Workshop on Journalism and Communication in the Digital Age

Alex is the author of the 2022 Routledge textbook "The Media Business and Artificial Intelligence". He specialises in the media business and has held senior roles in academia, the entertainment industry and leading UK charities. Academically, Alex is a Senior Fellow in Management Practice, and also teaches Marketing and General Management courses at undergraduate level, Marketing and Business of Arts, Culture and Entertainment courses at MBA level, and Marketing at EMBA level.

He is a lecturer at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He also heads the Creative Business department at the National Film and Television School in the UK. Commercially, Alex has created and developed several media companies and has been shortlisted six times for Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a voting member of BAFTA.

Between 1998 and 2011 he co-founded, and ran as CEO, the Ten Alps media group with Bob Geldof, which produced hundreds of factual programmes for UK and global broadcasting, as well as a major output of digital and branded content, including the UK Government's flagship digital project, Teachers TV. The group also ran over 500 business publications and two advertising agencies. Between 2012 and 2017, Alex was CEO of TV and digital production company Endemol Shine North (now Workerbee), producing content for major UK broadcasters and commercials for TV and major social platforms. He has also worked directly for the BBC, ITV and PEOPLE magazine in New York.

His roles in the charity sector currently include Vice President of UNICEF UK and a senior position at The Halle Orchestra. Alex has degrees from Oxford, Columbia, INSEAD and a PhD in video optimisation for e-commerce.

John is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder and editorial director of Sifted, the FT-backed website for European start-ups, and the founder of FT Forums, which organises monthly meetings for senior executives.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also served as Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

Lucia is an award-winning writer and journalist. She currently works as a UK court reporter for Law360, a US news agency covering courts and crime around the world. She is also a qualified lawyer. You can find her Wikipedia page here. Her news reporting and literary work have appeared in Granta, GQ, The Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, The Guardian, ABC News, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others.

Lucia’s latest book is the culmination of five years’ work as a court reporter. *The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell* is an in-depth look at one of the most complex and high-profile US criminal cases in living memory. Lucia was one of only four court reporters permitted into the courtroom every day of the Maxwell trial.

Peter is an Irish writer, broadcaster and journalist. His journalistic work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and many other publications. He was openDemocracy’s UK investigations editor from 2018 to 2021 and was nominated for a British Journalism Award in 2019 and 2020, and for the Paul Foot Award in 2019 and 2021 (twice). He served as editor-in-chief and CEO at openDemocracy from 2021 to 2023. In December 2022, openDemocracy won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for its ground-breaking work on transparency in British public life. He co-founded the Scottish investigative website, the Ferret. Peter’s most recent book, the Sunday Times bestseller *Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics*, was published in August 2020 by Head of Zeus. His previous book, *The People’s Referendum: Why Scotland Will Never Be the Same Again*, was nominated for the Saltire First Book Award. He has produced documentaries for BBC Radio Four, worked on investigative TV programmes for Channel 4 and regularly appears on British and international broadcasters. He lives in London.

Daniel is the co-founder and director of Lighthouse Reports, an award-winning investigative newsroom that produces in-depth public interest stories in collaboration with some of the world’s leading media organisations. He is an experienced long-form writer, reporter and investigations editor. Lighthouse’s interdisciplinary team brings together specialists in fields ranging from data science and money trails to open-source research and visual forensics, with their work reaching the public via the platforms they trust.

Daniel leads a team of 30 people spread across four continents, which has included staff who have been displaced from Syria, Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan. Lighthouse was awarded the IJ4EU Impact Award two years running. Since 2016, Howden has focused on migration reporting, and he was a fellow at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, as well as a senior editor at Refugees Deeply. Previously, he spent much of his career as a correspondent for international media organisations including The Guardian, The Economist and The Independent.

Eduardo is Chief Editor of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. He is a senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States. He began his career at the Spanish daily El Mundo, where he worked for 14 years as an opinion columnist and foreign correspondent from London, New York and Brussels. He covered the 2016 US presidential campaign for Univision and has published three books on US politics.

In 2014, he won the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award for a feature-length report on the lasting impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He is also co-founder of two news start-ups: El Español and Politibot, has worked on digital strategy for the March Foundation, and has written on journalism and politics for El País, the Washington Post, Letras Libres and Nieman Reports.

In 2019 he spent six months as a journalist fellow at the Institute, where he conducted research on the rise of reader revenue models in European newspapers.