Looking back on a year of great drama for the media
There have been high-profile sales, far-right hate and a smattering of BBC scandals.
ByDigital media
Spotify Wrapped can never trump the mixtape
Every Christmas, I make my own end-of-year playlist – a small act of resistance to outsourcing one’s taste to the…
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The unfiltered world of Gregg Wallace’s Instagram
His response to allegations of making sexually inappropriate comments is in keeping with his unrestrained posting on social media.
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Why a liberal Joe Rogan will fail
His listeners come for his anarchic content, not his erratic politics.
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The Onion has bought InfoWars – but the left can’t win by trolling the right
The giddy excitement surrounding this buyout misunderstands how the right operates.
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Will staff go on strike to block the Observer sale?
Bosses may be weighing plans to jettison the Sunday paper against potential disruption to the global Guardian brand.
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We need to start learning from Joe Rogan and co
The right is much better at exploiting the populist reach of podcasts and influencers.
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Joe Rogan could decide the US election
This presidential race marks insurgent media’s supplanting of the mainstream.
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Sarah Koenig: “I’ve never been a missionary for true-crime podcasts”
The Serial creator on ten years of the podcast that changed the medium forever.
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The new media barons
Legacy titles are being snapped up by private capital, in Britain and the US.
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Carol Vorderman is coming for Labour
From Countdown to unlikely revolutionary – the broadcaster and social media star is a political conundrum.
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The rise of playlist politics
How digital choice has deepened the crisis of democracy.
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How Vice lost the future
The media company seemed too good to be true. It was.
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Sex in the age of digital desire
The proliferation of online pornography has degraded the way we view our bodies and relationships.
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Ending hate on social media will cost billions”
The first woman on Facebook’s board – and the co-author of Lean In – on Hamas’s 7 October attack and…
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The Pitchfork years
The announcement that the music website will be folded into GQ signals the end of an era in music criticism…
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How permanent are our digital memories?
Most of us now believe our digital records are better preserved than our physical ones. Is that really true?
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I hate Spotify Wrapped
We know Spotify exploits artists. We shouldn’t let it exploit music fans too.
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Facing blowback from James Dyson
Also this week: Taking on the tech giants, and remembering Terry Venables, football’s great showman.
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Lucy Letby true crime content should worry us all
Countless TikToks, podcasts and even a documentary made by the police have emerged since Letby’s trial. When will we stop…
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