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The Media Show: Making news free to the world

03/06/2020

Making news free to the world

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The Guardian's Katharine Viner on resisting a paywall and fighting government obfuscation.

Katharine Viner is editor in chief of The Guardian. In this extended interview with Amol Rajan she talks about her mission to build one of the world's leading "progressive news organisations", why The Guardian is "not a Labour paper" and reveals the backstory to their Dominic Cummings exclusive.

Studio engineer: Gayl Gordon
Producer: Richard Hooper

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