Speaker
Justin Schlosberg is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, former Chair of the Media Reform Coalition and Edmund J Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author/co-author of several books about the media including Power beyond Scrutiny (Pluto), Media Ownership and Agenda Control (Routledge), Bad News for Labour (Pluto) and The Media Manifesto (Polity).
Speaker
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has been a journalist in print, radio and TV for the past four decades. She has written for many titles including The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times and Time magazine, and her books include After Multiculturalism (2000) and In Defence of Political Correctness (2018). She is senior research associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, an honorary fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, and honorary visiting professor at Cardiff and Lincoln Universities. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Chair and Director of Studies
Stephen Law is a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Certificate of Higher Education at OUDCE. His research focuses on the philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics and on philosophy of religion. He also writes many accessible online articles and edits the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal THINK: Philosophy for Everyone.
Speaker
Emma Jones is a journalist and author, and a Board Director of the Hacked Off Campaign. Emma has worked as a magazine editor at Smash Hits magazine as well as working as a columnist and reporter across national newspaper titles including the Sun, The Sunday Mirror and the Mail on Sunday. She is a media broadcast contributor in the UK and France.
Speaker
Hardeep Matharu is a journalist, writer, and speaker. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Byline Times – the independent investigative news site and monthly print news magazine covering 'what the papers don't say'. Her work focuses on the forces that shape us: identities, politics, culture, the media. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a John Schofield Trust Senior Fellow, sits on the board of the 'Values in the Media' project established by the Common Cause Foundation, and is a judge of the annual Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award. Hardeep started her career as an award-winning local news reporter and entered journalism after completing a Law degree at Cambridge University.
