Richard Irvine-Brown

April 21, 2025

Airbrushing terrorists from the BBC’s ‘permanent public record’

As readers may know, the BBC’s editorial guidelines state that “[t]he archive of the BBCR...

April 11, 2025

Another example of the BBC’s failure to vet ‘trusted local journalists’

Previously we discussed a BBC News website March 23rd report about a strike on a senior Hamas offici...

February 6, 2025

BBC continues to sideline Hamas exploitation of Gaza humanitarian zone

On January 30th the BBC News website published a short report by George Wright titled “Hamas confi...

January 27, 2025

BBC Verify promotes more of the ‘1974 ceasefire agreement violation’ narrative

On the evening of January 23rd the BBC’s expanding ‘anti-disinformation’ department BBC Verify...

November 18, 2024

BBC report fails to substantiate the allegation made in its headline

On the afternoon of November 13th the BBC News website published an article credited to the BBC Jeru...

October 1, 2024

BBC Verify under informs and editorialises on Beirut strikes

On the morning of September 29th a report by BBC Verify on the topic of the elimination of Hassan Na...

September 29, 2024

BBC Verify avoids the ‘why’ in report on damage in Lebanon

When the BBC launched its “new brand” BBC Verify in May 2023, the CEO of BBC News Deborah Turnes...

March 19, 2024

An overview of BBC News’ second Nasser hospital binge

As readers may recall, between February 14th and February 20th, the BBC News website published no fe...

March 14, 2024

A non-story from BBC Arabic and BBC Verify

On March 10th the BBC News website published a report produced by BBC Verify and BBC Arabic under th...

March 13, 2015

Elections 2015: more BBC confusion on 1949 Armistice Lines

After the last election in Israel in 2013 we discussed “why did the BBC get it so wrong?”...