BBC presenter Dan Walker to 'personally mentor' journalism scholarship...
BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker will personally mentor two journalism students from the University of Sheffield under scholarships worth £20,000. The Dan Walker Journalism Scholarship is open to...
View ArticleBBC News Channel anchor Maxine Mawhinney leaving corporation after 21 years
BBC News Channel anchor Maxine Mawhinney has presented her final programme on the channel today as she leaves the corporation after 21 years. Mawhinney joined the BBC in Northern Ireland in the 1980s,...
View Article'General chit chat' with Cambs Times reporter revealed as 'unreasonable...
A local newspaper reporter has revealed how some “general chit chat” with BBC journalist Sally Chidzoy led to her employment tribunal claim against the corporation being thrown out. A barrister for the...
View ArticleGeneral election 2017: Theresa May indicates she will refuse to take part in...
Theresa May will refuse to take part in televised leaders’ debates in the run-up to the June 8 general election, Number 10 sources have indicated. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn threw down the gauntlet to...
View ArticleTheresa May says 'we won't be doing TV debates' favouring face to face...
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she favours meeting voters face to face over taking part in televised debates. This would be the first UK general election since 2010 when a party leader has refused...
View ArticleITN reports profit and revenue up in 2016 as most of surplus goes to pension...
TV news provider ITN has reported revenue up 8 per cent to £130m in 2016 and a pre-tax profit of £2.8m (up from £2.7m). The cost of financing the group’s final salary pension scheme (which closed to...
View ArticleITV to host leaders' debate amid calls for Theresa May to be 'empty chaired'...
ITV has confirmed it will host a leaders’ debate during the general election campaign, despite Theresa May’s insistence that she will not take part. May faced taunts of “frit” from Labour backbenchers...
View ArticleOfcom's review into Sky takeover bid postponed for snap general election
Ofcom’s review into the proposed £12bn takeover of Sky by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has been postponed as a result of the snap general election. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley referred the bid...
View ArticleMark Austin goes 'back on the road' as US correspondent for Sky News
Former ITV News at Ten host Mark Austin is joining Sky News on a one-year contract to be its US correspondent. Austin left ITN after 30 years at the end of 2016. He spent eight years presenting the ITV...
View ArticleBBC increases rather than decreases staff paid £150k and cuts less than half...
The BBC has cut less than half the number of jobs it said it was going to and increased rather than decreased the number of senior managers earning more than £150,000 a year. The National Audit Office...
View ArticleCorbyn might not take part in TV debates if May declines them
Jeremy Corbyn may not take part in TV election debates which do not involve Theresa May, Labour has indicated. Broadcasters are facing calls for the Prime Minister to be “empty chaired”, after she made...
View ArticlePaywall plea from Witherow as Times titles take newspaper of the year double...
News UK scored a double at the London Press Club awards as The Times and Sunday Times were named daily and Sunday newspaper of the year. Times editor John Witherow urged other publishers to follow News...
View ArticleAmol Rajan to present BBC Radio 4's The Media Show
Amol Rajan has been appointed as the new presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show. Former Independent editor Rajan takes over from Steve Hewlett, who died of cancer in February. Hewlett had presented...
View ArticleMexican poet and reporter Filiberto Landeros is fifth journalist to be killed...
A Mexican journalist has been killed by a group of armed men who gunned him down as he was leaving the radio station building where he worked. Filiberto Alvarez Landeros, 65, was gunned down by a group...
View ArticleITV debate for seven party leaders will go ahead on 18 May but no-shows will...
ITV will host a televised debate between party leaders later this month ahead of the general election. ITV News anchor Julie Etchingham is set to moderate the ITV Leaders’ Debate when it airs on...
View ArticleBBC complains about Cliff Richard's 'grossly unreasonable'£500k costs in...
BBC bosses say Sir Cliff Richard has spent “grossly unreasonable” amounts on lawyers after complaining about reports naming him as a suspected sex offender and taking legal action. They say figures...
View ArticleTory Parliamentary candidate Nadhim Zahawi wins £200k libel damages from...
A Conservative candidate has won £200,000 libel damages over a claim that he helped to fund Islamic State (IS). Nadhim Zahawi, who was MP for Stratford-on-Avon for seven years until Parliament was...
View ArticleLawyers for Sir Cliff want to know about police source who tipped off BBC...
UPDATE 4pm: Sir Cliff Richard and the BBC have agreed to pause a High Court fight in the hope that a settlement can be reached. Lawyers representing all sides told a judge on Friday that parties had...
View ArticleComment: Why the evidence suggests Brexiteer MPs are right and BBC news...
Former BBC journalist David Keighley, principal of media monitoring project News-watch, responds to an earlier Press Gazette guest blog on BBC News bias by Tom Mills. A Press Gazette guest blog by Tom...
View ArticleBBC: 'We aren’t doing a leaders’ debate because Theresa May said she didn’t...
The BBC will not host a leaders’ debate ahead of the June general election following the Prime Minister’s announcement that she would refuse to take part in any head-to-head TV debate. BBC One will...
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