Journalism events diary

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Dear Stephen...: Priorities for Digital Britain

Start date: 09/07/09
Details: The Westminster Media Forum will hold a seminar about plans for meeting the goals of Lord Carter’s interim Digital Britain report, which set out a series of ambitious goals designed to meet the challenges created by an increasingly converged media landscape. Speakers will include Patrick Barwise (Emeritus professor of management and marketing at London Metropolitan University), Anna Bradley (chair of the communications consumer panel), and Matt Brittin (managing director of Google UK). Tickets are £190.
Venue: Central London - to be confirmed.
Contact address: Connaught House, 22/24 Guildford Road, Bagshot, Surrey GU19 5JN
Telephone: 01276 489144
Fax: 01276 489231
Email: info@westminstermediaforum.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/TCJGA/

Communication Power

Start date: 09/07/09
Details: Communication Power is the name of the latest book of Manuel Castells, who is university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and research professor of information society at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona.
He will talk about her book in which he analyses the transformation of the global media
industry by the revolution in communication technologies.
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. London School of Economics London WC2A 2AE
Telephone: 020 7955 6043
Email: events@lse.ac.uk or
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/WZMUB/

Press Release Masterclass

Start date: 23/07/09
Details: Press Dispensary’s popular 'Press Release Masterclass' is aimed at PR copywriters, marketers and business people who need to sharpen their writing skills to pen press releases and public announcements.
The cost is £350 plus VAT per trainee and includes lunch and refreshments, however an early bird discount of £300 is available for bookings made before June 24, 2009
Contact: Vicky Leek
Telephone: 0845 430 4433
Email: vicky@pressdispensary.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/UWUEQ/

The Future of Journalism

Start date: 09/09/09
Details: The Future of Journalism is the second Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies conference. The first, entitled The Future of Newspapers, was held last year. The two journals have now launched the call for entries for this year's conference, and 250-word abstracts for papers are invited by 9 January 2009.
Venue: Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB
Telephone: 0292 087 4041
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/RTDTL/

The Future of Advertising in the Marketing Mix

Start date: 10/09/09
Details: The Westminster Media Forum are holding this seminar about the future of advertising. Speakers will include Nick Milligan (managing director at Sky Media/BSkyB), Nick Bampton (managing director of Viacom Brand Solution) and Bob Wootton (director of media and advertising affairs at ISBA). Tickets are £190.
Venue: To be confirmed, central London
Contact address: Connaught House, 22/24 Guildford Road, Bagshot, Surrey GU19 5JN
Telephone: 01276 489144
Fax: 01276 489231
Email: info@westminstermediaforum.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/TCJGA/

Nordic Conference on Innovation Journalism

Start date: 25/09/09
Details: The Finnish Innovation Journalism research initiative are holding this conference on innovation journalism, sponsored by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. The subject will be: "Weather Casters of the Future? - The Role of Journalism in Understanding Technological and Social Innovations". Keynote speakers are Kevin G. Barnhurst (professor in the department of communication at the University of Illinois) and David Nordfors (co-founder and executive director of the VINNOVA Stanford Reearch Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University).
Venue: University of Helsinki Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki
Contact: Hannu Nieminen
Contact address: Communication Research Centre CRC
P.O. BOX 54, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto
Physical address: Unioninkatu 37, 00170 HELSINKI
Telephone: +358 9 191 24838
Email: hannu.nieminen@helsinki.fi
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/YVHPH/

8th World Young Reader Conference

Start date: 27/09/09
End date: 30/9/2009
Details: World Association of Newspapers will hold a conference about young reader and how the media connect with them on multiple platforms.
The speakers will be Anne Kari Jørgensen, chief analyst for A-Pressen Group, Norway; Grzegorz "Greg" Piechota, special projects editor and two-time winner of the World Young Reader Prize, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; and Michael Smith, executive director, Media Management Center, USA, on new research about adolescent preferences in newspaper news sites with some startling lessons for online news sites in general.
The Participant registration fee is €650.
Venue: Prague Marriott Hotel
V Celnici 8, 110 00 Prague 1
Contact address: 7 Rue Geoffroy St. Hilaire,
75005 Paris, France.
Telephone: (33-1) 47 42 85 00
Fax: (33-1) 47 42 49 48
Email: contact_us@wan.asso.fr
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/QJWUT/

Moscow State University conference: Mass media and communications in the new millennium

Start date: 08/10/09
End date: 10/10/2009
Details: At the Moscow State University department of journalism, international journalists will meet at an event entitled "Content, channels and audiences in the new millennium: interaction and interrelations". The aim of the conference is to analyse the changes in international mass media that have taken place at the beginning of the 21st century. The working language is English; registration fee for non-CIS citizens is 3500 rubles.
Venue: Department of Journalism, Moscow State University, 9 Mokhovaya Street, 125009 Moscow, Russia
Telephone: +7 495 6294954
Email: moscow.readings@smi.msu.ru
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/PPUJO/

International Conference Journalism Research in the Public Interest

Start date: 19/11/09
End date: 21/11/2009
Details: The IAM Institute of Applied Media Studies at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich will hold a conference on the question " What does the field of journalism research have to offer to issues of public interest and debate, and what are the key factors for a successful transfer of knowledge between journalism research and its social contexts? "
The registration fee is CHF 175.
Venue: Zurich University of Applied Linguistics
School of Applied Linguistics
Institute of Applied Media Studies
Theaterstrasse 15c
8400 Winterthur
Switzerland
Contact: Ursula Koepell
Contact address: Ursula Köppel
IAM Institute of Applied Media Studies
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Theaterstrasse 15c
B.O. Box
8401 Winterthur
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 (0)58 934 77 56
Email: ursula.koeppel@zhaw.ch
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/TZCKB/

The 62nd world newspaper congress

Start date: 30/11/09
End date: 3/12/2009
Details: The World Association of Newspapers will hold the 62nd world newspaper congress
The speakers will be Tim Brooks, Managing Director, Guardian News & Media, United Kingdom; Ana Paula Pessoa, VP Corporate - Strategic Resources, Infoglobo, Brazil; Gerd Finkbeiner, Chairman of the Executive Board, manroland AG, Germany..
The prices are €1950 for Standard Rate, €1700 for Newspapers belonging to WAN Member Associations, and 1150 € for Company/WAN/WEF Member.
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre
India
Contact address: 7 Rue Geoffrey
St Hillaire
75005 PARIS
FRANCE
Telephone: + 33 1 47 42 85 00
Mobile: + 33 1 47 42 49 48
Email: contact_us@wan.asso.fr
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/NHGWS/