Media
Red Symons announces dumping live on air: 'Why am I going? They haven't said' | Weekly Beast
ABC Radio Melbourne host shocks listeners. Plus: what’s the to-do over Justine Clarke’s Ta Da!?
Amanda Meade
01, Dec, 2017 @12:56 AM
BBC Radio 4 defends Ann Coulter interview on Today programme
Presenter Nick Robinson defends criticism on social media after programme interviewed rightwing US commentator over Donald Trump’s tweets
Graham Ruddick
30, Nov, 2017 @7:04 PM
Matt Lauer 'ashamed and embarrassed' by reports of sexual misconduct
Former NBC host disputes details but says allegations had ‘enough truth’, adding: ‘To the people I have hurt, I am truly story’
Amanda Holpuch and Adam Gabbatt in New York
30, Nov, 2017 @5:05 PM
The Vortex: why we're all to blame for the nightmare of online debate
When we feud over Trump or Brexit, it’s easy to believe our in-group is the lone voice of sanity. But our tribalistic clashes send us spiralling deeper into the void
Oliver Burkeman
30, Nov, 2017 @7:00 AM
'You can get killed': journalists living in fear as states crack down
Independent journalists are under siege in a growing list of supposedly freer countries such as Brazil, Turkey, India and Mexico
Michael Safi in Delhi, Jonathan Watts in São Paulo, Oliver Holmes in Bangkok, Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul and Shaun Walker in Moscow
30, Nov, 2017 @12:01 AM
'Local media are simply disappearing': how financial pressures are killing independent media
From Poland and Hungary to parts of Africa and South America, states are using commercial ruses to squeeze out liberal media
Andrew MacDowall in Belgrade and Bibi van der Zee
30, Nov, 2017 @12:01 AM
Global press freedom plunges to worst level this century
Study finds freedom of expression at lowest point since 2000 with reporters facing violence, prosecution and financial rout in dozens of countries
Graham Ruddick
30, Nov, 2017 @12:01 AM
Guardian wins Walkley for film on Bolivian disability rights campaign
Gold Walkley goes to Fairfax’s Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty for coverage of Islamic State occupation of Mosul
Amanda Meade
29, Nov, 2017 @9:26 PM
Behind Matt Lauer's lovable image, the TV host was a divisive figure
The longtime Today show anchor who was fired after a complaint about his behavior was popular and influential, but not a stranger to awkward incidents
Amanda Holpuch in New York
29, Nov, 2017 @8:24 PM
Clockwise captions causing confusion | Brief letters
Brief letters: MPs as private landlords | Dowsing | Coming out | Picture captions | Rodney Bewes
Letters
29, Nov, 2017 @7:15 PM
Government picks ex-Channel 4 chair Lord Burns for Ofcom role
If approved by MPs, Burns will replace Patricia Hodgson as chair of the media regulator in January on £120,000 a year
Graham Ruddick Media editor
29, Nov, 2017 @6:00 PM
24-hour Putin people: my week watching Kremlin ‘propaganda channel’ RT
Formerly known as Russia Today, the channel gives airtime to pundits from left and right – many of them UK politicians. After a week watching its often surreal output, our writer asks himself: is this really the best Moscow can do?
Tim Dowling
29, Nov, 2017 @5:39 PM
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