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United States: Trump lawsuits seek to muzzle media, posing serious threat to free press – Kathy Kiely and Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

In December 2025, President Donald Trump filed a US$10 billion lawsuit against the BBC in a federal court in Florida. It was only the latest in a long series of high-dollar legal challenges Trump has brought against prominent media organizations, including ABC, CBS, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Continue reading

‘A blueprint for permanent decline’: the Government’s Green Paper on BBC Charter renewal, Part 2 – Tom Chivers

In 2020 Lisa Nandy argued for mutualisation of the BBC, saying that it had a duty to “be accountable to those who fund it”: “Instead of tokenistic consultation with the people who pay for it, and backroom negotiations with the government, the BBC should move to a model of being owned and directed by licence fee holders – who can help decide the trade-offs that the BBC must make to secure its future.Continue reading

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