‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth-shattering exposés?

He is the prickly, hotheaded journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and torture at Abu Ghraib prison. Finishing Cover-Up, a film about his astonishing life and countless scoops, was never going to be easy

New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles

Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content

Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combative

Sir Andreas Whittam Smith obituary

Financial journalist who was the founding editor of the groundbreaking Independent newspaper in 1986

‘Smile? YOU smile.’ A new generation of stars is overthrowing the old Hollywood system, one ‘no’ at a time

Gen Z actors such as Millie Bobby Brown and Jenna Ortega are refusing to do what is expected of ‘the talent’, says Priya Elan, a writer specialising in the arts, music and fashion

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back

The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed

The Guardian has only ever published 18 zero-star reviews. Here they all are

As Kim Kardashian’s All’s Fair sets a new low for TV, we revisit every single thing our critics have mercilessly panned since we’ve been online. Brace yourself for the Mount Rushmore of rubbish!

Will the real De Blasio please stand up? A lesson from a UK newspaper’s gaffe

The Times thought they were interviewing ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. They were actually talking to a wine importer

Italian news publishers demand investigation into Google’s AI Overviews

Newspaper federation says ‘traffic killer’ feature violates legislation and threatens to destroy media diversity

Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?

The Woman in Cabin 10 review – silliness of Keira Knightley megayacht thriller tips it overboard

Keira Knightley is twice dunked in the briny as she tries to uncover what’s going on aboard Guy Pearce’s boat in this soggy Agatha-Christie-ish mystery

Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism

The acclaimed documentarian follows up All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with another smart and impeccably structured winner

‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model

Media sites are taking action on several fronts as traffic referrals dry up and AI companies plunder their content

Routinely disclosing the ethnicity of police suspects is a very dangerous step to take

Supporters say more ‘transparency’ will prevent malign forces from flourishing – but the argument is profoundly flawed, says Nasar Meer of the University of Edinburgh

The inside story of the Murdoch editor taking on Donald Trump

Since her arrival at the Wall Street Journal, British editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has shaken up not only her own newsroom but also the White House