The BBC has launched an urgent probe into one of its senior World News journalists who allegedly used an anonymous social media account to attack Jewish presenter Emma Barnett after she told of the impact of anti-Semitism on her family. Nimesh Thaker is accused of using a Twitter account under the pseudonym Not That Bothered to … Read more
An Australian journalist who kept a diary of the coronavirus pandemic has been arrested in China with no reasons given. Cheng Lei, an English-language presenter with the state-owned China Global Television Network since 2012, wrote withering Facebook posts about the Communist Party. The Beijing-based business journalist, who studied in Brisbane and Melbourne, mocked the earlier lockdown … Read more
It’s Titchmarsh vs Marr! Gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh will go head-to-head with veteran journalist Andrew Marr for Sunday morning TV crown Andrew Marr’s programme interviewing political heavyweights airs at 9am Mr Titchmarsh will present Love Your Weekend on ITV at 9.25am as it airs Mr Titchmarsh’s two-hour show is being compared with the BBC’s Countryfile … Read more
Malta’s former PM Joseph Muscat is formally questioned by cops for the first time over murder of anti-corruption journalist Former MP Joseph Muscat was questioned by Maltese police this afternoon Investigation is based on testimony given to police by suspected mastermind in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Galizia, Yorgen Fenech Muscat resigned after it … Read more
The first black journalist on British television says she’s ‘glad’ she was the victim of racism because she believes it has helped future generations. Barbara Blake Hannah, 79, made her television debut in 1968, however was let go from her job at Thames TV after bosses refused to renew her contract, and justified it with appalling racist … Read more
WHAT BOOK would journalist Sophia Money-Coutts take to a desert island? Sophia Money-Coutts reveals she is reading City Of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The book she’d take to a desert island is Bill Bryson’s Notes From A Big Country And tells how Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories first got her reading By Sophia Money-coutts For The … Read more
The BBC is cutting The Andrew Neil Show as the corporation culls a further 70 jobs in BBC News, taking the total number of redundancies to 520. Neil’s political programme has not been on the air during the coronavirus pandemic, but the broadcaster said the show will not return even as the crisis subsides. A BBC … Read more
A Chinese citizen journalist who uploaded coronavirus reports from Wuhan onto social media to criticise the city’s handling of the outbreak has been arrested, according to reports. The Shanghai resident Zhang Zhan, reportedly to be 40, was allegedly removed by police on Friday on suspicion of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, a broad-brush charge often … Read more
Sons of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi reveal they have forgiven his killers Khashoggi was hacked to pieces inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 Washington Post journalist had been critical of Crown Prince of the Kingdom CIA said it believed Mohammed bin Salman ordered his death Tonight, in the spirit of Ramadan, Khashoggi’s sons … Read more
Sons of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi reveal they have granted clemency to his killers By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline and Afp Published: 01:43 BST, 22 May 2020 | Updated: 01:51 BST, 22 May 2020 The sons of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday that they ‘forgive’ the killers of their father. ‘We the sons … Read more