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Making News

For the 'Free to Speak' season, Allan Little presents this two-part series on reporting, editorial dilemmas and the future of news-making.

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Making News

Part Two: The future of news

In this programme, we ask what are the challenges of objectivity in news, in a 'multi-polar world' of political agendas?

Given new formats for news such as a fondness for the soap box, or the merging of news with other formats of television, what are the potential conflicts between the demands of entertainment and the need for reliable information in a democratic world?

Should, for instance, terrorism be a bigger story than malaria?

What is the future of news when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts of monolithic news platforms?

And is it inevitable that the public appetite for sensation will overwhelm more cautious and proportionate coverage?

More from this series

  • Part One

    Alan Little investigates if "objective" news and an impartial window onto the world are really possible?

  • Part Two

    What is the future of news when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts?

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