‘I sniffed out good news like a bloodhound’: how I broke my doomscrolling habit
Fed up of looking at endless gloom on her phone, one writer decided to ‘joyscroll’ instead
Rothermere family offers £3.1bn to take Daily Mail owner private
Offer is for 64% of DMGT, which also publishes the i and Metro, that Rothermeres do not already own
France hails victory as Facebook agrees to pay newspapers for content
Social media firm announces deal after long-running battle with national and regional newspapers
UK journalist wins £80k damages after being hired ‘to smear’ UAE and Egypt critics
Exclusive: Jane Cahane duped into joining website which turned out to be propaganda vehicle, high court hears
Facebook is ‘biased against facts’, says Nobel prize winner
Philippines journalist Maria Ressa says social media firm is threat to democracy and failing to halt spread of misinformation
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize
Filipina and Russian given 2021 award as organisers warn of threat to independent media worldwide
Scott Morrison backs Barnaby Joyce on social media crackdown as defamation changes mooted
Australia’s prime minister flags tougher regulations to force companies to identify ‘cowards’ who anonymously vilify or harass others on their platforms
Donald Trump desperately needs Twitter. But will he ever be able to beat his ban?
Trump has handled his social media exile with all the grace one would expect – and now he’s pathetically grovelling for the chance to tweet
‘Absolute beast’: critics go wild for No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film
Despite a few dissenting voices bemoaning a bloated plot, film reviewers largely agree that this is the 007 blockbuster to tempt audiences back into cinemas
Social media firms serve as gateway for scammers, says finance watchdog
FCA threatens action unless platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram do not toughen up against fraudsters
‘Is that live?’ The pioneers who put the ‘new’ into news
Our head of editorial innovation speaks to Tony Ageh, who performed a similar role 30 years ago when the internet was in its infancy and experimentation was everything
Picture Stories review – how one news magazine blew up British photography
By chronicling day-to-day life in 1940s Britain, Picture Post became a visual media pioneer, as Rob West’s inspiring documentary reveals
Google appeals against €500m French fine in news copyright dispute
US tech firm fined for not complying with order to come up with proposals on compensating publishers
Want to read Dominic Cummings’s innermost thoughts? That’s going to cost you
Newsletter platforms such as Ghost and Substack may be good writers’ incomes, but they’ve put important voices beyond the reach of the less affluent
A moment that changed me: my boss discovered my secret blog
Bored working in a law firm in Brussels, I filled my time writing anonymously online about love, life – and how dull my job was. Then my colleagues found my posts ...