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Mark Sweney

Mark Sweney is media business correspondent at the Guardian. He joined in March 2006. Previously he worked at Haymarket Publishing for six years, primarily as a news reporter, on Revolution, Campaign and Marketing weekly magazines. He is a New Zealander

August 2024

  • Gemma Collins.

    Watchdog bans Gemma Collins advert promoting headset to treat depression

  • a gymnast hurtles into the air and appears in the picture upside down as judges look on from their benches in the background

    Paris Olympics deal hands Discovery+ gold in UK TV streaming race

31 July 2024

  • Close-up of the presenter wearing sunglasses

    How the Huw Edwards scandal might affect the BBC’s reputation

    As it faces accusations of being caught out, corporation has decisions to take on pay and use of archive footage
  • Taylor Swift fans queue outside Murrayfield ahead of her concert

    Taylor Swift tour and job cuts help lift profits of Mirror publisher Reach

    Digital ad revenues return to growth, driven in part by articles about pop superstar, Euro 2024 and general election
  • Members of the Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance holding a banner as they protest outside the inquiry venue as former Paula Vennells gives evidence in May.

    Toxic culture, poor leadership: what Horizon inquiry has told us so far

    As latest phase of inquiry concludes – with final stage set to begin in September – we itemise the key takeaways

30 July 2024

  • The Reichstag in Berlin, Germany.

    Business live
    Germany on brink of recession; eurozone beats forecasts with 0.3% growth; US job openings fall – as it happened

  • Guinness 0.0

    Diageo hit by first post-Covid sales fall but Guinness soars in Great Britain

29 July 2024

  • A McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan, New York City.

    Business live
    McDonald’s sales fall for first time since 2020, as higher prices deter consumers – as it happened

  • Post Office logo

    Post Office was ‘very badly run and messy’, says former chair

28 July 2024

  • Portsmouth border control post

    UK port operators to seek compensation if post-Brexit trade barriers are lowered

  • The Vodafone CEO, Margherita Della Valle

    Vodafone says Labour must let it merge with Three UK to deliver nationwide 5G

  • Fresh strawberries

    Strawberry yields: wet then warm weather leads to bumper UK harvest

  • Mike Lynch arrives at federal court in San Francisco, California, US, on 18 March 2024

    Cleared UK tech tycoon feared he would die in US jail if convicted

26 July 2024

  • He sits at the inquiry wearing suit and tie

    Business live
    Chief of staff to ex-Post Office chief Paula Vennells drafted email ‘to discourage investigating prosecutions’ - as it happened

    Public inquiry hears Martin Edwards warned of ‘setting the hares running’ among board members as prospect of appeals against unsafe prosecutions of branch owner-operators loomed

25 July 2024

  • Line-up of Euros TV presenters

    ITV’s ad revenue jumps 17% with assistance from the Euros

    Shares dip as broadcaster reveals its majority stake in company behind Sherlock and Douglas Is Cancelled
  • Vince Cable giving evidence to the inquiry

    Post Office managers were ‘thugs in suits’, Vince Cable tells inquiry

    Former business secretary claims he would have got to grips with Horizon IT scandal if MPs had come to speak to him
  • Vince Cable

    Business live
    Post Office management were ‘thugs in suits’, former Lib Dem leader Vince Cable tells inquiry – as it happened

    Cable agrees with characterisation of leadership at state-owned body when he was business secretary from 2010-15 in testimony to hearings on Horizon IT scandal

24 July 2024

  • Margot James giving evidence to the inquiry

    Government should have intervened at time of Post Office lawsuit, ex-minister says

    Margot James says she should have ‘delved more closely’ as Post Office developed legal defence of Horizon system
  • Thames Water vans are parked on a road as repair and maintenance work takes place, in London.

    Business live
    Thames Water credit rating downgraded to ‘junk’ status by Moody’s – as it happened

    Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as rating agency says water company will struggle to find new investment
  • An easyJet Airbus A320-214 Aircraft prepares to take off from the Nantes Atlantique Airport in Bouguenais

    EasyJet forecasts record-breaking summer as profits jump

    Strong results follow drop in European airline stocks this week after Ryanair reported profit plunge
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