US media
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What Donald Trump will have to accept: without journalism, there is no AmericaHow American journalists should organize and fight in such a climate is a long and uncertain discussion. But they will fight a losing battle without the trust and support of the American public
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Madam President: how Newsweek reported a Clinton victoryNewsweek’s editor did what any sensible magazine chief would have done by preparing an issue based on a very different US presidential result... -
Rolling Stone 'Jackie' trial: university administrator awarded $3m for defamationFormer associate dean of students Nicole Eramo wins case over discredited gang rape story that cast her as a villain -
Rolling Stone defamed university administrator in 'Jackie' story, jury findsSabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote the discredited 2014 article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia, was also found guilty of libel with actual malice
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Rolling Stone defamation trial nears end as lawyers say facts of UVA case ignoredAttorneys for former UVA dean say journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely had an agenda, while magazine argues everyone who spoke to ‘Jackie’ believed her
global view
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Britain’s national newspapers register their concern at the protectionist and isolationist stance outlined by America’s new president at his inauguralFear and loathing: how the UK press reacted to Donald Trump's speech
opinion
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The evidence from last week’s hostile press conference is clear: no traditional ‘facts’ can damage a world leader who embodies conspiracy theoryIn a post-factual presidency, Trump can play both victor and victim
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Good on you Meryl Streep in your new role as press freedom champion‘We need a principled press to hold power to account,’ she says, while debunking Donald Trump for his anti-newspaper stance and mockery of a disabled reporter
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audio and video
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The Sun's nativity play features unlikely cast of characters – videoA bizarre film of a nativity play commissioned by the Sun newspaper in 2007 has been leaked to the Guardian
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Ed Miliband on Sky bid: ‘the Murdochs think they can get away with anything’ – videoThe former Labour leader gives an impassioned speech to MPs, urging the government to block Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the whole of Sky
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AA Gill, journalist and restaurant critic, dies aged 62 – video obituaryAA Gill, “a giant among journalists”, has died three weeks after revealing cancer diagnosis
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First Contact on SBS: meet the participants – videoFirst Contact follows Natalie Imbruglia, Tom Ballard, Ian Dickson, Nicki Wendt, Renae Ayris and David Oldfield as they come face to face with Indigenous Australia
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The banned Heinz Beanz's Can Song advert – videoA Heinz TV advert teaching viewers how to use cans of its baked beans to drum out a song has been banned for being dangerous for children to copy
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Barack Obama: fake news is a threat to democracy – videoUS president Barack Obama denounces the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected
Nat Hentoff, columnist, critic and giant of jazz writing, dies aged 91