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Matt Wells

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News, trains and choral music. Vice President of News for EMEA, CNN

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CNN chief media analyst @brianstelter.bsky.social says the news network’s new future owner - Paramount - “will likely bring @cnn.com and @cbsnews.com together.” Could get complicated if you consider that CBS News is also BBC’s partner in the USA #CNN #CBS #media #journalism

27.02.2026 09:27 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1

“Special district election” - the struggle is real for those of us in American newsrooms where the words “by-election” and “constituency” are met with blank looks

27.02.2026 10:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

is she by any chance the Green party's new MP, the plumber who made her working-class roots central to the by-election campaign? Who can tell?

27.02.2026 10:15 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Will you tell them or shall I

27.11.2024 18:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Hello from the flight deck - the good news is that we’ve managed to make good time on the way back to the UK and we will be landing in 15 minutes. The bad news is that it won’t be at London City Airport, which closes in five.”

20.01.2024 15:04 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Shall we start with Cliff Richard - a false equivalence? Or Why that Bloomberg case has nothing to do with it

13.07.2023 06:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can we talk about how bad the analysis of British media law has been over the past week?

13.07.2023 06:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who are these people who have time to update three social media platforms with multiple, differentiated posts

06.07.2023 13:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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King Charles to receive Scottish crown jewels A service of thanksgiving will be held at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh to mark his Coronation.

Apparently the Palace doesn’t want us to call this the Scottish Coronation. So let’s definitely not do that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66098124

05.07.2023 07:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who says the planning system is broken?

05.07.2023 06:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who amongst us hasn’t inadvertently funnelled funds from our charity to pay for a spa and pool in our garden, only to omit, in a moment of carelessness, to apply for planning permission?

05.07.2023 06:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly I don't have time to set up in multiple places Jon, please can you post the train highlights here

04.07.2023 09:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right. Where are the train nerds, bluesky gays and annoying political correspondents?

04.07.2023 08:29 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Hang on I haven’t uploaded my profile pic yet

04.07.2023 08:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well given that I've just joined, it must be doomed

04.07.2023 07:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0