The Israeli PM has turned to censorship for his survival, as the public increasingly feels despair over his military campaign

On 1 April, the Israeli Knesset approved the so-called Al Jazeera law , granting the communications minister the power to close foreign media outlets deemed security risks, with Al Jazeera in particular in its crosshairs.

“We have brought an efficient and rapid tool to act against those who use freedom of the press to harm Israel’s security, IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers, and to incite terrorism during wartime,” said the communications minister, Shlomo Karhi. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he intended “to act immediately in accordance with the new law”.

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Met police say investigation into stabbing of Iranian journalist near home in Wimbledon is being led by counter-terrorism officers

Iran’s most senior diplomat in Britain has denied claims that the Iranian government was behind a knife attack on a TV presenter in London amid growing fears over threats to dissidents.

The country’s charge d’affaires, Mehdi Hosseini Matin, said Iran “denies any link” to the stabbing of Pouria Zeraati, 36, a presenter at Iran International, outside his home in Wimbledon on Friday. He is in a stable condition and was looking forward to being discharged from hospital soon.

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Woman says she feels badly let down by broadcaster, which admitted it had failed to properly investigate 2009 claim against actor

A woman who made allegations about Russell Brand to Channel 4 in 2009 has accused the broadcaster of a “whitewash” that had left her “disempowered and unsupported”.

The broadcaster said last week it had failed to properly investigate a serious allegation made against the actor and comedian 15 years ago.

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Public broadcaster TVP is first major battlefield in new government’s attempt to create a more tolerant country after eight years’ rule by PiS

On his first day as the new head of TVP, the sprawling Polish public television broadcaster, Tomasz Sygut spent four hours locked in his office while a crowd outside banged on the door trying to gain access. Eventually, said Sygut, he had to call the police to help him escape.

The same day, two of the main TVP channels were abruptly taken off the air by the new managers, the feed replaced with holding music and the TVP logo. “The priority was to turn off the factory of hate,” Sygut said in an interview in his 10th-floor office atop TVP headquarters, with a panoramic view over Warsaw.

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Alex Mahon says former staff member made ‘serious’ allegation in 2009 that was not ‘investigated as it should have been’

The head of Channel 4 has apologised to a former staff member for not properly investigating a “serious” allegation made against Russell Brand in 2009.

However, the broadcaster found “no evidence” that staff at Channel 4 knew about the accusations made by four women in a Dispatches documentary before it was aired in September.

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Head of drama’s exit will leave broadcaster with no senior decision makers living in city of ‘national HQ’

The most senior commissioner in Channel 4’s Leeds office is to lose her job, the Guardian can reveal, leaving the broadcaster with no top decision makers living in the city of its “national headquarters”.

Caroline Hollick’s role as head of drama will be made redundant and brought under the remit of Ollie Madden, the director of Film4, as part of cost-cutting measures and will be run from Channel 4’s London office.

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Jungle-based competition in which celebrities try to evade Bear Grylls part of a wide-ranging new Netflix slate

Holly Willoughby has made her first major move since leaving This Morning, signing up to host a new Netflix show, Bear Hunt with Bear Grylls.

In October she announced she was quitting the ITV show after 14 years “for me and my family” after it emerged she was the target of an alleged kidnap and murder plot.

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The law hasn’t changed. Yet the regulator is allowing these channels to transmit partisan political content

• Stewart Purvis is a former Ofcom content partner and Chris Banatvala was Ofcom’s founding director of standards

Ofcom has signalled the start of the 2024 election season by issuing its advice to broadcasters on coverage of the local elections in May. It does this before every election to help its licensees maintain their legal obligation of impartiality. But in our editorial and regulatory experience, stretching back 40 years, there has never been so much cause for confusion and concern about what lies ahead in broadcast coverage of both local and general election campaigns.

Is Ofcom going to allow senior party officials to present election programmes as long as they are not actual candidates? Could a channel host party loyalists from only one side, delivering nightly unchallenged polemics on each day’s campaign news? Will channels with poor compliance records and fewer viewers than the public service broadcasters be given greater flexibility in achieving “due impartiality” on the basis of what Ofcom calls “ audience expectations ”?

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Programme that follows the lives of 14 children at seven-year intervals tops Broadcasting Press Guild’s 50th anniversary chart

The groundbreaking Up documentary series has been voted the programme that changed television the most over the past 50 years in a poll of the country’s leading TV writers.

The series, which follows a group of children from different social backgrounds and documents their progress every seven years, topped a list of the the most influential shows from the last five decades compiled by the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG).

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