The BBC has announced it will cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs, or almost one in 10, in an attempt to tackle “significant financial pressures”. The broadcaster needs to make £500m savings over the next two years, and interim director general Rhodri Talfan Davies did not rule out axing entire channels or services. “We need […]
The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump. Davie, in the job for five years, had faced increasing pressure over a series of controversies and accusations of bias that have dogged the public broadcaster. […]
The body of a British journalist killed by armed robbers while on a reporting trip to Ghana is being repatriated on Wednesday. Syed Taalay Ahmed, 31, from Hartlepool in north-east England worked for the UK-based Muslim Television Ahmadiyaa International network. Mr Ahmed leaves behind a wife and two children. The young journalist was filming a […]
When I left the BBC, one of the biggest challenges I faced was finding an to answer the question, ‘Who am I?’ My decision to end my 20-year career with the world broadcaster, took many people by surprise. Almost everyone I met thought I was crazy to leave such a prestigious job with one of […]
Zara and Abigail, the two ladies who were captured in the Sex for Grades scandal that rocked the University of Ghana in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary are not students or members of the University Community. The fact finding committee instituted to look into the matter in its final report indicated that evidence available […]
Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Serwanjja is a presenter at Uganda’s NBS TV, where he hosts one of the channel’s prime-time shows. He has also produced award-winning reports, including one for BBC’s Africa Eye programme about the illegal sale of prescription drugs. The […]
A BBC Journalist who is also an English comedy writer, Danny Baker has been fired by BBC after he made a racist tweet about the newly born England royal baby of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. A few hours after Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, the child who is the 7th heir to the throne after his […]
Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader convicted of fraud, has been deported to Ghana, despite a long campaign to keep him in Britain. His lawyer confirmed he was flown out of Heathrow Airport this evening after being detained in Scotland on Monday. Adoboli, aged 38 and who has lived in the UK for 26 years, […]
Former BBC anchor and former Director of Communications at the Ghana’s Presidency in the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Ben Dotsei Malor has penned down his life experience from his days with the BBC, to when he moved to the United Nations. He has titled it ‘Rejection and Promotion-Lessons from my move from the BBC […]
