RAJARs: LBC News reaching 675,000 weekly listeners in first six months since...
LBC has continued growing to reach a record 2.8m weekly listeners in the three months leading up to the coronavirus lockdown. This is an increase of 530,000 people in the past year for the station,...
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Times Radio who’s who: The line-up so far from John Pienaar to Tom Newton Dunn
Times Radio has secured a number of high-profile journalists to present on the new digital radio station, which launches in summer. The station is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, which also owns...
View ArticleSky News claims 'live TV news first' with programme staffed entirely from home
Sky News’ London studio handed over full control to a team working from home on Friday in what it believes to be a live TV news first. Sarah-Jane Mee presented the half-hour special Life After Lockdown...
View ArticleTimes Radio to shun public phone-ins and 'adversarial' interview style
Times Radio will shun listener phone-ins and avoid the “old fashioned adversarial approach” to interviews seen elsewhere, it revealed today. The comments from the new station’s flagship presenters and...
View ArticleBBC faces £125m in lost income over Covid-19 as it reveals surging audience...
The BBC will be forced to find further savings as it faces an estimated £125m in lost income this financial year as a result of the coronavirus crisis, despite record broadcast and digital figures. The...
View ArticleDorothy Byrne interview: Covid-19 crisis could be 'new beginning' for...
“I genuinely hope that this is a new beginning for politicians and journalists to work together for the benefit of our democracy.” The coronavirus crisis has made Dorothy Byrne, who just stepped down...
View ArticleTony Hall says BBC doing 'all we can' to support PAYE freelancers impacted by...
BBC director-general Tony Hall has written to more than 150 journalists and production staff who work for the corporation on PAYE contracts to insist he is doing “all we can to support the freelance...
View ArticleBBC backs Laura Kuenssberg after complaints over tweet 'defending' Dominic...
The BBC has backed its political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, over complaints she tweeted “in defence” of Dominic Cummings after news broke that he had driven from London to Durham during lockdown....
View ArticleEmily Maitlis: It was my decision not to appear on Newsnight after Dominic...
Newsnight host Emily Maitlis said she has been “overwhelmed” by support from viewers as she revealed it was her decision not to appear on the show which aired after the Dominic Cummings monologue row....
View ArticleCNN journalist arrested live on air while covering rioting over death of...
A CNN TV reporter covering rioting in Minneapolis following the death of a black man at the hands of police officers was arrested live on the air. Correspondent Omar Jimenez, who is also black, could...
View ArticleInside Out and regional politics shows at risk as BBC looks for cuts worth £125m
BBC insiders are concerned that Inside Out and regional political shows could be scrapped as the corporation looks to find further savings following a loss of income of up to £125m caused by the...
View ArticleBBC's Huw Edwards tops our reader poll as 'best late evening TV news...
Huw Edwards has topped a Press Gazette reader poll asking who was the “best UK late evening TV news presenter during the pandemic”. More than 2,500 people responded to the poll, which ran for nine days...
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Times Radio launch date and full line-up from Mariella Frostrup to John Pienaar
Times Radio has secured a number of high-profile journalists to present on the new digital radio station, which launches in June 2020. The station is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, which also owns...
View ArticleJon Snow: There's been a 'fair amount of bullshit which needed probing'...
Jon Snow has said he hopes the news industry will be “a lot better than it was” when it emerges from the coronavirus crisis, but praised the media’s “structural” role in relaying key messages. At 72,...
View ArticleJournalists attacked and chased in London as protesters scream 'f**k the...
A press photographer was attacked during Black Lives Matter protests in London last night as members of the media faced intimidation from some in the crowd. NUJ-accredited freelance photographer...
View ArticleBBC insider Tim Davie appointed new director-general
The head of the BBC’s commercial arm, Tim Davie, has been appointed as the corporation’s new director-general. Davie is currently chief executive of BBC Studios, which sells BBC programming and other...
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Head of newsgathering at ITV News: It shouldn't take a tragedy for media to...
In the past week, our teams at ITV News in the US and at home in the UK have been working around the clock to tell the devastating story of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died during a police...
View ArticleLondon Live avoids being fined or losing licence over David Icke coronavirus...
Ofcom has decided not to fine London Live after it broadcast a “potentially harmful” interview with conspiracy theorist David Icke, citing the importance of freedom of expression. The TV channel owned...
View ArticleEmployment lawyer says BBC wrong not to furlough PAYE freelance journalists
An employment lawyer has said he believes the BBC was wrong not to furlough its freelances who work on PAYE contracts. Andrew Allen QC, of Outer Temple Chambers, claimed these workers “fall squarely”...
View ArticleMaitlis Cummings monologue was wrong says head of news as BBC reveals it...
The BBC’s head of news has said that Emily Maitlis’ Newsnight monologue about Dominic Cummings belonged “more on the op-ed page in a newspaper” than as the introduction to “an impartial broadcast...
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