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Hetherington Memorial Lecture, Stirling University

November 6, 2007

A Serious Crisis?
The future of analytical &  investigative reporting

JOHN LLOYD
Reuters Institute, Oxford University

Monday 19 November
6.00 pm, Logie Lecture Theatre
University of Stirling

John Lloyd, Reuters Institute, Oxford University, Contributing Editor to the Financial Times and author of What the media are doing to our politics presents the 2007 Hetherington Memorial Lecture on Monday 19 November in the Logie Lecture Theatre at 6pm.

His lecture will be entitled ‘A Serious Crisis?: the future of analytical and investigative reporting’.

The annual event, organised by the Stirling Media Research Institute and supported by the Scott Trust, is named after the late Alastair Hetherington. The former editor of the Guardian and Controller of BBC Scotland was the first Research Professor of Media Studies at the University of Stirling. Previous lectures have been given by Peter Preston, Jon Snow, Alan Rusbridger, Sheena McDonald, Jonathan Freedland, Roy Greenslade, Elinor Goodman and Trevor Phillips.

All are welcome to attend, no booking is required.

Please contact Karen Forrest, Department of Film & Media Studies for further details or for press enquiries (k.p.forrest@stir.ac.uk or 01786 466220).

Dr Philip Drake
Stirling Media Research Institute
Department of Film & Media Studies
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK

Tel: 00 44 (0) 1786 467973
Fax: 00 44 (0) 1786 466855
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