View all newsletters
Sign up for our free email newsletters

Fighting for quality news media in the digital age.

  1. Archive content
July 29, 2004updated 17 May 2007 11:30am

Snoddy to give alternative Edinburgh festival lecture

By Press Gazette

Former Times media editor Ray Snoddy will deliver this year’s Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival next month.

Snoddy, who edited The Times’ media section for seven years and has been signed up to be an Independent columnist, said it would be a salutary experience “after criticising MacTaggarts in all their forms over the years.”

He joins a list of previous presenters that includes former Today editor Rod Liddle, US news anchor Geraldo Rivera and New York Magazine’s Michael Wolff, BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch and author Douglas Rushkoff.

Snoddy caused a stir in July in the run up to his departure from The Times, with his TV Diary article in the Royal Television Society’s house magazine Television. In the article, he had a dig at his former employer’s policy of “agreed departure”, which saw a number of senior journalists leave the paper. Snoddy made no bones of the fact that he considered he had been sacked. He quoted his “perceptive wife” as saying: “You mean they’ve agreed and you’re departing?”

By Wale Azeez

Content from our partners
MHP Group's 30 To Watch awards for young journalists open for entries
How PA Media is helping newspapers make the digital transition
Publishing on the open web is broken, how generative AI could help fix it

Email pged@pressgazette.co.uk to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our "Letters Page" blog

Select and enter your email address Weekly insight into the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. Essential reading for media leaders every Thursday. Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Sent at around 10am UK time. Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. A fortnightly update from the front-line of news and advertising. Aimed at marketers and those involved in the advertising industry.
  • Business owner/co-owner
  • CEO
  • COO
  • CFO
  • CTO
  • Chairperson
  • Non-Exec Director
  • Other C-Suite
  • Managing Director
  • President/Partner
  • Senior Executive/SVP or Corporate VP or equivalent
  • Director or equivalent
  • Group or Senior Manager
  • Head of Department/Function
  • Manager
  • Non-manager
  • Retired
  • Other
Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications.
Thank you

Thanks for subscribing.

Websites in our network