Media Masters

Selling the FT, social media’s 'proportion problem' & the BBC's new Political Editor

BigFings Media
Caroline Crampton, Web Editor at the New Statesman, and Barney Guiton, News Editor at Newsweek Europe, join Paul Blanchard to discuss the latest media headlines. This episode: does the sale of the FT puts its editorial independence in jeopardy? Is journalists' perception of public opinion disproportionately influenced by social media? And what should be at the top of Laura Kuenssberg’s to-do list as she becomes the Beeb’s new Political Editor?