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Welcome to our journalism masterclasses for 2020-21.

he masterclasses comprise a programme Tof weekly talks from established journalists – many of whom learned their craft right here in the Department of Journalism Studies at – and other figures with unique and valuable perspectives on the media. They represent a place where the academy welcomes key players from the media industries, and students who engage in journalism practice and study learn at first-hand about their preoccupations, concerns and experiences. Those who report, present, manage, regulate or simply reflect on the rapidly changing media world give an insight into the industries our students aspire to join. We regard the masterclasses as an essential element of your applied journalism knowledge, and students taking BA Journalism Studies and MA Journalism are expected to attend. Students on other degree programmes are also very welcome to join. How to take part For the 2020-21 academic year the masterclasses will take place online. They’re scheduled for 12 noon on Tuesdays throughout term time. We’ll email you a link to join shortly before each session begins. We encourage students to engage with the masterclasses using . Please use hashtag #jusmasterclass and feel free to tag the department (@sheffjournalism on , @shefjournalism on Instagram).

Week 1 Tuesday 9 February Subhajit Banerjee Head of Digital Transformation at

ubhajit Banerjee is a journalist turned civil Sservant. He is currently working as the Head of Digital Transformation & Rapid Response Unit in the Prime Minister’s Office & Cabinet Office digital communications team and was the Head of Content prior to that. He joined the civil service after a career of 15 years in journalism with stints at , the Telegraph, Conde Nast and news outlets in India. He did his masters in broadcast journalism as an international student at the University of Sheffield in 2007.

Week 2 Tuesday 16 February Terri White Editor-in-Chief, Empire

erri White is an award-winning Teditor with 20 years’ experience working for publishing companies on both sides of the Atlantic. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of film and entertainment brand Empire, having joined in 2015 from Time Out North America. Terri is also a writer, having been published in The Guardian, Guardian , Style, Grazia, The Big Issue, Q, Red, Elle, Caught by the River, Refinery 29, Hole & Corner and magazine. She published her first bookComing Undone, A Memoir (Canongate) in July 2020 and production company Bad Wolf has optioned the TV rights. Terri is the current Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year and was named one of the 150 female leaders redefining the creative industries in 2017 and one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media in 2015. She is also a broadcaster, regularly appearing on Radio 4, Talk Radio, BBC , , BBC News, ITV News and LBC and is co-host on the weekly Pilot TV Podcast. Terri is a BAFTA member and was recently made a Fellow of the RSA in recognition of her work in print journalism and contribution to the magazine industry. Week 3 Tuesday 23 February Callum Hancock Victim of male sexual abuse

allum is a professional boxer Cfrom Sheffield but states his biggest fight to date is one with life. Although he grew up in a loving environment, outside the family home life was completely different. In 2015 Callum sat his parents down to tell them he had been sexually abused and raped as a child by an older individual who made his early life a misery. Callum is currently the only active professional boxer globally to speak out about lived experience of male abuse to create positive change. Callum has shared his experience with the media, governing bodies, schools, universities, prisons and the NHS, among many other avenues where audiences can listen, learn, engage and understand, to break a silence that society has kept for far too long. Lesley Card

Week 4 Tuesday 2 March South Police

esley Card, Amy Nagy and Gael Lesley graduated in 2009 after LStigant are all graduates of the studying BA Journalism Studies University of Sheffield’s journalism alongside Gael. Upon finishing her department. studies, Lesley’s ultimate ambition was to work in the police press After graduation, they took different office, but there were no jobs career paths which all eventually led available! to the Corporate Communications department at Police. Lesley spent several years working Corporate Communications facilitates in B2B marketing and PR for a range effective communications and of industries including engineering, engagement to help the force deliver architecture and IT. Finally, in 2012, the best possible service to the public. Lesley secured a role working as a Media Officer for South Yorkshire The team operates a reactive press Police and has spent the last nine office, promotes proactive news years working in the Corporate and activity and delivers a variety of Communications department. campaigns throughout the year. The team is also responsible for internal While at SYP, Lesley has held communications across the force. various specialist roles, including overseeing force communications for child sexual exploitation and abuse – most notably the press and communications around the CSE trials. She is currently the force lead for communications relating to domestic abuse, honour based abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation. She has also provided communications and media support to all four districts in South Yorkshire throughout her career. Amy Nagy Gael Stigant

