David Allen Green, solicitor and legal correspondent

7th November, 8pm
Lecture Room B, Queen's College

David Allen Green is a solicitor, blogger and legal correspondent for the New Statesmen. He will be discussing media law as it attempts to respond to the rapidly changing media followed by a Q&A.

David rose to prominence when leading the defence for the Twitter Joke Trial (supported by comedians Stephen Fry and Al Murray), in which Paul Chambers was tried for a 'threatening' tweet made in response to the closure of Robin Hood Airport.

Over the summer, David also produced a hugely influential source-based account of legal misconceptions over the extradition of Julian Assange for the New Statesman.

David's popular Jack of Kent blog saw him nominated for the Orwell blogging prize in 2010.

His legal credentials include being awarded the the Sir Thomas More and Hardwicke Scholarships by Lincoln's Inn, being a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, Herbert Smith, and the Treasury Solicitor, and he is now (and since 2009) head of the media practice at Preiskel & Co.

Free to Oxford Media Society members (£10 for a year)

£2 to non-members

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Luke Harding, foreign correspondent

Luke Harding, 31st October, 8pm

Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College

Free to Oxford Media Society members (£10 for a year)

£2 to non-members

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Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

He has published a book, Mafia State, about his time reporting in Russia, the espionage which he found himself subject to and his ultimate expulsion from the country, which made him the first foreign journalist to be expelled since the Cold War.

Besides his wealth of foreign correspondency, Luke was a fundamental part of the Guardian'

s small team which broke the US diplomatic cables leak, sifting through the contents of the cables and meeting with Julian Assange. He has recently published WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy.

Luke will be available after the talk for a Q&A and a signing of Mafia State which will be available on the night for £5.

Ben Cooper, Controller of Radio 1

Ben Cooper, 29th October, 7.30pm
Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College

Free to members (£10 for a year)
£2 to non-members

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Ben Coooper is the current controller of BBC Radio 1. Over the summer, he announced that he was replacing long time Breakfast Show host Chris Moyles with Nick Grimshaw, truly making his mark on Radio 1 history.

Ben began his career on BBC Radio London before presenting and producing programmes for BBC Hereford and Worcester. He joined Radio 1 in 2006 and was appointed as Deputy Controller in 2009 and oversaw a major restructuring of programming.

This talk is a must for anyone interested in journalism or broadcast as well as all Radio 1 listeners.

Toby Young, columnist and author

Toby Young, 25th October 6pm
Queen's College, High Street

Free to members (£10 for a year)
£2 to non-members

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Toby Young is an Orwell Prize-nominated columnist, blogger and author who currently writes for the Sun on Sunday. He was written for many publications including Vanity Fair, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. He is the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People which was made into a film in 2008 starring Simon Pegg and Megan Fox. Toby is the lead proposer and co-founder of the West London Free School, which was the first free school in Britain to secure funding.

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John Bird MBE 17th October 7.30pm

John Bird, 17th October 7.30pm
Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College

John Bird is a British social entrepreneur and cofounder of The Big Issue in 1995, a magazine edited by professional journalists and sold by street vendors affected by homelessness.

He will be speaking about his new exciting project 'Answers From Big Issue'.

All welcome to the talk! 

£3 entry (all entrance fees are going to the Big Issue)

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