FOR the first time in News-watch’s 27 years of monitoring the BBC, the Corporation has partially upheld a complaint about EU-Brexit coverage. ‘Partially’ is crucial in showing the contortionist nature of its accountability. The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) accepted that…

THE BBC insists that its journalism is impartial. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph , former local radio reporter Sean McGinty’s treatment by the Corporation suggests that instead, impartiality has become a crude instrument of institutional discipline, applied most ferociously…

THERE is a huge and troubling paradox in the selection by the Government of Sir Ian Cheshire as preferred candidate to become chair of Ofcom. He has been presented as a safe pair of hands because he is a former chief…

THE post of Director General of the BBC has, over the past two decades, become a poisoned chalice. Greg Dyke was forced out in 2004 by editorial failings in coverage of the war in Iraq; George Entwhistle was disgraced by his mishandling…