Posted by
William Turvill
on 31 January 2012 at 10:15
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, People, Radio, Regional Newspapers, awards
BBC Radio Kent presenter Julia George received a double honour at this year’s Kent Media Awards.
As well as being named Journalist of the Year, George also won the Kent Broadcast Journalist of the Year award. (more…)
Posted by
Jennifer Norton
on 9 January 2012 at 13:18
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Television
The BBC has abandoned a two-month inquiry into past sex allegations against the late Jimmy Savile, the Daily Mail reports.
According to the Mail, Newsnight reporters began researching claims the star behaved inappropriately towards teenage girls in the 1970s shortly after his death last October. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 17 October 2011 at 11:02
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism
The BBC has promised to appeal after one of its reporters in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan was found guilty of complicity in the activities of banned Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Urunboy Usmonov was first detained by security services in June when he was allegedly denied access to his family, colleagues or a lawyer. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 27 September 2011 at 09:37
Tags: BBC, Journalism, New Media, Online
The BBC News website picked up the award for general excellence in journalism at the international Online Journalism Awards.
It was the only UK-based site to pick up a prize at the US-based event.
The BBC scooped the prize ahead of the New York Times, Washington Post and Al-Jazeera English. (more…)
Posted by
Kelly Alford
on 6 September 2011 at 10:24
Tags: BBC, Broadcast
The BBC is proposing a cap of £75,000 on redundancy payouts as part of plans to save company spending by 20 per cent, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The move comes after revelations that deputy director-general, Mark Byford, was paid a redundancy package of £949,000 in June when he left the company after 32 years at the BBC. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 30 August 2011 at 14:31
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Newspapers
News organisations are being pressured into handing over footage of the London riots by the Metropolitan Police ,according to The Guardian.
The paper claimed it was one of several newspapers and broadcasters asked to hand over pictures and video footage of the riots, including Sky News.
Media organsaiations that are resisting attempts to hand over footage also include the BBC, The Times and ITN, according to a report on The Guardian’s website.
Posted by
KimHeinz
on 30 August 2011 at 10:15
Tags: BBC, Broadcast
The BBC pays out £32.5m a year to more than 8,000 staff considered to work “unpredictable” hours because they only get two weeks’ notice of their shift patterns.
The majority of staff are believed to be based in the BBC’s news teams, according to an article in The Daily Telegraph.
The payments are referred to as “flexibility allowance” and mean that staff at the corporation “can pocket an extra 10 per cent of their salary as a bonus if they are notified of their precise hours of work 14 days in advance, while those signed up to receive one week’s warning of their shifts receive an extra 20 per cent”, the paper claimed.
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 11 August 2011 at 09:18
Tags: BBC, Journalism, New Media, Online, People
The BBC is said to be unimpressed with a spoof website which reported Gordon Brown supposedly admitting his affair with Ann Widdecombe.
The fake website, which had been running for two years, is also said to link to actual BBC stories. It has now been taken down by its creators.
The Telegraph reports that other celebrity stories published included one about Philip Schofield being kidnapped by a gang demanding £5 million.
The BBC said: “The website is not authorised by or connected with the BBC and we are considering our options.”
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 5 August 2011 at 10:33
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Journalism Technology, Media Business, Mobile, New Media, Online
The number of people using smartphones to browse for news and information has more than doubled over the last year according to new Ofcom research.
Ofcom’s latest Communications Market Report states that in April 2011, 23 per cent of mobile internet users claimed to access news and information every day compared to 10 per cent a year previously. (more…)
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 2 August 2011 at 09:17
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, International, Journalism, People, Television
Nato-led forces in Afghanistan are investigating the death of a BBC journalist after fears that he may have been killed by international forces.
According to the BBC, Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, 25, was one of 19 people, including 12 children, killed in attacks on a TV and radio station in Tarin Kot, in the southern province of Uruzgan last week.
The BBC reports that it has asked for an inquiry due to conflicting reports which came to light as to who had fired the fatal shots. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 July 2011 at 07:30
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Radio, Television
The NUJ’s second BBC-wide journalists’ strike in protest at threatened compulsory redundancies is due to take place on Monday, 1 August.
The strike had been due to take place this Friday but has been delayed “following representations from the BBC”, Ariel reports.
A first strike held in response to the current round of cutbacks on 15 July led to major disruption of news output.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 5 July 2011 at 09:07
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Radio, Television
Budget cutbacks may mean that hundreds of journalism jobs are set to be cut at the BBC - but that doesn’t mean that there are no jobs there for journalists, according to head of the BBC College of Journalism Jonathan Baker.
