FPA MEDIA AWARDS
25TH NOVEMBER 2024
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25TH NOVEMBER 2024
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Zeinab Badawi was born in Sudan. She has a BA Hons degree from Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow, and an MA from SOAS, London University.
In addition to a long broadcast career that includes programmes such as Hardtalk and a 20 part BBC tv series on the history of Africa , Zeinab is President of SOAS, she sits on several boards such as the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, MINDS - the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the International Crisis Group The Royal Opera House and the Arts Humanities and Research Council Zeinab has received many awards, honorary doctorates, and the British Academy’s President Medal. She has four children.
Joseph Harker is Senior Editor, Diversity, and Development at The Guardian. He has also been co-lead of the Guardian's Legacies of Enslavement project – which examined the links between the Guardian's founder and transatlantic slavery, issued an apology, and drew up a £10m+ restorative justice action plan.
Joseph also sits on the board of the Society of Editors.
Joseph is a former Guardian Deputy Opinion Editor. And for over 20 years he has run the Guardian's Positive Action Scheme, which offers enhanced work experience to aspiring journalists who are ethnic-minority or have a disability: many have gone on to have successful media careers.
Before joining the Guardian, Joseph was Editor and Publisher of the weekly newspaper Black Briton, and prior to that he was Assistant Editor at The Voice newspaper.
He tweets at @josephharker
Matt Walsh is the head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. He moved into academia after more than 20 years as a working journalist in broadcast and digital media. In 1999, He joined ITN as a radio reporter from the BBC and rose to become Deputy Editor of the ITV News Channel, where he worked on stories such as 9/11 and the Iraq War. In 2006, he moved to The Times to set up its multimedia journalism department. Matt has also worked internationally with the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Al Jazeera. He continues to work closely at the nexus of academia and industry as a trustee of journalism training charities and on the Standards Code committee for IMPRESS.
Dr. Glenda Cooper is the deputy head of the journalism department and BA programme director at City University of London. She is the author of Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (Peter Lang, 2015). Prior to City she worked as a staff editor and reporter at The Independent, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and as a correspondent for the BBC News Channel and Radio 4. She was the Laurence Stern Fellow at the Washington Post where she covered 9/11 and was the Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
Paul Davies recently retired after a career of more than 50 years in print, radio and television journalism. He served an apprenticeship with newspapers in the Southport Visitor group in the North West of England and helped launch the commercial radio station Radio City in Liverpool in 1974 but is best known for the 39 years as a senior correspondent with ITN.
His time working for ITN's foreign desk coincided with upheaval in the world and much of it was spent reporting from conflicts particularly in the aftermath of the collapse of the old Soviet empire. His frontline assignments included reporting from the inside of sieges in places like Kabul, Sarajevo , Bucharest and Dubrovnik and were recognised with multiple honours of his own. In 1993 he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to broadcast journalism.
Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. During his time as Editor in Chief of the Guardian, from 1995 to 2015, he oversaw the digital transformation of the paper to a world-leading digital news organisation. Investigations into WikiLeaks, tax avoidance, phone hacking and the Snowden revelations won numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service. He is the co-author of the BBC drama, Fields of Gold and wrote the books: Breaking News and News and How to Use it.
Together with Lionel Barber, he co-hosts the podcast Media Confidential on Prospect.
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