Media & Communication: Research Guide

The company has turned an in-person fan event into a live televised spectacle.

Laura Modi’s company, Bobbie, is rooted in science and uses organic ingredients. Some of her fans aren’t happy that she’s willing to work with the Trump administration.

Louis Silverstein modernized the look of The New York Times. His drawings, some of which are stored in the archives, memorialize his creative process.

The penalty for Andrew Cuomo came as his top rival, Zohran Mamdani, received the Working Families Party’s top endorsement in the New York City mayoral race.

Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methodsWhat is the most common mental health misinformation on TikTok?More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation has found.People are increasingly turning to social media for mental health support, yet research has revealed that many influencers are peddling misinformation, including misused therapeutic language, “quick fix” solutions and false claims. Continue reading...

Twist ending to this year’s series sees star leaving role and return of Billie PiperNcuti Gatwa is leaving Doctor Who, with the character regenerating as Billie Piper during the finale of the science-fiction series.The Doctor Who show runner, Russell T Davies, said: “What a Doctor! Thank you, Ncuti! As his final words say, this has been an absolute joy, and the team in Cardiff and everyone who has worked on this show for the past few years are so lucky to have been part of Ncuti’s great adventure as he shoots off to stratospheric new heights.” Continue reading...

London transport body says allowing Bpas adverts on its network could bring police and City Hall into disrepute Transport for London has blocked adverts that urge people to lobby their MPs to vote to decriminalise abortion from running on its network because it claims they could bring the police and City Hall into disrepute.Parliament is expected to vote on whether to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales in the coming weeks, with amendments tabled to the crime and policing bill seeking to change the law. Continue reading...

Dozens of child actors will feature in HBO’s new Harry Potter series, all of them needing on-set tuition to be conjured up between scenesHarry Potter may have been overjoyed at going to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, but the children playing Harry, Ron and Hermione in the forthcoming HBO TV series will vanish from their own schools for the rest of their childhoods.Instead the child actors – along with those playing Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley and the other Hogwarts pupils – will get much of their education from tutors at a “mini-school” to be conjured up at Warner Brothers’ Leavesden studio in Watford, north of London, when filming starts later this year. Continue re..

Photographer whose work for Picture Post in the 1940s and 50s documented a period of social change in BritainThe documentary photographer John Chillingworth, who has died aged 97, was one of the stable of famous photographic names who worked for the pioneering weekly magazine Picture Post in the 1940s and 50s. Picture Post’s unique characteristic was that it was accessible to all, but did not patronise the ordinary people whose lives were reflected in its pages.The magazine documented the postwar social change that resulted from the Beveridge report of 1942. Among other examples, Chillingworth contributed images of a social worker in Nelson, Lancashire, in 1954, showing her engaged in the ..

Emmy award-winning TV, stage and film actor also known for her role in Young Sheldon died of cancerValerie Mahaffey, the Emmy-award winning actor known for her roles on Northern Exposure, Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, died on Friday. She was 71.Her husband, actor Joseph Kell, said in a statement to Variety: “I have lost the love of my life, and America has lost one of its most endearing actresses. She will be missed.” Continue reading...

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without the internet. We are haunted by the feeling that it has robbed us of something vitalA video went viral on X a few months ago that I can’t stop watching. It’s 2003: the band that later becomes MGMT are performing their song Kids to their peers, years before they become a pop sensation, in a dusty quad at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Social media doesn’t exist yet. There is something about the way people look and behave and inhabit the space that tugs at my heartstrings and fills me with nostalgia. No one is dressed that well; the camera zooms unsteadily to capture the crowd’s awkwardness, slumped shoulders and arrhythmic bo..

Experts establish four themes to the misinformation contained in videos with a #mentalhealthtips hashtagMore than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study findsThousands of influencers peddle mental health misinformation on social media platforms – some out of a naive belief that their personal experience will help people, others because they want to boost their following or sell products.As part of a Guardian investigation, experts established clear themes to the misinformation contained in videos posted with a #mentalhealthtips hashtag on TikTok. Continue reading...

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishingJude Cook, author and publisher of Conduit BooksIn Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the languid Lord Henry announces: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”I’m not so sure. During the days after the announcement of my new small press, Conduit Books, the conversation about the balance and representation of women and men in publishing roared back into life. The reason was that, initially at least, Conduit Books will publish literary fiction and memoir..

A TV critic looks at George Clooney’s play about CBS News standing up to political pressure, even as its current ownership might succumb to it.

The CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour is no stranger to conflict zones. Now, in a new podcast, she mulls crises with James Rubin, whom she divorced in 2018.

The actor, who won two Emmy awards, was best known for being one of longest-serving cast members on the hit seriesLoretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean war on the pioneering hit TV series M*A*S*H, has died. She was 87.Publicist Harlan Boll says Swit died on Friday at her home in New York City, likely from natural causes. Continue reading...

Comedian and actor, 49, denies five sexual offence charges at Southwark crown court in LondonRussell Brand has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault.During a brief hearing at Southwark crown court in London on Friday, the comedian and actor formally denied the five sexual offence charges for the first time. Continue reading...

Former Sinn Féin leader sued broadcaster over allegation in documentary that he sanctioned murder of MI5 informantGerry Adams has won a defamation action against the BBC over a documentary that carried a claim he sanctioned the murder of an MI5 informant in 2006.A jury at Dublin’s high court on Friday found that the BBC had not acted in good faith or in a fair and reasonable way and awarded the former Sinn Féin leader €100,000 (£84,000) in damages Continue reading...

S4C has bought rights but only two Welshmen in squadHopes of deal in England alive but only three weeks to goThe British and Irish Lions’ tour to Australia will be available to watch free-to-air on TV this summer – but for now only in Welsh. The Guardian has learned that the Lions have agreed a deal for a highlights package with Welsh language channel S4C, which will be available throughout the UK via S4C’s iPlayer service and YouTube channel.S4C is understood to have bought highlights rights for all three Test matches and the Lions’ six tour games, which will be broadcast in Welsh. S4C will also broadcast full live coverage of the Lions’ send-off Test against Argentina in Dublin o..

Harvard’s lawyers are using the president’s Truth Social posts in their case against his administration, and they’ve been cited in other recent casesDonald Trump’s social media posts have emerged as a factor in legal cases brought against his administration by institutions and law firms resisting his attempts to force them to submit to his presidential power.The president’s vituperative rhetorical assaults on Harvard – whose professors he has denounced as “bird brains” – on his Truth Social platform are being highlighted by the university’s lawyers, who believe they show his attempts to slash its funding and cancel its right to enroll foreign students is fuelled by person..

The BBC World Service must be properly funded if it is to remain a vital source of truth amid growing global disinformation, writes Diana Hirst. Andrew Campbell fears that cuts will harm Britain’s reputation and economy. You are right to persist in drawing attention to the need for long-term support of the BBC World Service (Editorial, 23 May). It has been an important medium for truthful reporting since the 1930s.I joined in 1967 as PA to its redoubtable editor Bob Gregson. Soon after, it became a 24-hour service, and in the years that followed it became a substantial international service. Continue reading...

A recent House of Commons report suggested that the laws of contempt are not fit for the social media age.

The New York Times covered the latest right-wing attack on trans youth in a fashion all too common for the paper: devoid of any perspectives from trans individuals.

"This is not about, in fact, helping people to work. This is, instead, about kicking people off the program."

Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.