a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind our talent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever seen that podcasting would be so central to this one? well, i def
with katieie with ka pavlik,ti kevin walling, kayleigh mcenany and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. and this cis is the five cheap e . we just got another one of w those unedited videos of the president acting like himself that drives the white house insane. thatves the joe biden seen shufp speed of an elderly man with a any as he gingerly makes his way across the tarmac to cam p david.up for right now, he s holed up for the next several days with nothing else on his scheduleothing e except to crame crazy for the cnn presidential debate. zyr the a lot is riding on the y because is the way the liberal puts it. if biden loses, democracy is dead foreve ir. the press laying out their sky high expectations for his performanc e prese like not freezing. he absolutely have a seniorre moment at this debate. that s what i heard from. ago s in wisconsin and michigan two weeks ago for a lot of focus groups. and what i heard from voters, hears who support biden isg to just that
what is there in the election for young voters? national service, reform, covered in the cost of living crisis? what is in it for you? and rishi sunak says he is incredibly angry about the betting scandal. good evening live from the newsnight studio, where our guests, young, old, well, older and somewhere in between, entertain us with interviews and searing, late night insight. we shouted out for younger voters to get in touch about how they re feeling about the election. 26 year old harrison from bournemouth came straight back. hello, newsnight, definitely feeling ignored during this campaign. six months ago, i had to quit myjob in watford and move back home to live with my parents in bournemouth with the cost of renting being the leading factor in my decision. i simply couldn t afford to live where i worked. i haven t heard anything from any of the political parties during this campaign that i think will materially improve the lives for young people. we ve got a stuffed so
for 18 year olds, rishi sunak also did his first video on the conservative party s tiktok account. hi, tiktok, sorry to be breaking into your usual politics free feed, but i m making a big announcement today and i ve been told that a lot of you already have some views on it. so, first thing no, i m not sending everyone off to join the army. what i am doing is proposing a bold new model of national service for 18 year olds. well, i want to bring in shona ghosh from bloomberg. everyone here listening to rishi sunak there. give us the basics, shona, because lots of people will think of tiktok as a platform for kids. mm. ..who clearly don t vote, but who is consuming political content on tiktok? so tiktok itself has been trying to dispel the idea that it is mostly a platform, an app used by children. and that seems to be true. erm, it is also widely used by the elder millennials. ..won t say which camp i m in, and also gen z, erm, you know, which is a pretty big cohort and they
and then after they won, they sort of credited - the ability to spend a load of money on facebook - in those places. so, you know, ithink. there is.there s a kind of mixture of, like, - you know, mutual logic, folk folklore, but also - the ability to raise money and get volunteers mobilised and do those sorts of thingsl that help campaigns move as well. - well, we ve talked about the role online campaigning might play in the general election here in the uk, but whoever wins, a small number of unelected tech bosses in silicon valley will still have a huge say in the lives and interactions of billions of people around the world. i want to think now about some broader questions about how big tech impacts society. to discuss all this, i m joined by katy balls, political editor at the spectator, timandra harkness, tech commentator and author of technology is not the problem, and, as mentioned, baroness martha lane fox, tech entrepreneur, co founder of lastminute.com and former board member