The law lords will rule today on whether the BBC should release an internal report into its coverage of the Middle East conflict. The judgment is expected early this morning in a protracted freedom of information dispute that has lasted several years and reputedly cost the corporation at least £200,000. A London solicitor, Steven Sugar, is pressing the BBC to publish the document, which was ...

A BBC partnership with Channel 4 would be damaging for the industry, making BBC Worldwide too commercially "aggressive", says a leaked parliamentary report. The draft House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee report examining BBC Worldwide's activities expresses scepticism about a merger. "There is a danger that it would make [BBC] Worldwide even more aggressively commercial,...

The BBC is fined £400,000 for misleading viewers over phone in contests.Presumably that money is paid into the "public purse" - but hang on, that £400,000 came out of the public purse in the first place, so it actually is costing the BBC nothing.But the cost of transferring that £400,000 from us to the BBC and back again will have cost us probably half as much again.What was the point?

Trafigura, the multinational oil company that got it lawyers, those most ethical of legal eagles Carter-Ruck, to put a super-injunction on the UK press and, inadvertantly or not, Parliament have threatened to sue the BBC about a Newsnight report. That report has now gone. It’s been pulled. Below is the Newsnight report: The is also a .pdf

If the BBC News and Current Affairs department did its job properly there would be no reason for people to complain about bias or agenda promotion. The BBC should simply report the news in an impartial way. But its journalists all too often use reports as a vehicle to promote their personal beliefs. It appears to have happened again today with coverage of a report on the energy gap and the

A report today from Universities UK addresses the very real problem of underfunding in our universities, and suggests tution fees may need to double. In tandem, a BBC survey of Vice Chancellors and Principals in England and Wales finds that over half of them wish tuition fees to be at least £5,000 pa, and suggestions ranged from £4,000 to £20,000. I feel called upon to make an ex...

However, he said that the mistake, included in its 2007 assessment global warming, did not alter the broad picture of man-made climate change. He told the BBC: “I don’t see how one mistake in a 3,000-page report can damage the credibility of the overall report. “Some people will attempt to use

"Student immigration levels unsustainable, says minister". This is the BBC's headline to a report of a speech Damian Green is to make. The BBC concludes its report: Are you a foreign student? What do you think of Damian Green's comments? Send us your thoughts using the form below.So the BBC is explicitly soliciting comments from foreign students. What about the rest of us? Or does the BB...

The BBC is to reject George Osborne's call for public sector pay restraint by offering 95 per cent of employees a pay rise - with some annual earnings increasing by more than £1,000.

The Guardian has picked up on the connection I made to between the Balen report and the BBC's actions over the DEC Gaza appeal. Sources within the BBC have questioned whether its internal Balen report into its Middle East coverage, which the corporation has refused to publish, has influenced its decision on the DEC appeal. An appeal to the House of Lords to force the BBC to publish the report...