Get With The Times
It is sometimes called Britain's newspaper of record, but The Times is increasingly noted for its vendetta campaigns against minorities.
Katherine O'Donnell is a former employee who is fighting back against the bullying and discrimination she faced as a transgender woman working as the Night Editor of the newspaper's Scottish edition.
She took her experience to an employment tribunal this summer. Her remarkable legal case sheds light not only on a transphobic and misogynistic workplace environment, but how its effects can be seen in
the newspaper's coverage of transgender people.
Her case also shows how the editor John Witherow's prehistoric attitudes extended to pushing top reporters into publishing flawed stories about Muslims.
Join us to hear more about Katherine's experience and the potential for media workers to blow the whistle on bullying and bigoted coverage.
SPEAKERS
Katherine O'Donnell - Journalist and LGBTI rights campaigner
Christine Burns MBE - Author, editor of 'Trans Britain'
Robin White - Discrimination barrister
Chair: Tom Wills
Digital Killed the Journalism Star? The future of news
Jonathan Heawood, IMPRESS
Paul Hutchinson, Bedford Independent
Sarah Cheverton, Star & Crescent
Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist
David Floyd, Social Spider
In association with IMPRESS
The London Times School of Journalism - Where Fiction Trumps Truth
With Brian Cathcart and Paddy French with an audio visual double act
NET LOSERS: Social Media, Anonymity and the Issue of Trust
British democracy is being damaged by the toxic tone of online debate. Bullying, harrassment and misinformation are an everyday occurence. Debates get derailed. Marginal voices get bullied off twitter. Sensible voices on newspaper comment pages are buried by abuse and irrelevance.
Does all this mean it's time to question the way we think about anonymity online? What limits could we place on the ability of anonymous users to derail debates or harangue others? How can we make life more uncomfortable for trolls, whilst safeguarding freedom of expression and whistleblowing?
CleanUpTheInternet.org.uk is a new organisation looking for answers to these complex questions. Join a panel of experts to explore the issues together.
CHAIR: Taniel Yusef
Speakers:
Stephen Kinsella
Mike Butcher
Caroline Orr