Programme

 

TIME Sheikh Zayed Alumni Theatre Wolfson Theatre
0830-0900 Registration
0900-1000 Keynote: Jon Snow

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1000-1100 Reporting Refugees

Kareem Shaheen (Guardian), Rossalyn Warren (Buzzfeed), Milène Larsson (Vice), Anna Masera (La Stampa), Clarissa Ward (CNN)
Chair: Charlie Beckett (LSE)

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1100-1130 Coffee Break
1130-1230 Europe on the Brink: Reporting #Brexit

Katrin Pribyl (Europa-Büro Detlef Drewes), Vincent Collen (Les Echos), Iain Martin (CapX), Anne Applebaum (Legatum)
Chair: Simon Hix (LSE)

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 Telling the Human Story: Reporting Refugees from Lebanon

Film screening and Q+A with Joelle Eid (LSE) and Kareem Shaheen (Guardian),
Chair: Charlie Beckett (LSE)

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1230-1330 Lunch                                                                                 Wolfson Theatre opens      
1330-1430 Reporting Terror

Sunny Hundal, Secunder Kermani (BBC), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Independent), Lucy Williamson (BBC), Rohit Kachroo (ITV)
Chair: Anne McElvoy (The Economist)

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 Imaginative
storytelling: visual innovation Rachel Bartlett (Shorthand), John Domokos (Guardian), Marc Ellison (Photojournalist)
Chair: Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde (LSE)[more info]		 Competing for compassion?: Journalists and NGOs communicating crises

Monika Kalcsics (ORF radio), Polly Markandya (MSF), Greg Barrow (WFP)
Chair: Glenda Cooper  (City University)

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1430-1530 Power of the Image

Tony Hicks (Associated Press), Francesca Sears (Magnum Photos)
Chair: Pratap Rughani (LCC)

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 Between pity and violence: migrants in the European press

LSE research presentation chaired by Myria Georgiou with Rafal Zaborowski and research team: Leah Selig Chauhan, Antonis Dimitriadis, Lisa Elkhoury, Afroditi Koulaxi, Sadichchha Pokharel and Pauline Vidal

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 Innovative story telling: Data visualisation and interactive platforms

John Burn-Murdoch (FT), Giulio Frigieri (Open Migration), Andrea Menapace (Open Migration), Letizia Gambini (Sourcefabric)
Chair: Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde (LSE)

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1530-1630 Getting to the truth: the role of verification in crisis reporting

Alastair Reid (First Draft), Eliza Mackintosh (Storyful), Hazel Baker (Sky News)
Chair: Sue Llewellyn (Consultant)

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                    No session Philanthropy and Crisis: A Marshall Institute conversation

Gillian Caldwell (Global Witness), Andrew Wilson (Sky), Alexander Woollcombe (Gates Foundation), Seema Yasmin (University of Texas)
Chair: Stephan Chambers  (Marshall Inst LSE)

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1630-1800 Drinks Reception