Lawyers for Harry and other claimants argued trial delay to examine timing of claims would be ‘highly disruptive’Prince Harry has won the latest bout of his long-running legal battle with the publisher of the Sun after a high court judge rejected an application to delay the trial.News Group Newspapers (NGN) had applied to push back the trial for alleged unlawful information gathering – which is scheduled for January next year – to allow the court to examine whether claims of unlawful news gathering by Harry and 41 others were brought too late. Continue reading...
Press Awards recognise cross-platform Cotton Capital series, and there are wins for several Guardian reportersThe Guardian has won a diversity award at the prestigious Press Awards after its exposé on its founders’ links to transatlantic slavery, while one of its reporters took home the award for news reporter of the year.Judges at the Press Awards called the Guardian’s cross-platform Cotton Capital series, encompassing news articles, long-form essays, podcasts, video, a magazine, a 15-part newsletter and social media content, a “breathtakingly honest mea culpa”. Continue reading...
Case comes after insiders warned of a potential ageism row last year following merger of BBC News and World News channelsThe BBC is facing another damaging row over equal pay, with the presenter Martine Croxall taking legal action against the broadcaster for age and sex discrimination.Croxall is suing the corporation after being off-air for more than a year following the merger of the BBC’s News and World News channels, according to listings for London Central tribunal court for 1 May. Continue reading...
Jonathan Hall, Britain’s reviewer of terrorism legislation, says more children could be exposed to encrypted extremist contentThe UK’s terror watchdog has criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for lowering the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13, warning that the “extraordinary” move could expose more teenagers to extreme content.Jonathan Hall KC said more children could now access material that Meta cannot regulate, including content related to terror or sexual exploitation. Continue reading...
Company says ‘we’re off to a good start in 2024’ as net income jumps 79% to $2.3bn, beating analysts’ expectations Profits at Netflix have surged as the world’s largest streaming service added millions of new paying subscribers.The entertainment giant added 9.3 million subscribers in the latest quarter – more than expected by analysts on Wall Street – leaving it with a record 269.6 million worldwide. Continue reading...
Broken Hill’s only newspaper, The Barrier Truth, closes due to cashflow problems, with staffer saying loss is ‘really sad for the community’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBroken Hill’s only newspaper has closed after almost 130 years of operation in a major blow to the outback NSW community.The Barrier Truth’s board told staff the union-run bi-weekly paper would shut down as its final edition went to press.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...
A show in which women competed to date a royal lookalike was panned at the time as ‘fodder for the braindead’. But the contestants had been duped, as a new podcast reveals … Next month marks a decade since one of the most ridiculous reality shows ever aired on television. I Wanna Marry “Harry” was a dating show in which 12 American women dated Prince Harry, then the world’s most eligible bachelor. Only, obviously, it wasn’t him at all. The “Harry” in question was a lookalike: according to the show, a “99% lookalike” (I will let you be the judge).Airing on Fox in the US before making its way to[...]
Company says Chinese government ordered it to remove two Meta-owned apps for ‘national security’ reasonsApple has removed WhatsApp and Threads from its Chinese App Store after the Chinese government ordered it to do so for “national security” reasons.Apple confirmed it had withdrawn the two apps – both owned by Meta, also the owner of Facebook – under instruction from the Cyberspace Administration of China, which regulates and censors China’s highly restricted internet and online content. Continue reading...
Exclusive: police believe attack on dissident journalist was latest example of Tehran hiring criminal proxies to assault its critics in westThree suspects wanted for the stabbing of an Iranian dissident journalist on a suburban London street were from eastern Europe and were hired and flown into Britain to carry out the attack, investigators believe.Pouria Zeraati survived being stabbed in the leg in Wimbledon, south-west London, last month. His television channel, Iran International, had received threats before, which he and supporters blame on the Iranian regime. Continue reading...
Director of ITV’s News at Ten for more than 20 years who also oversaw its live election night coverageThe pioneering television director Diana Edwards-Jones, who has died aged 91, helped ITN establish its reputation for producing a popular, authoritative news service on ITV – and was renowned among colleagues for her colourful language in the gallery. She directed News at Ten, Britain’s first half-hour daily news programme, from its launch in 1967 until her retirement 22 years later – and was instrumental in making the “bongs” a part of its opening headlines. The broadcast also featured two ne[...]
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