2020 Conference
SPEAKERS
Polly Curtis
Managing Director, PA Media
Marcus Ryder MBE
Executive Producer, Caixin Media
Hannah Storm
Director & CEO, Ethical Journalism Network
Alastair Campbell
Author, Strategist & Mental Health Campaigner
Jack Lahart
Head of Social Media, The Economist
Alicia Bell
News Voices Organising Manager, Free Press
Thomas Hughes
Director, Oversight Board Administration
Banseka Kayembe
Director & Founder, Naked Politics
Shelina Janmohamed
Author, Columnist & IMPRESS Board Member
Sérgio Spagnuolo
ICFJ Knight Fellow & Founder of Volt Data Lab
Ed Procter
CEO, IMPRESS
Emma Meese
Director, Independent Community News Network
Areeq Chowdhury
Founder & Director of WebRoots Democracy
Shirish Kulkarni
Community Organiser, Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Sarah Cheverton
Editor, Star & Crescent
Eliot Higgins
Founder & Executive Director, Bellingcat
Jo Adetunji
Managing Editor, The Conversation & PINF Trustee
Amelia Gentleman
Author & Reporter, The Guardian
Mark Lewis
Partner, Patron Law
Kassy Cho
Journalist, Audience Strategist & Founder and Editor of Almost
Jonathan Heawood
Executive Director, Public Interest News Foundation
Liam Gilliver
Deputy Editor, Plant Based News
Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana
Head of Regulation, IMPRESS
Sam Walby
Editor-in-Chief, Now Then Magazine
Dr Holly Powell-Jones
Founder, Online Media Law UK
Rizwana Hamid
Director, Centre for Media Monitoring
Adam Thomas
Director, European Journalism Centre
Amy Hall
Co-Editor, New Internationalist
Gavin Rees
Director, Dart Center Europe
Bernard Achampong
Founder, Unedited
Anna Draffin
CEO, Public Interest Journalism Initiative (PIJI)
Paul Giannasi
National Police Hate Crime Advisor
Robyn Vinter
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Overtake
Marc Wadsworth
Journalist & Chair, NUJ Black Members Council
Anna Lekas Miller
Journalist & Contributor,
Media Diversity Institute
Media Diversity Institute
Cierra Hinton
Executive Director-Publisher, Scalawag & Co-Director, Press On
Sasha Havlicek
Founding CEO, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Clara Aguirre
Communications Manager, IMPRESS
Tom Morrison-Bell
Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager, Google
