Im stephen sackur. What is journalism for . To inform and bear witness . To uncover Inconvenient Truth and hold power to account . Those are surely values most of us share. But have we collectively lost faith and trust in the news and those who report it . My guest is Alan Rusbridger who edited the uks guardian for 20 years in the midst of a digital revolution that transformed the News Business forever. If the established media is no longer trusted, who is to blame . Alan rusbridger, welcome to hardtalk. Pleased to be here. There is a sense hanging over your recent writings that you sort of feel you got out of the News Business just before it went into meltdown. Would that be fair . It was a tough period economically for news. The model that almost accidentally attached advertising to news, which you could say lasted for 200 years, is melting fast under tremendous competition from digital giants. 0n the other hand, i think journalism has never been more important. There is a great batt
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7 in the evening in new york, where the the United States has dismissed claims from the iranian president , that the us was involved in an attack, on a military parade in iran that killed 25 people. Hassan rouhani says america and its gulf allies backed the assault, but the Us Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley has told iran to look in the mirror for the causes of the attack. Mr rouhani made his comments, as he prepared to travel to new york, where the Un General Assembly will convene for its annual meeting on tuesday. From there, our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins sent this report. Gunfire. The moment the shooting started. Irans elite revolutionary guards under attack on home soil. Many forced to dive for cover, as a parade to honour them is ambushed by opponents of the government. Soldiers and civilians died as others fled for their lives. An Anti Government arab group based in this area of south west iran said it was res
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