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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

‘Proud to be a disruptor’: GB News faces growing pains as it tries to clean up image

Nigel Farage presents his first show on GB News
Nigel Farage fronts GB News’s most popular show. Photograph: SOPA/LightRocket/Getty

GB News has entered the new year with a new plan: cut costs, hire more major talent, get off an advertising blacklist – and force all producers and presenters to take training workshops brushing up on “the law and Ofcom”.

The controversy-prone, right-leaning TV channel, which has spent a turbulent first 18 months weathering on and off-air turmoil and trying to shake a reputation as the “British Fox News”, is apparently ready to grow up.

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