The BBC has resumed reporting from Russia after suspending it last week in light of draconian new censorship laws. “We have considered the implications of the new legislation alongside the urgent need to report from inside Russia,” the broadcaster said in a statement. “After careful deliberation we have decided to resume English language reporting from Russia this evening [Tuesday, March 8], after it was temporarily suspended at the end of last week.”
New Russian legislation ”appears to criminalize the process of independent journalism,“ BBC director-general Tim Davie says.
Award-winning journalist and former BBC World News anchor Katty Kay is returning to the BBC as U.S. special correspondent for BBC Studios, working on documentaries, podcasts and news. Kay left […]
As Russia is trying to cut off the flow of information in Ukraine by attacking its communications infrastructure, the British news outlet BBC is revisiting a broadcasting tactic popularized during World War II: shortwave radio. The BBC said this week that it would use radio frequencies that can travel for long distances and be accessible on portable radios to broadcast its World Service news in English for four hours a day in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and in parts of Russia.
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a group including the BBC, New York Times, Microsoft and Adobe, is working toward a common technical standard for media provenance to push back against the deluge of disinformation and deepfakes assaulting news. Their work on content authentication is swinging into high gear this winter.
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The British public broadcaster moved a youth-focused channel online, but now it’s changing course as viewing habits continue to mutate. Above, shows on BBC Three, which is aimed at younger viewers, include RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. vs the World (left), Freeze: Skating On The Edge and Fleabag.
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) today announced that BBC Studios, representing the BBC Group, will become an IBCAP member. As part of its membership, IBCAP will play an instrumental role in protecting the BBC’s channels […]
The initiative, following a review set up in the wake of the Princess Diana interview scandal, is also designed to ensure the U.K. public broadcaster’s programs and content “truly reflect the broad public, which it serves.”
The U.S. media group, which operates broadcast network NBC, a slew of cable networks and streamer Peacock, and the British public broadcaster have teamed up to find unscripted shows that can work both in the States and UK. The pair will hunt for shows produced by British producers across unscripted genres and will look to co-commission pilots or develop projects with series potential.
Fran Unsworth, BBC director of news and current affairs, will leave the BBC in Jan. 2022. Unsworth was in the role from Jan. 2018 and oversaw all of the BBC’s news and current affairs programming. The process to appoint her successor will begin shortly, the BBC said.
At 95, Sir David Attenborough is nominated this year for an eighth and ninth Emmy for his narration on two BBC nature series, A Perfect Planet and The Year Earth Changed. After becoming the British public broadcaster’s director of programs, Attenborough later resigned to focus on creating a collection of bar-raising wildlife documentaries known as the Life series.
The BBC said today that star Jodie Whittaker will leave the venerable science fiction series next year, along with showrunner Chris Chibnall. Whittaker will bow out after a new six-episode series later this year and three specials in 2022.
Major U.S. streamers including Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ could be regulated for the first time in the UK as part of proposals being considered by Boris Johnson’s government. Ministers at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have announced that they will consult on plans to subject the streaming giants to British broadcasting laws, bringing them in line with the BBC, ITV, Sky and others.
The BBC is engulfed in one of the biggest crises in its 100-year history after an independent inquiry concluded that former reporter Martin Bashir (r) deceived his way to a Princess Diana interview and the broadcaster failed to properly investigate his wrongdoing. Former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson’s inquiry elicited a blistering statement from Prince William, who was excoriating about the BBC’s failings. The future King said the 1995 Panorama interview “contributed significantly” to the “fear, paranoia and isolation” of his mother in her tragic final years.
LONDON (AP) — A BBC journalist used “deceitful behavior” to secure an explosive interview with Princess Diana in 1995, in a “serious breach” of the broadcaster’s guidelines, according to investigation […]
The BBC is planning to move £700 million ($977 million) of spend and hundreds of jobs outside of London as the corporation bids to better reflect the U.K.’s nations and regions after being criticized by government ministers for having a “narrow urban outlook.” The BBC’s so-called “Across The UK” strategy was announced to employees on Thursday morning, and is being touted by BBC top brass as one of the most radical reorganizations of the broadcaster in its nearly 100-year history. Above, BBC Director General Tim Davie.
Here are the complete videos and story links for TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum, featuring a keynote interview with veteran news producer David Bohrman and news and technology leaders from ABC News, Hearst, Tegna, NBCU Owned Television Stations, CBS Owned Stations, ABC Owned Stations, Gray Television, Graham Media, Sinclair, E.W. Scripps, Meredith, BBC, AJ+ and more.
For the first time in its 63-year history, BBC Studios’ renowned Natural History Unit is setting up shop outside the U.K. In 2021, the NHU will launch a permanent satellite office in Los Angeles. The new U.S. operation will allow the production unit to better serve its growing roster of American buyers, with a laser focus on the streamers.
Executives and editors from the BBC, CNN, ABC Owned Stations and Gray Television will look at how their storytelling on digital platforms will change in 2021 amid ongoing remote production and emerging technology at TVNewsCheck’s virtual NewsTECHForum on Dec. 16. Register here.
The online event this week underscored 2020’s biggest TV tech trend — moving on-premise broadcast workflows and vendor products to the cloud — while anticipating 5G’s potential use in remote production. Above, a 5G-enabled camera used in a BBC-led trial exploring multi-camera synchronization.
A team of 10 world-leading broadcasters, collaborating as part of IBC’s Accelerator Innovation Program, today revealed plans for a “proof of concept” demonstration of a series of 5G-enabled remote broadcast […]
It is, by common consent, the job from hell, but within days of starting as BBC Director General, Tim Davie, achieved the impossible by generating positive headlines in outlets normally critical of the Beeb. In his first speech as DG on Thursday, Davie appeared to break with the BBC’s past by saying the BBC must “have more impact by making less.” This marked a potentially seminal moment for the broadcaster. He also emphasized that the BBC needed to be more scrupulous regarding impartiality, focus on “unique, high impact content” and build commercial income.
The BBC has announced plans to cut a further 70 jobs from its news division, with Radio 4 and political programming expected to be badly hit. The cuts are on top of 450 previously announced.
