BBC offers aggregation service with Topics pages

Following the review of bbc.co.uk in which the BBC Trust criticised the lack of internal navigation on the site, the Beeb has launched a beta aggregation service. BBC Topics, which will have automatically updated pages, will cover people, countries or subjects. “So topics uses a variety of search techniques to create feeds of the latest […]

Why the BBC is scrapping its Have Your Say discussion board

The BBC is scrapping Have Your Say, a discussion board on the BBC News website. It is moving to an integrated system of comments within its stories, according to a post on the BBC’s Editors blog today. Most discussion topics on Have Your Say, such as one today which asks “will a no-fly zone resolve […]

Stand-upper? Wild-track? Wrap? New BBC glossary tackles journo lingo

After receiving numerous queries on some of the industry language used by journalists, the BBC College of Journalism has produced a glossary of journalism jargon to add to its list of guides on other topics including politics, religion and law. The glossary, which is open to additional suggestions, so far includes terms such as accountability, […]

Journalisted Weekly: Spending review, Rooney and the BBC

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from […]

BBC Research and Development blog: Could the Mythology Engine be applied to online news stories?

Interesting prototype from the BBC for a new way to explore the stories, characters and archives of drama series. The video below explains how the Mythology Engine works: “The featured characters stories and things all link to other places in the Mythology Engine,” says the video. While the idea is currently being applied to fictional […]

BBC head of religion and ethics disputes Sunday Telegraph article

Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s head of religion and ethics, has criticised the Sunday Telegraph for the way it presented his comments in an interview. In a BBC blog post yesterday, Ahmed writes that he had given an interview ahead of the Church Of England’s Synod debate and its motion on the issue of religious broadcasting […]

Jon Bernstein: Sorry Guido, the BBC did for Duncan

Three high-profile political figures mired in controversy, two thrown out of their jobs, one suffering a humiliating demotion – all thanks to internet activists of differing political hues from green to darkest blue. Hang your heads in shame video-sting victim Alan Duncan, and Smeargate’s Derek Draper and Damian McBride. Take a bow Tim Montgomerie, Guido […]