Agenda 2023

Tina Brown, Editor and Author
Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
Karen O’Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham University

Four top journalists and editors on what it takes to sustain investigative journalism

Dean Baquet, Editor, Local Investigations Fellowship, and former Executive Editor, The New York Times
Nick Davies, Former Special Correspondent, The Guardian
James Harding, Co-founder and Editor, Tortoise Media
Roula Khalaf, Editor, The Financial Times

Moderator: Amol Rajan, Presenter, Today, University Challenge, and Amol Rajan Interviews, BBC

A Mexican journalist who risks her life to investigate the drug cartels and the people in power who protect them

Anabel Hernández, Journalist and Author

Interviewed by Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, Sky News

How open-source intelligence, YouTube, and traditional investigative reporting are being used to expose the lies of the Putin regime

Bill Browder, Author and Head, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign
Maria Pevchikh, Head of Investigations and Chairwoman of the Board, Anti-Corruption Foundation
Christo Grozev, Lead Russia Investigator, Bellingcat
Mikhail Zygar, Journalist and Writer

Moderator: Andrew Marr, Journalist and Broadcaster

The iconoclastic media mogul on the future of media

Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive, IAC and Expedia Group
Interviewed by Tina Brown, Editor and Author

Three top investigative journalists on the obstacles and challenges of getting to the truth

Selam Gebrekidan, Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Bradley Hope, Co-Founder, Project Brazen
Maurice Tamman, Reporter and Editor, Reuters

Moderator: David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
Robert Capa

Adrees Latif, Enterprise Editor, Reuters Pictures

Isabel Evans, Documentary Producer and daughter of Sir Harry Evans

Karen O’Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham University
Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters

Waylon Cunningham

Global media leaders and a Silicon Valley investor on the tension between investigative journalism and the bottom line

Steve Hasker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters
Sir Michael Moritz, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Deborah Turness, CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs
Katharine Viner, Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian

Moderator: John Ryley, Former Head, Sky News

A courageous Iranian journalist and activist who helped spark the protests in Iran, plus a reporter whose new podcast sheds light on the Islamic regime’s attempts to silence her and other expat Iranian journalists

Masih Alinejad, Journalist and Campaigner
Paul Caruana Galizia, Reporter, Tortoise Media, and Co-Founder, The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

Moderator: Yalda Hakim, News Anchor and International Correspondent, BBC News

Great investigative journalism often comes up against powerful lawyers hired to kill the story and equally depends on the skill of media lawyers to fight back

Patrick Radden Keefe, Author and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Pia Sarma, Editorial Legal Director, Times Newspapers Limited,
and Deputy General Counsel, News UK
Mark Stephens CBE, Senior Member and International Media Lawyer, Howard Kennedy LLP

Moderator: Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters

The founder and editor-in-chief of a groundbreaking initiative that completes and publishes the investigations of reporters who are threatened or murdered

Sandrine Rigaud, Editor-in-Chief, Forbidden Stories
Laurent Richard, Founder and Executive Director, Forbidden Stories

Moderator: James Naughtie, Special Correspondent, BBC News

How Dominion Voting Systems won the biggest defamation suit of our time against Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News

John Poulos, Co-Founder and CEO, Dominion Voting Systems

Interviewed by David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail

The new ways journalism is combatting disinformation, Big Tech opacity, and the collapse in public trust

Madhumita Murgia, Artificial Intelligence Editor, The Financial Times
‘Fisayo Soyombo, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Foundation for Investigative Journalism
Marianna Spring, Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent, BBC
Robert Trafford, Assistant Director, Forensic Architecture

Moderator: Ed Williams, EMEA CEO and President, Edelman,
the producer of the Edelman Trust Barometer

The founding editor of South Africa’s Daily Maverick, which helped bring down the corrupt government of Jacob Zuma, talks about his innovative approach to telling the stories that matter

Branko Brkic, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Maverick

Interviewed by James Harding, Co-founder and Editor, Tortoise Media

A conversation with the creator of HBO’s Succession

Jesse Armstrong, Writer and Executive Producer

Interviewed by Tina Brown, Editor and Author

The chairman of Thomson Reuters speaks about the legacy of The Sunday Times under Sir Harry Evans and the first Lord Thomson

David Thomson, Chairman, Thomson Reuters

Two front-line journalists on getting the truth out from Ukraine

Lynsey Addario, Photojournalist
Andriy Dubchak, Ukrainian Photographer and Reporter, and Founder, Donbas Frontliner

Moderator: Clarissa Ward, Chief International Correspondent, CNN

The  legendary Watergate investigative journalists in conversation

Bob Woodward, Journalist and Author
Carl Bernstein, Journalist and Author

Moderator: Emily Maitlis, Journalist and Broadcaster

Sir Simon Schama, Historian

Tina Brown, Editor and Author