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LONDON: Twitter accounts of prominent Taliban members were reported displaying blue ticks, the platform’s paid-for verification feature, a BBC investigation revealed. According to the report, two top officials and four supporters purchased the blue tick subscription to have their profiles verified. This includes Hedayatullah Hedayat, the head of the Taliban department for
By Max Goldbart, Jesse Whittock Soccer’s governing body FIFA estimates that five billion people will tune in to watch the Qatar World Cup, marking a new record for a global sporting event. This will be a spectacle like no other. The World Cup tends to put a country’s social order under the microscope. Spain, Argentina
By Max Goldbart International TV Co-EditorIn an unprecedented move, the United Nations has formally raised “grave concerns” with Iranian officials over treatment of BBC News staff operating in the region.The BBC filed a complaint with the UN earlier this year regarding BBC News Persian staffers, which spotlighted online violence against journalists, gendered attacks faced by
Universal International Studios has been leaning into local language productions over the last six months, reveals president Beatrice Springborn at the Series Mania Forum 2022 on Tuesday. The studio has partnered with French-Vietnamese writer and showrunner Quoc Dang Tran who is behind the series “Call My Agent!” and “Parallèles.” In a session moderated by Deadline
Pose This week, the Newswrap welcomes Zinc Media’s London director of television Greg Sanderson, who oversees Films of Record, Brook Lapping, Blakeway, Red Sauce and Supercollider, and freelance writer-director Sophie Bernberg to talk LGBTQ+ representation in TV. The pair set out their personal experiences, from witnessing incidents of homophobia to being ’the only one in the room’, and reveal where they think progress has been made and where there is room for improvement. Speaking to Max Goldbart and Hannah Bowler, they also talk about the recent Love Island controversy, and the ...