BBC editorial guidelines

November 13, 2024

Sensationalist BBC ‘Gaza war dead’ headline misleads audiences

On the afternoon of Friday November 8th, the BBC News website published a report by Mallory Moench u...

October 7, 2024

Omissions in BBC account of terror attack in Jaffa

On the evening of October 1st the BBC News website published a short report headlined “Several kil...

September 24, 2024

Multiple BBC reports promote anonymous unsubstantiated claims

On September 18th – the day after the explosions of Hizballah pagers in Lebanon and Syria R...

September 19, 2024

BBC News again ignores editorial guidelines on ‘contributors’ affiliations’

On September 2nd a report was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page under the...

September 9, 2024

Terrorism downplayed in BBC report on counter-terrorism operation

On September 6th the BBC News website published a report by Lucy Williamson “in Jenin” and Raffi...

August 11, 2024

BBC News uncritically promotes an NGO’s political campaign

On August 5th the BBC News website published a report by Paul Adams titled “Blindfolded, bound and...

August 8, 2024

BBC News airbrushes new Hamas leader’s CV

On the evening of August 6th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Hamas names Yahya ...

July 30, 2024

Avoiding the issues: the story of a complaint to the BBC

In October 2023 the BBC News website published several items of content produced by the BBC Verify t...

July 26, 2024

BBC ‘value judgements’ on terrorism again on display

For years we have documented the BBC’s employment of double standards on language when reporting t...

July 14, 2024

Looking behind a BBC World Service radio news bulletin

Listeners to the first hour of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘OS’ on July 5th heard a ne...