Investigation launched after five broadcasters last month ceased presidential coverage after CNN, MS Now and Politico were barred from White HouseThe US Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press pool to halt coverage of the US president, Donald Trump, last month violated antitrust law, an agency spokesperson said Saturday.A spokesperson for the department said group boycotts among business competitors might violate US law. “The Antitrust Division is simply investigating to determine whether these news organizations have violated the antitrust laws,” they said. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/11/justice-department-investigates-tv-networks-trump-pool-coverage">Continue reading...</a>

Investigation launched after five broadcasters last month ceased presidential coverage after CNN, MS Now and Politico were barred from White House

US justice department investigating TV networks over Trump pool coverage

Rachel Jupp takes role as corporation grapples with digital transformation, a cash crisis and its public service roleWith looming job cuts and an ongoing pay dispute, there has not been much to smile about for BBC journalists working in “the pit” – their pet name for the newsroom deep in the belly of New Broadcasting House.On Monday afternoon, however, they were greeted by a grinning figure conducting a tour of the news floor. She was <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/05/rachel-jupp-appointed-director-bbc-news">Rachel Jupp</a>, the BBC’s newly appointed director of news and current affairs. Jupp engaged in a series of polite if brief conversations with her new troops. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/11/challenge-bbc-director-of-news-rachel-jupp">Continue reading...</a>

Rachel Jupp takes role as corporation grapples with digital transformation, a cash crisis and its public service role

‘Restore the authority’: the challenge for the BBC’s new director of news

Exclusive: German media group Axel Springer said to be planning between 50 and 100 editorial redundanciesThe new owner of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/dailytelegraph">Telegraph</a> is preparing to make significant job cuts to its newsroom, just months after stating it would invest in the title to make it the “leading centre-right media outlet in the English-speaking world”.Axel Springer, the German media company overseen by its billionaire chief executive, Mathias Döpfner, is understood to be examining proposals that would make between 50 and 100 journalists redundant. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/10/telegraph-owner-axel-springer-newsroom-job-cuts-u-turn">Continue reading...</a>

Exclusive: German media group Axel Springer said to be planning between 50 and 100 editorial redundancies

Telegraph owner poised to make newsroom job cuts in investment promise U-turn

Herschel Green handcuffed WWL producer and lawyer for not leaving public space, but was only punished for arguing about it with administratorA New Orleans criminal court deputy who <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/new-orleans-journalist-handcuffing">handcuffed</a> a journalist covering July’s indictment of Louisiana’s state attorney general has been disciplined for breaching his employer’s professionalism policy – albeit for an argument with the facility’s judicial administrator that day, according to an internal agency report.New Orleans sheriff’s office deputy Herschel Green was ordered to undergo counseling for that argument after he and his colleague Diedra Rayfield placed both WWL Louisiana investigative producer Danny Monteverde as well as station attorney Elana Beiser in handcuffs, a 33-page agency report released on Friday said. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/new-orleans-court-deputy-handcuffed-journalists">Continue reading...</a>

Herschel Green handcuffed WWL producer and lawyer for not leaving public space, but was only punished for arguing about it with administrator

New Orleans court deputy who handcuffed journalist disciplined – for violating etiquette

As streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challengeExasperated dad Simon Hooper shakes his fist at the camera in a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcoj0kJo6pF/">viral video</a>. “We managed to get rid of YouTube in our household six months ago and the kids are finally OK with it,” he says – but Netflix is “now commissioning YouTubers to make their brain rot and putting it back in front of my kids’ faces”.The precise “brain rot” he’s referring to is the arrival of a polarising show that’s lighting up parent chats around the globe. And while Salish and Jordan Matter might be new to Netflix Kids users, the father-daughter content creators are familiar to anyone who’s spent any time on the internet. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/11/parents-fear-youtubers-are-bringing-brain-rot-to-netflix-but-are-kids-wising-up-to-slop">Continue reading...</a>

As streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challenge

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Matsadaash staff allege torture and forced confessions after being held on charges of working for Muslim BrotherhoodEgyptian journalists are planning a new protest in Cairo this weekend after <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/04/egyptian-journalist-faces-terrorism-charges-entire-newsroom-detained-matsadaash-press-freedom">six colleagues were charged with terrorism offences</a> amid allegations they had been tortured in police detention.Last week, Egyptian authorities arrested the journalists, from the independent factchecking and investigative platform Matsadaash, accusing them in a statement of being unlicensed and producing false news on behalf of the outlawed <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/muslim-brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/09/egypt-six-journalists-matsadaash-protest-over-detentions">Continue reading...</a>

