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The Difficult Question of Press Freedom

Culture secretary Nadine Dorries is calling on regulator Ofcom to consider action against Russian 'propaganda' in the UK, shining a spotlight on TV channel RT.

Culture secretary Nadine Dorries is calling on regulator Ofcom to consider action against Russian 'propaganda' in the UK, shining a spotlight on TV channel RT. Elsewhere in the UK, the Supreme Court has stopped Bloomberg from publishing an investigation, on privacy grounds. Some have condemned this as a threat to journalists' ability to investigate. So when should a state or the law intervene in press freedom?

Guests: Erika Solomon, Berlin correspondent at the Financial Times; David Merritt, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News; Hugh Tomlinson QC; Francis Scarr, BBC Monitoring journalist in Moscow; Chris Curtis, editor-in-chief at Broadcast Magazine.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 28 Feb 202201:30

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RoleContributor
PresenterRos Atkins

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  • Sun 27 Feb 202205:30
  • Mon 28 Feb 202201:30