Politicians 'must confront' any abuse of journalists says BBC chairman
Politicians should do more to defend journalists who are subject to abuse “on an almost daily basis”, the chairman of the BBC has said. Sir David Clementi said the abuse was becoming “increasingly...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch's bid to takeover Sky will face full investigation from...
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has today confirmed that she will refer 21st Century Fox’s £11.7bn Sky takeover bid to the competition watchdog. Rupert Murdoch is attempting to buy out the 61 per cent...
View ArticleJames Murdoch: Approving Sky/Fox takeover will show UK is 'open for business'...
James Murdoch has said that approval of 21st Century Fox’s multi-billion pound bid to takeover Sky will be “an affirmation” of the claim that the UK is “open for business” post Brexit. Murdoch, who is...
View ArticleMail Online columnist Katie Hopkins set to launch weekly TV show
Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins is set to launch a weekly TV show. The video broadcast will begin at around five minutes moving to a longer format after six weeks. It will begin at fortnightly...
View ArticleBBC's Laura Kuenssberg 'assigned bodyguards' for Labour Party conference
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been assigned bodyguards while covering the Labour Party conference following online threats, the Sun on Sunday has reported. Kuenssberg was pictured in...
View ArticleLabour's Abbott and Harman condemn online abuse of BBC's Laura Kuenssberg...
Two of Labour’s most high-profile politicians have condemned abuse directed at BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg after reports she had been assigned bodyguards to cover the party’s conference....
View ArticleBBC brings typical salary for World Service and Monitoring journalists in...
Journalists working for the BBC World Service and BBC Monitoring will now receive the same median pay as their colleagues in BBC Network News, the corporation has announced. The decision to align the...
View ArticleJudge gives BBC permission to interview father of boy in council care
A High Court judge has given journalists at a BBC regional television programme permission to conduct an exclusive interview with the father of a boy who has significant behavioural difficulties and is...
View ArticleNick Robinson says BBC should engage 'dissident voices' as he warns of online...
The BBC’s Nick Robinson has warned that ongoing attacks on the media are part of a “guerrilla war being fought on social media” and said the corporation should engage with those who don’t trust the...
View ArticleBritish film-maker Mehmet Aksov believed to have been killed by IS in Raqqa
A British film-maker is understood to have been killed in Syria by Islamic State militants. Mehmet Aksoy, 32, who grew up in England, is believed to have joined a Kurdish military force, The People’s...
View ArticleNick Robinson's Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture: We need to 're-make the case...
BBC Today programme presenter Nick Robinson delivered the inaugural Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture last night. An edited version of his speech appears below (not checked against delivery). I am...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn snubbed interviews with regional BBC news teams at Labour Party...
Jeremy Corbyn snubbed interviews with national and regional BBC news programmes during the Labour Party conference, Press Gazette has learned. The Labour leader did not carry out pre-arranged...
View ArticleBBC pay report finds 9 per cent gender gap but 'no systemic discrimination...
A report into gender pay imbalance at the BBC has concluded there is “no systemic discrimination against women” in its pay arrangements, although women earn 9.3 per cent less on average. The report has...
View ArticleGood Morning Britain's Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard rendered in Lego for...
ITV Good Morning Britain news presenters Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard have been rendered in Lego for a new Hollywood movie. The pair voice the parts of two news presenters on The Lego Ninjago Movie....
View ArticleNewsnight editor defends report questioning eye-witness accounts of baby...
The BBC’s Newsnight attracted criticism last night after devoting much of its programme to a 20-minute report disputing eye-witness reports that a baby survived being thrown from the Grenfell Tower...
View ArticleOfcom chief 'absolutely confident' over advice Murdoch takeover would not...
Ofcom chief executive Sharon White has said she is “absolutely confident” about advice from her body which said Rupert Murdoch’s planned purchase of Sky would not undermine its broadcasting standards....
View ArticleBBC hits back at Sun's claim of anti-Brexit bias on Andrew Marr and Sunday...
The BBC has hit back at a claim in The Sun newspaper today that guests on its flagship political programs were overwhelmingly pro-Europe. The Brexit-backing newspaper said since the EU Referendum last...
View ArticleQuarterly revenues climb to £3.3bn at Sky as shareholders revolt over...
Sky has suffered a twin-pronged shareholder revolt over pay and the re-election of chairman James Murdoch at the company’s annual meeting. Nearly half of independent shareholders voted to oppose...
View ArticleJustin Webb: Nick (Robinson) is paid £100,000 a year more than me to do the...
Today presenter Justin Webb has said there is a “wider fairness issue” regarding BBC talent pay as he questioned why his radio co-presenter Nick Robinson earns £100,000 more than him “essentially to do...
View ArticleBBC to drop Crimewatch after 33 years but daytime spin-off to continue
The BBC is to drop Crimewatch after more than three decades. The show – which reconstructs unsolved crimes in a bid to gather information from the public – was relaunched last September with Jeremy...
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