Johnston Press chief executive Tim Bowdler will be among those on a panel which will consider the challenges of leading the move to multimedia during a Journalism Leaders Forum at the University of Central Lancashire later this month.

The newspaper boss will join the panel discussion ‘Leading Innovation: What To Do, How To Do It’, which will be chaired by former Cumbrian Newspapers editorial director Keith Sutton.

The event forms part of the residential week programme for participants in the autumn block of UCLan’s Journalism Leaders Programme, which is aimed at senior journalists who want to develop their team-leading skills and acquire the ability to successfully manage staff.

The discussion will also be open to the public and Webcast live at
http://breeze01.uclan.ac.uk/journalismleadersforum/.

The event will be held at 6pm on Tuesday, October 17 in the Greenbank Lecture Theatre in Preston, with a reception from 5.30pm.

Entrance is free, but anyone wishing to attend should email [email protected].

Others on the panel will include Tim Porter, an associate director of Tomorrow’s Workforce – a project devoted to professional development in America’s newsrooms and Geert-Jan Bogaerts from The Netherlands, who is online editor of De Volkskrant newspaper.