Samira Ahmed on her broadcasting career, the news & the recent history of critical thinking

The broadcaster Samira Ahmed tells us about her career covering international news and culture, and reflects on the relationship between ‘hard news’ and cultural events. We move from the UK culture secretary to the art of Persia, O.J. Simpson to Madonna, and the history of news itself to the rise of rolling news and social media. The film celebrates the new-found liveness of news reporting and the agency of ordinary people in documenting the news, but asks how recent and sudden technological change have affected our ability to process and evaluate facts.