Former BBC director Helen Boaden talks about news in the time of social media

Former BBC director Helen Boaden talks about news in the time of social media

Helen Boaden spoke at the Hebrew Center about fake news and the search for unbiased reporting. —Sophia McCarron The “fake news” seed has been growing steadily in the back of the American consciousness, watered by clickbaits, and recently given Miracle-Gro by President Trump and the 2016 campaign.

Helen Boaden, former director of BBC News and then BBC Radio, spoke as part of the Summer Institute Speaker Series on Thursday night about this thorny topic from the perspective of an insider who has the benefit of looking at the issue from across the Atlantic.

She recounted her own experience as a reporter […]

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