiers4dc; junior account manager, Performance Communications Rebecca Burns Freelance, BBC, Voice of Russia; community and public affairs executive, British Land Vincent Carroll-Battaglino Councilor for Haringey

Ed Challes Live text producer, producer, output producer, planning producer, Sky News Sunrise Lucy Clifford-Palmer Showbiz

reporter, Splash news TV; runner, The Garden

Matt Clinch Online journalist, assistant producer, deputy digital news editor, CNBC

Laura Cress Broadcast journalist, INRIX; broadcast journalist, BOB FM; broadcast journalist, BBC

Kathryn Dowling Portfolio development manager, British Airways; business owner, Millk Angus Dunsire Video features journalist, Telegraph Media Group; co-founder, director, Pal.tv; video journalist, Press Association

Oliver Foster Script assistant, Sky; interviews producer, Sky News

Laura Gray Brief writer, BBC World at One; producer, researcher, BBC Radio current affairs; speechwriter, Home Office

Sarah Hatchard Intern, CNBC; broadcast journalist, BBC News; producer, BBC Radio 4 Alice Hedworth Reporter, content producer, presenter, Rangers Football Club

Nicky Henderson Researcher, Zig Zag productions; researcher, Objective Productions; communications officer, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, external affairs, BEIS

George Hill Freelance, filmmaker; researcher, VixPix; freelance, BBC, M&C Saatchi, MTV, Bloomsbury; researcher, Outline Productions

Rachel Humphreys Assistant producer, LBC, Global Radio; producer, Shelagh Fogarty; freelance radio producer

Ikaba Koyi World affairs, news and production assistant, CBS News; desk editor, China Central TV International

Tom Lowe Associate editor, European Daily; broadcast journalist, RT; correspondent, RFI Radio France Internationale

Joel Massey Unknown

Dinita Moore Digital intern, digital creative, Endemol; freelance digital media consultant, Freemantle media, Endemol, Wise Buddah Group

Tom Morris Trainee PR, Fishburn Hedges; communications manager, Allianz Global Investors, product specialist associate, Allianz Global Investors

Nicky Nelson Unknown

Rosario Ogbechie Client Services, Schroders; compliance analyst, Zea Consulting; senior KYC analyst, Accenture

Esther Opoku Gyeni Development researcher, Green Door Pictures; producer, Premier Gospel, assistant producer, CTVC ltd

Jay Patel Broadcast journalist, BBC London News; assistant producer, Newsround

Meera Pattni Press officer, Amnesty International; press officer, UK communications manager, VICE News, senior communications manager, VICE media (New York)

James Pearson Broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Merseyside; broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester, development producer, Chalkboard TV

Costas Pitas Correspondent, Reuters News Agency (Athens) (London)

Lucy Plint Producer, Sky News; economics producer, Sky News

Rob Porter Broadcast journalist, Sunrise Radio News; assistant producer, multi-product assistant

producer, PERFORM

Ed Prior Journalist, BBC Radio 4; producer, BBC; co-Founder and host, Celluloid Heroes Radio; FCO, East Africa

Kate Pumfrey Assistant producer, ITV Studios; assistant producer, CPL Productions; development assistant producer, Twenty Twenty Soraya Rahim Freelance, Entertainment News, LBC, Jackie News

Helen Regan Video producer, Democratic Voice of Burma; reporter, TIME Asia (Hong Kong); associate editor, TIME (Asia)

Danielle Robinson Media liaison executive, Markettiers4dc; writer, Entertainment Wise; freelance producer, BBC, London Live, Sky, Nine Entertainment; freelance, TEN (Australia)

William Roe Multimedia journalist, Lord’s Cricket Ground; freelance newsreader, Eagle FM; assistant digital editor, MCC

Charlotte Rose Freedom of information researcher, BBC; broadcast assistant, BBC Parliament; Sheffiled political reporter, BBC

Nick Stylianou Chairman of the trust, rhubarbTV; session producer, Edinburgh International Television Festival; producer, Sky News

Matthew Tyzack Video journalist, Ford Motor Company; video journalist, PRISM; head of video MEA, PRISM

Rozzy Unwin Freelance, (Smooth Radio, Classic FM, Heart, LBC); drive-time newsreader, LBC

Louisa Wells Broadcast assistant, BBC

Elie Whalley Video editor, friends1st; content producer, YouGov; social media producer, Thomson Reuters

