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BBC Question Time: Analysis of Guests Over Nine Years Suggests Overuse of Right-Wing Voices
Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture can reveal some troubling insights into the flagship political debate programme
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GB News Presenter Darren Grimes ‘Playing Into Far-Right Tropes of a Muslim Takeover’
The host posted a series of AI-generated memes featuring Labour leader Keir Starmer in Islamic dress alongside Muslim women
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‘BBC Hopes to Remind Viewers of its Tradition of Authoritative Journalism By Having Clive Myrie Join Laura Kuenssberg for its Election Night Coverage’
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
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How Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code Revisions Are Anything But – And Why Allowing GB News to Cover the General Election is ‘Terrifying’
Ofcom’s attempt at addressing concerns has resulted in ‘no substantive changes’ – but it now says it is considering sanctions against GB News for breaking impartiality rules
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Sangita Myska: More Media Figures Sign Open Letter to LBC Expressing ‘Deep Concern’ About Her Departure
Broadcasters and politicians say they fear her “abrupt” exit from the station means “excellent journalists are at risk for simply doing their job and asking robust questions”.
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‘Why the BBC Should Give a Voice to the Terminally Ill in Its Assisted Dying Documentary’
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
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‘Fire Farage’: Public Wants Ofcom to Ban GB News Politician Presenters
The poll comes as broadcasting regulators give the green light to Nigel Farage and other senior politicians to keep presenting on news channels during the general election
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Ofcom Confirms GB News Is Not Being Held to Different Rules on Impartiality
Julian Petley and the Good Law Project informed the broadcast regulator that it would apply for judicial review of its approach to the controversial channel unless it made clear the same rules apply to it
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‘I Called out “Free Speech Champion” Laurence Fox as a “Racist” – and He Tried (and Failed) to Bully Me into Silence’
In an exclusive interview, Mukhtar Yassin explains how “a normal working-class bloke from the Ends” took on the millionaire-backed Reclaim Party leader
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We’re All ‘Funding Hate’: UK Government Biggest Spender on GB News Advertising
Film producer and former peer David Puttnam speaks up against taxpayer support for the controversial channel
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‘Why We Will Apply to Take Ofcom to Court Unless It Explains Its Approach to GB News’
Julian Petley and the Good Law Project argue that the channel is being held to different standards on impartiality from those governing public service broadcasters
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The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
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
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Dan Wootton Finally Axed from GB News as Ofcom Rules Against Channel in Misogyny Row
The presenter was suspended from the channel in September after his exchange with Laurence Fox
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UK News Coverage of Conflict in Israel and Gaza Showed ‘Overwhelming’ Bias, Report Finds
The Centre for Media Monitoring found that, in the month after the 7 October attacks, pro-Israeli sources were quoted more often and challenged less frequently than Palestinians
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‘The “Dangerous Muslim” Trope is Being Weaponised to Avoid Scrutiny’
Faisal Hanif argues that increasingly desperate politicians are stoking Islamophobia for their own ends
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Two Police Forces to Take No Further Action Against Dan Wootton – As GB News Presenter Reveals Police Scotland as well as The Met Were Investigating
Byline Times has not previously reported on any investigation into the journalist by Police Scotland
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Closure for Carrie: How Caroline Flack’s Mum is Still Fighting for Truth Four Years After Her Death
On the anniversary of Caroline Flack’s death, Byline Times launches a new #MediaToo investigation into her treatment by the police and the media with an interview with her mother Christine
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Keir Starmer and the Labour Party – Press and Pundits Running Out of Dirty Tricks
Veteran media observer Tim Fenton watches as the right wing press paints itself into a pre-election corner
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The BBC vs The Post Office: The Undeclared Conflict of Interest as Panorama Investigated the Horizon Scandal
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
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‘To Restore Trust, Rip Up the Astroturf’
As fake grassroots organisations continue their culture war – we need to fight back, writes Otto English
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Culture Secretary Hits Out at Supposed BBC Bias – But Claims Ofcom-Hit GB News is ‘Balanced’
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
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Rumbled: Dan Wootton ‘Comeback Planned’ on ‘Free Speech’ Platform Used by Russell Brand
Wootton has been suspended from his presenting role on GB News since September after an on-air misogyny storm. Now he is said to be preparing to launch a channel on a controversial video platform
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TalkTV Boss Told Staff to ‘Make a Fuss’ About Channel Migrant Deaths and ‘Get Angry’
A News UK insider described the apparent attempts by the struggling channel to rile up viewers as ‘irresponsible’
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Exposed: How Paparazzi Spied on Phillip Schofield’s Sick Mother
While Philip Schofield’s 87-year-old mother was receiving medical attention, both she and her son were secretly filmed by the UK’s ‘Number One Papparazzi’ – as media interest in the troubled presenter continues
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Witnesses Interviewed as Police and Murdoch Probes Into Dan Wootton Continue
Scotland Yard and News UK are continuing to investigate serious allegations about the conduct of Dan Wootton following this newspaper’s special investigation into the journalist and presenter
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Ministers Accused of Waging ‘Culture War’ on BBC Amid Licence Review and More Cuts
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.
