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The Media Show: Reporting the vaccine

Reporting the vaccine

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, Reporting the vaccine

Do journalists have the scientific literacy to cover the pandemic?

The UK has approved a coronavirus vaccine and will start rolling it out. But what role does the media play in reporting the science, and perhaps even encouraging readers to take up the vaccine? Also in the programme, the government has announced a new Digital Markets Unit, a regulator of sorts that will look at Facebook and Google.

Guests: Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal, Laura Collins, editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post, Felicity Cross, deputy news editor of the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, and Philip Marsden, professor of law at the College of Europe.

Studio engineer: John Boland

Producer: Hannah Sander

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