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The Media Show: General Election coverage; Le Monde and fake news; Channel 4 out of London

19/04/2017

General Election coverage; Le Monde and fake news; Channel 4 out of London

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, General Election coverage; Le Monde and fake news; Channel 4 out of London

Andrea Catherwood asks how the UK media will cover the general election at short notice.

Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. Andrea Catherwood asks how the UK media will cover the general election at short notice.

The announcement of a snap general election came as a shock to almost everyone. How will broadcasters and publishers cover the event at such short notice? Andrea Catherwood is joined by Jonathan Munro, BBC's Head of Newsgathering, David Wilding, Director of Planning at Twitter in the UK, and Ayesha Hazarika, former special advisor to Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.

Le Monde is fighting back against a tide of fake news in France by sending its journalists into schools to teach children how to question what they read on social media. Alexandre Pouchard is one of the Le Monde journalists.

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has published proposals about moving Channel 4 out of London. Dan Brook is Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Channel 4. David Smith is Managing Director at Glasgow based TV production company Matchlight and Claire Poyser is Chief Executive of Lime Pictures based in Liverpool.

Producer: Richard Hooper.

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