Ayshah Tull is an award-winning reporter for Channel 4 News.

She joined the programme in 2019 and previously worked for BBC Newsround from 2013-2018.

Her broadcasting on the programme has included extensive coverage of the coronavirus crisis, and she has also led reports on the Black Lives Matter protests in the UK.

In 2020 Ayshah won Journalist of the Year and the Grand Prize at The Drum Online Media Awards, the first time this has been awarded to an individual.

James is an award-winning, nationally syndicated newspaper cartoonist whose work has also appeared in books and a wide variety of magazines both in the UK and abroad, including titles such as Private Eye, Prospect, Hi-Fi News, the Dalesman, and the Author.

He worked as a reporter and feature writer for many publications including the weekly Sheffield Telegraph and daily Sheffield Star, the Independent, and numerous online clients such as Adobe before making the move into visual satire.

James has published academic work on subjects ranging from British newspapers' coverage of the second world war and 1945 general election to the Profumo affair and the Daily Mirror's use of satiric cartoons.

Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication, UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity and has been chair of the interdisciplinary research institute Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) since 2008.

As UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity, Jackie actively promotes in-depth collaborative academic research with centres of expertise, media and NGOs, governments and international bodies on issues of journalism safety, media freedom, freedom of expression, media capture and the effectiveness of the media as a civil institution.

Jackie has written about the civil power of the news; media freedom and the use of the factual mass media in post-conflict reconstruction and sustainable peace.

Professor Adrian Bingham is a Professor of Modern British History and the Head of Department at the Department of History, University of Sheffield.

His main research interests are in the political, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain. He has worked extensively on the national popular press in the decades after 1918, examining the ways in which newspapers both reflected and shaped British society and culture.

His first book explored press debates about femininity and masculinity in the inter-war period. His second book, 'Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-1978' explored the role of the press as a source of information and imagery about sex, morality and personal relationships.

He is currently working on a project entitled ‘Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives: Democratic Engagement in Britain, 1918-1992’ investigating how British citizens understood politics and how they viewed its relationship to their lives, from 1918 to 1992.

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