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BBC must reform or face uncertain future, says chairman

Source: DNA India, Nov 11 2012, 6:16am CST

Britain's BBC must undergo a radical overhaul in the wake of "shoddy" journalism which led to the resignation of its chief or its future will be in doubt, the head of the state-funded broadcaster's governing body said on Sunday. Chris ...

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'Newsnight' journalists win top award for axed Jimmy Savile report

Source: Digital Spy  |   May 22 2013, 5:01pm CDT

Two Newsnight journalists have taken home a top award for their shelved report on disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile. Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones, alongside two other journalists, won 'Scoop of the Year' at the London Press Club Awards. Mackean and Jone ...

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BBC increases pay offer to lowest earners in bid to head off strikes

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 22 2013, 11:38am CDT

Corporation bosses offered to increase its flat-rate rise to staff earning under £60,000 to £650, from £600, in a meeting with broadcasting unions on Tuesday. Broadcasting unions rejected the BBC's initial pay offer earlier this mont ...

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"BBC getting into deeper mess. After Savile scandal, now prominent news program falsely names senior pol as paedophile"


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BBC Newsnight journalists win award for spiked Jimmy Savile investigation

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 22 2013, 11:14am CDT

Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones were joint winners of scoop of the year for the axed Newsnight investigation into the Jimmy Savile scandal. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones, who worked on Newsn ...

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BBC won't publish 'Newsnight' editor Ian Katz salary

Source: Digital Spy  |   May 21 2013, 1:01pm CDT

The BBC will not publish the salary of incoming Newsnight editor Ian Katz. The Guardian's deputy editor has replaced the outgoing Peter Rippon, who left during the Jimmy Savile scandal last year. "I don't think we'll be publishing th ...

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Songs of Praise investigated after 'serious concerns' over production contract

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 21 2013, 11:46am CDT

Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, has asked the BBC’s Investigations Unit to look into “serious concerns” about the commissioning practices of its religion and ethics department over, saying that the matter “should be referred to the poli ...

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Media Monkey's Diary: Graham Norton pokes fun at BBC, Mail's imperial plans

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 19 2013, 12:45pm CDT

✒Is it too soon for the BBC to carry jokes about the Jimmy Savile scandal? Apparently not, as long as it's Graham Norton that's making them. At last weekend's Bafta TV awards Norton's opening monologue was run in full, although some of the g ...

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BBC treats Right-wing lunatic like normal human being shock

Source: Brassneck | Telegraph Blogs  |   May 19 2013, 6:45am CDT

The Returned: beyond awesome. Get the Mogwai soundtrack album too. What was the reason you gave up watching the BBC's Late Review (or Newsnight Review as it then became) or the BBC Review Show as it now is? For me it was the regular guest cal ...

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Newsnight needs less of the night, more of the news

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 19 2013, 3:21am CDT

The question – you might call it the £4m question after the Help for Heroes debacle – is whether Newsnight deserves to survive. Not exposing Savile, falsely exposing McAlpine, painfully exposing toxic staff c ...

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BBC apologises to Help for Heroes over 'misleading' Newsnight report

Source: Third Sector  |   May 17 2013, 7:04am CDT

The BBC has apologised to Help for Heroes for "unfair" criticism of the charity in a Newsnight report last August. A report by BBC Newsnight and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism broadcast on 9 August included a number of wounded ...

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