The Crown's long reign and Labour backs phone-hacking clause

Netflix’s The Crown is mapped out for two more seasons. Photograph: Alex Bailey/Netflix

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Labour MPs whipped to vote for phone-hacking costs amendment

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Netflix’s The Crown ‘mapped out for three seasons’

Cliff Richard calls last two years ‘a blip’

Civil rights groups: Facebook should protect, not censor, human rights issues

Twitter tests new ad-blocking Reader mode on mobile

Turkey detains editor and staff at opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper

Brexit uncertainty dragging back revenues at WPP, warns Sir Martin Sorrell

DNC head leaked debate question to Clinton, Podesta emails suggests

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Viacom has named Robert Bakish as its acting chief executive. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

Viacom names Robert Bakish acting CEO and shuffles operations again (Variety)

Native ads will provide 25% of ad revenues by 2018, says media association (Poynter)

21st Century Fox names News Corp’s Paul Cheesbrough CTO (Variety)

BBC Studios: where the axe will fall (Broadcast)

Petition calling for X Factor’s Honey G to be axed gets more support after Gifty Louise’s exit

Council launches monthly newsletter ‘to inform residents’ in breach of government rules (Press Gazette)

And finally ...

Battlefield 1’s #justWWIthings campaign has been pulled. Photograph: Twitter

There are many examples of thoughtless and inappropriate social media marketing, but the recently pulled #justWW1things campaign for first shooter Battlefield 1 is a pretty good contender for worst timed and least sensitive of the year.