Corporation board member to assume role from 27 June after resignation of Richard SharpUK politics live – latest updatesProf Dame Elan Closs Stephens, a politically neutral expert on broadcasting regulation, has been appointed as the acting chair of the BBC after the Conservative donor Richard Sharp resigned from the position over a perceived conflict of interest in a secret loan arrangement for Boris Johnson.Sharp stepped down as chair of the corporation in April, after being found to have broken rules by failing to disclose at the time of his appointment that he played a role in helping the [...]
Former This Morning presenter tells BBC he ‘wouldn’t be here’ if daughters had not supported himPhillip Schofield has said his career in television is over after he “brought [himself] down” after lying about his affair with a younger man.The former This Morning presenter, 61, resigned from ITV last week after admitting to his “biggest sorriest secret”, an “unwise but not illegal relationship” with a man who is now in his mid-20s.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lif[...]
Duke of Sussex to accuse journalists of phone hacking but publisher will in turn try to cast doubt on royal’s evidenceWhen Prince Harry gives evidence in the Mirror phone-hacking trial on Tuesday, he will become the first senior royal to be cross-examined in court since the 19th century. Based on what happened earlier in the trial, it is unlikely the prince will enjoy the experience.Harry will allege that journalists at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People used illegal methods including phone hacking to obtain stories about him. Mirror Group Newspapers will try to cast doubt on Harry’s e[...]
Ex-New York Times ombudsman Margaret Sullivan says many people do not trust mainstream journalismJournalism can help save democracies from the brink of collapse but only if adopts a “radical transparency” with its audience, according to the New York Times’s longest-serving public editor.Margaret Sullivan, now an academic and Guardian US columnist, says one of the biggest problems facing free societies across the world is that up to 40% of people do not trust the mainstream media. Continue reading...
Event with the ex-president comes as the network battles second defamation lawsuit after paying $787m to settle with DominionDonald Trump and Fox News played it safe on Thursday with a town-hall event in Iowa that swerved past the former US president’s election lies and liability for sexual abuse.The uncharacteristic omissions were a striking contrast to Trump’s recent town hall on rival network CNN and likely a source of relief for both his own lawyers and those of Fox News. Continue reading...
Show contestant says she did not expect the level of cruel comments about her appearanceWhen Coco Lodge decided to go on Love Island, she knew she was going to be judged on her behaviour. But what she did not expect was the level of trolling and cruel comments she received about her appearance.The 28-year-old graphic designer, who entered the ITV show as a Casa Amor bombshell last year, spent several months reckoning with her time in the Mallorca villa. Continue reading...
Proposed bill would require ‘online platforms’ to pay a fee to state news providers whose work appears on their servicesMeta is threatening to remove news content from its platforms in its home state of California if the state government moves forward with legislation that would force tech companies to pay publishers.The proposed bill would require “online platforms” like Google and Meta to pay a “journalism usage fee” to California news providers whose work appears on their services. Continue reading...
The Russian businessman is the father of Evgeny Lebedev, who was given a peerage by Boris JohnsonUkraine has imposed sanctions on Alexander Lebedev – the former KGB intelligence officer whose son Evgeny sits in the House of Lords – in connection with Vladimir Putin’s invasion.The national security and defence council in Kyiv imposed sanctions on Lebedev Sr last October. The decision – first reported by Tortoise media – emerged on Thursday and follows a decree signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Continue reading...
President says last year’s killings were result of ‘encouragement of anarchy’ in Amazon under BolsonaroDom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has vowed, blaming their killings a year ago on the Amazonian “anarchy” unleashed under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.Phillips, a British journalist, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, were shot dead by a group of illegal fishers on 5 June last year while travelling in the remote Javari valley near Brazil’s border with Colombia and Peru. Continue reading...
Author tells Hay literary festival he needs to ‘get past’ the knife attack he suffered before writing anything elseSalman Rushdie is writing a book about being stabbed on stage in New York last year, an attack which left him without sight in one eye, the author told the Hay literary festival.“I’m trying to write a book about the attack on me – what happened and what it means, not just about the attack, but around it,” he said in a pre-recorded zoom appearance. Continue reading...
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