BBC chooses PA-owned tech firm to run shared local content hub in next step...
The BBC has chosen technology company Stream AMG, owned by the Press Association Group, to provide the facility through which it will share local news content with members of the Local News...
View ArticleBBC World Service offers news in Pidgin as part of £289m expansion to include...
The BBC World Service has today launched the first of 12 new language services as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s, backed by £289m in Government funding. A digital Pidgin service for West...
View ArticleBBC confirms Radio 4 Today programme paper review will expand to include...
The BBC has confirmed the Radio 4 Today programme’s newspaper review will expand to include “significant stories” from “influential” online websites and foreign publications. It comes after a leaked...
View ArticleBBC boss pledges audited report into gender pay gap as women employees call...
The BBC has commissioned a report into the gender pay gap uncovered at the corporation after it was forced to reveal the salaries of its top-earning on-air talent earlier this year. In a speech to...
View ArticlePoliticians 'must confront' any abuse of journalists says BBC chairman
Politicians should do more to defend journalists who are subject to abuse “on an almost daily basis”, the chairman of the BBC has said. Sir David Clementi said the abuse was becoming “increasingly...
View ArticleBBC brings typical salary for World Service and Monitoring journalists in...
Journalists working for the BBC World Service and BBC Monitoring will now receive the same median pay as their colleagues in BBC Network News, the corporation has announced. The decision to align the...
View ArticleJudge gives BBC permission to interview father of boy in council care
A High Court judge has given journalists at a BBC regional television programme permission to conduct an exclusive interview with the father of a boy who has significant behavioural difficulties and is...
View ArticleNick Robinson says BBC should engage 'dissident voices' as he warns of online...
The BBC’s Nick Robinson has warned that ongoing attacks on the media are part of a “guerrilla war being fought on social media” and said the corporation should engage with those who don’t trust the...
View ArticleNick Robinson's Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture: We need to 're-make the case...
BBC Today programme presenter Nick Robinson delivered the inaugural Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture last night. An edited version of his speech appears below (not checked against delivery). I am...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn snubbed interviews with regional BBC news teams at Labour Party...
Jeremy Corbyn snubbed interviews with national and regional BBC news programmes during the Labour Party conference, Press Gazette has learned. The Labour leader did not carry out pre-arranged...
View ArticleBBC pay report finds 9 per cent gender gap but 'no systemic discrimination...
A report into gender pay imbalance at the BBC has concluded there is “no systemic discrimination against women” in its pay arrangements, although women earn 9.3 per cent less on average. The report has...
View ArticleOfcom chief 'absolutely confident' over advice Murdoch takeover would not...
Ofcom chief executive Sharon White has said she is “absolutely confident” about advice from her body which said Rupert Murdoch’s planned purchase of Sky would not undermine its broadcasting standards....
View ArticleJustin Webb: Nick (Robinson) is paid £100,000 a year more than me to do the...
Today presenter Justin Webb has said there is a “wider fairness issue” regarding BBC talent pay as he questioned why his radio co-presenter Nick Robinson earns £100,000 more than him “essentially to do...
View ArticleBBC says it 'should have challenged' climate scepticism from Lord Lawson on...
The BBC has said that it “should have challenged” claims made by politician Lord Nigel Lawson contesting evidence about climate change. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer made the claims during an...
View ArticleIran files criminal charges against 152 BBC Persian journalists in...
The Iranian government has opened a criminal investigation into 152 current and former BBC Persian journalists on charges of “conspiracy against national security”. In response the corporation has...
View ArticleBBC English regions boss says local broadcast output 'measured in terms of...
The BBC measures its local broadcast output “in terms of diversity” in a bid to better “reflect” its paying audiences, the corporation’s head of English regional news has revealed David Holdsworth,...
View ArticleMichael Gove apologises for making Harvey Weinstein joke on Today 60th...
Environment secretary Michael Gove has apologised after making a joke about Harvey Weinstein on the 60th anniversary edition of Radio 4’s Today. Gove was appearing before a live audience at Wigmore...
View ArticleMishal Husain says Sunday Times wrong to claim BBC women pay-gap group now...
BBC presenter Mishal Husain has said the Sunday Times was wrong to claim that a group of BBC women which formed following gender pay gap concerns at the corporation had shifted its focus to sexual...
View ArticleFormer Guardian political editor Michael White: 'Attractive women' reporters...
Former Guardian assistant editor Michael White has described female political journalists as “predators” who target “poor old, ugly backbenchers” in the hunt for stories. White’s comments, made on...
View ArticleBBC's Laura Kuenssberg says Twitter abusers are 'trying to silence me'
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has said of those who threaten and abuse her for doing her job that “what they are trying to do is silence me”. Kuenssberg was interviewed by her boss, outgoing...
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