Jon Donnison

November 17, 2017

Revisiting a five year-old BBC story

The BBC has never explained how its editorial standards were breached in November 2012. ...

March 31, 2017

Event touted by BBC as ‘non-political’ bans UK participant on political grounds

Four years ago the BBC touted the Bethlehem marathon as 'non-political'. Now the event's organisers ...

December 22, 2016

Documenting five years of BBC politicisation of Christmas

Christmas is coming and with it – if the BBC’s record over the past five years is anything t...

September 19, 2016

US designates founder of Hamas media outlet championed by BBC staff

Last week the US State Department announced the designation of the former Hamas interior minister â€...

September 4, 2015

Arafat ‘poisoning’ case closed: an overview of 3 years of BBC News coverage

On September 2nd an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the titl...

April 20, 2015

George Galloway pulls a Jon Donnison while accusing Israel of engaging in mass murder of children

George Galloway, the pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas MP from Bradford West, recently retweeted this odious ...

December 16, 2014

Yet another problem Tweet from the BBC’s Jon Donnison

Despite having relocated to Australia some eighteen months ago, the BBC’s Jon Donnison continu...

October 29, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part three

In parts one and two of this post we documented BBC News website coverage of the first twenty days...

October 14, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part two

In part one of this post we documented BBC News website coverage of the first ten days of Operation ...

October 8, 2014

After effects 3: BBC accuracy failure still being used against Israel

On July 23rd 2014 a member of staff at the Guardian decided to use a certain photograph to illustrat...