Tomorrow's Journalists Conference 15 Oct 2010
The Cardiff Centre for Journalism is inviting its alumni and staff from the last forty years as well as industry colleagues, current students and journalism associations to the Tomorrow’s Journalists conference and celebratory Dinner this October to mark its fortieth year as the UK’s leading journalism school.
The conference will look to the future and what the subsequent four decades may bring for the next generation of journalists.
Introducing the conference - Richard Tait
Journalism is going through deeper, faster and more radical changes than at any time in the last 40 years. Which is why, when the Cardiff Centre for Journalism was looking for the right way to mark our first four decades as the UK’s leading journalism school, we realised that the only topic that really mattered was the future.
Tomorrow’s Journalists is a conference which will look at the skills and values which will ensure that quality journalism continues to make a vital contribution to the UK’s democratic and cultural life; and what that means for the next generation of journalists in a converged and fully digital world.
The Speakers
The platform speakers will come from the leaders of our profession – many have studied at Cardiff, others have generously given their time in the past to help teach our students and have agreed to support this special anniversary conference. They include Mark Byford (Deputy Director-General, BBC), Simon Lewis (Former Director of Communications at No 10), Ron Jones (Chairman, Tinopolis) and Alan Edmunds (Publishing Director, Media Wales).
We are delighted that two of our most distinguished alumni have agreed to chair the sessions: Ben Brown of BBC News and Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News. Alex has also agreed as conference chair to speak at the dinner in the evening. I am also delighted that three of our most successful recent graduates Hattie Brett (Grazia), Sally Rourke (ITV) and Hannah Waldram (Guardian) will be here to show what the new generation of Cardiff journalists is already achieving in the world of multi-media and multi-platform journalism.
All have something original and relevant to say about the challenges of the future - funding high quality journalism, reversing the decline in regional media and ensuring that journalism is a career genuinely open to talent, whatever your background - where what you know matters more than who you know.
As always at Cardiff, the emphasis will be on debate and participation, sharing and testing ideas.
I hope you can join us.
Richard Tait, Director, The Centre for Journalism