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Alan Rusbridger on How To Stay Informed in the Era of Fake News

The former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger joined us to answer one of the most pressing questions of our times: Who can we believe any more?

Alan Rusbridger is the former editor of the Guardian and one of the most respected voices in British journalism. In January 2021 he came to Intelligence Squared to answer one of the most pressing questions of our times: Who can we believe any more? More of our politicians are embracing outright lies. Scientists argue over basic facts. Social media was meant to help democracy in the face of oppression; now it is often the populist’s friend. And even Rusbridger’s own milieu – mainstream journalism – can, he says, be “ignorant, corrupt, lazy and malign.” 

Amid all this information chaos, how can the average citizen know where to find the facts? In this event, Rusbridger drew from his latest book News And How To Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World and showed us how to tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age. 


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Alan Rusbridger

Editor in Chief of the Guardian from 1995-2015 and author of News And How To Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World


Editor in Chief of the Guardian from 1995-2015. He is currently Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is also on the Facebook Oversight Board. During his time at The Guardian both he and the paper won numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Journalism. The Guardian grew from a printed paper with a circulation of 400,000 to a leading digital news organisation with 150 million readers a month around the world. He launched now-profitable editions in Australia and the US as well as a membership scheme which now has 1 million Guardian readers paying for content. He is the author of Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible, and Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now. His latest book is News And How To Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World.
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Manveen Rana

Senior investigative journalist and host of The Times and Sunday Times flagship podcast Stories of Our Times


Senior investigative journalist and host of The Times and Sunday Times flagship podcast Stories of Our Times. She was previously a broadcaster and reporter for BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme and The World at One.

 

Speakers are subject to change.