There is a lot to unpack from today’s BBC Annual Report. Michael Savage at The Guardian notes that a further 300,000 households have stopped paying the licence fee. That is a huge financial hit to Aunty. Meanwhile, the organisation still has a deficit of £132 million. It is also set for tricky negotiations with the […]
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The BBC does many things right. Look at its exemplary coverage of Wimbledon and the Women’s Euros. But when it gets itself in a mess, it really gets itself in a mess, and that is what’s happening as the fallout from Glastonbury continues. Today, the corporation has issued another statement about Bob Vylan’s hate-filled performance
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The BBC is once again in a state of meltdown, this time over its Glastonbury coverage. Having dithered over whether to show Irish rap group Kneecap, a member of the group is on bail for terror charges, they got caught up by Bob Vylan. I confess, I had not heard of the punk duo before
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Men’s U21 Euro 2025 England vs Germany – Whatever form of football these nations meet in, it always matters. The Young Lions started this tournament slowly but have grown into it, with their opponents undoubtedly the favourites after smashing France 3-0 yesterday. Kick of is at 8pm BST/3pm ET and it’s available for FREE on
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This time next week, Women’s Euro 2025 will be underway, with the second day of matches taking place. (The second day is far more enticing than the first, featuring as it does Belgium vs Italy and Spain vs Portugal.) The tournament is another significant juncture for women’s football in the media. Since that historic moment
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I’ve now been back in London for a few days and am starting to take in a little of what took place when I was in Israel (and Jordan and Turkey…). Aside from helping to process it all personally, I hope writing about it more provides some insight into what is really going on, or
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I’m definitely not a foreign correspondent. That has become clear to me this week. As I mentioned in Friday’s Special Addition, I was in Tel Aviv to cover Pride. You can work out the rest. I appeared on Monocle Radio from my hotel room on… I’m no longer sure what day… and that is how
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The Washington Post is reportedly exploring partnerships with other newspapers, Substack writers, and even non-professional writers (gasp!). This is part of attempts to expand the opinion section, according to Benjamin Mullin at The New York Times. At the heart of this story is, of course, AI, which the paper will use to support writers, presumably,
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Sequoia Capital has invested $100 million in Mubi, as good a demonstration as any of how technology has collided with media and culture.
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In a recent edition of the Semafor Media newsletter, Max Tani touched on the issue of gatekeeping a couple of times. “The debate about whether the legacy news media — to the degree it still keeps the gate at all — failed to adequately cover President Joe Biden’s decline is also at the heart of
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