• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Wednesdays at 2pm
• Web Address: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 14:00 - ‘News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in’
  Tom Standage (The Economist)

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Maria Stepanova (Colta.ru)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 14:00 - ' "The Optician of Lampedusa" - Opening the World's Eyes to the Human Story Behind Mass Migration'
  Emma Jane Kirby (BBC)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 14:00 - 'Producing News Videos that Young People Care About'
  Sakhr Al-Makhadhi (AJ+)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 14:00 - 'Broadcasting in the Age of Trump and Brexit'
  Justin Webb (BBC)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 14:00 - ‘What’s happening to our media’
  Rasmus Nielsen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Changing patterns of digital news consumption’
  Nic Newman (research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 14:00 - Q&A discussion with physician, academic and writer whose work covers medicine, policy, statistics and campaigning
  Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science (director EBM DataLab, Nuffield Dept Primary Care )

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Britain, Brexit and the new political chaos'
  Jack Blanchard (editor, London playbook at Politico)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘The evolution of digital journalism and tapping into tech for story-telling’
  Lianna Brinded (Europe editor at Quartz)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Platform power and responsibility in the attention economy’
  John Naughton (columnist The Observer and director press fellowship programme, Wolfson College)

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Reporting from Yemen and other inaccessible war zones: risk and how to find out if you're in trouble’
  Laura Silvia Battaglia

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Decline in media freedom worldwide’
  Jodie Ginsberg (chief executive, Index on Censorship)

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Is it true? Why questions about the news are changing’
  TBA

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Not-for-profit journalism - a model for change'
  Rachel Oldroyd (managing editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Photojournalism in the digital age’
  Adrian Hadland (senior lecturer, University of Stirling)

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Restoring trust in news’
  Alessandra Galloni (global news editor, Reuters)

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Covering the underworld: organized crime, cities and disputed territories’
  Antonio Sampaio (research associate for security and development, Institute of International Studies)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘There are many roads to power – How to build a career in journalism’
  Alexandra Borchardt (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Reporting the world’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Roula Khalaf (deputy editor, Financial Times)

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The “King of Whoppers” and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race’
  Lucas Graves (senior research fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Reporting the world’
  Roula Khalaf (deputy editor, Financial Times)

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 14:00 - 'Political actors and the manipulation of social media audience groups through the use of junk news and other forms of automation
  Vidya Narayanan (director of research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The news of tomorrow’
  RISJ Journalist Fellows

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Reporting of the refugee crisis and the AfD in Germany’
  Tanit Koch (former editor-in-chief, Bild)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Experts as journalists and the contest for the truth’
  Stephen Khan (editor, The Conversation)

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 14:00 - ‘In pursuit of repertoires of news consumption. Analysing how people use news media in everyday life’
  Kim Schroder (visiting fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Statistics and the battle against misinformation’
  Professor Denise Lievesley (Professor of Social Statistics & Principal Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Innovation and the conversation on the rise of China’
  Gary Liu (CEO, South China Morning Post)

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Protecting whistle-blowers and sources in the digital age’
  Julie Posetti (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Breaking news: the remaking of journalism’
  Alan Rusbridger (Lady Margaret Hall)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Transformations in news organizations’
  Anita Zielina (NZZ Media Group)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Networked solidarity in the age of Trump’
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Empowered: Popular feminism and popular misogyny’
  Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics)

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The rebirth of audio’
  Nic Newman (research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Behind the lens. The impact and implications of visual storytelling’
  Hazel Thompson

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 14:00 - Do we need a new kind of journalism in 2019? The new challenges of trust and misinformation
  Rachael Jolley (Index on Censorship magazine)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 14:00 - The coldest story ever told: Kayne and the Up Next algorithm
  Caithlin Mercer (Yahoo UK)

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 14:00 - Short and strong: making The Economist Espresso
  Lane Greene (The Economist)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 14:00 - India’s social media elections
  Vidya Narayanan (director of research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 14:00 - Diving deep. Slow news and reader engagement
  Chris Cook (Tortoise, ex BBC Newsnight, FT)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 14:00 - Digital rebranding of legacy media – reviving the Madras Courier
  Shrenik Rao (Madras Courier)

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 14:00 - Should the state pay for journalism?
  Polly Curtis (HuffPost UK )

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 14:00 - From Victims to Suspects - representation of Muslim women
  Dr Shakira Hussein (University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute)

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 14:00 - Why don’t we take women as seriously as men?
  Mary Ann Sieghart (University of oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 14:00 - British media and populism, and Brexit
  Trevor Kavanagh

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 14:00 - Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Public Discourse
  Sue Robinson

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 14:00 - Reputation, trust and keeping watch
  Inga Thordar

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 14:00 - The failure of political journalism
  Helen Lewis

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 14:00 - Telling the international story
  Caro Kriel

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 14:00 - Protecting newsrooms from political pressures
  Bobby Ghosh

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 14:00 - Social media, protest and press freedom in Sri Lanka
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 14:00 - Healing words - Innovations in health reporting
  Mia Malan (Bhekisia)

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 14:00 - Political attacks on journalism in central and eastern Europe
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 14:00 - The state of journalism
  Dorothy Byrne (Channel 4 Television)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 14:00 - The 50:50 Project - increasing women's representation in the BBC's journalism
  Ros Aktins (BBC News)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 14:00 - Virtual Reality News: the post-hype reality in 2019
  Zillah Watson (BBC VR Hub)

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 14:00 - Putting the audience at the heart of journalism
  Federica Cherubini (Hearken)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 14:00 - Press freedom and media censorship
  Rasmus Nielsen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 14:00 - The truth behind Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
  Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 14:00 - Leading digital transformation
  TBA

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Journalism in Bolsenaro’s Brazil
  TBA

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Misinformation and propaganda wars in Ukraine and Russia
  TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: A dangerous moment: reporting Hong Kong’s protests
  TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 14:00 - News in the Digital Age
  TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 12:00 - Political Gossip and how it drives everything
  Marie Le Conte (politics writer)

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 14:00 - A new wave: Female editors and new audiences
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 April 2020

• 14:00 - Building a global media brand
  Prashant Rao, global editor, The Atlantic

Wednesday 6 May 2020

• 14:00 - Brexit in a time of crisis
  Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London

Wednesday 13 May 2020

• 14:00 - Reporting pandemics: Measles and Coronavirus in the Pacific Islands
  Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 14:00 - Fact checking a global story
  Clara Jiménez Cruz, co-founder of Maldita.es

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 14:00 - Journalists under pressure - the emotional toll of covering crises
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 June 2020

• 14:00 - The role of the Today programme in a national crisis
  Sarah Sands, editor of BBC Radio 4 Today programme

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 14:00 - Holding power to account
  Matthew Caruana Galizia, investigative journalist

Wednesday 17 June 2020

• 14:00 - Public sector broadcasting and trust in dangerous times
  Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs, Channel 4 News