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"A lively and thoughtful presentation - an excellent closing session for the conference."
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"Andrew was absolutely excellent and chaired the debate very well."
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TOPICS
Change Management, IT & Online Business
SPEECH TITLES
Doing Business in the Information Age
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Neil is a publisher, writer and broadcaster. He is CEO and Editor in Chief of Press Holdings, owner of The Spectator. Onscreen he presents the BBC's This Week and Daily Politics; offscreen he is Chairman of ITP and serves on the international advisory board of Al Jazeera.
Andrew started out as political advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment in Edward Heath's Government. He then gained a foothold in broadcasting and began to present features for Tomorrow's World and the Today programme.
After a spell as American correspondent and Editor of the Economist, Andrew took over the helm at The Sunday Times. Next he presided over the launch of Murdoch's Sky TV and launched his own radio show. A widely respected opinion leader, he also served as Executive Chairman of Sky and Executive Editor of Fox Television News.
As well as being a versatile commentator on British and US politics and business, Andrew enjoys a ringside seat on all major developments in media and technology.
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Q & A
JLA: Is online subscription the only way newspapers can survive?
AN: In the long run, yes. There'll be a long transition period when paper and digital exist side by side, with the latter slowly growing in share. Unless newspaper publishers establish a digital revenue model they will go out of business.
JLA: Could digital turn out more profitable than print?
AN: It might. You don't have to knock down trees, paste ink on them via capital-intensive machines then expensively distribute them. Once the legacy costs of print have been buried digital could be very profitable on a low cost, high volume basis.
JLA: With video on demand, will we soon see the end of TV schedules?
AN: Not for a while. The linear networks will continue to decline in audience share, but slowly. As X-Factor shows, even in a multi-channel world there are still huge audiences for water-cooler, event TV.
JLA: Can social media hold politicians and business to account?
AN: No. It can help on the margins, but activists don't have the resources or the expertise to do the job properly without the mainstream media.
December 2010