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The Scotsman has launched a subscription initiative linked to the right to publish editorial content.

Peers have been warned to beware a newspaper sting operation.

David Simon, creator of HBO TV drama The Wire, speaks about capitalism, Margaret Thatcher and how anti-drug enforcement has evolved into social control

The award-winning creator of The Wire, David Simon, has emerged as a critic of the 'racial bias' in the US debate on the war on drugs David Simon surged into the American mainstream with a bleak...

The author takes our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer "Wouldn't it be cool if everyone obeyed us?"

'Now, its slogan is "Open Your World", global epiphany being precisely what you experience after 10 pints of Heineken' Reading this on mobile?

Mayor dismisses video purportedly showing him smoking the drug as 'nonsense' a day after firing longtime chief of staff The embattled mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, was forced on Friday to repeat a...

Netflix's unorthodox release of an entire TV series at once has helped popularize marathon sessions of watching. Do you prefer your shows in one sitting?

A reader who was saved from homesickness when she found a copy of the Guardian in a Thai market I am 25 and come from a small village on the outskirts of Preston in Lancashire.

US federal trade commission looking into allegations that company's DoubleClick has illegally promoted Google products The US federal trade commission is investigating whether Google's DoubleClick...

Rupert Murdoch announces year-long plan enabling News Corp shareholders to buy discounted stock in event of new investor Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has established a so-called "poison pill"...

Video-on-demand service hopes viewers will go bananas for cult US sitcom resurrected after seven years When cult US sitcom Arrested Development returns tomorrow seven years after it was axed, there...

Broadcaster apologises for 'insensitive' production error that saw Stormont minister labelled as member of Sinn Féin/​IRA The BBC has apologised for a Question Time production gaffe that saw a...

The owners of video allegedly showing Toronto's mayor smoking crack go missing in the middle of crowdfunding campaign The effort by news site Gawker to bust Toronto mayor Rob Ford for allegedly...

Almost £100m written off by BBC as digital archive project is scrapped to avoid 'throwing good money after bad' The BBC has suspended its chief technology officer and admitted wasting nearly...

Guardian editor-in-chief also raises concerns over use of royal charter, saying it is 'a mechanism controlled by ministers' The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has urged the culture...

Twitter users are learning what a dangerous weapon they have at their fingertips, as Sally Bercow's 46-character tweet shows The Speaker's wife has learned the hard way that while her husband and...

Russian officials behind prosecution may be using tycoon's unpopularity with Kremlin to raid his multibillion-pound assets Alexander Lebedev's trial in Moscow this week has been surreal.

Editor of BBC1's News at Six and News at Ten led bulletins' coverage of London Olympics, Arab uprisings and 2010 election The BBC has appointed James Stephenson, the editor of BBC1's News at Six...

The great modern sandpit will now have to rein it in, tamed by knowledge that the whiff of a suggestion could land you in court Today I feel like my favourite ever TV character: Lexi Featherston, a...

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive, will head both News Corp and 21st Century Fox companies News Corporation has announced that the separation of its publishing and entertainment...

Tony Hall's message to the corporation's staff announcing the axing of the project to digitise its archive , which has cost £98.4m From: Tony Hall Sent: 24 May 2013 11:01 Subject: Digital Media...

Kung Fu Robot, City Guides by National Geographic, Tetris Blitz, Mailbox for iPad, Symmetry School, Fry, Blip Blup, Disney Junior Appisodes and more It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new...

Search pioneer reportedly made approach after social network's $1bn offer was rebuffed, in move that could boost its maps app The travel app company Waze is believed to be the subject of a...

Nielsen executive David Gosen responds to Frédéric Filloux's blog backing a site-centric approach using server logs When it comes to the development and distribution of content, the pace of...

The Last Days of Anne Boleyn beat competition on BBC1, but lost in the ratings to ITV drama Scott & Bailey BBC2's profile of the Tudor queen Anne Boleyn pulled in an impressive 3 million viewers on...

Conservatives' Baroness Warsi and Labour's Jim Murphy hit out over interviews in wake of soldier's murder in Woolwich The faith and communities minister, Baroness Warsi, and the shadow defence...

The greatest threat to US freedom of the press isn't incarceration or even a White House investigation, it's indifference It's difficult to say who's happier about the recent spate of troubles in...

Foster expected to take some clients with him from a portfolio which includes Chris Evans and Sacha Baron Cohen Michael Foster has sold his controlling stake in the Rights House, the literary and...

As the BBC's Tudor season begins, here are six of the best toughs in ruffs, from Jonathan Rhys Meyers to Ray Winstone Aside from maybe Prince Harry's junk or Prince Philip's troublesome bladder,...

Watch what happened when Climate Desk introduced the troll slayer Rosi Reed to the climate denier Hoyt Connell

Golly gosh fellow tweeters… following the Sally Bercow libel verdict you should beware letting your fingers and thumbs run away with themselves.

Ten-episode drama series starring Clive Owen will focus on staff at New York's Knickerbocker hospital in 1900 Steven Soderbergh will make his long-heralded move into TV with a period medical drama...

The vocabulary and grammar of spoken South African English are coated in a fine layer of Afrikaans dust.

Soft-focus documentary catches Robert Mugabe over lunch with his wife and children, talking of love, family, politics and Tony Blair Flowers, silver cutlery, and a box of tissues adorn the spotless...

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) managed to increase its operating profit last year, making £58.4m on a turnover if £327.5m. In the previous year, it made £55.7m.

Analysis shows royals crowding out coverage of global warming, as Prince Charles makes his strongest climate warning yet Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, made one of his strongest...

Ofcom orders review after study finds under-18s are watching shows which are permitted to have adverts for alcohol Ofcom has ordered a review into whether to cut the amount of alcohol advertising...

Al-Qaida's slick and sinister magazine for jihadis, Inspire, suggests using a vehicle to mow down a target – which is apparently what happened in Woolwich In the murky world of terrorism-watchers...

Independent investigation launched after Digital Media Initiative, which aimed to digitise archive, results in catalogue of errors The BBC has admitted that it has wasted almost £100m on a...

Commons Speaker's wife agrees to settle with Tory peer after falsely linking him with allegation of child sexual abuse Sally Bercow has lost her libel battle with Lord McAlpine over a tweet that...

Tetris Blitz, Amazon Local, Blip Blup, Clueful, AppGratis, GPS Navigation & Maps, Epic and more It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for Android smartphones and tablets.

With videos and pictures being posted online and tweeted hundreds of times what does it mean when a trial comes about?

On this week's programme, John Plunkett and Roy Greenslade discuss the graphic front pages of the national press in the aftermath of the Woolwich killings – were they justified in printing the...

A couple of years ago I wrote about the medical drama faced by Malcolm Brabant , then the BBC's Athens-based stringer.

Nick Grimshaw to present That Music Show and Smells Like Friday Night will be fronted by Rizzle Kicks hip hop duo More than a quarter of a century after The Tube and 13 years after Chris Evans' TFI...

Move aimed at placating media groups who've been seething since actions against the AP and Fox News were disclosed Top comment on MediaGuardian Emily Bell: Breaking news is no longer the preserve...

Film of Michael Olumide Adebolajo edited to take out some content of man suspected of killing soldier Lee Rigby ITV News executives have decided not to broadcast an apparent confession from one of...

One the face of it it sounds like a bit of a coup: Lineker to join The Only Way is Essex. From Match of the Day to, er, coloured cocktails in the Sugar Hut.

Breakfast by Morecambe and Wise, clothes by Abercrombie & Fitch and a sob story from the mayor of Toronto This week's Viral Video Chart is guaranteed to give you a good cry – but we can offer you...