Harbingers’ Magazine Newsroom Experience 2023

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For the second time, Harbingers Magazine opens its pop-up newsroom in Oxford. Join us from the 3rd until the 15th of August to experience daily editorials, explore the medieval city housing one of the world‘s most famous universities and deliver quality articles for the world’s first professional, youth-driven magazine.

As in every editorial around the world, our days in Oxford begin with an editorial meeting. You and your colleagues from the newsroom will decide what is important and worth writing about, who is capable of delivering the most accurate copy and plan the publication schedule. Then you will work on your articles for Harbingers’ Magazine.

Your work will be driven by what you find interesting and important, and at every stage of the process, you will be supported by a team of experienced journalists — reporters, columnists and editors from various British and international media.

If everything goes according to plan, by the end of the course, you will have published three articles: a news piece, a column and a feature.

Key information

Dates: August 3 – arrival and inauguration dinner. The conference takes place from August 4 to August 14. August 15 – departure.

Accommodation: Full board, single ensuite room at Ruth Deech Building, St Anne’s College, Oxford. An adult supervisor will be present onsite overnight.

Newsroom: Glen Callater Room, HB Allen Centre, Keble College, Oxford.

Day plan: 7-9 am: Breakfast; 10 am – 2 pm: First session (Editorial, lecture and writing class); 2 -3 pm: Lunch break; 3-5 pm: Second session (Special guest’s workshop or editing class); 6 pm: Dinner.

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Media professionals as instructors...

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    Tatev Hovhannisyan

    Europe & Eurasia Editor, openDemocracy
    2022 Emma Goldman Award

    Tatev Hovhannisyan

    Europe & Eurasia Editor, openDemocracy
    2022 Emma Goldman Award

    An Armenian investigative journalist and editor, Tatev is currently openDemocracy’s Europe and Eurasia editor on the Tracking the Backlash project. She has 13 years of editorial experience, and her writing has appeared in numerous international media outlets, including the BBC, Euronews, and the Guardian. Tatev is also a lecturer at the Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences.

    In 2022, she won an Emma Goldman Award for innovative research on feminist and inequality issues in Europe – the first time a journalist has won the award.

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    Eleanor Margolis

    Freelance journalist
    London, United Kingdom

    Eleanor Margolis

    Freelance journalist
    London, United Kingdom

    Eleanor Margolis is a freelance journalist. She started off her career writing a column – Lez Miserable – for the New Statesman, in 2013, and now covers culture and society for the Guardian, the i, the Telegraph, and more. She writes about culture and LGBTQ issues, but has also branched out into everything from food to politics. She also does interviews and features.

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    Stanislaw Skarzynski

    UK Correspondent, Gazeta Wyborcza
    Grand Press News Award 2016

    Stanislaw Skarzynski

    UK Correspondent, Gazeta Wyborcza
    Grand Press News Award 2016

    Since 2019, Stanislaw has served as the UK and international affairs correspondent for Poland’s largest newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

    During a career spanning over 15 years, he was a co-founder and deputy editor-in-chief of the NGO-run fact-checking and investigative journalism outlet OKO.press, and a managing editor of the Gazeta Wyborcza opinion section. His articles appeared in Die Welt, Le Figaro, and The Diplomat; he also commented for the BBC.

    In 2021, Stanislaw launched Harbingers’ Magazine and, in the following year, The Oxford School for the Future of Journalism.

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    Sarah Hussain

    Specialist reporter
    2022 NQJ Media Law and Ethics in Practice Award

    Sarah Hussain

    Specialist reporter
    2022 NQJ Media Law and Ethics in Practice Award

    Before joining the OXSFJ, Sarah was a Specialist Reporter at Archant Media Group’s Eastern Daily Press, where she covered the cost of living crisis, deprivation and mental health, and the war in Ukraine. With almost a decade of experience in the industry, Sarah holds the Level 6 National Qualification in Journalism and received the 2022 NQJ Media Law and Ethics in Practice Award. She conducted high-profile interviews with Liz Truss, Jeremy Corbyn amongst others.

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    Emily Whitehouse

    Fact-checker & Proofreader

    Emily Whitehouse

    Fact-checker & Proofreader

    Emily is an undergraduate psychology student at the University of East Anglia, with aspirations toward Educational psychology. At Harbinger’s Magazine, she teaches fact-checking and editing skills.

    Emily has worked across multiple colleges assisting students with disabilities and/or additional learning needs with mental health intervention and academic catch-up.

    Emily’s connection to literature comes in many forms; from writing and proofreading academic articles, to volunteering as a library assistant. In her free time, she is learning British Sign Language, alongside other creative pursuits of photography, and fashion design.

... and special guests from the leading British media

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    Matthew Campbell

    The Times | The Sunday Times
    Foreign Features Editor

    Matthew is the foreign features editor for The Times and Sunday Times. He has covered numerous wars, natural disasters and big political stories while serving as the paper’s bureau chief in Moscow in the early 1990s and later in Washington and Paris. He began his career in Latin America with Reuters.

    On August 8, Matthew Campbell will deliver a lecture and workshop on writing about foreign affairs journalism and translating travel into writing.

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    James Richings

    Bucks Free Press | Newsquest Media Group
    Community Content & Sports Reporter

    James is a reporter covering sports in Buckinghamshire for Bucks Free Press, part of the Newsquest Media Group, UK’s largest local media group.

    On August 10, James will lecture about the role of local news in the media and lead a workshop on sports reporting.

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    Lucy Ash

    BBC Radio Current Affairs
    Presenter & Reporter

    Lucy Ash is an award winning presenter of radio and TV documentaries. Driven by a passion for justice and human rights, she focuses on characters at the margins of society and conflicts which have dropped out of the headlines.

    On August 12, Lucy will lecture on impartiality in human rights reporting and and lead a workshop on editorial procedures.

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Last year, a group of nine students from the UK and abroad joined the first-ever Harbingers’ Magazine Oxford Newsroom to develop their skills in journalism.

One year later, Timur Boranbayev is the Economics Section editor, Sofiya Suleimenova takes on the role of the International Affairs section editor, and Sofia Radysh finishes her one-year tenure as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

For two weeks, students wrote about politics, science, culture and sports, interviewed history professors and AI entrepreneurs, and explored how climate change is affecting Oxfordshire.

The newsroom also hosted lectures and workshops from BBC’s anchor and reporter Kasia Madera, the London Review of Books’ feature writer James Meek and Liz Moseley from Tortoise Media.

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Contact us:

office@oxsfj.com | +44 (0) 7802 265 481

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