Television
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.
News organisations have defended their decisions to broadcast controversial video footage shot in the immediate aftermath of the Woolwich terror attack.
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.
The BBC has increased its pay offer to its lowest-earning staff but the improved deal looks unlikely to prevent industrial action.
ITV News has confirmed that it is on the hunt for a new editor and that Deborah Turness is leaving to become president of New York-based NBC News.
She will leave in July after eight years as editor. She was both the youngest ever ITV News editor and also the first woman to hold that role.
John Prescott has launched an attack on the BBC for its “ridiculous” wages and the cost of its relocation to Salford.
The former Deputy Prime Minister used his regular Sunday Mirror column to criticise the taxpayer-funded broadcast after the National Audit Office last week unveiled its relocation bill.
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”.
Newsnight is tonight set to broadcast an on-air apology after mistakenly accusing the charity Help for Heroes of misspending cash.
Guardian deputy editor and head of news Ian Katz has been recruited by the BBC as the new editor of Newsnight.
Veteran broadcast David Frost has suggested that new BBC director general needs to thin out BBC management.
The BBC has been accused of “double standards” after offering below-inflation pay rises while splashing out £1 million on new senior salaries.
Ranked number two according to size of economy but 179th for press freedom out of 196 countries.
Three separate Jimmy Savile stories have this year been shortlisted for scoop of the year at the London Press Club Awards.
The BBC is to review its bullying and harassment policy and remove gagging clauses from future BBC contracts and compromise agreements.
The National Union of Journalists has praised a video journalist for refusing to hand over full footage from a demonstration to the police.
How Axegrinder broke Watergate
Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre was landed in hot water by The Observer just before Christmas when it interviewed her and published the following Tweet:
As a jury-member for this year’s One World Media Awards, which promotes media that contributes to understanding of international development, BBC Storyville editor Nick Frazer talks about how the documentary collection Why Poverty? succeeded in taking a ‘forbidding subject’ to audiences in 80 countries.
Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre believes newspapers have questions to answer for not exposing Jimmy Savile as a sex offender.
The BBC has refused to cave in to mounting pressure to drop a documentary about North Korea, despite facing a barrage of criticism and accusations of putting university students at risk during the trip.
The BBC has confirmed the resignation of the Panorama employee alleged to have tried to bribe a security consultant.
