Would Donald Trump’s Victory Pose a Threat to Press Freedom and Journalists?

Background
Dissatisfied with the outcome of the presidential debate with the US vice president Kamala Harris hosted by ABC News, the former US president Donald Trump said that ABC should lose its license. Could he remove their license if he becomes president? What could Donald Trump do to undermine press freedom and threaten news outlets, if he wins the second term?

Speaker
Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, part of the City University of New York. He is the author of four books, including most recently The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free, co-authored with Robert Mahoney. He writes regularly on press freedom issues for The New Yorker, and produces a column for Columbia Journalism Review. From 2006 until 2021, Joel served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Concept and Moderation
Daniela Kraus, Executive Director, Presseclub Concordia and Mirjana Tomic fjum/Presseclub Concordia