Podcast Episodes

Covering the royal baby story

With the full coverage so far, spare a thought for those working on Sunday papers and on rolling news who have to come up with fresh ways of covering…

12 years, 9 months ago

Mishal Husain becomes new Today presenter

Mishal Husain is to join the Today programme as presenter. The BBC's head of news programmes, Ceri Thomas and the Observer's Miranda Sawyer, also of …

12 years, 9 months ago

BBC Called to Account

This afternoon, the BBC's Chairman and Director General are before the MPs on the Public Accounts Committee. Lord Patten and Lord Hall are answering …

12 years, 10 months ago

David Liddiment on BBC severance pay

The BBC Trust came in for strong criticism this week in a National Audit Office report on severance payments for senior BBC managers. Following this,…

12 years, 10 months ago

NewsCorp split

Andrew Knight, chairman of Times Newspapers, on this week's split of NewsCorp into separate entertainment and publishing arms; Henry Porter of The Ob…

12 years, 10 months ago

Jon Snow on reporting from Iran

C4's Jon Snow was one of the few foreign reporters in Tehran for the recent election and the only UK broadcaster. What conditions was he working unde…

12 years, 10 months ago

Closure of 'Greek BBC'

In today's programme with Emma Barnett:

We hear from Greece about the sudden closure of the public service broadcaster, ERT, which was taken off air l…

12 years, 11 months ago

Leader debates?

UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he expects to be included in leader debates at the 2015 general election and may go to court if needed. Behind the scen…

12 years, 11 months ago

Comic Relief

How the media covered the Woolwich attack with Fran Unsworth Acting Director BBC News Group, Peter Preston a columnist on the Guardian and Observer a…

12 years, 11 months ago

Radio 1; Police and the Media; Yahoo buys Tumblr

Radio 1's breakfast show has reported its lowest listening figures for 10 years, following Chris Moyles' replacement by Nick Grimshaw. But is this wh…

12 years, 11 months ago