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Perils of publishing in the digital age

The perils of publishing in the digital age will be explored in a lecture at the University on Wednesday 15 February at 6pm.

The Lord Mayor’s Lecture, titled ‘Perils and pitfalls of publishing in the digital age: is there a future for paid journalism?’, will be given by Dr Stevie Spring at Woolf College Lecture Theatre on the University’s Canterbury campus. Admission is free and open to all.

Stevie Spring graduated in Law and spent four years in marketing, and two years launching TV-am with the ‘famous five’, before starting a 16-year career in advertising agency management. During that time, she worked nationally and internationally at agencies including Grey, Gold Greenlees Trott and Young & Rubicam.

From 2006 to 2011, Stevie Spring was one of the few women running fully-listed companies as CEO of Future plc. Future produces 150 consumer magazines, apps, websites and events, and is the largest exporter and licensor of magazines from the UK.

Stevie Spring is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and a past president and honorary member of the Women’s Advertising Club. In 2008, she became the first externally-appointed Chairman of BBC Children in Need and has overseen a complete overhaul of both grant-making and fundraising at the charity.

She received an honorary degree from the University of Kent in July 2011.

Contact: pressoffice@kent.ac.uk

Story published at 3:44pm 9 February 2012