The Guardian·2026-06-01
Free speech activists condemn UK entry ban for Hasan Piker and Cenk UygurThe UK is failing to protect freedom of speech, prominent activists have said, after the government banned two leftwing US political commentators from entering the country to attend speaking engagements. Cenk Uygur, the host of the Young Turks online political talkshow, and Hasan Piker, who runs his own hours-long stream each day, were both due to appear at SXSW London, while the former said he had also been due to speak at an event run by University of Oxford students. The Home Office said the two men had their electronic travel authorisations (ETA) cancelled because their presence in the UK “may not be conducive to the public good”. Uygur has been accused of propagating antisemitic tropes in his criticism of Israel. He has insisted that his criticisms are confined to an analysis of Israe
The Guardian·2026-06-01
Caroline Marland obituaryCaroline Marland, the former managing director of Guardian Media Group and the first woman to hold such a senior post on a national newspaper, who has died aged 80, was to a considerable extent the person who saved the Guardian financially in the 1980s. It was largely Marland’s initiative to wrest much of the job advertising market from the Times and Telegraph during that decade. This led to the creation of the paper’s successful weekly supplements: media on Mondays, education on Tuesdays, society on Wednesdays, all supported by tens and eventually hundreds of pages of job adverts, which produced revenues for the hitherto precariously financed paper that ran into many tens of millions annually. At the start of that period, the Guardian’s jobs advertising share was less than 8%, compared wi
Digiday·2026-06-01
Dhar Mann is going to Tribeca X to prove CTV can do TV’s job — and that creators belong in the conversationCreator and entrepreneur Dhar Mann doesn’t think creators are replacing traditional media — more that the lines between the two have disappeared as creators with large followings build up their own production studios to create long-form content. Mann, who owns his own production company, Dhar Mann Studios, believes these creator-built studios can provide more engaging content faster than tradition
The Guardian·2026-06-01
CBS News veterans urge Paramount CEO to ‘uphold editorial independence’ at 60 MinutesSeveral dozen veterans of CBS News – including many former 60 Minutes employees – signed a letter to the Paramount Skydance CEO, David Ellison, on Monday, pressing him to commit to the show’s editorial independence four days after network management fired several top staffers and correspondents. On Thursday, the CBS News editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, and president, Tom Cibrowski, ousted the show’s executive producer, executive editor and two prominent correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. Both Alfonsi and Vega released blistering statements alleging that the show’s editorial independence had been compromised for political purposes. “We, the undersigned, urge you and your management team at CBS News to uphold the principle of editorial independence that has made 60 Minutes – in th
The Guardian·2026-06-01
Women’s presence at BBC Radio Scotland | LettersYour report on staff concerns about the number of female presenters on BBC Radio Scotland’s new schedule is mystifying (‘Deep unease’ at BBC Radio Scotland as majority of axed presenters are women, 28 May). When the new schedule starts, of the 25 daytime programmes across the week Monday to Friday, six will routinely be presented solely by men, and the other 19 will be routinely presented either solely by women, or jointly by women and men. More than half of the programmes will be routinely presented solely by women. To somehow raise questions about female diversity in that presenting lineup is surely ignoring the actual evidence of the BBC schedule here in Scotland. Following on from changes made by the new head of audio, Victoria Easton Riley, since her arrival at Radio Scotland last yea
The Guardian·2026-06-01
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ showScott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, called out CBS News management in a heated meeting on Monday morning, attacking the network’s decision on Thursday to fire the show’s executive producer, executive editor, and two fellow correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as part of a broader overhaul of the show, sources tell the Guardian. During a meeting of the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, its newly appointed executive producer, along with the CBS News managing editor Charles Forelle, Pelley took direct aim at Bari Weiss, the network’s controversial editor-in-chief. “She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.” Forelle accused Pelley o
The Guardian·2026-06-01
