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HARDtalk - Roger Alton

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Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. There are grim headlines in the global newspaper business; sales are down, advertising is shifting to the internet and the public don't trust much of what it reads in the papers. Roger Alton is well used to the challenges of print journalism - he edited The Observer for nine years, now he's the editor of The Independent. Stephen Sackur asks him; are newspapers destined for extinction in the digital media age?