Jonathan Williams Producer/ evening presenter, Timeform Radio; deputy editor, The Tilehurst End; audio & video producer, Perform Group

Nigel Wilson Broadcast journalist, Press Association; business journalist, IBT Media; freelance

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Bunmi Akpata-Ohohe Writer, commentator, Africa Affairs; reporter and contributor, Room Magazine

John Allison Producer, Rocktrap Productions

Katy Austin Broadcast journalist, BBC South Today; video journalist, reporter, BBC Look North; business correspondent, BBC

Kate Clifford Sales and marketing, Fundamental Software; assistant TV producer, Bloomberg; senior project manager, Siegel+Gale

Ellie Cotter Broadcast assistant, BBC; researcher, assistant producer, ITV

Cara Dattani Shooting assistant producer, Facebook Football Awards; BT Sport, Boomerang Productions; shooting assistant producer, Lemonade Money; shooting assistant producer, BBC

Hannah Capella Interviews producer, Jeff Randall Live; deputy business news editor, Sky News; producer, Sky News Tonight; producer, BBC Timeline

Charlotte Hawkins Broadcast

journalist, France 24; researcher, BBC; researcher, RDF Television; freelance assistant producer, ITV, BBC 2, Channel 4

Kat Hayes Features video journalist, The Telegraph; multimedia producer, Channel 4 News; team leader, Digital Shorts Channel 4

Alexandra Jeffries Production secretary, Princess Productions; production secretary, The Search; creative resources coordinator, Shine TV

Sophie Kirby Producer, BBC; producer, Reuters; writer, Deutsche Welle; freelance, YouTube

Louis Lee Ray Broadcast journalist, BBC News; producer, Victoria Derbyshire Show

Keely Lockhart Assistant editor, The Gateway; broadcast journalist, video producer, The Daily Telegraph; deputy video news editor, Telegraph Media Group

Alexander MacDonald Producer, researcher, Islam Channel; multimedia journalist, Middle East Eye

Ashley Mak Factual TV researcher, freelance; journalist and producer, Project TV; associate producer, CBC Radio Canada; producer, CBC Radio Canada

Latida Mercedes-Fields Director, Global Billionaires Entertainment

MEERA PATTNI

SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, VICE NEWS BROADCAST, 2012

Tara Mulholland Digital producer, Social media producer, Sky News; social media journalist, CNN

Jess Omari Producer and reporter, ITN; specialist producer, 5 News; senior producer, 5 News; senior producer, Reuters News Agency

Robyn Owens Broadcast assistant, BBC Breakfast; assistant producer, BBC; freelance broadcast journalist, BBC News Channel

Lillie Revington Development researcher, Plum Pictures; assistant producer, Blast! films

Danielle Spears Production talent pool, BBC; floor researcher, assistant producer, Shine TV; assistant producer, producer, BBC

Hannah Stanton Production coordinator, Sportsbrand Media Group; production coordinator, Aurora Media Worldwide; film producer, WaterAid

Katie Storry Entertainment news producer and reporter, Splash News; assistant producer, producer, ITV This Morning

Rebecca Tyers Freelance, BBC, Sky, Press Association, ITN

Diani Vyas Assistant producer, BBC; assistant producer, Firecrest Films Ltd; producer, ITN; producer/ director, Tonight, ITN

What is the best career advice you’ve received?

“Find your Gandalf.” I’ve been really fortunate to have had some great mentors over the years who’ve been there to offer career advice and champion my work.

What is the worst career advice you’ve received?

“Once you leave journalism, you can never go back.” I can’t remember how many times I was told this when I decided to go into communications. It’s simply not true. Some of the best minds in news have made the switch and vice versa. The door is always open.

Did you always want to be journalist? When did you move into communications?

I wanted to work in news, in whatever form. I moved into communications by chance. In 2013 I had booked the head of media at Amnesty International for an interview. A few months later, he offered me a role in his press team. I’d always been intending to go back into radio, but in late 2013 a friend told me that Vice was planning to launch a news channel and that I should see what they were up to. What followed was a four year adventure that’s taken me from London to working at Vice HQ in New York.

What is the highlight of your career so far?

My first producing shift at the BBC. I’d been involved in local radio in Leicester since I was 13 and I vividly remember the day I received my BBC lanyard almost 10 years ago. It was a special moment.

