The Geddes Masterclasses
The Geddes Trust is holding a Masterclass on Friday 13 November 2026 at 6pm for students interested in journalism, hosted at St Edmund Hall.
In a talk entitled ‘ Disrupting the disruptors’, a senior BBC Editor and former St Edmund Hall student, Roger Sawyer, will look at the role of public sector journalism in an increasingly atomised world of information.
Earlier this year, students heard from Sky News’ Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates, who gave the January 2026 Geddes Masterclass.
The Geddes Prizes
The Geddes Prize: £3,000
The Ronnie Payne Prize: £2,500
The Clive Taylor Prize: £2,500
The Paddy Coulter Prize: £2,500
Applications for the 2026 Geddes Prizes are now closed.
The winners of the 2026 Geddes Prizes are as follows –
The Geddes Prize: Ethan Penny
The Ronnie Payne Prize: Lucy Tu
The Clive Taylor Prize (joint winners): Gavriella Epstein-Lightman;
Noah Robson
The Paddy Coulter Prize:
Naima Aden
The Geddes Lecture
The most recent Geddes Memorial Lecture took place on Friday 6 March, 2026 at the Examination Schools in Oxford.
Stephen Bush, associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times, as well as the author of the daily newsletter ‘Inside Politics’ gave the 2026 Geddes Memorial Lecture, on what journalists owe the open society.