The BBC World Service daily news programme, Newshour, has announced that Leila Nathoo and Rajini Vaidyanathan will join the presenting line-up in the new year. Newshour, the BBC World Service flagship news programme, brings its global audience interviews, breaking news and analysis of the day’s events from around the world. Nathoo joins the World Service […]
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for airing a Panorama episode that edited parts of a Trump speech together so he appeared to explicitly encouraged rioting – but the corporation has rejected his demands for compensation. “Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump’s legal team in response to a letter […]
BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness have resigned after controversy over a documentary edit pertaining to US President Donald Trump. It comes after The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting Panorama edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the […]
SpaceX’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite service has reported it now has more than 8 million customers around the planet, up from 7 million in August and 6 million in June. Starlink is adding an average 14,250 new customers a day, and well up on their previous average of 12,200 per day, a 17 per cent increase over […]
Paramount Skydance has named Makan Delrahim, a former senior US antitrust official, as its chief legal officer, amid apparent preparations for a bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Delrahim, a former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, was part of the legal firm that advised Skydance Media throughout its long-drawn merger process with […]
To mark the second state visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, Channel 4 is rolling out a night of programming that puts a spotlight on his “prolific oeuvre of untruths and falsehoods”. On September 17th from 10pm Channel 4 will broadcast Trump v The Truth, an unbroken catalogue of over 100 falsehoods, […]
Charlene White is fronting a new ITV commission, Talking Royals, for ITV and ITVX, taking viewers behind the royal headlines with discussions and expert analysis. Every Sunday, White will be joined by ITV News Royal Editor Chris Ship, ITV News royal expert Lizzie Robinson and a host of guests. Chris Ship and Lizzie Robinson have […]
The Trump administration used the Labour Day holiday in the US to terminate almost 500 employees of federally funded news organisation Voice of America (VOA). The news was not unexpected as in June as Acting CEO of VOA’s parent agency, Kari Lake, had announced that 629 staffers at VOA would be terminated. Lake said the […]
The current Trump rules on imports and tariffs from China might alter the forecasts but Counterpoint Research says that China’s share of the global display market will grow to 75 per cent by 2028. Counterpoint’s report says that China is still expected to dominate display capacity, growing from a 68 per cent share in 2023 […]
Right-leaning news channel Newsmax is to pay $67 million (€57.4m) to settle the libel suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the channel for falsely claiming that the voting machine company had rigged votes in the 2020 US presidential election. The settlement, completed on August 15th, was disclosed in an S.E.C. filing by Newsmax. It […]