You may have noticed that The Addition was a bit quiet last week. That’s because some exciting things are happening. Firstly, this newsletter is going (almost entirely) paid only. The full Tuesday and Friday versions, and the archive, will be available only to paid subscribers. These are going to include longer analysis pieces as well […]
Ofcom put GB News “on notice” on Monday. It announced five breaches of two sections of the Broadcasting Code. They are all related to programmes presented by serving politicians. The regulator said that “any repeated breaches of Rules 5.1 and 5.3 may result in the imposition of a statutory sanction.” The five breaches occurred twice
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Each month, I share some of the shows and movies I watch. It is not always the latest stuff as it’s impossible to keep up, plus I love dipping back into the archives. This month it’s a newcomer to Apple TV+ that has caught my eye. Feel free to share your recommendations in the comments
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Don Lemon has announced that Elon Musk has cancelled a partnership with his new show on Twitter. The decision apparently came after an interview by the former CNN anchor. Kara Swisher seems to have got the scoop. (She was interviewed by Lemon at a recent book tour event which was later published as a podcast.)
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It appears the bid for The Spectator and Th Telegraph from UAE-backed consortium Redbird IMI may have been quashed once and for all. At least in its current structure. (Full disclosure: I have contributed to both the publications involved in the bid.) Sky News‘s Mark Kleinman tweeted that changes to the law are afoot that
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There is a clear moment in tech journalist Kara Swisher’s new memoir, “Burn Book” where she takes the leap into becoming an entrepreneur. “I realized, in short, that I was and would always be a great reporter and a less good employee,” she writes. “Which led me to the obvious conclusion that I wanted to
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Ever since it launched, there have been discussions about the “originals only” approach of Apple TV+. It has chosen to spend money on (expensive) quality, not quantity. “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a perfect example of this. However, it does mean the service offers a limited content library. That is all well and good
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For a while, it was tempting just to ignore GB News, the British right-wing TV channel. The production was bad, the audience was small. All-in-all, it wasn’t really making much of a difference to anything. Back when it launched in June 2021, there was the distinct possibility it would crash and burn very quickly. This
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For some time, media and tech seemed to play along nicely. Outlets pivoted to platforms and those platforms were more than happy to scoop up and push out the free content. Today, it seems to be an all-out war. We’ve already had the NYT taking on OpenAI in an increasingly bitter legal battle. Now, 32
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Mehdi Hasan revealed details of his own media company on Wednesday. Called Zeteo, meaning “to seek” in Greek, the company is based on Substack. It will publish a weekly streamed show by Hasan, as well as a podcast and newsletters, according to Jeremy Barr at The Washington Post, who exclusively broke the news. Zeteo will
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