Elena Chabo

JOHN BURN-MURDOCH

DATA JOURNALIST, FINANCIAL TIMES

FINANCIAL, 2012

Did you always know you wanted to be journalist?

I absolutely didn’t. I actually initially wanted to be an architect.

What has been the biggest change in journalism since you began your career?

On the one hand, the democratisation of journalism – a hell of a lot more people now describe themselves as journalists. On the flip side, the pay-wall, which has reduced the accessibility of journalism, but perhaps increased the quality.

What is one thing you learnt at City that you still use today?

I think the most valuable was being taught the importance of truly listening to interviewees. And, as much as I hated it, media law has proven to be very useful.

What has been the most embarrassing moment of your career so far?

I’d just left The Guardian, and sent a message to a friend via a direct message on Twitter making a - perhaps unfaircomparison between the Financial Times and The Guardian I said: “I’m really enjoying the FT. They seem to really take their shit seriously.” Anyway, everybody ended up seeing the message when my friend accidentally tweeted it as a part of a screenshot. I got a lot of stick for it from my old colleagues.

Lauren Kelly

Melissa Wright Assistant news editor and producer; sports producer, ITN; production journalist, on screen journalist, ITV

Investigat ive

John Allison Health and wellbeing partner, Momentum Worldwide; corporate wellness, StreetGym; wellbeing consultant, Motion to Mind

Sophie Barnes Reporter, Health Service Journal; senior reporter, Inside Housing; deputy new editor, Inside Housing

Isabel Camano TV and field producer, Bloomberg TV

Marika Cronnolly Journalist/ researcher, Firecrest Films Ltd; researcher, Sundog Pictures; researcher, BBC Alice Cuddy Reporter/editor, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia); multimedia editor, Agencia EFE; digital journalists, Euronews

Tom Farmery Reporter, The Times; sports writer, Evening Standard; sports writer, Daily Mail

Leila Haddou Web producer, ITN; digital journalist, investigative reporter, Financial Times; data journalist, The Times

Jack Hewson Broadcast journalist, GRNlive; journalist, Al Jazeera Media Network; freelance video journalist and correspondent, France 24 Johnny Houghton-

Quotidiano Sanita Edizioni srl

Jinan Harb Investigative reporter, Biopharm Insight; assistant good health editor; editor of good health, Daily Mail

Daryl Ilbury Freelance (Business Day, Sunday Tribune, Leadership, The Guru, Sunday Times, Saturday Star, Financial Times); media co-ordinator, South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement; freelance senior journalist and science media communicator

Greg Jones Senior press officer, Cancer Research UK; media manager (news and emergencies), Unicef UK; media manager (research), British Heart Foundation Alice Lighton Content developer, Science Museum; medical student, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; unknown Rafi Meguerditchian Associate accountant strategist, Google; business development and operations manager, Meg’s; buyer, The Eye Market

Gena Ng Assistant manager, Ministry of Communications and Information Singapore; assistant language teacher, Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme Oluwafunmilayo Olateju Unknown Lisa Raffensperger Web editor, DiscoverMagazine.com; news editor, Stat News; senior news editor, Stat News

Adam Smith Freelance multimedia science journalist (BBC, British Medical Journal, The Register, The Guardian, New Humanist, Scientific American); assistant community editor, deputy community editor, The Economist

Financia l

Brown International country editor, editor, The Oil and Gas Year; senior market reporter, Argus Media

Eleana Kolovou Reporter, Lambrakis Press, Eleftheros Typos, Katimerini; pilates instructor

Daniel Lanyon Reporter, data journalist, The Grocer Magazine; senior reporter, FE; editor, AltFi

Emily Short Senior promotions and loyalty executive, senior marketing executive, marketing manager, The Telegraph; marketing manager (projects), Dow Jones

Camilla Swift Freelance, (The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, Polo Times Magazine, InStyle); spectator money online editor, editor, The Spectator

Katie Taylor Research for documentary filmmaker Tessa Mayes; press officer, MarketInvoice; senior account executive, Aspectus

Tom Wills Freelance (The Guardian, The Mirror); senior data journalist, Which?; data journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times

Matt Wrigley Unknown

Scienc e

Harriet Bailey Assistant producer, Darlow Smithson Productions; development producer, Optomen Television; producer, Massive Science Inc.

