BBC World Service retreat ‘helping Russia and China push propaganda’

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Admin

BBC director-general Tim Davie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast unchallenged

The BBC director-general will warn that the retreat of its World Service because of funding cuts has helped Russia and China broadcast “unchallenged propaganda”.

In a speech at the Future Resilience Forum, a non-partisan meeting in London attended by international political figures, Tim Davie will discuss the global importance of the BBC World Service, which operates across more than 40 languages.

BBC accused of endangering World Service Vietnamese staff

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Admin

Cost-cutting plan to move staff from London to Bangkok will put them at risk of abduction, reporters say

Journalists at the BBC World Service have said plans to move its Vietnamese service from London to Thailand pose a danger to press freedom.

Several reporters at the World Service raised concerns that the Vietnamese state had a history of abducting journalists from Thailand. They also suggested that BBC bosses failed to comprehend that just because both countries were in south-east Asia, it did not mean Vietnamese people were naturally at home in Thailand.

The week in audio: Sunday Feature; 1Xtra Talks With Richie Brave; Assignment

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Admin

A sombre week as BBC presenters pondered war reporting ethics, George Floyd’s death, and a decade of conflict in Syria

Sunday Feature: Regarding the Pain of Others (BBC Radio 3) | BBC Sounds
1Xtra Talks With Richie Brave (BBC 1Xtra) | BBC Sounds
Assignment (BBC World Service) | BBC Sounds

Today, on Radio 3’s Sunday Feature, the vastly experienced journalist Allan Little considers Susan Sontag’s 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others. In the essay, Sontag wonders about the ethics of war journalism, particularly photography. Do pictures of the horrors of war engage the viewer or make us turn away?

China bans BBC World News in retaliation for UK licence blow

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Admin

China has been critical of BBC reports on Xinjiang, while Ofcom recently revoked CGTN licence

BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, a week after Beijing threatened to retaliate for the recent revocation of the British broadcasting licence for China’s state-owned CGTN.

In a statement published at midnight Beijing time on Friday, China’s National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News’s coverage of China had violated requirements that news reporting be true and impartial and undermined China’s national interests and ethnic solidarity.