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YouTube media coverage of Epping migrant hotel protests, Catholic influencers, Claims journalists in Gaza face starvation

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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins discuss some of the biggest media stories this week, including how the protests at the migrant hotel in Epping are being covered by different media outlets. Videos by YouTube journalist Wesley Winter have been seen hundreds and thousands of times online.

Cristina Nicolotti Squires, Ofcom’s Broadcasting and Media Group Director talks about a new report from the regulator which says BBC and other public service broadcasters are in danger of becoming 'endangered species'.

Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director of Agence France-Presse on claims that journalists reporting in Gaza face starvation and as the Catholic Church prepares to hold a social media influencers conference in Rome we talk to someone who's attending, Mary-Aoife Ong Co Director of Carlo Acutis Ireland, and to Justin Tackett a philosopher at North Carolina State University about the Vatican's media strategy.

Producer: Lisa Jenkinson

Published on Wednesday, 23rd July 2025.

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