Aidan O’Donnell teaches data journalism in the School of Journalism at Cardiff University and helps run the school’s MSc in Computational & Data Journalism. He worked as a journalist for Radio France Internationale and the BBC for many years, reporting from around Africa and France, after first spending a few years in research and analysis. He has also filed in most formats for British and Irish outlets, as a freelancer. He recently designed the journalism modules for the BBC's data journalism apprenticeship programme.

Geri Scott is senior political correspondent at The Times and an SPA trustee. She prreviously covered politics for PA and The Yorkshire Post. In 2020 she was a winner at the 30 to Watch Young Journalist Awards and in 2021 named one of 100 women to watch in Westminster.

Meera Dattani is a freelance travel and culture journalist, and executive editor at award-winning website Adventure.com where she commissions features, photo essays and long reads from writers and photographers around the world. Her own work focuses on community-led tourism, food/cultural heritage, soft adventure, and wildlife/conservation, with bylines in National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Condé Nast Traveller, Country & Town House, Green Traveller, Olive magazine and others. She’s also a mentor, awards judge, and speaker at events such as TravMedia IMM, Adventure Travel Networking and Destinations. In 2023, she founded TravelWritingWebinars to offer informal training to travel journalists, and is a former Chair and Board Director of the British Guild of Travel Writers.

Isaac is the Digital Editor of Huck Magazine and an arts and music writer at large. He has previously held in-house positions at Crack Magazine and Mixmag, and has contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, The Guardian, DJ Mag, GAY TIMES, openDemocracy and others. His work and interests lie mainly in weird music, niche reportage, and transportive visual storytelling.

Ashwika Kapur is an international award-winning Natural History Filmmaker. Originally from Calcutta, Ash is presently a director at the BBC Natural History Unit in the UK, where she's working on a landmark series for National Geographic. She began her career a decade ago, becoming India's first and only woman to win a Panda Award (also called The Green Oscar) in a global category. Recognised by PACT as exceptional global talent in filmmaking, Ash was recently granted prestigious status in the UK, allowing her to continue creating groundbreaking work in natural history documentaries here. Her portfolio includes Netflix's "David Attenborough's Life in Colour" and BBC's "Planet Defenders," for which she received a nomination for Best On-Screen Talent at the RTS Awards.

Queenie Shaikh is a multi-award-winning journalist from London. Her travel writing often explores themes of ethnic and religious diversity, heritage tourism, and film and entertainment. She was named the 2024 Travel Media Awards Emerging Writer of the Year and the 2024 Travel Connection Group Awards Freelance Journalist of the Year. In addition to her travel writing, Queenie has spent a decade as an entertainment journalist, primarily covering South Asian entertainment. She also works as a reinsurance journalist for the world’s oldest maritime publication, reporting on maritime, terrorism, and political risk and violence.

Sandra Loy teaches students on the Journalism MA (News) course at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Her role includes teaching news practice, media law, an investigative journalism module and even shorthand (yes, it’s still a thing!). She is #Cardifftrained and began her career down the road from Exeter at the Herald Express in Torquay. She later worked at Wales Online, the South Wales Echo and the Western Mail. She is a former editor of Wales on Sunday. For the NCTJ, Sandra is on the board for both media law and shorthand.

Video presenter Steve Jones runs the EMBN channel on YouTube, which is the world’s biggest e-mountain biking video platform. He plans, writes, records and presents longform video content weekly alongside colleagues at GMBN, GCN and GTN for PlaySports Network, based in Bath. In his job he travels all over the globe shooting videos and working with some of the world’s biggest bike brands. Before becoming a YouTuber, he was a photographer and journalist at Dirt magazine for 20 years, creating iconic magazine images and interviewing pro racers and industry designers.He’s also raced mountain bikes as a pro downhiller, and has a World Championship medal as well as British titles. Prior to working for magazines he wrote walking guides and credits his geography degree for sharpening his research skills and love for the outdoors.

Former magazine editor Jane Bentley has been running the award-winning PPA accredited MA in Magazine Journalism course at Cardiff University for 15 years, training up over 450 students in that time to work in the UK magazine industry and further afield. Her journalism background is in specialist consumer magazines, where she edited passion-oriented titles in mountain biking, tech, video games and computers. Today she teaches reporting skills, interviewing and feature writing, as well as digital writing for online and social media. Her love for magazines began when she was a child, and she used to love sitting under the newspaper presses where her dad worked. The sight and smell of publications running off the presses got into her soul, and she has been obsessed with the art of storytelling in print and on any platform ever since.

