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Huw Edwards, former BBC newsreader, pleads guilty to child pornography

Huw Edwards, former BBC newsreader, pleads guilty to child pornography #formerBBCnewsreader #HuwEdwards #pleadsguilty

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GEORGE ALAGIAH (1955-Died July 24th 2023,at 67.Bowel cancer). British newsreader, journalist and television presenter.From 2007 until 2022, he was the presenter of the BBC News at Six and was previously the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News from its launch in 2010 until 2014. He was highly regarded as one of Britian's most accomplished and respected news journalists,having reported from and covered notable events like the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami,reporting from his families native Sri Lanka,as well as the genicide in Rwanda,and conflicts in Iraq,Afghanistan,Liberia,Somalia & Sierra Leone, and inteviewed prominent world figures including former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,Nelson Mandela,and Robert Mugabe.George Alagiah als turned too writing fiction,releasing his debut novel in 2020,titled The Burning Land,about corruption in South Africa George Alagiah - Wikipedia

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Beautiful Naga Munchetty, full name, Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah[1] (born 25 February 1975),[2] also known as Naga Munchetty, is a British television presenter, newsreader and journalist. She is a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast. She is also a former presenter of BBC World News and BBC Two's weekday financial affairs programme Working Lunch.

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Former BBC Newsreader Huw Edwards due to be sentenced for indecent image...

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What a monster!!! May he spend the rest of his life in prison!

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Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children

Former BBC newsreader fronted flagship programmes and events including the Queen’s funeral

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BBC Stephen Nolan Stephen Bear Allegations Shine Spotlight On Behavior – Deadline

The BBC has found itself in hot water once again over the behind-the-scenes behavior of one of its highest profile presenters.

The BBC Northern Ireland Director this morning said he would not be commenting on the specifics of the case of Stephen Nolan, who, an Irish Times exposé alleged yesterday, sent “sexually explicit images” of a later convicted sex offender to other BBC employees working on his radio and television shows, amongst other accusations. Nolan declined to comment on the allegations via the BBC press office.

BBC Presenter Suspended Amid Claims He Paid Teenager For Sexual Images

BBC Staff Expressed Concerns About Complaints Procedures Weeks Before Huw Edwards Crisis

Nolan was paid more than £400,000 ($510,000) last year and hosts shows on Radio 5 Live and Radio Ulster.

The Irish News alleges that the BBC carried out an investigation into his behavior in 2018 following accusations from a member of his production team that he sent sexually explicit images of reality TV contestant Stephen Bear to them. Former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Bear was subsequently convicted of sex offenses in 2022 and jailed earlier this year.

Nolan is also alleged to have exhibited bullying behavior and at least one former member of his team made a formal complaint of bullying against him in connection with his radio show, according to the Irish Times, which also said he shared “abusive remarks” about other BBC staff along with some members of his production team.

BBC Northern Ireland Director Adam Smyth told the BBC: “There are important considerations of fairness and confidentiality involved in the handling of any workplace-related complaint. We take these obligations seriously – and in the interests of everyone involved. It is for these reasons that we cannot comment on the specifics of any individual case, who/what it may have involved or its outcome.”

The latest BBC presenter scandal comes just a few weeks after the Huw Edwards saga, in which the prominent newsreader was revealed to be the subject of a Sun exposé on a ‘BBC presenter’ who had allegedly paid a young person around £30,000 for indecent images.

Away from the BBC, Phillip Schofield also revealed earlier this year that he had had a relationship with a much younger employee on This Morning as he stood down from his presenting role in disgrace, while Deadline revealed TV Chef James Martin had been rapped by ITV over a recent bullying complaint and told to improve his behavior."

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The former newsreader left the BBC in 2021 to follow her ‘life’s passion’

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Former BBC Newsreader Huw Edwards due to be sentenced for indecent image...

