Janine Gibson
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Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
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Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Look if you can just get past my unbelievably fidgety onscreen presence, Pat Younge is very good on how the BBC could not only survive but emerge stronger in the full interview
🎥: ‘The BBC mustn’t pay Trump a dime’, says former BBC executive Pat Younge.
He joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com on Media Confidential to discuss the Panorama debacle.
Watch 7 mins below 🧵 or click here for full ep: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
He joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com on Media Confidential to discuss the Panorama debacle.
Watch 7 mins below 🧵 or click here for full ep: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Look if you can just get past my unbelievably fidgety onscreen presence, Pat Younge is very good on how the BBC could not only survive but emerge stronger in the full interview
Maybe Robbie Gibb could buy the Telegraph. That would neaten things up a bit
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Maybe Robbie Gibb could buy the Telegraph. That would neaten things up a bit
pray for the media correspondents, the proudest and noblest of all the specialisms. They've had a hell of a week.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
pray for the media correspondents, the proudest and noblest of all the specialisms. They've had a hell of a week.
The telegraph has been for sale for three years on.ft.com/4oGV6Hu
Telegraph sale to RedBird collapses
[FREE TO READ] US private equity group walked away due to regulatory uncertainty and negative commentary from newspaper
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November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The telegraph has been for sale for three years on.ft.com/4oGV6Hu
"These global elites are far from organized and hyper-competent—it feels like how Veep would have treated QAnon. The elites don’t message with sex pests using code words; they openly muse about having fun with girls at “Hawaiian Tropic” parties.
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
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subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"These global elites are far from organized and hyper-competent—it feels like how Veep would have treated QAnon. The elites don’t message with sex pests using code words; they openly muse about having fun with girls at “Hawaiian Tropic” parties.
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As someone who has served the BBC for over 38 years and leaves v soon, I can’t quite yet express a view on the current situation at the BBC. This is a top listen with great insight from all including former BBC exec Pat Younge
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
As someone who has served the BBC for over 38 years and leaves v soon, I can’t quite yet express a view on the current situation at the BBC. This is a top listen with great insight from all including former BBC exec Pat Younge
Lunch with the FT this week is a proper scoop: our editor in chief Roula Khalaf with Richard Moore, outgoing head of MI6. Yes they have wine and talk about spies on.ft.com/43pMdJQ
Former MI6 chief Richard Moore: Britain must regain the ‘power of example’
[FREE TO READ] The outgoing head of the Secret Intelligence Service on the rise of China, why Putin is not interested in talks — and how screen spies aren’t always far from the truth
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November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Lunch with the FT this week is a proper scoop: our editor in chief Roula Khalaf with Richard Moore, outgoing head of MI6. Yes they have wine and talk about spies on.ft.com/43pMdJQ
My holiday cover/internship at Media Confidential repaid me with this massive story. Here we asked the BBC’s former chief creative officer what the hell it should do now
“Trump is a grifter The BBC must not pay him a dime” Former BBC top executive Pat Younge on the crisis at Broadcasting House www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
‘Trump is a grifter. The BBC must not pay him a dime’
Under fire from powerful enemies at home and abroad, how can the broadcasting service save itself?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My holiday cover/internship at Media Confidential repaid me with this massive story. Here we asked the BBC’s former chief creative officer what the hell it should do now
I don’t want to talk about the fact that Michael Wolff once wronged me. It’s water under the bridge, stuff happens. I wish nothing but the best to the secret advisor to a convicted sex trafficker and paedophile
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I don’t want to talk about the fact that Michael Wolff once wronged me. It’s water under the bridge, stuff happens. I wish nothing but the best to the secret advisor to a convicted sex trafficker and paedophile
Do you think Labour MPs have got BBC crisis envy?
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Do you think Labour MPs have got BBC crisis envy?
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The Nerve hits the airwaves (with only a bit of swearing) 🔊
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
🎧: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project, @thenerve.news.
