Department of Journalism

Julian Linley is a multimedia creative consultant, formerly Editor-in-Chief of Digital Spy, Creative Director of Bauer Media, and Editor of heat magazine and heatworld.com.

Visiting Professor Barney Jones started a new award winning political programme in the 1990's - Breakfast with Frost - anchored by David Frost, then launched The Andrew Marr Show. Earlier in his career he worked a producer at Newsnight, and BBC Breakfast News, and ran Election coverage at the BBC.

Malvin Van Gelderen is an art director and trainer in InDesign and Photoshop. Formerly a designer of trade publications at Haymarket Press followed by 14 years as Art Director on leisure, specialist and woman's interest at IPC Media. He’s also been a designer of newspapers and colour supplement's at the Daily Mirror, The Sun, and Express newspapers.

Fred Burlage is a copy writer. He was a former Digital Editor of Business and Money at The Sunday Times, and ex Chief Sub-editor of Business and Money Sections of The Sunday Telegraph.

Tom Butler is a film journalist and online editor with extensive SEO, SMO, and content creation experience, including news, features, interviews, videos, and podcasts. He's currently Senior Editor at Yahoo Entertainment UK.

Kat Lister is a writer and editor based in London. Beginning her career as a music journalist at the NME, she has gone on to write widely for publications including Guardian, Observer Magazine, Vogue, VICE, The Big Issue, The I and The Independent. In 2017, she joined the editorial team at The Pool, becoming a features and news editor until its demise in 2019. Since her husband’s death in 2018, she has focused on investigating her experience of grief, writing widely circulated essays and features for The Sunday Times Magazine and Sunday Times Style. Her first book, The Elements: A Widowhood, was published in September 2021 with Icon Books.

Suyin Haynes is a London-based freelance journalist and media consultant, focusing on storytelling around identity, culture and underrepresented communities. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, openDemocracy, CNN, ELLE and more. She was previously Head of Editorial at gal-dem. Before this, she was a journalist with TIME for five years, first as an Audience Editor in Hong Kong, then as a Senior Reporter in London. She is also a published short story writer and the creator of Ginkgo Leaves, a Substack newsletter.

Emma John is a journalist, broadcaster, and author including over a decade on staff with The Guardian where she won multiple awards for her writing, editing, and podcast hosting. She has covered every major sporting tournament including numerous Olympics and World Cups, and is the current sports columnist of Prospect Magazine. She also writes on arts, culture and lifestyle across an array of national magazines and newspapers.

Emily Roe is a freelance producer/multimedia journalist with more than eight years of experience at Reuters, the world’s biggest multimedia provider. She has extensive field, production, planning and management experience on some of the biggest news stories of the past decade as well as multimedia stories ranging from breaking news to human-led features in the UK, Italy and beyond. She recently returned to London after spending three years working as Visuals Producer in the busy, high-pressure Rome bureau, responsible for Reuters’ video and photo coverage of Italy, the Vatican and Malta.

Jenna Corderoy is an investigative journalist for openDemocracy. She is one of the UK’s foremost journalistic experts in using access to information laws, and is an author of a handbook on subject access requests. She has also written for - amongst others - VICE News and Finance Uncovered. Her work has been long- and shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award, and the PressGazette British Journalism Awards.

Visiting Professor Barney Jones started a new award winning political programme in the 1990's - Breakfast with Frost - anchored by David Frost, then launched The Andrew Marr Show. Earlier in his career he worked a producer at Newsnight, and BBC Breakfast News, and ran Election coverage at the BBC.

Innes Bowen is an executive producer at BBC Studios, the UK's largest production company and a commercial subsidiary of the BBC. She oversees investigative podcast serials made by BBC Studios for platforms including Audible UK and BBC Sounds. Her past jobs include executive producing true crime podcasts for independent production companies, editing programmes for BBC radio such as 5 Live Investigates, Analysis, The Briefing Room and The Bottom Line, and being investigations editor at BBC TV’s Newsnight. Her first podcast serial project, The Catch: The Real Freshwater Five Story, won true crime podcast of the year at the British Podcast Awards 2022.

