PM presenter Eddie Mair leaving BBC after 30 years to join LBC talk radio
Eddie Mair, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s PM, is to leave the corporation after more than 30 years to join commercial talk radio station LBC. Mair joins LBC in September. His departure from the BBC...
View ArticleITV seen as best quality local news source ahead of BBC and regional...
ITV regional bulletins are seen as the best quality provider of local news, ahead of the BBC, according to survey data released by Ofcom. Some 86 per cent of people who follow local news said they were...
View ArticleGuido Fawkes reporter Ross Kempsell to join Talkradio as station's first...
Guido Fawkes chief reporter Ross Kempsell has joined Talkradio as the commercial radio station’s first political editor. Kempsell will be on-air later this month. Talkradio is owned by Wireless Group,...
View ArticleBBC cuts gender pay gap by almost a fifth in past year after ‘concerted...
The BBC has cut its median gender pay gap from 9.3 per cent to 7.6 per cent in the past year. The corporation’s mean pay gap has also fallen, from 10.7 per cent in 2017 to 8.4 per cent. The drop has...
View ArticleITN boss John Hardie who helped return TV company to profitability is...
ITN chief executive John Hardie is to step down at the end of the year after nine years in charge of the news production company. Hardie, whose remit covers ITV News, Channel 4 News and Channel 5 News,...
View ArticleBBC creating three new editorial roles as boss Fran Unsworth says maintaining...
The BBC is creating three new roles – an editorial director, digital director and head of news output – as it declares maintaining trust through impartiality to be a clear priority in safeguarding the...
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Andrew Neil is MPs' favourite political journalist as Guido Fawkes, Evening...
Guido Fawkes is the most popular political blog among UK MPs, while the Evening Standard and the Times are the most read newspaper brands by those in power, according to a new Comres poll. The survey...
View ArticleBBC poaches ITV talent and promotes its own in naming anchors for flagship...
The BBC has announced the two presenters for its nine o’clock news bulletin set to air on the new BBC Scotland channel from February next year. Rebecca Curran and Martin Geissler will present the...
View ArticleTV reporter arrested while using drone camera to film rescue of boys trapped...
A TV reporter has been arrested for using a drone to film the rescue of the young boys trapped in a cave in Thailand that has been making international headlines. The 12 boys are part of youth football...
View ArticleFox outbids rival Comcast with new £24.5bn offer for Sky
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has made a “substantial” increase to its bid for Sky, including Sky News, in an attempt to see off rival Comcast and win full ownership of the UK broadcast company....
View ArticleNews anchor Huw Edwards now BBC's highest-paid journalist after big beast pay...
BBC News at Ten anchor Huw Edwards is now the highest paid journalist at the BBC after a number of its top-earning men, including Edwards, agreed to salary cuts amid a row over equal pay at the...
View ArticleToday editor Sarah Sands says John Humphrys best for 'holding power to...
The editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has said John Humphrys is “the person you want when you want to hold power to account”, describing her female presenters as “better on fashion”. Sarah Sands,...
View ArticleSky bidding war: Comcast responds to increased bid from Fox with higher offer...
A bidding war for Sky, including Sky News, is underway as US giant Comcast has raised its offer for the UK broadcaster in response to 21st Century Fox’s increased bid. Comcast, which owns NBC and...
View ArticleBBC turns Sunday Politics into regional half-hour show and replaces Daily...
The BBC will stop broadcasting Sunday Politics in its current format after this month and will replace Daily Politics with a new programme called Politics Live in cuts to its political programming...
View ArticleBBC tells all staff to send 'expression of interest' if they want Radio 4 PM...
The BBC’s head of news has sent a message to all staff at the corporation asking them to “email an expression of interest” if they want to apply for the job of chief presenter of Radio 4’s PM. The...
View ArticleNational newspapers investing in BAME interns who can 'reach communities that...
National newspapers have begun investing to make their newsrooms more diverse after realising the need to represent the communities they want to reach, a social enterprise boss has said. Josie Dobrin,...
View ArticleOfcom chief calls for regulation of social media sites in fight against...
Ofcom chief executive Sharon White has called for independent regulation of tech giants that publish news, such as Facebook and Google, in the battle against ‘fake news’. In a comment piece for the...
View ArticleAlex Salmond Show on RT 'misled' viewers with 'invented' tweets from people...
Ofcom has ruled that RT and Alex Salmond breached broadcasting regulations after it was revealed that four out of six tweets read out on the pilot of the current affairs show came from people with a...
View ArticlePiers Morgan defends against criticism his second interview with Trump was...
Piers Morgan has robustly defended himself against criticism over his approach to interviewing US President Donald Trump, with the pair’s second sit-down encounter labelled a “cosy chat”. The...
View ArticleFormer BBC China editor Carrie Gracie says battle for equal pay was 'worse...
Former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie has described her fight for equal pay as “worse than breast cancer” as she said she believes she will never be given a major presenting job at the corporation...
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