BBC presenter Steve Hewlett marries partner in hospital after news he has...
BBC radio presenter and Guardian columnist Steve Hewlett has married his partner in hospital after being told he may only have weeks to live. Hewlett, who is in his late 50s, said he was wedded in his...
View ArticleSurvey suggests 96% of Britons can't tell fake news from true reports
Less than five per cent of people surveyed by Channel 4 were able to correctly identify fake news stories when shown examples of them among true news reports, the broadcaster has revealed. The figure...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn accuses BBC of reporting 'fake news' in questioning him over...
Jeremy Corbyn has accused the BBC of reporting “fake news” after he was questioned on today’s Breakfast show over rumours he was planning to step down as Labour leader. Corbyn said the claims came from...
View ArticleRadio audience figures: BBC's Today programme claims record 7.45m of...
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme claimed its highest ever audience figures, reaching 7.45m weekly listeners in the last three months of 2016. The Radio Joint Audience Research (Rajar) quarterly listening...
View ArticleTV team convicted of human smuggling for bringing Syrian teen to Sweden
Three employees with Swedish public service broadcaster SVT have been sentenced to community work after being convicted of human smuggling. The team brought a 15-year-old Syrian boy to Sweden during...
View ArticleTwo journalists shot dead during live Facebook broadcast in Dominican Republic
A radio presenter and a producer were shot dead in the Dominican Republic as they broadcast the news live on Facebook yesterday. Police said the shooting occurred at the radio station, which is based...
View ArticleFacebook wants to 'eradicate' examples of 'hugely fake news' on its news feed
Facebook’s head of news partnerships for Europe has said the social media platform wants to “stamp out” egregious examples of fake news by “disrupting” the business model that fuels it. Nick Wrenn said...
View ArticleChannel 4 News videos shared 2bn times in a year on Facebook but revenue tiny...
Channel 4 News is paid a “tiny” fee for the content it shares on Facebook that does not cover “a fraction of what it costs” to make, according to editor Ben de Pear. The broadcaster, which has a team...
View ArticleChannel 4 News filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab on why she stayed to film siege of...
Filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab, whose footage of life in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo has won her acclaim, said she did not regret staying behind to film the conflict, despite fearing for her life. She...
View ArticleChannel 4 News international editor Lindsey Hilsum on war reporting, women...
Channel 4 News international editor Lindsey Hilsum says female foreign correspondents ‘pretty much always get 100 per cent of the story’ in the Middle East, unlike their male counterparts who are more...
View ArticlePiers Morgan pulls out of hosting RTS awards after campaign to oust him
GMTV host Piers Morgan has pulled out of hosting the RTS programme awards for TV journalism after a campaign was launched to get him banned from the event. Morgan, who said he agreed to present the...
View ArticleSteve Hewlett dies: 'A trusted voice that embodied everything positive in...
BBC broadcaster and Observer columnist Steve Hewlett has died of cancer after being told he may only have “weeks, possibly months” left to live earlier this month. Hewlett, 58, married his partner...
View ArticleSteve Hewlett: 'Buccaneering journalist' and 'moving chronicler of his own...
Nowadays Panorama attracts around a couple of million viewers per broadcast. In November 1995, when it aired an interview with Princess Diana in which she declared “there were three of us in this...
View ArticleBBC News announces £1m scheme to recruit 12 journalists with disabilities
BBC News has announced a £1 million scheme to recruit and train 12 journalists with disabilities. Jobs will be created in the mobile and online teams and range from broadcast journalists to assistant...
View ArticleBBC Scotland channel launch will create 80 new jobs for journalists and have...
The BBC is to create 80 new posts for journalists with the launch of a new TV channel in Scotland that has an international news hour “at its heart”, the corporation announced today. The channel will...
View ArticleBBC pays libel damages after suggesting prominent Muslim advocated lynching...
The BBC has paid “substantial” libel damages and broadcast a full apology to founder member of the Muslim Council of Britain who they falsely alleged had advocated the lynching of author Salman...
View ArticleNigel Farage: 'I'm frightened to leave my home because of way liberal media...
Nigel Farage has said he is living like a “virtual prisoner” and is “frightened” to leave his home because of the way the media has “demonised” UKIP. The former party leader accused the press of...
View Article'Greedy' BBC licence fee collectors target old and vulnerable, Daily Mail...
The BBC has ordered an investigation into TV licence collectors following reports that they are deliberately targeting vulnerable people who have not paid. Enforcement officers at Capita are ordered to...
View ArticleBBC, Guardian and Daily Mail barred White House briefing as Trump announces...
US president Donald Trump’s relationship with the media has reached a new low with various news organisations banned from a White House press briefing. The BBC, Guardian and Daily Mail were among those...
View ArticleBBC says there is 'no truth' in Daily Mail report that it is reviewing the...
The BBC has said there is “no truth” in a report in the Daily Mail today that it is considering replacing Newsnight. Andrew Pierce reports that the “very existence” of the show is “being questioned at...
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