Bell Pottinger loses clients and staff in wake of South Africa scandal

HSBC, TalkTalk and others say they have stopped working with PR firm after secret campaign to stir up racial tensions

Bell Pottinger: key players and controversial clients

From Asma al-Assad to FW de Klerk and Oscar Pistorius, the PR firm has taken on accounts other firms might have balked at

Bell Pottinger is a textbook example of how not to manage a crisis

The City PR firm is in the reputation-enhancing game – but appears unable to protect its own name

Bell Pottinger expelled from PR trade body after South Africa racism row

PRCA bans agency from membership for five years after finding it was unethical and brought the industry into disrepute

‘Potentially racially divisive’: report censures PR firm Bell Pottinger

Firm accused of stoking anger over ‘white monopoly capital’ and ‘economic apartheid’ in South African social media

Yellow Pages to stop printing from January 2019

Print publication, once vital household telephone directory, ends after 51 years as owner Yell fully digitises its business

Apple considers moving into Gone With The Wind and Matrix studios

Tech firm in talks over office space at Culver Studios in California as it vies to become heavy hitter in TV and film

Despacito drives Bertelsmann to record €500m profits

Song of the summer and TV shows American Gods and 13 Reasons Why boost German media group

Sky stops broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK

Sources say decision to stop broadcasting controversial channel is not connected to Fox’s £11.7bn takeover bid for Sky

UK TV industry risks losing £1bn a year to Amazon, YouTube and Facebook

Traditional broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Sky could follow other industries in losing out to digital ‘middlemen’, says report

Lights, camera, inaction – could Brexit hurt the British film production boom?

With Hollywood dollars pouring in and the pound weakening, business looks good in the short term. But millions in EU funding could disappear after exit

Steve Bannon is back at Breitbart. But can his page of rage survive an ad boycott?

A campaign for companies to pull their ads has seen revenues fall dramatically – but the rightwing news site can still call on wealthy backers for support

WPP faces worst year in a decade as advertisers cut spending

Shares in Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising group fall by more than 10% as it slashes growth forecasts for second time this year

Silver Reel is latest production firm to move into UK TV market

The Swiss film company is to branch into high-end TV drama, lured by the weakened pound and generous tax credits for big-budget series

Lovefilm pushed the envelope for movie buffs – Netflix and Amazon don’t come close

The postal DVD service, set to close after 15 years, catered perfectly for film fans with specific tastes in ways that streaming services such as Netflix don’t do