No one who follows the news, can be in any doubt that since the inauguration of Donald J Trump as US President earlier this year, life as anyone knows it, isn’t the same. And one of the casualties of his short reign so far is the news media in the United States.  So is a push back possible? 

Liz Spayd is our guest – she was the first woman named managing editor at the Washington Post, and the 6th public editor at the New York Times. She joins us from Washington where she is currently an adjunct fellow at Georgetown University teaching ethics in media.