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
