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NEW: It’s not just that Gen Z love the socials - it’s that if your content isn’t on there, they may never know it actually exists. Channel 4 execs seeing shows take off on socials, then getting viewers. The battle to be noticed: theguardian.com/media/2025/may…

Did it ever recover from that rain-soaked jacket? (QTWTAIN)

NEW: The Telegraph has finally been sold - and the UAE will take a minority stake. RedBird Capital Partners announces agreement to acquire Telegraph Media Group for £500m. UK-based minority investors also still being talked to, so final list of investors unknown.

SCOOP: Gary Lineker could be working closely with a new broadcaster as soon as next month. His next move may not be about switching to traditional rival, more about broadcasting in his own right. A modern story: Footballer --> presenter --> streamer... theguardian.com/football/2025/…

I understand The Rest Is Football cd show clips & broadcast during this summer's Club World Cup, as part of a deal with Dazn, the tournament's rights holder. This is Lineker/Goalhanger, his podcast co, dipping their toe into sports rights. Suggests his focus is growing TRIF.

Dovid Efune, long-time suitor of the Telegraph, is not giving up without a fight. Pushing for "distinctly British" ownership of the group. Sale agreed with RedBird Capital, backed by the UAE.

Evening to everyone in Exeter.

I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope for being the most patient and generous editor. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

NEW: NUJ chapel holds indicative vote in favour of strike action at PA Media. Also back a motion of no confidence in the leadership of the editor-in-chief Jack Lefley. Comes after restructuring plan putting 74 editorial staff at redundancy risk, with the loss of up to 25 jobs.

A bit of a moment today - government completes exit from NatWest. £££ recovered through share sales, dividends & fees amounts to £10.5bn loss. But the bank was rescued, contagion contained. The political fallout from that financial crisis surely still v much with us.

NEW: There’s a newspaper still going that reported the Declaration of Independence, French Revolution & the Act of Union as contemporary events. The oldest surviving copy reports the arrest of Dick Turpin’s dad. The amazing Belfast New Letter archive: theguardian.com/media/2025/jun…

We live in a world with newspapers struggling for a variety of reasons - so here’s a 300 year old story of survival. Just forgive the fact that after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, the paper suggested there wasn’t much news from Paris:

NEW: Lisa Nandy removes herself from final decision on leader of football regulator. He donated to her leadership campaign - as well as Starmers. Shows the sensitivities now around donors/cronyism. Story: theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

NEW: Yes, AI may bring change on a par with the Industrial Revolution. But before that, one of its leading figures has a more pressing task for it - rescue us all from the tyranny of our email inboxes. An AI project I can get behind, from Demis Hassabis theguardian.com/technology/202…

Guardian scoop confirmed - post-BBC Gary Lineker dips his toe in football rights ownership… Goalhanger’s The Rest Is Football does a deal with broadcaster DAZN for match footage of summer’s Club World Cup. Recreating a (very) mini Match of the Day… but an interesting dev…

NEW: Want to feel old? “Noughties nostalgia” is big on TikTok… Sex and the City Gilmore Girls Vampire Diaries Skins Imogen Heap Toys R Us theguardian.com/technology/202…

NEW: BBC figures push back at Trump administration after it falsely claims it removed a story about a fatal incident in Gaza. Jeremy Bowen says the White House is the institution that has issues with the truth. Is the BBC Trump’s next media target? theguardian.com/media/2025/jun…

Big changes at The Sun's political team with Harry Cole off to the US & YouTube show Jack Elsom becomes pol ed - congrats Jack! Bigger gigs for Ryan Sabey and Kate Ferguson.

NEW: Earlier this month, BBC's Feras Kilani & colleagues detained at gunpoint by Israel Defense Forces in Syria. They say they were tied up, blindfolded, strip searched, interrogated, threatened. BBC "strongly objects to the treatment of our staff and freelancers in this way".

Great point from Ben Smith about how - when the news goes crazy - your most senior sources are just scratching their heads, like the rest of us. I remember it from the Brexit wars - cabinet ministers were happy to chat because no one had a clue what would happen.