BBC editorial chief Kamal Ahmed joins news start-up after being axed
The News Movement set up by former Dow Jones chief Will Lewis aims to tackle misinformation on social media
5 May 2021 • 4:44pm
The former editorial director of BBC News has co-founded a start-up tackling misinformation after being axed by the broadcaster.
Kamal Ahmed is launching the News Movement to deliver trustworthy and objective information to the millions of people consuming information through social media.
He will become editor-in-chief of the operation, with Will Lewis - the former head of the Rupert Murdoch-owned financial publisher Dow Jones and a former editor of
BBC sees off Rupert Murdoch s bid to curb podcast expansion
Ofcom finds on-demand app is not significantly harming commercial radio but urges BBC to consider adding output from its for-profit rivals
4 May 2021 • 1:01pm
Rupert Murdoch has failed in a bid to curb the BBC’s push into podcasting and online radio after the media watchdog rejected calls to limit the scope of its BBC Sounds smartphone app.
Mr Murdoch’s British radio business, Wireless Group, the broadcaster behind TalkSport and Virgin Radio, had urged Ofcom to cap the number of podcasts the BBC publishes.
It claimed that BBC Sounds was distorting the market and creating “deficits in diversity, choice and competition across the UK audio ecosystem”.
MailOnline goes to war with Google over cashing in on the sidebar of shame
The celebrity tabloid website has taken legal action against the search giant accusing it of deliberately stifling competition
2 May 2021 • 6:00am
Piers Morgan was attracting more headlines than usual. In a whirlwind week, the combative TV presenter clashed with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in a public row that prompted his departure from
For ITV bosses, the saga made for a March to forget. For tabloid websites, the bust-up drove the sort of clicking frenzy that delivers online advertising income.
With Morgan regularly publishing articles across the MailOnline and American sister site DailyMail.com, the online news website was expecting a deluge of traffic from search engines. But its internal data told a different story.