Events Newsletter 07/11/2019

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As 2019 drifts toward the festive season, we wanted to let you know about some exciting events we have planned for November.

On Tuesday 12 November, our chief executive Jodie Ginsberg will chair a panel on old and existing threats to press freedom at the Society of Editors’ 20th-anniversary conference in London. The Society of Editors marks two decades of campaigning to protect and maintain press freedoms in the UK at its annual conference this year. The panel will debate challenges to media freedom, featuring Elizabeth Denham, information commissioner, John Battle, head of compliance, ITN, John Whittingdale MP and Martin Breen, Sunday Life editor.

Index will also be taking part in FutureBook, The Bookseller’s annual publishing conference, to discuss the threats facing the freedom to publish globally on Monday 25 November. For 10 years FutureBook has tracked, interrogated, and challenged the way the international book business has embraced (and rebuffed) the digital content revolution.

Jodie Ginsberg will join panellists David Roth-Ey from HarperCollins, author Sunny Singh, and Molly Ker Hawn from The Bent Agency in a discussion chaired by the Guardian’s Alison Flood. This event will explore the ways FutureBook has tracked, interrogated, and challenged the way the international book business has embraced (and rebuffed) the digital content revolution.

Are we being watched? What problems – and what benefits – can be found in this world of constant surveillance? Also on Monday 25 November Index will be travelling to Norwich for Dragon Hall Debates where Jodie Ginsberg will explore the censoring effects of surveillance on the press, UEA’s Dr Joe Purshouse will challenge the legality of facial recognition technology and UEA’s Dr Kaeten Mistry will explore what happens after the proverbial whistle is blown. From Facebook to China, and the FBI to MI5, the ways in which we’re watched – and the question of who is watching us – seem to be omnipresent in the news cycle.

On Tuesday 26 November Index will travel to Amsterdam to join a panel as part of the FT Future of News Europe conference. The panel will ask: What can EU and national governments do to stop disinformation originating from foreign actors and domestic extremists? Could new rules pose a future risk for traditional media at the hands of populist leaders? What role does the media play in maintaining unity and liberalism in Europe? What limits – if any – can be extended to social media?

Psst: You can keep up to date with the latest debates and panels on the events section of the Index website.

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