Pictured: Jon Snow
British television icon and Channel Four News presenter Jon Snow
returns to Coventry University today (December 1st) to deliver a
talk as part of the free-to-attend Coventry Conversations speaker
programme.
The veteran news anchor, whose long and distinguished career
with ITN began in 1976, will speak to audiences about the state of
journalism following the string of controversial phone hacking
scandals surrounding the multinational media conglomerate News
Corporation.
His talk, entitled Days of Hope: Life After the Storm, will take
place on Thursday at 9am in room ETG34 of the Ellen Terry Building
on Jordan Well, city centre.
Later the same day a Coventry Conversation with Professor Steve
Barnett of Westminster University will explore issues around the
under-fire Press Complaints Commission, whose lack of action during
the phone hacking scandals led to calls from the Prime Minister for
it to be replaced.
Professor Barnett's talk "The PCC is dead. Can Television offer
a solution?" will take place at 1pm in room ETG34 in the Ellen
Terry Building.
On Friday 2nd December Peter Baron, director of external
relations at Google, will talk about what the software giant has
been doing to take digital technology to a new level in the 21st
century.
His conversation will take place at 1pm in the Humber Lecture
Theatre on the University campus (George Eliot Building).
All talks in the series are free and open to everyone.
For more information about Coventry University, please visit
their website here: www.coventry.ac.uk