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Centres and Peripheries Conference

Conference Programme

The conference programme is available for download: pdf version; word doc version.

Keynote speakers

Tom Thomson, formerly Managing Editor of Reuters, and currently Group Managing Editor of the Herald & Times Group.

Professor Christopher Waddell teaches Journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. He reported on economics and business for the Globe and Mail before becoming associate editor, then national editor, of the paper. Subsequently he was the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Parliamentary Bureau Chief in Ottawa.

Enric Castelló of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia. Has has worked as on-line project coordinator for the Barcelona daily La Vanguardia and has had an active involvement with a range of other media outlets such as the Valencian daily newspaper Levante-EMV, the Catalan-language daily Avui and the EFE press agency.

Paul Riddell who recently moved from a senior post at The Scotsman to take up the editorship of the Shetland Times, and will reflect on the different centre/periphery relationships he has encountered.

Download the abstracts of the papers being presented at the conference (pdf).

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