Stephen Tall Adds Lib Dem Voice

Stephen Tall, editor-in-chief of Liberal Democrat Voice, will be joining Iain Dale, Mick Fealty and Craig Elder in our panel session on blogging and social media.

Stephen, 32, was a Liberal Democrat city councillor in Oxford between 2000 and 2008, serving as Deputy Lord Mayor and the city’s executive councillor for finance. He was awarded the inaugural Lib Dem ‘Blogger of the Year’ prize in 2006 for his blog A Liberal Goes A Long Way.

In the same year, he was shortlisted for the New Statesman’s New Media Awards in the Elected Representative category. Stephen has written articles for, among others, The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, Parliamentary Monitor, the Politico’s Guide To Political Blogging In The UK, and Liberal Democrat News. He appears frequently in the media, including BBC1’s The Politics Show and Question Time Extra, BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and The Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 5’s Pods and Blogs, and internet TV station 18DoughtyStreet.com. By day, he is Director of Development for the University of Oxford’s libraries, including the Bodleian.