Jimmy Savile

By William Turvill | 03 May 2013
Three separate Jimmy Savile stories have this year been shortlisted for scoop of the year at the London Press Club Awards.
By Axegrinder | 19 Apr 2013

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Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre was landed in hot water by The Observer just before Christmas when it interviewed her and published the following Tweet:

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.
By Press Gazette | 11 Mar 2013
Today editor Ceri Thomas has been promoted to head of programmes for BBC News following the departure of Stephen Mitchell in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
By Andrew Pugh | 22 Feb 2013
Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman branded ex-editor Peter Rippon’s decision not to cover the story about the programme's own failure to air child abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile “pathetic”.
By Dominic Ponsford | 22 Feb 2013
The BBC knew Jimmy Savile was a paedophile but still pressed ahead with Christmas tribute broadcasts to him in December 2011.
Jimmy Savile. Credit: Reuters
By PA Mediapoint | 22 Feb 2013
Thousands of pages of evidence gathered during an inquiry into Newsnight's decision to drop its investigation into Leeds-born Jimmy Savile are set to be published, the BBC has reported.
By Andrew Pugh | 21 Feb 2013
Former Newsnight editor Peter Rippon is to take on the “significant challenge” of BBC Online Archive editor four months after he was forced to step aside over his role in the Jimmy Savile documentary scandal.
By William Turvill | 21 Feb 2013
Jimmy Savile documenter Mark Williams-Thomas believes his two Royal Television Society awards are a “recognition of the role the media can play in exposing wrong-doing”.
By Press Gazette | 19 Feb 2013

Jonathan Wall has repaced Adrian Van Klaveran as controller of BBC Radio 5.

By Press Gazette | 14 Feb 2013
The BBC is recruiting a new director of news after moving Helen Boaden to the job of director, BBC Radio.
Miles Goslett
By William Turvill | 23 Jan 2013
Earlier this month the true horror of the Jimmy Savile story was finally brought into the open when police revealed that the former DJ may have committed 214 sex crimes, including 34 rapes.
By Kevin Marsh | 17 Jan 2013

Kevin Marsh is the former editor of Today and the BBC College of Journalism.

So what now for the journalists and journalism at the BBC?

Credit: Reuters
By William Turvill | 14 Jan 2013
Figures uncovered by Press Gazette revealing that the BBC employs nearly 150 PR staff has been greeted with astonishment.
Jimmy Savile. Picture: Reuters
By Dominic Ponsford | 10 Dec 2012
The journalist who exposed the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal has revealed: "We didn't do anything the police could not have done themselves."
Lord Justice Leveson. Pic: Reuters
By Andrew Pugh | 03 Dec 2012
Journalists are blaming the impact of Leveson for a police refusal to confirm the identity of the latest high-profile suspect questioned in relation to the Jimmy Savile child abuse investigation.
By Dominic Ponsford | 19 Nov 2012
Journalists are among 10,000 individuals who could face legal action over Twitter messages which wrongly linked Lord McAlpine to the 2 November Newsnight report about child abuse at a North Wales care home.
New Broadcasting House. Pic: Reuters
By PA Mediapoint | 15 Nov 2012
The BBC was too slow to deal with the unfolding sex scandal surrounding Leeds-born presenter Jimmy Savile, according to a former high ranking corporation executive.
George Monbiot - has already apologised for McAlpine tweets
By Dominic Ponsford | 15 Nov 2012
Lord McAlpine's solicitors have indicated that they intend to go after every individual who linked him on Twitter to the BBC Newsnight child abuse allegations of 2 November.
Newsnight's child-abuse claims source Steven Messham
By Dominic Ponsford | 13 Nov 2012
Confusion over whether Newsnight's disastrous 2 November report was a 'Savile' story has been cited as one reason why an unnamed senior Conservative politician was wrongly accused of child abuse.

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