Nadine White is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. As the UK’s first dedicated Race Correspondent, Nadine has led agenda-setting investigations and told powerful stories amplifying underrepresented voices in Britain and beyond. Her work has reached millions, influenced policy, and contributed to academic research on race, migration, and media representation. Alongside her journalism, Nadine is passionate about nurturing the next generation of media talent, regularly mentoring emerging reporters and sharing insights through talks, workshops, and educational programmes. Her debut self-produced documentary, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, has been showcased at film festivals, cinemas, educational institutions, and community events across the UK, US, and Caribbean. Nadine’s impactful work has been recognised by Forbes, BBC, The Guardian, Amnesty International, and the Windrush Film Festival, among others.

Naryan Branch is a Production Journalist at ITV West Country having initially joined on the traineeship scheme in 2021. In his role, he is responsible for handling various aspects of production, including writing, editing, planning, filming, producing, and even directing. He has experience presenting during live or pre-recorded bulletins, packages, and sports segments. He was responsible for organising and producing ITV West Country's entire output on the Paris Olympics and Paralympics in 2024 and is a mentor to junior production journalists in the newsroom. Prior to ITV, Naryan worked as a freelance match reporter with copy for the Sunday Times and the Times, and was also a transport planner and a teacher working in adult education. Outside of work, his passions are sport, reading, and stand-up comedy.

For the past fifteen years, Stefan has spent much of his time travelling with and photographing the Prime Minister of Great Britain. This has taken him to every corner of the world and includes Tony Blair's first visits to Afghanistan, Iraq and later to Libya where he held historic talks with Colonel Gaddafi. His career began in 1988 when he started work on a weekly paper in Hertfordshire. After two and a half years of summer fetes, Christmas bazaars and golden weddings he moved to Essex to join a regional press agency and learned much about the highs and lows of national photojournalism. In 1993, the bright lights of London beckoned and after knocking on many doors, he began working for the Press Association. He has repeatedly been awarded the British Press Awards Photographer of the Year.

Katie Tarrant is a news reporter at The Sunday Times. She started on the newspaper's graduate trainee scheme and has since reported on some of the biggest domestic and international events of the last few years. She has investigated sexual abuse scandals and was part of the team which uncovered the secret property empires of the royal Duchies. Her work has been nominated under the category of Young Journalist of the Year Award at the 2025 Press Club Awards and her joint investigation into a British philanthropist accused of sex trafficking was shortlisted at the 2024 British Journalism Awards.

Kevin is an expert in political communications, crisis management, and PR. Raised on a London council estate by Irish parents, he founded PLMR Group, an award-winning agency with offices nationwide. With 25 years of experience, he has worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and DLA Piper, advised on major transactions, and stood twice for Parliament as a Labour candidate. A former Labour Councillor of nearly two decades, he is a regular media commentator. Committed to corporate social responsibility, he has donated 5% of PLMR’s profits to charity since 2006. Fun fact: he was rejected from City University’s MA journalism program in 1993.

Saksha is a multimedia producer for Bloomberg Big Take - a feature product which aims to showcase the best of Bloomberg's journalism everyday. She began at Bloomberg as a journalism apprentice, rotating around the newsroom while completing her NCTJ qualification. She studied History and Politics at the University of Exeter and served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Falmouth Anchor, the student newspaper at Exeter's Cornwall campus. She also interned at the Financial Times during the summer of her second year, spending time at specialist teams, looking into investing and the pensions industry.

Siraj Datoo is Equality editor at Bloomberg News. He manages the newsroom's coverage of the intersection of inequality, politics, finance and economics across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Previously, he worked as a political reporter for BuzzFeed News. He also launched The Student Journals, a news and opinion website while at university, which was named the Website of the Year at the Guardian Student Media Awards.

Martin Booth is the Editor of Bristol24/7, a website and bi-monthly magazine. He has written for publications including the Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph and Time Out, as well as writing two bestselling guidebooks about Bristol. He has always wanted to be a journalist since making a magazine in the school holidays when he was ten years old.

Júlia Belas Trindade is a PhD student at the University of Bristol in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, currently researching the media representation of women footballers in Brazil. Júlia is also a sports journalist specialising in women’s football coverage and has covered events such as the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the UEFA Women’s Euros, the UEFA Women’s Champions League, as well as England’s Women’s Super League, and Brazilian national tournaments. As a journalist and researcher, she aims to improve media coverage of the women’s game by respecting players’ identities and stories.

