Coverage of the latest tech and media.
Rachel Maddow will return to MSNBC five nights a week during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term in office. At the moment she is just there on Mondays. Alex Wagner, who takes the time slot Tuesday-Friday in the current arrangement, must be delighted. She is leaving the cosy studio and getting sent […]
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Per Press Gazette, individual pageview targets are being introduced for journalists on The Mirror. According to a staffer at parent company Reach, this will not be implemented at other national titles within the business. “It’s not going to get rolled out across everyone,” they said. “The Mirror is a very, very different beast to The
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Staff at The Guardian and Observer have been told that the sale to the Sunday paper to Tortoise has been completed. Senior management sent an email on Wednesday morning confirming the of the controversial deal had gone through. The email was signed by members of the Scott Trust, which owned the Guardian and Observer and
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We’re not even halfway through his final season yet, but Gary Lineker’s replacements on Match of the Day have apparently already been chosen. According to Mike Keegan at the Daily Mail, Kelly Cates will join from Sky Sports, alongside Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan. Keegan reported that the three will cover Match of the Day
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This week, Dylan Jones announced he was stepping down as editor of the London Standard, 18 months into his tenure and just two months after he turned it from a daily newspaper into a weekly one. He will become editor-at-large on 19th December, with a successor set to be announced. This is all no surprise.
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Newsrewired, an annual gathering discussing all things digital publishing, took place on Wednesday. There were some fascinating talks on stage and good conversations away from it. However, others and I were struck by how much focus there was on things like AI instead of the audience. It seems that in journalism, people have forgotten AI
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For months, I’d been working on an investigation on Muslim news platform 5Pillars for Jewish News. Regulator Impress has now found it guilty of breaching discrimination rules for a second time in 2024, and the story could be published. Muslim media organisation 5Pillars has again been found guilty by the regulator Impress of breaching the
Hate to say I told you so. Ok, I don’t. Tonight it has been revealed that Gary Lineker is leaving Match of the Day at the end of this season. He will leave the BBC completely at the end of the 2026 World Cup. I’ve said for a while that I thought this would be
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Back at the start of the season, I pondered (and hoped) that the introduction of YouTube into the WSL media mix might help it have a breakthrough moment like the WNBA enjoyed in its latest season. A new media deal shows that things are really looking forward. In brief, the new deal is with Sky
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It’s an incredible time of the year for US sports fans. The NFL is in full flow, the NBA is back, the NHL has begun and it’s the baseball World Series. The perception though is that broadcasters, particularly Fox who have the rights to the series, could do with the Yankees claiming a win tonight.