Hannah Cogan is a producer and journalist of current affairs and factual programming and has created programmes for Channel 4, BBC1, National Geographic and Netflix. She is highly experienced in investigative journalism, working with financial and economic data, including corporate and public sector accounts.

Dr Chris Birkett is the former executive editor of Sky News and managing editor of BBC News 24. At the heart of many of the biggest television news stories for more than two decades, he won an International Emmy Award as executive producer of Sky News coverage of the London terror attacks of 2005 and a Royal Television Society Award in for his role in negotiating the historic first UK prime ministerial election debates in 2010. The only broadcast journalist to have edited UK general election night programmes on both national radio (BBC 1997) and television (Sky 2005), Chris also produced election-night coverage of every US Presidential election from 1992-2012. He received his PhD, in US history, from King’s College London in 2022.

Annabel Deegan is a Senior Communications and Media Consultant specialising in writing, storytelling, coaching and providing strategic advice. Annabel worked in TV and digital journalism for 18 years, most recently as Executive Editor for the "Amanpour" programme on CNN International and PBS, hosted by Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour. Annabel began her career as a Broadcast Journalist at ITN, writing and reporting for various digital clients. She is a proud City University Journalism post-graduate alumna.

Tim Gatt is a multiplatform media consultant who has worked in senior roles in journalism, government digital communications and digital consultancy. He began his career as a Sky News trainee, working on all different news programmes, before leading the digital output at ITV News and then running the Sun’s website. He specialises in closer working and collaboration between TV, radio, press and digital, and innovating in storytelling on social channels. He is also a regular judge on digital categories at the RTS news awards.

Mark Sandell is a highly experienced audio producer and editor with more than 30 years in radio and podcasting across the BBC, commercial radio and independent production. He began his career in commercial radio before taking on senior editorial roles at the BBC World Service and BBC Radio, later moving into long-form podcast production. As Director of 6Foot6 Productions, he has overseen acclaimed series for BBC Sounds, Wondery and major charities.

Jonathan Paterson is Managing Editor of The News Movement, a start up news provider pressing the reset button on journalism. Previously Head of Video at BBC News, Jonathan’s 20+ year career include production roles at Newsnight, and international postings to New York and Washington

Tom Croasdell is a freelance newsreader, who can regularly be heard across the country on some of UK’s biggest radio brands including Heart, Capital, Radio X, Smooth, Times Radio, Talk Radio and Talk Sport. He also presents on the rolling news station, LBC News. Previously, Tom worked as a producer on the BBC News Channel and BBC Radio 5 Live and has also taught audio and TV on the Multimedia Journalism MA at Bournemouth University.

Professor Barney Jones started a new award winning political programme in the 1990's - Breakfast with Frost - anchored by David Frost, then launched The Andrew Marr Show. Earlier in his career he worked a producer at Newsnight, and BBC Breakfast News, and ran Election coverage at the BBC.

Matt Capon is a freelance video journalist, photographer and social media specialist. He has worked for the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, The Daily Star, The Independent, and the London Evening Standard and also worked Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5 as an assistant producer. He currently works as a freelance video producer for ITN Productions.

Fernando Pizarro has been a correspondent, editor, producer, and manager in the UK and US. His most recent experience is as a supervising editor at NPR. Previously he was senior editor at The New York Times Audio. He won multiple Emmy awards and nominations for his work as a Congress and White House correspondent in the U.S. He was a correspondent, anchor and producer for Univision, ESPN, CNN, and NBC. He has been a lecturer at City teaching broadcasting, podcasting, Reporting North America, and Reporting underserved communities since 2022. He has been an adjunct lecturer at American University in Washington D.C., The University of Houston, and the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago de Chile.

Jon Ironmonger is an investigations journalist for the BBC, specialising in crime, justice and public-interest reporting. He has worked across BBC regional and national outlets as a producer, reporter and filmmaker, having begun his career covering local news in the Midlands and East of England. Jon has produced a wide range of original investigations, including major stories on policing, prisons, welfare and institutional abuse, and his work has appeared across BBC News, BBC Online and international outlets.

