Television
'Like a bad joke': Al Jazeera staff bemused at rightwing US venture
Rightly, a digital platform for conservatives, goes down awkwardly in Qatari-funded news organisation
Michael Safi
24, Feb, 2021 @4:46 PM
Nine to give back $2m in jobkeeper payments after posting $182m profit
Departing CEO reports 53% profit rise from digital businesses while revenue from mastheads including Sydney Morning Herald and the Age falls 9%
Amanda Meade and Australian Associated Press
24, Feb, 2021 @7:12 AM
Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives
Rightly will be led by a former Fox News journalist and is aimed at Republicans who ‘feel left out of conservative media’
Adam Gabbatt
23, Feb, 2021 @4:04 PM
GB News will be staunchly independent, not ‘anti-impartiality’ | Letter
Letters: We aim to serve British communities who feel poorly represented by mainstream channels, says chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos
Letters
22, Feb, 2021 @2:59 PM
Woody Allen denies claims in Allen v Farrow HBO documentary
The film-maker and wife Soon-Yi Previn claim film is ‘hatchet job riddled with falsehoods’ on abuse allegations
Andrew Pulver and Adrian Horton
22, Feb, 2021 @12:33 PM
Chris Cramer obituary
CNN boss and former head of BBC news who was known for his forthright leadership
John Simpson
21, Feb, 2021 @5:40 PM
Sylvester McCoy says doubts about female Doctor were 'stupid sexism'
Jodie Whittaker ‘was the Doctor after five minutes’, says seventh incarnation, adding that a person of colour in the role ‘would be great’
Alex Mistlin
16, Feb, 2021 @12:01 AM
Anne Robinson to be the new host of Countdown
Presenter and journalist will be first female host in 39 years of Channel 4 daytime show
Toby Moses
15, Feb, 2021 @2:54 PM
BBC faces oblivion despite TV drama golden age, says Russell T Davies
Screenwriter behind Doctor Who, Years and Years and It’s a Sin suggests UK broadcasters in peril
Maya Wolfe-Robinson
15, Feb, 2021 @6:00 AM
More than 8m people tune in to final of ITV's The Masked Singer
Final of celebrity singing contest is most watched show of 2021 so far outside of news and sport
Maya Wolfe-Robinson
14, Feb, 2021 @1:26 PM
Murdoch journalist given key voice over new chair of Ofcom
Paul Potts, a director of Times newspapers, appointed to panel to choose new head of broadcasting regulator
Vanessa Thorpe
14, Feb, 2021 @6:00 AM
Independent, always? Nine ends political donations after outrage over Liberal fundraiser | The Weekly Beast
The Age independence committee complains to CEO about potential ‘claims of bias’. Plus: steaming bowl of embarrassment for NT health
Amanda Meade
12, Feb, 2021 @1:07 AM
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