Scoop: OnlyFans, the UK-based streaming platform used by sex workers, is nearing a deal to sell a minority stake valuing it at more than $3bn just a month after its owner died. The deal is likely to include new financial services for its unbanked creators
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As many as 2,000 jobs are set to be cut by the BBC across its departments as part of a radical downsizing of the UK’s national broadcaster ahead of the arrival of new director-general Matt Brittin. Scoop on FT.com
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The last of the data from ABC was not pretty tho.. the Mail fell from 2.4mn in 2000 to 620,000 by the end of last year.
The Mirror’s circulation fell from 2.3mn in 2000 to 166,000 at the end of 2025, while The Express went from over 1mn in 2000 to just over 100,000
I wrote about whether the traditional British tabloid can survive as readers are being lured by social media feeds and influencer content.. but what I did not realise was that in Feb all newspapers ceased to report circulation numbers publicly via ABC
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Ministers confirm our FT scoop from last week as Ian Cheshire - the former Ch 4 chair and City veteran - is named new Ofcom chair www.ft.com/content/4a16... via @ft
Scoop: Tim Davie will make an immediate return after he stands down as BBC DG with the govenment lining him up to take over as a chair of its creative industries council from Sir Peter Bazalgette. No gap year for Tim.
Will Saturday Night Live work in the UK? Critics already have their knives sharpened but Sky are making a big bet on the show - telling me that it has already been extended from six to eight episodes to give the cast more time to hit their stride
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BBC faces a real-term funding freeze for the World Service as talks to secure a last minute deal go to the wire
Scoop with @lucyfisher.ft.com
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Will be interesting to see if Axel Springer change the Telegraph’s EU stance.
Axel has CONFIRMED our FT scoop
“Axel Springer was founded in 1946 under a British press licence. He built his company inspired by the tradition of Fleet Street. The Telegraph was his North Star,” said Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner in a statement confirming the £575m deal.
Massive UK media scoop - Germany's Axel Springer is poised to agree a shock £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail. W/ the FT's finest @JFK_America @ArashMassoudi
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All3Media and Banijay combine to create $8bn global TV powerhouse - only on ft.com. RedBird IMI and Banijay will be equal partners in the world’s largest independent TV maker, with Marco Bassetti, Jane Turton and Jeff Zucker all taking management positions
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GB News, the right-leaning TV broadcaster, said that it remained dependent on financing from investors including hedge fund boss Sir Paul Marshall after posting another annual loss
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Paramount executives sipped champagne out of paper cups on the legendary studio lot in Hollywood to celebrate. Netflix execs consoled themselves with the $2.8bn break free.
Inside Project Warrior, or how Paramount beat Netflix in $110bn battle for Warner.
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Scoop: The BBC set to cut hundreds of millions of pounds - a tenth of its costs over the next three years - in a move likely to lead to fresh job cuts. Staff told in a conference call held by director-general Tim Davie this afternoon
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under rated and often majority view. "thats just fine I guess, haven't given it much thought"
One person close to the Will Lewis exit from the Washington Post told the FT: “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing". Lewis was spotted at a Super Bowl party on the same day as his newspaper was firing 300 staff.
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Will Lewis has just told staff at the Washington Post he is stepping down
Obviously terrible but also now think the FT now needs a taco editor
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SCOOP w/ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social: Channel 4 is set to appoint Sky advertising supremo Priya Dogra as its next chief executive. Announcement could come as early as tomorrow for the public service broadcaster.
Kushner, Gulf money and desperate texts: inside Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros on.ft.com/4aEEH1P
Netflix boss Ted Sarandos keeps a replica of Rosebud, the childhood sled at the heart of the Warner Bros’ film Citizen Kane, hanging in his home. Now he gets to own the whole studio.
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Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...
Daily Mail owner DMGT has struck a £500mn deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain, confirming our scoop last week w/ @JFK_America
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