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Media Front: USA

18/09/2019 GMT

Media Front

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Who's controlling the media messages in advance of the 2020 presidential election?

We ask who's controlling the media messages in advance of the 2020 presidential election.

With 14 months to go until the next US presidential election, former foreign correspondent Andrea Catherwood finds out how the American media is preparing for the forthcoming onslaught. 
 
In this programme, looking at current media issues in countries around the world, Andrea hears from key media insiders about how Donald Trump will control his message, what power remains with local media players and how Facebook will play its part in determining the next leader of the most powerful nation on earth. Andrea is joined by Emily Bell, a professor at Columbia Journalism School, to discuss what lessons have been learned by the American media from the last presidential election and considers what media channels and communication methods will be exploited by politicians in next year's race for the White House.

(Photo: Donald Trump argues with CNN journalist Jim Acosta in November 2018. Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

The Compass: Media Front

Andrea Catherwood examines the big global issues facing journalism and the media in 2019.

Former International Correspondent for CNBC and ITN Andrea Catherwood presents a major series of four programmes examining the big global issues facing journalism and the media in 2019.

Journalism around the world is under pressure like never before. Hostility to the mainstream media is increasing, with established outlets losing credibility and legitimacy across the globe. Meanwhile, digital disruptors and purveyors of fake news are deliberately trying to undermine democratic processes. 
Whatever is going on, it's clear that worldwide media is changing rapidly. Television, traditional press and advertising face daunting challenges internationally as new habits of consumption threaten the very business model on which they’re based. 
In this series Media Front will investigate and debate the new world which media and journalism has to work in, and the intersections that threaten to derail them.

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