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Hillary Clinton is adamant she’s not running for president again. But that’s not stopping her from worrying about her fellow Democrats and their choice of hills to die on. In an extensive interview with the Financial Times, the former presidential candidate said Democrats should be careful on their platforms. “We are…

Dan McCrum and Paul Murphy, the Financial Times journalists who investigated and revealed the explosive Wirecard scandal, have signed with WME in all areas. The agency will represent them across film, television, books and podcasts. Murphy oversaw the five-year investigation into the German fintech company, with…

UPDATE:  Elton John is “mistaken” about LGBT rights in Russia, claims Vladimir Putin. The Russian President was responding to an Instagram post from John, who said that he was deeply upset by prior remarks from Putin that liberal values were “obsolete” and that Putin’s claim of non-interference with LGBT rights seems…

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and ex-exec chairman of Breitbart News, slammed CNN’s Jeff Zucker today, speaking at the same conference where Zucker had earlier decried Fox News as “state propaganda.” Bannon, interviewed on stage during the Financial Times’ FT Future of News conference in New…

The proposed mega merger between German TV giant ProsiebenSat and leading print group Axel Springer is off after talks between the two companies broke down. It is believed that concerns over anti-competition regulations were a factor. The deal, which would have been worth up to $16 billion, would have seen a daunting…

UPDATE with official confirmation: Publisher Pearson has confirmed it has sold the Financial Times to Japanese media company Nikkei for $1.3 billion. The education publisher earlier today had said it was in advanced discussions with a then-unknown media company to sell the evergreen (or it should be everpink) business…