Amol Rajan, the BBC’s Media Editor, will give the annual Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the University on Thursday 22 February 2018 at 7pm.
Entitled The Tortoise and the Share – or, How to Save Journalism (from Itself) the lecture will take place in the University’s Royal Dockyard Church lecture theatre at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham.
As the BBC’s Media Editor, Amol Rajan has recently reported on controversy concerning his own employer in the shape of the highly publicised dispute over equal pay at the BBC.
In addition to being Media Editor, Amol Rajan presents The Media Show and Start the Week on BBC Radio 4. He also covers for Jeremy Vine and Simon Mayo on Radio 2, and also for Matt Baker on The One Show on BBC One.
Previously he was appointed editor of The Independent newspaper in June 2013, making him at age 29 the youngest ever editor of a broadsheet title.
The lecture series 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 evening will also include the award of the annual Sky Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship, a unique award for which only undergraduate students studying at the University’s award-winning Centre for Journalism are eligible.