All Things Video

Christian Bennett is the Executive Editor of Video Journalism at The Guardian, one of the UK’s oldest and most trusted publications. Christian studied radio and television at Bournemouth University and began his career as a video editor for RDF Television. Since then, he has spent nearly 12 years helping to shape The Guardian’s video strategy. This special live episode took place on February 21, 2020 at VidCon London. During our discussion, Christian explains how the Internet fundamentally changed The Guardian’s business, providing it with a global platform virtually overnight. Christian offers his take on digital-first news publishers, describes how The Guardian chooses which stories to cover, and shares how his team differentiates its content from broadcast news. We also asses two structural issues at the intersection of social media and journalism: the first, that social platforms create echo chambers in which users surround themselves with friends and news coverage that reinforce their political preferenc