Speakers

Sarah is the President of the Society of Editors and the Director of Newsgathering and Operations at Sky News with responsibility for UK and international journalism as well as Sky’s operations teams.

Sarah has been at Sky News for 13 years as Head of International News, Head of Home News and Deputy Head of Newsgathering before her most recent promotion. In her role as Deputy Head of Newsgathering she ran major events and special projects including Sky’s coverage of the death of the Queen, the Coronation and award-winning projects around climate in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow.

Before Sky News, Sarah was at the BBC. She has over 20 years’ experience working across TV, digital and audio and has worked in many genres including news, documentary and drama. She is a member of the DSMA Notice Committee and is on the board of the British Journalism Review.

Ros Atkins is BBC News’ Analysis Editor. He also co-presents The Media Show on BBC Radio 4. Ros’ first book, The Art of Explanation, was published in paperback last year. 

John Battle is an employed barrister and advises editors and journalists for ITN’s news services – ITV News, Channel 4 News and Channel Five News.   He has a particular interest in open justice. He led the broadcast industry lobbying the judiciary and government to allow cameras in court, resulting  in legal reform allowing filming in the Court of Appeal and sentencing in the Crown Court. He also helped establish the CPS Police Media Protocol (which allows images shown in court to be provided to the media) and authored the Reporters’ Charter which details the rights of reporters to report the courts. He is a past Chair of the Media Lawyers Association and has previously worked for Associated Newspapers and News UK.

Jeremy Bowen is the international Editor for BBC News and a former Middle East correspondent and Middle East Editor for the BBC. He appointed International Editor in August 2022 and has reported from more than 90 countries covering conflicts in the Gulf, El Salvador, Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia and Rwanda as well as Iraq, Algeria and Kosovo.

While Middle East Editor for the Corporation, Bowen led the coverage of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ and the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, for which BBC News was awarded an International Emmy. He has won multiple awards including first prize at the Bayeux War Correspondent Awards for a Panorama film on the Gaza War of 2009 as well as an Emmy and Peabody Award for coverage of the Syria war; the BAFTA Cymru Sian Phillips Award and many others.  His latest book, The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History, was a Sunday Times bestseller and a book of the year for the New Statesman and The Spectator.

Carole Cadwalladr is a Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist. In 2018, she exposed the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal with the Observer/Guardian and New York Times and a year later gave a TED talk about how Facebook’s role in Brexit and the threat to democracy that’s been viewed more than 5m times and starred in the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack.

Rebecca is the Chair of the Crime Reporters Association (CRA), a group of specialist journalists covering crime and policing across print, broadcast and new media. She first joined the CRA 15 years ago and was elected Chair in 2019, becoming the first woman to lead the organisation since its inception in 1945. The award-winning journalist joined the Daily Mail 20 years ago as a general news reporter and moved onto the crime desk in 2010. In 2020 she became Crime and Security Editor, the first woman in the paper’s history to hold that role.

Catalina has more than 15 years of experience providing humanitarian and emergency assistance to journalists in crisis. In June 2019 she joined the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as a Journalist Assistance Program Coordinator, and in April 2024 became CPJ’s Deputy Emergencies Director. She is currently serving as the Acting Emergencies Director. Prior to joining CPJ in 2019, she was Senior Programme Officer for Safety and the Americas at the London-based Rory Peck Trust, managing the organization’s training and operations in support of freelance journalists in distress. A native Spanish speaker, Catalina studied law and holds a master’s in International Politics and Human Rights from City University in London. She is based in the U.K. 

Oliver Duff is Editor-in-Chief of the i paper and inews.co.uk. Under his editorship, i has been awarded Newspaper of the Year and News Website of the Year. i was named the UK’s most trusted national news brand in research by industry auditor PAMCo. The UK’s youngest national editor, Oliver was appointed in 2013 and has since launched the popular iweekend print edition, website inews.co.uk and i’s app.

Oliver previously worked at The Independent for a decade, where he was Executive Editor, responsible for news and investigations. He got his first byline in the Leighton Buzzard Observer.

Martin Evans began his career in journalism in 1997 as a graduate trainee with the Press Association.

He later worked at BBC Five Live as a broadcast journalist before moving to the Daily Express as a staff reporter in 2002.

In 2009 he joined the Daily Telegraph as a senior news reporter and was promoted to crime correspondent in 2011.

He was made crime editor four years ago.

