The James Cameron Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dorothy Byrne.
"Politicians and Journalists - Best of Enemies"
Dorothy Byrne
Dorothy was the Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel Four Television for seventeen years. Programmes Dorothy commissioned won many BAFTA, International Emmy and Royal Television Society Awards. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for her ‘outstanding contribution to television’. She also won the BBC Grierson Trustees Award for contribution to documentary at the British Documentary Awards; received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards; was awarded a BAFTA Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television; and won the Women in Film and Television Award for contribution to television.
Dorothy was Executive Producer of Leaving Neverland, The Hunt for Jihadi John, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, The Ballymurphy Precedent, The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill, Island of Secrets and Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster.
Dorothy Byrne is the President of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.
James Cameron Memorial Lecture
The James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given every year in memory of prominent British journalist James Cameron. The lecture has previously been delivered by a distinguished group of speakers including Ben Bradlee, Michael Grade, Alan Rusbridger, Tony Benn, Greg Dyke, Sir Max Hastings and more recently, Clive Myrie, Lyse Doucet, Christine Ockrent, Jeremy Bowen, Robert Peston, Gary Younge, Gideon Rachman and Isabel Hilton.
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Eric Robins Prize
The Eric Robins Prize is awarded to a recent graduate in Eric’s memory before the Cameron Lecture each year, to recognise outstanding journalism demonstrating original reporting, professionalism and initiative.
While working as a journalist for the Daily Mirror, Eric Robins was placed with the Army Intelligence Corps during the Second World War. This meant that, at the end of the war, he covered the Nuremberg trials.
He later moved to Africa and worked for many years as a feature writer for a number of international newspapers and, from the early 1960s to 1979, was a correspondent for the Time-Life news service, covering many African countries.
Deported from Rhodesia shortly after UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) because the ruling regime didn't like Time's reports, he moved to Nairobi, Kenya.
The prize has been generously donated by Eric's widow Marion Kaplan.
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