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Ian Burrell

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Ian Burrell is Assistant Editor and Media Editor of The Independent.

Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch, pictured together in June 2016
Voices

MPs need to take a look at Murdoch's relationship with Trump

Newsnight has reported that David Cameron tried to get the editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, sacked
Voices

The story that Cameron had a vendetta against Dacre suits the Mail

UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
People

Emma Watson reveals she has been subjected to threats over feminism

Blair handed down his false claims of Hussein’s weaponry, and the media machine whirred into action
Voices

The media failed us during the Iraq War. Now it faces the consequences

News

Inside the world of Copa90

"I was learning more from the readers than I was telling them"
Press

Profile: The Independent reader

The popularity of ‘Game of Thrones’ attracts fans from around the world to Northern Ireland
Home News

Disney plans to use Northern Ireland's landscape for musical The Lodge

From left: Rupert Orton of The Jim Jones Revue, the Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock and Henry Scott-Irvine of the Save Tin Pan Alley Campaign, by the Malcolm ‘Muggeridge’ McLaren cartoon
Home News

Sex Pistols graffiti helps Tin Pan Alley building get listed status

A woman experiments with LG 360 VR glasses at the World Mobile Congress. VR is set to become a billion-dollar business in 2016
Media

Print may be dying, but there’s a revolution in new technology

A robot serves food at a restaurant in Shenyang, China
Tech

Bring robots into classrooms to attract girls into coding, says expert

Home News

BBC religion head warns of 'chronic lack of religious literacy' in UK

Former ‘One Show’ host Richard Madeley
People

Richard Madeley wades into sofagate row

For much of the 1970s and 1980s he bestrode Saturday night television with a profile similar to that now enjoyed by Ant & Dec.
People

How Paul Daniels took magic out of theatre and transported it to TV

People

How Paul Daniels took magic out of theatre and transported it to TV

For much of the 1970s and 1980s he bestrode Saturday night television with a profile similar to that now enjoyed by Ant & Dec.
Washington dignitaries are outraged.
News

PJ Harvey depicts Washington DC residents as 'drug-induced zombies'

Dan Walker with his more experienced co-presenter Louise Minchin on the ‘Breakfast’ sofa
TV & Radio

BBC Breakfast faces 'sexism' calls over Dan Walker's sofa position

Chris Evans replaced Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of the BBC's successful Top Gear.
Voices

The danger for Top Gear was becoming bland. Not with Chris Evans

Voices

How ITN came to work with Club 18-30 and Ant & Dec

Voices

How ITN came to work with Club 18-30 and Ant & Dec

Voices

The Royal family is putting its future at risk

CBeebies poetry show Magic Hands
News

BBC to introduce young children to Shakespeare with CBeebies excerpts

'Stop worrying': David Abraham, CEO of Channel 4
Business

Channel 4 dismisses two former leaders who supported privatisation

Lord Hall: 'Overall investment in original British content is in long-term decline'
TV & Radio

BBC director says British TV programming declined in past five years

WPP founder and CEO Martin Sorrell, speaks at the British chambers of Commerce annual conference
Business News

Martin Sorrell warns advertising system in need of 'rapid overhaul'

Media

How New York Times has turned 'paid for' content into a lucrative art

Matt LeBlanc joins Chris Evans on the Top Gear line-up with another presenter still to be announced
People

BBC warns Evans for plugging C4 show

John Whittingdale, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Media

Culture Secretary vows to stop non licence fee payers watching iPlayer

Media

How New York Times has turned 'paid for' content into a lucrative art

Matt LeBlanc joins Chris Evans on the Top Gear line-up with another presenter still to be announced
People

BBC warns Evans for plugging C4 show

John Whittingdale, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Media

Culture Secretary vows to stop non licence fee payers watching iPlayer

The Sun is to expand its brand to the gambling and holiday markets
Media

The Sun 'will become holiday operator as well as providing news'

Media

The Sun 'will become holiday operator as well as providing news'

The Sun is to expand its brand to the gambling and holiday markets
London Mayor Boris Johnson backs Brexit
Voices

Brexit is causing an identity crisis for the British media

David Cameron has some unlikely EU allies and opponents in the media
Press

EU referendum testing the ideological certainties of Britain's press

Bible leaders, left to right: Mimi Turner, Arian Kalantari, and Ian Moore
Media

Lad Bible strives to branch out beyond its blokey name

Tony Hall admitted to the unique culpability of the BBC in the Savile scandal
TV & Radio

BBC chiefs 'deeply sorry' after sexual predators 'hid in plain sight'

Tony Hall admitted to the unique culpability of the BBC in the Savile scandal
TV & Radio

BBC chiefs 'deeply sorry' after sexual predators 'hid in plain sight'

