Media & Communication: Research Guide

Corporation says broadcasting of N-word by Tourette syndrome campaigner was ‘serious mistake’ as anger at error risesThe BBC is to undertake a fast-track investigation into how a racial slur broadcast during its coverage of the Bafta film awards was not edited out, amid rising anger inside the corporation over the error.Tim Davie, the outgoing director general, has now instructed the corporation’s complaints unit to investigate what the BBC describes as a “serious mistake”. Continue reading...

Former Northern Ireland correspondent Vincent Kearney subjected to ‘unprecedented’ surveillance, says lawyerPolice and MI5 subjected a BBC journalist to a “long and consistent campaign of unlawful interference” by obtaining communications data from his mobile phone, a tribunal has heard.The surveillance was targeted at Vincent Kearney, who was the BBC’s Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent, and occurred over an eight-year period as authorities sought to identify his sources. Continue reading...

Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza warA record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, two-thirds of them by Israeli forces, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).It was the second consecutive year in which killings of members of the press reached unprecedented levels, and the second year running in which Israel was responsible for roughly two-thirds of the total, the New York-based independent organisation, which documents attacks on journalists worldwide, said in its annual report published on Wedn..

Terrestrial channels seeking more legislative protectionNumber of Labour MPs are understood to be supportivePublic service broadcasters are making renewed attempts to persuade the government to expand the list of televised sport’s free-to-air “crown jewels”.A call from the then BBC director of sport, Barbara Slater, to add the Six Nations Championship to the group A list of events that must be offered to terrestrial channels was rejected three years ago, but a group of Labour MPs is understood to be working with broadcasters to force a change of policy. Continue reading...

Goalhanger’s Tony Pastor says Serie A has ‘disappeared’‘You have to embrace this idea of fragmentation’Football “has eaten almost every sport worldwide” thanks to its dominance of TV and digital markets, according to the head of the leading podcast production company Goalhanger.Tony Pastor, CEO of the studio behind the Rest is Football among other podcasts, said that broadcasters were struggling to get value for money for sports rights and that competitions should “embrace fragmentation” to reach audiences where they are. Continue reading...

In 1963, my friend George Bennett, who has died aged 91, saw an advertisement for a talks writer in the African section of what was then called BBC External Services and is now the World Service. This began his 26-year career in broadcasting to Africa, the last 13 of which he served as head of the BBC’s output to Africa in English, Swahili, Hausa and Somali.George had many skills. Probably the best of all was his ability to find talented people to make interesting radio programmes. Production staff in the African Service in the 1970s and early 80s were unimpressed by the way that the Bush House newsroom reported on Africa. As a result, its two English language daily news programmes, Focus ..

Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuitMeta’s use of artificial intelligence software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes of useless reports about cases of child sexual abuse, which are draining resources and hindering investigations, said officers from the US Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce.“We get a lot of tips from Meta that are just kind of junk,” Benjamin Zwiebel, a special agent with the ICAC taskforce in New Mexico, said last week during his testimony in the state’s trial against Meta. The state’s attorney general alleges the company’s platforms are putting pr..

Court itself to search devices for documents related to national security inquiry as newspaper calls ruling ‘victory’A federal judge has prohibited the justice department from searching electronic devices it seized from a Washington Post reporter, ruling that the court will search the devices for documents related to a national security investigation itself.In his ruling, magistrate judge William Porter criticized the Trump administration for omitting relevant case law in its application for a search warrant to seize the devices in the first place, but acknowledged “the possibility that classified national security information may be among the seized material” complicated the matter...

By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled peopleI attended the Bafta awards on Sunday. And I arrived early enough to hear the Tourette syndrome (TS) campaigner John Davidson, on whom the biographical film I Swear is based, be introduced. He stood up to wave and take in the applause, and we were told that due to his TS, we might expect to hear involuntary vocal outbursts, known as tics, and that we should understand that the Baftas are an inclusive space in which all people are welcome.Perhaps half the people were listening, others would have been on their phones or engaged in mild chatter. But the tics were instantly audible. When..

