TRUTH UNDER PRESSURE panel and spotlight sessions revealed
CATHY NEWMAN, SUSANNA REID AND CLIVE MYRIE ANNOUNCED AS POWERHOUSE PANEL TO EXPLORE TRUTH UNDER PRESSURE AND YOUTUBE UK & IRELAND JOINS KEY BROADCASTERS AND STREAMERS IN SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS.
The Edinburgh TV Festival, brought to you by Screen Scotland, TV industry’s leading event, today announces a heavyweight news panel to explore TRUTH UNDER PRESSURE. As we face an information landscape littered with AI, deep fakes and fake news combined with a growing trend of engendered mistrust in the mainstream media, journalism is no longer simply competing to report facts first, it is competing to remain credible, human and psychologically trusted in an environment designed to destroy certainty.
Renowned, respected and seasoned broadcast journalists CATHY NEWMAN (SKY NEWS), SUSANNA REID (GOOD MORNING BRITAIN) and CLIVE MYRIE (BBC NEWS) will discuss what the art of truth telling, what it takes to find and impart the news as reliable and truthful information in this new age of misinformation and what is at risk if we don’t.
Also announced today is the news that the Festival will host a record 10 Spotlight sessions this year with BBC, ITV, SKY, CHANNEL 4, 5, UKTV, NETFLIX, DISNEY+ EMEA, PRIME VIDEO & AMAZON MGM STUDIOS and for the very first time YOUTUBE UK & IRELAND confirmed for 2026.
Further speaker and session announcements will be made in the coming weeks. This year’s Festival will once again be held at the EICC in Edinburgh and passes are on sale now www.thetvfestival.com/passes
