Agenda 2024

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

The battle to vanquish disinformation and restore trust in the media.

Christiane Amanpour CBE, Chief International Anchor, CNN
Deborah Turness, CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs
Eliot Higgins, Founder and Creative Director, Bellingcat
Steven Brill, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, NewsGuard
Moderator: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Main Anchor, Channel 4 News

The journalists who would not let us look away.

Motaz Azaiza, Photojournalist
Youmna El Sayed, Gaza Correspondent, Al Jazeera
Safwat Kahlout, Gaza Producer, Al Jazeera
Moderator: Arwa Damon, Journalist and Humanitarian

A conversation with the American tech savant Kara Swisher.

Kara Swisher, Journalist and Author
Interviewer: Lewis Goodall, Presenter, The News Agents, and Analysis and Investigations Editor, Global

Governments are targeting not just individual reporters but also media owners, including Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai and Guatemala’s José Rubén Zamora.

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, International Human Rights Lawyer
Jose Zamora, Son of Jailed El Periódico Founder José Rubén Zamora
Moderator: Mark Stephens CBE, Senior Member and International Media Lawyer, Howard Kennedy LLP

Introduced by Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
Rosa Furneaux, 2024 Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow

The assaults on the business model for real journalism are only increasing. What’s the solution?

Emma Tucker, Editor-in-Chief, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires
Jeff Zucker, CEO, Redbird IMI, and Operating Partner, Redbird Capital
Nishant Lalwani, CEO, International Fund for Public Interest Media
Joshi Herrmann, Founder, Mill Media
Moderator: Ros Atkins, Journalist and Presenter, BBC

Legendary photographer Sir Don McCullin reflects on the futility of violence and how he has “sentenced himself to peace.”

Sir Don McCullin, Acclaimed Photographer
Interviewer: Tina Brown CBE, Editor and Author

Tina Brown CBE, Editor and Author

For rising journalists and mentors.

A generous supporter of Truth Tellers 2024 on the need to sustain serious reporting.

Sigrid van Aken, CEO, Postcode Lottery Group

Rebel against colonialism, Nobel Prize laureate, and titan of world literature.

Wole Soyinka, Playwright, Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
Interviewer: Mishal Husain, Broadcaster, BBC

How do we protect journalists risking everything on the front lines?

Ingrid Formanek, International Executive Producer, CNN
Elie Brakhya, Senior Cameraman and Picture Editor, Al Jazeera
Jeremy Bowen, International Editor, BBC News
Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia University
Moderator: Alessandra Galloni, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters

Reporting on such impenetrable entities as MI5, MI6, the British monarchy, global cartels, and organised crime.

Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor, The Sunday Times
Paul Radu, Co-Founder and Head of Innovation, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Moderator: Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, King’s College, Cambridge, and Columnist and Editorial Board, The Financial Times

How Reuters captured its acclaimed story of the searing, year-long civil war.

Maggie Michael, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist for Mideast and Africa, Reuters
Zohra Bensemra, Chief Photographer for West Africa, Reuters
Ryan McNeill, Deputy Editor for Data Journalism, Reuters
Moderator: Simon Robinson, Executive Editor, Reuters

An Iraqi journalist on what happened in Iraq after the US and UK withdrawal, and its relevance to Gaza’s future.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Writer and Journalist
Interviewer: William Dalrymple CBE, Historian, Bestselling Author, and Co-Host of the Empire Podcast

How tech is transforming newsgathering.

Manisha Ganguly, Investigations Correspondent and Visual Investigations Lead, The Guardian
Catherine Gicheru, Director, Africa Women Journalism Project
Dr Chris Brauer, Director of Innovation, Goldsmiths, University of London
Moderator: David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail

Two men close to the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on the danger of exposing the lies of the Putin regime.

Christo Grozev, Lead Investigator, The Insider and Der Spiegel
Leonid Volkov, Political Director, Navalny Team, and Survivor of Russian Assault
Moderator: Clarissa Ward, Chief International Correspondent, CNN

Covering the 2024 election.

Emily Maitlis, Journalist and Broadcaster
Jeff Zucker, CEO, Redbird IMI, and Operating Partner, Redbird Capital
Jorge Ramos, Anchor, Univision News
Kara Swisher, Journalist and Author
Moderator: James Harding, Co-Founder and Editor, Tortoise Media

William Dalrymple CBE, Historian, Bestselling Author, and Co-Host of the Empire Podcast

Tina Brown CBE, Editor and Author