Charlie Walsham

Will the BBC learn from Donald Trump’s victory?

18 November 2024 10:33 pm

The grandly titled CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, Deborah Turness, described Donald Trump’s re-election as ‘a dramatic night…

The BBC’s troubling coverage of the Kaba case

28 October 2024 12:49 am

Coverage of the death of Chris Kaba – and the acquittal of the police officer Martyn Blake tried for his murder…

What the BBC gets wrong about the Gaza conflict

12 September 2024 5:14 pm

This week, the BBC was accused of breaching its own editorial guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions and displaying a…

Why is the BBC so positive about the Notting Hill Carnival?

3 September 2024 3:41 am

The BBC’s coverage of the Notting Hill carnival has been almost relentlessly positive. But the rosy view of the festivities…

Why are BBC staff trying to get me fired?

5 May 2024 5:56 pm

It’s not a pleasant feeling to know there are colleagues in your workplace who think you should be summarily dismissed…

How did the BBC get the trans debate so wrong?

12 April 2024 8:17 pm

What must it feel like to realise you are part of an organisation that has placed so-called progressive values ahead…

Has BBC Verify done more harm than good?

10 March 2024 5:25 pm

As an increasingly jaded BBC hack, I reacted to the creation of BBC Verify last May with temple-rubbing despondency. The…

Inside the chaos over Huw Edwards at the BBC

17 July 2023 1:03 am

It’s been a truly surreal, disturbing and darkly comic week at the BBC. Much remains obscured, but one thing is…

Will the BBC own up to its Covid impartiality failings?

15 March 2023 11:04 pm

As Gary Lineker resumes his duties as the BBC’s highest-paid employee, it is worth appreciating that one of the Corporation’s…

The problem with the BBC’s reporting on excess deaths

15 January 2023 8:00 pm

I recall the newsroom conversations during the dark days of the pandemic only too well. They were upsetting at the…

How the BBC was captured by trans ideology

2 July 2022 4:24 pm

During Pride month this year a banner has been emblazoned across the BBC’s internal staff website used by every single…

The real problem with the BBC’s partygate coverage

23 January 2022 6:00 pm

As a journalist, it’s never a comfortable feeling when the news organisation you work for becomes the story. But with…

How the BBC lost its way on Covid

19 December 2021 8:00 pm

I have been a BBC journalist for many years, and in that time I have been committed to impartiality and…