Haven’t You Heard?

Marie Le Conte in conversation with Laura Hughes about Marie's new book Haven’t You Heard? Gossip, Power and how politics really works - “the funniest political book of the year” according to the i Newspaper and "not just eye-opening but eye-popping and frequently laugh-out-loud funny” according to Emily Thornberry.

Wednesday 29 January 2020
Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, Regent Street, W1B 2HT
Registration from: 6pm
Event starts: 6.30pm
Networking and drinks: 7.15pm

Marie Le Conte is a French-Moroccan journalist based in London and an alumna of the BA Journalism (2013) course at the University of Westminster.

She worked as the Evening Standard's political diarist and was BuzzFeed News' media and politics correspondent before going freelance over two years ago. She has written for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, Stylist and has appeared on, among others, the Today programme, Newsnight, Victoria Derbyshire and Any Questions?, as well as speaking at Chatham House, Sciences Po Paris, the House of Commons, and the Foreign Policy Centre.

Marie has also frequently made time to come to talk to students on the BA Journalism course about media careers, Twitter and working as a political journalist. So it’s a real pleasure to be able to celebrate the publication of her first book, Haven’t You Heard? Gossip, Power and how politics really works (published by 535) with BA Journalism students and alumni.

Laura Hughes is a Political Correspondent at Financial Times and was named Young Journalist of the Year at the 2018 National Press Awards. Laura was also a Political Reporter and Laurence Stern Fellow at Washington Post in 2019, and received the Political Journalism award for reporting on sexual harassment at Westminster at the 2018 British Journalism Awards.