Jimmy Savile had no part in selecting the fixes, it has emerged
TV & Radio

Jimmy Savile 'wasn't involved in selecting fixes' on Jim'll Fix It

72 people have been identified as having been sexually abused by Savile on BBC premises
TV & Radio

The five senior BBC employees who knew about Savile but did not act

The reports finds that Savile carried out sex attacks on 72 victims in 'virtually every one of the BBC premises in which he worked'
Home News

Report says 'no evidence' BBC bosses knew anything about Jimmy Savile

5GIC is working to discover the “fifth generation” of wireless technology
Tech

University of Surrey leads race to deliver 5G phone technology

BBC is hoping that the rebooted ‘Top Gear’ – presented by Matt LeBlanc (left) and Chris Evans – continues to sell in foreign markets
TV & Radio

BBC looks abroad to sell its wares as its milks the Top Gear cash cow

The Vaccines performing at London's iconic 100 Club. The Oxford Street venue gives no details of access or facilities offered to disabled patrons
News

Music venues and festivals 'excluding disabled fans'

Sir Peter Bazalgette will become the next chairman of broadcaster ITV
Media

Producer who brought Big Brother to UK named as ITV executive chairman

Cooper Clarke will host Dr John Cooper Clarke at The BBC, a four-part series in which he will perform a mix of new and old selections of his poesy to a live audience
News

Radio 4 plans comedy schedule with John Cooper Clarke and Alexei Sayle

Eddie Izzard, whose 27 marathons in South Africa, run over 27 consecutive days, will feature on the new online-only BBC3
Media

BBC3’s digital move comes as broadcasters fight to win youth audience

BBC Three was launched a little over five years ago with the slogan: “Three, is a magic number, yes it is.”
Voices

Is BBC3 "down with the kids" or just going down?

G.I.'s with Wounded Vietcong, Vietnam, 1968
Home News

Photography prize to be created in honour of Vietnam photojournalist

Home News

Photography prize to be created in honour of Vietnam photojournalist

G.I.'s with Wounded Vietcong, Vietnam, 1968
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a success for Pinewood
Features

Pinewood Studios head on the 'opportunity for internatiol dramas'

Stephen Garrett was responsible for green-lighting Spooks, one of the most successful TV drama and film franchises of recent times
Features

Spooks producer on love for spy tales and working with John le Carré

The lack of information released by Apple caused outrage in the specialist press
Tech

Apple accused of 'arrogant approach' over secrecy around Error 53

MPs cited a letter to 29 celebrities, orchestrated by the former BBC Director of Television Danny Cohen, as an example of BBC 'arrogance'
TV & Radio

BBC considered 'arrogant and introspective', says select committee

MPs cited a letter to 29 celebrities, orchestrated by the former BBC Director of Television Danny Cohen, as an example of BBC 'arrogance'
TV & Radio

BBC considered 'arrogant and introspective', says select committee

Uganda's Ethics and Integrity Minister, Simon Lokodo, in 2014
People

Stephen Fry: Politician's homophobia made me try to kill myself

David Tennant co-hosting Absolute Radio’s breakfast show last November with Christian O’Connell; the show has delivered record audiences Getty
Media

Commercial radio is reviving - and it’s not because of Chris Moyles

Participants on the controversial new Channel 5 show ‘The Big Benefits Handout’ include Tony and his family, pictured in front of a new van bought with some of the lump sum of £26,000
News

The latest 'poverty porn'? TV show to give unemployed £26,000 handout

While the rest of the BBC tightens its belt, the organisation’s website flaunts its great girth.
Media

Beards, baby boxes and Bollywood LPs – three things BBC needs less of

Steve November: Viewers identify with characters from every era and class
News

ITV's head of drama on new series hoping to rival Downton Abbey

Armando Iannucci
Media

Armando Iannucci assembles party to work on future of the BBC

The models were created using the children's drawings and descriptions by designers including the Aardman studio, makers of ‘Wallace & Gromit’
Features

Rankin photographs children with 'real' version of imaginary friends

Mr Obaigbena has informed staff he is 'being detained' by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
TV & Radio

TV news channel owner 'questioned in Nigerian anti-fraud inquiry'

The decision on whether the publisher will make compulsory redundancies will follow an eight-week consultation period
Press

The Guardian counts the costs of its global ambitions

GNM have revealed that its annual operating costs have risen 23% to £268m
Press

The Guardian to make 20% cuts to 'safeguard' future of newspaper

Everyone loves a winner … Mike Perlis, the ‘Forbes’ president and chief executive
Press

Will Trump or Forbes triumph in the battle of the brands?

Press

Will Trump or Forbes triumph in the battle of the brands?

