Churnalism

January 28, 2026

BBC News churns out another UN ‘apartheid’ smear

BBC audiences are all too used to the “churnalism” style of reporting in which a press release o...

October 29, 2025

BBC News whitewashes British journalist’s October 7 terror support

On October 27th the BBC News website’s ‘US & Canada’ page published a report by a new BBC ...

April 20, 2025

BBC’s Knell bases one-sided report on NGO press releases

On the evening of April 10th the BBC News website published a report about the release of a convicte...

May 30, 2023

BBC Jerusalem bureau does churnalism for CPJ report

On the afternoon of May 9th the BBC News website published an article by the Jerusalem bureau’s To...

September 5, 2022

BBC’s Yolande Knell promotes inaccurate claim in apparent ‘churnalism’

Late on Friday, September 2nd UK time (early Saturday September 3rd Israel time) the BBC News websit...

July 1, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newsday’ does NGO report churnalism

On June 28th the NGO ‘Save the Children’ put out a press release promoting a report (which inclu...

September 27, 2015

More uncritical amplification of a HRW report from BBC News

On September 22nd an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the tit...

February 1, 2015

BBC News does its convincing impression of HRW PR department yet again

At the end of last year we noted here that one of the political NGOs most quoted and promoted by the...

April 19, 2013

‘Churnalism’ and the BBC

The interesting (despite its sound quality) video below features the head of the BBC Multimedia News...