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ALEX BRUMMER: Some of our creative crown jewels are under mortal threat from US mega-mergers – Burnham has to get a grip

On both sides of the Atlantic, ¿mega-mergers¿ between media corporations are jeopardising the existence of reliable, independent TV news, writes our columnist Alex Brummer

It is hard to believe it in our atomised world of smartphones, but Walter Cronkite – the legendary anchor of CBS Evening News during the 1960s and 1970s – enjoyed average audiences of 53 million viewers every night. They watched, rapt, as he expounded on everything from the assassination of JFK to the human triumph … Read more