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The administration announced new duties tied to countries’ imports of goods made with forced labor, replacing a global 10 percent tariff set to expire at midnight.

“There’s never been a more exciting time to be at Time,” says Bridget Wilson as she contemplates being back at […]

The challenges facing journalism are no longer predictions about the future – they are our daily reality, and they are intensifying. But something else is intensifying too: the need for trusted journalism and our solidarity.

MPs and others condemn behaviour of CT Group, which offered cash for positive coverage of clientsA political lobbying firm secretly paying journalists for articles favourable to its clients is facing calls to reveal full details of the payments, after the practice was denounced as a dangerous “attack on democracy”.MPs, senior lobbyists and transparency campaigners all condemned the behaviour of CT Group, the firm co-founded by the campaign strategist Lynton Crosby, an election guru previously hired by David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Continue reading...

Tribunal rules surveillance aimed at identifying Vincent Kearney’s sources was disproportionate and unlawfulA former BBC journalist has been awarded £20,000 in damages after MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland unlawfully obtained data from his mobile phone.A specialist tribunal on Thursday ordered the agencies to pay the compensation to Vincent Kearney for attempts to identify his sources while he was the BBC’s Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent. Continue reading...

Firm told to treat third-party services that appear in its results in ‘fair and non-discriminatory manner’Google has been fined a total of €890m (£760m) by the EU for breaches of online competition laws by its search and app store services.The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Google had broken the Digital Markets Act by giving priority to its own services, such as shopping and hotel deals, in search results over those of its rivals. Continue reading...

The actor, who is one of the writers credited for the Funny or Die sketch, said he was ‘deeply sorry for any harm or distress’ caused by the 2012 skitSeinfeld star Jason Alexander has apologized to the model Courtney Stodden for a decade-old comedy sketch in which he rubbed a mobile phone on her breasts when she was 17, saying, “It was inappropriate and I truly regret it”.Stodden made international headlines in 2011 when she married her ex-husband, The Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison, when she was 16 and he was 51. Though she was a minor, the marriage was legal due to her parents giving their permission. Stodden and Hutchison divorced in 2020. Continue reading...

A decade ago, experts said I’d be the last reporter to face a subpoena in a leak investigation. How wrong they wereIn 2015, after I won a seven-year battle with the federal government and refused its demands that I reveal my confidential sources for a story I wrote about a botched CIA operation, many media experts predicted that I would be the last journalist ever subpoenaed by the government in a leak investigation. They argued that new surveillance technology made it possible for the government to more readily identify sources inside the government without having to rely on the testimony of reporters. There was no longer any need for the government to go through the lengthy and bitter le..

The gay Netflix romance maintained a political edge despite rollbacks to queer and trans rightsAfter six books, three seasons of television and a film-length finale, Heartstopper has come to an end. Often dubbed the most wholesome show on TV, Netflix’s adaptation of Alice Oseman’s young adult LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, which itself began life as a web comic, is a legitimate cultural phenomenon, turning its two leads – Kit Connor and Joe Locke – into household names, while racking up tens of millions of views. In print, meanwhile, the Heartstopper series has sold over 10m copies worldwide, including about 1.3m in the UK alone.Yet these figures only tell one side of the story of Hear..

Media critic Mark Lawson discusses with Nosheen Iqbal why even the BBC director general has lost faith in the current licence fee model, and explore what options the national broadcaster has to secure fundingOn Sunday night, the BBC rebooted an advert based on one it first aired 40 years ago. In the new version the presenter Romesh Ranganathan pretends he is a disgruntled licence fee payer, asking the question: “What has the BBC ever done for me?” Some of the national broadcaster’s biggest stars then make the case for its existence and ask for the public to keep funding it.The ad has aired not long after the BBC’s new director general, Matt Brittin, said the organisation was in “re..

Patients sharing their health journeys online are filling vital information gaps, but social media algorithms often bury their most useful posts.

On 17 July, Zambian journalist Macpherson Mukuka was arrested by police in the capital city of Lusaka and has been detained ever since. He was accused of “publishing and secretly recording” an audio conversation that the authorities deemed to be in violation of the Cyber Crimes Act. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns, in the strongest terms possible, Mukuka’s arrest and calls for his immediate release.

La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) repudia el crimen del reconocido periodista Francisco Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, perpetrado por un comando armado en el municipio de San Pablo Etla, en Oaxaca. Se trata del cuarto homicidio contra trabajadorxs de los medios en los últimos dos meses y el séptimo en lo que va del año 2026, una escalada que exige una respuesta inmediata de las instituciones federales.

A new rulebook, launched by journalists' organisations and press freedom groups in the Balkans, aims to tackle gender-based violence in newsrooms and proposes a number of key actions to bring perpetrators to account.