Bill Bryson lectures at City University

Bill Bryson, the journalist and author, will be delivering the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City University on Tuesday 7 June at 6.30pm. The lecture will be entitled ‘Notes from all over’.

Bill Bryson, the journalist and author, will be delivering the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City University on Tuesday 7 June at 6.30pm. The lecture will be entitled ‘Notes from all over’.


The James Cameron Memorial Award for 2005 will be awarded the same night, to Lindsey Hilsum, the International Editor for Channel 4 News. The award is in recognition of her outstanding work as a journalist over many years and, in particular, for her coverage of the Iraq war and its aftermath, which has been in the highest tradition of British journalism.

 

A special James Cameron Memorial Award will also be made to Victoria Brittain of the Guardian in recognition of her many years of distinguished work covering the Third World and, most recently, her work on the civil rights of those caught up in war.


For media enquiries, please contact Babs Emmans, Press Officer, City University; tel 020 7040 8783, 07970 271260.

 

Notes to editors

  1. The James Cameron Award and Memorial Lecture will take place in City University’s Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB on Tuesday 7 June from 6.30pm. Members of the media are welcome to attend. [The lecture and awards are organised by City University’s Department of Journalism.] 

  2. For further information regarding the event, please contact Hugh Stephenson at h.stephenson@city.ac.uk or on 07900 210618.

  3. The James Cameron Memorial Trust was set up in 1985, following the death of James Cameron, the foreign correspondent, columnist and author. Each year it makes a Memorial Award to someone working in the British media who is judged by a distinguished panel of journalists to have contributed most to the continuation of the Cameron tradition. It also organises an annual James Cameron memorial lecture.

  4. Since 1986, the winners of the annual memorial award have been David Hirst, Michael Buerk, Neal Ascherson, John Simpson, Robert Fisk, Charles Wheeler, Bridget Kendall, Martin Woollacott, Ed Vulliamy, George Alagiah, Maggie O'Kane, Fergal Keane, Jonathan Steele, Ann Leslie, Jon Swain, Suzanne Goldenberg, Chris McGreal, Norma Percy and John Ware.

  5. Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for The Times and The Independent, and wrote for many major British and American publications. His books include the travel memoirs Neither Here nor There, The Lost Continent, and Notes from a Small Island, as well as The Mother Tongue and Made in America. He recently moved back to this country and now lives in Norfolk.

Date of Article:  07/06/2005