Writing on the CoJo blog he says: “The BBC employs several thousand journalists. At any point in time, people are arriving, changing jobs, or leaving. So opportunities arise regularly.” (more…)
Posted by
Myriam Dijck
on 1 July 2011 at 09:37
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, People, Radio
Award-winning journalists David Dunseith, best known as the host of BBC Radio Ulster’s Talk Back programme, has died.
Dunseith grew up in Derry and began his career in the police. In the 1970s he switched careers to journalism after being offered a reporter job at Ulster Television, before becoming a producer and UTV Reports presenter.
UTV colleague Paul Clark said Dunseith had one of the most distinctive voices in broadcasting.
Posted by
Myriam Dijck
on 29 June 2011 at 13:12
Tags: BBC, Broadcast
Ofcom should be the final judge on complaints of accuracy and impartiality at the BBC, according to a House of Lords committee report.
The report looked into the governance and regulation of the BBC and said that accuracy and impartiality is the only remaining major area of BBC broadcast content that is not regulated by an external body.
It concluded that the BBC Trust and independent media regulator Ofcom should work together to resolve impartiality and accuracy issues.
Posted by
Peter Stuart
on 17 June 2011 at 08:19
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Journalism education, Student Journalism, Television
The BBC College of Journalism has introduced three courses offering training on a commercial basis.
The move comes at a time when the college - like the rest of the BBC - is being hit by budget cuts. According to reports which the BBC has not denied, BBC news is facing proposals for a 20 per cent budget cut - or £89m. The Guardian has suggested that up to 1,000 journalists could be cut from the BBC and again the corporation has declined to confirm or deny this.
The three courses will include ‘Social Media and Digital Journalism’, ‘Editorial Leadership’ and a ‘New Journalist’ programme. (more…)
Posted by
Sam Brodbeck
on 8 June 2011 at 10:24
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Radio
The Today programme has been accused of “poisoning discourse in this country” by comic writer Graham Linehan after something of a ‘car-crash’ interview with Justin Webb on the Today programme.
Linehan – the writer behind comedies such as Father Ted, Black Books and the IT Crowd – claimed he was “ambushed” into a “typical Today programme bunfight”, after being invited on to the show to discuss his part in a new stage adaptation of The Ladykillers. (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 7 June 2011 at 14:18
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism
The BBC is refusing to disclose how much it spent on its royal wedding coverage, the anti-royalist campaign group Republic has claimed.
Under the Freedom of Information Act the BBC is exempt from releasing information relating to journalism, but Republic is now appealing to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 2 June 2011 at 06:40
Tags: BBC, Customer publishing, Freedom of Information, Journalism Jobs, Journalism education, Launch Pad, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Online, PR, People, Regional Newspapers, Television
Swindon Advertiser editor Dave King is standing down after four years at the helm of the Wiltshire daily.
In an interview with local community news website Swindon Link, King said he was quitting to relocate back to the south coast, but the report also said:
Unfortunately, Dave was not able to bid farewell to colleagues and friends. Having made the decision to leave, Dave was told by Newsquest management not to return after the Whitsun Bank Holiday - although he was due to depart on 6 June.
According to Swindon Link, King is being replaced by Gary Lawrence, the current editor of the group’s Wiltshire weeklies, who has been appointed group editor for Newsquest Wiltshire.
The website also reports that Newsquest is undertaking a “major reorganisation” and creating a publishing hub in Oxford.
It added:
The features department is being folded into news and all the sub-editors jobs are being moved to Oxford where they will be expected to work on a range of titles covering Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
Quite a few staff have chosen to take redundancy rather than make the 30-mile trek to Oxford to work on non-area specific publications.
King dismissed rumours that the Advertiser could become a bi-weekly or weekly title.
Newsquest was asked to comment on King’s departure but the regional managing director for Newsquest Oxfordshire & Wiltshire, Shamus Donald, yesterday did not return calls.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 19 April 2011 at 13:29
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, New Media, Newspapers, Online, Radio, Television
A study carried out by Tim Bishop of the BBC for both the BBC and the Newspaper Society sheds new light on where local news comes from.
He monitored news stories reported in Northamptonshire for a month on various media and concluded that the vast majority of frontline news reporting was carried out by the local newspapers in the patch.
It underlines the point that the regional press is the bedrock of British journalism because it does so much of the original reporting that other media rely on. (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 19 April 2011 at 12:19
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Television
A BBC Trust investigation into the Panorama episode ‘Death in the Med’ has concluded the programme was “accurate and impartial” overall but contained three breaches of the corporation’s editorial guidelines.
‘Death in the Med’, broadcast on 16 August 2010, focused on events on the night of 31 May 2010, when Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara, which was part of an aid flotilla attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. (more…)
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