Sukaina is an entertainment & showbiz journalist, red carpet host, and TV presenter she can be found interviewing A-list celebrities and Hollywood actors on red carpets and press junkets for different media and news outlets online. Sukaina occasionally appears on TV channels such as, GB News and Indus News, as an entertainment and showbiz expert covering the latest trending entertainment news, discussing things like new blockbuster movie releases( James Bond: No Time To Die), and discussing Britney Spears conservatorship story which dominated the headlines. So far, Sukaina has interviewed Hollywood actors such as, Andy Serkis, Mark Rylance, Olivia Colman, David Thewlis, Felicity Jones, Eddie Rednayne, Bruce Davison, Jillian Bell, Barbara Hershey and so on. As well as other A-list celebs in the world of showbiz.

Umanga Perera is a communications professional and researcher who specialises in labour migration and Qatar’s historical and present-day culture. She has previously worked as a communications lead with Embrace Doha, a cultural consultancy in Qatar and as a Programmes Assistant in the Afghan evacuee compound’s community hub run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qatar. She has worked on campaigns that focused on the importance of women in Qatar's history and the longstanding impacts of diversity to its culture. “As a lifelong migrant, I hope to speak on the importance of language and nuance in depicting minority communities.”

Charlie Watts has been a local reporter in his hometown of Bristol for the last five years. After graduating with a degree in journalism in 2020, he started freelancing for independent title Bristol24/7 as a community reporter, going on to run the scheme and then write more widely about news and business in the city. In 2023, he joined the National World-owned Bristol World as a full-time reporter. He enjoys championing the city and its strong cultural identity through his work, as well as shining a light on the underrepresented and underreported.

Chris Curtis is the Labour MP for Milton Keynes North, elected in 2024. He is a pollster by profession, having worked as Political Research Manager for YouGov before moving to be Head of Political Polling and later Associate Director at Opinium. He has helped political parties, charities, think tanks, companies, and governments understand where voters stand on the biggest issues of the day. Chris studied at the University of Exeter, and graduated in 2015 with a BA in Politics. As a politician, he now co-chairs the Labour Growth Group of MPs.

Alison Kershaw is the journalism training manager at PA Media. She has extensive experience in news journalism, most recently as a PA news editor. She started out in local newspapers and joined the PA news agency as a general reporter. She then worked as a royal reporter before serving as PA’s education correspondent for over 10 years. Prior to joining the news desk, she worked as a High Court reporter, covering major cases including the Johnny Depp libel trial and The Duchess of Sussex’ privacy claim.

Sean Howe is the head of journalism training at PA Media. He is an experienced journalist and editor with specialist knowledge of subjects including policing, crime, defence and security. He launched his first magazine at university before starting his career formally in local papers. He later went on to edit national B2B titles before being promoted to take up editorial leadership roles. Sean spearheaded the editorial, analytical and forecasting operations for Janes, a specialist defence, aerospace and security publisher.

Alice Henderson is an Editorial Assistant at Business Traveller, where she works across print and online, covering news, lifestyle, hospitality and aviation. She recently travelled to Singapore to visit two hotels and explore the growing wellness scene on Sentosa island. Previously, Alice worked in communications at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Alice graduated from the University of Manchester in 2023 with a first-class degree in English Literature with French. Alongside her studies, she wrote and edited for The Mancunion, first as beauty editor and then head fashion editor, while also writing for a number of local magazines.

Sophia Smith Galer is a multi-award-winning journalist and content creator based in London credited for pioneering journalism on TikTok in the UK. She balances traditional journalism with engaging over 850,000 followers around the world and in 2022 British Vogue recognised her as one of the 25 most influential women in the UK for her role in innovating digital journalism. Sophia has reported for the BBC and VICE and has been a fellow at Brown's Information Futures Lab; in 2025 she founded Viralect, a social media consultancy and innovation hub, for creators and experts to make a positive impact with online video. Viralect's first AI-powered tool, Sophina, won the Georgina Henry Award from Women in Journalism and will help users make videos in Sophia's style following its current development stage. In 2026, William Collins will publish Sophia's second book, How To Kill A Language, explores global language loss and draws inspiration from her own family's endangered language.

