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...Earlier this year, former BBC director-general Mark Thompson became chief executive of cable TV news channel CNN, while Emma Tucker was named as editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal in December last...
...more than 20 offices and premises in Adler Real Estate probe (FT) Pension schemes argue London listing reforms would damage City (FT) PwC tells UK staff to expect smaller pay rises and bonuses (FT) BBC...
...long-awaited media bill, which will be introduced in parliament on Wednesday and will regulate online streaming platforms for the first time, while updating the rules for traditional broadcasters, including the BBC...
...News round-up FDIC to hit biggest US banks with $16bn bill for SVB clean-up (FT) Blackstone in talks with US regional banks over lending partnerships (FT) BBC review finds outgoing chair Richard Sharp...
...(ProPublica) — DEA’s most corrupt agent: parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’ (ABC News) — Farewell Llandegley International Airport (BBC)...
...The case for the BBC’s licence feeThe case for public service broadcasting has become more powerful in an age of proliferating new media and news services, not less, writes Martin Wolf....
...CLS also enquired about launching legal action against the BBC, but did not take the matter further....
...A separate document, highlighted by the BBC which first reported the story on Monday, stated that “a contact tracing app may not use location-based API’s . . . and may not collect any device information...
...Tech tools — Daft face masks The BBC has been looking at face mask trends, from using old T-shirts to double mask protection....
...merger (FT) BP sells $2.6bn stake in Oman gas block to Thailand’s PTT (FT) Hargreaves benefits from wave of younger retail traders (FT) Silver/WallStreetBets: mission creep (Lex) Former FT editor and BBC...
...So far the fallout for the firm has been negligible, despite publicity around Mr Rihan’s case, including a BBC Panorama investigation into “gold, drug money and a major auditor’s ‘cover-up’”....
...The BBC has launched an industry-wide campaign to get media organisations and technology companies to work together to fight disinformation, particularly around elections and other sensitive events....
...(BBC) Grim reaper of newspapers Alden Global’s reputation as a rapacious vulture fund that gobbles up America’s local papers then spits them out as a shell of their former selves has struck fear in the...
...The FT's editor Lionel Barber debated media issues with BBC broadcaster Mishal Husain and Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, at the FT Weekend Festival last Saturday. Here's an edited transcript....
...The BBC pulled its programmes from the Google Podcast app after it found the search group was directing users who searched for BBC podcasts to Google’s own service rather than to BBC Sounds....
...ITV and the BBC are launching a joint service, BritBox, before the end of the year....
...It, too, has branched into film and TV rights via Endeavor Content, which recently sealed a deal for HBO to air an upcoming BBC production of Sir Philip Pullman’s fantasy epic His Dark Materials....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Tortoise, the “slow news” venture launched by James Harding, the former head of news at the BBC, also received an undisclosed sum close to €500,000....
...The BBC also has a vital research and development function. Innovation to serve users would need to be equally at the heart of a public service digital corporation....
...A joint letter, signed by the heads of the BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, BT and TalkTalk, was published in The Sunday Telegraph that argued in favour of independent oversight of content published online....
...Calm even has soothing sleep stories, including one where BBC announcer Peter Jefferson reads extracts from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation designed to lull you to sleep....
...Mr Stride said a tax on revenues was the “potentially preferred route to go”, although he did not want to do anything that would harm smaller businesses, according to the BBC....
...But interviews are also, in the words of John Birt, the former director-general of the BBC, a chance to “test people’s account”. This could be probing a version of events or a political philosophy....
...lost a number of special advisers in recent months, including Mr Ball’s predecessor Karen Ward, who quit the Treasury in the summer to take up a role at JP Morgan vacated by Stephanie Flanders, the former BBC...
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