Sky News Economics Editor gives Bob Friend Lecture

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The lecture, entitled ‘Trump, Brexit, the mainstream media and how to save it’ takes place on Thursday 2 March 2017 at 7pm.

Ed Conway, Economics editor of Sky News and Times columnist, will deliver the annual Bob Friend Memorial Lecture in the University of Kent’s Royal Dockyard Church lecture theatre at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham.

Ed Conway was Sky News’ first economics editor after starting his career in newspapers for the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.  In the early stages of the 2008 banking crisis, Ed was the first to reveal the Bank of England’s plans to create additional money through quantitative easing, and to warn of the funding gap in the banking system that later led to the collapse of Northern Rock.

He has carried out interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Bank of England Governor and the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

The lecture was established in 2009 by a partnership of the Friend family, Sky News and the University in memory of Bob Friend, who was the original face of Sky News as well as a long-serving BBC journalist. The lecture is free and open to all.

The lecture marks the award of the annual Sky Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship, a unique award for which only undergraduate students studying in the University’s award-winning Centre for Journalism are eligible.

Ed Conway

Ed Conway, Economics editor of Sky News and Times columnist