Matsadaash staff allege torture and forced confessions after being held on charges of working for Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian journalists plan weekend protest over detention of six colleagues

Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doingWhen Ridley Scott was awarded the UK’s highest accolade for a glittering career directing films from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/may/31/1">Alien and Blade Runner to Gladiator and The Martian</a>, he reminded those attending the Bafta event eight years ago that making commercials had been his <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/sir-ridley-scott-winners-acceptance-speech-bafta-fellowship-ee-british/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">“film school”</a>.The advertising industry has long been a breeding ground for British film and TV talent who have <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/aug/24/1">gone on to make the jump to Hollywood productions</a>, including Guy Ritchie, who started out making music videos and commercials, and Paddington in Peru director Dougal Wilson, whose credits include a number of John Lewis’s famous Christmas ads. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/ai-threat-britain-directors-ridley-scott-guy-ritchie">Continue reading...</a>

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Her debut made her a global star. Now she has finally written a follow-up – and this time, it’s political. She talks about impostor syndrome, screen adaptations and becoming radicalisedThe artist and novelist Audrey Niffenegger began writing the long-awaited sequel to her bestselling debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, in 2012, just after Obama’s re-election. It was a “rosy” time in American politics, “as good as it gets over here”, she says now, but her new novel required her to imagine what the world might look like in 20, 40, 60 years’ time. In the 14 years she spent exploring various dystopian futures, American politics moved on. And her imaginings began to look worryingly realistic.An early scene in the new book involves a group of neo-Nazis at a house party. When she was writing it, few people believed the US would witness a resurgence of neo-nazism. It’s not like she is “psychic or anything”, she tells me, the clues were all there. “The first thing I remember reading in the news was Watergate, and so I’ve grown up with Reagan, and the Republicans coming on stronger and stronger, so that every Republican president we get is more of a disaster. And I thought the logical progression of that would be fascism,” she says. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/10/people-forgot-i-existed-audrey-niffenegger-on-taking-14-years-to-write-a-sequel-to-the-time-travelers-wife">Continue reading...</a>

Her debut made her a global star. Now she has finally written a follow-up – and this time, it’s political. She talks about impostor syndrome, screen adap...

‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife

After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it turns out he sounds like a hobbitHe has been on screen for 37 years, but he has never uttered a word. Now, Gromit will speak for the first time – with the voice of the Hobbit star Martin Freeman.The claymation dog, who has partnered with his eccentric inventor-owner Wallace in a series of Oscar-winning films including The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Wallace &amp; Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is releasing an autobiography this month – including an audiobook edition. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/gromit-autobiography-martin-freeman-voice">Continue reading...</a>

After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it turns out he sounds like a hobbit

Gromit finally gets a voice … and it’s Martin Freeman

Her unintentional buffoonery and disregard for the game makes Hall this season’s incredible agent of chaosBy rights, Jerry Hall should not still be a participant on The Celebrity Traitors. If there was any justice in the world, the traitors would have murdered her in cold blood at the very start of this Thursday’s episode. The fact they did not speaks volumes about what an absolute legend the woman is.The crime that should have condemned her to death happened on last Friday’s show, during a mission where everyone had to be buried alive with a partner. Contestants had to choose between waiting to be dug up, or shouting the word “haggis”, which would release them but also make them eligible to be murdered. Needless to say, Hall shouted “haggis” approximately one solitary nanosecond after the game started. Nobody else shouted “haggis”. For sheer weakness in the face of adversity, she deserved to die. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/09/jerry-hall-deserves-on-celebrity-traitors-but-legends-live-beyond-logic">Continue reading...</a>

Her unintentional buffoonery and disregard for the game makes Hall this season’s incredible agent of chaos

Jerry Hall deserves murder on Celebrity Traitors – but legends live beyond logic | Stuart Heritage

