Life story, anecdotes and Q+A this Sunday 30th October 8pm Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College.
Will Gompertz is renowned for his quirky style of reporting not usually found on BBC News. His new job reflected the "deeper commitment to arts and music on the BBC throughout 2010", the corporation said. The post is being seen as on a par with Robert Peston's business editor role and Nick Robinson's as politics editor.
As director of Tate Media, which was launched three years ago, Gompertz was responsible for expanding the art gallery's work and appeal, including online and TV projects, major public events and magazine publishing.
Previously the Tate's director of communications, Gompertz has written for the Guardian and the Times and is currently editor-in-chief of the arts website culturecritic.co.uk.
He dropped out of school at 16 and apparently thinks he's "talentless". He has worked in the arts since he was 18, when he worked as a stagehand at Sadlers Wells theatre in London. He was a founding director of publisher Purple House and a founding director of Shots, a publishing company specialising in the moving image.
As ever our events are free to members (£10 a year, sign up on the night) or £2 for non-members.
This will be the perfect Sunday evening so make sure you give work a break for just an hour or so!
Friday 28 October 2011
Friday 21 October 2011
Media Society "Double Dosage"
Make sure you get along to the smashing 3rd Week for the Media Society!
Tuesday
Andrew Mullins, Managing Director, The Independent, London Evening Standard and i newspapers.
Dolphin Room, St John's College
Thursday
John McAndrew, Associate Editor, Sky News
Miles Room, St Peter's College
There is no excuse not to come!
Tuesday
Andrew Mullins, Managing Director, The Independent, London Evening Standard and i newspapers.
Dolphin Room, St John's College
Thursday
John McAndrew, Associate Editor, Sky News
Miles Room, St Peter's College
There is no excuse not to come!
Sky News Associate Editor, John McAndrew
John McAndrew is Associate Editor of Sky News, responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of Sky News’ journalism across all platforms – TV, mobile, online and radio.
John joined Sky News as Executive Producer in 2005, after eleven years at the BBC. He has exec-produced many of their flagship strands including Sky News at Five with Jeremy Thompson for five years. John has also edited many major live political events for Sky and in May 2010, was in charge of the first ever live Sky News Leaders’ Debate ahead of the General Election. John was also editor of the channel’s Election night coverage - where on the same night, Sky News launched the UK’s first 24-hour news channel in high definition (HD). In 2010 he was also seconded to the role of Head of International News leading Sky News' highly-acclaimed foreign news team.
John began his career as a political researcher for the BBC in 1994. He was part of the team that launched BBC News Online which was awarded a BAFTA in its first year. He was also senior producer of the BBC Six o’clock News and deputy editor of the 2001 General Election. His final role at the BBC was as Editor of the Daily Politics Show on BBC2 which he launched in 2003.
John is married to ITV News Special Correspondent Daisy McAndrew, they have two children.
As ever, our events are free to members (£10 a year) and non-members are very welcome at £2 a time. Please email us at oxfordmediasoc@gmail.com if you would like to come to dinner with our speaker.
See you on Thursday!
John joined Sky News as Executive Producer in 2005, after eleven years at the BBC. He has exec-produced many of their flagship strands including Sky News at Five with Jeremy Thompson for five years. John has also edited many major live political events for Sky and in May 2010, was in charge of the first ever live Sky News Leaders’ Debate ahead of the General Election. John was also editor of the channel’s Election night coverage - where on the same night, Sky News launched the UK’s first 24-hour news channel in high definition (HD). In 2010 he was also seconded to the role of Head of International News leading Sky News' highly-acclaimed foreign news team.
John began his career as a political researcher for the BBC in 1994. He was part of the team that launched BBC News Online which was awarded a BAFTA in its first year. He was also senior producer of the BBC Six o’clock News and deputy editor of the 2001 General Election. His final role at the BBC was as Editor of the Daily Politics Show on BBC2 which he launched in 2003.
John is married to ITV News Special Correspondent Daisy McAndrew, they have two children.
As ever, our events are free to members (£10 a year) and non-members are very welcome at £2 a time. Please email us at oxfordmediasoc@gmail.com if you would like to come to dinner with our speaker.
See you on Thursday!
