Intelligence Squared will be hosting some of the most prominent names in British media for this special discussion on The Future of News. With a panel including A.A Gill, David Elstein, Simon Jenkins

Speakers:

David Elstein - Chairman of DCD Media plc and the Broadcasting Policy Group, formerly Chief Executive of Channel 5.

Claire Enders - Founder of Enders Analysis, a research service focusing on technology, telecoms and media across Europe.

A. A. Gill - Journalist and author, currently the Sunday Times's restaurant and television critic.

Turi Munthe - Founder of Demotix -
... - a street-journalism website and newswire.

Andrew Neil - Former editor of the Sunday Times; publisher of Press Holdings and Chief Executive of the Spectator, broadcaster and business consultant on media matters.

Matthew Parris - Times newspaper columnist, television and radio broadcaster.

Jacob Weisberg - Editor-in-chief of the Washington Post's Slate Group of online magazines.

Chair:

Simon Jenkins - Columnist for The Guardian and the London Evening Standard and former editor of the Times newspaper. He is also Chairman of the National Trust.

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COMPETITION: 1x Pair of tickets to attend Intelligence Squared: ‘The Future of News’ at the Methodist Central Hall at 18.00 on Wednesday 24th March.

To claim your tickets, send an email with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: The history of newspapers is an often-dramatic chapter of the human experience going back some five centuries. In Renaissance Europe handwritten newsletters circulated privately among merchants, passing along information about everything from wars and economic conditions to social customs and "human interest" features. The first printed forerunners of the newspaper appeared in Germany in the late 1400's in the form of news pamphlets or broadsides, often highly sensationalized in content. Some of the most famous of these report the atrocities against Germans in Transylvania perpetrated by a sadistic veovod named Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia / Vladthe Impaler. In the English-speaking world, Vlad III is perhaps most commonly known for inspiring the name of which vampire?

A: 1) Count Von Count .2) Count Dracula .3) Count Duckula .4) Counting Knieval

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