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Tina Brown on Her Fight for Quality Journalism

Tina Brown and Substack's Chris Best on editorial freedom and the future of journalism. Also, Nick Thorpe reports on government influence over Hungary's media through state advertising.

Tina Brown, a former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, has joined Substack, a self-publishing platform for independent writers. Speaking in the week of the Truth Tellers summit, which she founded in memory of her husband Sir Harold Evans, she highlights concerns about press freedom, particularly in the face of legal and financial pressure from media owners. Chris Best, co-founder of Substack, outlines the platform's business model, which he says offers creators editorial freedom, prestige and financial incentives.

Also on the show, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Central Europe Correspondent Nick Thorpe reports on allegations made to the European Commission by two Hungarian media outlets. They accuse the Hungarian government of unfairly directing over €1 billion in state advertising to media sympathetic to the ruling party.

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