Paul Waters is an award-winning BBC producer and the co-presenter of the We’d Like A Word books and authors podcast, which was shortlisted for 2020 Books Podcast of theYear. Paul grew up in Belfast during ‘the Troubles’, was involved in cross-community peace groups and went on to report and produce for BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service and Channel 5. His claim to fame is making Pelé his dinner; but Paul has also covered elections in the USA, created an alternative G8 Summit in a South African township, gone undercover in Zimbabwe, conducted football crowds, reported from Swiss drug shooting-up rooms, smuggled a satellite dish into Cuba to produce the first BBC live programmes from the island and produced the World Service’s first live coverage of the 9/11 attacks on America.

Jane Fuller is co-director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, an independent think-tank. A former financial editor and Lex writer at the Financial Times, she still trains its journalists. Jane is also director of the Wincott Foundation, which promotes high-quality economic, financial and business journalism.

Mike Dolan is Reuters Editor-at-Large for Finance and Markets and has worked as an editor, correspondent and columnist at Reuters for the past 26 years, specialising in global economics, policymaking and financial markets across the G7 and emerging economies.

Nerys Avery is a freelance journalist and editor. A specialist in covering China, she has been China economy reporter at Bloomberg and has held senior positions at AFX including Beijing bureau chief and editor of the international desk.

Pete Avery is multimedia art director and award-winning writer who has worked for The Guardian, Conde Nast and the BBC. His industry experience includes launching brands and creating content and he is a Fellow of the RSA.

Hannah Cogan is a producer and journalist of current affairs and factual programming and has created programmes for Channel 4, BBC1, National Geographic and Netflix. She is highly experienced in investigative journalism, working with financial and economic data, including corporate and public sector accounts.

Jenna Corderoy is an investigative journalist for openDemocracy. She is one of the UK’s foremost journalistic experts on using access to information laws and is an author of a handbook on subject access requests. Jenna has also written for VICE News and Finance Uncovered and her work has been long and shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award and the PressGazette British Journalism Awards.

Francesco Guerrera is global economics editor at Reuters Breakingviews. He has worked in London, Brussels, Asia and New York and held senior positions at the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal and has also run media businesses with multi-million-pound revenues.

Visiting Professor Barney Jones started a new award winning political programme in the 1990's - Breakfast with Frost - anchored by David Frost, then launched The Andrew Marr Show. Earlier in his career he worked a producer at Newsnight, and BBC Breakfast News, and ran Election coverage at the BBC.

Susie Boniface has worked almost everywhere in Fleet Street, and spent 10 years at the Sunday Mirror. In 2009 she began blogging anonymously as Fleet Street Fox and published a novel, The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox, after revealing her identity in the Times. Today she is a freelance columnist, TV and radio commentator.

Laurence Earle is the former Executive Editor of The Week and formerly, Executive Editor and an award-winning Magazine and Features Editor for The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers. He is currently Acting Editor of Military History Matters, and Executive Editor of The Past.

Dan Bourke is assistant night editor at The Mirror and has more than 20 years’ newsroom experience at the Mirror Group, The Observer and local papers. He is a highly experienced sub-editor who has worked across most aspects of online and print production, including training staff in subbing and content management systems.

Chris Tilbury is Head of Digital at Prospect, the UK's leading monthly current affairs magazine. He oversees the website and various digital products including newsletters and podcasts. In 2021 he was awarded "Best Digital Designer" at the BSME Talent Awards. Prior to this, he was Production Editor and Designer at Prospect, In addition to Prospect. Chris a design practice creating books, animations, typography and identities for clients.

Jane McClenahan trains journalists for the Thomson Reuters Foundation to cover under-reported topics including children’s issues. She works with charities and NGOs developing their media training. She worked at the BBC for more than 15 years as an editor, producer, reporter or presenter in national and international news and current affairs.

Jonathan Paterson is Managing Editor of The News Movement, a start up news provider pressing the reset button on journalism. Previously Head of Video at BBC News, Jonathan’s 20+ year career include production roles at Newsnight, and international postings to New York and Washington.

