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

