TAKING ON THE MEDIA BARONS
How can we make the media fair for all?
TUC, NUJ and CPBF Conference
Saturday 17 March
Congress House, Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS – contact Stuart Watkin on watkinsb@parliament.uk if you’d like to attend.
PROGRAMME
OPENING REMARKS AND WELCOME
10am – 10.10am
Frances O’Grady -TUC Deputy General Secretary
Session 1
10.10am – 11am Keynote address and Q&A
Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP – Labour Deputy Leader and Shadow Cabinet member for Culture, Media and Sport
Question and Answers
Session 2
11am – 12noon The state of the media today
Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary – journalism and the media barons
Luke Crawley BECTU Assistant General Secretary – the broadcasting dimension
Jim Broumelha International Federation of Journalists – an international perspective
Pete Lazenby NUJ – what’s happening to local news
Natalie Fenton – local media and democracy
Chair of session: Frances O’Grady
Session 3
12 noon – 1pm Why ownership matters
Granville Williams – Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
Tony Burke – Assistant General Secretary Unite
Richard Bagley – Morning Star
Avaaz –- Michael Calderbank people against Murdoch
Chair: Joy Johnson
LUNCH BREAK 1pm – 1.45pm
Session 4
1.45pm – 2.45pm
Leveson – the story so far
Dan Sabbagh – The Guardian
David Sherborne – QC Leveson Inquiry (tbc)
Thais Portilho-Shrimpton – Hacked off
John Hendy QC – NUJ QC to the Leveson Inquiry
Chair: Kevin Maguire (tbc)
Session 5
2.45pm – 3.45pm
Regulatory reform what is to be done?
Tom O’Malley – The historical context
James Curran – CCMR proposals
Chris Frost – NUJ Ethics Council
Seamus Dooley – NUJ Ireland
Natalie Fenton – chair
Concluding remarks
Michelle Stanistreet NUJ