Future continues buying spree with purchase of 12 titles including The Week and Computer ActiveFuture, the owner of titles including Country Life and Metal Hammer, has acquired the publisher of magazines including The Week and Minecraft World in a £300…
‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help
Women in media in Kabul tell of trying to destroy traces of their identity as they brace for Taliban retributionWhen president Ashraf Ghani slipped out of Afghanistan with no warning, he took with him any glimpse of hope left for the nation’s women – e…
‘I’m not a news robot reading an Autocue’: Clive Myrie on politics, personality and Mastermind
The BBC newsreader takes over the venerable quiz show next week. He discusses fighting for viewers, dealing with online abuse – and making his parents proudThere is one correct way to start an interview with the new host of Mastermind: turn the tables …
‘Saddam Hussein’s spies in London laid a trap – and sent my son Farzad to his death’
Nosrat Bazoft, mother of the Observer reporter executed by the tyrant in 1990, reveals for the first time how the unreported theft of a briefcase of documents on a secret Iraqi weapon may have sealed her son’s fate.Leaning back in a loose cotton shirt …
BBC journalist speaks of ‘increasingly repressive’ Russia ahead of expulsion
Sarah Rainsford says she is caught up in wider diplomatic game as country ‘turns in on itself’A senior BBC journalist who is to be expelled from Russia has condemned “an increasingly repressive environment” for critical journalists in the country.Sarah…
Nicaraguan police raid opposition newspaper La Prensa
Only remaining print paper raided as part of ‘customs fraud and money laundering’ investigationNicaraguan police have raided the offices of the main opposition newspaper La Prensa.The national police said the raid on Friday was part of an investigatio…
Facebook shut down our research into its role in spreading disinformation | Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy
The company’s hostility to academic scrutiny limits our ability to understand how the platform amplifies political falsehoods Last week, Facebook disabled our personal accounts, obstructing the research we lead at New York University to study the sprea…
Strictly Come Dancing 2021: the contestants – ranked
Robert Webb, AJ Odudu, Tom Fletcher and Nina Wadia are among the celebrities getting their dancing shoes on for Strictly. But who will succeed … and who on earth is Tilly Ramsay?The 2021 Strictly Come Dancing line-up has been unveiled in full, which ca…
Digested week: could anti-vaxx protesters be any dimmer?
An anti-media demo outside a block of flats in west London the BBC left eight years ago tells you how clued up these protesters areAnti-vaxxers gathered outside the BBC today to protest against – well, the clue’s in the name, but specifically this time…
Disney+ beats expectations to reach 116 million subscribers in Q3
Disney’s streaming service is seeing improved growth, after initially seeing slower numbers of subscriber additions in Q2 as COVID lockdowns and mask mandates came to an end. Today, Disney+ beat analyst expectations for subscriber growth in Disney’s blowout third quarter, reaching 116 million paid subscribers — above the 114.5 million Wall Street had expected — […]