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Newsnight award for coverage of high-profile children’s charity is probed after High Court cleared founder and trustees of wrongdoing Kids Company collapsed in 2015 just after getting a £3m grant from Government BBC Newsnight team won Royal Television Society Scoop of the Year prize in 2016 for their reports on the charity But RTS is … Read more
Ofcom is probing Emily Maitlis’ Dominic Cummings Newsnight rant following a complaint after BBC decided to take ‘no further action’ despite ruling she DID breach impartiality guidelines Emily Maitlis slammed Dominic Cummings in a Newsnight opening monologue The BBC reportedly received more than 24,000 complaints over presenter’s rant Editorial Complaints Unit ruled she breached impartiality rules but … Read more
Emily Maitlis’s Dominic Cummings rant on Newsnight placed her ‘closer to one side of the debate’ and DID breach impartiality and accuracy standards, BBC complaints unit rules The Editorial Complaints Unit said there had been a breach of impartiality rules But it considers the matter closed and will not be handing down reprimands The BBC … Read more
BBC Newsnight’s editor Katie Razzall shared her embarrassment at being appointed as a white woman to chair a session on ‘racism in TV newsrooms’ at a media festival. The 49-year-old told the online Edinburgh TV Festival this week: ‘My chairing this panel as a white woman is indicative of the challenge we are all facing.’ It comes … Read more
BBC Newsnight editor Katie Razzall apologises for being white while chairing ‘racism in the newsroom’ session at Edinburgh TV Festival – sparking fresh row over show’s lack of BAME presenters Razzall apologises for being white during session at online Edinburgh TV Festival It comes amid a lack of ethnic minority presenters and reporters on Newsnight … Read more
Prince Charles and Prince William’s aides used Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview to orchestrate a ‘silent coup’ against Prince Harry by leaking rumours he would quit the royal family, new book claims Royal expert Nigel Cawthorne is author of Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace Claimed Charles-William faction of Palace wanted to slim down the monarchy … Read more
Emily Maitlis’s last-minute Newsnight replacement studiously ignored coverage of the presenter being reprimanded over her Dominic Cummings monologue as she reviewed today’s papers. The BBC admitted Maitlis had breached the broadcaster’s impartiality rules when she asserted Boris Johnson’s chief aide had ‘broken the rules’ regarding lockdown in her introduction to the programme on Tuesday. The … Read more