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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-11-13

  How to cover Trump now, Taskmaster creator Alex Horne and who will replace Gary Lineker?

When Donald Trump won in 2016, it boosted cable news and newspaper subscriptions, with some outlets taking an avowedly anti-Trump stance; some even called this the ‘resistance’. What’s going to happen now? We talk to journalists with different approach...
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2024-11-06

  Trump's winning media strategy, Observer sale, royal journalism

Donald Trump has pledged to send reporters to jail and strip major television networks of their broadcast licenses. We discuss how the Presidential campaign was covered and what happens next. James Harding of Tortoise Media discusses his plans to buy T...
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2024-10-30

  Ballots, bias and big tech

This week, The Media Show broadcasts from Washington DC, and asks what the election tells us about the media's role in modern America. The Washington Post finds itself at the heart of a debate on media impartiality after a reported loss of thousands of...
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2024-10-23

  George Osborne on covering the budget, Real Housewives' Andy Cohen, media strategies of the far right

George Osborne, presenter of Political Currency, on covering his first Labour budget as a journalist. After it was pulled from the programme of the London Film Festival at the weekend, Katie talks to the makers of the undercover film exposing UK far-ri...
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2024-10-16

  BBC News cuts, Isis Prisons Museum, the perils of press junkets

The BBC has announced cuts to its news output including closing the interview show HARDtalk after nearly 30 years. We talk to HARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur. The Isis Prisons Museum was established in 2017 when a group of journalists, filmmakers and...
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2024-10-09

  Reporting Gaza, expert women on the news, publishing's big week

The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf, The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes, how to increase the number of female experts on the news, and the publishing industry's "Super Thursday".Presenters: Katie Razzall and Ros AtkinsAssistant Producers: Lucy Wai and Martha O...
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2024-10-02

  Middle East crisis, Sony's video game flop, The Sidemen

As the Israeli offensive against targets in Lebanon continues, we discuss the challenges for journalists reporting the story from Beirut and Jerusalem. We also look at how the media is reporting on the story and how the fast-moving nature of the confli...
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2024-09-25

  Al Fayed and the media, Have I Got News for You USA, TV news in Afghanistan

Katie and Ros meet Erica Gornal, director of the BBC’s new investigation into serious sexual abuse allegations by Mohamed al Fayed. Jimmy Mulville, the exec behind the new US version of Have I Got News for You tell us about what makes Americans laugh a...
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2024-09-18

  TV's "culture problem", origins of Trump's pet eating allegations, the race for AI supremacy

Donald Trump’s ‘migrants eat pets’ claim is the US election’s most viral meme so far. We talk to the journalist who tracked down the source of that story, and an academic investigating the political impact of memes. The Economist’s man in Beijing joins...
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2024-09-11

  Russia’s alleged ties to US influencers, Government terrorism watchdog, Lucy Letby coverage

The US Department of Justice says it has uncovered a Russian-influence operation recruiting prominent US right-wing influencers to convey its messages. We find out more. In the wake of the Southport stabbings, could more information from police have fi...
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