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HARDtalk: Roger Alton

21/08/2008

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Stephen Sackur asks Roger Alton about the destiny of newspapers in the digital media age.

Stephen Sackur asks Roger Alton, editor of The Independent, if newspapers are destined for extinction in the digital media age.

There are the grim headlines in the global newspaper business: sales are down, advertising is shifting to the internet, and the public doesn't trust much of what it reads in the papers.

Roger Alton is well used to the challenges of print journalism - he edited The Observer for nine years and now he is editor of The Independent. Stephen Sackur asks him if newspapers are destined for extinction in the digital media age.

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