Professor Natalie Fenton

Chair of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London

Professor Natalie Fenton is Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and Co-Director of Goldsmiths new Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. She has published widely on issues relating to civil society, radical politics, digital media, news and journalism. Her latest work, Democratic Delusion: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It (Polity, 2024) is a call for our media and technology systems to meet their potential to be democratic, and contribute to a just and transformative democracy.

Fenton’s other works include Digital, Political, Radical (Polity, 2016); Misunderstanding the Internet co-authored with James Curran and Des Freedman (2nd edition, Routledge, 2016); and the edited collection New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age (2010).

Professor P. Sainath

Founder Editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)

Professor Sainath is the Founder Editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India. The archive is an outcome of his three decades-plus in journalism – including a quarter century of reporting from rural India.

Sainath is the former Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, and is a writer and journalism teacher. He was the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize. He has also won the World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014, in Public Welfare reporting. He was the first reporter to win Amnesty International’s Global Award