BBC defends claim it has barely covered Brexit 'scandals' in act of...
The BBC has issued a written defence of its Brexit coverage after columnist Nick Cohen accused the corporation of “journalistic cowardice” in its reporting of the EU Referendum and its aftermath. Cohen...
View ArticleGender pay gap figures 2018: Guardian, BBC and FT first media organisations...
UK media organisations have begun to reveal their gender pay gaps for 2018, one year on since the first legal requirement to publish the statistics. Guardian and Observer publisher Guardian News and...
View ArticleFacebook 'grateful' to Channel 4 Dispatches team for undercover reporting of...
Facebook has said it is “grateful” to Channel 4 Dispatches for going undercover and exposing, for the first time, some of the ways moderators are told to permit far-right pages or hate speech on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sir Cliff Richard says BBC focused on 'preserving exclusive story' at expense...
Sir Cliff Richard has said serious questions should be asked about the BBC’s “focus on preserving their exclusive story” at the expense of his rights after he won his privacy battle against the...
View ArticleBBC News director says Sir Cliff ruling marks 'dramatic shift against press...
BBC News director Fran Unsworth has said a High Court ruling against the BBC over its reporting of a police raid on singer Sir Cliff Richard’s home marks a “dramatic shift against press freedom”. The...
View ArticleMP calls for 'Cliff's Law' to stop media naming suspects before they are...
A Conservative MP has called for a new law to stop police suspects being named by the media until they are charged, suggesting it could be called “Cliff’s Law” after Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy win...
View ArticleMedia will have to 'walk on eggshells' as result of Sir Cliff privacy ruling...
Media organisations will “have to walk on eggshells” when reporting police investigations following the ruling in Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy case against the BBC, a specialist lawyer has said. Another...
View ArticleSir Cliff Richard tells ITV News: 'If heads roll at the BBC, maybe it's...
Sir Cliff Richard has said if “heads roll” at the BBC over coverage of a police raid on his home, for which he today won substantial damages in a High Court privacy victory, “maybe it’s because it’s...
View ArticleNewspapers back BBC over Sir Cliff privacy ruling creating 'new right to...
News organisations from the Sun to the Guardian have shown an “unusual display of unity” in reaction to Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy win against the BBC, which has been called a “dangerous erosion for...
View ArticleComcast abandons pursuit of 21st Century Fox to focus on rival Sky bid
US cable giant Comcast has dropped plans to bid for Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox assets, with plans to focus solely on a £26bn takeover of UK broadcaster Sky. In a statement released today,...
View ArticleITN pays ethnic minority staff fifth less than white employees, according to...
ITN has published its pay gap for ethnic minority staff, showing they are paid a fifth less than white employees, as it pledges to halve the gap by 2022. The production company, which produces Channel...
View ArticleBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says she has considered quitting “grim”...
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says she no longer looks at people’s comments on Twitter and considered coming off social media altogether because the atmosphere on it is “so grim”. Talking to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Only one in 20 think press should be able to name suspects before arrest as...
Just one in 20 people (5 per cent) believe the media should be able to name someone who is under investigation by police but has not yet been arrested or charged, as in the case of Sir Cliff Richard, a...
View ArticleChannel 4 News anchor says media's diminishing access to senior politicians...
Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy has said the media’s decreasing access to senior politicians has become “worse than farcical” and “very bad for democracy”. In his Ways to Change the World...
View ArticleBBC World Service appoints first specialist gender and identity reporter
The BBC has appointed its first gender and identity reporter as part of its recent expansion of the World Service. Megha Mohan, who is currently a senior journalist with BBC Stories, will join a...
View ArticleBBC agrees to pay Sir Cliff Richard legal bills but denied permission to...
The BBC has been denied permission to appeal against the High Court privacy ruling made in favour of Sir Cliff Richard last week. Sir Cliff sued the BBC over its coverage of a South Yorkshire Police...
View ArticleITN appoints ITV finance director Christy Swords as new board chairman with...
ITN, the company behind ITV News, Channel 4 News and Channel 5 News, has appointed Christy Swords as its new chairman of the board. Swords, ITV’s director for finance and operations, joined the board...
View ArticleBBC announces former Today assistant editor John Neal new editor for The...
The BBC has announced that John Neal will be the new permanent editor of The Andrew Marr Show. Neal had been acting editor of the Sunday morning programme for the past three months following the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BBC News appoints economics editor Kamal Ahmed as new editorial director amid...
BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed has joined the BBC News management team as editorial director. Daily news programmes controller Gavin Allen has also stepped up as head of news output. The two new...
View ArticleOfcom pulls plug on local TV in 13 locations across UK with decision to stop...
Ofcom has decided to stop advertising for local TV licences in 13 locations across the UK after failing to attract service providers, effectively pulling the plug on local TV in those areas. The...
View Article