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Edinburgh TV festival: James Harding’s MacTaggart lecture is a passionate defence of the BBC

The agenda-setting centrepiece of every Edinburgh TV Festival is the MacTaggart lecture, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. This year’s lecture was delivered by former BBC news director James Harding, and billed as a speech that would examine challenges to truth and trust in the media.

The Conversation

Major newspaper editor warns of 'chilling political interference' over BBC

A LEADING newspaper editor has warned of "chilling political interference" over the BBC in a major lecture.

The National (Scotland)

BBC ‘not institutionally antisemitic’, editor says after row over Gaza coverage

The BBC has been criticised for a number of incidents in recent months

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Protect BBC’s independence in case of Farage government, ex-news head urges

James Harding says it is ‘recklessly complacent’ to assume Trump-style attacks on media could never happen in UK

The Guardian - UK

BBC ‘not institutionally antisemitic’, says Observer’s editor-in-chief

James Harding delivered this year’s James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Evening Standard

Observer’s editor-in-chief to deliver MacTaggart lecture on media landscape

He follows in the footsteps of keynote speakers including Dear England playwright James Graham and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Evening Standard

Drug kingpins who plotted murder of rival jailed for life

The court heard that James Harding, 34, and Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire.

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Drug kingpins face jail for cocaine smuggling and murder plot after EncroChat investigation

James Harding and Jayes Kharouti discussed plan to recruit hitman to kill rival on encrypted messaging service

The Guardian - UK

Moment anti-terror police arrest £100m drug kingpin who plotted murder from luxury Dubai villa

Playboy James Harding lived lavish lifestyle driving a Lamborghini and Bugatti while hiring private jet to London

Evening Standard

Drugs kingpins guilty of plotting murder and running drugs empire on EncroChat

The plot was scuppered by Scotland Yard officers who accessed the defendants’ secret discussions.

Evening Standard

Drug kingpins plotted rival’s murder while running criminal empire

The duo discussed how and where the murder would take place, with Kharouti offering the potential hitman a six-figure sum

The Independent UK

Andrew Norfolk obituary

Journalist whose dogged reporting of grooming gangs in the north of England led to a public inquiry and changes in the law

The Guardian - UK

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Tortoise Media reduces losses after cutting spending and staff

Company that has agreed to buy the Observer reports a pre-tax loss of £3.8m for 2023 after shedding some roles

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The Independent UK

Guardian newspaper confirms sale of Sunday sister paper The Observer to Tortoise Media

The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper has confirmed that it has sold the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee

The Guardian - UK

Observer appoints Lucy Rock as editor as Tortoise Media sale confirmed

Title’s first female editor in more than a century will work alongside a digital editor, as Observer builds online brand

The Guardian - UK

Deal agreed to sell the Observer to Tortoise media organisation

Newspaper’s owner, the Scott Trust, to sign contract in coming days, despite strike by Guardian and Observer journalists

The Independent UK

Guardian urged to ‘press pause’ on Observer sale as more strikes planned

Staff are planning two days of action next week over the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media

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The Independent UK

Sale of UK's Observer, world's oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values, is agreed

The sale of the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values in Britain’s media landscape, has been approved, despite two days of strike action from journalists this week

The Guardian - UK

Sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media agreed in principle

Scott Trust will become a key shareholder and take a seat on both the editorial and commercial boards of the company

The Guardian - UK

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media

Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

Evening Standard

The downfall of The Guardian: from The Observer sale to quitting X, and potential job losses

With Labour in power, the paper should be driving the agenda – instead, it’s at war with itself

The Guardian - UK

Guardian parent company in talks over potential sale of Observer

Guardian Media Group announces it is in negotiations with Tortoise Media over world’s oldest Sunday newspaper

Evening Standard

OPINION - A policy-lite election campaign is storing up problems for the winner

James Harding tells a story so good I'm going to share it for a second time. About 15 years ago, after the prime minister had delivered a party conference speech, the then-editor of The Times turned to some of his columnists and leader writers to ask what they thought the…

The Guardian - UK

The Mail and the Telegraph owned by the same man? It would be a disaster for the UK’s free press

I like Lord Rothermere, but a media landscape dominated by a few powerful figures is a grave threat to our democracy, says the Conservative MP David Davis

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