Past Institute lectures

In the Public Eye

The media make people and events public. Love it or loathe it, people in public life have to live with it. Press freedom is essential to democracy, but freedom demands responsibility.

Videos

Press Freedom; Press Responsibility

Dame Ann Leslie, Columnist for the Daily Mail, and Nick Robinson, Today presenter, BBC, in conversation with Baroness D'Souza

Crowd-Sourcing Opinion

Professor Charles Beckett, Director of Polis, LSE and Barbara Speed, Comment Editor, The I, in conversation with Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

How Impartial?

Professor Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History and the Official Historian of the BBC, and Gary Gibbon, Political Editor, Channel 4 News, in conversation with Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court