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Guaranteeing aMedia Environment for Diverse ExpressionU.S. President Donald Trump, inaugurated in January of this year, was driven to a great extent by the passion of his support-ers to publicly criticize and antagonize major newspaper and television companies during his election campaign. What changes in the modern-day media environment led to the elec-tion of such an unconventional president, and how do these changes pose growing challenges to democratic societies? Pro-fessor Yoshihiro Oto of the Department of Journalism, a spe-cialist in media policy and theory, shares his views.CHRONICLESOF RESEARCHERS AT SOPHIA YOSHIHIROOTOProfessorDepartment of JournalismFaculty of Humanities#1015