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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

The State of Journalism

Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4
The Geddes Memorial Lectures

Trust and Free Speech: some reflections.

This Geddes lecture, marking the 30th anniversary of Philip Geddes' death in the Harrods bombing is by the Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes CH, the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Chairman of the BBC Trust.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson (Symposium): Politics and Language - Friends or Enemies?

Symposium following Mark Thompson's series of talks for the Humanitas Programme. With Polly Toynbee, Gus O'Donnell, David Willetts MP and chaired by Andrew Marr.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson: Not in my name

In his third lecture, Mark Thompson looks at what happens when modern rhetoric and morality collide, taking the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as his principal examples.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson: Consign it to the flames

Almost everyone accepts that science is our most authoritative guide to understanding the world so why is it so disputed when it comes to public policy? Mark Thompson examines what's happened to the 'argument from authority' in modern rhetoric.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson: Inaugural Lecture - Is Plato winning the argument?

Drawing in particular on recent examples from American and British healthcare reform, Mark Thompson asks whether the language of politics is changing in ways which threaten public understanding of and engagement with the most important issues of the day.
St Peter's College

Roger Wright: Controller of the Proms and Radio 3

Roger Wright - Controller of the Proms and Radio 3 and the most powerful broadcaster of Classical Music in Europe - Roger will talk about his career and the challenges of his professional life.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

In the Pursuit of Purity, reflections on the BBC

Mark Damazer, Master of St Peter's Collge and Former Controller of BBC Radio 4 and John Lloyd, give a talk for the Reuters Institute on 14th June 2011.
Broadcast Media

You are the Earth, You are the Sky; How one man become the dominant force in the British media's coverage of sport. Does that mean he controls sport itself?

Final lecture of the 2011 News International Professorship of Broadcast Media lecture series on Sport and Broadcast Media.
Broadcast Media

From Reith to wreath; The Great Days of Sport on BBC TV and how they ended

Matthew Engel, the journalist and sports writer and 2011 New International Professor of Broadcast Media gives his third lecture in the 2011 series entitled; Please, mister, can we have our ball back? Sport, the media, and the people.
Broadcast Media

It's the Cat's Whisker: How Sport and the Media developed together, from Mesopotamia to John Logie Baird

Matthew Engel, the journalist and sports writer and 2011 News International Broadcast Media Professor gives his second lecture in the 2011 series entitled 'Please, mister, can we have our ball back? Sport, the media, and the people.
Broadcast Media

Life and death? No, Much more Important than that; How Sport turned into Big Business and a Global Obsession

Matthew Engel, Journalist and Sports Writer and 2011 News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media gives the first of the 2011 series on Broadcast media, entitled; Please, mister, can we have our ball back? Sport, the media, and the people.

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