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"The Daily Telegraph" publishes an internal memo leaked by Michael Prescott alleging media bias in the BBC.
2025-11-3

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority suspends the press license for Reuters's Ethiopia correspondent, and issues warnings to those representing the BBC and Deutsche Welle, for their alleged biased coverage of the Tigray conflict.
2020-11-20

BBC News reports that the number of deaths and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Iran are about three times higher than what was reported by the government, according to a data leak.
2020-08-3

The BBC reports that Nigeria will be removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic.
2015-09-25

The BBC appoints Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, as the new Director-General of the corporation after the resignation of George Entwistle earlier this month due to the Newsnight controversy. He is expected to start in the role in early March 2013.
2012-11-22

BBC reporter Urunboy Usmonov is released on bail in Tajikistan but still faces trial.
2011-07-14

The BBC apologises after offending the sensibilities of Japanese viewers by broadcasting jokes targeting Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb attacks carried out by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
2011-01-23

British television presenter Miriam O'Reilly, 53, wins an employment tribunal case against the BBC for ageism and victimisation, but the tribunal rejects claims of sexism. She had claimed victimisation after being dropped from the BBC One programme "Countryfile" when it was rescheduled to an evening slot in 2009.
2011-01-11

In the United Kingdom, members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC begin a 48 hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the Corporation's pension scheme. BBC News operates a reduced service.
2010-11-5

The BBC issues an apology after receiving dozens of complaints over the content of its Radio 4 play "Six Impossible Things", which featured the antics of a gunman.
2010-06-4