Natalie is Audience and Content Director for London and the East of England at Reach Plc, and is Editor of Nottinghamshire Live. She has been a journalist for 19 years, working across regional and national titles.

Editorial Innovation Lead at The Sun, Nadine has 10 years of experience building newsroom audience strategies and specialises in newsroom AI and product innovation to drive digital growth. 

Toby Granville has been the Editorial Development Director at Newsquest – the largest local news publisher in the UK – since February 2015. Toby began his journalism career in 1990 as a feature writer at the Sunday People when he got his first byline at the age of 17. He gained his first editorship at the age of 26 at The Wharf which won a Press Gazette Newspaper of the Year award under his leadership. Since joining Newsquest in 2002 Toby has edited daily titles such as the Dorset Echo and Bournemouth Daily Echo which won numerous industry awards during his editorship, and he was named the company’s Editor of the Year during his tenure. He is also on the board of directors at the National Council for the Training of Journalists and industry adviser to Bournemouth University and Sheffield University. In his current role Toby is leading the editorial strategy for Newsquest’s 200 local and regional news brands across the UK.

Deborah is Sky News’ security and defence editor. She covers the biggest foreign stories around the world and carries out her own investigations. She has reported from Europe on Brexit the United States on Donald Trump, and broken stories on suspected Russian disinformation operations and suspected cyber attacks in the UK.

Before joining Sky, she was defence editor and previously Iraq correspondent at The Times. She covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as focusing on armed forces issues in the UK, including exposing the true extent of a funding crisis within the UK’s military.

She won the Amnesty International award for national newspaper human rights reporting in 2008 for a series on the plight of Iraqi interpreters working for UK forces in Iraq.

This series also won Deborah the inaugural Bevins Prize for investigative journalism in 2008.

Prior to joining The Times, Deborah worked for the Reuters news agency after six years at AFP in Tokyo, Geneva, Baghdad and London.

In her role, Katie Hind heads up the Showbusiness content for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Mail Online and Mail+.

She as previously Showbusiness Editor of The Mail on Sunday. During her time at the Mail Katie has won several awards, including Scoop of the Year for exposing Phillip Schofield’s relationship with a much younger colleague. It was the scandal that ended the presenter’s three-decade long career at ITV and prompted the broadcaster to launch an external investigation into its culture. 

Katie also won Showbiz Reporter of the Year twice consecutively.

She was previously Los Angeles Editor for the Mirror and Showbusiness Editor of the Sunday People. 

Mark is the London Bureau Chief for the New York Times having worked at The Times for more than three decades, beginning as a copy boy. His first reporting job was covering the media business and telecommunications, after which he was posted to Hong Kong and Frankfurt as bureau chief. He has reported from 70 countries, chronicling wars, political uprisings, economic upheaval and daily life. 

In Washington, Mark was the diplomatic correspondent and a White House correspondent, covering the Obama and Trump presidencies. In 2016, he published “Alter Egos” (Random House), a comparative study of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was a Reuters journalism fellow at Oxford University in 1997, and am a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jonathan Levy was promoted in 2023 to Managing Director and Executive Editor of Sky News UK, with the primary responsibility for journalism on all UK platforms including digital, TV and audio.

Jonathan has been at Sky News for over 20 years starting as an Output Producer. He progressed to Head of Politics where he was responsible for all political coverage and successfully co-ordinated Sky News’ RTS award-winning campaign for the first UK Prime Ministerial debates which took place in 2010.

In 2011 he became the Director of Newsgathering and Operations at Sky News, leading domestic and international RTS, BAFTA and International Emmy award winning journalism.

A focus of Jonathan’s leadership has been the development of Sky News as a truly multi-platform news organisation.

Chief Constable Sir Andy Marsh QPM joined the College of Policing as Chief Executive Officer in 2021.

He is the longest serving Chief Constable in England and Wales and has a breadth of experience to draw from as the leader of policing’s professional body. Positioning the College as a relevant, dynamic, and connected system leader he is driving policing improvement based on the evidence of what works, by delivering better leadership, performance and standards.

Sir Andy’s police career started in 1987 as a constable in Avon and Somerset Police. After operational and detective roles at various ranks, he went on to lead Hampshire and, latterly, Avon and Somerset, as Chief Constable. He oversaw large-scale transformation at Hampshire, leading the force to be recognised as one of the best value for money nationally. In Avon and Somerset, he led the internationally acclaimed approach to data by using advanced predictive analytics and visualisation to manage demand in tandem with equipping officers and staff with the latest technology. This enabled the Force to be recognised as one of the most efficient and effective.

