Lectures

The James Cameron Memorial Lecture series has been running since 1987. Speakers and topics for each year are listed below.

James Cameron Memorial Lectures
Year	Speaker	Lecture title
2012	N. Ram, former Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu and Group publications	Sharing the best and the worst: The Indian news media in a global context
2011	Wadah Khanfar, former Director-General, Al Jazeera Network	Journalism and a world in transition
2010	Leonard Downie Jr, Vice-President-At-Large, Washington Post	The new news
2009	Joan Bakewell, broadcaster	The keeper of the flame: morality and the media
2008	Sir Max Hastings	In praise of newspapers: a love affair with print
2007	Roger Graef, OBE, Chief Executive, Films of Record	Public service broadcasting in the digital age
2006	Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC	Liberty - the first casualty in the war on terrorism
2005	Bill Bryson, writer	Notes from all over
2004	Greg Dyke, former Director-General, BBC	Broadcasters and politicians
2003	(No lecture)
2002	Jenny Abramsky	The future of radio
2001	Tony Benn	The media and the political process
2000	Peter Hennessy, Queen Mary	Accelerated history? Open government, Whitehall and the press since 1945
1999	John Humphrys	Pandering to populism
1998	Studs Terkel	The journalist in flesh and blood
1997	Alan Rusbridger	The freedom of the press, and other platitudes
1996	Roy Hattersley	The unholy alliance: the relationship between MPs and the press
1995	Jeremy Isaacs	The reporter's victories
1994	John Tusa	Programmes or products: the management ethos and creative values
1993	Michael Grade	Violence and responsibility
1992	Tom Bower	Robert Maxwell: a very British experience
1991	Godfrey Hodgson, Foreign Editor, The Independent	Truth, journalism and the Gulf
1990	Liz Forgan, Director of Programmes, Channel 4	Freedom of expression: the worm in the bud
1989	Louis Blom-Cooper, Chair, Press Council	The right to be left alone
1988	Denis Forman, Granada	How many miles to Babylon?
1987	Ben Bradlee, Executive Editor, Washington Post	Why governments lie