Excursion 1

Chris Grimes gives Grady at Oxford students a look at the substantial news operation at the Financial Times.

Tuesday we took the first of two planned excursions to London.  We visited the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and heard from Drs. Heidi Larson and Pauline Paterson about how they monitor media worldwide to try and identify attitude trends about vaccines.  Their project, The Vaccine Confidence Index, is funded primarily by the Gates Foundation.  Their work is shared with the World Health Organization and the United Nations among others so they can nip problems in the bud before epidemics arise because of lack of vaccination.  The Vaccine Confidence Index project hosted us for a good lunch of salads, fish and fruit.

We then went to The Financial Times where we were met by Chris Grimes, Analysis Editor for the FT.  Grimes is a 1992 Grady alumnus who began his career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, then went to New York to join the Dow Jones news organization eventually joining The Financial Times in New York.  He has been working in London for three years.