The Nerve: ‘We want to shine a light on culture… with a bit of “F— you” energy on the side’
Carole Cadwalladr and Sarah Donaldson discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Nerve hits the airwaves (with only a bit of swearing) 🔊
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
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FT editorial is right to ask questions about governance and the Board at the BBC
on.ft.com/3WQmPJr
on.ft.com/3WQmPJr
Crucial lessons for the BBC
The broadcaster has made errors, but its board has failed to defend it
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November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
FT editorial is right to ask questions about governance and the Board at the BBC
on.ft.com/3WQmPJr
on.ft.com/3WQmPJr
Nick Robinson closed the Today programme emphasising that the BBC Board is *still* fighting over the wording of a statement over the Panorama programme.
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Nick Robinson closed the Today programme emphasising that the BBC Board is *still* fighting over the wording of a statement over the Panorama programme.
Good to hear Mark Damazer, the brightest man who worked for the BBC in the last three decades stand up and fluently fairly and rationally defend its journalists. Bit of a shame he left 15 years ago.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Good to hear Mark Damazer, the brightest man who worked for the BBC in the last three decades stand up and fluently fairly and rationally defend its journalists. Bit of a shame he left 15 years ago.
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
Good morning and welcome to this giftlink thread of Weekend FT highlights. Get 'em while they're hot, try not to complain when they're gone!
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb
Yuval Noah Harari: Only generosity can secure peace between Israelis and Palestinians
[FREE TO READ] Both sides must abandon false moral certainties and oversimplified historical narratives if the cycle of violence is to be broken
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November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Good morning and welcome to this giftlink thread of Weekend FT highlights. Get 'em while they're hot, try not to complain when they're gone!
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb
Our modern world is confusing and ever-shifting and yet this i know to be true. The words "reform the choir" will raise merry hell. www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...
Royal choirmaster quits in parish row
Claire Stewart resigned as music director of St Mary Magdalene in Sandringham, where the royal family attend Sunday worship as well as the Christmas Day service
www.thetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Our modern world is confusing and ever-shifting and yet this i know to be true. The words "reform the choir" will raise merry hell. www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...
compelling from @arusbridger.bsky.social
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
compelling from @arusbridger.bsky.social
Wishing only continued excellent health to inspirational 94 year old artist Bridget Riley on.ft.com/43ZrQTM
Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’
[FREE TO READ] The 94-year-old doyenne of British abstract art on influences from Seurat to Mondrian, her wartime childhood in Cornwall — and ‘the healing power of looking’
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November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Wishing only continued excellent health to inspirational 94 year old artist Bridget Riley on.ft.com/43ZrQTM
Top 3 confusing things about Sky looking at buying Itv:
1. Doesn't involve Rupert Murdoch. I know. You think it must but it doesn't.
2. Like five minutes ago this would've occupied hundreds of regulators. Won't someone think of the regulators
3. WHY tho
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1. Doesn't involve Rupert Murdoch. I know. You think it must but it doesn't.
2. Like five minutes ago this would've occupied hundreds of regulators. Won't someone think of the regulators
3. WHY tho
on.ft.com/49EDaby
Comcast holds talks about buying ITV’s television business
[FREE TO READ] US media giant sees opportunity to create a leading UK broadcast and streaming group
on.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Top 3 confusing things about Sky looking at buying Itv:
1. Doesn't involve Rupert Murdoch. I know. You think it must but it doesn't.
2. Like five minutes ago this would've occupied hundreds of regulators. Won't someone think of the regulators
3. WHY tho
on.ft.com/49EDaby
1. Doesn't involve Rupert Murdoch. I know. You think it must but it doesn't.
2. Like five minutes ago this would've occupied hundreds of regulators. Won't someone think of the regulators
3. WHY tho
on.ft.com/49EDaby
This is better for Joe’s future earnings though. Lovable loser is a great brand for light entertainment
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is better for Joe’s future earnings though. Lovable loser is a great brand for light entertainment
Claudia introducing the ceremonial pouches there. It’s good to imagine David Dimbleby commentating
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Claudia introducing the ceremonial pouches there. It’s good to imagine David Dimbleby commentating