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How Politicians Can Help Improve the Media

April 03, 2023 • Apolitical Foundation • Season 1 • Episode 10

* Khadija Patel has become Journalist in Residence at the International Fund for Public Interest Media since this episode was produced. She is referred to as Head of Programmes in this audio.

"What I want all politicians to assert is the value of news media, even when it is at their own personal expense.”

In this episode, Khadija Patel, the International Press Institute's Chairperson and International Fund for Public Interest Media's Journalist in Residence, discusses the dynamic between politicians and the media and what each side can do to better the relationship.

Khadija is a well-known investigative reporter, one of the co-founders of the Daily Vox, and former editor in chief of South Africa’s well-known Mail and Guardian.

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