Most popular news stories on Facebook in 2011The BBC have proudly reported that one of its stories, about the world reaching seven billion people, topped Facebook’s most popular stories of 2011. The Sun, The Guardian and Daily Mail also make the top 20, reports Richard Farmer.
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Mapping the BBC cuts
The UK’s BBC is in crisis after announcing it will cut £700m in spending annually by 2016/17. Over 2000 jobs are expected to be cut in the next five years. The Guardian maps where the funds will be slashed.
Politicians are too scared to push for more media diversity
The problem for any inquiry into media diversity is politicians won’t act to retrieve what we’ve lost.
Mark Scott: a future BBC boss?
The Guardian interviews ABC chief Mark Scott about life as a public broadcasting boss, the Murdochisation of the Australian media and the different battles facing the BBC compared to the ABC.
Media briefs: Assange keyholed … Kernot on the BBC …
After taking a whole day to report on Julian Assange’s peace prize win, The Guardian weirdly photoshopped Assange’s face. Plus, other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Soldiers outed on Facebook … five myths about the future of journalism …
Soldiers outed on Facebook, the BBC news chiefs admit that flying in big-name anchors to breaking news stories has — on occasion — been a waste of money and other media news.
Media briefs: Oz’s Sky agenda … BBC wins US funds …
Sky sets the agenda, The Australian declares. Plus, Crikey’s front page of the day and other media news from around the globe.
Crikey Says: Pimply? Angry? Drunk? Yawn.
“Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all.” Are we still using this old argument?
Why is the BBC ignoring climate change?
It’s incredible that Richard Black, environment reporter for the BBC, can report on rising global temperatures and melting ice caps without addressing the issue of climate change. But he, shockingly, manages to do just that…
News phone hacking: Beeb under threat from all angles
With the BBC battling to convince government that it is cost-effective while being mauled by the Murdoch press, an attack on Coulson - a man who has been at the heart of both organisations - isn’t in the corporation’s immediate interest, writes Oliver Milman.
Murdoch and the BBC: they both lose
More and more, the MacTaggart lecture is a formal attack on either Rupert Murdoch or the BBC … it’s time to let it go, writes Michael Wolff of the Newser website.
BBC joins the land of the free
In a bid to grab more US media dollars the BBC will today launch its own US news site. But will an editorial expansion prove to be a smart move?
Holmes: The good old days of boozing, smoking and sexism
All the mythology of journos in the 70s covered in a haze of smoke and getting boozed at lunchtime is absolutely 100% true, writes Jonathan Holmes. That is, if you are a man. Women’s memories aren’t so rosy.
Murdoch’s Great Paywall Experiment. It begins.
Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers are about to begin charging for content online. Expect the battle between Murdoch and both the BBC and the ABC to reach a new fever pitch.
Lonely Planet lays off website team, promises new roles
The axe has fallen on guide book behemoth Lonely Planet’s entire team of website writers, with eight roles made redundant at the whim of the company’s BBC management team.
Mark Day: Oh, for the luxury of never having to be commercially viable!
The ABC vs. Mark Day war continues, with Mark Day fighting back against Mark Scott’s claim that the BBC and the ABC are fundamentally very different beasts. Actually, our national broadcaster is just the mother country’s, says Day.
BBC sustains wounds after News Corp attack: is the ABC next?
With the BBC’s independence under sustained attack from the Conservatives supporting News Corp media outlets in Britain, could the ABC face a similar fate, especially if Tony Abbott wins power?
Digital and online archives: This is the BBC
The BBC archives are going online! It’s a work in process — in three years, 50,000 hours of footage have been digitised, and that’s just 10% of total Beeb content — but it’s a whole new direction for the network.
Business As Usual: The European crisis … Japan holds on … Canwest lifeline
The Aussie dollar’s performance against the euro has snuck up, Greece is in deeper economic woe than anyone thought, Canwest has been thrown a lifeline and the Reserve Bank to speak in today’s business wrap.
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Big Oil continues to gag the UK press
The BBC has deleted an article about toxic-waste dumping by oil giant Trafigura amidst legal threats, according to Wikileaks, which has a copy of the vanished piece.
Leaked: The Lonely Planet website? We’re dubious
An internal Lonely Planet email reveals a rather amusing little prank from the publishing house’s Czech & Slovak Republics guidebook that clearly slipped past the subs.
Was the BBC right to have Nick Griffin on Question Time?
Was extreme right-wing BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on the BBC’s Question Time a win for free speech or a loss for quality television? Guardian commentators and British MPs weigh in.
BBC’s Question Time gets Nicked with a reborn Alf Garnett
Despite 300 police holding back protesters and calls from politicians to ban him, the leader of the UK’s far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, had his one-hour of fame when he appeared as a guest on BBC1’s prestigious Question Time.
Watch Griffin on Question Time
The Beeb has pre-released clips of BNP leader Nick Griffin’s controversial appearance on Question Time. Watch it here.
BBC puts “neo-fascist” BNP leader to air
Leader of the UK’s extreme right-wing British National Party, Nick Griffin, is appearing on the BBC’s Question Time (think Q&A with posher accents) today, and it’s causing quite a stink. Follow the fallout as it happens on the Guardian’s liveblog.
