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The i is creating about 20 journalist jobs this year following a cash influx from new parent company Daily Mail and General Trust. Staff were told on Wednesday that as part of this investment there will be a reorganisation of the newsroom, merging the print and digital teams for the first time. Mail and Metro publisher DMGT bought the i for £49.6m in November 2019, but the title continued to operate separately until March – just before the first Covid-19 lockdown hit – when the deal was cleared by the Government. DMGT owner Lord Rothermere said at the time of the purchase that the i woul...

News Corp editors and execs met ministers 40 times in first 14 months of Johnson government News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his top executives in the UK and US met Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other high-level Government politicians seven times between them in seven weeks last summer. Murdoch (pictured) met with Johnson, paid for lunch with Chancellor Rishi Sunak, ate a private dinner with Michael Gove and had an “informal lunch between friends” with Jacob Rees-Mogg between 8 August and 25 September last year. News UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks met with both Johnso...

Formerly pro EU newspapers turn on the bloc over 'vaccine nationalism' and 'playground bully' tactics Even the UK’s formerly pro-European newspapers have rounded on the EU over the Commission’s threats to halt vaccine exports and its call for Astra Zeneca to divert UK vaccine production to Europe. The FT, which has long been a supporter of UK EU membership, writes in its leader: “…the commission was notably slower than the UK or US in signing contracts, and thus preparing the supply chain. It appears to have been less generous, too, in subsidising expanded production capacity. Rather ...