Facebook faces £500,000 fine over Cambridge Analytica data harvesting first exposed by Observer-led cohort
The Information Commissioner’s Office is set to fine Facebook £500,000 for failing to safeguard users’ personal data. It follows an…
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Guardian and Observer launch digital sub-editor trainee scheme with NCTJ qualification
The Guardian and Observer have launched a digital sub-editor training scheme to start in September this year. The traineeship will…
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Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr wins Orwell Prize for Journalism for Cambridge Analytica data investigation
The Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr has won the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2018 for her reports on Cambridge Analytica and the…
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Byline Media and journalist Peter Jukes pursue damages and apology after hacking allegations by Brexit campaigners
Byline Media and its co-director Peter Jukes have demanded an apology and damages from two leading Brexit campaign figures over…
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Former Observer editor calls Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre ‘a very great man’ and ‘newspaperman of genius’ in Guardian letter
Former Observer editor Roger Alton has come to the defence of departing Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, calling him a…
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Journalists behind Cambridge Analytica, Presidents Club and Oxfam sex scandal scoops among finalists for 2018 Paul Foot Award
The journalists behind the Presidents Club scandal, Cambridge Analytica files and Oxfam sex scandal cover-up scoops are among those up…
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How The Sunday Times spoiled Observer’s Arron Banks Russia connection scoop
The Observer’s Carol Cadwalladr has denied claims that documents linking Brexit campaign donor Arron Banks to Russia reached her after…
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National newspaper ABCs: Sun regains top spot as City AM, Times and Observer fare best amid industry-wide circulation decline
The Sun has overtaken the Metro’s print circulation, after the free daily pushed the UK’s best-selling newspaper off the top…
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