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Scarlett Johansson steps down from Oxfam ambassador role

Avengers star attracts wrath of activists after appearing in ad for company with West Bank settlement factory

Oxfam under pressure to cut ties with Scarlett Johansson over SodaStream ad

Anti-settlement activists say actor should lose goodwill ambassador role after appearing in ad for firm with factory in settlement

Scarlett Johansson’s Super Bowl ad gets extra fizz from TV ban

Media Monkey: SodaStream ensures its campaign featuring The Avengers star goes viral by including criticism of rivals Coke and Pepsi

Trailer vs critic: which is the biggest spoiler?

Xan Brooks: Critics get a lot of grief for giving away film's crucial plot details – but aren't trailers much worse?

Cinema owners call for shorter movie trailers to avoid spoilers

Trade body issues guidelines to trim trailer length, after complaints that too much plot is being revealed

Why we are living through a new golden age of journalism…

Readers have never had it so good, argues US writer

Microsoft Xbox One prompts outrage after YouTube stealth-marketing stunt

Undisclosed money paid to YouTubers featuring Xbox One in gaming videos prompts backlash. By Samuel Gibbs

Is your friend an unpaid branding enthusiast?

Peter Ormerod: 'Friendvertising' is the latest trick by marketers who want you to sell their brand

The new New York Times: making the concept of redesign obsolete

The Gray Lady has overhauled with 'hamburgers', native ads and clever design, but for all the good, personalisation is wanting

Marissa Mayer aims to revive Yahoo with shift ‘from complexity to clarity’

Yahoo’s latest digital magazine and news digest products show a media-centric shift. By Samuel Gibbs in Las Vegas

Native advertising is the new paywall in media economics – but is it here to stay?

Emily Bell: Many digital publishers have placed it at the heart of their business strategy - but there are concerns over transparency

Google targets big brand advertisers with ‘game-changing’ technology

Technology that can track the 'viewability' of online ads will, Google hopes, help it lure big brands away from TV. Mark Sweney reports

What we liked in 2013: YouTube

Sam Wollaston: What were the most watched adverts?

Call me an optimist, but the future of journalism isn’t bleak

Dan Gillmor: Even as today's major journalistic institutions struggle to adapt, media startups and investigative outlets carry the torch

Editor sounds the last Post, but his journalistic spirit lives on…

Why the Liverpool paper had to close

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  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • UK attorney general tells department to stop using X amid disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
  • Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors
  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate
  • Tell us your favourite film of 2026 so far
  • As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
  • Taliban order ban on smartphones as officials shown destroying devices
  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
  • The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35
  • ‘It makes no sense’: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban

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