Telegraph auction poses litmus test for value of newspapers in digital age
While falling sales suggest the demise of print, the industry has proved adaptable and remains attractive to media barons
‘The internet is vicious and toxic, but I’d never go back to the 90s’: Taylor Lorenz talks to Monica Lewinsky
The journalist speaks with the activist about surviving merciless harassment, the media’s double standards on gender, and why they still have hope
Enter the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2024
The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions
MailOnline to pay Gabby and Kenny Logan damages over false claims
Payout relates to article that wrongly claimed pair had received £500,000 to promote tax avoidance schemes
The Guardian blocks ChatGPT owner OpenAI from trawling its content
Publisher is latest news organisation to block the artificial intelligence company from harvesting content to create its tools
Thursday briefing: Vice took millions from Saudi Arabia – but has its deal backfired?
In today’s newsletter: As the upstart media company faces bankruptcy, it has developed strong ties with the country, leaving some to question what compromises companies are willing to make to do business
‘We’re gripped by graphomania’: why writing became an online contagion and how we can contain it
Conspiracy theories, provocations, baseless accusations… long before our clickbait era, women in pre-revolutionary France were the subject of salacious attacks. Their response offers hope for us all
ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X
The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts
Twitter sues anti-hate speech group over ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in lost advertising
CCDH dismisses lawsuit for damages saying Elon Musk’s X aims to ‘bully us into silence’
Google testing AI tool that writes news articles
Tool is said to have been pitched to several US news outlets as an aid for journalists rather than a replacement
Derek Malcolm: my predecessor was a mighty critic, film world darling and heir to a scandal
The droll former Guardian film writer was an old Etonian ex-jockey whose father killed his wife’s lover, and who crossed swords with the Kray gang
On my radar: Charlie Brooker’s cultural highlights
The award-winning creator of Black Mirror on the most over-the-top film he’s ever seen, a podcast that doesn’t send him to sleep and the bit of the Observer he always reads
Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news
Site has potential to suck the remaining life – and advertising revenue – out of Musk’s struggling network
Threads v Twitter – is this the main bout between Musk and Zuckerberg?
Tesla tycoon challenged Meta boss to a cage fight but the launch of Twitter’s rival this week may provide the real action
Tipping point in decline of magazines as one large printer remains in UK
All bar one of top-selling titles now printed by London-based Walstead after closure of rival in Liverpool