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In online ruse, fake journalists tried to hack U.S.-based Saudi critic
Hackers impersonating journalists tried to intercept the communications of a prominent Saudi opposition figure in Washington, The Associated Press has found. One attempt involved the fabrication of a fake BBC secretary and an elaborate television interview request; the other involved the impersonation of slain Washington ...
Singer Cliff Richard wins BBC privacy case, sparking media alarm
Veteran British pop star Cliff Richard won a privacy case against the BBC on Wednesday after it broadcast live on television a police raid on his home, in a ruling the broadcaster warned threatened press freedom. High Court Judge Anthony Mann said the BBC had ...
Matt LeBlanc of 'Friends' fame to step down as BBC 'Top Gear' host, citing travel demands
Matt LeBlanc, former star of 1990s U.S. hit comedy "Friends," said on Thursday he will step down as co-host of the BBC motoring program "Top Gear" after the next series. The American actor, who achieved global fame as Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom, was ...
South Korea 'BBC Dad' says year after video aired has been 'mostly fun, sometimes weird'
The Korea politics professor who became a viral sensation after his children interrupted a BBC interview says he has been pulled over by police for selfies and photographed buying milk in the year since the broadcast. Robert Kelly, of Pusan National University, was commenting on ...
Six top male BBC presenters agreed to take wage cuts Friday after the broadcaster's female China editor quit in protest over unequal pay. The six, who are among the BBC's top-earning journalists, voluntarily decided to take the cuts. In July, the publicly-funded BBC for the first ...
Jimmy Armfield, ex-England captain and distinguished broadcaster, dies at age 82
Jimmy Armfield, a former England captain who led Leeds to the European Cup final as a manager before a distinguished career in broadcasting, has died. He was 82. The Professional Footballers' Association said Armfield died early Monday morning. Armfield had been fighting cancer for the ...
Debate continues over mothers taking their babies to work
The hashtag #KozurekaigiOK, which translates roughly as “It’s OK to bring a child to a meeting,” began trending in late November. The trigger was a female politician’s decision to bring her child to a Kumamoto assembly session, which sparked a nationwide debate on child ...
BBC editor Carrie Gracie quits China post over pay discrimination against women
The BBC's China editor has resigned her position in Beijing in protest over what she called a failure to sufficiently address a gap in compensation between men and women at the public broadcaster. Carrie Gracie's departure is the latest aftershock from the BBC's forced publication ...
Roger Federer picked as BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
Roger Federer has been voted BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year for a record fourth time after an astonishing season during which he picked up two more Grand Slam titles. The 36-year-old Swiss returned from six months out with knee trouble to win the ...
Japan midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi set to join Leeds United: report
Japan international midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi is set to join English second-tier club Leeds United from Gamba Osaka on a deal worth about £500,000, according to a report published Monday on the BBC's website. Ideguchi will join the Championship side in January, but will be sent ...
Hong Kong broadcaster scraps 24-hour BBC World Service radio channel
Hong Kong's main public broadcaster, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), dropped a 24-hour BBC World Service channel from its airwaves Monday, replacing it with state radio from China in what critics say is a sign of encroaching Chinese control in the former British colony. Tensions ...
Women at BBC demand broadcaster fix pay disparity issue sooner rather than later
Some of the BBC's most prominent female journalists and TV presenters are banding together to demand that the broadcaster fix its wide gender pay gap immediately rather than in several years as management has proposed. TV personalities including Clare Balding, Victoria Derbyshire and others wrote ...
