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By Gavriel Hollander | 24 May 2013
The National Union of Journalists has condemned the BBC for wasting “vast sums of public money on hopeless projects” after it announced it was writing off £98.4 million spent on the Digital Media Initiative.
By William Turvill | 23 May 2013
One of the big surprises at last week’s Bafta Awards was that Mark Williams-Thomas did not win the current affairs category for his ITV Exposure documentary on Jimmy Savile.
By Gavriel Hollander | 17 May 2013
The BBC has been forced to apologise and pay damages to a Tunisian politician over a story published on its website last November, claiming false links with extremist groups.
By Dominic Ponsford | 16 May 2013
The reporter involved has hit back at BBC claims that a Newsnight report broadcast on 9 August about the charity Help for Heroes was “misleading and unfair”.
By Press Gazette | 16 May 2013
Newsnight is tonight set to broadcast an on-air apology after mistakenly accusing the charity Help for Heroes of misspending cash.
By PA Media Lawyer | 16 May 2013
A tweet by Commons Speaker's wife Sally Bercow pointed "the finger of blame" at Tory peer Lord McAlpine during a media frenzy over allegations of child sex abuse, a judge has was told today.
By Dominic Ponsford | 16 May 2013
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 2013
Veteran broadcast David Frost has suggested that new BBC director general needs to thin out BBC management.
A BBC radio presenter was taken off air midway through her broadcast after a listener accused her of sounding drunk.
By Press Gazette | 14 May 2013
The BBC won most of the journalism prizes at last night’s Sony Radio Academy Awards.
By Gavriel Hollander | 08 May 2013
Guidelines over staff behaviour in the BBC's New Broadcasting House newsroom have led to the NUJ lodging a complaint.
By Gavriel Hollander | 08 May 2013
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 | 08 May 2013
The BBC’s £270,000-a-year head of television Roger Mosey has been appointed to the new job of head of editorial standards.
By PA Mediapoint | 08 May 2013
An edition of BBC1's Panorama has breached the Ofcom code after a man who was supposed to remain anonymous was identified by his friends.
By Dominic Ponsford | 02 May 2013
The BBC is to review its bullying and harassment policy and remove gagging clauses from future BBC contracts and compromise agreements.
By Jennifer Awford | 30 Apr 2013
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 Apr 2013
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 Press Gazette | 25 Apr 2013
The National Union of Journalists has welcomed a proposal from new BBC director general Tony Hall to cap redundancy payments for senior executives to £150,000.
By Dominic Ponsford | 16 Apr 2013
Four months after being ousted as editor of The Times James Harding has been made head of news for the BBC.
Harding lost his job after five years as editor in December. He resigned saying it had been made clear to him that proprietor Rupert Murdoch wanted to appoint a new editor of The Times.
By William Turvill | 15 Apr 2013
Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre believes newspapers have questions to answer for not exposing Jimmy Savile as a sex offender.
























