Transparency

January 7, 2025

BBC News website promotes Hamas psychological warfare

Early on the morning of January 6th the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Hamas lists...

November 4, 2024

CAMERA UK prompts correction to BBC ‘genocide’ disinformation

As previously documented, the BBC’s response to a CAMERA UK complaint concerning the September 18t...

October 27, 2024

BBC Complaints acknowledges ‘unfortunate error’ but fails to correct

Last month we noted that the September 18th edition of BBC Two television’s ‘Newsnight’ progra...

September 26, 2024

BBC Complaints corrects a factual error – eighteen months later

In March 2023 the BBC News website published a report by Anna Foster and David Gritten titled ‘...

July 21, 2024

Where did BBC ‘special correspondent’ Fergal Keane get his latest Gaza story?

On the afternoon of July 16th the BBC News website published yet another report by the corporationâ€...

August 8, 2019

BBC News website republishes deleted video report

A version of a video that disappeared with no explanation reappears with no explanation. ...

July 17, 2019

BBC News website fails on transparency

No explanation was given for the removal of a filmed report from the BBC News website after three da...

March 5, 2017

BBC News website introduces new tags

In late September 2016 we reported that the BBC News website had begun limited tagging of articles. ...

September 27, 2016

BBC News website introduces tagging

Readers may have noticed that the past few weeks have seen the appearance of tags on some of the art...

August 12, 2015

Funders of BBC advert can’t find out how much it cost

Long-time BBC Watch readers will be familiar with the phrase “for the purposes of journalism,...