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Robin Lustig: The BBC has confused balance with impartiality, it should never...
Robin Lustig lef the BBC in 2012 after 23 years presenting The World Tonight on Radio 4. In this extract from his memoir, Is Anything Happening, he casts a critical eye over the BBC’s approach to...
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Sports Journalism Awards: Telegraph, Guardian, BBC and Getty Images among top...
The Telegraph and Guardian newspapers dominated at the Sports Journalism Awards for writing last night as the Daily Mail was named Sports Newspaper of the Year. In the broadcasting category, the BBC...
View ArticleHigh Court told police were 'strong-armed' by BBC into revealing Cliff...
South Yorkshire Police say they were “strong-armed” into giving a BBC reporter information about an investigation into Sir Cliff Richard, a High Court judge has heard. The BBC denied the allegation, Mr...
View ArticleRTS Television Journalism Awards: Four prizes for Syrian film-maker who...
A Syrian film-maker who risked her life to report on the siege of Aleppo picked up four prizes at the RTS Television Journalism Awards in London last night. The film-maker, who goes by the pseudonym...
View ArticleBBC radio chief: Government demand for more news on Radio One and Two will...
The BBC’s director of radio and education has said Government demands that Radio One and Two increase their news content would result in audience numbers falling. In a speech at the Speaker’s House...
View ArticleBBC crew assaulted and forced to sign 'confession' for trying to interview...
BBC journalists were roughed up by local government “thugs” and compelled to sign a confession after trying to interview a Chinese woman seeking to petition the Government over an alleged miscarriage...
View ArticleCulture Secretary Bradley 'minded' to refer Murdoch's £12bn sky take-over to...
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has said she is “minded” to order an Ofcom investigation into the planned £11.7 billion takeover of broadcaster Sky by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, over concerns...
View ArticleJournalist has harassment claim against BBC thrown out after complaint about...
A BBC journalist and apparent whistleblower has had her employment tribunal claim against the corporation struck out after she spoke to a reporter. BBC home affairs correspondent Sally Chidzoy brought...
View Article'ITV moved the news for this?' Panned Nightly Show pulls in lower ratings...
ITV’s panned daily light entertainment programme the Nighty Show has pulled in lower ratings than the news bulletin it replaced. The News at Ten was moved to 10.30pm last week to make way for the...
View ArticleTransgender journalist India Willoughby says BBC's Jenni Murray should be...
Transgender news journalist India Willoughby has called for Dame Jenni Murray to be sacked by the BBC over a Sunday Times piece about trans women. Murray cited Willoughby an an example when she...
View ArticleSky take-over: Labour MPs question James Murdoch character and involvement in...
Media regulator Ofcom must be allowed to investigate attempts to make the “Murdoch empire” in the UK even bigger, Labour has said. Shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said assurances are needed to...
View ArticleFacebook reported BBC journalists to the police after they sent it child...
Facebook has reported the BBC to the police after journalists confronted it with sexualised images of children which were found on the social network. The BBC said it used Facebook’s “report button” to...
View ArticleCNN chief Zucker says silence of political leaders over Trump attacks on...
The president of CNN has described the political establishment’s silence over President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media as “shocking”, calling it an abdication of their responsibility. Jeff Zucker,...
View ArticleHuffington Post UK editor Stephen Hull leaves to join ITV News as head of...
Huffington Post UK editor Stephen Hull is joining ITV News as head of digital. He will head up digital strategy across the ITV News national and regional network. He said: “I am incredibly proud to be...
View ArticleMade in Teesside to be UK's 22nd local TV station
Middlesbrough is the latest UK city to get its own local TV station. Made in Teesside is set to launch on 30 March and will be available 24 hours a day on Freeview channel 8. It will be part of the...
View ArticleViral video of professor interrupted by kids during live BBC interview...
A live video interview in which a professor is interrupted by his two young children before his panicked wife rushes in to scoop them out the door has gained more than 100m views for the BBC. The viral...
View ArticlePhilip Hammond says NIC manifesto breach was first pointed out to him by...
The first person to raise the fact that a proposed hike in National Insurance Contributions for the self-employed breached a Tory manifesto commitment was the BBC’s political editor, Philip Hammond has...
View ArticleTories fined £70k as a result of Channel 4 News probe into illegal election...
The Conservative Party has been fined £70,000 after an Electoral Commission probe into election expenses prompted by the reporting of Channel 4 News. The independent elections watchdog said the party...
View ArticleNUJ urges Government to oppose Murdoch take-over of Sky as 'significant...
The National Union of Journalists has warned that the 21st Century Fox bid to buy the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own “poses a significant threat to media plurality and broadcasting...
View ArticleUK Government refers £11.7bn Murdoch Sky take-over bid to Ofcom and...
Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority are to examine 21st Century Fox’s proposed £11.7 billion takeover of Sky, the Government has announced. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told MPs she has...
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