Warning of 'end of the BBC as we know it' after Culture Secretary freezes...
The BBC licence fee will be frozen for the next two years, the culture secretary has said. The annual payment, which normally changes on 1 April each year, is to be kept at the current rate of £159...
View ArticleBBC local news expansion plan is 'direct threat' say commercial news publishers
The News Media Association has written to the BBC Board demanding it withdraw plans to extend the corporation’s digital local news coverage. The body, which represents national and regional newspaper...
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GB News in-depth briefing: Daily programming to begin with National Anthem
GB News has revealed it will start playing the National Anthem to kick off its daily live TV and DAB radio programming from Tuesday 18 January. An instrumental version of God Save The Queen will air at...
View ArticleA look at alternative ways to fund the BBC
As Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries signalled that the next BBC licence fee announcement will be its last, Press Gazette looks at alternative funding models for the corporation. Advertising One of the...
View ArticleLocal 'news desert' increasing risk of US Capitol attack in Britain, says...
The award-winning journalist who captured the attack on the US Capitol last January has warned an erosion in local journalism has created a “news desert” that is increasing the risk of a similar attack...
View ArticleBBC director-general warns licence fee freeze means World Service and local...
The BBC’s director-general has warned he was not able to ringfence the budgets for the World Service or local democracy reporting scheme under the latest licence fee settlement. Tim Davie also said he...
View ArticleBBC apologises as Ofcom launches probe into antisemitic bus attack report
Media watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation after the BBC upheld complaints made about the accuracy and impartiality of its coverage of an antisemitic attack on a Hanukkah party bus. The...
View ArticleGovernment court bid to gag BBC over 'spy' story to be heard in public unless...
A High Court bid by the Government to prevent the BBC from broadcasting a story which would reportedly identify a spy is due to be heard in March. The Telegraph last week revealed that Attorney General...
View ArticleTen days after on-air shaming, BBC Arabic contributors still await payments
BBC Arabic has still not paid contributors some ten days after being publicly shamed on live TV by one of its interview guests. Meanwhile, the BBC has settled a dispute with around a dozen employees at...
View ArticleRAJAR: Times Radio audience falls by a fifth as Talkradio and LBC growth...
Times Radio’s audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. The national digital station, which is owned by News UK’s radio division Wireless,...
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Andrew Marr goes from BBC star to newbie reporter: ‘I want the notebook in my...
This week marks a new beginning for Andrew Marr. After two decades at the BBC, the veteran political journalist has cut himself loose from a news organisation that defines itself by impartiality to...
View Article'Relaxed' BBC Three two-minute news bulletins aim to 'bring back' TikTok...
Newly relaunched TV channel BBC Three is running news bulletins mimicking the style of social media in an attempt to “bring back” 16 to 24-year-old viewers. The Catch Up, a nightly two to four-minute...
View ArticleComment: Scrapping the BBC licence fee threatens the future of journalism
Chris Waiting, chief executive of The Conversation, on why he fears an end to the BBC licence fee could threaten the future of the corporation’s journalism and impact the wider UK media industry....
View ArticleWhen William Met Louis: ‘You’re not the first person to ask me that. And that...
Before my interview with Louis Theroux, I set myself the challenge of not asking him the same questions as every other interviewer. Mainly, this meant not asking “Is your on-screen persona an act?”...
View ArticleBBC files third complaint to UN in five years over Iran's 'escalating'...
The BBC has lodged an “urgent complaint” with the UN against the Iranian government over “escalating actions and threats” towards its journalists. The broadcaster said the country had targeted UK-based...
View Article23 of the BBC's highest-paid journalists topped up their salaries with...
The BBC’s on-air journalists, including 23 of its highest-paid stars, took on almost 480 external jobs between them in 2021, according to the latest data on BBC external staff earnings. According to...
View ArticleHow GB News is bouncing back after launch wobbles and exit of Andrew Neil
With a new editorial director, new breakfast show, DAB radio launch and addition of the National Anthem to the start of each day, GB News is boasts a growing audience after a bumpy end to 2022. The...
View ArticleTV news is dying? 'We're no going to take that lying down', says ITV editor...
“We’re not going to take that lying down.” ITV News editor Rachel Corp has words of defiance for anyone who thinks the internet and 24-hour news channels are killing appointment-to-view TV bulletins....
View ArticleJon Sopel and Emily Maitlis to leave BBC and join LBC
Two of the BBC’s leading journalists, Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis, are leaving the public broadcaster to join LBC and its owner Global. The corporation’s North America editor and Newsnight presenter...
View ArticleGB News joins BBC, Sky and ITN in political broadcasting pool
GB News is joining the BBC, Sky News and ITN’s broadcast pool for political coverage ten months after its launch. The pool means that broadcasters take it in turns to cover a political diary event and...
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