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Amid a catalogue of changing faces and evolving content at the BBC, one of its longest-running and internationally respected news programmes, Dateline London, is set to finish at the end of the summer The show, built around foreign correspondents based in London providing their outsider's view of events in the UK, has…

The BBC is facing a fresh gender pay row, with its plans to allow managers to sign off discretionary salary increases for staff. The Times reports that the Corporation is facing challenges over these plans from both unions and its well-established BBC Women employee network – amid concern that female employees could…

Brexitcast co-host Chris Mason, who has been a BBC News Political Correspondent for the past decade, has been promoted to become Laura Kuenssberg’s replacement as BBC News Political Editor. The role is arguably the most important and challenging across the British news landscape and Kuenssberg is stepping down after…

More details have been revealed about Piers Morgan’s new topical show for Rupert Murdoch’s Talk TV, titled Piers Morgan Uncensored. In a first-of-a-kind move, the sixty-minute show will be streamed live across Murdoch’s platforms including Fox Nation in the U.S. and Sky News Australia, along with the soon-to-launch…

The BBC's website, Facebook and Twitter were all blocked in Russia overnight. This move came after the Russian parliament approved sanctions against "foreigners who infringe on the rights of Russian citizens.” Such sanctions include asset freezes and bans on companies operating in the country. The BBC's…

Nadine Dorries’ views on the UK’s beleaguered national broadcasting corporation have been polarising since she was promoted to the role of Culture Secretary in September 2021, but in an interview with the Sunday Times, she emphasised her wish to protect the BBC into the future. “Our responsibility is to save the BBC…

BBC Director General Tim Davie has blamed personal error rather than swingeing cuts to its news team for last month’s heavily-criticized Alan Dershowitz interview, which came immediately after the guilty Ghislaine Maxwell verdict. Questioned by a UK House of Lords Committee on what was to blame, Davie put the mistake…

Andrew Neil has compared GB News to a "UKIP tribute band" and said the Discovery-backed news channel, which he split from acrimoniously over the summer, may "fall into irrelevance and obscurity" if it doesn't sort production values and ratings. Neil said he doesn't want the news channel to be the "full stop on my…

BBC Director General Tim Davie has made his second mega impartiality intervention since taking over a year ago as the review set up in the wake of the Martin Bashir scandal reports back. Revealed this morning as a 10-point plan “focused on impartiality, editorial standards and whistleblowing”, the BBC will now…

BBC News is reporting that a third party has reported sexual offenses by a man to police following recent claims against actor Noel Clarke. Police said they were assessing the information, which was reported on April 21. A third party report in the UK is anonymous, so the allegation cannot be investigated by the…

BBC Radio host DJ Sideman announced that he’s quitting the team following a reporter’s use of the n-word in a news segment.  The BBC Radio 1xtra host, whose real name is David Whitely, announced his departure from BBC in an Instagram post. “I just don’t feel comfortable being aligned with the organization,” Whitely…

A BBC reporter used the N-word without censorship during a report on an unprovoked racist attack on a British healthcare worker. Fiona Lamdin, a social affairs correspondent, was reporting on the incident in the city of Bristol for regional BBC news service Points West on Tuesday evening. During her description of the…