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They dont remember the day—to—day run—of—the—mill stop. they admire the times if it covers something like covid thoroughly and responsibly, which i think we have done. but you need scoops to lift yourself above the run—of—the—mill. i guess when it comes to scoops, right now the biggest scoops are all around politics, or more specifically politics and parties during covid lockdown. im sure the audience will be interested to know, what is your relationship with borisjohnson? i noti...

To other prime ministers, teresa may for example? no, about the same. under your watch, sunday times broke the story with cash for honours story with allegations of donors to political parties being rewarded. thereve been many scoops since. why didnt you break partygate? wouldve loved to. it was a good scoop, that one. lots of stories i would love to have broken. i think the fte, cameron greensill, was a very good story. its interesting because pa rtygate, very few journalists, lots of parties g...

Of fleet street for decades. john witherow is one of the longest—serving national newspaper editors first at the sunday times and now the times. under him those papers have exposed cash for honors, corruption of oxfam, abused that brought the room and much more. so at a time when the prime minister is fighting for his political life after a series of scoops that could still bring him down, what does the editor of the times make of it all and how does he explain the relationship towards the pre...

That number to rise. our special correspondent is just outside of kyiv, with the latest. >> theres still a lot of people coming out of a pin. the town nearest to the capital -- its basically the gateway to the capital. the streaming, out theyve only started doing this in -- curfew lifted. we know that there are 700, maybe thousand people, who are trapped. not just in irpin, but all this freetown scoops closest to the capitol. this is with the russian troops -- there trying to fortify -- were abo...

Entrepreneurial young man, selling designer clothes to body guard, and body improvement, and then he hit the jackpot and managed to get a piece of the action in the mineral sell-off in the mid 90s, and $200 million, and going up to a billion, which if you do the math, is 75 times more. and he has lost some money in more recently steel but now his numbers might be 2 billion. >> and what is his relationship with vladimir putin? due get to that level of wealth in russia without having played a part...

The sunday times was killed during the bombardment reporting premises. presumably those kinds of incidents as rare as they are thankfully for our profession must weigh very heavily on the minds of those who do deployments at a time like this. youre right. ultimately, its their call whether the reporters are there or hot _ call whether the reporters are there or not and — call whether the reporters are there or not. and its a balancing act for them _ or not. and its a balancing act for them as�...

Among them are heads of state — emmanuel macron�*s phone number appears on the list of alleged targets. the spyware used is called pegasus and it is made by an israeli surveillance firm. the revelations have been dropping all week, so how do you pull off a series of global scoops like this? we are joined by some of thejournalists behind it. also today, the role that specialist fact checkers play injournalism. in the last 18 months, this has been a story of what is and is not true. some stori...

Where there is no shame any more? she chuckles i dont know. i think some of the other stores youre referring to, things like the scandal around whether priti patel bullied her staff, you have thejenrick scandal. thejenrick one was really complicated, i think, for the public to understand. a lot of detail. and in terms of the priti patel one, it wasnt something that affected the whole country. it was a row about how she was treating civil servants, so it didnt affect everybody up and down the cou...

Well, in a way, that comes back to the point i was talking - about earlier, which is that, - in regards to the hancock story, was that clearly the view had been taken in downing street, - which was symptomatic of a widerl feeling, i think, in downing street, that theyre going to try and out ride the media. j theyre going to carry on doing what they want, not to be held to account by the press or by broadcast media. | and i think they were proved humiliatingly wrong - in this instance. the leader...

Now on bbc news, the media show. hello. have we got a scoop for you! bbc bags top newspaper execs to discuss all things tabloid and mass—market. the headline — "have our red tops got their mojo back?" the suns front page last week that ended matt hancocks cabinet career, at least for now, was a classic splash — not seen too often since the phone hacking scandal. it had it all — an illicit relationship, hypocrisy, and alleged cronyism. a dynamite combination that ultimately cost mr hancoc...