The Felicia Sonmez affair was not journalism’s finest hour

When a Washington Post reporter mentioned a rape allegation against Kobe Bryant, her editors acted like Bryant’s PR team

The Washington Post silenced one of its reporters. It now owes her an apology

Felicia Sonmez has rightly been reinstated. Censoring a woman for tweeting about a rape case sends a chilling message

Reporter who wrote book on Saudi crown prince was allegedly targeted by hackers

State department investigates after New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard says his phone was targeted in 2018

The Guardian view on the case against Glenn Greenwald: an outrage in Brazil and beyond

Editorial: The decision to charge the American journalist with cybercrimes is an attack on democracy as well as press freedom

UK publishers losing digital ad revenue due to content ‘blacklists’

Technology to stop ads running in stories about terrorism, for example, is blocking them from ‘safe’ stories too

Hugh Grant defends Prince Harry: ‘The tabloids effectively murdered his mother’

The actor and activist has backed up Harry’s desire to ‘protect his family’, while Stormzy has said there is no ‘credible’ reason to dislike Meghan

VAT ruling on Times digital edition could save News UK millions

Rupert Murdoch’s firm satisfies tax tribunal that subscriptions should be zero-rated

The media missed the rise of Trump in 2016. Are they ready this time?

Key figures from major US newspapers, news sites and TV describe their fears about covering this year’s election – and ideas on how to get it right

Piers Jones obituary

Other lives: Digital publishing expert at the Guardian for eight years

We can’t fight fake news without saving local journalism

Local news is often trusted more than national news but it is highly vulnerable to online disinformation

The sick boy, the ‘punch’: the local can still capture the national picture

From regional papers to national TV, fact checking has never been more important in speaking truth to power

If only saving the planet was as easy as planting a tree before speeding off in our SUVs

Offsetting is a seductive way of convincing ourselves we’re doing something constructive

Clint Eastwood reminds us women don’t have to do much to be branded a ‘slut’

The film Richard Jewell promotes the trope that women sleep their way to the top. It’s sexist, insulting – and nonsensical

Barrie Keeffe obituary

Playwright and screenwriter best known for the 1980 film classic The Long Good Friday

My paper reported the story of the boy on a hospital floor. Then online lies took over

The Yorkshire Evening Post rigorously factchecked the case of Jack Williment-Barr. That didn’t stop the conspiracy theories, says James Mitchinson, the Post’s editor