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France’s Murdoch? Right-wing media swoop threatens ‘pillar of French democracy’

The shock appointment of a far-right editor to run one of France’s best-known mainstream newspapers has sparked calls for urgent steps to protect the pluralism and independence of the French press, while underscoring a sharp rightwards shift of the country's media landscape under billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

France 24

Champagne with Rupert Murdoch … Keir Starmer’s Labour is preparing for power

The party is courting business and winning the media magnate’s ear, but team Starmer is at pains to show they take nothing for granted on the road to No 10

The Guardian - UK

Twelve culture secretaries in 13 years: what does that say about the Tories’ attitude to the arts?

From Jeremy Hunt to Nadine Dorries and the rest, recent incumbents have overseen a massive reduction in funding, and steadily downgraded the place of the arts in national life

The Guardian - UK

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The smell of defeat hovers over Tory MPs, and Rishi Sunak is unable to dispel the odour

Consumed by their fear of impending doom, the Conservatives increasingly behave like a party resigned to losing power

The Guardian - UK

Group Challenges Fox’s License To Operate WTXF Philadelphia

Former Fox executive Preston Padden says Rupert Murdoch knew the company was broadcasting false information about the 2020 election

Multichannel News

Harry’s Sun phone-hacking claim is ‘Alice in Wonderland stuff’, court hears

Duke of Sussex alleges secret deal between the publisher of the Sun and the royal family

The Guardian - UK

Duke of Sussex bids to rely on ‘secret agreement’ in claim against News Group

Harry, 38, claims he was prevented from bringing his case against NGN sooner by a ‘secret agreement’ between the publisher and the palace.

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Watchdog rejects Johnson’s suggestion Sue Gray’s Labour job meant she was not impartial investigating Partygate – as it happened

Advisory committee on business appointments says it has seen ‘no evidence’ that Gray’s decision-making was affected despite ex-PM’s claim

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock: ‘I wear trainers to look like my constituents’

‘Only schoolteachers and politicians wear suits,’ he says

Evening Standard

Money, power, influence: How ‘media monsters’ used journalism to cement their empires

Media Monsters, by Sally Young, is indispensable for anyone interested in the dynamics that drive Australian politics.

The New Daily

A reciprocating engine of money, power and influence: how Australia's 'media monsters' used journalism to cement their empires

Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure.

The Conversation

Silvio Berlusconi: Trump before Trump?

Berlusconi was a fake outsider selling fake populism and a path toward fascism — but still, there are differences

Salon

Elizabeth Holmes objects to $250 monthly payments to Theranos victims

Lawyers for disgraced CEO, who was once worth $4.5bn, say ‘limited financial resources’ mean she cannot afford repayments

The Guardian - US

The Betoota Advocate Presents review – satirical news website’s TV debut is fast and funny

‘Australia’s oldest and most trusted newspaper’ is now on Paramount+, taking on familiar topics like Hillsong and Murdoch – but it remains very amusing

The Guardian - AU

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Fortune

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes says she can’t afford to pay $250-a-month restitution after serving her prison term

Lawyers for Holmes, who was once worth $4.5 billion, reportedly said she now has “limited financial resources.”

The Independent UK

Why was Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News?

The six reasons why Fox’s top anchor may have been too toxic to keep on the payroll

The Guardian - UK

How the Barclay empire lost its grip on the Daily Telegraph

Lost control of media assets over near £1bn debt gives lesson in perils of borrowing too much to expand

The Guardian - UK

Succession wasn’t about the Murdochs? Surely it’s how they’d like to see themselves

Why are Rupert and co so obsessed with not being identified with the fictional Roys?

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Reuters

Why is Prince Harry giving evidence in court?

Prince Harry will become the first British royal to appear in the witness box since the 1890s when he testifies this week at the High Court in London as part of his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers.

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes prison: Everything we know about disgraced Theranos founder going to jail

Inmates at the Texas prison where Holmes is expected to report to on Tuesday are placed into work programmes where some earn as little as 12 cents an hour

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes surrenders to federal prison in Texas to begin 11-year sentence for Theranos scandal

Saga began two decades ago when Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in 2003 at the age of 19 to found Theranos

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes prison: Everything we know about disgraced Theranos founder going to jail

Inmates at the Texas prison where Holmes is expected to report to on Tuesday are placed into work programmes where some earn as little as 12 cents an hour

Evening Standard

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to begin 11-year stint in prison

She is to head to prison almost 20 years after she founded Theranos

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: poll shows support for housing action, wildfires in Canada, Russia’s spy whale

Majority of voters say government must do more top help renters, while ‘very aggressive’ spring wildfires in Nova Scotia prompt state of emergency

The Conversation

Rupert Murdoch: how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsar

In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience of working at a newspaper, let alone running one, but his family had inherited a majority stake in the company following the death of Rupert’s…

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