engaging on social media - are very valuable things to do. i mean, certainly at the ft, i we get some wonderful reader comments correcting our- journalism when we get it wrong and coming up with alternative arguments and really- challenging the - journalism we produce. so, i think that s - a valuable part of the journalism that we do. about having a relationship between your audiences and the journalists? exactly. as ian was saying, l it s no longer usjust transmitting news. we re also receiving it. there s more of- a dialogue going on. and i think, on social media, we absolutely encourage our| reporters to be part of the social medial conversation. sometimes that can get out of hand. - they can get targeted. some of them receive - abuse, some of them have reported it to the police. but i think it s. i remember, in the 19905, i was a reporter in moscow just after the collapse of the soviet union. l and i had someone calling - up our bureau saying that i was working for an imperialist,
theirjournalists to build up a social media following. would you agree with that, you know, even if it means the staff do receive abuse? sure. i mean, i think that both- reader comments and journalists engaging on social media - are very valuable things to do. i mean, certainly at the ft, i we get some wonderful reader comments correcting our- journalism when we get it wrong and coming up with alternative arguments and really- challenging the - journalism we produce. so, i think that s - a valuable part of the journalism that we do. about having a relationship between your audiences and the journalists? exactly. as ian was saying, l it s no longer usjust transmitting news. we re also receiving it. there s more of- a dialogue going on. and i think on social media, l we absolutely encourage our reporters to be part of the social medial conversation. sometimes that can get out of hand. - they can get targeted. some of them receive - abuse, some of them have reported it to the police. but