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Follow the money and you’ll find the future of news

Peter Preston: Emily Bell and James Harding are thinking challenging thoughts about the media. But the bottom line is still the bottom line

Virtual reality documentaries ‘take the middle man out of journalism’

Filmmaker Chris Milk is showing how the use of VR film in news coverage can be a powerful new storytelling vessel

Netmums founder launches YouTube network for British ‘mummy vloggers’

Siobhan Freegard sees an opportunity for more parenting videos: ‘YouTube is growing up, and the millennials are growing up too...’

NFL launches YouTube channel just in time for Super Bowl XLIX

Promises buildup analysis and highlights of Patriots/Seahawks season closer, with plans for more videos in the coming years

Hands on with Vessel, the app providing a ‘first window’ for YouTube stars

New short-form video service is promising 72-hour exclusives on new content from creators, but are those exclusives worth watching?

Fairfax and Nine’s streaming service, Stan, launches ahead of Netflix arrival

The video-on-demand service enters an increasingly crowded market with local players, Presto, backed by Foxtel, and Quickflix, already up and running

Bill Bailey and Matt Berry to star in BBC iPlayer Valentines

Comedians to feature in series of love-themed programmes that will premiere on iPlayer the day before Valentine’s Day as BBC steps up online-first commissioning

Vessel sets sail with ambitions to shake up the online video market

Startup launches public beta of $2.99-a-month app, which will offer ‘early access’ to videos from top YouTube creators

Elementary, my dear Clarkson: Sherlock pips Top Gear in 2014 iPlayer charts

Record year for on-demand viewing sees Sherlock Holmes reboot take three of the BBC’s top 10 most-watched on-demand programmes

BBC News executives discuss pitfalls of broadcasting Islamic State video

Democracy Day live stream of morning editorial meeting provides insight into judgments taken on stories including the Sun axing Page 3 models and propagandist videos

Adventure Time: new mobile game gets kids to create their own levels

Game Wizard app encourages children to draw and share their ideas using either the touchscreen or pens and paper

Channel 4’s symbiotic relationship with advertising

Sales director Jonathan Allan explains how Channel 4 maintains a careful balance between the channel’s voice, content and advertising, and looks ahead at the commercial challenges facing the broadcast industry

GCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media

Snowden files reveal saved emails of NY Times, BBC, Guardian and more by agency which sees investigative journalists as ‘threat’ akin to terrorists

Woody Allen, House of Cards … what’s next for the television revolution?

Sarah Hughes: Amazon has signed Woody Allen for his first TV series and its shows picked up honours at the Golden Globes, highlighting the change in our viewing habits and the rise of internet platforms

YouTube: PewDiePie, DC Toys Collector and Katy Perry topped 2014 chart

Swedish gamer ruled the YouTube roost with 4.1bn views, as games, children’s channels and music proved most popular for online video viewers

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  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • 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

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