In the first of our Trinity Term series of seminars on The Business and Practice of Journalism, Mary Ann Sieghart will be sharing with us insights drawn from her studies into why women are accorded less authority than men.

Professor Marta Cantijoch (University of Manchester) will talk about a recent project with the BBC where she and her team have used data from iPlayer to understand the acquisition of political knowledge by BBC audiences.

The media industry is in a period of unprecedented upheaval. The Reuters Institute's Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Meera Selva will be in Tokyo talking about how media companies around the world are fighting the battle for attention and public trust, finding new business models for funding news, and navigating the relationships between platforms and publishers.