Sir Andy played a significant role as the UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for body worn video where he pioneered the increased use of this vital technology.

Sir Andy was responsible for the NPCC International Coordination portfolio for six years, leading and advising on police modernisation programmes globally.

Kamali Melbourne is a presenter at Sky News. He began his news career at Channel 4 News and has worked for the BBC, Bloomberg and TRT World. He began working in television news at ITV Central in Birmingham.

Owen is the chief executive of the NMA, appointed in July 2021. Previously CEO of the Professional Publishers Association, he has a wealth of experience in the media sector. He held a number of roles at the magazine and business media trade body prior to being appointed CEO, primarily overseeing public affairs. He stood as a parliamentary candidate in the 2017 General Election, narrowly missing out on being elected MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme. Owen sits on industry boards including the Advertising Association, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, Advertising Standards Board of Finance, and News Media Europe.

Clemmie Moodie is the assistant editor of The Sun newspaper. In addition, she writes an explosive weekly column and heads-up the Showbiz department across both print and digital. After working as the Associate Showbiz Editor Daily Mail, Clemmie joined The Sun on Sunday in April 2018 before being promoted to Assistant Editor of The Sun two years later. Clemmie is the name behind some of The Sun’s biggest exclusives, including breaking last year’s Strictly Come Dancing scandal, revealing Gary Lineker was leaving Match of the Day after 25 years and Jermaine Jenas’s axing from the BBC. An accomplished interviewer, Clemmie was the first journalist to interview Phillip Schofield, Becky Vardy, and Jenas after their respective This Morning fall-outs, the Wagatha Christie saga and BBC sacking. She has also worked on scoops with stars including Robbie Williams, Simon Cowell, and David Beckham.

Russell is the Associate Editor and Royal Editor at the Daily Mirror and a regular guest on ITV’s Lorraine. He is an award-winning British journalist and broadcaster based in the UK. He is also the co-host of the British Press Awards-winning weekly royal podcast, Pod Save the King. 

Mitali Mukherjee is currently the Acting Director and Director of Journalist Programmes at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. She is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital news and also has a keen focus on gender and on climate. She is a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a 2020 Chevening Fellow, and 2022 Visting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Will Payne is The Director of Digital (Editorial) for The Sun and is responsible for the operation’s overall digital strategy. Before that he was Deputy Digital Editor, joining the Sun Online soon after it emerged from behind the paywall, helping to grow it from virtually a standing start to the biggest newspaper owned website in the UK. Towards the end of his time in that role he moved to New York, launching The US operation in January 2020. He has previously worked as Head of TV and Associate TV Editor at The Sun and has held senior titles for The Mail Online in New York and The Daily Mirror in London, which he joined in 2005 at the start of his career in newspapers.

Alison Phillips is a writer and Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Mirror across print and online She got her start as a reporter at the Harlow Star, before joining the Sunday People magazine at what was then Trinity Mirror in 1998, and becoming features editor. She was later made deputy editor-in-chief across the group before being appointed Editor of the Daily Mirror and eventually Editor-in-Chief across the Mirror. She is a former chair of the Women in Journalism organisation and lives in London and has three children.
In 2016 she was made Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Trinity Mirror papers and in 2018 was named as the Editor of the Daily Mirror, making her its first female editor since its very first editor in 1903. In February 2020 she was made Editor in Chief of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
Alison is also a regular media commentator and has appeared on such programmes as Question Time, BBC Politics Live and ITV’s This Morning.

Debbie Ramsay is the editor of 5 News, the hour-long news bulletin produced by ITN, which airs weeknights on Channel 5 at 5pm. Debbie took up the role in September 2023, joining ITN from Channel 4 where she was a Commissioning Editor for News and Current Affairs. Before Channel 4, Debbie worked at the BBC for 16 years. Most recently as an Executive Editor at BBC News in charge of commissioning original journalism across the UK, and before that as Head of Youth Journalism and in senior editorial roles at Radio 1 and 1Xtra Newsbeat, leading a large team of journalists to provide award-winning news for the BBC’s flagship multi-platform youth outlets including BBC iPlayer. She began her career working on local newspapers in the northwest of England, before moving into local radio there and in Birmingham before going on to work Capital AM and FM in London presenting early bulletins and as a breakfast news editor.

