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‘I was screamed at for incorrectly spreading Marmite’: life as a runner in the UK film and TV industry

Published: October 30, 2024 16:46

After Richard E Grant’s revelations about his daughter’s experience, readers share ‘harrowing’ memories of the jobAs a runner on a film or TV production, “you are, and there is no point kidding yourself, the lowest of the low”, says Tom. “Nobody knows your…

Reddit shares soar after company turns first-ever profit

Published: October 30, 2024 14:53

Monthly users rose by nearly half thanks to AI translation feature, and deals for AI training with Google and OpenAI boosted revenueReddit on Tuesday reported a quarterly profit for the first time in its 20-year history. Shares of the company, popular for…

Subway ‘falsely advertises’ amount of meat in sandwiches, US lawsuit claims

Published: October 30, 2024 14:34

New York woman claims steak and cheese sandwich costing $7.61 contained 200% less meat than advertisedSubway was hit with a class-action lawsuit on Monday that claims the chain’s advertisements “materially overstate” the amount of meat and cheese in its…

‘Sex writing feels less cringe now’: are we entering a new era of erotic literature?

Published: October 30, 2024 14:32

As the Erotic Review is joined by dating app Feeld’s literary magazine and Gillian Anderson’s anthology of women’s fantasies, there seems to be a fresh appetite for writing about desire‘Sexual liberation must mean freedom to enjoy sex on our terms, to say…

In a key Colorado county, the local radio plays a pivotal role in securing Latino votes

Published: October 30, 2024 11:00

Eighth district could determine the balance of Congress, but mis- and disinformation has been rapidly proliferatingWhen Yadira Caraveo, a Democratic party member, won the race to represent Colorado’s eighth district in the House of Representatives in 2022,…

ABC chair says pressing ‘digital titans’ for revenue is a ‘mainstream democratic imperative’

Published: October 30, 2024 08:15

Kim Williams says funding local news and public interest journalism is crucial in a world where ‘the distortion of culture poses such a grave threat to democracy’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The tech giants must be pursued…

Batman who? Why The Penguin is TV’s biggest surprise of the year

Published: October 30, 2024 08:01

Colin Farrell’s show-stopping turn, and a scene-stealing Cristin Milioti, make this DC crime series an unlikely winnerHBO’s DC show The Penguin is one of those rare treats that comes along almost completely unexpectedly, like Batman cracking a smile, or…

Google parent Alphabet sees double-digit growth as AI bets boost cloud business

Published: October 29, 2024 21:52

Analysts expected 12% year-on-year revenue gains, but company reports 15%, buoyed by performance in ads and cloud servicesAlphabet, parent of Google and YouTube, saw a third straight quarter of better-than-anticipated gains as it reported earnings on…

Yan Morvan obituary

Published: October 29, 2024 21:37

Photojournalist drawn to conflict zones and the fringes of society who once had to flee from a violent gangThe French photojournalist Yan Morvan, who has died aged 70 of skin cancer, was a revered war photographer and chronicler of the lives of people on…

Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers

Published: October 29, 2024 19:08

Reader backlash against decision not to make presidential endorsement rolls on despite Bezos defense of decisionDeterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to…

The Guardian doesn’t ‘sanewash’ Trump or take orders from a billionaire owner. That’s why I’m proud to write here | Rebecca Solnit

Published: October 29, 2024 16:05

Thanks to reader support, the Guardian is free from the political and commercial pressures that influence other US outlets. Please help us raise the $2m we need to keep up our momentum.The Guardian is unafraid. And it’s independent. (No billionaire…

The Washington Post is a reminder of the dangers of billionaire ownership | Siva Vaidhyanathan

Published: October 29, 2024 15:29

In blocking the newspaper from endorsing Kamala Harris, Jeff Bezos is not acting cowardly so much as slylyLast week the Washington Post refrained from endorsing a candidate in the presidential race for the first time in 36 years. The decision was…

Truth Social trading suspended several times amid volatile pre-election rally

Published: October 29, 2024 15:16

Trump Media & Technology Group stock has surged in recent weeks as former president courts votersUS politics live – latest updatesTrading in the owner of Donald Trump’s Truth Social was suspended several times on Wall Street on Tuesday as extraordinary…

No more international cricket live on free-to-air TV as ECB fails to agree deal

Published: October 29, 2024 14:00

BBC offer too low but it keeps 15 live Hundred matchesECB can’t interest Channel 4 or ITV in four games a yearThe England men’s and women’s cricket teams are set to return fully behind the Sky Sports paywall next season after an extension to the BBC rights…

