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Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
Why is the BBC giving so much coverage to a complete non-story about Labour and the Democrats, just because the Republican candidate would like them to?
Threads, a BBC drama-doc, first aired in September 1984, but, as the last two years have shown, the threat of nuclear war is as real now as it ever was
A new much publicised report that claims the BBC is “heavily biased against Israel” flies in the face of other specialist and academic studies
The Pacifist group Peace Pledge Union and its associated peace education charity argue that its advert was “in no way polemical”.
The decision not to syndicate the most famous moments of news broadcasting in recent years would likely cost the BBC millions of pounds in royalties, a source told Byline Times
As Labour heads towards Government, large parts of the press are suddenly starting to notice things they have spent the past 14 years ignoring
Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture can reveal some troubling insights into the flagship political debate programme
Having a figure such as Kuenssberg in such a prominent position during the upheavals of the past 14 years helped the BBC appease its implacable Conservative enemies, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on a new programme arguing against the legalisation of assisted dying – but some viewpoints are missing
As Theresa May’s former Communications Director Robbie Gibb is re-appointed to the BBC board, the new retail edition of Byline Times’ reveals the inside story of how the corporation was cowed by the Conservative party machine
John Sweeney, who worked on the 2015 BBC documentary, explores how the Post Office’s chair was also on the broadcaster’s board while the programme was in production – without declaring it
The comments come despite GB News being subject to a swathe of Ofcom complaints about its broadcasts and Conservative MPs interviewing other Conservative MPs on the channel
The BBC will have to make £90m of cuts on top of its current £400m annual funding gap – while its entire funding model could be ripped up.
The job of journalism is not to reinforce a pre-existing bias, writes Nafeez Ahmed
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores why the cuts announced to the corporation’s flagship news programme are another damning, but unsurprising, blow to its reputation
A potential cover-up I unearthed in the weeds of Nadine Dorries’s book remains a mystery. It has damaged the BBC, the broadcast regulator, and the process of public appointments
The attack on the BBC by the Israeli President Isaac Herzog is now being weaponised by political enemies who have long wanted to destroy the public service broadcaster
Former BBC reporter and producer Patrick Howse explores the damage done to the broadcaster in its attempts to appease enemies that want it destroyed
In an exchange on BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’ programme, the MP was shut down by Evan Davis when he mentioned this newspaper’s special investigation into the now suspended GB News presenter Dan Wootton
Why do Russell Brand, Daniel Wootton and even Rupert Murdoch claim they are the victims of impersonal dark forces?
People who complain of abuse and harassment in the often cosy, claustrophobic and interconnected world of British media face an uphill battle
“There are a small number of people who believe that Covid is no big deal anymore. That’s wrong,” Doctors in Unite Covid lead Dr Jonathan Fluxman tells Byline Times
Nothing drastic is required if a new government is to tackle the obvious crisis in the way we get our news, while the benefits of change could be enormous
How did they allow a threadbare tale from a totally discredited news source to swamp the airwaves and the news pages, asks Brian Cathcart
The disgraced former Prime Minister’s long career at the top of British politics should be a matter of national shame
The Conservative Party’s huge defeats in the local elections reveal a party that is increasingly out of step with modern Britain, reports Adam Bienkov
Richard Sharp pumped money into a group that funds causes like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, Eurosceptics and the BBC-bashing News-Watch. Now the Charity Commission is “engaging” with his foundation
Messages sent between BBC editors and reporters appear to confirm longstanding suspicions of a pro-Government bias inside the corporation, writes Adam Bienkov
Former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse explores why the BBC’s reluctance to tell us when we are being lied to is well past its sell by date
When questioned, a spokesperson for Richard Sharp referred Byline Times to the Bank of England
Exclusive Omnisis poll finds public believes Richard Sharp should now quit over the loan scandal involving Boris Johnson, as a committee of MPs urge him to “reflect” on his position
BBC Chairman Richard Sharp’s hidden involvement in arranging a £800,000 loan for the former PM exposes the gilded upper circles of politics and media in the UK, writes Adam Bienkov
As the former PM continues to deny he sought financial advice from the BBC’s now Chairman, guidance from his civil servant at the time has contradicted this, reports Josiah Mortimer
To survive, the broadcaster’s governance needs to be completely overhauled, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse