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Exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, wearing a black T-shirt with light beard and styled hair.

31 Mar

Journalism Against Autocracy

The exiled founder of Russia's only independent television news channel Mikhail Zygar discusses how the state weaponised the legal system and disinformation to criminalise acts of journalism. Sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in absentia, Zygar now lives in the US, where journalism is coming under sustained attack from the Trump administration.

In this year's A N Smith Lecture in Journalism, Zygar will discuss how these tools of disinformation are being exported and shared by autocrats, and how social media and YouTube can be used to counter these existential threats to journalism.

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Mon 31 Mar	6:45pm - 7:45pm

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