Patisserie Valerie

Is there a combination that goes better together than Cake and Cosmo? Hardly. That is why, we would like to thank our sponsor, Patisserie Valerie Oxford for providing us with plenty of cakes for our event on 10th of June!

We will be able to listen to Louise Court, the Editor of Cosmopolitan and indulge in the heaven-sent produce of the bakery.

You can visit Patisserie Valerie Oxford any day between 8am and 7pm. The bakery is located on 90 High Street, so is a perfect stop on your way from Exam schools for your sugar rush after a lecture (or an exam, finalists…)

Patisserie not only sells special occasion cakes, it also caters for delightful and healthy breakfast, coffee and lunch.

If in need of a chocolate binge after heart-break, its ice cream sundaes and pastries are particularly worth checking out.

For more information see: www.patisserie-valerie.co.uk

Vogue boss SUNDAY 8.15PM

As its Managing Director, Nicholas Coleridge has overseen a huge expansion in the activities of Conde Nast - the publishers of Vogue, GQ, Glamour and Tatler - over the past 19 years. With the recent launches of Wired and Love, even in a punishing economic climate, there are no signs that he is about to give up anytime soon.

On Sunday night he will be sharing his insight into the industry (and, we hope, some anecdotes from two decades at the top of the cut-throat international publishing business) in a talk entitled 'how to survive in the world of glossy magazines'.

A great survivor himself, Coleridge is also Vice-President of Conde Nast International (so one of the people Anna Wintour answers to, if that's possible to imagine) and takes a special interest in the company's Indian arm - and all aspects of Indian culture.

He has appointed some of the UK's top editors, from Alexandra Shulman at Vogue to Dylan Jones at GQ - and Geordie Greig, who recently left Tatler to become Editor of the Evening Standard and Editorial Director of The Independent.

So we think it's safe to say that Coleridge is not unqualified to talk about magazines.

Come and hear what he has to say at 8.15pm on Sunday (this Sunday - 5th week) in the Massey Room, Balliol College. £2 admission to cover our costs.

NICHOLAS COLERIDGE'S TALK IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY WPP.

Geddes Prize

Belated congratulations to Henry Clarke Price, former Cherwell editor-in-chief, who scooped this year's Philip Geddes Prize for an outstanding Oxford student journalist.

David Priestland, a Teddy hall history don and one of the prize's judges, said: "All of the judges were very impressed with the range and quality of his journalism." Clarke Price is planning to spend the prize money - £1,000 - on a project on youth education for citizenship in Australia. John McManus won the Clive Taylor sports prize.

The prize runs annually to celebrate the memory of former Oxford journalist Philip Geddes, who was killed by an IRA bomb when he was just 24.

Applications usually open in Hilary - look at www.geddesprize.org for details nearer the time.

WPP

If you're not into journalism, but would quite like to work in the media, you might well be interested in the opportunities WPP has to offer.

WPP is the world's biggest 'communications services group'. So what does that actually mean? Well, it owns a wide variety of subsidiary companies that specialise in these aspects of media:

Advertising - JWT, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

PR - Hill & Knowlton, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Cohn & Wolfe

Media investment (that means planning, negotiating and buying advertising) - Mindshare, MediaCom, GroupM

Research insight (finding out whether something will sell for a client) - Added Value, Millward Brown, Research International

Each company has its own separate identity, but WPP acts as an umbrella company, relieving all of the subsidiaries of the boring, administrative work, leaving them free to be all creative. As a result of the multiplicity of companies it owns, WPP can also offer a comprehensive service to its clients, while offering one single, central point of contact. For example, WPP manages Unilever's worldwide communications activities.

The company was set up by Sir Martin Sorrell in 1985, when he privately invested in the Wire Plastic Products company. He joined it full-time as Chief Executive a year later, coming from a 7-year stint at Saatchi & Saatchi. Since then, Sorrell has acquired many "below-the-line" advertising-related companies for WPP. Today, the company has revenues of £7.5 billion and owns more than 150 companies.

If you're considering a career with WPP, the company's flagship scheme is the incredibly competitive Marketing Fellowship for graduates. This 3-year programme entails working in three of WPP's subsidiary companies in three different countries.

The 2011 application process hasn't started yet, but if you want to have a look at last year's scheme see here: http://www.wpp.com/wpp/careers/marketing/graduates

WPP KINDLY SPONSORS OXFORD MEDIA SOCIETY'S NICHOLAS COLERIDGE EVENT