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Former BBC Radio 5 Live presenter to front Explorer, which will be broadcast in 170 countries including the UK from autumn
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Freelance journalist asked for ‘someone to fund my time’ saying they were ‘only paid a very small sum by Forbes which doesn’t stretch far’
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Final edition features article by co-founder and first editor Andreas Whittam Smith and a letter from its last editor, Amol Rajan
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Foreign Office says United Nations panel’s conclusions are inaccurate and WikiLeaks founder is voluntarily avoiding arrest in embassy
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Terms prevent journalists making any statements about the papers’ parent company or staff – apparently with no time limit
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Our review of new adverts features Samuel L Jackson, Charles Barkley and Spike Lee singing cheesy pop, plus a spoof of Cadbury’s ‘Gorilla’
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The Hobart-raised comedian Luke McGregor asks ‘the questions we’re too embarrassed to ask’ in his six-part documentary for the ABC
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Staff at the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age in Melbourne and the Australian Financial Review have walked out in protest and will stay on strike until Monday after owners Fairfax Media announced it will lose a further 120 journalists
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Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid jokingly switch seats after the BBC came under fire for placing Louise Minchin in the ‘junior’ spot on the right of the sofa.
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Linton Besser can be seen asking questions at a media conference in Kuala Lumpur about Najib Razak
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dedicates a lengthy part of her show on Friday to exploring the escalation in the aggressive rhetoric of Donald Trump
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This week’s compilation of adverts from around the world opens and closes with a dose of sweetness from Android and McDonald’s
Gawker employees bargain first union contract at a digital media company