This page is a work in progress. Watch this space for forthcoming events about journalism and media law/ethics. Know of something that should be listed here? Contact jt.townend[at]gmail[dot]com. (Listed in reverse chronological order).
February 2012
7 February 2012, 18:00, debate and a book launch: ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism at the Crossroads?’ Coventry University London Campus, East India House, 109-117 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JF
8 February 2012, UCL/Bindmans Annual Debate ‘Freedom of the Press versus Privacy Rights: Time for Parliament to draw the line?’
14 February 2012, 3pm, ‘Freedom of Tweet: Censorship, Governments, Marketers & The Law‘, Design Council, London.
27 February 2012, ‘Open Justice Week’, initiative asking writers, legal professionals and members of the public to collaborate using social media to share their experiences of a week in the life of the legal system.
28 February 2012, 1pm, ‘Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom‘ – Rebecca MacKinnon, at Polis, LSE, Clement House Room 302 (Third Floor), Clement House, 99 Aldwych.
29 February 2012, 9am – 2pm, Justice Wide Open, City University London.
January 2012
4 January 2012, 7pm. First Wednesday: The Leveson Inquiry – what have we learned? With Tom Latchem, Anne Diamond, Peter Wilby, George Brock and Ben Fenton. The Frontline Club. London.
9 January 2012, 10 am. Art Exhibition: Justice and Security: there is more than one truth. A series of cartoons and videos on the issues of justice and security, that have been produced in conjunction with the Video Journalism Movement in Amsterdam. Atrium Gallery, LSE, London.
17 January 2012, 6pm. Free Access to Legal Information: Roles in the expansion of liberty, the rule of law and democracy, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.
25 -29 January 2012. Centre for Investigative Journalism annual film week. Series of investigative films, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. On Saturday 28 January, after the screening of The Whistleblower, there will be a networking party with opportunity to talk to the filmmakers and other journalists. City University London.
November 2011
24 November 2011, 18.30, “Social Movements in the Age of the Internet” Professor Manuel Castells, LSE
23 November, 18:00, Is the ‘fit and proper person’ test in broadcasting inadequate? With Steven Barnett, Perry Keller, Ashley Roughton, Ian Walden. City University London
21 November, 17:30, Reuters Memorial Lecture, Baroness Onora O’Neill: ‘The Rights of Journalism and the Needs of Audiences‘, St Anne’s College, Oxford
15 November 2011, 18:30 Media Society: The PCC is dead. Does television hold the key to better press regulation? Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1.
10 November 2011, 6pm, Orwell Lecture 2011: Alan Rusbridger – Hacking Away at the Truth, UCL, London
7 November 2011, 18:30, “The Limits of Investigative Journalism” Peter Preston, LSE
2 November 2011, 18:15, UCL Jurisprudence Review Panel, “The Normative Value of Free Speech and Privacy”, UCL
October 2011
12 October 2011, 18:30, Baronness Buscombe: Changing times and changing media regulation, City University London.
11 October 2011, 17:30, Football, Broadcasting and the Internal Market: Is a common audio-visual space in sight?, City University London.
11 October 2011, 18:30, Heather Brooke: Civic Journalism – What it is and why it matters, City University London.
6 October 2011: IBC Legal’s 5th social media conference, navigating the legal challenges of exploiting social media and user-generated content. Speakers include: Luc Delany, European Policy Director, Facebook; Gillian Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Service, Guardian News & Media; Jaron Lewis, Partner & Head of Media, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP. Follow this link for a ten percent discount.
6 October 2011, 18:30, London: James Cameron Memorial Lecture 2011. Wadah Khanfar: “Journalism and a World in Transition”, City University London.
July 2011
15-17 July, Centre for Investigative Journalism summer school
12 July, 6pm, House of Commons, Media Society libel reform debate with Simon Singh; Mark Stephens;Professor Eric Barendt; Alastair Brett (Chair: John Whittingdale M.P)
6 July, 7pm, Royal Statistical Society, Media Standards Trust, Churnalism debate with Chris Atkins; James Randerson; Trevor Morris (Chair: Fiona Fox)
June 2011
28 June, 6.30-8pm, LSE, Index on Censorship debate on privacy, free speech and a feral press with Max Mosley, David Price, Hugh Tomlinson and Suzanne Moore (Chair: Jo Glanville)
10 June, 9am-4pm, Power and Media – POLIS Journalism Conference 2011, London School of Economics
May 2011
24 May, 6pm, David Willetts MP on science writing and public engagement, City University London
22 May, Brighton Festival, Writing Freedom, with PEN, Jericho House Theatre Company, Bidisha, Deborah Moggach and Jake Arnott
21 May, Brighton Festival, Article 19, with Julian Assange (live or on-screen), Mark Stephens, Sue Stapely and Dr Martin Moore
19 May, Law blogs event, 6pm, The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London
12 May, Westminster Legal Policy Forum, ‘Libel Law – next steps for reform’, Central London
10 May, Brighton Festival, Talking to Terrorists, Peter Taylor in conversation with David Aaronovitch
10 May, Alan Rusbridger on Libel: the long, slow road to reform, City University London
4 May, Seminar: “This house believes that the English libel laws are unfit for purpose in the Twenty-First Century.” 6-8pm, Queen Mary, University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3JB
April 2011
14 April, Face the Future book launch: ‘Is digital the only way?’, Frontline Club, London
March 2011
31 March, Privacy, Defamation and Media’, LexisNexis Conference, London
22 March, Social Media, online privacy and ‘the right to be forgotten’, Westminster Media Forum, London
15 March, The 18th annual Defamation & Privacy Conference 2011, Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London
15 March, 18:00 to 19:30, British Institute of International & Comparative Law, Courts and Democracy, Hogan Lovells International, Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FG
14 March: WikiLeaks and WikiWashers’, Grays Inn and Hardwicke, London
9 March, 6.30pm, POLIS lecture, Public Service Broadcasting and Public Value: the remaining challenges for the BBC, LSE, London
3 March, Media Standards Trust/BBC College of Journalism Data & News sourcing workshops, Royal Statistical Society, London
3 March, Is Ice Cream Strawberry? Journalism’s invisible history – and conflicted future, City University London, Northampton Square, London
1 March, The EU and Human rights. Where are we going?, City Law School lecture, City University London, Northampton Square, London
February 2011
17 February, Covering the crisis: the challenge of financial journalism in an age of austerity, City University London, Northampton Square, London
