Language when Reporting Terrorism

September 28, 2025

BBC News promotes a politically motivated non-story

On the afternoon of September 25th the BBC News website published a report by Tom Bennett headlined ...

September 10, 2025

Value judgements in BBC coverage of Ramot terror attack

On the morning of September 8th the BBC News website began reporting on what was originally describe...

August 4, 2025

BBC scraps the word terrorist from headline concerning convicted terrorist

As previously noted, the new BBC editorial guidelines – set to come into effect on September 1...

July 29, 2025

BBC portrays terrorist as ‘Pro-Palestinian convict’ and ‘teacher’

On July 25th the BBC promoted a report by its Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield: Readers of Schofie...

July 4, 2025

BBC announces new editorial guidelines

Following the public consultation which took place late last year, the BBC has published new editori...

May 11, 2025

Has the BBC kept its October 2023 promises?

Two weeks after the horrific events of October 7th 2023, the BBC was in damage control mode due to e...

May 9, 2025

Wriggly words from BBC Complaints

Last month we documented a BBC News website report by Hugo Bachega and Emma Rossiter which opened by...

January 14, 2025

BBC report on new Lebanese president omits relevant information

On the afternoon of January 9th the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Army chief elec...

January 10, 2025

BBC ‘balance’ in coverage of a fatal terror attack on Route 55

On January 6th the BBC News website published a report about a terror attack on Route 55 earlier in ...

December 24, 2024

Omission and false equivalence in BBC report on terror attack

Early on the afternoon of December 12th, the BBC News website published an article about a terror at...