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‘The BBC’s Claim About COP28 Secret Oil Deals Is Deeply Flawed’
The job of journalism is not to reinforce a pre-existing bias, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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‘The BBC’s Evisceration of Newsnight is a Craven Admission of Defeat’
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
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‘I’m A Non-Entity Get Me Out Of Here’
Otto English has been watching Nigel Farage in the jungle so you don’t have to.
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Did Boris Johnson’s Circle Try to ‘Fix’ Who Became Head of Ofcom?
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
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Israel’s Complaints Against the BBC are Being Cynically Exploited in a Domestic Culture War
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
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Tim Davie and the Tory Backbenchers: ‘There’s No Longer Any Pretence BBC’s Reputation for Impartiality Matters to the Corporation’s Leadership’
Former BBC reporter and producer Patrick Howse explores the damage done to the broadcaster in its attempts to appease enemies that want it destroyed
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‘Our Small Site DemocracyUnlocked had to Shut Down after Reporting on Dan Wootton’
Olly Boon reflects on the devastation of a group, DemocracyUnlocked, dedicated to telling readers the truth, which had to cease operating after receiving legal threats from the TV presenter
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‘GB News, Grooming Gangs and Suella Braverman’s Racialised Tropes’
Why were sufficient numbers not outraged when the troubled broadcaster was giving a platform to dangerous views claiming Pakistani men are the main perpetrators of this form of child sexual abuse?
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Disappearing Act: Major Publishers Including Guardian and Mirror Delete Stories on Dan Wootton Police Investigation After Legal Threat
Publishers and members of the public were threatened with exemplary damages and punitive costs by the presenter’s lawyer – but Byline Times stands firm in its reporting
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Police Investigating Dan Wootton Over Allegations of 10-Year Catfishing Campaign Following Byline Times’ Special Investigation
Scotland Yard has announced that a man in his 40s is under a formal investigation. It comes three months after Byline Times handed a dossier of evidence about 40-year-old GB News star Dan Wootton to detectives
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Five GB News Men Accused of Sexual Impropriety as Channel Engulfed by Wootton-Fox Misogyny Storm
As GB News goes into meltdown following Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox’s on air comments about Ava Evans, Byline Times reveals the controversial personal histories of five employees – including CEO Angelos Frangopoulos, who enjoys the protection of a non-disclosure agreement over sexual harassment allegations
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GB News ‘Axes’ Dan Wootton After Fox Storm and Catfish Scandal: The Full Story
Dan Evans and Tom Latchem reveal Dan Wootton’s departure from GB News looks set to be permanent – and examine the true cost to the network of sticking by a £600,000-a-year employee who broke editorial codes with impunity and engaged in sordid activities posing as the fictitious ‘Martin Branning’ and ‘Maria Joseph’
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Byline Times’ Wootton Allegations ‘Unfounded’, BBC Producer Tells MP John Nicolson
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
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Cancelling the Canceller: How ‘Martin Branning’ Made Dan Wootton a Timebomb
The GB News anchor has been suspended from his £600,000-a-year primetime show, and fired from his £250,000-a-year MailOnline column. Here we tell how his fall was inevitable, following Byline Times’ special investigation
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‘This is a Network Problem’: Dan Wootton Suspended from GB News
The war between GB News’ Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton led to the presenter being suspended following a day of drama at the news channel – after the broadcaster remained largely silent on allegations exposed by Byline Times’ special investigation
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Inside GB News’ Misinformation Factory
Max Colbert and Josiah Mortimer explore the extremist and conspiratorial rhetoric fostered on the go-to channel for the hard-right, and an outlet Conservative MPs still call home
