By Jessica Goodfellow

Jon Snow has delivered an emotive call to the media to prevent so-called “digital media barons” Facebook and Google from devouring local and national sources of information, at a time when public service broadcast journalism has “never been more vital”, and yet so disconnected.

Speaking as the keynote MacTaggart lecturer at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, Snow spoke at length about both his failure – and the wider media’s – in connecting with and understanding those who are not part of the elite that makes up most of the media industry.

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Source: The Drum