'Groundbreaking' and 'dreadful' LBC at 50 | Freelance wins family courts legal fight
And the news diary features a macabre ratings battle between Savile and Sutcliffe
Good morning and welcome to your daily media news briefing on Monday 9 October.
What do Clive Myrie, Martha Kearney, Janet Street-Porter, Gyles Brandreth and Jon Snow all have in common?
They all began their careers at the London Broadcasting Company (or LBC).
Press Gazette caught up with some of those famous names at a ceremony on Friday to mark 50 years since the UK's first licensed commercial radio station went on air.
Today we also report on freelance journalist Louise Tickle's valiant solo fight to shine a light on family courts.
After being unlawfully banned from reporting on a hearing that she attended in August she made an application to the High Court which was ultimately successful.
We also have your news diary for the week ahead with a docudrama about Jimmy Savile - The Reckoning - likely to generate headlines after it airs on BBC1 tonight.
I'm not sure if the BBC is brave or foolish to step back into the minefield of probably the worst scandal in its 101-year history.
A macabre ratings contest has been set up as ITV screens its drama about the Yorkshire Ripper, The Long Shadow, also at 9pm tonight.
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“The judge has to balance privacy against freedom of expression. He hadn’t done that.”
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A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda this week, from the team at Foresight News.
News in brief
The Times and Sunday Times are the latest UK news titles to join the “digital landgrab” for US audiences, appointing Katie Davies to the newly-created role of US editor. (Press Gazette)
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit at the High Court in London over a dossier compiled by Christopher Steele and published in full by Buzzfeed in 2017. Trump claims inaccurate use of personal data by Orbis Business Intelligence. (Financial Times)
Rishi Sunak is reportedly considering watering down the Digital Markets Unit, which would force tech giants to pay for news on their platforms, by allowing the platforms to launch lengthy appeals. (Mail Online)
The Jerusalem Post's website was taken down by "devastating" cyberattacks at the weekend following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas. (The Daily Beast)
Guardian editor-in-chief Kath Viner says she does not "recognise" the "characterisation" by Suzanne Moore and Hadley Freeman of their departures from the paper, which they claimed was due to hostility at their gender-critical beliefs. (Daily Telegraph)
What are The Telegraph and Spectator worth? Enders Analysis says £480m to £600m for The Telegraph (or eight to ten times its £60m projected EBITDA for 2023), the FT reports. The Spectator could fetch £70m to £80m, it said (up to 17 times its 2022 EBDITA of £4.8m). (Financial Times)
Journalists Will Jordan and Daniel Balint-Kurti, and their employer the Journalism Development Network, which operates the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, are being sued for defamation over a 2021 story about an oil deal. (Council of Europe Safety of Journalists Platform)
Podcast 57: What is the Murdoch Factor?
Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford discusses The Murdoch Factor with Peter Jukes (author of Fall of the House of Murdoch and co-founder of Byline Times).
What is the key quality which has enabled Murdoch’s success and what does the future of media look like without him?
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