Sky News appoints first dedicated climate change correspondent
Sky News has appointed its first dedicated climate change correspondent to “continue to set the agenda” on what it described as a “crisis”. Hannah Thomas-Peter moved from her role as US correspondent...
View ArticleSun's Tory leader debate hits record audiences online and quadruples...
A record 300,000 viewers watched a livestream of The Sun’s Conservative leadership debate with prospective PMs Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. The 90-minute event, billed as the “final showdown” between...
View ArticleBBC This Week presenter Andrew Neil marks 'end of an error' in final episode...
BBC presenter Andrew Neil took a jab at the broadcaster’s scheduling as late-night politics show This Week came to an end last night. The host took aim at the BBC’s decision to air a programme about...
View ArticleJournalism students offered £500 compensation after university course fails...
Students at an undergraduate journalism course are being offered £500 in compensation after the host university failed in its bid to receive accreditation from the Broadcast Journalism Training...
View ArticleOfcom rejects Sun journalist's complaint over clip of Noel Edmonds calling...
A Sun journalist complained to broadcast regulator Ofcom after ITV News used a video clip of Deal or No Deal presenter Noel Edmonds calling him “the lowlife of British journalism”. A Sun on Sunday...
View ArticleBBC 'undermined' Persian service with Iran access deal preventing it from...
The morale of BBC Persian journalists has been “deeply affected” by a management decision to abide by reporting restrictions in exchange for access to Iran, the National Union of Journalists has...
View ArticleRT (Russia Today) fined £200,000 by Ofcom for 'serious failures' to report...
RT (formerly Russia Today) has been fined £200,000 by Ofcom over “serious and repeated failures” to report with due impartiality on issues including the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the Syrian...
View ArticleRecovering alcoholic reports on dangers of drink for ITV News after...
A recovering alcoholic has reported on the need to teach children about the dangers of drink for ITV News after winning a competition aimed at communities who are under-represented in the media....
View ArticleTalkradio's Ross Kempsell becomes second ex-chicken to enter Downing Street
Talkradio political editor Ross Kempsell has become the second journalist to take up a role at Number 10 who once donned a chicken suit in the name of journalism. The former Guido Fawkes chief reporter...
View ArticleWelsh media banned from filming questions on Boris Johnson's first visit to...
An ITV Wales journalist turned down the chance to quiz Boris Johnson on his first visit to Wales as Prime Minister after media restrictions meant the reporter was not allowed to film the answers to his...
View Article'Much more' still to do to improve diversity in radio, Ofcom says after...
There is “still much more to do” to improve diversity in the radio industry, Ofcom said today following only its second annual report on the issue. Ethnic minorities remain particularly...
View ArticleRAJARs: Radio 5 Live boosts audience but BBC local stations lose listeners
The BBC’s Radio 5 Live audience has jumped by more than half-a-million weekly listeners, according to new industry audience figures, but its local stations have fallen by almost 300,000 weekly...
View ArticleAndrew Marr Show returns to 9am slot after year-long 10am 'experiment'
The Andrew Marr Show is returning to its old 9am slot on Sunday after a year broadcasting at 10am on BBC One. BBC live political programmes editor Rob Burley said the political programme will return at...
View ArticleOfcom clears Channel 4 News over Jon Snow's 'never seen so many white people'...
Broadcast regulator Ofcom has cleared Channel 4 News of any wrongdoing after presenter Jon Snow said he had “never seen so many white people in one place” while reporting on a pro-Brexit rally. Snow’s...
View ArticleNigel Farage avoids Ofcom sanction over call for Channel 4's Jon Snow to be...
Nigel Farage did not breach broadcasting guidelines when he said on his LBC show that Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow “should be attacked”, Ofcom has ruled. The Brexit Party leader (pictured) avoided...
View Article'Through the night' coverage of Whaley Bridge flood risk shows 'power of...
BBC Radio Manchester editor Kate Squire on the importance of local radio during a crisis. What a week it’s been in Greater Manchester – dreadful flooding of roads, homes and businesses in Poynton and...
View ArticleMet Police in court bid to grab journalists' notes from ISIS bride Shamima...
A hearing to decide whether journalists will be forced to hand over their notes from interviews with “ISIS bride” Shamima Begum has been adjourned in order to find a suitable judge. Begum was one of...
View ArticleNo 'clear and compelling' case for police to seize journalists' notes from...
The Metropolitan Police has presented no “clear and compelling” grounds for seizing journalists’ notes from their interviews with ISIS bride Shamima Begum, the lawyer for media groups fighting the case...
View ArticleHappy 'big' birthdays to Sir Trevor McDonald and Julie Etchingham - 'two of...
David Stanley is a writer for ITV News at Ten. I’m lucky. I get to work with some of my heroes. From the feedback they get, the awards they receive and the esteem in which they are held, they are other...
View ArticleITV News launches 'major' climate change series at top of News at Ten to...
ITV News devoted two-thirds of its flagship programme last night to a “major” new series on the impacts of climate change after deciding the issue needed to be made more “tangible” to its heartland...
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