Michael Savage
Policy Editor at The Guardian
Media Editor, The Guardian. Views my own. DMs open. 👇👇👇[email protected]
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1 day ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
Ministers are refusing to name the media companies that lobbied them over laws restricting foreign state ownership of British newspapers, the Guardian can reveal. The government announced last month it was tripling the proportion of a British newspaper that could be owned by an overseas power to 15%. The change paves the way for the Telegraph to be bought by a consortium including an investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates.
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1 day ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
The BBC is to begin charging US-based users for unlimited access to its news content and rolling televised coverage, as it searches for new ways to ease the pressure on its finances. In the first scheme asking users outside the UK to pay a direct subscription for its news content, US users will be offered the chance to pay for a “premium experience”, including unlimited news and feature articles and a livestream of the BBC News channel.
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
British ministers are “running scared” of Donald Trump in their refusal to force US streaming services to fund more UK-focused shows, the director of the BBC’s Wolf Hall has warned. Peter Kosminsky said a “supine and terrified” government was worried about anything that might upset the “bully in the White House”. He said programmes that spoke truth to power were needed amid global tensions and political division.
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Dan Milmo |Michael Savage
They’re a Chinese cultural phenomenon which keeps millions of viewers glued to their phones, but the runaway success of “vertical dramas” is providing an unlikely source of employment for film and TV crews here in the UK. The bite-size melodramas have breathless titles such as A Flash Marriage with the Billionaire and My Firefighter ex-Husband Burns in Regret, and are chopped into one minute episodes for avid consumption on viewers’ vertically held smartphones.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
The BBC has scrapped plans to show a documentary about medics in Gaza after concluding it “risked creating a perception of partiality” over the corporation’s coverage of the conflict. In the latest controversy over the BBC’s coverage of the war, it announced that discussions over how to broadcast the film, or incorporate some of its footage into its news coverage, had “reached the end of the road”.
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RT @PippaCrerar: This is super interesting on threats to UK soft power around the world, with a funding crisis undermining key institutions…
Great point from @semaforben about how - when the news goes crazy - your most senior sources are just scratching their heads, like the rest of us. I remember it from the Brexit wars - cabinet ministers were happy to chat because no one had a clue what would happen. https://t.co/nGLRRAC9lN
NEW: Earlier this month, BBC's Feras Kilani & colleagues detained at gunpoint by Israel Defense Forces in Syria. They say they were tied up, blindfolded, strip searched, interrogated, threatened. BBC "strongly objects to the treatment of our staff and freelancers in this way".