The Possible Futures of Journalism

With Samira Ahmed, Mic Wright, Dr Martin Moore and Dr David Young

The media is crucial in shaping what we know about the world around us, but how, when and where we get our news is changing. In a time when we are witnessing increasing polarisation and real-time pushback, how do we trust the information we see? What does it mean for traditional media platforms? And how can we navigate the rise of personalised newsfeeds, Substack, and social media as new ways of consuming journalism? 

Join broadcaster Samira Ahmed, journalist and media critic Mic Wright and, from King's, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, Dr Martin Moore, and Co-lead of the Digital Investigations Lab, Dr David Young, as we explore the many possible futures of journalism.

Award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC One and is the author of a BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles’ first film A Hard Day’s Night. Samira is also President of the Twentieth Century Society, which campaigns to protect modern architectural heritage and design. She co-hosts the TV history podcast Through the Square Window and writes a column for New Humanist magazine. Samira is a trustee of the Centre for Women’s Justice.

Mic Wright is a reporter, journalist, and media critic from Norwich. After studying at Cambridge - the first in his family to attend any university - he started out on Pensions World magazine before moving to Stuff, the music magazine Q, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times and Sunday Times. His work has appeared in every national newspaper besides The Daily Mail (and Daily Sport). He writes the media criticism newsletter Conquest of the Useless and has appeared on national and international broadcast platforms including the BBC, Sky News, CNN and Al Jazeera. His book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn't and Why it Matters, was published by Bonnier in 2025.

Dr Martin Moore is Senior Lecturer in Political Communication Education in the Department of Political Economy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King’s College London. Before joining King’s, Martin was the founding director of the Media Standards Trust (MST), an independent charity dedicated to fostering high standards in the news media, from 2006-2015. During this time the MST won a Prospect Think Tank of the Year Award (2011) and a Knight News Challenge award (2008). Martin has over a decade's experience working in media and communications with the BBC, Channel 4, NTL, AT&T and others. 

Dr David Young is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture in the Department of Digital Humanities. His research focuses on software politics and digital war, investigative aesthetics, and Cold War histories of computational media. He is currently leading the AHRC Catalyst-funded research project Assembling Certainty, which examines how accounts of war are produced using “open sources” in visual investigations and critically explores the implications of machine learning in civilian casualty recording. He co-leads The Digital Investigations Lab (DIL) at Kings – an interdisciplinary project that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, civil society, and the arts and media to share and discuss the investigative tools and methods they use in their work."