Where to watch the UK general election results
Coverage of the UK election results begins on multiple platforms as polls close at 10pm this evening and running through until the morning. The BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and LBC will declare results as...
View ArticleJournalist of the Year Robin Barnwell praises 'unsung heroes' of undercover...
Newly named Journalist of the Year Robin Barnwell has paid homage to the “unsung heroes” who went undercover for his reports, insisting his award was “a tribute to their journalism, not mine”. Barnwell...
View Article4.7m watch BBC election coverage led by Huw Edwards as Channel 4 audience halves
The BBC’s first overnight election coverage not led by David Dimbleby in nearly 40 years has maintained its place at the top of the TV ratings. BBC News at Ten anchor Huw Edwards helmed the 11-hour...
View ArticleHuw Edwards hits out at 'blatant propaganda' in press in fending off BBC bias...
BBC News presenter Huw Edwards has hit out at parts of the press “where regulation is risibly weak and blatant propaganda can be passed off as ‘news'” in defending his colleagues against claims of...
View ArticleBBC boss says social media platforms must do more to tackle 'sickening' abuse...
The head of the BBC has hit out at the “sickening” abuse directed at the broadcaster’s journalists throughout the general election as he called on social media platforms to “do more” to tackle the...
View ArticleChannel 4 News and Waad Al-Kateab make Oscars longlist for best documentary...
Channel 4 News documentary For Sama, filmed and narrated by journalist Waad Al-Kateab about her life under siege in the Syrian city of Aleppo, is in the running for an Oscar. The film has made the...
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Channel 4 News and Sky News make top ten most complained about TV shows of...
Episodes of Channel 4 News and Sky News have made the top ten most complained about TV shows of the last decade, Ofcom has revealed. An episode of Sky News on 27 September 2018 received 3,463...
View ArticleTraining body launches bursary for students to take up 'life-changing' but...
The UK’s broadcast training accreditation body is launching a new bursary for students who might otherwise be forced to turn down “life-changing” industry placements, which are often unpaid. The...
View ArticlePiers Morgan says he and Andrew Neil saw Boris Johnson interview snub as...
Piers Morgan has claimed he and Andrew Neil both saw it as a “personal journalistic badge of honour” that Boris Johnson refused to sit down with them for an interview during the general election...
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John Sweeney says BBC's failure to show Tommy Robinson film led him to seek...
Ex-BBC journalist John Sweeney has said the broadcaster’s failure to run his Panorama report on Tommy Robinson, alongside abuse from the right-wing activist’s supporters, led him to seek psychiatric...
View ArticleBBC News managing editor Sarah Ward-Lilley and broadcaster Oz Clarke honoured...
BBC News managaing editor Sarah Ward-Lilley and broadcaster Oz Clarke have been named in the 2020 New Year Honours’ list for services to journalism. Ward-Lilley has been awarded an MBE after more than...
View ArticleBBC takes push for 50:50 gender split among contributors to journalism students
The BBC is hoping to help improve the representation of women within student journalism by sharing its own methodology relating to on-air gender balance. The 50:50 Project sees teams within the BBC...
View ArticleSNP's Westminster chief claims party was 'systematically omitted' from BBC...
The SNP’s House of Commons leader has written to the BBC complaining that his party was “systematically omitted” from stories during the election campaign. Ian Blackford said his party “often had to...
View ArticleEx-IPSO chairman Sir Alan Moses says BBC 'far too wet' in face of Government...
The former chairman of press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation has told the BBC it needs to be “far more stringent in striking back” against criticism from the Government....
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Samira Ahmed equal pay tribunal win against BBC hailed as 'resounding victory'
Journalist Samira Ahmed has won her equal pay case against the BBC, saying she is “glad” the issue has been resolved and is looking forward to continuing her work as a reporter for the broadcaster. The...
View ArticleBBC director-general defends licence fee in face of Government threat
The BBC’s director-general Lord Tony Hall has defended the broadcaster’s licence-fee funding model after Boris Johnson’s Government raised questions about its future. Tony Hall said the BBC’s success...
View ArticleJohn Simpson accuses Government of 'limbering up' for 'major attack' on BBC
Broadcaster John Simpson has accused the Government of “limbering up” for a “major attack” on the BBC. The BBC’s world affairs editor, 75, told Radio Times magazine that the broadcaster was an easy...
View ArticleBBC to 'reinvent' news app and move more journalism to Salford in 2020
The BBC plans to move more of its news journalism to Salford and “reinvent” its news app this year, director-general Tony Hall has said in a New Year’s speech to staff. Lord Hall revealed that part of...
View ArticleFilming in criminal courts moves step closer with draft legislation
Broadcasters have welcomed a move to allow TV cameras to broadcast judges’ sentencing remarks from Crown Courts for the first time. The BBC, ITN and Sky, who have spent years campaigning for the...
View ArticleBBC presenter diagnosed with incurable cancer now free of the disease
A BBC presenter diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer three years ago has said she is free of the disease. Deborah James co-hosts Radio 5 Live’s You, Me & The Big C podcast and said after intense...
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