Where News meets PR
In conversation with Amelia Gentleman
About this PA Meets:
PA Meets Chair Bridgid Nzekwu welcomes multi-award-winning Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman as a special guest for this highlight event in the PA Meets series. Amelia discusses her stellar career as a journalist and how she broke the Windrush story for the Guardian.
Watch as Amelia, a former PA trainee, shares the experiences and challenges that have helped mould her into the journalist she is today and imparts advice for aspiring journalists on what it takes to become recognised for renowned investigative journalism.
Event agenda:
Hear the inspiring career story of one of the UK’s most respected investigative journalists
Discover how one of 2018’s biggest stories broke
Amelia’s experience as a PA trainee and how it provided a fantastic stepping-stone for her career
Advice on succeeding in investigative journalism
In collaboration with leading professional PR body the PRCA, PA Meets provides PR and comms professionals at all career levels the opportunity to hear from, and engage with, influential and respected figures in news and PR.
Format:
Interactive, online event
Date:
Tuesday 18th May, 12:00 BST
Duration:
45 minutes with a live Q&ASpeakers and special guests:
Access the on-demand recording and hear from one of the leading figures in investigative journalism today in this standout event in the PA Meets series.
Bridgid Nzekwu,
Chair,
PA Media
Bridgid is PA Media’s award-winning Director of Media Training, named ‘Outstanding Woman in Professional Services’ at the 2018 Precious Awards for her media training and communications work across the public and private sectors. She is a specialist in coaching high-profile speakers and spokespeople ahead of media interviews and public speaking and advises comms clients on media relations, crisis strategy and message development. Before moving into corporate communications Bridgid was a broadcast journalist for 20 years. She is a former Channel 4 News presenter/reporter and presenter for ITV News.
Amelia Gentleman,
Journalist at The Guardian and author of ‘The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment
Amelia Gentleman, is a reporter for the Guardian. She was named journalist of the year in 2018 for her investigations into the Windrush scandal, and also won the Paul Foot award, the Cudlipp award and an Amnesty prize for the reporting. Previously she won the Orwell prize for political journalism, and feature writer and specialist writer of the year at the British press awards. Her book The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment was shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell book prize.
She started her career as a trainee with the Press Association. Later she worked as Moscow and Paris correspondent for the Guardian and Delhi correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and New York Times.