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Demise of Washington Post’s revered sports section will barely register in the Instagram age
Jeff Bezos laid off 300 people from the Washington Post last week, among which was a vaunted sports section
Running a newspaper is a tricky business. Jeff Bezos has made a mess of it
Actively alienating subscribers is not an obvious winning strategy
Social Democrats TD misses out on €1m from Palantir share boom off the back of Ice contracts
Plus: Eamon Dunphy’s Michelin star mission; the Washington Post lays off a reporter in a war zone; and the pagans strike back
The Washington Post’s darkest moment
The newspaper once brought down a president. Now, under Jeff Bezos, it is being dismantled from within
Donald Trump’s hunger for monuments is reshaping Washington
US president orders two-year closure of the Kennedy Center – the latest casualty in his architectural reimagining of the capital
Washington Post lays off hundreds of employees on one of newspaper’s ‘darkest days’
Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has not publicly responded to letters and messages sent by staffers urging him to curb cuts
When AI podcasts go rogue, journalists should be alarmed
The Washington Post’s issues underline the problems of news personalisation
Vanity Fair article on the Trump White House was brutal, merciless and invaluable
Close-up photographs serve as reminders of the power of the image and of magazine journalism
Robert Redford: Not at all the president’s man
More than half a century later, the themes and lessons that underscore the film about Watergate are more alive than ever
Genteel streets of Washington’s Georgetown meet National Guard in Trump’s crime crackdown
It is impossible to predict whether this is short-term misdirection or the first intimation of a hitherto unimaginable authoritarian police era
The good bits of the brave new world promised by the digital revolution never happened in journalism
There was a time when we seemed to be on the cusp of something remarkable, but it never happened
Jeff Bezos to sell up to $4.75bn in Amazon stock
Disclosure comes hours after Amazon warned of impact of Donald Trump’s global trade war
Jeff Bezos has made a sacrificial offering of the Washington Post. A once-great newspaper is dying in darkness
The paper’s billionaire owner has said its opinion pages will in future support and defend ‘two pillars: personal liberties and free markets’
Amazon Prime Video’s latest star is Melania Trump
Incoming first lady will be an executive producer of the documentary released by Jeff Bezos-owned streamer
Keep calm-ala and carry on-ala? US election coverage enters its anxiety era
US election: Kamala Harris escapes from Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump rails against Fox News and a much-threatened media sticks to seven swing states. The endgame is here
Labour cracks on with ‘invest, invest, invest’ project as Larry keeps lookout in London
Planet Business: Washington Post subscriber losses, the Philadelphia DA suing Musk over an ‘unlawful lottery’ and the end of the oily road for Starbucks’ Oleato coffees
Washington Post’s own coverage of incoming editor prompts change of plan
Personnel drama at revered US newspaper has been playing out on its own pages for weeks
‘People are not reading your stuff’ is the worst thing you can say to journalists
From plans to introduce a ‘third newsroom’ to its chief executive’s blunt language at a staff ‘town hall’ meeting, the latest moves by the Washington Post are less than inspiring
In the Israel-Hamas war, history and propaganda repeat themselves
To recite the Goldstone Report is not to suggest that Israel is all wrong and Hamas is all right; the point is the sense of deja vu it conveys
Washington Post names Will Lewis as new chief executive and publisher
Former Daily Telegraph editor had been in the running to bid for British broadsheet
Washington Post says reporter’s Kobe Bryant tweets did not break rules
Felicia Sonmez tweets included article on 2003 sexual assault case against former basketball star
Angry and exhausted: In the firing line of Trump’s tech wars
The US president has the big tech players in his sights – will they ignore him or fight back?
Steven Spielberg: ‘I didn’t think anybody would go to see ET’
His new film ‘The Post’ neatly captures the Trumpian zeitgeist. But the director worries that ‘four-quadrant superhero franchises’ will drive these old-school films out of cinemas
Trump revealed classified data to Russian minister, say US reports
Washington Post says president disclosed intelligence on Isis that may compromise source
America Letter: Journalist jailed for reporting on life in Iran
Today is US-born ‘Washington Post’ correspondent Jason Rezaian’s 326th day in jail
Marriage referendum: World’s media keeps watchful eye
Papers in the US, UK, Pakistan and India all devote column inches to Friday’s vote
Bezos and O’Brien: a tale of two media moguls
From ‘genetic optimism’ to ‘cows on the line’, how do the newspaper-owning billionaires compare?
International reaction to mother-and-baby home revelations
Media organisations worldwide report on unidentified remains discovered in Tuam
RTÉ to show digital-only content as it makes new plans for Player
St Patrick’s exclusive highlights online distribution as more than just a catch-up service
NSA broke privacy rules ‘thousands of times’ per year
Report lists 2,776 cases of unauthorised storage and access to communications in 12 months
Jeff Bezos could be journalism’s shot in the arm
Even Carl Bernstein believes there is great possibility in the future of the ‘Washington Post’ under the Amazon founder’s ownership
‘Washington Post’ owner boldly goes where no internet retailer has gone before
Amazon founder and ‘Star Trek’ fan Jeff Bezos is a man of contradictions
Would-be spaceman experiments in news
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys the ‘Washington Post’ but says he hasn’t got a plan
Clutter no more: packing in the habit of outrageous consumption
As I up sticks for Sydney, I am on a quest to unburden myself of the tyranny of stuff
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