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Radio 4,26 Sep 2018,28 mins

How journalism exposed an atrocity

The Media Show

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In July 2018 a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. It showed two women and two young children being led away at gunpoint and then executed by a group of Cameroonian soldiers. The Cameroon government initially dismissed the video as "fake news" but an investigation by ѿý Africa Eye has now uncovered the truth. Also in the programme, ѿý Two has launched a new set of idents in a bid to "refresh the channel". Amol Rajan is joined by Aliaume Leroy, ѿý Africa Eye investigator, Dr Claire Wardle, Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Patrick Holland, ѿý Two controller, and Manori Ravindran, editor of Television Business International. Presenter: Amol Rajan Producer: Richard Hooper

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