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BBC reporter Girmay Gebru is detained by Ethiopian soldiers along with four other people in Mekelle, Tigray, and they are sent to a military camp for unknown reasons.
2021-03-1

The BBC documentary series "Panorama" airs unseen footage from the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that casts doubt on medical evidence given at the inquest.
2013-05-20

BBC says that an edition of "Panorama" filmed secretly on a university study trip to North Korea will be broadcast, despite claims by the London School of Economics that students may have been put in danger.
2013-04-15

Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics, calls on the BBC to pull a scheduled edition of its "Panorama" documentary strand, "North Korea Undercover" in which three journalists travelled undercover to the country with a group of students. Calhoun argues that the group was placed at risk by the BBC's actions.
2013-04-14

The Pollard report into practices at the BBC is published, and finds there was a “complete inability” to deal with the Jimmy Savile crisis.
2012-12-19

The pro-Israel non-governmental organization HonestReporting brings attention to footage captured by the BBC and transmitted by CNN that shows a Palestinian man being carried away from a bomb blast only to reappear moments later uninjured. CNN's Anderson Cooper who was reporting on the original story issued a retraction during his television show.
2012-11-20

The BBC schedules a special edition of "Panorama" for October 22 as it attempts to limit the damage done by allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile during his years with the broadcaster.
2012-10-19

The BBC's "Panorama" alleges that a company owned by News Corporation recruited a pay-TV "pirate" to hack a rival's secret codes then post the details online.
2012-03-26

Iranian human rights campaigner Emadeddin Baghi is sentenced to six years in jail after recording an interview for the BBC with reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri.
2010-09-22

The BBC reports it has found evidence of a massacre which occurred in Democratic Republic of Congo last December in which at least 321 people, including children, were killed. Human Rights Watch calls it "one of the worst massacres carried out by the LRA".
2010-03-28