Prince Harry and six other high-profile claimants have lost their High Court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of the Daily Mail, in a ruling that is likely to draw a line under the UK’s long-running phone-hacking litigation. Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed all claims against the publisher after an 11-week trial, finding that the claimants had failed to prove the information in the articles at the centre of the case had been obtained through unlawful means. The group of claimants – Prince Harry, singer Elton John, David Furnish, actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, former Liberal Democrat minister Simon Hughes…
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Sky has agreed a £1.6 billion takeover of ITV’s media and entertainment arm in a move that would combine one of Britain’s best-known commercial broadcasters with the pay-TV group owned by Comcast, creating what the companies say will be a stronger domestic rival to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and…
The Associated Press is pressing ahead with plans to build a production hub in India, even as the move is expected to deepen job losses for its US-based visual journalism teams. In a memo to staff, executive editor Julie Pace said the agency was trying to strengthen its business so…
Getty Images is set to walk away from its $3.7 billion tie-up with Shutterstock after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority insisted on a remedy the company was unwilling to accept: the sale of Shutterstock’s entire editorial business before completion. According to the CMA’s final ruling on 15 May, the…
Media Concierge Group has said the integration of National World has gone smoothly, after reporting a stronger set of results in the first full period since the acquisition. The media holding company posted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of £12.9 million for the 12 months to 30 September…
The Economist has launched a lower-cost subscription bundle built around audio and video, in a move designed to reach younger and more gender-balanced audiences while squeezing more value from its expanding multimedia output. The new product, Economist Play, is priced at about $15 a month, roughly $10 below the publisher’s…
I used to bristle when I worked at The Sunday Times and a friend said he had a subscription to the paper version for two reasons – and neither had anything to do with the journalism. First, he was a big fan of the crossword, which he regarded as the…
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Sky has agreed a £1.6 billion takeover of ITV’s media and entertainment arm in a move that would combine one of Britain’s best-known commercial broadcasters with the pay-TV group owned by Comcast, creating what the companies say will be a stronger domestic rival to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and…
The Associated Press is pressing ahead with plans to build a production hub in India, even as the move is expected to deepen job losses for its US-based visual journalism teams. In a memo to staff, executive editor Julie Pace said the agency was trying to strengthen its business so…
Getty Images is set to walk away from its $3.7 billion tie-up with Shutterstock after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority insisted on a remedy the company was unwilling to accept: the sale of Shutterstock’s entire editorial business before completion. According to the CMA’s final ruling on 15 May, the…
Media Concierge Group has said the integration of National World has gone smoothly, after reporting a stronger set of results in the first full period since the acquisition. The media holding company posted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of £12.9 million for the 12 months to 30 September…
The Economist has launched a lower-cost subscription bundle built around audio and video, in a move designed to reach younger and more gender-balanced audiences while squeezing more value from its expanding multimedia output. The new product, Economist Play, is priced at about $15 a month, roughly $10 below the publisher’s…
I used to bristle when I worked at The Sunday Times and a friend said he had a subscription to the paper version for two reasons – and neither had anything to do with the journalism. First, he was a big fan of the crossword, which he regarded as the…
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