Elena Richards Coldicutt is IPSO’s Engagement Officer and has been part of the team since 2023. She helps organise and deliver training for students and journalists, liaises with both regulated and non-regulated IPSO titles, and fosters relationships with various stakeholders. Before joining IPSO, Elena was Features Writer at HELLO! magazine and Content Writer and Editor’s Assistant for Soul & Spirit magazine. She has also worked as a journalist and sub editor for her university’s student paper.

Emily Houlston-Jones joined IPSO in 2020 as a Complaints Officer, before becoming Head of Complaints in 2023. In this role, she oversees IPSO’s complaints investigations and our pre-publication and privacy notice services, working to ensure that IPSO’s complaints handling and advice services are efficient, understandable, and thorough. Prior to joining IPSO, Emily worked for Conwy Libraries, and had her interest in journalism piqued after she became News Editor of her university’s student newspaper.

Rosemary Douce is Head of Standards & Regulation at IPSO. She joined IPSO in 2018 as a Standards Officer, taking responsibility for monitoring complaints, writing guidance for journalists and members of the public, and delivering training. Prior to joining IPSO, she produced live and pre-recorded subtitles for BBC and Channel 4 television programmes.

Megha Rajagopalan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist with The New York Times in London. She works on international projects, and much of her work has focused on human rights, labor and conflict. Previously she was a foreign correspondent with Reuters and BuzzFeed News, and has done stints in China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She is a former Fulbright fellow and speaks Mandarin Chinese. Her investigative work has been translated into multiple languages, been taught in high school and university classrooms, and has been featured in art and architecture exhibitions, including at the Venice Biennale in 2023.

Sally Patterson is an international correspondent and former trustee of the Student Publication Association. Most recently, as New York Correspondent for Feature Story News, she covered the US presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s victory in West Palm Beach, and his criminal cases in Manhattan and Miami. Sally's reporting has also focused on natural disasters, reproductive healthcare, and asylum seekers at America’s northern and southern borders. She's covered the G20 Summit from Delhi, droughts in Hungary and channel crossings in Calais. Her work has appeared on international outlets including LBC News, CBC, Virgin News, Channel News Asia, and SABC. Sally began her career at the Ham&High newspaper, later becoming Deputy Editor of Archant’s London Live team. While at university, she ran Bristol’s student TV station and was digital editor for Varsity at Cambridge before earning her NCTJ.

Jo Crawford is a multimedia reporter at Times Radio and ambassador for the British Dyslexia Association. At Times Radio, Jo produces video and radio packages, from covering protests to the US election, as well as publishing investigations in the Times and hosting the Times Radio Trump Report podcast. In her spare time, she advocates for neurodiversity in the newsroom and the benefits it can bring to telling news.

Alex has worked as a local democracy reporter for six years, in three patches. He started his career in Reading and West Berkshire, then returned to Cardiff (where he studied politics and German and a masters in journalism), and finally moved to Bristol in 2022. Alex writes about local politics for several newspapers and websites, focusing on public interest journalism and covering the city council. Articles that he has written have sparked an extensive clean-up project to stop a rubbish tip leaking pollution into Cardiff Bay, and a city-wide boycott of the former Bristol mayor's press conferences. Alex grew up in Exeter.

Rosie Maggs is the founder and Editor in Chief of The Historians and Little Historians Magazines. Rosie founded The Historians Magazine with the aim to publish historians no matter their academic background, allowing budding writers to get their work showcased in a professional publication. The Little Historians Magazine is for 7-12-year-olds to discover and enjoy history. Rosie’s goal is that more people enjoy high quality history articles from a range of different historians and that more budding historians are able to get their work published.

Serafina Kenny is a Junior Health Reporter at Business Insider. She's also written for the Lead, Women's Health, and BABMAG, as well as her own Substack blog. Serafina graduated from the University of Manchester in 2024 with a Master's degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture after completing an undergraduate degree in English Literature and History. At Manchester she wrote for The Mancunion where she was opinion editor and then features editor while also co-hosting a feminist podcast on student radio.

Toni is a freelance sports broadcaster and producer with over five years of experience in the sports industry. Throughout his career, he has worked with top media organisations such as talkSPORT, Sky Sports, and ESPN, covering some of the biggest events in world football. From the excitement of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar to the intensity of AFCON and the drama of both the Men’s and Women’s Euros, he has been at the heart of the action. His experience has also led him to launch a podcast, where he showcases his work at upcoming major tournaments, bringing fans closer to the game and giving players a chance to speak freely different to how it's normally done in today's media.

