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Special Investigation: ‘The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’
Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening
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South Africa 2024 Elections: UK Media ‘Makes No Effort to Understand Why the Country Views the World So Differently From the West’
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on unpicking the narratives around South Africa’s stance on two of the world’s biggest geopolitical issues
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How Nigel Farage, Major Media Outlets and Ofcom ‘Normalised Islamophobia and Then Justified It’
Farage would be cancelled if he said the same things about Jews as he does Muslims – yet he gets endless airtime
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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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Conservative Politicians and Press ‘Driving Spike’ in Disinformation on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and 15-Minute Cities, Report Finds
A landmark study on the LTN policy finds that Government figures have latched onto cynical fear-mongering
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The Spectacle of Impunity: Phone-Hacking Cover-Up Claims Cross the Atlantic
With news that senior Murdoch executives now face a civil trial, Peter Jukes looks back on a decade of deceit
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Julian Assange’s Wife Urges Joe Biden to Drop Pursuit of Husband as he Wins Right to Appeal US Extradition
The Australian Prime Minister has urged Biden to let the WikiLeaks founder return home, as he waits in London’s Belmarsh prison for his next court hearing
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Toxic Media Climate: ‘Air Pollution Is As Invisible in the Press As It Is in Our Atmosphere’
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on how journalists have covered ULEZ, often politicising the issue rather than exploring it through a health lens
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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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‘When Articles Exclude Voices of People They’re About, It’s Dehumanising’ – UK’s Biggest Media Players are the Worst Offenders
Once you notice their silence, you can’t not hear it – introducing a new Byline Times column to accompany the new series of the hit podcast Media Storm
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Murdoch Empire Hacked Politicians for Commercial Gain and Hid Evidence, New Report Suggests
New evidence suggests that Murdoch’s company targeted politicians of every rank, including the Attorney General and Chancellor
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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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Rishi to the Rescue: How the Prime Minister ‘Moved Heaven and Earth to Help the Conservative Press’
The Government went to bat for Conservative media titans to quickly block the Telegraph takeover bid – yet more pressing reforms often take years to progress
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‘Ofcom is Fine With Political Parties Interviewing Themselves on GB News During the General Election’
The former Chief Executive of ITN and Ofcom Partner for Contents and Standards digs deeper into the regulator’s partial research into ‘due impartiality’
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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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‘Gideon Falter Came to a Pro-Palestine Demo Looking to Provoke – And the Media Gave him What He Wanted’
The chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism appears to have got ‘exactly what he came for’ at the march, according to a witness who was there
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Special Investigation: The Far-Right Grooming of Survivors of Child Sexual Exploitation
Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the cover story of the May 2024 print edition is one which must urgently be told
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Caroline Flack’s Lawyer Suggests Decision to Charge her May Have Been ‘Driven by Desire’ to Appease Media as Met Police Probe Case
A recent Byline Times investigation uncovered evidence that led to the Metropolitan Police announcing that it is re-examining its decision to charge the TV star with assault
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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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Catfish Nation: Hundreds Targeted in Same Sexual WhatsApp Scam as Law ‘Struggles to Keep Up’ with Phenomenon
As Westminster is rocked by a ‘honeypot’ scandal, Byline Times has uncovered two strikingly similar catfish conspiracies targeting celebrities and the public over the past five years
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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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‘Media Attacks on NHS Translation and Diversity Spending Completely Miss the Point of the Health Service’
The Express suggested that £100 million of NHS spending on translators should be spent on nurses – but ensuring patients get the care they need is fundamental and a legal requirement, writes NHS consultant David Oliver
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Princess Diana ‘Phone Pest’ Story Links Both Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan to the ‘Criminal-Media Nexus’ of Police Corruption
An amended claim by Prince Harry in the High Court puts both the interviewer and newspaper mogul in the spotlight
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‘Telegraph Takeover Bid Backed by UAE Doesn’t Matter – Because there’s an Agenda at Every Newspaper’
A former Editor of The Independent provides an inside look at just how much influence the owners of British newspapers – including Rupert Murdoch – have on what gets written
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‘The Royal Family’s Sustainability In Its Current Form Can No Longer Be Guaranteed’
The social media frenzy around the Princess of Wales’ absence from public life reveals the most fundamental tension in our modern monarchy: the codependence of the Royal Family and the press, writes Jonathan Lis
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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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‘Starmer Cosied Up to the Murdoch Press in the Same Week It Faced New Allegations of Criminality – Why?’
The latest legal claims allege that law-breaking at the Murdoch tabloids has been even more widespread and systematic than previously acknowledged
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Getting ‘Closure for Carrie’ – the Family of Caroline Flack is Seeking New Answers from Scotland Yard after Byline Times probe
New evidence uncovered in a Byline Times #MediaToo investigation questions the assault charge that led to the TV presenter’s suicide
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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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Remembering Pierre: ‘Being Around him was Like Standing in a Shaft of Sunlight’
Anita McNaught pays tribute to an exceptional TV news cameraman who was killed two years ago in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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Sunak’s Private Meetings With Murdochs and Right-Wing Editors Were Purely ‘Social’ Says Government
Voters will never know what was discussed between the PM and media bosses
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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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Green Party is Battling for Fair Coverage as Media Relies on “Shock Factor” of Reform UK, Leaders Say
As Reform UK dominates the media spotlight amid rumoured Conservative defections, the Green Party’s co-leaders call out the UK media for its disproportionate coverage of hard-right figures
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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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Conservative Promos Banned by Local Newspaper After Party ‘Wrongly Suggests Paper Endorsed’ Candidate
“A political line has been crossed – and we are angry”, the paper’s editor wrote.
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These Elections Will be Fought Dirty and in the Shadows. VoteWatch Will Help Shine a Light
We need your help to follow the money, call out corrupt campaigning, and monitor voter suppression wherever it occurs
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Prince Harry Demands Piers Morgan Police Probe as ‘Shockingly Dishonest’ Mirror Pays Out Again Over Hacking
Substantial evidence of criminal behaviour and cover-up at Mirror Group Newspapers emerged last summer at trial
