The BBC is “temporarily suspending” the work of all its news journalists and support staff in Russia after authorities passed legislation cracking down on foreign outlets. Director-General Tim Davie said the new law appeared to “criminalise the process of independent journalism” in the country. The Russian parliament approved a law on Friday that would make…
In Altered Photo from Public TV Network, Nuclear Plant Appears to Issue Black Smoke Instead of Water Vapor
February 10, 2022
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ZDF, one of Germany’s public television networks, has released and deleted a modified photograph of a nuclear plant in a Facebook post, sparking mockery and outrage at a time of intense debate over the low-emission power source’s future during a worldwide push for decarbonization. Like the BBC in the United Kingdom, ZDF is funded in…
Ex-NBC Exec Turness Named CEO for BBC News, Current Affairs
LONDON—The BBC announced Thursday that it has appointed Deborah Turness as its new chief executive for news and current affairs, bringing to the broadcaster a vastly experienced journalist who previously held senior leadership positions at the news division of American TV network NBC. Turness, 54, comes to the BBC from British media company ITN, where…
BBC’s Younger Journalists ‘Do Not Understand’ Impartiality, Say Former Editors
Some of the BBC’s younger journalists “do not understand” impartiality, former editors of the British public broadcaster have warned. Giving evidence to the Communications and Digital Committee of the House of Lords on Tuesday, the BBC’s former head of TV news Roger Mosey said, “Some younger journalists don’t understand it in the way it was…
BBC Should Be Partly Privatised: UK Taxpayers’ Alliance
The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), a UK pressure group campaigning for a low-tax society, has called for the part privatisation of the BBC and the scrapping of the “outdated” licence fee. In a new report (pdf) released on Tuesday, the TPA said that “a part privatisation of the BBC would abolish the outdated licence fee and…
BBC Under Fire Over Woke Privilege Test
The BBC has come under criticism over a privilege test it offers as part of its diversity training. A former cabinet minister ridiculed the test—dubbed “The Ally Track”—as “either nonsense or worse,” and said the view it preaches does not ring true for the BBC’s audiences. Those who take the test are asked to answer…
BBC Presenter Lisa Shaw Died Due to AstraZeneca Vaccine Complications: Coroner
An award-winning BBC radio presenter died due to complications from the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a coroner has concluded. Lisa Shaw, who worked for BBC Newcastle, died at the age of 44 in May after developing “severe” headaches a week after having the AstraZeneca CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine, and falling seriously ill a few…
BBC Reporter Says Russia Told Her Never to Return
MOSCOW—A BBC journalist said on Saturday that Russia was expelling her and had told her she could never return in “devastating” treatment showing the country she reported on for years was turning inwards. In an unusual move at a time of already poor bilateral ties, Russia said Sarah Rainsford—one of the British broadcaster’s two English-language…
China Lodges Representations With BBC Over Flood Reporting
BEIJING—China has lodged a stern representation with Britain’s BBC over its reporting of the floods in Henan and a statement over how foreign journalists were being treated, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The head of communications for the BBC World Service declined to comment. The broadcaster had said in a statement last month that…
How Readers Rated the Media Bias of AP, BBC and The Epoch Times, and More
In September, we released the findings of our August 2020 Blind Bias Survey, in which over 2,000 people across the political spectrum rated the media bias of five different news outlets blindly, seeing only their content and story choice but not the name of the news publication. Below are visualizations of the data we collected. In…
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