Contributors’ Affiliations

August 21, 2025

Another BBC interpretation of editorial guidelines on ‘Contributors’ Affiliations’

In early April 2024 we discussed a BBC News website report by the corporation’s Geneva correspond...

August 19, 2025

BBC News promotes another NGO campaign but fails to tell all

Early on the morning of August 14th the BBC News website published a report which currently goes und...

August 3, 2025

The BBC explains what its editorial guidelines on ‘contributors’ affiliations’ really mean

Back in April we documented a BBC News website report about the release of a convicted terrorist who...

July 28, 2025

BBC again fails to provide context to ‘starving Gaza baby’ photos

Yesterday we documented the BBC’s use of a photograph of a child – then in the Gaza Strip – wi...

July 20, 2025

Multi-platform BBC framing of a proposal with no plan or budget

On July 18th the BBC News website published an item titled “Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civ...

May 22, 2025

Cross-platform promotion of UN disinformation by the BBC

The May 20th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme included news bulletins and items rela...

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...

April 4, 2025

Revisiting BBC editorial policy on NGOs

Last week The Atlantic published an article by Michael Powell titled “The Double Standard in the H...

March 19, 2025

More uncritical and context-free BBC promotion of UN allegations

The BBC’s presentation of its Editorial Standards includes the following, under the sub-heading â€...

March 6, 2025

BBC continues to avoid the real story of Masafer Yatta

On March 3rd a report appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page under the headline...