Ex-Crikey columnist Guy Rundle apologises after saying ‘every grope is now a sexual assault’

Published: October 29, 2024 08:28

In the statement, Rundle says the word grope was ‘wrongly chosen’, while left-wing publication Arena says it asked him to stand down temporarilyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer Crikey columnist Guy Rundle has apologised for…

Jeff Bezos defends decision to end Washington Post endorsements

Published: October 29, 2024 00:42

After resignations and loss of subscribers, billionaire owner pens piece saying endorsements create ‘perception of bias’Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the Washington Post, has penned a column in his own newspaper defending the decision not to endorse…

Paul Lowe obituary

Published: October 28, 2024 18:05

Photojournalist who covered many conflicts and made Sarajevo his home after documenting the siege of the cityAs was the case for many of the journalists of his generation who covered the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the life and career of…

Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post’s non-endorsement

Published: October 27, 2024 15:55

Executives of Blue Origin briefly met with Trump within hours after paper spiked endorsement of Harris The multi-billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, continued facing criticism throughout the weekend because executives from his aerospace…

Polling has turned the US election into a game. We need to take a reality check | Peter Pomerantsev

Published: October 27, 2024 11:00

The proliferation of opinion polls on the presidential election makes it seem more like a sport involving personalities, when what these surveys should be doing is targeting policies In Washington DC, I measure out my life in polls and heart…

The BBC has rehabilitated Michael Gove from Brexit hysteric into genial radio jock | Catherine Bennett

Published: October 27, 2024 06:30

In handing him his own series, the corporation is relaunching yet another failed politicianNo worries if you haven’t felt quite up to it: thanks to BBC Sounds, its recent Michael Gove festival, Surviving Politics, should be available for a year, to prove…

Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report

Published: October 26, 2024 18:46

Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration viewsElon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that…

The Washington Post is sitting on the fence at the most dangerous time in history | Tim Adams

Published: October 26, 2024 15:00

The paper itself has exposed the story behind its editorial refusal to endorse any candidate in the US presidential electionThe theory is that journalists should report the news rather than headline it – but on Friday the Washington Post, the celebrated…

Our perverse respect for immense wealth allows Musk and Zuckerberg to run riot | John Naughton

Published: October 26, 2024 15:00

The megalomaniacs who control X and Facebook are only able to pollute the public sphere and undermine democracy because of our deference to moneyThere are two kinds of aphrodisiac. The first is power. A good example was provided by the late Henry…

Michael Parkinson is back, with an AI voice that can fool even his own family

Published: October 26, 2024 09:29

The chatshow star’s son says digital replica will interview a new generation of starsAppearing on a major British television chatshow could make a showbiz career in the 1970s and 80s – and end one too. It was more than simply joining a line-up of famous…

BBC DJ Johnnie Walker says farewell to Sounds of the 70s after 58 years on air

Published: October 26, 2024 09:27

Radio 2 broadcaster hangs up headphones because of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which makes breathing difficultThe veteran radio DJ Johnnie Walker has signed off his final episode of BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the 70s after 58 years on the radio.Walker, 79,…

Furor over Washington Post’s decision to not endorse presidential candidate: ‘Stab in the back’, ‘dying in darkness’

Published: October 25, 2024 21:08

Employees outraged at ‘chicken-shit’ move that breaks 30-year precedent, alleging Jeff Bezos quashed Harris supportThere was uproar and outrage among the Washington Post’s current and former staffers and other notable figures in the world of American media…

Washington Post says it will not endorse candidate for first time in 30 years

Published: October 25, 2024 19:08

Newspaper condemned for ‘chicken-shit’ decision on White House race as staffers say they are ‘deeply concerned’US politics live – latest updatesFor the first time in over 30 years, the Washington Post announced on Friday its editorial board would not be…

Patrick Soon-Shiong: the billionaire LA Times owner who blocked Harris endorsement

Published: October 25, 2024 17:45

Biotech tycoon’s decision to refuse to allow presidential endorsement led to resignations and subscribers’ revoltIn 2020, Patrick Soon-Shiong wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper he owns, reflecting on the murder of George Floyd and…

‘You don’t want to waste time on climate change’: TV weather’s big problem with the environmental crisis

Published: October 25, 2024 14:00

Lack of time, difficulties with scientific rigour, a disinterested public … television meteorologists open up about why they’re so quiet about the reasons for extreme conditionsWhy do TV and radio forecasts rarely contextualise extreme weather events in…

