David Hayward is head of the BBC College of Journalism’s events programme, a series of conferences, master classes, debates and discussions on all issues surrounding journalism. David has been a journalist at the BBC for 17 years. He began his career at Radio Leicester and has since worked across the BBC, as a reporter, producer and editor in network radio, TV and for the BBC World Service Trust in Eastern Europe. Before taking up his current post, he was the TV Editor at BBC South Today in Oxford and ran the BBC local TV pilot in the West Midlands. He lectures and writes about the changing nature of journalism and the importance of journalistic ethics, regularly speaking at conferences both in the UK and internationally.
