Media & Communication

In Paris, the fashion powerhouse LVMH was a headline sponsor and helped design the medals and the athletes’ apparel.

Here is our critic’s survey of this year’s Super Bowl commercials, from best to worst to A.I.

A provocative new ad featuring the boxer makes the case for Americans to “eat real food.”

Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when chair of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sourcesA Labour minister commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Keir Starmer to power, the Guardian has learned.The research was ordered and subsequently reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was chair of Labour Together, according to sources and documents seen by the Guardian. Continue reading...

Singer says articles about his health and birth of son ‘outside even the most basic standards of human decency’Elton John has said articles about his health and the birth of his son by the publisher of the Daily Mail were an “abhorrent” invasion, and that its behaviour was “outside even the most basic standards of human decency”.Appearing briefly at the high court via video link on Friday, John said he was “incensed” when he was told about allegations that private investigators working for Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) had tapped phone calls and accessed private medical information. Continue reading...

Inflation-linked increase comes as ministers continue to review options for BBC’s future fundingThe TV licence fee is to increase from £174.50 to £180 a year from 1 April, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has said.The DCMS said the £5.50 increase in the fee, which is the predominant method of funding for the BBC, would give the corporation a “stable financial footing to deliver for audiences and support the wider creative industries”. Continue reading...

Newspaper owner who took on the print unions and in 1986 launched Today, Britain’s first full-colour dailyWhen the modern history of newspapers in Britain comes to be written, the name of Eddy Shah will deserve at least a footnote, as the man who started a revolution in the industry by freeing the press from the print unions and introducing new computer-based technology to the nationals.Shah, who has died aged 81, owned a group of small, free newspapers based in Warrington, Cheshire, but launched two national newspapers in quick succession, Today in 1986 and the Post in 1988, after winning a strike battle against the previously all-powerful National Graphical Association (NG..

Preliminary EU ruling says app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adultsBusiness live – latest updatesTikTok could be forced into changes to make the app less addictive to users after the EU indicated the platform had breached the bloc’s digital safety rules.The EU’s executive arm said in a preliminary ruling that the popular app had infringed the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to its “addictive design”. Continue reading...

Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time show in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest programs already perfected the alt-cast in 1992When the NFL announced Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as this year’s Super Bowl half-time show headliner, it walked right into a culture war. Right-wing critics raged over the musician’s gender-nonconforming style, Spanish-language music and anti-Maga politics. Donald Trump, after saying he had never heard of Bad Bunny, called the headlining choice “absolutely ridiculous”.In response, Erika Kirk and her Turning Point USA conservative advocacy group turned the controversy into its own counter-programming event: the All-American H..

Macmillan announces new instalment of popular Julia Donaldson tale featuring illustrations by Axel SchefflerThe Gruffalo family is to expand after the publisher of the popular children’s stories announced a long-awaited third book about the beloved monster.The new tale, Gruffalo Granny, will be published on 10 September, Macmillan announced. Continue reading...

After plundering her tearaway teens for the comedy classic, Lisa McGee is back with a Scooby-Doo-style caper. As How to Get to Heaven from Belfast hits our screens, she explains why the craic’s about to get deadlyHow do you follow up a show about girls in Derry? With one about women in Belfast, obviously. That’s what Lisa McGee has done. Her new eight-parter, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, is as far away from Derry Girls as you can get when the distance between the worlds amounts to 70 miles along the A6.Or as she puts it: “I wanted a shit, female, Northern Irish A-Team!” Continue reading...

The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak outUnusually for a political period drama that is not in the English language, runs nearly three hours and peppers its authentic portrayal of a military dictatorship with sight gags and gory shootouts, The Secret Agent has transpired to be quite the awards magnet. Best picture and best actor, for its star Wagner Moura (who recently won a Golden Globe), are two of the four categories in which it will compete at next month’s Oscars.The nominations haven’t yet been announced when I meet Moura in a London ho..

Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truthCarlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He died on 3 February 2026Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren’t reading what I’ve written. Because if you’re reading this, it means I’m no longer in this world – or any other. I’ve died. Shit, it’s hard to write this, but that’s the way it is. I’ve died, and I don’t want to leave without saying goodbye and sharing a few final thoughts.I’ve been a very fortunate person. I was fortunate to have been born in a European country that, although still un..

National Archives issues disposal freeze order ahead of antisemitism royal commission. Plus: ABC News radio’s monumental mix-upWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereJournalists at the ABC who cover any topic which comes under the remit of the royal commission into antisemitism received a sobering edict from news boss Justin Stevens on Friday: they cannot send or receive confidential Signal messages because no communications can be destroyed.Journalists use disappearing messages in some circumstances to communicate with confidential sources in an effort to protect what they tell them.“On Wednesday 4 February and Thursday 5 February,..

It's long past time for news coverage to reflect journalists' knowledge that DHS exaggerates, shares dubious statements and flat-out lies.

The voices of Palestinians themselves are an intervention into a media conversation that presents Palestinians as subjects more often than as actors.