Labour calls for Ofcom to review licence of Russian news outlet RT
Labour has stepped up its calls for the broadcast watchdog to review the operating licence of Russian news outlet RT. Labour’s shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens wrote to regulator Ofcom in the wake...
View ArticleBBC rules Panorama NHS report and News at Ten Nicola Sturgeon interview...
The BBC’s internal complaints unit has ruled that not mentioning the political ties of a doctor interviewed as part of a Panorama report on NHS personal protective equipment was a breach of its...
View Article'Lifeline' for 600 BBC PAYE freelances as broadcaster offers new Covid-19...
About 600 freelances who regularly work for the BBC on PAYE contracts are to “finally” be offered financial support to cover some of the worst months of the Covid-19 crisis. The BBC will pay average...
View ArticleBBC to cut Newsround bulletins after Ofcom says it can move focus online
The BBC will cut two out of three of its daily Newsround TV bulletins for children after Ofcom gave the go-ahead for it to prioritise online coverage. From September, when children start to return to...
View ArticleBBC staff numbers fell by just 2% in ten years despite millions spent trying...
The total number of staff employed by the BBC has fallen by just 2% – fewer than 500 people – in ten years, despite repeated cutbacks aimed at reducing the corporation’s headcount over this period....
View Article'Remarkable' ITV Granada Reports presenter Tony Morris dies aged 57
Regional TV news presenter Tony Morris has died aged 57 after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year. Morris had presented on Granada Reports, ITV’s regional news programme in the North West,...
View ArticleBroadcasters fear proposed 'duty of care' rules could have 'chilling effect'...
Broadcasters have urged Ofcom to exclude news and current affairs programming from proposed new “duty of care” requirements being drawn up after the deaths of two former reality TV show contestants. In...
View ArticleNewsrooms eye permanent change to working practices after Covid-19 lockdown
The need to maintain social distancing has meant that newsrooms are still largely empty more than four months after the UK went into lockdown, with most journalists continuing to work from home. At the...
View ArticleBBC defends use of N-word on-air in news report after outcry
The BBC has refused to apologise after a journalist used the N-word uncensored during a report last week, but accepted it caused offence. BBC social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin used the word...
View ArticleDemand for news drove surge in TV viewing at start of UK lockdown, Ofcom finds
The Covid-19 crisis prompted a surge in broadcast TV viewing driven by demand for news on the pandemic at the start of UK lockdown, but this only lasted for two weeks, new figures from Ofcom show....
View ArticleBBC apologises over uncensored use of racist slur in news report
BBC director-general Tony Hall has apologised for a news report in which a journalist used the N-word uncensored. More than 18,000 people complained to the BBC over the broadcast, which saw social...
View ArticleBBC could face prosecution after breaching anonymity order to name two teens...
A chief crown prosecutor has been asked by a judge to decide whether the BBC should be prosecuted after it broadcast the names of two juveniles charged with murder during TV news bulletins. The...
View ArticlePicture mix-ups at Guardian and BBC blamed on Covid-19 remote working
The Guardian and BBC have both linked recent editorial mistakes to journalists working from home during the Covid-19 crisis. Elisabeth Ribbans, global readers’ editor for the Guardian and Observer,...
View ArticleOfcom UK news consumption survey: News consumption via social media and...
The number of people in the UK getting news from social media and Google search has declined in the past year, although Google News use is up according to Ofcom. Some 45% of adults say they consume...
View ArticleCovid-19 crisis leads to more than 2,000 job cuts across UK news organisations
More than 2,000 jobs at UK-based news organisations have been put at risk during the Covid-19 crisis so far, with more expected to follow. Cutbacks have fallen across the news industry as the decline...
View ArticleUK's first black TV reporter Barbara Blake-Hannah: 'Journalists are the most...
Fifty years on Barbara Blake-Hannah does not like to talk about the racism that cut short her career as the UK’s first black on-screen TV reporter for Thames Television. Working alongside Eamonn...
View ArticleOur top 2020 podcast picks for journalists
Since many people have found more time to listen to podcasts since the Covid-19 lockdown, we’ve compiled a list of the best podcasts we think are useful listens for journalists. Podcasts are booming...
View ArticleBBC receives 8,000+complaints over Breakfast show report on migrants in Channel
The BBC received more than 8,000 complaints about a report on its Breakfast news show about migrants crossing the English Channel by boat. A segment on 10 August saw reporter Simon Jones broadcast live...
View ArticleBBC is force for unity in face of division from fake news and social media,...
It is the BBC’s “duty to help bring the nation together” in the face of disinformation and social media which “feed on fracture and drive polarisation”, outgoing director-general Tony Hall has said....
View ArticleNew BBC director-general says reform needed 'with urgency'
The new director-general of the BBC has said the corporation needs to keep reforming “with urgency” and stressed it must be “a universal public service” on his first day in the job. Tim Davie, the...
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