Maddie Parker is a reporter for Bloomberg in London, she is currently rotating round the newsroom having completed a summer internship in 2023 and has covered UK politics, global business, and agriculture. Before graduating in 2024, she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Palatinate, Durham's student newspaper, and previously wrote for the paper's sports section. In 2023, she was named Best Journalist in the SPA Regional Awards, and was highly commended for Best Sport Reporter in the National Awards. She was also shortlisted for a Football Writers' Association award for student football writing.

Ella Woszczyk is a content director at Clear Sky Publishing and the chief reporter for the Torbay Weekly, a local Devon publication. She began in student journalism at the University of Bristol, where she completed a degree in English Literature in 2024. She is now studying for her NCTJ Diploma in Journalism while working. In the nine months since graduating, Ella has produced a weekly newspaper and researched and written features for Exeter Living, a luxury lifestyle magazine. She has also created content for an Exeter tourist guide and Torbay’s new business magazine, Torbay Tomorrow. She leads content for the Torbay Weekly website and implements SEO strategies across social media to expand readership.

Tiwa Adebayo is an experienced journalist, broadcaster and former financial services professional, she currently works at Bloomberg News. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Tiwa worked extensively as a freelance journalist writing articles for publications including British Vogue and The Independent. Tiwa also appears regularly on television channels including ITV’s Good Morning Britain and ABC’s Good Morning America discussing a range of topics - notably she reported extensively on the death of Queen Elizabeth II for American television channels. Alongside her journalism, Tiwa has experience working in the City of London - most recently as an Assistant Vice President at Columbia Threadneedle Investments and previously advising listed companies on their communications strategy.

Ellie is a musician, broadcaster and author who grew up a violinist before earning a choral scholarship to Royal Holloway, University of London in 2018. Familiar with being the only person of colour on stage and passionate diversity in classical music, she launched Down with the Patribachy, a podcast spotlighting neglected composers, in 2021. Soon after, she became a Trainee Presenter on BBC Radio 3’s inaugural Open Music scheme, hosting the 2022 BBC Proms launch. That year, she also published her first book, Iconic People of Colour. She went on to present Sounds Connected on Radio 3 and was named a Radio Academy ‘30 Under 30’ in 2023. Now Marketing Executive at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, she continues her advocacy through debut podcasts, which she co-founded in 2024. Away from work, she loves embroidery, painting, and netball — when she’s not doting on her two needy cats.

Simon Newton is a video journalist focusing on defence and the war in Ukraine. He has spent the past decade reporting from conflict zones including Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq for BFBS Forces News. This included five years based in Cyprus covering the war on ISIS. After beginning his career on newspapers as a crime reporter, he moved to ITV News, winning an RTS nomination for his coverage of the Suffolk Murders. Simon later moved to Sky News and the BBC covering the London riots, phone hacking and the Leveson Inquiry.

Tristan Werkmeister is a French video journalist and producer. Prior to joining Reuters, Tristan worked at PinkNews, where he managed a team of video producers focusing on hard news and foreign-language content, and spearheaded the coverage of the 2024 UK general election. Tristan previously worked at The Associated Press as a Video Journalist, where he self-shot and produced stories ranging from Boris Johnson’s resignation in the UK to flying taxis in Paris. He started his career as a Fact-Checking and Investigative Journalist at France 24 and France Info, using Open-Source Intelligence for visual explainers on terrorism attacks and wars.

Lowri Lewis is a reporter at Solent News and Photo Agency, based in Southampton. Her role involves a lot of court reporting and she's often sent out to do vox pops for national papers. She has bylines in The Times, The Mirror and MailOnline. She has an MA in News Journalism from Cardiff University, and an English and French BA from the University of Bristol. She was the Wales officer for the SPA while completing her master's last year, and was an opinion columnist for Epigram while at the University of Bristol.

Michael is a foreign news reporter for Sky News. He writes breaking stories and long form features for the website and app, covering everything from the war in Ukraine and far-right US politics, to migration routes and refugee welfare. While at Sky News, he has also helped to develop new and innovative ways to bring stories to readers. Before joining Sky News he worked as a regional correspondent for the Press Association, reporting on stories from across the south east and also in Europe. He previously worked as a court reporter and local journalist.

