Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook, David Levy

Lucy Küng, visiting professor of media innovation at the University of Oslo and research fellow at the Reuters Institute (RISJ)
11 May: ‘Innovators in digital news’

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter

Luke Harding, foreign correspondent, The Guardian, and author of ‘A Very Expensive Poison: the Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko’.
13 May: ‘The Panama Papers: the inside story of the world’s biggest leak’

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook, David Levy

Lindsey Hilsum, international editor, Channel 4 News
18 May: ‘Covering Syria and the refugee crisis’

The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Oxford Department of International Development invites you to our upcoming research seminars.
These research seminars are intended to connect active researchers and students on the topics of innovation, technology and management for development. This is a chance to exchange ideas, learn and connect not just with TMCD staff, researchers and fellows but also the innovation research community at large at Oxford. These afternoons are a great opportunity to seek feedback and learn new viewpoints on our research interests.
Sandwiches and refreshments will be provided.
Open to students, lecturers, practitioners and researchers.

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter

Helen Lewis, deputy editor of New Statesman and a presenter of the BBC’s Week in Westminster
20 May: ‘Is political journalism broken?’

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook, David Levy

Julia Cage, assistant professor of economics, Sciences Po Paris, Department of Economics
25 May: ‘Saving the Media. Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy’

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook, David Levy

Tom Standage, deputy editor, the Economist
1 June: ‘News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in’

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook, David Levy

Hannah Storm, director of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) and RISJ author
8 June: ‘The kidnapping of journalists: reporting from high-risk conflict zones’

How good is your metadata? Helping readers find the content they want in a well-organised way, is fundamental to selling more books online. There are set rules aimed at standardizing how publishers, booksellers and others describe each book. Kieron Smith (Digital Director, Blackwells Bookshops) will walk us through what we should be thinking about and what will ultimately lead to more online sales. An unmissable talk for commercially minded publishing teams to attend.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook, David Levy

Yulia Netesova, visiting fellow at CIS LSE, foreign affairs correspondent at the Rosbalt news agency
15 June: ‘Russian media: oppressor or oppressed?’

An opportunity to immerse yourself in virtual reality. Bring your own VR demo / software or just enjoy having a go with this exciting medium.

Please get in touch if you would like to participate with an exhibition of your own work or of a favourite example of VR.

Digital Creatives Oxford is an independent networking group, run by volunteers and supported by Film Oxford, that host free meetings featuring speakers, hot tips, networking and informal pub meetings to link up people with an interest in cutting edge creative practices. (The group started in 2009 and recently merged with Digital Film Editors Oxford group). Speakers have included Filmmakers, Editors & Visual Effects people, Photographers, Animators, Digital Artists, Web Designers, Game Designers, Interactive 3D people, Drone Operatives and cutting edge people who are hard to classify.

This is a free event.

A discussion with photographer Alison Baskerville and curator Brigitte Lardinois that will consider women as photographers and photographic subjects, and the effects of social and technological change on portrait photography over the last 100 years.

Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break the Monopoly monopoly. Perhaps the most successful of these is multi award winning Reiner Knizia, who joins mathematician Katie Steckles and board game lover Quentin Cooper to discuss how you develop a game which is easy to learn, hard to master and fun to play time after time. With a chance to have a go at some of Reiner’s latest creations and other top games afterwards.

Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/tuesday.html

Join Photograph Collections curatorial staff for a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s dedicated research area. A special opportunity to receive a guided tour of the climate-controlled storerooms and to view collections highlights, including albums by Wilfred Thesiger. An Oxford Open Doors event. Free but booking essential. Two tours: 11.00-12.00 & 14.00-15.00

Nic Newman, digital media strategist and research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

12 Oct: ‘How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour’

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Andrew Dilnot, David Levy, Rasmus Nielsen, James Painter

Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio
14 Oct: ‘The need for slow media in the digital age’

Our present laws attacking conflict of interest and corruption came into existence during years of blistering financial and political corruption scandals in early Hanoverian England, notably the 1720 South Sea Bubble. But there was also a lot corruption surrounding war finance and the buying of offices and elections. Were the anti-corruption laws made in the 1720s a clean-up effort in the wake of breakdown and crisis? If political-legal change worked like that today, we would by now have a highly regulated financial industry in the United Kingdom and highly honest and ethical politicians and political media. In the early 18th century, and perhaps in all times in British legal history, crisis might be a trigger for legal reform, but the reform process was always played out on a wider canvas of domestic politics, religious conflict, international affairs, and personal rivalries within an elite. In this lecture I tell the story of conflicts in the realm of politics, finance and family life in the early reign of the Hanoverians, looking at a colourful caste of characters including many miscreants from Oxford.

