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Independent owner considering closing national print titles

Evgeny Lebedev and team have not yet made a final decision but he is expected to close 30-year-old titles

BBC websites dominate the market in online news views

Top 10 media publishers responsible for 65% of news consumed in Britain

Online comments: we want to be responsible hosts

Improving comments does not mean censorship or eliminating criticism, we want to free the voices that struggle to be heard

Spotlight review – exposing the sins of the fathers

Newsroom drama gets behind the headlines of the child abuse scandal that rocked Boston’s Catholic community in 2002

Is it time for newsrooms to run on charitable donations?

PBS in America survives on its fundraisers. So should the BBC and Guardian accept donations from their most loyal audience members?

The 10 best journalists on screen

From the Daily Planet to the Boston Globe, which films and TV shows get the print newsroom reporters right?

Spotlight review – Catholic church called to account over child abuse

Old-style journalism triumphs in the story of the real-life team who knocked on doors and scoured the cuttings library to reveal a scandal that may have begun centuries ago

Daily Mail website’s ad revenues surge as paper announces price hike

Mail Online ad income soared by 27% in the fourth quarter, driven by US growth – but it was not enough to offset print decline

Baroness Rebuck and Jimmy Wales join Guardian Media Group board

Chair of book publisher Penguin Random House UK and Wikipedia founder take up their roles with immediate effect

The Guardian hires UsVsTh3m founder Martin Belam

Former Mirror executive, who also launched data journalism project Ampp3d, appointed as social and new formats editor

Portsmouth newspaper’s price rise a symptom of media malady

Newsprint buyers will vanish ever faster, but publishers have done too little with their digital products to make them attractive to readers or advertisers

Canadian journalists strike over redundancies and new contracts

But employer says: ‘Economics of the news business today are excruciating’

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime review – gripping account of thalidomide battle

The Sunday Times editor’s tenacity in the face of government and industry bullying over thalidomide is well worth revisiting

Mark Ruffalo on Spotlight: ‘The whole of Boston was complicit. Everybody looked the other way’

Oscar nominated for his role as a investigative reporter in Spotlight, the indie fixture-turned-Avengers-superstar talks about the power of the press, Bernie Sanders and life as the Hulk

They say the age of investigative journalism has passed. It hasn’t

Two new films about great newspaper campaigns provoke a nostalgia for the days of print. But the problems posed by online news are offset by its potential

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Film & Tech News

  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
  • Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Should you send that midnight text? 11 essential rules for phone etiquette
  • The best films of 2026 so far
  • Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
  • Boogie Nights review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun
  • Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds
  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’

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