
Ian Burrell
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Ian Hislop in Private Eye Magazine on his encounter with the unrepentant Justin Welby




‘A year ago the BBC seemed to have handed the death sentence to Newsnight…yet the dire prophesies have been defied’ Ian Burrell writes the average audience is up 30% since NN’s relaunch & the digital views for its interviews are in the tens of millions


Good piece here by Ian Burrell - and really interesting idea from Jonathan Aspinwall to give #Newsnight some exposure in different times lots. BBC would be wise to do this, IMO - plenty of other programmes get some cross exposure and Derbyshire interviews amongst best at the Beeb


For all the politically-motivated and commercially-motivated attacks on the BBC its audiences are going up. 2024 was a bumper year and BBC iPlayer is winning in the UK streaming market

Jack Dorsey supports news media, Elon Musk undermines it BBC Media Action BBC World Service Thomson Reuters

Opinion | Labour must decide whether it bends the knee to big tech. And that includes Elon Musk, who is developing his AI chatbot Grok3, while simultaneously denouncing Starmer’s Britain a land where free speech is dead 🖋 Ian Burrell trib.al/LRd5JeJ







BBC management is closing BBC HARDtalk after three decades holding power to account around the world. Here are some thoughts ⬇️ ‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC theguardian.com/media/2025/mar…


Opinion I Russian and Chinese state media is filling a vacuum created by Trump 🖋️ Ian Burrell trib.al/3PVcDU7


Opinion | "The Greens, especially, are struggling for media oxygen" 🖋 Ian Burrell says the Greens need to learn from Nigel Farage – and fast trib.al/Wmkbxgz