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Mark Sweney

Mark Sweney is media business correspondent at the Guardian

May 2025

  • The Channel 4 logo, a large number 4 sculpture in green, outside the channel's London headquarters

    ITV and Channel 4 face summer of uncertainty amidst leadership issues and potential mergers

    Channel 4’s chief executive, Alex Mahon, is standing down and ITV head Carolyn McCall has been struggling for investors
  • NatWest in Bishopsgate, London

    NatWest profits soar by 36% as full privatisation looms

    Government stake reduced to less than 2% while bank’s profit of £1.8bn beats analyst forecasts by £200m
  • The Marks and Spencer store on Oxford Street, London

    M&S boss urges shoppers to visit stores in person as it battles cyber-attack

    Retailer ‘working day and night’ to tackle incident that has hit its online operations

30 April 2025

  • Stock image of a smartphone with the Meta logo on it.

    Meta slowest to remove scam content, says City watchdog

    FCA says Instagram and Facebook owner takes up to six weeks to act on warnings about finfluencer posts

28 April 2025

  • Shanghai Container Terminal on 18 April.

    Business live
    US tariff war hurting trade with China; M&S cyber-attack crisis continues; FTSE 100 rises for 11th day running – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
  • Peaky Blinders VI,4,Ep 4<br>372225,Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on Tuesday 15/03/2022 - Picture shows: Arthur Shelby (PAUL ANDERSON), Tommy Shelby (CILLIAN MURPHY) ,Arthur Shelby (PAUL ANDERSON), Tommy Shelby (CILLIAN MURPHY),12,2022-03-15 00:00:01

    Producer of Peaky Blinders and Big Brother ‘drafts bid’ for ITV

    French entertainment business Banijay Group looks at possible takeover of broadcaster or just its profitable studio arm

    • Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon to step down after nearly eight years

    • RedBird Capital confident of tabling a deal to take control of Telegraph

    • UK growth forecast to slow sharply as Trump tariffs push confidence to record low

27 April 2025

  • A memorial to the Grenfell Tower fire victims.

    Grenfell fire fridge maker accused of safety test failings in council lawsuit

  • British Steel's Scunthorpe steelworks

    Coal delivery arrives to keep Scunthorpe steel plant working for months

25 April 2025

  • Post Office sign

    Post Office paid £600m to continue using bug-ridden Horizon IT system

  • Bromley town centre on a sunny day

    Retail sales rise unexpectedly in Great Britain as sunshine lures shoppers

22 April 2025

  • Mobile phone held by a person writing a text

    Ofcom closes technical loophole used by criminals to intercept mobile calls and texts

    Regulator acts on leasing of ‘global title’ numbers after industry efforts to tackle problem were ineffective
  • Drivers are being sent demands for up to £170 by private parking companies.

    Parking firms ‘issuing thousands of fines in England due to faulty ticket machines’

    Campaigners say most common problem are ‘sticky keys’ that fails to record registration numbers correctly
  • A tourist guide holds a union flag umbrella as his group follows him in Parliament Square in London

    Travel body accuses government of ‘sabotaging’ UK tourism industry

    WTTC says 5.3% decline in tourist spend suggests policies such as increased air passenger duty have had impact

18 April 2025

  • Jason Faze, Darryl Dwayne Granberry, George Clarke, Patrice Evra, Dylan Page, Millie Jo, Percy Kiangebeni, Mya Mills, Cinna Brit, Farah Shams, Whitney Abedayo, Mandi Valiki, in Inside: UK Season 2.

    From Sidemen to MrBeast: how YouTube and its creator economy took over TV

    Stars and their high-quality content enable streamers and others to pull in younger audiences

8 April 2025

  • A trader on Wall Street on Tuesday

    Business live
    Wall Street dives as hopes wane for tariff delays – as it happened

    This blog is closed

7 April 2025

  • a man in a suit points at another man

    Which Trump-supporting billionaires have lost the most in tariff markets turmoil?

  • London skyline from Muswell Hill

    UK house prices slide after rush to beat stamp duty changes

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