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#9 FreeSpeak: Journalism in the time of coronavirus

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Are media getting it right in terms of covering the Covid-19 pandemic? What is the media doing about the tsunami of lies and disinformation that proliferates at this time, especially online? These are the issues that Gwen Lister tackles as she sits down with Mahlatse Mahlase - Group Editor-in-Chief of Eyewitness News and chairperson of the South African Editors Forum, and Peter Deselaers - journalist and Country Representative of DW Akademie in Namibia.

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