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In today’s episode we talk to Dolly Alderton, one of the most successful brand journalists working at the moment. From her weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast the High Low to her award-winning memoir Everything I Know About Love, she has mined her own love life – and that of her friends – to follow in the footsteps of writers such as Nora Ephron who once remarked “Everything is copy”. We caught up with her in conversation with Jason Bennetto to find out how brand journalism works.

This month marks two years since the Rohingyas began a mass refugee influx into Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugee crisis continues today with uncertainty about repatriation efforts. During this time, local journalists have put themselves at risk covering this and other stories.

Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo made headlines this year when they were released after 500 days in prison. So has anything changed for journalists?

In today’s episode we interview four local journalists to better understand the current situation in Myanmar and the risks they’ve taken to report in their country.

In today’s episode we are looking at the issue of 'white saviour complex' and the way the developing world and particularly Africa has been portrayed in popular Western culture.

We are joined by Sabrina Richmond, an actor and playwright whose new play An African in the Snow is at the Pleasance Theatre Islington tomorrow. We talked about how she felt as a young girl growing up in Africa with this kind of imagery, how controversy flared again this year with Strictly Come Dancing star Stacey Dooley, and how caricatures of people of colour go beyond humanitarian imagery to popular culture.

In our first live event we are talking to three leading journalists who share their insight on the challenges to report Brexit. 

Listen to the episode featuring Holly Watt (author and journalist who has worked for the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian), Ric Bailey (the BBC's Chief Political Adviser) and Laura Hughes (The Financial Times's political correspondent).

In today’s episode we are talking about the adversarial relationship various US presidents have had with the media.

Here at London’s Frontline Club we caught up with the Washington Post’s Chief correspondent Dan Balz who has been closely following US presidential elections for five decades. We talk about the ups and downs of modern presidential news reporting; how Donald Trump has changed that and what journalists need to do heading into 2020.