Costing the Earth; The Environment after Exit (BBC Radio 4 March 15 and 16) h/t Craig Byers of Is the BBC Biased? The programme, presented by Tom Heap, investigated the current impact on the UK of EU-related policies affecting conservation,…

News-watch has completed preliminary research on 40 editions of Newsnight between January 13 and March 11   based on the full transcription and analysis of the relevant parts of each programme. Daily news and current affairs programmes such as Newsnight  are…

A new website, BBC Complaints – www.bbccomplaints.com – has been launched by News-watch. Its purpose is to help hold the BBC to account: to ensure that, as is required by law (expressed in its Charter and Public Purposes), it is…

News-watch monitored four BBC programmes between March 30 and May 10, 2015.   The programmes were: Today and The World at One on BBC Radio 4, BBC1’s News at Ten, and BBC2’s Newsnight.

Former deputy governor of the Bank of England Sir David Clementi’s review of BBC governance as part of BBC Charter renewal looks impressive at first glance – but he has badly misunderstood what is required. What he proposes will leave…