‘People don’t get the power of the podcast. But Trump does’: broadcaster-turned-investor Harry Stebbings

The twentysomething podcaster and venture capitalist talks about his $400m investment fund, his mum – and the power of new media to influence politics

What we’ve learned in the five years since our first environment pledge

An update on our progress from the Guardian’s head of sustainability

Efune insists his Daily and Sunday Telegraph bid is still on track

Asset manager Oaktree out of running as backer but businessman has ‘high confidence’ he will get finance

John Lewis Christmas advert this year tells tale of two sisters

This year’s ad is actually about going shopping and features Oxford Street store plus song by Richard Ashcroft

Most UK TV ads for sweets and snacks shown before children’s viewing watershed

Research has prompted claims firms such as Mars, Haribo and PepsiCo are in ‘flagrant’ breach of codes of behaviour

Brutal hours, tyrants and chest pains: a freelance producer on the reality of British TV

‘TV industry would not exist without freelancers, yet it bullies us “lucky” ones into fearing about future work if we complain’

With Trump returning to the presidency, everything from abortion to immigration is under threat

From climate change to foreign policy, the impact of Trump in the White House will be felt across the US and the world

Watchdog rules Eurostar ads on social media for £39 seats were misleading

Advertising Standards Authority censures posts on Instagram and Facebook for trips from London to Amsterdam and Brussels

Trump Media posts heavy losses in surprise election-night earnings report

Nasdaq halts trading of the company’s stock several times as its price rises and falls by huge percentages

Greggs scoffs at reports of snub by its Christmas ad star Nigella Lawson

TV chef, who has signed up for bakery chain’s first ever festive advert, says she is a fan of its sausage rolls

Sky faces bill for hundreds of millions after advertising blunder

Sky Media will have to recompense business partners after discovering it had miscalculated what it owed them

As Hello Kitty turns 50 her cuteness is still earning £3.1bn a year

Japanese character said to be second-highest grossing media franchise after Pokémon is also a TikTok superstar

Budget 2024: what the UK papers said about Rachel Reeves’s statement

Headlines featured numerous ‘nightmare’ allusions for budget delivered the day before Halloween

From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI

Media mogul and leading artists join fight to stop tech firms using creative works for free as training data

ITV to lose Tour de France live rights in blow to free-to-air sport coverage

The Tour de France will be shown exclusively by Eurosport in the UK from 2026, ending four decades of free-to-air coverage