”Leading or Following? Financial Times Columnist, Gillian Tett on the media’s influence today.

In this week's episode, Gillian Tett, a Financial Times Columnist, joins Sarah to explore whether traditional media can still lead and influence. 

With the rise of AI-generated content, the challenge of misinformation, and the breakdown of trust in institutions, can traditional media still shape public discourse, influence decision-making, and hold power accountable?

Gillian Tett writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, co-founded Moral Money, the FT's sustainability newsletter, and was the former US managing editor of the FT.

In the first of two episodes on the role of media today, Gillian takes an anthropological view of journalism, exploring ideology, fact over faith, the shift in authority in media and how we fight for fact over fiction and support credible journalism. 

An episode that might surprise some listeners, Gillian's thinking offers calm reassurance in a world of uncertainty. 

To find out more about Gillian Tett 

To read her latest column 

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