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Matthew Weaver

REVEALED: Media must be more open to save democracy says former standards editor - The Real Truth

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Margaret Sullivan said the media needs to be more open. Photograph: Mick Sinclair/Alamy

Journalism can help save democracies from the brink of collapse but only if adopts a “radical transparency” with its audience, according to the New York Times’s longest-serving public editor.

Margaret Sullivan, now an academic and Guardian US columnist, says one of the biggest problems facing free societies across the world is that up to 40% of people do not trust the mainstream media.

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