Pearl & Dean’s Charlene Williams joins the podcast this week alongside host Jack Benjamin and special guest Sam Tidmarsh to discuss the post-pandemic box office recovery and why DEI efforts can’t stagnate at media companies.

Everyone TV, the organisation developing Freely, also revealed UKTV is joining the project.

The Media Leader looks back on 20 years of Facebook, from its acquisition of Instagram to Mark Zuckerberg’s latest appearance in the US Senate.

On Wednesday, US senators excoriated the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord for alleged harms their platforms have brought to children.

Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden, the top commercial breakfast programme, leapfrogged BBC Radio 1 in terms of weekly reach.

Audience for Ken Bruce’s show on Greatest Hits Radio ticked up in Q4 2023 to 3.8m, marginally narrowing the gap between the Bauer station and Bruce’s former employer, BBC Radio 2.

BBC Radio 2 saw weekly reach fall by over 1m as Global and Bauer stations continued to see growth, particularly the latter’s Greatest Hits Radio.

Smart speaker listening now accounts for 14.7% of total listening, as total digital listening now comprises a 72% share.

In its capital markets day statement, WPP unveiled a four-pronged strategy to deliver growth and improve margins, in part through capturing “opportunities in AI”, but said it would be hit by £125m in restructuring costs in 2024.

Analysis: The company is rehiring content moderators ahead of a likely grilling in front of US Congress, but talent may come at a shortage.