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Social media expert Charles Beckett will be delivering the fourth Mabel Strickland Memorial Lecture next week.

Prof. Beckett, a founding director of a journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics, will be speaking on How Social Is Social Media? The Impact Of New Media On Journalism And Society.

He also heads the Department of Media and Communications and is an award-winning filmmaker and a former editor at LWT, BBC and ITN.

Prof. Beckett began his career on the South London Press and worked as a programme editor at Channel 4 News where he covered major stories, such as the terrorist attacks on New York and London. He is a specialist in politics and international affairs.

The public lecture will be held, at Hotel Phoenicia, Floriana, on Monday at 7pm. One can just turn up for the lecture. Booking is not necessary.

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