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Broadcaster to chair debate around reporting terror

Lucy Cavendish collegeA leading journalist and broadcaster is to chair a debbate around reporting terror at the Society of Editors conference next month.

Jackie Ashley, left, a former producer and newsreader on Newsnight, will chair the session at University of Cambridge’s Clare College on the main day of conference sessions on Monday 13 November.

A former political correspondent with ITN and political editor of the New Statesman, she has presented several political programmes on BBC2 and ITV and has been Cambridge’s President of Lucy Cavendish College since September 2015.

Also confirmed for the panel is BBC News and Current Affairs news editor James Stephenson, a former head of news for BBC World News and Middle East Bureau chief.

Other confirmed speakers include Met Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley, Manchester Evening News editor Rob Irvine, former London Evening Standard editor Simon Jenkins, BBC media editor Amol Rajan, and Sarah Whitehead, head of home news at Sky.

The Society of Editors Lecture will be delivered at the newly-built Tamburlaine Hotel on the evening of Sunday 12 November by Google’s Managing Director in the UK and Ireland, Ronan Harris.

The event is sponsored by Camelot, which has supported the Society of Editors since 2001, United Utilities, Google, BBC News, JTI,  Foot Anstey, PCS, NLA Media Access, Waitrose, Cambridge News, Visit Cambridge and Beyond and HoldtheFrontPage.

The conference will take place in Cambridge on Sunday 12 and Monday 13 November 2017. Booking is now open at www.societyofeditors.org