Attilia Burke Health journalist, website co-ordinator, Edra LSWR; freelance (Milan); journalist,

Times; freelance (Weekendavisen, Africa Global Funds)

James Poulter Account director, edelmandigital.com; freelance, Vice; lead developer, Given London

Limited

Maria Tadeo News producer, CNBC; web reporter, The Independent; news reporter, Bloomberg

Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura Business and economics reporter, BBC; freelance (Financial Times, Agence France-Presse); staff reporter, The New York Times (London)

Caroline Varin Reporter, Agence France-Presse; reporter, news editor, Argus Media

Ziyi Wang Energy reporter, senior reporter, ICORP, associate consultant, Euromonitor International

Interactiv e

Teodora Beleaga Data planner, TMW Unlimited; data analyst, VCCP Kin; strategy and analytics consultant; strategy and analytics manager, Burson-Marsteller

John Burn-Murdoch Data journalist, The Guardian; data journalist, Which?; interactive data journalist, Financial Times

Antonia Kanczula Freelance (Scout Association, Healthy, TES, ELLEgirl, Runner’s World, Metro); content editor, growwilduk.com; advice and content manager, Asthma UK

Joice Alves Dias Freelance financial reporter, Pageant Media; correspondent, InfraLatinAmerica; private equity reporter, Dow Jones Russel Dinange Freelance (Euromoney, FX News); lead reporter, head of the capital markets intelligence practice, GreySpark Partners

Caroline Green Intern, Financial Times; account executive, RLM Finsbury

Liza Jansen Freelance correspondent, De Standaard (the Netherlands); founder, Newspresso; editor, FD Bites

Chen Liang Intern reporter, financial advisor, Financial Times; intern reporter, BBC; reporter, MandateWire (Hong Kong)

Xiao Liu Freelance, Financial Times, Scheme Xpert, Pensions Week, Money Anna Lyudvig Freelance (Financial News, Financial Times); editor, Wall Street Letter; founder, Africa Global Funds

Victoria Maigrot International security intern, Bloomberg; Middle East and Africa sales analyst, Blackrock Asset Management; specialist sales, Berenberg Sarah Marquer TV producer, night editor, Bloomberg; media relations manager, senior communications manager, HSBC Tom Metcalf Business and economics reporter, BBC; features writer, Financial Times; billionaires reporter, Bloomberg Anne-Louise Stranne Petersen MandateWire reporter, Financial

Timothy Owen Director, Own Words Ltd; technical author, Star Computers; Neha-Tamara Patel Senior digital analyst, BBC Future Media; digital strategist, John Brown Media Group; deputy head of audience development, Shortlist Media Ltd Rebecca Ratcliffe Content coordinator, freelance education journalist, The Guardian Ændrew Rininsland Creative technologist, Hackney Citizen; news developer, The Times and Sunday Times, interactive graphics developer, Financial Times

Andrew Stuart Daily Post; mobile editor, Manchester Evening News Alistair Walker PR assistant, Blind Veterans UK; communications assistant, ARK Schools; student social worker, Think Ahead Lauren York Graduate trainee subeditor scheme, sub-editor, Daily Mail; sub-editor, The Times Abby Young-Powell Content coordinator, deputy editor students; freelance, The Guardian

Political

Abubakar Al-Sadique Lecturer (Nigeria); researcher, academic journalist and media consultant Aisha Gani Freelance, Financial Times; reporter, The Guardian; senior reporter, Buzzfeed Firouzeh Akbarian Reporter, Iranian TV channel based in UK Alisa Bala Reporter, UN (Geneva) Asa Bennett Reporter, London Means Business; business reporter, Huffington Post; assistant comment editor; Brexit commissioning editor, The Daily Telegraph; Chris Berkin Speechwriter, Cabinet Office; programme/policy manager, assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State, Department for

International Development

Mark Briggs Reporter, Law Business Research; graduate student, University of Amsterdam; media and communications officer, Political Studies Association (UK) Chizom Ekeh Campaigns officer, Age UK; director, Peace Brigades International UK; internal communications officer, British Red Cross

Charlotte Jee Reporter, assistant editor, Government Computing; senior reporter, Computerworld; editor, Techworld; founder, Jeneo

Vincent McAviney Political news editor, Sky News; field and package producer, ITN; senior reporter, LBC; UK Correspondent, Euronews Maath Musleh US consulate general in Jerusalem; co-founder and CEO, 4D media services and production; freelance producer; lecturer, Al Quds Bard College

