‘All you can read’ magazine services Apple News+, Readly, Kindle Unlimited and Cafeyn “All you can read” bundle services continue to dominate digital readership for UK magazines, new ABC figures …
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Coverage of AI ethics, newsroom tooling, and investigative data practices.
Harper’s Bazaar magazine cover from February 2026. Picture: Hearst Harper’s Bazaar was the only women’s interest magazine to see an increase in both print and digital circulation figures in 2025, …
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News diary 23 February – 1 March: Four years of Ukraine war, Trump State of Union address, Brit Awards
A woman carries her cat as she walks past buildings that were destroyed by Russian shelling in Borodyanka, in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on 5 April 2022. Picture: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra The week marks …
Magazines on the newsstand. Picture: Press Gazette Ten UK magazines grew their actively-purchased print sales in 2025, according to the latest data from ABC on the biggest-selling magazines in the …
A shipwreck in India, an ammunition seizure in Senegal, and a raid on an oil tanker in Malaysia – all three incidents involve ageing vessels, operating with false papers and one recurring figure: …
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here . You can read an Arabic version of this investigation on Radio Dabanga’s site here . Child soldiers linked to …
Samsung sponsored feature in Future title Tom’s Guide Future has begun offering LLM optimisation as a commercial product across its media brands. The move means Future offers tailored content …
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has dropped 5,000 bombs on Iran since the United States and Israel launched an attack last week, according to a statement by the IAF on March 4. Bellingcat has monitored …
This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here . Daniel and Christy Kinahan at a Dubai sports arena last June. Source: WeCaptureYou, …
Democratic lawmakers introduced federal legislation Thursday that would ban defense contractors and government-owned plants from selling high-caliber ammunition to civilians. Sens. Elizabeth Warren …
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Daily Mail amends electric car story after Yougov poll showed public could have been misled
Man using smartphone app while standing next to his electric car charging. Picture: Shutterstock/Sergii Kozii Polling on whether the public had been misled by a Daily Mail story forced press …
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. Picture: Robert Downs/INMA German newspaper group Axel Springer has agreed a deal to buy The Telegraph for £575m in cash. The deal trumps a previous agreement …
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News diary 9-15 March: MPs vote on child social media limits, UN Security Council discusses Iran sanctions, Oscars
Oscar winners holding their awards in the photo room at the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles. Picture: Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock On Monday, MPs are set to vote on …
Reach chief executive Piers North. Picture: Reach Reach has not been overly reliant on Google Discover but took “advantage of opportunities as they come”, chief executive Piers North said after …
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News Corp CEO Robert Thomson warns AI companies scraping without paying: ‘We’re coming for you’
Robert Thomson. Picture: News UK News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has warned AI companies scraping the publisher’s websites without paying that “if you’re stealing our stuff we are going to sue you”. …
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 …
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 …