Sam Doak is an OSINT Producer at Sky News.  While the OSINT desk supports coverage from most parts of the newsrooms, his main interests are conflict and extremism. Before working at Sky, Sam covered misinformation at Logically and carried out investigative research as a freelancer. His first job in journalism was covering local news in the southside of Glasgow for Greater Govanhill.

After graduating with a first class degree in Creative and Professional writing in 2011 Michelle Morgan Davies secured a job at Pizza Hut.  After a year of waitressing she was accepted onto a work experience placement with a national press agency who later hired her as a feature writer for eight years covering the South Wales patch for newspapers and women's magazines.  In 2019 Michelle took the leap to go freelance and now works as a news and features journalist and a PR consultant, helping business owners share their expertise in the news and advising PR professionals on their strategy.

Owain Evans is a football journalist based in the United States, where he has covered events as varied as the CONCACAF Gold Cup final down to local qualifiers for the U.S. Open Cup. After freelancing for various outlets over the years and dabbling in radio broadcasting, he is currently a reporter for PHNX Sports, where he contributes written content and co-hosts radio podcasts focused around the local football club. As a student, Owain was the editor of Exeposé at the University of Exeter."

Amy Beecham is a multi-award-winning journalist and currently the senior writer at Stylist Magazine. Working across both print and digital, she specialises in long-read features on everything from the impact of digital misogyny on young women to how elite dating apps are contributing to the 'anxiety economy' around finding love. She has appeared on BBC News, TalkTV and written for titles including The Sunday Times, Glamour, Bustle and Metro. She is also the author of the Wasting Potential newsletter, where she questions modern notions of success, ambition and achievement.

Rob is an author and freelance journalist who is a regular sketchwriter for The Critic. He spent 16 years covering the British government for Bloomberg, taking in five prime ministers, as many elections, and the odd referendum. Before that, he worked for the Mirror and the Financial Times.

Ben Bradshaw trained as a journalist on local papers in Exeter and Norwich before moving to radio with the BBC in Devon. Partly on the strength of his spoken German, he was appointed Berlin correspondent by the BBC at the beginning of 1989 a few months before the dramatic events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall that year and German reunification. He then worked as a roving reporter & fill-in presenter on BBC Radio’s World At One, PM and World This Weekend Programmes and was selected as Labour Parliamentary candidate for Exeter in 1996. He won the seat from the Conservatives and held it consistently until he left Parliament at last year’s election. Ben served in a number of ministerial posts in the Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including as Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport. He appeared regularly in the media, both as a Minister and back bench MP and still pops up from time to time, as a commentator on current political events.

Originally from Dublin, Nuala has presented Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 since May 2024 after six years Nuala presenting OS on the World Service. She has reported from more than 30 countries throughout her career and has covered several of the most important events in recent history with the BBC, including the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and coronation of King Charles III. Nuala was also the lead presenter for both of Donald Trump’s inaugurations in Washington, D.C. for the World Service and 5Live. During her time at Woman’s Hour, she has already interviewed an incredible line-up of women including Malala Yousafzai, Laura Dern, Rosamund Pike and Arlo Parks.

Morgan Jeffery is a British journalist specialising in television and entertainment. He serves as Digital Editor at Radio Times, overseeing all digital editorial operations in collaboration with the brand's Editorial Director and contributing in-depth articles and interviews. Before joining Radio Times, Jeffery was the TV Editor at Digital Spy, where he covered a wide range of television news and features. He has provided expert commentary on television and radio for broadcasters including the BBC, Sky and Channel 5, and is the co-host of the Two Geeks, Two Beers podcast, exploring various facets of pop culture.

Josh Sandiford is a freelance multimedia journalist. He mainly covers regional news and was most recently a journalist for BBC News in the West Midlands. He was previously a senior reporter at the Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Live. Before that he worked freelance with bylines at The Guardian, The Observer, The Big Issue, and others. He was shortlisted for young journalist of the year at the 2022 Regional Press Awards and shortlisted for the same award at the Media Freedom Awards in 2023. Former deputy editor of The Mancunion, Josh is passionate about helping students and aspiring journalists wherever he can.

Freya Parr is the Deputy Editor of National Trust Magazine and a freelance journalist based in Bristol, specialising in the arts and culture industries. She is the former Editor of Drama & Theatre Magazine, and previously worked for BBC Music Magazine as Digital Editor & Staff Writer. She is a regular contributor to titles including BBC Countryfile Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, Guardian, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Nearfield and Music Teacher Magazine. Alongside her journalism, Freya works with a range of commercial clients on copywriting and communications management, contributing programme notes for concert series such as Duke Arts in the US and record labels including Warner Classics.