Katie Razzall has been the Culture and Media Editor at BBC News since January 2023. A former UK Editor at Newsnight, Razzall moved to the BBC as Newsnight Special Correspondent in 2014, before being promoted to UK Editor in 2020. She previously spent 15 years at Channel 4 News, where she began as a producer, and then later became a reporter and presenter.

Kerri-Ann Roper is the Head of Entertainment and Lifestyle at PA Media, overseeing content for the news wire and features section. She began her career in South Africa, working for Media24, with former SA President Nelson Mandela among the people she interviewed. She previously worked at Sky, and MSN, where she held a global role, overseeing entertainment news content for nearly 30 markets.

The role includes modernising the newsroom and the experience of our journalism on digital platforms including web, apps, newsletters and social media. Prior to joining The Times in 2021, Edward spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal in New York, where he was Chief Innovation Officer, overseeing relations with Apple, Google and Facebook as well as developing new media products. Edward worked for seven years at The Telegraph, where he was head of digital, and 11 years at Bloomberg, where he was bureau chief in Brussels, Paris and London and in his last post, managing editor overseeing global financial coverage.

Jerome is The Sun’s Defence Editor and covers all things military and war. He leads The Sun’s coverage of the war in Ukraine and has spent months on the frontline, winning News Reporter of the Year in 2023 for his work uncovering war crimes in Russia. Before that he was in Kabul to witness the Taliban’s armed takeover and the British and US withdrawal. Normally based in London, Jerome specialises in stories about the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. He first joined The Sun in 2003 as a graduate trainee and rejoined in 2020, as Defence Editor, after working as a foreign correspondent for The Times.

Camilla Tominey is one of the UK’s foremost journalists, serving as a Television Presenter for GB News, where she hosts an agenda-setting eponymous politics show every Sunday morning. As Associate Editor of the Telegraph since 2018, Camilla presents the Telegraph’s flagship podcast The Daily T,  providing listeners an insider’s perspective on the news. She also writes a weekly column for the Telegraph.

As one of the country’s foremost royal experts, Camilla has reported on pivotal stories such as the engagement of Prince William and the Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, the relationship between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle in 2016, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the Coronation of King Charles III.  

As a seasoned commentator on politics and the royals, Camilla has worked all over the world, for media outlets such as NBC in USA, Nine Network in Australia, ZDF & ARD in Germany, RTL in France, among others. In the UK, she has also served as a Royal Correspondent for ITV’s This Morning. A respected journalist, Camilla was named Journalist of the Year at the McLean-DB Recovery+ Award for her work on the story about children of alcoholics.

Recognised across the world for her coverage of the Royal Wedding, she attracted a viewership of 55 million, which is no easy feat. Camilla’s accolades speak for themself – she was nominated Multimedia Journalist of the Year by London Press Club Awards in 2021, and as Journalist of the Year at the 2023 Publishing Awards. Last year she won a Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Award for her poignant interview with former ITN anchor Alastair Stewart about his dementia diagnosis.

Caroline is the Editor-in-Chief of the Mirror. She has worked at Trinity Mirror and then Reach titles since she joined the Sunday Mail in Scotland, as a trainee news reporter in 2001. She went on to hold a number of senior editorial positions for national titles including at the Sunday Mirror, Express, and Daily Star. During her time as Editor-in-Chief for Reach’s magazines and supplements, she spearheaded the digital transformation of those titles as well as launched the successful OK! Beauty Box. She lives in Surrey with her husband and four-year-old son.

Dr Rebecca Whittington is the Online Safety Editor for Reach Plc, the UK’s largest commercial news publisher. She was appointed into the role, which was the first of its kind established in the UK, to protect journalists from online harassment and harm. Rebecca also writes about online threats, campaigns for the online safety of women in journalism and sits on the advisory committee for Women in Journalism and the employers sub-committee of the National Committee for the Safety of Journalists.  

Greg Williams is the Editor-in-Chief of WIRED UK and Deputy Global Editorial Director of WIRED. A content creator, speaker and strategic forecaster who has held senior leadership roles in London and New York, Greg is interested in what’s coming next and understanding the ideas, organisations, trends and technologies that will shape the future. He has interviewed many senior leaders in business, technology and policy, including Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Demis Hassabis and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Greg has written for numerous titles, including The Guardian, Newsweek and The Observer and was awarded British Society of Magazine Editors ‘Editor of the Year, Science & Technology’ in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2024. His longform story on the UK’s biggest ever cocaine heist was highly commended by the British Society of Magazine Editors. Greg was a judge of the Royal Society Science Book of the Year award 2018 and is the author of six novels.