After graduating in 2011 with an MA Gael has been the Communications in Broadcast Journalism, Amy spent Hub Manager for SYP for two years. seven years working as a journalist in Prior to this, she spent more than local radio. a decade in newspaper journalism, starting off as a trainee reporter Her career began over in at the Chronicle and then at commercial radio working for a number of regional station Lincs FM, where she was a titles. In her time as a reporter she newsreader and reporter, covering covered high-profile court cases major incidents, local politics and including the Rotherham CSE trials farming. Highlights include being and reported from the Hillsborough first on the scene at a gas explosion, inquests. interviewing then PM and visiting the country’s largest In 2016, Gael became Head of News pumpkin producer. for the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds. She managed a team of Amy then moved back to Sheffield as the title covered major to take a three-month contract with events such as the Jo Cox murder BBC Radio Sheffield. Five years later trial, and was heavily involved in she was still there, co-presenting the transition to a truly digital-first and producing the daily breakfast culture in the newsroom. show with Toby Foster and waking up South Yorkshire every morning. In her current role, Gael is responsible for the day-to-day Amy joined SYP in 2018. Over management of the media team. the last couple of years she has She is the force’s comms lead for been the district communications fraud and cybercrime and has also officer for Sheffield, supporting co-ordinated the communications the city’s command team with around high-profile incidents communications around such issues including the devastating murders of as gun crime, organised criminal two young brothers in Shiregreen, gangs, Page Hall and the police Sheffield. response to the 2019 floods.

Week 5 Tuesday 9 March BBC Breakfast, BBC Sport

an Walker is an award-winning the broadcaster’s Open golf coverage DBBC sport presenter and anchor for 11 years and was an integral part of BBC Breakfast. He hosts BBC of the BBC’s Olympic offering in both One’s and the NFL 2012 and 2016. Show and regularly presents Match He is also the author of Dan Walker’s of the Day. Dan studied history and Thronkersaurus: Football’s Finest then journalism at the University of Tales and Magic, Mud & Maradona Sheffield and helped to set up the and most recently Remarkable People: University’s radio station. He then Extraordinary Stories of Everyday moved to Hallam FM before spending Lives, where he recounts the inspiring four years at ’s Key 103 as stories of the courage and selflessness a presenter and commentator. Dan of people he has met throughout his then moved into television – initially career. at ITV and then the BBC. He’s covered Wimbledon, the Grand National, Dan lives in Sheffield with his wife Royal Ascot, the Derby, and the Six and three children and has set up a Nations. He has continued to work on bursary scheme in the Department of domestic, European and international Journalism Studies which sponsors football (including every major two MA students every year. tournament since 2004), co-hosted

Week 6 Tuesday 16 March Chi Chi Izundu Senior Digital Reporter BBC News

hi Chi’s career began at the controversial police risk assessment Cage of 17 as a columnist for Girl form 696, Chi also exposed links About Town magazine. She worked as between grime music and gang a researcher and producer with the violence in the UK and profiteering on BBC, studied at City University, then the resale of gig tickets. Chi has also joined ’s entertainment worked for the BBC’s Newsgathering news team. She freelanced at Sky team as a correspondent for their News and worked at ITN before flagship six and ten o’clock evening returning to the BBC as a reporter on news shows, travelling to Jamaica Radio 1Xtra, where she presented the to cover the and two-hour news magazine show TXU reporting on Black Lives Matter and entertainment news on the Trevor protests in the UK and the coronavirus Nelson breakfast show. With BBC outbreak. Radio 1’s entertainment news team She’s also embarked on a new role, she broke a number of big stories, sourcing original journalism as a including an expose on the ticketing senior digital reporter for outlets industry which contributed to across BBC platforms, making sure winning a Gold award. the voices of underserved audiences Chi then moved to the Victoria are heard on BBC platforms, as in show, with a brief to bring her recent story on how workplaces hard entertainment news stories. should make their environments more As well as breaking a story on the neurodiverse-friendly. atthew Bannister is a Radio in London and then Mbroadcaster and former senior Radio 1 Newsbeat. Matthew was also BBC executive who was born and a senior BBC manager. In 1989, he brought up in Sheffield. He is the re-launched the BBC’s London radio founder and host of the award- station as GLR, giving early breaks to winning podcast Folk on Foot, in , and Danny which he goes walking with leading Baker. As controller of Radio 1 in the folk musicians in the landscapes that 1990s, Matthew repositioned the have inspired their music. In a media station to attract a younger audience, career lasting over 40 years, he’s been making controversial changes to the a presenter on many of the BBC’s DJ line-up and music policy which radio networks, including fronting his are credited with the success of own late-night show on Radio 5Live; Britpop. He subsequently became ten years as host of Outlook on the the BBC’s Director of Radio, Chief BBC World Service; and, since 2006, Executive of Production and Director presenting Radio 4’s weekly obituary of Marketing and Communication. He programme Last Word. is a Fellow of the and the Royal Society of Arts and holds He started his career in 1978 as a honorary doctorates from Nottingham reporter and presenter on BBC University and Sheffield Hallam Radio Nottingham before moving to University.

