Top four media companies in UK by revenue. RELX Group (picture: Igor Golovniov, Shutterstock), BBC (Chris Dorney, Shutterstock), Informa (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images), ITV …
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US President Donald Trump said on January 2 that the US was “locked and loaded and ready to go”. Trump was talking aloud about intervening in Iran if it continued a violent crackdown on demonstrators …
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Using Bellingcat’s New Open Source Tool to Explore Historical and Spatial Flight Data
Flight tracking data is an important tool in open source research, but with 100,000 daily flights , it can be difficult to contextualise what a particular aircraft’s movements indicate. Bellingcat has …
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Advocacy group files formal grievance claiming World Bank ‘failed’ to address harm caused by controversial Tanzanian project
Villagers in Tanzania have filed a formal grievance with the World Bank, claiming the bank still hasn’t provided adequate redress for loss of livelihoods and alleged human-rights abuses stemming from …
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IRS criminal referrals against big corporations and ultrawealthy plummeted during Trump’s first year
Dodging taxes got less risky for the ultrarich and corporations after Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. During the new administration’s first year , the U.S. Internal Revenue Service …
A story Prince Harry claims was illegally hacked by the Daily Mail in fact came entirely legitimately via a royal family press officer, according to Daily Mail royal editor Rebecca English. Another …
October 20th 2018: Paul Conroy attends ‘A Private War’ Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival at Cineworld Leicester Square, UK. Picture: Tom Rose/Shutterstock War photographer Paul Conroy, …
Perplexity response to question about original Wall Street Journal reporting (query posed on 2 March 2026, sources no longer include Wall Street Journal) Perplexity has accused Dow Jones and the New …
Three screenshots depicting Reach plc stories on Google Discover on desktop in late 2024 (before AI summaries started to be added). Major cost cuts at Reach helped keep profits up in 2025 despite …
GB News title screen in January 2026 proclaiming the broadcaster is ‘Britain’s number one’, plus Camilla Tominey hosting GB News show on 11 January 2026 Right-leaning news broadcaster GB News grew …
Telegraph school fees article The Telegraph has refused to tell press regulator IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly impacted by school fee increases came to be published. The …
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“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East
The United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran on Saturday morning, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as several senior regime figures and striking multiple sites across …
Mediahuis head of AI strategy Ana Jakimovska speaking at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age event in London on 12 February 2026. Picture: FT Strategies Belgium-based news publisher Mediahuis …
The Minnesota Star Tribune homepage showing news on ICE crackdown on 11 February 2026. Picture: The Minnesota Star Tribune The Minnesota Star Tribune saw triple-digit month-on-month growth in visits …
Stephen Wright interviewing member of notorious Latin Kings mob, who help Albanian gangs supply cocaine to Europe Former Daily Mail crime editor Stephen Wright has said he was “devastated” by …
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Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: Substack leads YoY growth for seventh months as most down in January
The sites with the biggest year-on-year growth in visits in January: Substack (Photo For Everything/Shutterstock), The Hill and Al Jazeera (both homepages on 11 February 2026) Just seven of the 50 …
Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic in the newsroom. Picture: Irish Times Revenue generated by subscribers to The Irish Times is now fully funding its journalism for the first time. That milestone …
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As crypto industry expands, U.S. slashes office examining dirty money safeguards of cryptocurrency exchanges
As cryptocurrency use in the United States surges , the number of federal investigators assigned to review safeguards against dirty money in the industry plummeted last year to the lowest level since …
Traders in Hong Kong and mainland China are supplying Russia’s war machine with European electronics and military technology, exploiting loopholes in international sanctions, according to a new report …
Leeds city centre. Picture: Christopher Chambers/Shutterstock Mill Media is set to expand to Leeds on the condition that it hits 500 paying subscribers for the new, unnamed title. “If we can get 500 …
Google’s Sulina Connal speaking at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age conference on Wednesday 11 February 2026. Picture: FT Strategies Allowing publishers to opt out of AI Overviews without …
The Washington Post building. Picture: Shutterstock/Phil Pasquini The Washington Post’s evisceration at the hands of its billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, didn’t have to happen. Following …
Tamar Riley. Picture: Immediate The Standard ‘s CEO Tamar Riley is leaving the title eight months after joining the paper , stepping into a newly created role with Good Food publisher Immediate. …
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Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Washington Post announces biggest media layoffs of year so far
Washington Post building (picture: Shutterstock/Phil Pasquini), Atlanta Journal-Constitution website, Politico website (picture: Politico) and Future plc tech brands The Washington Post has proposed …
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News diary February 16-22: Covid inquiry enters final stage, Baftas, Chinese New Year
Pamela Anderson at the Baftas in February 2025. Picture: Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock The tenth and final part of the ongoing UK Covid‑19 Inquiry, titled “Impact on society”, begins on Monday, …