Jonathan Rugman has reported from over 50 countries and winning 15 awards, including a BAFTA while covering the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015. He began his career as the BBC’s Ankara correspondent. He then joined The Guardian and The Observer, reporting from the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus. He has made 15 current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and recently left Channel 4 News after 22 years, where he served successively as Business, Washington, Diplomatic and Foreign Affairs Correspondent.

Julie Hadwin began her career with the BBC as a broadcast journalist - working in news and current affairs as a TV producer/director and programme editor. She also helped to establish and run an independent production company making series and documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC, before returning to the BBC as Head of Journalism Training.

Lucy Walker is a journalist and senior editorial executive with more than 20 years' experience at the BBC, leading fast-paced newsrooms and programme teams to deliver award-winning output serving UK and global audiences on radio, television, digital and social platforms. With a particular focus on international news and current affairs, Lucy is an experienced journalism trainer teaching radio, podcast production, and storytelling for digital and social platforms.

Tom Parry has been a renowned print journalist for more than 20 years, and has won a clutch of prestigious international awards. His dispatches from the 2017 famine in Somalia, the Rohingya refugee crisis, the Japan tsunami, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak - as well his writing on social affairs in the UK - brought particular acclaim during his time as Special Correspondent at the Daily Mirror. Tom has also written two books.

Zing Tsjeng is a journalist, author and presenter who hosts the Good Bad Billionaire podcast for BBC World Service. She is a columnist at iNews and writes for publications including British Vogue, the Guardian and GQ. She was previously the editor in chief at VICE.

Sophie Murray-Morris is a freelance audience and product consultant. She was Head of Audience and Product at the Metro.co.uk. Previously she was the Engagement Editor of inews.co.uk, and worked in Audience Development for The Sun.

Nicu Calcea is the Data Projects Editor at GlobalData Media and the New Statesman Media Group. He previously created data-led content for the property website Zoopla.

Michael Goodier is a data journalist at the New Statesman Media Group. He previously worked for the Reach Data Unit, a team providing data-driven stories for The Mirror and regional newspapers.

Tom Calver is the Data Projects Editor at The Times and The Sunday Times. He was previously a Data Journalist at the BBC and a Data Journalist at Which? consumer magazine. He was names one of Forbes’ 30 under 30.

Ashley Kirk is a Visual Projects Editor at The Guardian. He’s interested in data-driven storytelling, statistical analysis and multi-platform reporting. In 2021, he was included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for Media and Marketing. Previously published in the Telegraph, the Independent and City AM.

Visiting Professor Barney Jones started a new award winning political programme in the 1990's - Breakfast with Frost - anchored by David Frost, then launched The Andrew Marr Show. Earlier in his career he worked a producer at Newsnight, and BBC Breakfast News, and ran Election coverage at the BBC.

Mark Sandell is an award-winning podcaster and radio producer who has worked across an enormous list of broadcast outlets including major BBC and commercial networks. He is the director of an independent production company that has developed podcasts on such varied subjects as Louis Armstrong, true crime and breast cancer.

Al Booth is a hugely experienced audio and event producer as a freelancer and with the BBC where she ran the Radio 2 specialist content including musical theatre, jazz and country music. At Radio 2 and 6 music she ran programme teams as diverse as Steve Wright in the Afternoon, Jo Whiley, Cerys Matthews and Graham Norton.

Julian Worricker is a well-known face and voice for the BBC where he has is one of the main anchors on news programmes on radio and TV. He works as a specialist presenting and voice coach across the programme.

• Decca Aitkenhead – Chief Interviewer, Sunday Times | Newspaper Journalism, 1995
• Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff - award winning founder of GalDem – now Senior Editor, New York Times | Newspaper Journalism, 2016
• Celia Duncan – Women’s Editor, Daily Mail | Periodical Journalism, 1994
• Stephen Foley – Deputy US News Editor, Financial Times| Newspaper Journalism, 1999
• Victoria Newton – Editor in Chief of The Sun |
• Sebastian Payne - Whitehall Editor, Financial Times | Investigative Journalism, 2011
• Alexis Petridis - Guardian's head rock and pop critic and the music editor of GQ | Periodical Journalism, 1995
• Ben Preston - Associate Editor and Culture Editor, Sunday Times Newspaper Journalism, 1987
• Ben Riley-Smith – Chief Political Editor, Daily Telegraph – Magazine Journalism, 2012
• Simon Rogers - Data journalist. Author of 'Facts are Sacred' Newspaper Journalism, 1991
• Fay Schlesinger - Head of National News, The Guardian | Print Journalism, 2008.

