He walked into Britain's worst prison riot - and came out with a story about indignity and injustice

from The Manchester Briefing from The Mill

Mike Unger, the legendary former editor of the Manchester Evening News, tells Joshi about being asked to mediate with prisoners during the Strangeways Riot. And recalls his time editing a newspaper read by a million Mancunians. What does he think of the state of local journalism today? "They're blindly doing clickbait," he tells us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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