The ability to conduct polite debate on social media, without amplifying menaces and lies, is a basic qualification for public officeThe impulse to post on social media often overwhelms judgment of what is appropriate to share. Knowing when not to succumb to that urge, exercising due diligence before passing on material that is flatly false or offensive, is an indispensable skill for politicians in the digital age. Or it should be.It is a test failed by Simon Evans, a Reform UK councillor and deputy leader on Lancashire council. Mr Evans shared a Facebook image of Natalie Fleet, a Labour MP, featuring a fake quote – “I voted against the grooming gang enquiry”. The Bolsover MP has,..

The BBC is under fire over its failure to remove a racial slur shouted by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, from its broadcast of the Bafta awards. Davidson was heard shouting the N-word while two stars of the film Sinners, Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan, were on stage. He said controversy over the incident had left him “distraught” and that he had been assured any offensive words would be edited out. The BBC has apologised for the error and said producers overseeing the coverage did not hear the slur. Lucy Hough is joined by the Guardian’s assistant opinion editor Jason Okundaye – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

A string of documentaries are taking aim at problematic millennial hits such as The Biggest Loser and America’s Next Top Model – but who’s to blame?Caution: the 2000s have become a crime scene. The reality television my generation once watched as escapist comfort – built hastily and clumsily, before anyone quite knew the rules – is now being dusted for fingerprints by a younger cohort fluent in the language of harm, certain that cruelty was the point. The past six months have brought a spate of brooding postmortems revisiting The Biggest Loser, To Catch a Predator and America’s Next Top Model – dodgy network TV experiments that monetized humiliation at scale.And while the criti..

In live broadcasting, when things go wrong, they can often be blamed on live conditions. Once a programme has been edited, this no longer applies.

Despite the rise of fleeting social media recipes, the cookbook is a touchstone of reliability, a cultural archive and even a guilty pleasure.

Recovery and diet content appear side by side in social media feeds, shaping what vulnerable users see.

[PD저널 =박수선 기자] MBC 등 일곱 편이 311회 이달의 PD상 수상작으로 선정됐다. 한국PD연합회 이달의 PD상 심사위원회는 24일 출품작 심사를 거쳐 수상작품을 확정했다고 밝혔다. TV 시사·다큐 부문에선 SBS ‘타깃K 3부 악의 비즈니스’(연출 이큰별 김지환 왕성우

[PD저널 =박수선 기자] 붕괴 위기에 처한 콘텐츠 산업을 위해 정부가 국가전략산업 지정에 조속히 나서야 한다는 목소리가 커지고 있다. 25일 이훈기 더불어민주당 의원과 한국PD연합회가 주최한 ‘K-미디어 콘텐츠의 국가전략 산업화:방향과 과제’ 세미나에서 관련 연구자들과 업계 종사자들

언어는 고정되어 있지만, 그 언어가 지칭하는 현실은 끊임없이 변한다. 미디어를 바라보는 시각이 때로는 관성적 이해에 사로잡히는 이유도 여기에 있다. 뉴스, TV, 영화, 게임과 같은 단어를 생각해 보…

얼마 전 만난 보험 핀테크 대표는 직원들에게 맥락(context)을 충분히 설명하지 못해 미안하다는 사과를 종종 한다고 했다. 설립 8년차인 이 회사는 업계에서도 성장세가 가파른 곳으로 꼽힌다. 지…

윤석열 전 대통령에 대한 내란 우두머리 혐의가 드디어 인정됐다. 19일 서울중앙지법 형사합의25부(재판장 지귀연)는 윤 전 대통령에게 무기징역을 선고했다. 윤 전 대통령이 비상계엄을 선포한 지 4…

아이는 자라 어른이 되고, 그사이 어른은 노인이 된다. 어머니는 늦둥이다. 늦둥이의 딸인 내가 커서 성인이 되었을 때, 할머니는 이미 많이 연로해지셨다. 예전과 다르게 꼿꼿하던 허리는 서서히 굽었고…

The company said the blizzard had made it too treacherous for workers to make it to the printing press on Monday.

President Trump will speak at 9 p.m. Eastern time to a joint session of Congress. The New York Times will carry the address live.

Trump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.

As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.