Los Angeles Times sees resignations and loss of subscriptions after owner blocks Harris endorsement

Published: October 25, 2024 12:02

Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the newspaper in 2018, wouldn’t let board endorse HarrisNearly 2,000 Los Angeles Times subscribers cancelled their subscriptions to the paper, citing “editorial content” reasons, after Patrick…

‘It’s going to be much darker’: inside the deadly return of TV masterpiece Wolf Hall

Published: October 25, 2024 12:00

The Tudor epic about a tyrant king and his vengeful, backstabbing entourage is back for its final instalment – and it’s more brutal than ever. We go on set to talk to the Mirror and the Light team about death, dictatorship … and ostrichesIt is a…

A new low for TV: how Juventus made one of the ugliest, most mindless kids shows ever

Published: October 25, 2024 08:00

It might be a golden age for children’s television, but no one told the Italian football team. Their horrific show about a cartoon zebra and pals feels like it was designed to punish youngstersI have long argued that we are living through a golden age of…

Hold the front page: Sydney Morning Herald forgoes Lidia Thorpe protest in favour of sneezing alpaca | The Weekly Beast

Published: October 25, 2024 01:56

Herald and the Age opt not to use photograph of Thorpe wearing possum-skin cloak and shaking her fist at King Charles on page one. Plus: The Australian fails to read fine printWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media…

Sales of Boris Johnson’s memoir slump by 62% in second week

Published: October 24, 2024 14:17

Former prime minister’s heavily promoted book, Unleashed, just hung on to No 1 bestseller spot in UKSales of Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, have slumped by 62% in its second week since publication.The heavily marketed tome, promoted in a prolonged…

‘Vital’: ABC Radio to become own division after chair Kim Williams intervenes to reverse strategy

Published: October 24, 2024 05:44

Networks including Radio National and Triple J were moved under the general content department last year, but Williams has stepped inFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastABC Radio…

Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children

Published: October 23, 2024 17:02

Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from ‘power of the algorithm’Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of 15 as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children’s…

Russia behind viral disinformation targeting Tim Walz, says US official

Published: October 23, 2024 12:18

Announcement is first time federal authorities have confirmed connectionGroups in Russia created and helped spread viral disinformation targeting the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz, a senior US intelligence official said on Tuesday.The…

Facebook page with racist posts still visible for Republican Mark Robinson

Published: October 23, 2024 10:00

No denial from candidate for governor of North Carolina, who is suing CNN for report on his ‘Black NAZI’ porn profileMark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children…

Trinny and Susannah’s daughters say pair ‘would be cancelled’ if show made now

Published: October 23, 2024 09:01

Lyla Elichaoff and Esme Bertelsen tell Tatler they have never watched What Not to Wear, with Elichaoff saying: ‘you can’t really speak to people like that now’Trinny and Susannah, the presenters of the noughties fashion TV hit What Not to Wear, would be…

China cracks down on ‘uncivilised’ online puns used to discuss sensitive topics

Published: October 23, 2024 05:50

Campaign targets wordplay and memes that are often used by people to get around censorship controlsChina’s internet regulators have launched a campaign cracking down on puns and homophones, one of the last remaining ways for citizens to safely discuss…

Media union calls Peter Dutton’s response to two ABC reporters ‘unnecessarily aggressive’

Published: October 22, 2024 23:58

Broadcaster vows to ‘never shy away’ from asking questions after opposition leader accuses journalist Bridget McArthur of ‘playing games’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe…

Bruce Lehrmann allowed to continue appeal in failed defamation action as judge pauses $2m costs order

Published: October 22, 2024 23:11

Lehrmann has sought to appeal against his defamation loss to Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson but his lawyer said he was unable to afford his legal costsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news…

Elon Musk’s pro-Trump Pac pouring millions into Facebook ads instead of X

Published: October 22, 2024 22:37

America Pac is targeting users interested in the Boy Scouts of America, Kelsey Grammer, Kid Rock and Joe RoganElon Musk’s Pac is spending far more on ads on Facebook and YouTube than on X, Musk’s own social network.America Pac paid $201,000 to run dozens…

Key suspect in Jamal Khashoggi murder has X account reinstated

Published: October 22, 2024 14:19

Saud al-Qahtani had been suspended permanently on Twitter before Elon Musk took over and rebranded it as XA key Saudi suspect in the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 has had his account reinstated on X, the social media company…