Axel Springer
Axel Springer’s media assets to be split off in €13.5bn KKR deal
Axel Springer has struck a €13.5bn (£11.3bn) deal that will see its media assets, which include Politico, Business Insider and newspapers Bild and Die Welt, hived off into a...
Baby Reindeer
British-made Netflix shows most popular on platform so far in 2024
Netflix has revealed that British-made shows have proved to be the most popular with audiences on its global...
Activism
Tracing the Anti-Haitian Hate Targeting Springfield
Out of all the outlandish claims at the presidential debate between former president Donald Trump and Vice President...
Activism
Presidential Debates Love To Avoid the Topic of Taxing the Rich
The first televised U.S. presidential debate came way back in 1960. Few of us who happened to watch...
Business
‘Survive to 2025’: UK TV production firms fight to stay afloat in slump
The UK’s TV production sector has adopted the mantra “survive to 2025” as a perfect storm of market...
Will the Post-DNC Pivot on Palestine Hurt Harris?
The Democratic Party is sending a clear message to advocates for Palestine — whether or not you get in line, we don’t need you....
Scuttling ‘New York Times v. Sullivan’ Could Destroy Independent Media
What do Donald Trump, Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin have in common on the First Amendment? All three are pushing for the Supreme Court...
‘It’ll have bite, be radical and funny’: celebrating 60 years of the Observer Magazine
Radical, tolerant, enquiring, pro-consumer, lid-off, helpful. It’ll be no-holds-barred, without being noisy. It should have bite without malice. Wave-of-the-future type stuff, when possible. Whiff...
It’s so tempting for columnists to give a little too much away
As an avid reader of newspaper columns, the ones I’ve always looked forward to are the ones where something has gone wrong. You read...
The Tragedy of Chris Hayes
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack.
This recent episode of Chris Hayes’s podcast Why Is This Happening?, which I recommend in general, offers a...