EVENTS: Television news, young people and politics: Generation disconnected? (UK)

Television news, young people and politics: Generation disconnected?

BFI SOUTHBANK

December 7-9 2007

Day 1 (Friday 7^th) : Television News and Young People

NFT 3

10.00-11.00

Introduction: TV News: Is it Criminalising Young People ?

Mike Wayne Lesley Henderson Craig Murray (Brunel University)

NFT 3

11.30-1.00:

Roundtable: Broadcasters and Young People

Mike Wayne (Chair)

Jon Snow (C4 News)

Deborah Turness (ITV/ITN News)

Tim Levell (BBC)

Lunch.

NFT 3

2.00-3.30

Roundtable: Changing the Agenda?

Alison Preston (OFCOM/Chair)

Adam Gee (C4)

Melanie Essex (BBC);

Chris Shaw (C5).

Cary Bazalgette (Media Researcher);

NFT 3

3.45-5.15

Young People as News Producers:

Mark Reid (BFI/Chair)

Steve Goodman (Educational Video Centre, New York)

Helen Philpot (Propeller TV)

Denise Rose (Mouth That Roars)

Day 2 (Saturday 8^th) : Television and Politics

NFT 3

10.00-11.30

TV News and the Representation of Politics:

Mike Wayne (Brunel University)

Margaret (Scammell (LSE)

Greg Philo (University of Glasgow)

NFT 3

12-1: Broadcaster Respondent: Nick Robinson (BBC Chief Political Correspondent)

Audience Q&A.

Lunch

NFT 3

2.00-3.30

News, New Media and the Internet

Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths)

James Dubern (Current TV)

Michelle Golding (Filmmaker)

Delegate Centre

4.00-5.30

Broadcasting and Society

Steve Barnett (University of Westminster)

Carole Tongue (Former MEP)

David Miller (University of Strathclyde)

Day 3 (Sunday 9^th): Citizenship

NFT3

10.00 -12.00

Public Service Broadcasting and the Regulators

David Buckingham (Institute of Education)

Sylvia Harvey (University of Lincoln)).

Julian Petley (Brunel University)

Lunch

NFT 3

1.00-2.00: Report from the Charter working group. *

2.30-3.30: Screening two news items on the conference made by young people **, plus final summing up.

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* During the conference a working group made up of young people and broadcasters will discuss some of the initial principles for drawing up a Charter of Television News and Information Rights for Young People.

**During the conference two news teams made up of young people will produce short videos about the conference to be screened on day three. One team will produce a video in the style of a mainstream news broadcast, another will be encouraged to produce a more independent/alternative take on the conference and the issues it raises.

NB: Before 11am, entrance to the BFI Southbank is either through the film café facing the river or through the old NFT entrance by the box office.

MORE INFO: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artsub/filmtv/tvnewsyoungpeople