• Szu Ping Chan – Economics and Finance, BBC World Service | Newspaper Journalism, 2010
• Mark Chapman - BBC Sport | Broadcast Journalism, 1996
• Adam Fleming – Chief Political Correspondent, BBC News | Broadcast Journalism, 2002
• Faisal Islam – Economics Editor, BBC News | Newspaper Journalism, 2000
• Ian King – Presenter ‘Ian King Live’, Sky News | Newspaper Journalism, 1994
• Dermot Murnaghan - Sky News | Dip Journalism, 1986
• Ramita Navai – Emmy Award-winning documentary maker | Broadcast Journalism, 2003
• Keme Nzerem - Channel 4 News | Broadcast Journalism, 2000
• Ali Plumb - Film Critic BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra | Magazine Journalism, 2009
• Barbara Serra - Al Jazeera | Broadcast Journalism, 1999
• Dino Sofos – Founder of Persephonica Podcasts, Former Editor, BBC News podcasts (Newscast/Americast) | Broadcast Journalism, 2007.

• Ellie Austin - Editor of Live Journalism at the Wall Street Journal | Magazine Journalism 2013
• Clare Conway - Features Editor, Tatler | Magazine Journalism, 2011
• Hannah Ewens - Features Editor Rolling Stone Magazine | Magazine Journalism, 2014
• Helena Lee – Features Director, Harper’s Bazaar – Magazine Journalism, 2011
• Helen Lewis - The Atlantic and BBC radio | Newspaper Journalism, 2005
• Stuart McGurk - Associate Editor, GQ | Periodical Journalism, 2004
• John Mulvey - Editor, Mojo | Periodical Journalism, 1990
• Fraser Nelson - Editor, Spectator | Newspaper Journalism, 1996
• Susan Riley - Editor of Stylist magazine | Magazine Journalism, 2000.

• James Ball – Global Editor, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | Investigative Journalism, 2008
• Kate Day – Deputy Editor in Chief, Politco Europe | Newspaper Journalism, 2007
• James Harding – Former editor of the Times and former Director of News at BBC, now editor of Tortoise Media | Newspaper Journalism, 1995
• John Jelley – SVP Product at Peacock, NBCUniversal | Broadcast Journalism, 2005
• Conrad Quilty-Harper – UK Digital Editor, Bloomberg UK | Investigative Journalism, 2010
• Yara Silva - Group Head of Social for Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and OK! | Magazine Journalism, 2013
• Martin Stabe – Data Editor, Financial Times | International Journalism, 2005.

• Richard Benson - (former editor of The Face), The Farm
• Imogen Edwards-Jones - Hotel Babylon | Pop Babylon | Beach Babylon | Wedding Babylon | Air Babylon | Fashion Babylon
• Tania Hershman - Writer. Author of ‘The White Road and Other Stories’ | Periodical Journalism, 1994
• Julia Llewellyn Smith - The Love Trainer | If I Were You | Amy's Honeymoon
• James Meek - The People's Act of Love | We are Now Beginning Our Descent | Drivetime
• JoJo Moyes - Silver Bay | Foreign Fruit | The Ship of Brides | The Peacock Emporium | Sheltering Rain
• Patrick Neate - Winner of 2001 Whitbread Novel Prize and 2004 National Book Critics Circle Criticism Award - Jerusalem | Twelve Bar Blues | City of Tiny Lights | The London Pigeon Wars | Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko | Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet
• Justine Picardie - Coco Chanel | Daphne | If The Spirit Moves You: Love and Life After Death | My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes | Wish I May | Truth or Dare.