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Guardian signs global video deal with AOL On

YouTube-style portal adds newspaper to list of partners that includes Channel 4 News, ITN, and the Telegraph

Mail Online growth fails to offset print decline

Website boosts income by 20% to £36m in six months, but DMGT reports 4% drop in total revenue across its Mail businesses

Trinity Mirror’s UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go

Digital media brands set to be sacrificed with staff roles in UK expected to be lost ahead of company’s expansion in North America

Facebook Instant Articles: BBC News and Guardian sign up to initiative

New initiative, which also involves BuzzFeed and the New York Times, speeds the process of loading news articles on the social network

Election aftermath: memos to the media for May 2020

What have we learned at the end of a surprising campaign? Quite a lot that will really matter at the end of the next parliament

Google may not do ‘nice’, but even the omnipotent need to survive

The mighty search engine is putting on a good Samaritan act with its Digital News Initiative, but its munificence isn’t all that surprising in a digital world where content, and allies, are vital

Advertising and editorial: how do editors strike the difficult balance?

BuzzFeed’s deleted articles on Dove and Hasbro and the Telegraph’s HSBC debacle highlight the dilemmas

Google apologises to newspapers over ‘nonsense’ traffic stats in EU response

Search firm says ‘sorry’ to the Guardian and Bild after citing incorrect data in its blog response to European commission’s antitrust charges

Hatfield: ‘Today’s 50-something is Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Yasmin Le Bon’

London Live’s former editorial director on local TV, Evgeny Lebedev, and his new digital startup for over 50s

National newspapers still hold the general election chips

Agenda-setting press casts its bets in a series of opening leading articles

Should the media rethink how they cover disasters?

How does rolling news and social media affect reporting of a disaster such as the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash?

Sunday Times gets four nominations for London Press Club awards

Two of the paper’s big stories are shortlisted for scoop of the year

News UK, the Guardian and Outbrain on the labelling of sponsored content

Industry leaders reflect on the importance of labelling when producing sponsored content at this year’s Changing Media Summit

The Sun won’t win it this time with its unfunny ‘fun’ politics website

Red-top launches a free-to-access Conservative election propaganda site

Media blackout: would I be happier if I didn’t read the news?

Writer Jesse Armstrong couldn’t go even a few minutes without checking the headlines. So he set himself a challenge: no news for a month. Would he feel better about the world – or just out of the loop?

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • 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

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