Pictured above: Jon Snow
Coventry University and The BBC College of Journalism are to
hold an international conference looking at the 2011 uprisings in
the Middle East and North Africa.
Journalists, editors and academics will debate the events and
try to assess 'what next' for the region?
Entitled 'Reporting the Arab spring' the conference takes place
on Wednesday 15 June at Coventry University's Ellen Terry Building,
Jordan Well, Coventry City Centre (1 - 4.30pm).
Chaired by Kevin Marsh, a former editor of BBC programmes
'Today' 'The World at One' and 'PM', contributors include C4's Jon
Snow and war reporter, Oliver Poole.
There will also be a representative from the BBC's Arabic
Service, Al Jazeera Television and a frontline foreign
correspondent from the BBC as well as academics from Coventry
University's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, The Reuters
Institute at Oxford University and Lincoln University.
The Vice Chancellor at Coventry University, Professor Madeleine
Atkins, will officially welcome and introduce the guest
speakers.
Organiser of the event, John Mair, from Coventry University,
said:
"We will be discussing a number of things about the unrest in
the Middle East from how it is reported to the revolution that is
twitter and facebook and of course, what the collected group of
professionals see as the way forward.
"We will also be joined by reporters who can talk at length
about the situation in Cairo, one who is an expert on the how the
unrest developed and one who is fresh from reporting on it."
The event is free and open to the public. There will also be a
live webcast of the event at www.bbc.co.uk/journalism
For more information about Coventry University, please visit
their website here: www.coventry.ac.uk