BBC Business

October 18, 2020

BBC ignores Joint Arab List opposition to Abraham Accords

On October 16th the BBC News website published a report by business reporter Jonathan Josephs titled...

April 30, 2019

BBC Business ‘forgets’ to clarify that quoted academic is BDS campaigner

The BBC fails to provide full disclosure – as required by editorial guidelines on impartiality - o...

November 20, 2018

BBC News website framing of the Airbnb listings story

The BBC's report on the Airbnb listings story excludes any mention of the company's business in othe...

August 21, 2018

BBC News website’s SodaStream report sidesteps its own previous reporting

BBC News ignores its own previous reporting on an Israeli company....

April 2, 2017

BBC Business airbrushes abuse of foreign workers in Qatar

On March 27th the business section of the BBC News website published an interview with Qatar’s...

December 6, 2016

BBC ignores a good news story from Gaza

Last year the BBC World Service’s business department produced a series of highly politicised ...

June 24, 2015

More BBC multiplatform mainstreaming of an anti-Israel trope

Obviously not content with the previous amplification of propaganda rhetoric used by anti-Israel cam...

October 1, 2014

‘Lowbrow’, ‘Highbrow’ and the BBC

On September 30th the business section of the BBC News website produced an article described on its ...

September 23, 2014

BBC Business covers one terror banking story, ignores another more close to home

On September 22nd a report titled “Arab Bank found liable by US court in Hamas attacks” ...

December 27, 2013

The one where BBC Business goes bananas

A filmed report by Jeremy Howell titled “Growing crops in drought conditions” which was ...