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The TV licence fee scandal: why are 1,000 people a week being casually criminalised?
Each year, tens of thousands of UK citizens are charged with non-payment of their TV licence fee – from the man who missed payments while in hospital, to a woman with a brain injury who forgot to pay

Zoe Williams

29, Feb, 2024 @10:00 AM

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GB News’s highest-paid Tory MPs – and how much they have received
What the channel has paid the likes of Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and what it has got for its money

Peter Walker Deputy political editor

28, Feb, 2024 @5:30 PM

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Bob Pryce obituary
Other lives: Writer and subeditor who found his niche reporting for the Guardian on football and American sports

Matthew Engel

28, Feb, 2024 @5:23 PM

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GB News has paid more than £660,000 to Tory MPs since its launch
Labour MPs received just £1,100 from channel in same period, as concern mounts over its impact

Peter Walker Deputy political editor

28, Feb, 2024 @5:05 PM

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BBC apologises to family at centre of Huw Edwards scandal
Corporation launched review into complaints procedure after scandal about presenter last year

Alexandra Topping

27, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Emma Barnett tipped for Today presenter job after Martha Kearney steps down
Woman’s Hour host is frontrunner for BBC’s morning current affairs show after Kearney announces departure

Alexandra Topping

27, Feb, 2024 @2:29 PM

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Antoinette Lattouf escalates legal battle against ABC with new federal court claim
Journalist is suing broadcaster for allegedly ‘sacking her without a proper basis and without due process’, adding to existing claim at Fair Work Commission

Tory Shepherd

26, Feb, 2024 @7:07 AM

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‘The bloody Protestants ran BBC in Northern Ireland’ in 60s and 70s, says ex-TV boss
Former BBC One controller Paul Fox says anti-Catholic prejudice was deeply embedded at the corporation during the Troubles

Richard Brooks

24, Feb, 2024 @10:07 AM

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GB News is being allowed to break impartiality rules, say senior TV figures
Ofcom is accused of not treating all broadcasters the same and of dragging its feet with investigations into the rightwing channel

Ben Quinn and Rowena Mason

24, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM

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‘The media and politicians are failing’: comedian Bassem Youssef on Piers Morgan, satire and ‘Genocide Joe’
Once known as ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’, Youssef doesn’t want to be defined as an activist – but he will take risks and go with his gut

Rhana Natour

23, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Facing facts: ABC pulls the plug on RMIT factchecking collaboration
Decision to switch to in-house verification unit comes after broadcaster caught up in voice referendum culture war between university and Sky News. Plus: hubbub over Hubbl as News Corp launches streaming device

Amanda Meade

23, Feb, 2024 @3:11 AM

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Vice Media to lay off hundreds of workers and stop publishing on its site
Memo sent by Bruce Dixon, the Vice Media chief, talks of transition to ‘studio model’ as employees term move ‘very upsetting’

Maya Yang

22, Feb, 2024 @10:46 PM

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