Week 7 Tuesday 23 March Broadcaster and media executive Week 8 Tuesday 20 April Punteha van Terheyden Freelance journalist and editor

unteha van Terheyden is a Pfreelance journalist and editor who specialises in true-life features for press. She is also founder of ethical journalism platform www.lacunavoices.com. Punteha did an undergrad in English language and journalism, before going on to work at INS News Agency for two years. Afterwards she shifted for three months on the national papers and women’s magazines, before joining Take a Break, Britain’s biggest selling women’s weekly magazine, working her way up to become commissioning editor. Later, Punteha became features editor across the true-life hub for Chat, Pick Me Up, Woman and Woman’s Own. Week 9 arry Horton is Political Tuesday 27 April HCorrespondent for ITV Calendar. Based in , he covers the Harry Horton work of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire MPs and government policy relating Political Correspondent to the North. He studied Maths and ITV Calendar then Broadcast Journalism at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 2014. He’s worked at News as a producer in London and Washington DC, and spent four years reporting on the Trump White House for Good Morning Britain, LBC, Radio New Zealand and Channel News Asia of Singapore. iz is a freelance sports journalist Week 10 Lwith almost 20 years’ experience Tuesday 4 May at national, international and Olympic levels. She chose to retrain Liz Byrnes as a journalist in 2001, having been previously employed in marketing and Sports journalist PR. Since then Liz has covered three Olympic and two Paralympic Games, more than 15 world and European Championships in swimming, athletics and cycling and three Commonwealth Games. She also reports on Premier League and Championship football across Yorkshire and Lancashire on a weekly basis for . After retraining, Liz spent 12 years at the Press Association before going freelance in January 2014. Since then commissions have included the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, as well as national and international outlets including AP, AFP, , , The Guardian, , and Mail on Sunday. She is currently the European correspondent at Swimming World. Liz has also worked on the news service teams at many international sporting events including the 2016 Olympics in Rio and 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the European Championships, European Games, World Military Games and the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Work has taken her around the world including Brazil, Turkmenistan, China, Republic of Korea, the United States and India as well as Europe. She has met many Olympic champions from Usain Bolt to Michael Phelps and, most impressively, the Pope! Week 11 Tuesday 11 May Paul Jeeves Northern Correspondent Daily Express

aul Jeeves has worked as Northern PCorrespondent on the Daily Express for 15 years. During that time he has covered many of Britain’s biggest stories including the Manchester Arena terror attack, the abduction of Shannon Matthews, the manhunt for crazed killer Raoul Moat and the murderous rampage of Cumbrian taxi driver Derrick Bird. Paul started his career in 1996 at the Pontefract and Castleford Express as a trainee and was approached to do weekend shifts at the after scooping the world with an interview of the parents of young nurse Vicki Fletcher, who was shot dead by her lover – former SAS soldier turned doctor Thomas Shanks. He moved to the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds in 1999 where notable stories included covering the Leeds United footballer’s trial and the murder of PC Ian Broadhurst by a hitman who was America’s most wanted man. He was recruited by the Daily Express following his work on the 7/7 London terror attacks. Alongside reporting hard news, Paul also engages in his personal passion to cover arts and music for the Express. Week 12 Tuesday 18 May Nadine White News reporter HuffPost UK

Nadine White is a news reporter at HuffPost UK covering current affairs, race and social justice since 2018. Previously, she was a journalist at The Voice newspaper – Britain’s biggest Black publication. She has been nominated for and won a number of awards, most recently for her Covid-19 coverage and reporting around the Windrush scandal. Nadine was the first Black reporter to be shortlisted for the prestigious Award in its history. Her reporting was shortlisted for a 2018 Amnesty Media Award and before this, Nadine was a Journalism Prize finalist. Carving out a reputation as one of Britain’s leading Black journalists, the millennial amplifies perspectives from within marginalised communities through her work, regularly influencing the national news agenda. Touted as a ‘rising star’ by iNews, Nadine has been lauded across mainstream media entities including the BBC, The Guardian, LBC and the Society of Editors. Nadine has collaborated with organisations including Verizon Media, the British Council and Prison Radio Association to inform, educate and inspire audiences about the press industry. #jusmasterclass