“How women shape the news.” As we face a high -stakes election what role does modern media play? STARTS AT 6.30 with Drinks
With confirmed speakers Rachel Corp, WiJ chair and CEO of ITN; Beth Rigby, Sky News Political Editor; Debbie Ramsay, Editor of 5 News, Pippa Crerar, political editor of the Guardian and Channel 4 News Fact Check and Data Editor Georgina Lee.
In an election year, and with constantly breaking news stories, we meet the women responsible for bringing the news into people's home and reporting the events shaping our times.
Beth Rigby is political editor for Sky. She has worked as a political journalist for nearly a decade, covering two general elections, the Scottish independence and EU referendums. She has interviewed the biggest names in British politics, and broken exclusive stories around cabinet reshuffles, splits and the Brexit crisis.
Beth worked as a newspaper journalist for nearly two decades at The Times and Financial Times, where she held a variety of positions including media editor, deputy political editor and consumer industries editor.
A former financial journalist, she won awards for her work as the Financial Times' retail correspondent and hedge fund writer.
Debbie Ramsay worked at the BBC for 16 years. She was an Executive Editor at BBC News in charge of commissioning original journalism, and before that she was Head of Youth Journalism. Debbie had senior editorial roles at Radio 1 and 1Xtra, leading a large team of journalists to provide news for the BBC's flagship multi-platform youth outlets.
She began her career working on local newspapers in the northwest of England, before moving into local radio there and in Birmingham before going on to Capital FM in presenting and breakfast news editor roles. She now works at Channel 5.
Pippa Crerar was previously deputy Political Editor at The Guardian before her promotion to political editor and spent a decade covering London and Westminster politics for the Evening Standard, including the mayoralties of Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan. She was also the Political Editor of the Daily Mirror, based in Parliament.
Before Rachel Corp was appointed CEO of ITN, she was Editor of ITV News, produced by ITN, where she was responsible for the vision, strategy and direction for all of ITV’s national news programmes and digital output, as well as overseeing ITV News London, ITV News-produced Tonight programme episodes, current affairs series On Assignment, and special live programmes such as General Elections and Royal events. Rachel was appointed chair of WiJ in 2023.
This event is sponsored by Walkers & Cision.