Professor Joshua Getzler is Professor of Law and Legal History at St Hugh’s College. His book A History of Water Rights at Common Law (Oxford, 2004) won the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2005. He is interested in modern property and commercial law, and the interconnections of legal, financial, political, religious and economic history.

Roopa Suchak, South Asia workstream lead, BBC

19 Oct: ‘How the BBC reaches digital audiences in South Asia’

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Andrew Dilnot, David Levy, Rasmus Nielsen, James Painter

John Lloyd, senior research fellow, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
21 Oct: ‘Journalism in the Age of Terrorism’

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given on Wednesdays, normally at 2pm in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter and Richard Sambrook

Christina Lamb, foreign affairs correspondent, Sunday Times
26 Oct: ‘From Afghanistan to a more dangerous world’

A twenty minute talk to introduce the topic, followed by Q&As and about an hour’s discussion. All welcome.

The Tim Hetherington Society and the Oxford PPE Society present: 7 Days in Syria, an evening with Janine di Giovanni.

Join us for free in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at Lady Margaret Hall for a talk by Janine di Giovanni and a film screening of Robert Rippberger’s feature length documentary ‘7 Days in Syria’. After the screening, there will be a free drinks reception in the adjoining Monson Room.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given on Wednesdays, normally at 2pm in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter and Richard Sambrook

Marta Cooper, reporter, Quartz
2 Nov: ‘Quartz things: a mobile-first approach to stories’

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Andrew Dilnot, David Levy, Rasmus Nielsen, James Painter

Reiko Saisho, bureau chief, NHK London Bureau
4 Nov: ‘Different styles of journalism in Japan and the UK’

Holly Watt, investigations correspondent, the Guardian – normally at 2pm in the Barclay Room,
9 Nov: ‘Strength in numbers – how journalists cracked the Panama Papers’

Convenors: James Painter and Richard Sambrook

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given on Wednesdays, Green Templeton College.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given on Wednesdays, normally at 2pm in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter and Richard Sambrook

Jane Barrett, global head of multimedia, Editorial, Reuters
16 Nov: ‘Reuters: innovating to stay ahead – from pigeons to multimedia’

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given on Wednesdays, normally at 2pm in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter and Richard Sambrook

Kerim Balci, editor in chief, Turkish Review
23 Nov: ‘Catastrophic Success: President Erdoğan of Turkey and the opposition media’

Join Lisa McKenzie (LSE), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Ruth Ibegbuna (CEO, RECLAIM Manchester) and Dawn Foster (The Guardian) to discuss how class is presented within the media.

It is well known that journalism is a profession dominated by the middle classes. 54% of leading print journalists hail from just two universities – Oxford and Cambridge. With the decline of local news, the rise of the unpaid internship and the ending of specialist reporting on labour and industrial politics, it is harder and harder for people from working class background to gain a career in the media. From the lack of working class voices in the media, to the negative sterotypes of people from working class backgrounds it is clear that class is an issue which urgently needs discussing in relation to the media.

How do the class backgrounds of journalists affect the agenda presented by the media? Is class an overlooked topic in discussions of problems with the mainstream media? What can alternative media platforms do to change the debate?

Please join us at 7pm on Thursday of 7th Week (November 24th) for a presentation by Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby on their recent publication ‘Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016’.

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“The photographs are a protest against those who so
readily attack refugees and migrants entering Europe
without taking into consideration the dangers faced
during the journey.” (Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–16 by John Radcliffe Studio www.johnradcliffestudio.com)

For more information please read the press release below:

‘Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016’, is a photography book that documents the lives of people at various stages of their migration to Europe. The book is divided into three sections, focusing on migration to Italy from North Africa, migration to Greece and through the Balkans from the middle east, and the migrant camp in Calais known as ‘The Jungle’. Alongside the photography, written texts serve both as a context, and a means to share the stories of the people we met during the project.
The book was created in response to the imagery used in
the media to discuss the issue of migration, which we felt was
sensationalist, alarmist and was not giving people the time and
consideration they deserved. We wanted to approach the subject from a calmer perspective, using medium format portrait photography as a means of meeting the people at the centre of the crisis face to face – and of learning something about their lives.

John Radcliffe Studio is the creative partnership of Thomas Saxby and Daniel Castro Garcia. We specialise in photography, film and graphic design and have spent the last year documenting the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe.

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The Moser Theatre is fully accessible, with access to gender netural toilets, and the event will be **FREE** to attend. Oxford for Dunkirk will be collecting donations before and after the event in aid of La Liniere Refugee Camp, Dunkirk, France: please see our page for more details! (www.facebook.com/oxfordfordunkirk)