AUTUMN season 2009

COVENTRY
conversations One hour of talk with media movers and shakers
staged in and around Coventry School of Art & Design
“The best speaker programme in any British University”
– Professor Richard Keeble
30 September 22 October 12 November
Does TV news have a future? Making ‘Nativity’ An alternative view on TV news
Nick Pollard Debbie Isitt Stephen Cole
Ex Sky News boss Feature film maker and Coventry alum Presenter, Al Jazeera English
13:00 / ETG34 13.00 / ETG34 13.00 / ETG34
(Ellen Terry building, the old Odeon)
28 October 18 November
01 October I’m a celebrity, get me into there! Crisis, what crisis?
Looking beyond Top Gear Professors Richard Keeble, Alan Rusbridger (via video link)
Steve Cropley John Tulloch and others Editor in Chief, The Guardian
Editor-in-Chief, Autocar (Part of The ICE Conference) 13.00 / ETG34
13:00 / ETG34 10.00 / Start-up Café
19 November
02 October 28 October Does local commercial radio have
My new life in the SUN (radio) Is world journalism in crisis? a future?
Jon Gaunt (A live video conference chaired by Phil Riley
Shock jock and Coventry boy Kevin Marsh) Owner of six Midlands radio stations
17.00 / ETG34 Various speakers from the UK, USA, 13.00 / ETG34
Africa and China, including Nick Davies
08 October and Jeremy Paxman (both tbc) 23 November
Documentaries from tough places 14.00 / Humber Theatre Into the Dragons’ Den and out of the
Eamonn Matthews recession
Independent producer, Unreported World 29 October Evan Davis
13.00 / ETG34 Blocking investigation or ensuring truth Presenter, Dragons’ Den
for clients? 14:00 / Room tbc
14 October John Stonborough
From here to there Media Counsel 26 November
Gideon Coe 13.00 / ETG34 Secrets of the BBC Election Graphics
Radio 6 Music and Coventry alum Jonathan Spence
13.00 / ETG34 29 October Lead graphic designer, BBC Election
Blood, Iron and Gold and Coventry alum
15 October Christian Wolmar (Part of a day of graphic design talks
The best and worst of times – Best-selling author including Philip Oliver and Martin
who would be a journalist in the 18:00 / The Herbert Café Lambie-Nairn)
second decade of the 21st centuty? All day / GS404
(Inaugural lecture as visiting professor) 05 November
Jon Snow From the Headington Shark to radio
STILL TO BE SCHEDULED
Channel 4 News success
Rio Ferdinand
10.00 / Coventry Cathedral Bill Heine
Andy Harries
Presenter, BBC Radio Oxford
Andy Kershaw
15 October 13.00 / ETG34
Seroxat and investigating so much more
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