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The things that you just said, the risk of polarisation via social media, the risk of targeting people who already agree with what youre saying, the need to further engage with audiences who arent consuming your news, i would imagine the top executives at all the biggest news organisations in the world would say, "yes, those are challenges for us." what i want to understand is what are you going to offer that is different to what is being offered by all of the big news organisations of the momen...

So elderly people like michael rappaport left to walk a further distance to get their meds. >> he does live with eyes mom i think so is -- >> greg: that is delightful. good for him. >> he did the right thing. >> heres the thing. first of all, after the video comes out, then walgreens says we didnt have anything reported. this is why the arguments from the left is no, shoplifting is actually decreasing. it is because retail stores are failing to report it because i dont want to. why bother? #whyb...

Some in london. i think that is one of the opportunities, is that a lot ofjournalists are restless and interested in something new right now. for the sake of the discussion, lets assume that happens — you hire some brilliant journalists, you start making some innovative and different journalism. what is the business model that you hope to serve? well, i think we aim to have a blend of advertising, subscription events, other businesses, but thats the core of the media business and if you look a...

Of this story really matter. which describes in early january of 2017, and after this document had been briefed to the president of the united states and the president—elect, donald trump, and it was circulating in us senators and diplomats were reading it and making decisions based on it, cnn reported that there is this document, theres a secret document with compromising information on the president of the united states. and that is the context in which my view, our view at buzzfeed, which w...

And i think, proving in various ways that youre open—minded and that you can and that the reader can trust you is totally central. and i want to ask you about a decision you took around the steele dossier, and whether you feel that had an impact on trust between americans and the media. for listeners who dont recall this, buzzfeed, when you were editor, published the steele dossier containing allegations linking donald trump to russia, those allegations have not been stood up — you justified...

And the president—elect, donald trump, and it was circulating in us senators and diplomats were reading it and making decisions based on it, cnn reported that there is this document, theres a secret document with compromising information on the president of the united states. and that is the context in which my view, our view at buzzfeed, which was, its perfectly reasonable, as a lot of people were, looking at this document and being sceptical of it and try to run down the information. once pe...

Yeah, and i think theres a big opportunity to connect with people, and often if you talk to people about the news, they say, you need to read between the lines and means a lot of different — it means a lot of different things to a lot of people. everybody hates us these days, but for a wide variety of reasons. i think its an opportunity and i think, proving in various ways that youre open—minded and that you can and that the reader can trust you is totally central. and i want to ask you abou...

Consuming your news, i would imagine the top executives at all the biggest news organisations in the world would say, "yes, those are challenges for us." what i want to understand is what are you going to offer that is different to what is being offered by all of the big news organisations of the moment which would mean you managing to address that more successfully than they are. right, and i guess i would say, for one thing, that ive been around this business and done new things in it long eno...

Donald trump to russia, those allegations have not been stood up — you justified publishing it all the same because you said this dossier was being shared in washington and therefore it was relevant. but a lot of what was within it has not been established to be true. did that impact trust between americans and their news media? i think, actually, the details of this story really matter. which describes in early january of 2017, and after this document had been briefed to the president of the ...

What the us once said was an islamic state safe house, my colleagues were able to prove was actually the home of his boss at the ngo. very quickly after this reporting came out, the us military really had to backtrack on a lot of the explanations they made for carrying out the strike. amazing insight into the power ofjournalism, but also the power of this open—source investigation. before i bring in alexa from the human rights centre, they are i hope our audience will find absolutely riveting....