#150 - Facebook’s Australian News Blackout; BBC World News Off The Air In China; Clubhouse Chatter

Olly Mann is joined by the editor of Newsweek International, Alex Hudson and TV development executive Steven Bricknall.

This week: Chattering classes pull up a chair in Clubhouse; Australian Facebook users lose access to news articles in a row with the Australian government; BBC World News TV is pulled in China and World Service radio goes silent in Hong Kong; Meghan Markle wins a long-running privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail and there’s more funding for covid-hit community radio stations.

Plus: Is Russel T Davies right to say extinction looms for the Beeb?

And in the Media Podcast Quiz we’re running a gameshow marathon.

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