Ofcom ex-chair: broadcasters embarrassed by GB News following ‘majority agenda’Michael Grade, the recently departed chair of Britain’s media watchdog, has accused broadcasters of being “embarrassed” by GB News because it covers the “agenda of the majority”. Grade, who has recently retaken the Conservative whip in the House of Lords after stepping down from Ofcom, said he was now able to give his real view on the rightwing broadcaster, which has faced repeated accusations of partial and misleading coverage. “I can now speak [freely], as I’m not at Ofcom,” Grade told Politics Home. “I honestly think they’re embarrassed by the fact that there is a news organisation that has a different news agenda to them, that speaks to the agenda of the majority – if you look at the polls, a large swathe of the voting population, who have no voice on the BBC. “Immigration, Brexit, the
Digiday·2026-06-01
As feeds become entertainment hubs, marketers rethink social’s roleA quick scroll through social media video feeds would likely surface a slew of new programming types — a branded sitcom or game show, creator storytelling and ad-supported microdramas. Social media platforms used to be digital town squares, opening up interaction between brands and shoppers. Now, platforms function more as short-form entertainment hubs. The quiet shift is forcing brand marketers t
Digiday·2026-06-01
How Olly is updating its product detail pages for the AI eraThis story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. These days, shoppers are increasingly asking ChatGPT for recommendations like “the best sleep supplement” and “best women’s multivitamin.” So instead of browsing a brand’s homepage, shoppers are landing directly on a product page. And they may be deciding whether or not to purchase within minutes. As more research and product disco
Adweek·2026-06-01
The Trade Desk Appoints Nate Olmstead CFO After a Year of Executive TurnoverOlmstead will join the company on July 9 and report to CEO Jeff Green.
Adweek·2026-06-01
Week of May 18 Morning News Ratings: CBS Mornings Only Broadcast to Record Week-to-Week GrowthCBS Mornings had double-digit growth in the prized demo.
Adweek·2026-06-01
Anthropic Files for IPO as AI Race Hits Public MarketsTesting investor appetite after a $965 billion valuation surge, the Claude maker moves to take its AI ambitions from private-market frenzy to a public listing
Digiday·2026-06-01
In Graphic Detail: Why the best brands are relearning how to entertain first, advertise secondContent has never been easier to ignore. Most of it deserves to be. Marketers have known this for a while. What’s changed is how some of them are responding. They’re moving from posts to programming — or trying to earn more attention rather than buy most of it. SharkNinja, Gap, Mattel, LVMH, Arsenal Football Club are part of a growing cohort making deliberate bets on entertainment. They’re partner
Adweek·2026-06-01
Ticker: ABC News Wins Big at the EmmysNewsNation expands its podcast and digital offerings with four new titles.
Nieman Lab·2026-06-01
With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news — written by local residents — for rural countiesWhen The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting began publishing The Maine Monitor in 2020, the publication became the latest vehicle for the mission the nonprofit had pursued since its founding in 2009: addressing Maine s need for investigative reporting as the state s legacy newsrooms cut capacity. Today, local investigative reporting is still the Monitor s core mission. But a 16-town listen
Nieman Lab·2026-06-01
“You’ll need journalism so distinctive it has its own gravity”: New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on how news organizations can stand up to AI companiesNew York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger delivered a keynote at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille, France on Monday. Titled AI, Journalism, and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square, the talk is published in full here . Our profession has been too quiet, too passive, and too fragmented in the face of abuses by the companies leading the AI revolution, Sulzberger said. The New
Nieman Lab·2026-05-28
Think the media’s biased against you? You probably think misinformation is tooEver feel like the news media is out to get you? That it skews its stories to make your side look bad? Okay — now what about the fake news media? All the misinformation out there online: Is it more unfair to your side of most arguments or the other one? Decades of communications research has found that, all else equal, people do tend to think that the news media is rooting against people like them
Nieman Lab·2026-05-28
A battle of the Stars looms in D.C.’s shifting media sceneAfter The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists in February, several local and national news outlets based in the nation s capital announced expansions to fill coverage gaps . Among newsrooms vying to step up where the Post was ceding ground, NOTUS emerged as the most ambitious. In March, it announced plans to double its staff , starting with hiring several former Post reporters; in A
