The creeping rise of authoritarianism and the risk to media around the world – Project podcast Project: The Guardian podcast
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Are democracies around the world slowly taking away the freedoms that keep them vibrant? While Australia and Japan have used metadata and secrecy laws to clamp down on leaks, the election of Donald Trump has thrown rights of the press into the spotlight. Japan correspondent Justin McCurry, immigration correspondent Ben Doherty and head of international news Jamie Wilson discuss the erosion of the media’s ability to report on governments’ actions in different parts of the world
Are democracies around the world slowly taking away the freedoms that keep them vibrant? While Australia and Japan have used metadata and secrecy laws to clamp down on leaks, the election of Donald Trump has thrown rights of the press into the spotlight. Japan correspondent Justin McCurry, immigration correspondent Ben Doherty and head of international news Jamie Wilson discuss the erosion of the media’s ability to report on governments’ actions in different parts of the world
12 min.