Last Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting a Q&A with our sponsors at Times Radio. Tim Levell, who is currently serving as its programme director, and John Witherow, who served as Editor-in-Chief of The Times until last year. The talk gave Oxford Media Society members and Oxford students an…
This week, our amazing Treasurer Rachel writes about the media and its reporting on the royal family (very relevant!).
Last Friday, the Reuters Institute joined us in Wadham College’s Okinaga Theatre for a panel on journalism. Each of our guests brought a unique perspective on today’s media landscape, especially regarding disinformation policy: we heard from Dr Richard Fletcher, Reuters’ Director of Research, Jessica Cecil of the BBC’s Trusted News…
In our Week 3 Newsletter, we're celebrating International Press Day (May 3). Our marketing team member Demi writes about the state of journalism in the UK and Ireland, and what we can learn about freedom of the press from both examples.
This week political journalist Isabel Oakeshott joined us for a Q&A on her early career, ghostwriting and journalistic breakthroughs. Starting off the conversation, Oakeshott talked about her early career, describing her lack of formal training, and citing the best way to learn was from the bottom up at student newspapers,…
For this week's second newsletter, our events team member Lucas Haskins writes about right-wing media in the US and its effects on democratic society. The newsletter will be released later today — sign up through the link in our bio to read Lucas' essay and more!
For our first event of Trinity Term, we hosted the iconic Eve Bennett at Oriel College for a discussion about her career and her advice on breaking into the media industry. Throughout her conversation with our president Freya, Eve shared valuable insights into her career’s past, present, and future —…
For this week's first newsletter, our marketing lead Dowon looks back on the Reuters Institute's predictions for 2023, and the state of online media so far this year. Please join us later on Friday this week for the Reuters Institute's panel on journalism!
In the first year of his administration, Xi Jinping introduced the phrase ‘telling China’s story well’. The ‘China story’ is a bundle of several narratives – the capability of the CCP, the beauty of China’s traditional culture, the attitude of ‘win-win cooperation’, and the struggle of the ‘Chinese dream’ –…
