Trust in the media is at an all-time low. How does the media exert its power, and are the stories that are told in repressive regimes so different from those conveyed in the West’s liberal democracies? James Harding, John Lloyd and Matthew d’Ancona, in conversation with professor and broadcaster, Rana Mitter, investigate exactly how truth can be mediated and distorted.
An event from 2018 Jewish Book Week.
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford.
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Bill Browder is founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his...
Matthew D’Ancona is a journalist and political columnist.
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John Lloyd is a journalist and is contributing editor to the Financial Times where he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor,...
James Harding is the editor and founder of Tortoise Media. He was Director of BBC News and before that was Editor of the Times.
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