Marianna in Conspiracyland 1: Bonus: Frontlines of Conspiracyland
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BBC
2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, the BBC’S International Editor Jeremy Bowen and Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent Marianna Spring talk about their respective new podcasts: Frontlines of Journalism and Marianna in Conspiracyland. They reflect on the obstacles that stand between journalists and the truth and the conspiracy theory movement that seems to have boomed in the UK after Covid. Exploring the similarities and differences of their journalistic specialisms, they discuss techniques to hold interviewees to account – especially when their position is based on disinformation - and the significance of social media in modern journalism.
Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Georgia Catt Producer for BBC Radio 4 podcasts: Nathan Jones Senior news editor: Sam Bonham Commissioner: Rhian Roberts
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| 0:00.0 | An early start here. |
| 0:02.7 | It's time to kick off. |
| 0:04.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:05.8 | What a line-up. |
| 0:07.2 | Oh, thanks very much. |
| 0:08.2 | We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:10.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:14.1 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:17.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:19.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:20.2 | Packed with personality BBC Sounds music radio |
| 0:26.5 | podcasts hello welcome to a special bonus episode front lines of conspiracy land it's a chat with me |
| 0:33.8 | mariana spring the disinformation and social media correspondent, and Jeremy |
| 0:38.0 | Bowen, the international editor that we did a few weeks ago. It's a collaboration between my |
| 0:42.8 | podcast, Marianna in Conspiracy Land and Jeremy's podcast, Frontlines in Journalism. We're chatting |
| 0:49.0 | through Jeremy's coverage from War Zones and my reporting on the digital front lines. Anyway, enjoy. |
| 0:58.8 | Hello, I am joined today by Jeremy Bowen, who is the current international editor, former |
| 1:05.5 | Middle East editor and your job is very much being on the front lines of covering war and conflict and international |
| 1:13.3 | affairs on the ground. |
| 1:15.1 | And you're the disinformation social media, aka misinformation person here at the BBC. |
| 1:21.4 | And it's, you know, when I started here, someone had said to me, we'll one day have someone |
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