Jimmy McGovern’s grab-you-by-the-throat prison show is back and it could hardly be more urgent, prescient or excellent. Brace yourself though … Bake Off it is notIt takes a lot to drag me away from comfort TV in the autumn. Blame the shrinking hours of light or the apocalyptic news cycle but the closest thing I like to get to televisual trauma in October is watching comedians get into their own graves in The Celebrity Traitors. I doubt I’m alone. I don’t want to psychoanalyse the British public but I’d take a punt that collectively we are just about capable right now of looking at Josh Widdicombe trying to find a purpose next to Emma Willis on the Strictly dancefloor (and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/culture/strictly-viewers-bbc-josh-widdicombe-b3061077.html">reportedly</a>, even that’s a struggle).Enter legendary Jimmy McGovern with a new series of the Bafta-winning prison drama Time (Sunday, 9pm, BBC One) to drag the nation out of its Bake Off-related coma. Having already covered the devastation of men’s and women’s prisons in the first two series, the good news is that McGovern and co-writer Samuel Bailey’s trilogy surely can’t get any more distressing. The new episodes will be set in *checks notes* a youth offending institution for boys. OK great. It’s about children in prison. Thank you, Jimmy! I hope you’re happy! No one else is going to be. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/10/time-david-tennant-and-siobhan-finneran-are-stellar-in-this-horrifying-and-exceptional-tv-drama">Continue reading...</a>

Jimmy McGovern’s grab-you-by-the-throat prison show is back and it could hardly be more urgent, prescient or excellent. Brace yourself though … Bake Off ...

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Readers gasp at the news that their beloved columnist is leaving the Guardian after 25 yearsHow could you let this happen (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/02/rumours-demise-exaggerated-haters-bang-on-marina-hyde-final-column">It’s true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs, 2 October</a>)? You have some truly great writers, and for them I will continue to support the Guardian, but it’s Marina Hyde’s column that many of us look forward to most. She is uniquely and reliably smart, funny and spot-on. Is it money? Like Nye&nbsp;Bevan with consultants, fill her mouth with gold if you have to; you can clean it up afterwards. But I fear I’m too late, and all that’s left to say is: Thank you, Marina, for&nbsp;brightening so many of our days, and for putting our thoughts so brilliantly into words. And thank&nbsp;you, Guardian, for giving her&nbsp;the space to do so. Richard O’Brien Highbridge, Somerset• The honour is all ours, Marina. It’s devastating news to know that I can no longer laugh, cry, squirm, gasp, disagree and love your columns. I have looked forward to reading your words for the last 25&nbsp;years and you will be very much missed. Thank you, and go well. Gill Empson Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/09/farewell-marina-hyde-thank-you-for-brightening-so-many-of-our-days">Continue reading...</a>

Readers gasp at the news that their beloved columnist is leaving the Guardian after 25 years

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In this week’s newsletter: Dead-eyed billionaires can’t hold a candle to the maniacal cinematic villains of old – it’s time Hollywood rewrote its source code• <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-guide-newsletter-our-free-pop-culture-email">Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up here</a>Sixteen years ago The Social Network was released and the first stirrings of a new cinema archetype were seen: the tech-bro villain. Perhaps that’s too damning a description for the Mark Zuckerberg portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher’s 21st-century classic about the dawn of Facebook; he’s certainly not a villain in the mwah-ha-ha, moustache-twirling sense. But he is, at the very least, on the wrong side of antiheroic: brilliant, brittle, status-craving, cruel and in charge of a social network with an exploding user base. Back then of course, the ramifications of this combination of troubling personality traits and transformative technology hadn’t quite dawned on us all: to many, social media sites still seemed a societal net positive. But the character was chilling enough to give even the most Pollyanna of tech evangelists a moment of pause.Fast forward to 2026, when faith in social media – and technology more broadly – is at Mariana Trench lows, and a sequel to Fincher’s drama has arrived in cinemas, this time both written and directed by the first film’s writer, Aaron Sorkin. The Social Reckoning whizzes the action forward to the tail end of the 2010s, by which time Facebook has grown into a near-trillion-dollar monolith. It follows real-life data engineer Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison), whose concerns over the radicalising qualities of Facebook’s algorithm prompt her to leak confidential files to investigative journalist Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), resulting in the release of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039">Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files</a>. Right around the same time as this damaging publication, and also depicted in the film, is the small matter of a riot-slash-insurrection at the Capitol, egged on by the outgoing US president on, among other places, Facebook, prompting his belated ban from the platform by Zuckerberg. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/09/why-is-hollywood-obsessed-with-the-tech-bro-baddie">Continue reading...</a>

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