Everyone loves a winner … Mike Perlis, the ‘Forbes’ president and chief executive
Bowie's UK number ones
Features

Music publicist Alan Edwards on the often maligned world of pop PR

The BBC insisted that the 'reorganisation' would mean a more 'simplified' structure at the top of the BBC
Media

BBC News Channel identified as next service to become online-only

More than 100 BBC employees said they had heard of Savile’s sexual activities.
Media

Another Savile could ‘be lurking in the BBC’, says leaked report

Giant in his field: Sir David’s nature programming has taken him all over the world
People

Sir David Attenborough talks about his new show and turning 90

Giant in his field: Sir David’s nature programming has taken him all over the world
People

Sir David Attenborough talks about his new show and turning 90

The BBC insisted that the 'reorganisation' would mean a more 'simplified' structure at the top of the BBC
TV & Radio

Controller of BBC2 leaves amid cost-saving shake-up

Trust in the government among low earners is half that of wealthier individuals
Home News

Poorer Britons 'are significantly less likely to trust institutions'

Elizabeth Buckle, a Thalidomide victim, pictured in 1968, aged seven. No one knows how many babies were affected but experts assessed there were more than 10,000 in Germany alone
Media

Culture Secretary must fight for UK's creative industries

Guitar Hero Live recreates the festival experience, with onstage POV footage dynamically changing as you play
Voices

The Ministry of Fun has serious challenges ahead

Nduka Obaigbena
Home News

London-based global news network goes off air - leaving staff unpaid

Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer, Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes and Brian díArcy James as Matt Carroll in Spotlight
Features

How Oscar frontrunner Spotlight restores glory to journalism

Brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Tech

Apple Watch Hermes wins 'Life Enhancer of the Year' award

The BBC is anxious to be at the forefront of media technology
Media

BBC's desire to experiment with new technology 'could weaken output'

Stan Lee is having to rely on an assistant to write down his scripts
People

Spider-Man creator 'can no longer read comics' due to failing eyesight

Stephen Leather is accused of harassing two other authors
News

Thriller writer accused of running smear campaign against rivals

Eddie Redmayne with fans at the Giffoni Film Festival, Italy in 2013. The actor tried to live without his iPhone as he felt it had become too great a distraction
Tech

Eddie Redmayne reveals he ditched smartphone to 'live in the moment'

Mishal Husain, with ‘Today’ colleague John Humphrys
News

Today programme to be given TV show and bigger online presence

Jim Naughtie (front), who left the show last month, with ‘Today’ presenters past and present
Features

How the great survivor of BBC news has learned to grow old gracefully

Charles Dance is one Britain’s most distinguished actors,and also one of the most hard-working
Features

Charles Dance on his new role as Gallipoli general Ian Hamilton

Laura Ricciardi, left, and Moira Demos, right, on the set of ‘Making A Murderer’
News

Making a Murderer could not be made in UK, say legal experts

‘The Abominable Bride’ attracted the largest overnight TV audience for drama over Christmas, at 8.4 million viewers
TV & Radio

Hollywood's ties with tech threaten to squeeze out the British media

Charles Dance is one Britain’s most distinguished actors,and also one of the most hard-working
Features

Charles Dance on his new role as Gallipoli general Ian Hamilton

Laura Ricciardi, left, and Moira Demos, right, on the set of ‘Making A Murderer’
News

Making a Murderer could not be made in UK, say legal experts

‘The Abominable Bride’ attracted the largest overnight TV audience for drama over Christmas, at 8.4 million viewers
TV & Radio

Hollywood's ties with tech threaten to squeeze out the British media

“I feel like these worlds are so merged over the past few years,” cooed the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez as she pitched business ideas to venture capitalists in San Francisco in May
Voices

How Tinseltown and tech combine to squeeze out British creatives

Adrian Chiles taking with a fisherman on the Bosphorus, just outside of Istanbul, in his upcoming BBC documentary My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles
Home News

Adrian Chiles says the media only sees religion in terms of fanaticism

Welsh politicians allowed filming in many parts of the Senedd, the Assembly’s Richard Rogers-designed home.
TV & Radio

Subtitled drama Living A Lie set to add new pep to Welsh politics

Digital renderings of the proposed Syrian arch of Palmyra
Home News

Syrian arch that survived Isis attack to be recreated in London

Joann Fletcher’s team was allowed to film ancient artefacts including the Seti I temple in Abydos
Africa

BBC expert urges British tourists to return to Egypt

‘Newsnight’ presenter Evan Davis: the successor to Jeremy Paxman took a while to settle in
TV & Radio

Some have questioned the future of Newsnight – don’t write it off yet

David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King in the film Selma
News

TV directors from ethnic minorities 'moving to US to further careers'

The head of Twitter in Europe has pledged to defeat the trolls who have scarred the growth of the social media platform
Tech

Twitter is winning war on trolls and extremists, says its Europe chief

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