Based around the ideas in Ros Atkins' book The Art of Explanation (Wildfire, 2023), this session will explore how, sometimes, we pay more attention to communicating with our audience than we do with...
Events - in conversation
Shailesh Prakash, Google's VP of News and former Chief Information Officer of The Washington Post, joins forces with award-winning journalist and author Barbara Serra in an exclusive Fireside Chat. Di...
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption and wrongdoing in Malta before she was assassinated by those she sought to bring to justice. Her death resulted in major criminal trials and a book...
A two-way interview between news and tech industry veterans: Jesper Doub, ex-Director of International News Partnerships at FB/Meta, and Madhav Chinnappa, ex-Director of News Ecosystem Development at ...
Speaking English is still a privilege in journalism, but social video is helping normalise other voices
Last year, a young Spanish journalist attended Barbara Serra’s presentation in Perugia on the privilege of speaking English as a mother tongue in “international news” - or English-language news....
The scientific world is not exempt from abuses of power and racist thoughts and practices. On the contrary, as evidenced by the approval of racial laws in the 1930s or the persistence of eugenic movem...
In conversation with journalism’s Nobel Laureate: Maria Ressa on democracy, disinformation and demagoguery
When Maria Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside Russian journalist Dimitry Muratov, it was the first time the practice of journalism had been honoured by the Nobel Committee since 1...