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At the DealBook Summit, seven sports stars and experts discussed how building a brand as an athlete has changed.

A Culture writer takes stock of recent stage productions that depict newsrooms and reporters.

IPI joins press freedom, freedom of expression, media, journalists and human rights organizations express solidarity towards journalists and media in Georgia. Faced with violence, threats, detentions, equipment destruction and seizure, journalists in Georgia are entering what is supposed to be a festive period with uncertainty and fear for their safety. Solidarity and support is needed […] The post Press freedom groups and newsrooms stand in solidarity with journalists and media in Georgia appeared first on ipi.media.

Fiona Wood solves final conundrum to clinch victory and encourages other women to ‘give it a go’A forensic accountant has become the first female Countdown champion in 26 years.Fiona Wood prevailed in the series final on Friday after correctly identifying the conundrum word as “lassitude”, meaning a state of physical or mental weariness. Continue reading...

Presenter thanks listeners for ‘special intimate relationship’ and signs off with message of female empowermentZoe Ball’s final BBC Radio 2 show was a spectacle of laughter and tears, as the presenter was flooded with messages of support, including a surprise message from her son.Saying that she hoped she “managed to bring some sunshine and light” to listeners when they most needed it, the radio presenter thanked all her listeners, saying: “It’s been a real privilege to keep your company through your morning manoeuvres. You’re just there and I’m just here having a chat with a mate. It’s such a special intimate relationship. Continue reading...

Streamer has exclusive rights for 2027 and 2031 editions Netflix: ‘It’s about celebrating the rise of women’s sport’Netflix has secured its first major deal in the football market after signing an exclusive broadcast rights agreement to show the 2027 and 2031 editions of the Women’s World Cup live to audiences in the United States and Puerto Rico.The deal, which Fifa has described as a “landmark media rights deal in women’s football”, means the streaming platform acquire the rights to cover a football competition in full for the first time, and will include coverage in multiple languages. The 2027 tournament is being staged in Brazil from 24 June to 25 July 2027 and will invo..

TV presenter’s death on Greek island in June probably due to heatstroke or a pathological cause, coroner findsA coroner has recorded an open conclusion regarding the “unascertainable” death of the TV presenter Michael Mosley, who died on a Greek island after he went for a walk.Crispin Butler, the senior coroner for Buckinghamshire, said Mosley’s death “was most likely attributable either to heatstroke (accidental) or non-identified pathological cause”. Continue reading...

The Booksellers Association spoke to staff who also highlighted James by Percival Everett, and everything from Chris Hoy’s autobiography to a book about fishing by a dogThis year’s Booker prize winner will be the Christmas No 1 bestseller, predict UK booksellers.The Booksellers Association (BA) asked bookshop staff which book they think could reach the festive top spot, and Orbital by Samantha Harvey was the most popular response. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Tycoon rejects settlement offer from Gambling Commission linked to failed bid to run UK lotteryThe media tycoon Richard Desmond is set for a courtroom showdown with the Gambling Commission that could cost good causes tens of millions of pounds, the Guardian has learned, after he rejected a settlement offer linked to his failed bid to run the National Lottery.Desmond launched a high court challenge in 2022 after the commission awarded the 10-year National Lottery licence to the Czech operator Allwyn, rejecting bids from his Northern & Shell business, as well as the incumbent Camelot. Continue reading...

Korean hellfest Squid Game arrived in 2021, and swiftly became Netflix’s biggest ever show. Now comes season two, darker and funnier than before. Its creator and star talk dental disasters – and what it’s like to be a JediFor Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, making the K-drama’s mega-hit debut season was like pulling teeth. Literally. The stress of single-handedly writing and directing the global phenomenon caused him to lose six gnashers.With the feverishly awaited follow-up about to drop, how is his dental health this time? “I haven’t lost any teeth yet, look!” laughs Hwang over video call from Seoul, baring a full set to prove it. “Although I do feel the odd t..

Considered impossible to film – by even Gabriel García Márquez himself – the series brings the mythical Macondo to lifeWith its generational narrative of love, betrayal and intrigue, and an epic backdrop of civil war and fantastical goings-on, One Hundred Years of Solitude was long considered to be an impossible novel to adapt to the screen.The work’s author, Gabriel García Márquez, even claimed that the sprawling novel had been written precisely to prove that the written word had a vaster scope than the cinema. Continue reading...

Let’s hope the court does the right thing, and strikes down this potential censorship before it spins out of controlThe US supreme court surprisingly decided, this week, to hear TikTok’s emergency appeal to its imminent ban in the United States. It may be the most important case at the intersection of the first amendment and national security in decades. Whether or not you see China as a nefarious threat, all Americans who care about free expression should worry about the precedent this case could set – and should want the TikTok ban overturned.After a fifth circuit court of appeals ruling earlier this month, TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, has until 19 January to either sell the popular ..

With one post on X, Musk has the power to shut down the government of the most powerful nation in world historyElon Musk holds no public office. He has never stood for election, passed scrutiny for appointment to public office, nor commanded a political force of any measure. He is, however, the latest star and favorite of Donald Trump, the US president-elect. So when Musk issues one of his off-the-cuff missives via his decrepit social network, X, Trump loyalists (almost all the Republicans) take him seriously.Yet now, suddenly, Musk has the power to shut down the government of the most powerful nation in the history of the world and depose his party’s legislative leader, the speaker of the..

Keira Knightley and Jamie Oliver are the latest stars to write children’s books, but too often famous names hide the talents of ghostwritersThere is nothing new about stars trying their hand at children’s fiction (Julie Andrews published Mandy back in 1971). But the announcement in October that Keira Knightley has written and illustrated her first children’s novel, billed as “a modern classic”, was met with anger among children’s writers who took to social media to joke that they wanted to become film stars. The written word can be a tricky thing to navigate for the untutored. Jamie Oliver was forced to pull his new title Billy and the Epic Escape after it was criticised for perp..

Papers quote from Gisèle Pelicot’s speech outside court, after her ex-husband Dominique and 50 others were found guilty in France’s biggest rape trialNews of the verdicts in the biggest rape trial in French history fills the front pages in the UK and across Europe today.After a French court convicted 51 men of the rape, attempted rape and sexual assault of Gisèle Pelicot, she addressed supporters, saying she was thinking “of the unrecognised victims, whose stories often remain in the shadows”. One of the men was her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging Pelicot and inviting dozens of men to rape her in her home in the south of France ov..