Can You Trust The Media?

Wednesday 30 April 2008
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM

Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ

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The media dominates our lives yet our relationship with it is in crisis. Is there anything left in the media which we can believe?

That’s the question asked by Adrian Monck in his new book, Can You Trust the Media? (Icon Books).

Following years setting the news agenda, Adrian asks how journalism and the public will cope with life after trust. Can journalism fix itself, or do we need a new answer when it comes to informing the public?

Adrian is head of City’s Journalism school, and an award-winning journalist whose career spans war reporting and the launch of Channel Five News. He is a leading media blogger (adrianmonck.blogspot.com) and commentator, and co-author of Crunch Time: How Everyday Life Is Killing The Future.

To celebrate the book’s launch, City University London is holding a panel discussion concentrating on the issues it raises. The panel members are:

Evan Davis, Presenter, Today Programme (BBC Radio 4) and Dragons Den (BBC 2) and BBC Economics Editor - Chair
Adrian Monck, Professor of Journalism, City University London; formerly CBS News, ITN and Sky News.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, media commentator
Andrew Gilligan, Evening Standard, media commentator
Charlie Beckett, Director, Polis, LSE; formerly BBC, and ITN

Event Timing:
6pm - Registration & Reception
6.30pm - Start of Panel Discussion
7.45pm - End Of Discussion - Drinks & Networking
8.30pm - Close

For more information, please contact Louise Scodie in the City University London press office on 020 7040 8783 or at louise.scodie.1@city.ac.uk

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