A Commemorative Service was held at St Bride's Church on Tuesday 29th October 2019 at 6:30pm.

As consumers of news in a fast-changing world, we demand a great deal of our journalists, correspondents, photographers, sound-crew and camera-crew. We expect them to keep us informed and enlightened about difficult and complex situations in the trouble spots of the world, often at great personal risk, and sometimes, tragically, they pay the ultimate price.

So it is important that, as representatives of the media industry, we honour their memory in this service and remind ourselves of the sacrifice they make in order to bring us the truth.

We commemorate and support, too, the support staff - drivers, translators, fixers - who make it possible for them to carry out their work.

But we also come together in this spiritual home of the media - local, regional, national and international - to celebrate the industry, its people and its achievements.

View Order of Service & Transcripts of the Readings

• Title: Bearing Witness

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• Introit
  Take him, earth, for cherishing (closing section) – Howells

• Welcome & Opening Prayer
  Canon Alison Joyce

• Hymn
  Come Down, O Love Divine

• First Reading – Gillian Joseph, newscaster & presenter, Sky News
  Isaiah 59: 6–11

• Anthem
  Surely he hath borne our griefs & And with his stripes from Messiah – Handel

• Second Reading – Nick Ferrari, journalist & broadcaster
  Extract from The mayhem and mischief of war reporters by Richard Pendlebury First published in Tatler, 12th January 2018

• Anthem
  Come, my way, my truth, my life (The Call) – Harris

• Third Reading – George Osborne, Editor, Evening Standard
  Fleet Street from The London Book by Francis Marshall First published in 1951

• Hymn
  My Song Is Love Unknown

• Address
  Paul Conroy, photographer and filmmaker

• Anthem (during which commemorative candles were lit)
  O vos omnes – Casals

• Prayers
  Canon Alison Joyce

• Hymn
  Thine Be The Glory, Risen Conquering Son

• Blessing