Catarina Sousa Marketing communications, Boonzi Software; co-founder and content manager, Bloggers Camp; freelance photographer, Joan of July Photography

Harry Spencer Account executive, senior account executive, account manager, Edelman

Max Tholl Editor, theeuropean.de; editor, The Idealist

Naomi Westland Reporter, press officer, Amnesty International; freelance; media manager, Amnesty International UK

Erasmu s

Elga Andreeva Journalist, Kultura; freelance photojournalist and producer; freelance (Bulgaria)

Alfonso Campo Assistant manager, Tragus Group; reporter, senior reporter, Private Equity Africa

Peter Cernuta Sub-editor, new technologies unit, Slovenian Press Agency; chief communications officer, Chariyo; product manager, D.Labs

Arin De Hoog Print journalist, editor, EMAJ Magazine; media relations specialist, Greenpeace Joyce Fernandez Social media manager, Vistagreen; freelance (Wise Projects, The Majestic Concierge, Pearl of the Orient, Able Electrical Team Ltd); managing director, JA Fernandez Media Services

Jan-Henrik Foerster Reporter, WirtschaftsWoche; banking reporter, Bloomberg

Sebastian Kirsch Editor, WirtschaftsWoche

Raia Mihaylova Language expert, NueroCog Trials; DG Communications traineeship, European Parliament; communications officer, European Haemophilia Consortium

Aljosha Karim Schapals Editorial assistant, Financial Times; research assistant, University of London; research associate, Queensland University of Technology

Anusha Sodavaram Marketing executive, Swanstaff Recruitment Limited; assistant manager –external communications and marketing, SunTec; marketing manager, Volt

Simona Strimaityte Events and marketing coordinator, Entiq; head of content, Accucore Group; premium outreach manager,

Moody’s Corporation

Ning-Chih Teng Unknown

Zoe Thomas Americas reporter, Americas editor, Euromoney Institutional Investor; business reporter, BBC News

Dobriyana Tropankeva Broadcast journalist, bTV Media group; TV producer, European Youth Press; event marketing specialist, Thomas Reuters

2013

International

Anjali Alappat Assistant content manager, Wordplay; freelance content and social media consultant, Wedding Wishlist; chief content officer, KnowYourStar.com

Saeed Al-Batati Yemen correspondent, Gulf News; freelance (Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Guardian)

Jomana Alrashid Journalist, Alriyadh; communications coordinator, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia

Sandrine Amiel Culture sector professional, UNESCO; segment producer, Bloomberg; freelance producer (CNN, The Paris Bureau Productions, France 24, UNESCO)

Alexandra Anselmo-Khan Program director, The Social School; digital journalist, The Guardian; actor, Premier Talent Management; wardrobe analyst, self-employed Rasmus Arvidsson Freelance, rekatochklart.se; online and content operator, Ladbrokes; content producer, editor, writer, Barometern

Sofia Barbarani Freelance journalist and editor (The Times, Middle East Eye, The Economist, The Telegraph, Bas News English, Al Jazeera, Your Middle East); assistant foreign editor, The National UAE

Michele Barbero Contributor, openDemocracy; assistant producer, producer, France 24

Luisa Barbieri Media and PR director, Hangar Design Group

Nicholas Barrett Blogger, Huffington Post; research associate, European University Institute; social media writer, The Economist Hanan Bihi Intern, Al Jazeera English; reporter and producer, London360; journalist, vlogger, London Live ESTV

Annika Bohnenblust Intern, United Nations Regional Information Centre; journalist, NTB; communications advisor, Amnesty International Norway; journalist, NTB

Serena Bronda TV production intern, Cambridge Community TV; press officer, Abaton Top Business Niche; PR associate, Eataly; account coordinator, Aria Marketing

Mary Brouder-Murphy Unknown

Ursin Caderas Multimedia journalist, CNN World Sport; associate producer, CNN International; producer, CNN International Ruoqi Cai Unknown

Marta Castellani Freelance

Angie Castillo Freelance

Antonio Cavaciuti Journalist, Chiara Communications (Milan); contributor, Gli Stati Generali; contributor, Editoriale Libertà Spa