Adam Quarshie is a journalist with the Bristol Cable, a pioneering local media cooperative, where he covers arts and culture and social issues. He’s also worked as a freelance music journalist for many years, writing features, artist profiles and reviews for publications such as Crack, The Quietus and The Wire. Alongside his work in journalism, he has worked in digital communications and copywriting roles for non-profit and community organisations, trade unions and universities.

Charlie Beckett is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications. He is the founding director of Polis, the London School of Economics' international journalism think-tank. Professor Beckett is currently leading the Polis Journalism and AI project. He was director of the LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission that reported on the misinformation crisis in 2018. Before joining the LSE in 2006 he was an award-winning journalist for over 20 years at LWT, BBC and ITN.

Flora Carmichael is the editor of BBC Trending - a BBC World Service programme and podcast which offers in-depth reporting on the world of social media. Her team is part of BBC Verify, which is a specialist unit focused on open source investigations, fact checking, data stories, and exposing disinformation. Previously, she led BBC Monitoring’s disinformation team and the Trusted News Initiative - a collaboration between the BBC, major news publishers and technology platforms. She has produced investigations about trolling and influence operations, and series produced a 2022 BBC Radio 4 series ‘The Future Will be Synthesised’ about AI-generated media.

Yasmeen Serhan is an American British journalist with nearly a decade of experience covering foreign affairs for American magazines. Prior to joining Reuters as digital features editor in January, she was a foreign affairs writer for TIME, where she penned cover stories, profiles, and analysis from the magazine's London bureau. Before TIME, Yasmeen was a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covered global affairs with a focus on populism and nationalism. She was based out of the magazine’s London bureau, which she helped launch in 2017 as a reporter covering Britain and Europe. She was previously an editorial fellow on The Atlantic’s news desk in Washington, D.C.

Poonam Taneja is an investigative journalist, broadcaster and writer for BBC News, specialising in race, security and global affairs. She is also the host and creator for the multi-award winning podcast series, Bloodlines – a co-production between BBC Sounds and CBC Podcasts. Bloodlines garnered the New York Radio Festival Radio Awards Grand Prize, the DIG award and three nominations at the British Podcast Awards in 2024. Poonam Taneja was also a finalist for the Foreign Press Association Media Awards in 2024 and has reported from Afghanistan, Syria, India, Bosnia and many other countries across the world.

Andy is a freelance LGBT+ culture journalist. He is Bristol24/7’s LGBT+ Editor, and writes all digital and print features related to Bristol’s booming LGBT+ community. He was asked to write a book chapter for Our City: Community Activism in Bristol. His chapter focused on Bristol’s LGBT+ community building a support network for themselves against a backdrop of increasing anti-LGBT+ hostility from the UK government. Recently featured across 10 pages in Attitude Magazine’s January/February edition, his work focuses on bringing underrepresented perspectives to mainstream media. His feature for Attitude looked at Istanbul’s LGBT+ community as they fight against a government that’s increasingly hostile to Turkey’s queer population.

Lucy O'Brien is a Platforms and Social Media Journalist for The Times and The Sunday Times. Working across all sections of the papers, her role focuses on finding innovative ways to tell stories on social media while helping to engage new and younger audiences with the journalism. She primarily works in news and has covered both the UK and US elections, as well as major breaking events like the attempt on Donald Trump’s life. In addition to her role, she has freelanced as a writer, with bylines in The Sunday Times, Stylist, HuffPost UK, and Harper’s Bazaar, often covering topics related to Gen Z issues, women in the workplace, and sex and relationships.

Annabelle began her career with a two-year apprenticeship in the BBC’s political newsroom, Millbank, where she honed her reporting skills and deepened her understanding of the UK’s political system. This led to a prestigious position with the BBC World Service, where she now contributes to global news coverage. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for stories following the rise of extremism among young people on social media and spread of far-right political networks globally, Annabelle hopes to continue making significant strides in the world of journalism.

Richard Brooks is Director of Media and Partnerships at polling company Ipsos, and is a proud trustee of the Student Publication Association. His background is in campaigning and the education sector, where he has worked for a number of national political campaigns. Richard is also a governor of Dover Technical College, his hometown further education institution.