The BBC has taken down an online news article linking the bare nails fashion trend to white supremacy because it fell below the British broadcaster’s editorial standards. On Saturday, BBC News published a story, headlined ‘How the bare nails trend became a class issue,’ which examined the…

Maryam Moshiri, one of the BBC’s most seasoned news presenters, has revealed that she has been diagnosed with blood cancer. In interviews with BBC News and The Times of London, Moshiri said that she is living with polycythaemia vera, a rare but treatable blood cancer. Moshiri, 49, was…

Former NBC and BBC news chief Deborah Turness is joining Independent Talent Group (ITG) to launch a creative studio. She will become President of Independent Talent Studio, focusing on building media brands, franchises and IP around creative talent.  This comes after she exited BBC News in…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s experimentation on YouTube is set to increase, as the British broadcaster tests streaming its news network on the Google-owned video service. Deadline understands that the BBC is planning to make the 24-hour rolling news channel available on YouTube in select countries…

EXCLUSIVE: On a day of high political drama in the UK, a uniquely British sub-plot has emerged: a quarrel over the BBC’s live coverage of a train journey taken by the country’s likely new prime minister. Deadline hears that there is disquiet at the BBC over the corporation’s decision to…

BBC News has announced a detailed package of content cuts after director-general Matt Brittin warned earlier on Wednesday that savings measures would involve “tough choices.” In an email to the newsroom, acting BBC News CEO Jonathan Munro told journalists that shows including Radio 4’s The World…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team tasked with shedding light on the darker side of social media. Deadline hears that the British national broadcaster is closing four jobs as part of the cost-cutting decision, which has been bemoaned internally amid…

One of the UK’s most well-known weather presenters is leaving the BBC after nearly 30 years. Carol Kirkwood has just announced that she will step down from the corporation in April. Kirkwood is one of the most familiar faces on BBC TV. Having received her meteorological training at The…

UPDATED with Trump team statement: The BBC has begun an attempt to throw out Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit over the botched Panorama edit. In documents filed Monday, reported by BBC News, the 100-year-old national broadcaster argued that the Florida court in which the claim has been filed…

The BBC is facing “quite a lot of pressure” to come off Elon Musk's X, Director General Tim Davie has said, but he stressed it will remain on the platform. Speaking to a UK parliamentary committee about the BBC World Service, Davie made the admission as he set out to prove that the BBC remains…

The BBC should not alter the way it approaches editing TV news programs in the wake of the botched Donald Trump Panorama splice, which has led to a $10B legal action from the POTUS, a review has found. Peter Johnston, the BBC’s editorial standards boss, has spent the past few weeks examining the…

The man whose leaked memo brought down the BBC director general and led to crisis at the public broadcaster has said Donald Trump’s reputation was not damaged by the Panorama editing scandal. “Probably not,” was the verdict from Michael Prescott who appeared today at a bombshell hearing in front…