MD of London Evening Standard and The Independent, Andrew Mullins
What is the future for the newspaper industry? How much influence do newspaper proprietors have?
Andrew Mullins, the Managing Director of the London Evening Standard and The Independent, will be sharing his opinions with Oxford Media Society on Tuesday!
Mullins was MD of Evening Standard before The Independent (and Indy on Sunday) was sold to Alexander Lebedev for £1. He now manages all papers in the group. He used to work for Rupert Murdoch's News International.
The Independent recently changed it's masthead and look to stand out more on the newsstands. They launched the i newspaper just last year. The Evening Standard has become a free paper. All fasincating stuff for media lovers.
Mullins's CV:
- Managing Director London Evening Standard and The Independent Group Ltd
- Marketing Director and General Manager at News International
- Managing Director UDV Amsterdam, Global Brand Director Gin Portfolio, Global Innovations Director UD at Diageo
As ever, our events are free to members (£10 a year) and non-members are very welcome at £2 a time. Members please email us at oxfordmediasoc@gmail.com if you would like to come to dinner with our speaker.
See you on Tuesday!
Andrew Mullins, the Managing Director of the London Evening Standard and The Independent, will be sharing his opinions with Oxford Media Society on Tuesday!
Mullins was MD of Evening Standard before The Independent (and Indy on Sunday) was sold to Alexander Lebedev for £1. He now manages all papers in the group. He used to work for Rupert Murdoch's News International.
The Independent recently changed it's masthead and look to stand out more on the newsstands. They launched the i newspaper just last year. The Evening Standard has become a free paper. All fasincating stuff for media lovers.
Mullins's CV:
- Managing Director London Evening Standard and The Independent Group Ltd
- Marketing Director and General Manager at News International
- Managing Director UDV Amsterdam, Global Brand Director Gin Portfolio, Global Innovations Director UD at Diageo
As ever, our events are free to members (£10 a year) and non-members are very welcome at £2 a time. Members please email us at oxfordmediasoc@gmail.com if you would like to come to dinner with our speaker.
See you on Tuesday!
Sunday 16 October 2011
Roger Mosey - BBC Director of London 2012
It's the biggest broadcasting operation of 2012 and in the BBC's history and Roger Mosey is in charge of it.
He'll be talking about the challenge of heading up the BBC's Olympics coverage and also his previous roles. As Head of Sport he famously axed the flagship 'Grandstand' programme and negotiated sports rights deals including bringing Formula1 back to the BBC.
Mosey will be doing a presentation followed by a Q+A so come armed with questions!
Roger's CV:
- Director of BBC London 2012
- BBC Head of Sport
- BBC Head of News
- Editor, the Today programme and PM, Radio 4
- Controller, BBC Radio 5live
His widely read blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/
Our events are free for members (£10 a year) and also open to non-members at £2. You can become a member on the night. We've a total of 9 events for Michaelmas term.
To have dinner with any of our speakers please email us at oxfordmediasoc@gmail.com and we'll get back to you. It's first come first served.
See you on Thursday!
He'll be talking about the challenge of heading up the BBC's Olympics coverage and also his previous roles. As Head of Sport he famously axed the flagship 'Grandstand' programme and negotiated sports rights deals including bringing Formula1 back to the BBC.
Mosey will be doing a presentation followed by a Q+A so come armed with questions!
Roger's CV:
- Director of BBC London 2012
- BBC Head of Sport
- BBC Head of News
- Editor, the Today programme and PM, Radio 4
- Controller, BBC Radio 5live
His widely read blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/
Our events are free for members (£10 a year) and also open to non-members at £2. You can become a member on the night. We've a total of 9 events for Michaelmas term.
To have dinner with any of our speakers please email us at oxfordmediasoc@gmail.com and we'll get back to you. It's first come first served.
See you on Thursday!
Thursday 6 October 2011
Mailing List
With Freshers' Fair underway, thanks to those of you who've given us your email address. We'll be in contact with further details of our upcoming events (first one is the BBC's Roger Mosey on 20th October) soon. For those of you not able to sign up at the Fair, to get on our mailing list just drop us a brief email at oxfordmediasoc@googlemail.com
Hope to see you at one of our events very soon.
Thanks!
Hope to see you at one of our events very soon.
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