principal Lady Margaret Hall Univ. of Oxford
Alan Rusbridger is the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. He also chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and sits on the board of the Royal National Theatre in London. He was previously editor-in-chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015.
In 2014 he received the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, the European Press Prize and the Ortega y Gasset Award in Madrid.
He is the author of Play It Again: Why Amateurs Should Attempt the Impossible (2012), of three children's books, of a BBC drama entitled Fields of Gold with Ronan Bennett, and of Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now (Canongate Books, 2018).
Events IJF 2019
#IJF19 / 4 april 2019
Breaking News: the remaking of journalism and why it matters now
Presentation of the book Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now (2018) by Alan Rusbridger. Moderated by Mathew Ingram. How do we know any more what is true and what isn'...
Criticize Facebook? Sure. Leave? Why?
James Ball
Jennifer Brandel
Jesper Doub
Facebook and Twitter are being blamed for almost every ill of society. Have the tech companies screwed up? Sure. But are journalists justified leaving social platforms and turning their backs on the c...
Is philanthropy the answer to save journalism?
Indira Lakshmanan
Craig Newmark
While the news industry struggles to find a sustainable revenue model, newsrooms including Reuters and some promising digital startups have announced mass layoffs in recent months. Meanwhile, nonprofi...
Radical change in the world calls for radical changes in journalism
Julia Angwin
Dan Gillmor
Around the world, most recently including liberal democracies, journalism and journalists are under attack. But that is a symptom of a much deeper trend: a move away from the basic freedoms that were ...
Saving the news: ethics and the fight for the future of journalism
Lina Ejeilat
Hannah Storm
Launch of the Ethical Journalism Network's annual magazine on international media ethics. Join the Ethical Journalism Network's CEO Hannah Storm and journalism colleagues for the launch of the EJ...
Events in past editions
#IJF18 / 14 april 2018
Ethics in the hotseat
Lucy Marcus
The increasingly complex subject of ethics cuts across every region and across all sectors – business, government, sport, music, tech – everything. This panel will look at how we cover ethical iss...
Investigating links between governments and organised crime: the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak
Peter Bardy
Carlo Bonini
Maria Gianniti
Corinne Vella
My family warned @EU_Commission that with my mother #DaphneCaruanaGalizia's assassination Malta had set a new standard of permissible behaviour within the EU and that others would soon die if decisive...
Moral panic over technology: is it all that bad?
Madhav Chinnappa
Tanit Koch
Jillian York
Media commentators are calling for technology companies to be nationalized, boycotted, and even shut down, claiming they are the ruination of society. Really? Are we worse off or better off with the n...
Connecting science and journalism though climate change and digital innovation
Viktorija Mickute
John Reilly
Elisabetta Tola
Rina Tsubaki
The last few years have been too centered on the issues of fake news and debunking, particularly in some field of science, to actually reflect other very urgent questions that, in the long run, are li...
War on journalism: the clash between media and power
Enrico Franceschini
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded to the The Washington Post and to The Guardian US for "its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, he...
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