US and UK journalism are different. But they’re going to get a lot more similar
Emily Bell
Although the Washington Post uproar has highlighted cultural differences, we’re probably heading to the same place
Jeff Bezos stresses commitment to ‘quality, ethics and standards’ in Washington Post memo
Billionaire owner’s address comes amid turmoil over chief executive Will Lewis’ involvement in UK phone scandal
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Jeff Bezos once saved the Washington Post. Now he needs to do it again
Margaret Sullivan
The paper’s reinvention, with the appointment of Will Lewis as publisher, is a mess – but there’s still time to turn things around
May 2024
The age of extinction
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy?
Jeff Bezos’s $10bn climate and biodiversity fund has garnered glittering prizes, but concerns have been voiced over the influence it can buy – and its interest in carbon offsets
First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight
Ex-air force captain Ed Dwight, passed over by Nasa in 1961, now oldest person to reach edge of space with Jeff Bezo’s space firm
Amazon CEO broke US law with anti-union comments, judge rules
Andy Jassy said employees in a union would ‘find it harder to get things done quickly and would be better off’ without one
April 2024
It’s Mark Zuckerberg as we’ve never seen him! But what’s really behind the new look?
Arwa Mahdawi
With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook’s founder famously ‘never tried to be cool’. Is his makeover just a distraction from what’s going on at Meta, asks Arwa Mahdawi
Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field
Sierra Solter
Our ozone is pennies thick – and soonwe’ll put at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ashinto the ionosphere every year
Six tips for budding centibillionaires (No 1: come from a very wealthy family)
Caroline Knowles
The world’s richest people started near the top. Where does that leave the rest of us, asks Caroline Knowles, author of Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London
February 2024
Jeff Bezos could save $600m in taxes after moving to Florida
Windfall stems from $2bn stock sale as Bezos and Lauren Sanchez pick state that doesn’t levy taxes on income or capital gains
December 2023
Boots Riley on strikes, sedition and sex: ‘Being a communist is the closest to being a superhero there is’
The musician, activist and writer’s lo-fi superhero drama I’m A Virgo is so radical it’s the epitome of anti-Marvel. He talks mental health, battling Amazon from within and keeping it ‘janky’
November 2023
‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial
