ANDREW WILSON - Sky News International Correspondant
Andrew Wilson has presented Sky News at 5 daily since 2007. Prior to this, he has twenty years experience in Foreign News coverage.
Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 Andrew has covered almost every major conflict around the world, from Kuwait to Bosnia, and from Haiti to Chechnya. He was with the first wave of Western reporters to cross overland into Kabul in 2001, and he sat out Hurricane Katrina in a Mississippi Motel.
He has covered two Presidential elections, watched Boris Yeltsin resign on Millennium night, and fronted Sky’s coverage of the Tsunami in Thailand.
He ran three foreign bureaux for Sky; Russia, Jerusalem and Washington. Andrew won international awards for his coverage from all three postings.
Since returning to the UK he has presented Sky’s Afghan coverage from Helmand Province, the uprising in Burma, the Russian invasion of Georgia and the Libya conflict from Ajdabiya
Why should we care about the coverage of world affairs? Click here to book
Venue: TC103
Time: 10:30-11:30
Andrew Wilson has presented Sky News at 5 daily since 2007. Prior to this, he has twenty years experience in Foreign News coverage.
Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 Andrew has covered almost every major conflict around the world, from Kuwait to Bosnia, and from Haiti to Chechnya. He was with the first wave of Western reporters to cross overland into Kabul in 2001, and he sat out Hurricane Katrina in a Mississippi Motel.
He has covered two Presidential elections, watched Boris Yeltsin resign on Millennium night, and fronted Sky’s coverage of the Tsunami in Thailand.
He ran three foreign bureaux for Sky; Russia, Jerusalem and Washington. Andrew won international awards for his coverage from all three postings.
Since returning to the UK he has presented Sky’s Afghan coverage from Helmand Province, the uprising in Burma, the Russian invasion of Georgia and the Libya conflict from Ajdabiya
Why should we care about the coverage of world affairs? Click here to book
Venue: TC103
Time: 10:30-11:30
TOM KNIGHT– News Editor
Tom started out as a music features writer before training as a newspaper reporter. He has written for numerous national and regional newspapers, with specialities in crime, business and online journalism.
Selling your story. Click here to book
Venue: TC014
Time: 13:15-14:45
Tom started out as a music features writer before training as a newspaper reporter. He has written for numerous national and regional newspapers, with specialities in crime, business and online journalism.
Selling your story. Click here to book
Venue: TC014
Time: 13:15-14:45
Richard White - participatory media producer, curator and artist.
He has a specialist interest in mobile media and is developing his practice using social media.
For the past 5 years Richard has led Creative Wiltshire providing development opportunities for emerging talent and creative digital media services to business and community. Recent work includes setting up a young peoples radio station, digital storytelling, interpretation and orientation media production for the heritage industry and issue based media production.
Richard will be talking about The Ridgeway Project and the White Horse Walk, and how these projects can influence his latest project - creating a Soundscape of Park Campus that can be accessed via a GPS enabled App. Richard is interested in working collaboratively with students on this project. Click here to book.
Venue: TC013
Time: 15:00-16:00
He has a specialist interest in mobile media and is developing his practice using social media.
For the past 5 years Richard has led Creative Wiltshire providing development opportunities for emerging talent and creative digital media services to business and community. Recent work includes setting up a young peoples radio station, digital storytelling, interpretation and orientation media production for the heritage industry and issue based media production.
Richard will be talking about The Ridgeway Project and the White Horse Walk, and how these projects can influence his latest project - creating a Soundscape of Park Campus that can be accessed via a GPS enabled App. Richard is interested in working collaboratively with students on this project. Click here to book.
Venue: TC013
Time: 15:00-16:00
BETH O' DEA is a BBC Radio 4 Arts and Documentary producer based in Bristol.
Producing programmes for Radio 4. Click here to book.
Venue: TC013
Time: 16:15 - 17:15
Producing programmes for Radio 4. Click here to book.
Venue: TC013
Time: 16:15 - 17:15