The Press Club, Mumbai, takes great pleasure in inviting you to a special presentation by Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the well-known and widely-read British newspaper and website ‘The Guardian’.
The presentation – ‘THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM IN A DIGITAL AGE’ – by Mr Rusbridger will cover a wide gamut of issues looking at how journalism in the 21st Century has undergone a fundamental change from how it would be understood to a 19th or even 20th Century audience. Mr Rusbridger will describe the centrality of a two-way relationship between journalists and their readers in the digital age and how the idea of Open Journalism has shaped the Guardian's editorial strategy.
The event will be hosted at the Press Club on TUESDAY, MARCH 19th at 5.15 PM and will be followed by a Q & A session. Seating will be on a first-come-first-served basis and reporters and local editors are welcome to cover the event.
Alan Rusbridger has been editor of the Guardian since 1995. Rusbridger's career began on the Cambridge Evening News, where he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general reporter, feature writer and diary columnist before leaving to succeed Clive James and Julian Barnes as the Observer's TV critic.
In 1987 he worked as the Washington correspondent of the London Daily News before returning to the Guardian as a feature writer. He moved from writing to editing the following year, launching Guardian Weekend magazine and the paper's G2 section. He was made deputy editor in 1994, when he first started working on the paper's
initial forays into digital publishing.
He became editor of the Guardian in 1995 and oversaw the integration of the paper and digital operations. The Guardian is now the third largest newspaper website in the world and now attracts 78 million unique browsers a month.
The Guardian won the Newspaper of the Year Award at the 2011 Press Awards and Campaign magazine named the Guardian as Medium of the Year, 2011. Rusbridger was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Centre and recently received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the cause of press freedom from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
During his editorship the paper has fought a number of high-profile battles over libel and press freedom, including cases involving Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, the Police Federation, Trafigura, freedom of information and Wikileaks.
The paper was nominated newspaper of the year five times between 1996 and 2006. Rusbridger has been named editor of the year three times. Rusbridger and reporter Nick Davies received the UK's Media Society Award for their revelations and coverage of the phone hacking story in the Guardian.
Born in Zambia, he graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English in 1976. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a visiting professor of history at Queen Mary's College, London. He has honorary doctorates from Lincoln and Kingston Universities.
