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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Interview: Ex-C4 News head Dorothy Byrne on women in education and the future of news
Description: Lambasted by the Tory press for calling Boris Johnson a “known liar” at the Edinburgh TV festival when she was head of news at Channel 4, Dorothy Byrne is now President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. She talks to Ros Taylor about the pressures facing young female students, the future of C4, why we’re not treating violent porn seriously enough, and how ITV and Sky breached key broadcasting standards during the search for Nicola Bulley.
“The ones who tell you ‘people don’t trust TV news any more’ are the ones who don’t WANT you to trust it.”...