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NPR announces that it will no longer use Twitter after the social media site labeled it and the BBC as "government-funded media". Shortly thereafter, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announces that the labelling of the BBC will be changed to "publicly-funded media".
2023-04-12

The BBC reverses its controversial decision to ban the songs "Rule, Britannia!" and "Land of Hope and Glory" from the 2020 Last Night of the Proms over concerns over their links to colonialism and slavery. Critics of the songs, including Chi-chi Nwanoku and Gareth Malone, say the songs are "outdated" and glorify racism.
2020-09-2

Twitter says it will label state media, official government accounts and their staff. State-funded media outlets with "editorial independence", such as the National Public Radio in the U.S., or BBC in the UK, will not be among those labelled, according to a spokesman for the social media site.
2020-08-6

Four people living at the same address in Savannah, Tennessee (3 men and 1 woman), believed to be involved in an area child pornography investigation and who had earlier fled a September 2013 FBI investigation (where computers and cameras were seized) are found dead of gunshot wounds (they may have been drugged) in a murder-suicide on a road in Double Springs, Winston County, Alabama.
2013-10-8

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

Kenneth Kendall, who became the BBC's first in-vision television newsreader in 1955, dies aged 88.
2012-12-14

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

BBC reporter Urunboy Usmonov, imprisoned in a Tajikistan jail in Dushanbe, is reported to be "frail".
2011-06-28

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 announces that "Last of the Summer Wine", the world's longest-running sitcom, is to be axed after 37 years.
2010-06-2