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2 Jul, 2018 09:00

The (not so) free press

Orwell famously said, “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” With print media’s business model in free-fall, newspaper proprietors are increasingly desperate to find ways to ensure financial viability. Does this approach put corporate interests above the interests of readers? Ross Ashcroft is joined by Justin Schlosberg and the editor of Open Media at Open Democracy, James Cusick, to ask how free the UK press really is?

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