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Meet BBC’s ‘Mr Safe’: New political editor Chris Mason’s pals joke he’s been like a 50-year-old since he was a student, he once considered being a bus driver and still subscribes to his local Yorkshire paper

Mark My Words

To this day, Mason makes sure that he gets every print copy of the local Craven Herald and Pioneer newspaper posted down to his south-east London home, where he now lives with his primary schoolteacher wife and their two sons. . As Dale remarked: ‘To this day I have no clue what his politics are, and that’s a great thing.’

Radio 60
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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

The local media and broadcast media has done a good job in holding political campaigns to account against the wave of disinformation online. Facebook’s digital doorstep Facebook has become one of the most influential political source thanks to targeting and local groups. Being first is more important in newsrooms than being factual.