Radio

Ian Katz
By Dominic Ponsford 16 May 11:59
Guardian deputy editor and head of news Ian Katz has been recruited by the BBC as the new editor of Newsnight.
By Dominic Ponsford 14 May 10:23

Veteran broadcast David Frost has suggested that new BBC director general needs to thin out BBC management.

By Press Gazette 14 May 8:58
The BBC won most of the journalism prizes at last night’s Sony Radio Academy Awards.
By Gavriel Hollander 08 May 13:02
The BBC has been accused of “double standards” after offering below-inflation pay rises while splashing out £1 million on new senior salaries.
By Dominic Ponsford 02 May 10:53
The BBC is to review its bullying and harassment policy and remove gagging clauses from future BBC contracts and compromise agreements.
By Axegrinder 02 May 9:45
It’s rather sweet really that an office romance has come out of the Leveson Inquiry.
By Jennifer Awford 30 April 9:42
BBC Radio is launching a new apprenticeship scheme believed to be the first of its kind, which will focus on giving school leavers a chance to break into radio.
By William Turvill 30 April 9:15
Torin Douglas is bowing out as after 24 years as BBC media correspondent next month and he told Press Gazette that he leaves the corporation at a time when morale is low.
By Alex Wynick 02 April 11:39
Tony Hall began work as the sixteenth BBC director general this morning, and is spending much of his first day speaking to staff about how to improve the corporation's reputation.
By Alan Selby 26 March 14:11
NME Radio stopped broadcasting at midday on Monday, shortly before NME magazine owners IPC Media announced a decision to bring the station back in-house.
By Alan Selby 25 March 13:49
The BBC has received nearly 600 complaints over Eddie Mair's interview with Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr Show.
By Darren Boyle 21 March 17:07

 

The National Union of Journalists has cancelled tomorrow’s planned BBC strike action in Scotland after management agreed to defer compulsory redundancies.

By Darren Boyle 21 March 11:54
The National Union of Journalists has announced strike action at the BBC next week threatening a string of high-profile news and current affairs shows. In a joint action with Bectu, staff will walk out of BBC studios at midday on Thursday 28 March, hitting the corporation’s Easter schedule.
By William Turvill 20 March 16:24
The National Union of Journalists and broadcast union BECTU have announced plans to take strike action at the BBC over the course of Easter.
By Press Gazette 14 February 9:50
The BBC is recruiting a new director of news after moving Helen Boaden to the job of director, BBC Radio.
Radio DJ's Michael Christian and Mel Greig during an interview on Australia's Channel Seven. Picture: Today Tonight/PA Wire
By Andrew Pugh 10 December 10:10
The owners of the Australian radio station behind a prank call to the hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was staying has suggested the UK media is on a “witch-hunt” after one of the nurses they duped was found dead in a suspected suicide.
By Dominic Ponsford 05 November 9:40
BBC London 94.9 continued to lose ground to commercial rival LBC in the third quarter of this year. Plus round-up of UK radio station listening figures for the third quarter of 2012.
By Press Gazette 02 October 11:46
Don't get me wrong, I love commercial radio. I worked in it for 22 years, plus a further two as a consultant, and during that time I took great delight getting one up on the BBC and our other media rivals whenever I could.
By Andrew Pugh 25 September 9:50
The editor-in-chief of the Reading Chronicle has accused BBC radio of reading out page leads from her paper “masquerading as its own news bulletin”.
By Anonymous 15 August 10:50

More than one thousand BBC staff were made redundant last year.

The total redundancies rocketed to 1,230 in 2011 compared with 444 in 2010 and 438 in 2009.

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