Aurelie Chassot Freelance news presenter, ITN Productions; live

correspondent, Radio-Canada; content producer, Brave Bison Lei Chen Intern, BBC World Service; trading and investment executive, Dentsu Aegis Network (China), marketing specialist, ABB (China, Canada)

Radina Choleva Editor, International Coventry; video editor, Touch Surgery; producer, SALT TV

Elizabeth Compson Executive Assistant, Double Apex (Washington DC); executive assistant, Applied Predictive Technologies

Laura Coquereau Translator, transcriber, Welcome to Rio (BBC); translator, transcriber, Al Jazeera English; assistant producer, A Place in the Sun

Ilario D’Amato Video producer, assistant digital editor; multimedia editor, Climate Group

Alicia De Haldevang Marketing executive, Stirling Group; group events, marketing manager, Olive Group; marketing and communications manager, power and renewables, Atkins

Pauline Den Hartog Jager Producer, RTL Television (London); video journalist, Monocle Films; freelance filmmaker and journalist, STUDIOCANAL, World Vision UK, BBC

Mauro D’Errico Freelance, Worldbytes; personal executive assistant in public relations, David Chipperfield Architects Xiaoqing Ding Educational consultant, CNUK; editor, itTIME watch magazine; senior editor, Shanghai Raybond Media

Elisabeth Doehne Freelance, Discover Germany; PR and communication trainee, German American Chamber of Commerce; PhD student, Louisiana State University

Emma Egli Intern, Friends of the Earth; account executive, Principal Ingredient; brand and communications assistant, Nacro; marketing executive, Travelport Hotelzon

Julian Fritsch Freelance, Bayerischer Rundfunk; communications trainee, communications specialist, AUDI AG; senior public relations specialist, BMW Group

Paolo Ganino Editor in chief, Altitude; communications consultant, Transparency International; assistant producer, Al Jazeera English; digital and social media officer, Europen External Action Service

Randa Ghazy Freelance researcher, Vice Media; freelance contributor, Common Ground News Service; segment producer, Al Araby Television Network Osman Gilani Programs director, Impassion Afghanistan; communication and outreach specialist, USAID; vice president, MD Films

Massimiliano Giuliattini Editor, Radio Insieme; collaborator, TV Prato

Stefanie Glinski Freelance, (BBC Travel, Spiegel, Time, The Daily Telegraph); media relations manager, European Friends of Armenia; field content manager, World Vision UK; freelance foreign correspondent in South Sudan, Reuters, Al Jazeera, IRIN, DPA

Yulia Gromova Multimedia journalist, bdmotp.com; photo editor

and producer, Numero Russia

Bettina Guirkinger Freelance (Amsterdam); Cambodia general manager, Leadapreneur; founder and managing director, Explore Your Elements

Carla Hobbs Researcher, European Council of Foreign Relations; EU delegation to Chile, European External Action Service

Tetiana Iakovlieva Unknown

Elisa Iannacone Journalist, Global Business Reports; director, cinematographer, Just Focus Films; creative director, REFRAME Jakob Jessen Freelance, Weekendavisen

Brooke Kavi Freelance contributor, Yuppee Magazine; associate programming manager, video programming manager, AOL; digital communications manager, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Ahmen Khawaja Factual production runner, BBC Television; multimedia producer, BBC News; broadcast journalist; digital video journalist; lead producer; digital journalist, Digihub BBC News

Zairah Khurshid Web reporter, IBT

Media UK; digital program assistant, CBC Radio-Canada; digital content specialist (EMEA), Nike

Dimitrios Koskeridis Chief online editor, Nomads magazine; blue book trainee, European Commission; TV news producer, EbS, European Commission

Laura Kramer Production assistant; researcher, Clover Films; showbiz correspondent, Global Broadcast Media; showbiz reporter, Global Radio

Christina Kronback Marketing manager, Fabrica de Startups; content producer, RTP; expansion manager, Copenhagen Coffee Lab. Charlotte Kude Whips intern, European Parliament; political assistant, David Campbell Bannerman MEP; office manager, House of Commons

Elizaveta Kuznetsova PhD, City, University of London; freelance video producer/reporter, LifeNews; producer, The Voice of Russia (London)

Eunice Kwok Contributor, BC magazine; junior press officer (Hong Kong), Sotheby’s

Manuela Lanza Planning producer; freelance media coordinator, CNN International; TV editorial support, Reuters; freelance sports journalist; founder, Husband Hunter TV Show