Here’s how the American press can survive four years of Trump | Margaret Sullivan

The media will be under siege, but former Washington Post editor Marty Baron has some ideas for what journalists can do

Everything we know about the next US president suggests that the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before.

After all, Donald Trump has portrayed the media as the “enemy of the people”, has suggested that he wouldn’t mind seeing journalists get shot, and, in recent months, has sued CBS News and the Pulitzer prize organization.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

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