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Welcome to The Explanation from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roz Atkins and this is The Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast changing media landscape.
This week I'm in Washington DC as Donald Trump pursues America's war with Iran and I've been visiting four quite different media organisations to understand how they work and how they report on the world around us.
The digital revolution in media has seen a proliferation.
in different models of how to make news and how to make content.
In this edition, I've been speaking to one of the big hitters of YouTube,
Johnny Harris, also the journalist Mehdi Hasan,
who created his business, Sateo, two years ago here in Washington,
D.C., and to the BBC's Sarah Smith.
First of all, though,