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The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros

IP success stories such as Barbie and the DC Universe? That elusive best picture Oscar? Or perhaps the main goal is a good old-fashioned blockbuster

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal

Streaming service to gain control of studio behind Harry Potter and Batman, as well as HBO, home to The White Lotus and Game of Thrones

Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws

Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump

Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content

Gordon McKee, whose explainer has racked up 3m views, leads way as party tries to harness power of social media

Advertising giant WPP relegated from FTSE 100 after nearly 30 years

Market value of ad group that was once world’s largest plummets from about £24bn in 2017 to £3.1bn

Nike, Superdry and Lacoste ads banned in UK over ‘misleading’ green claims

Advertising watchdog says all three firms misled shoppers by using term ‘sustainable’ in paid-for Google adverts

Virgin Media fined £23.8m for putting vulnerable customers at risk

Company failed to protect thousands of people switching from analogue to digital landline, Ofcom rules

Move over, Murdoch: will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul?

The Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapers

Daily Mail’s parent company on ‘credit watch’ over Telegraph takeover

S&P Global Ratings warns Lord Rothermere’s RCHL could face credit downgrade as it seeks funding for £500m deal

Ministers approve £750m Marlow Film Studios development after review

Planning permission granted for Buckinghamshire project seen as test of Labour’s drive for economic growth

Trump once again steps up attacks on TV networks as he threatens to revoke licenses

Trump has suggested on at least 28 occasions over past eight years that a TV network’s license be revoked – even though it doesn’t work that way

What happened at Fox News after the 2020 election? Documents reveal new details

Tens of thousands of documents were released as part of Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against the network

Fox Corp chief told Sean Hannity that Trump could not go on air in 2020 if he attacked network

Even before the 2020 election, tensions were high between Fox News executives and Trump, new documents show

UK gambling firms spent ‘astronomic’ £2bn on advertising last year

Calls for Rachel Reeves to increase taxes in budget as estimate outstrips duties collected from online casinos

Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt

Many fear competition and diversity will be diminished as Daily Mail owner wins race to buy newspaper

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