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[ecrea] Media for all? The Challenge of Convergence

Tue Sep 08 20:54:49 GMT 2009



CPBF CONFERENCE -  Media for all? The Challenge of Convergence
Friday evening 30 October   and   Saturday 31 October 2009
School of Pharmacy, 29 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX


Friday 30 October

7.00 - 10.45 pm


The Miners' Strike & Politics Today and Reception


FRIDAY NIGHT FILM & PRE-CONFERENCE DEBATE
Which side are you on?
Ken Loach's anthology of striking miners' poems and songs
Introduced by Tony Benn, with Lee Hall, John Nichols, Marc Vallee & Paul Le=
wis
Chair: Frances O'Grady, Deputy GS TUC



Saturday 31 October
10 am - 5 pm

CONFERENCE
Registration and networking 9 am




Opening Plenary 10am
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Age of Convergence

Chair: Granville Williams, CPBF National Committee
John Nichols, Correspondent, The Nation

Professor Alexander Stille

Journalism School, Colombia University

Dr Katharine Sarikakis, Institute of Communications Studies, University of =
Leeds



11.20 - 12.30                          Breakout Sessions



Decline of Public Service Broadcasting

Chair: Janice Turner, Editor of BECTU's Stage Screen and Radio
Ray Fitzwalter
Author - The Dream that Died - the rise and fall of ITV
Tom O'Malley
Professor of Media Studies Aberystwyth University
Keith Stokes
Chair BECTU's Independent Broadcasting Division



Gaps in reporting and News Impartiality

Chair: Des Freedman
Snr Lecturer in Communications & Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of=
 London
Greg Philo, Professor University of Glasgow
Arun Kundnani
Editor Race & Class, Institute of Race Relations
Julian Petley, Brunel University Professor of Film & TV and Chair of CPBF


Politics and the Media Online

Chair: Natalie Fenton, Reader & Co-Director of Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media =
Research Centre
Nick Jones, CPBF National Committee
John Nichols, Correspondent, The Nation

PR and Lobbying

Chair: Sian Jones, NUJ Press & PR Branch
Tamasin Cave, Lobbying Campaigner



12.30 - 1.30           LUNCH in the Refectory




Plenary Two 1.30 - 2.30
The media as a public service?

Chair:  Julian Petley, Chair of CPBF and
Brunel University Professor of Film & TV
Carole Tongue, Chair UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity
Steve Barnett
Professor of Communications University of Westminster
Graham Murdock
Author Media in the Age of Marketization



2.40 - 3.40                            Breakout Sessions


Digital Futures:
UK Government policies

Chair:  Pat Holland, CPBF National Committee
Andrew Currah,  School of Geography & the Environment, Worcester College Ox=
ford
Tony Lennon, President of BECTU

Sylvia Harvey

Professor of Broadcasting Policy, University of Lincoln



Threats to local and regional media


Chair: Joy Johnson, CPBF National Committee, former BBC journalist and Dire=
ctor of Media for Mayor of London Ken Livingstone
Tim Gopsill, Editor The Journalist, NUJ
Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies
Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies


European Media Rules

Chair: Jonathan Hardy, Senior Lecturer in Media, University of East London =
and Secretary, CPBF
Alison Harcourt, Snr Lecturer University of Exeter and Jean Monnet Chair of=
 the Information Society
Aidan White GS International Federation of Journalists invited


Alternative Media

Chair: Sean Tunney, CPBF National Committee
Jackie Devereux, Director Community Media Association


Closing Plenary 4pm

Protecting and campaigning for a high quality and diverse media

Chair: Christine Payne, General Secretary of Equity
Jeremy Dear, GS National Union Journalists

Natalie Fenton, Reader & Co-Director of Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Researc=
h Centre

Granville Williams, CPBF National Committee

Conference closes 5pm


Dr Katharine Sarikakis
Institute of Communications Studies
University of Leeds

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