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YouTube rules out Premier League bid despite Europa League final coup

Tech company, which will also show Champions League football final, is happy to grow business of partnering broadcasters and content creators

Fairfax keen to protect its fantastic four as decades of talent heads for exit

Some of the newspaper company’s finest reporters leave, the ABC’s Fact Check unit is axed and Andrew Bolt defends his Sky News ratings

BBC head of news denies recipes U-turn

James Harding tells Radio 4 Media Show there was ‘a misunderstanding’ over plans to close food website

BBC’s recipes U-turn is a cynical move, say its rivals

Publishers say moving recipes to the commercial BBC Good Food site will not help them get more web traffic

John Whittingdale: I’m not to blame for BBC dropping recipes

Culture secretary says corporation may have bowed to pressure from newspapers in making decision to axe BBC Food site

‘Britflix’ and chill – doesn’t have the quite same ring to it

The government has given the BBC the go-ahead to develop a subscription streaming service – but what might we expect from a British version of Netflix?

BBC gets green light to launch Netflix rival

Corporation in talks with potential partners including ITV and NBC Universal about new subscription service

What next for the BBC? Birt, Iannucci, Puttnam and more on its future

With the white paper published, we ask broadcasting experts what’s in store for the corporation and what it must do to thrive

It lacks the glamour of saving Strictly – but the BBC’s new board must be resisted

Government-appointed board members, Ofcom-regulated, and the NAO auditing value for money? The fight to keep the BBC in licence-payers’ hands isn’t over

Jeremy Clarkson’s Amazon show to be called The Grand Tour

Top Gear rival, which is also presented by Richard Hammond and James May, will be broadcast in the autumn

Watch Aardman’s penguins praise the BBC’s David Attenborough

See starstruck birds talk about how much they love the 90-year-old presenter in our advertising review

Amazon launches YouTube-style video service

Web users with Amazon account can now upload their own videos to the Video Direct platform

Amazon: not always prime for creative freedom?

Director Whit Stillman says streaming service was ‘on top of absolutely everything’ when he was shooting Chloe Sevigny pilot

BBC’s David Attenborough app offers over 1,000 clips free

Project marking presenter’s 90th birthday features footage from series including Zoo Quest, Planet Earth, and Frozen Planet

BBC follows Netflix in using online viewing data to help it pick new shows

Commissioning teams experiment with using data from Twitter and Facebook as well as from 6 million-plus people who have signed up for BBC iD

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Film & Tech News

  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
  • Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors
  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

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