Media Agenda Talks 2016
Each Autumn Polis invites media practitioners to discuss the latest trends as part of our Media Agenda Talk series taking place 5pm-6pm every Tuesday in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE.
The talks are open to LSE students and the public, no registration required.
Tuesday 25th October
Michelle Russo, Executive Vice President, Gobal Communications, Discovery Channel
Russo oversees a comprehensive global communications function that spans the company’s international operations across Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and includes corporate communications, internal communications, public affairs, reputation management and crisis communications.Russo supports and promotes the division’s organic growth story — led by the expansion and performance of its global flagship networks including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, and Investigation Discovery (ID). In addition, she leads communications for global M&A activity and integrations, as the company moves to strengthen and deepen its presence in key markets and across multiple content genres with acquisitions such as Eurosport International, the premier sports entertainment provider across Europe and Asia.
Tuesday 8th November
Cultural Critiques- Cities- London
Maya Vaughan-Tiwary and Kieran Yates
Maya Vaughan – Tiwary is a writer, entrepreneur and PR and media strategist with over 20 years experience working in the non-profit sector. Her blog Maya’s London is inspired by her love of London and the humanity she encounters as she moves through it’s busy streets. Her business projects include an online fashion store (www.choochlondon.com) and a natural ice-lolly company (Bliss on a Bike) that retails from cargo bikes across north London. Maya is a mother of three girls and lives in Archway, London
Kieran Yates is a freelance writer on music and politics for NME, The Metro and Dazed and Confused. She is the co-author of ‘Generation Vexed’ and is the co-host of The Guardian Music Weekly podcast.
Tuesday 15th November
Robert Colvile, Journalist and Author
‘Racing to Destruction? How Acceleration is Transforming Journalism’
Robert Colvile is a British journalist and commentator and author of ‘The Great Acceleration’ about how technology is speeding up the pace of life and the impact that’s having. He was previously associate editor at the Daily Telegraph and most recently news director at BuzzFeed UK.
Tuesday 22nd November
Liz Mermin, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Liz Mermin is the Director of Visual at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she oversees a team making short creative documentaries telling under-reported humanitarian stories from around the world. These have included collaborations with The Guardian, TIME Magazine, and Participant Media, and all their work is available free of charge to news outlets globally. Mermin comes from the independent documentary world: she has directed seven documentary features exploring a wide variety of contemporary topics, including a beauty academy in Kabul, the ties binding gangsters, police, and the film industry in Mumbai, Eurovision and human rights in Azerbaijan, and the inner lives of Irish racehorses. Her films have been released in cinemas in the US and UK, broadcast internationally, and shown at film festivals around the world. Five were BBC Storyville commissions. She has also directed shorts, including a 20-part web-series inside CERN, and made many hours of documentary television for broadcasters in the US and Europe.
Tuesday 29th November
Emma Dabiri, Curator and Commentator
Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the Africa Department at SOAS and is currently completing her PhD in Visual Sociology in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths university. Her work explores the category ‘mixed-race’ and its relationship to the concept of ‘identity’. Emma’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing on and contributing to; African Studies, sociology, history, film, literature, theatre, and music, with a heavy dose of popular culture. Emma has utilized her own background – which encompasses diverse class and racial intersections- to develop a voice that resonates with a large cross-section of people. Emma is also currently working as a research assistant on a two year AHRC funded fellowship investigating Contemporary ‘Africa Rising’ narratives. Emma is a BBC One show presenter and has ust finished presenting BBC 2 Back in Time Brixton which will air in November 2016. Emma also presents a podcast with NTS exploring alternatives to protest & the role of spirituality in visionary politics in historical perspectives.
Tuesday 6th December
Leslie Knott, Filmmaker
Leslie Knott is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has focused most of her career on documenting the lives of refugees. Her first film, Out of the Ashes, followed the extraordinary three-year journey of Afghanistan’s cricket team from the refugee camps of Pakistan to the Cricket World Cup. In 2013, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Buzkashi Boys, a short feature shot on location in Afghanistan. In 2014, she received an Emmy nomination for “Kim Vs. Kabul” in Dan Rather Reports. Knott has spent more than a decade working in Afghanistan, with many of her films focused on the lives of women, including Giving Birth: A Risky Proposition, Spirit Indestructible, Behind the Veil, 10×10 and Half the Sky. In 2011, Knott joined forces with Clementine Malpas to set up Tiger Nest Films. Their films are broadcast internationally, as well as for charities and UN agencies.
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