Former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, and former head of Channel 5 head David Elstein discuss the BBC’s release of documents relating to the decision to not air and investigation into Jimmy Savile.
The BBC publishes 3,000 pages of documents in a bid to be “open and transparent” about its investigations into the Jimmy Savile scandal – but, as our editor Ben de Pear points out, issues remain.
The BBC apologises for airing a children’s programme on Sunday in which a character dresses up as disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile.
The BBC launches a search for a new editor of Newsnight after the programme dropped a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades-long campaign of sexual abuse.
A report by MPs accuses the BBC of a “cavalier” attitude towards licence fee money over a £450,000 payoff to director general George Entwistle, in the wake of the corporation’s Jimmy Savile crisis.
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As the Pollard review blames the Jimmy Savile Newsnight saga on “flawed” management, a separate report finds the BBC failed to apply its own standards to a subsequent report on alleged child abuse.
BBC trust Chairman Chris Patten says that the Pollard report reveals how the BBC is filled with “different organisations that don’t talk to each other and that has to end”.
Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead, is to be the new BBC director-general, taking up his post in March 2013. He replaces Tim Davie, who became acting DG following George Entwistle’s resignation.
The former Conservative politician who was wrongly linked to a child sex abuse scandal as a result of a Newsnight investigation agrees a settlement package with the BBC.
With the BBC under fire over editorial standards and procedures, Lord Leveson is due to publish his report. Should there be tougher press regulation? And is the law keeping pace with social media?
A BBC television investigation into sexual abuse at a children’s home failed to carry out basic checks before broadcast, according to an internal report.
As Britain’s national broadcaster faces an internal collapse of management and a battle to regain trust from the public, Channel 4 News looks at how it can bounce back from crisis.
Further members of staff could be following former director-general George Entwistle out of the doors of the BBC in the wake of the Newsnight scandal, BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten says.
A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general says.
Clive Dunn, who played Lance Corporal Jones in BBC sitcom Dad’s Army, has died at the age of 92, his agent announces.