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Louise Minchin net worth 2022

Louise Minchin net worth 2022

Louise Mary Minchin was born in September 1968. She is a British television presenter, journalist, and a former newsreader who is currently in the office of freelance department within the BBC. At the start of 2012, Minchin was a regular presenter on the BBC One programme Breakfast. She hosts the show three days in a week with Dan Walker. Minchin announced her departure from BBC Breakfast live on…

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BBC flooded with complaints over Prince Philip coverage

Corporation opened dedicated complaints form on its website to deal with deluge of negative comments

Jim Waterson Media editor

Published: 11:29 Saturday, 10 April 2021

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Within six hours of Prince Philip’s death being announced the BBC had received so many complaints about its wall-to-wall coverage of the news that it opened a dedicated complaints form on its website.

The BBC curtailed dozens of broadcasts on Friday, taking the nation’s most popular television and radio channels off air and reduced dozens of other broadcasts on stations across the country, in order to provide uninterrupted coverage of tributes to the Queen’s husband.

BBC One played a series of pre-recorded shows, including Philip’s children paying tribute to him, while BBC Two scrapped its schedule and simulcast the same shows as its sister channel. Friday night staples such as EastEnders, Gardeners’ World, and the final episode of MasterChef were taken off air to make way for more tributes, a pattern followed by ITV and Channel 5.

Although the corporation is used to finding itself in the middle of Britain’s culture wars, its handling of Philip’s death points to a deeper question over the ability of a national broadcaster to force the country together to mourn a single individual in an era where audiences are fragmented and less deferential.

When Princess Diana died in a car crash in 1997 the majority of the UK population had only just gained access to a fifth television channel. If the BBC wanted to enforce a mood of national mourning they had the power to cut off other forms of entertainment and keep dissenting voices at bay through the sheer enormity of their reach.

Nowadays, although the BBC’s reach among the UK population remains enormous, the growth of Netflix and YouTube means audiences have somewhere else to turn.

Executives – and royal courtiers – will be nervously studying the release of television viewing figures and seeing if the decision to replace Friday night’s episode of EastEnders with tributes to Philip will expose the fact that the British public’s appetite for such material is limited.

Individuals working in BBC News suggested the long-planned scale of the coverage is because the corporation still bore the scars from the death of the Queen Mother in 2002, when its output was deemed insufficiently deferential by rightwing newspapers.

Among other issues the media infamously fixated on BBC newsreader Peter Sissons failing to wear a black tie as announced her death. He later claimed he had been left in the lurch by BBC bosses, who the previous year had floated proposals to tone down the extent of the coverage of the Queen Mother’s death. Sissons claimed that as he entered the studio to announce her death he was told by the editor: “Don’t go overboard, she’s a very old woman who had to go some time.”

There is also the ongoing battle between the government and the BBC over the corporation’s future funding. With the new director general, Tim Davie, already battling Conservative MPs who accuse the corporation of not being sufficiently patriotic, the BBC will have been aware of the political risks of not being perceived to have struck the right tone.

In the end almost the entire range of BBC services was affected in some way by the announcement of Philip’s death, sometimes with mildly farcical results.

For instance, as a mark of respect to the Queen’s husband, BBC Four’s scheduled programme was taken off-air and replaced with notice urging viewers to switch to BBC One for a tribute to the deceased royal.

The channel had been due to show the England women’s football team play France in an international friendly, leading to questions about whether a men’s match would be kicked off television schedules in an equivalent situation. The game was still shown in full on the BBC’s iPlayer service and BBC Sport website, apparently in the belief that showing women’s sport on a digital service during a period of royal mourning is more respectful than allowing it on linear television channels.

Children watching cartoons on CBBC were greeted with a banner encouraging them to watch the news for a major story. Adverts were taken off BBC-owned commercial channels such as Dave, Yesterday, and Gold out of respect for the deceased royal.

The BBC’s national radio stations initially replaced their output with a pre-recorded tribute, with some later returning to special sombre playlists, with the likes of Radio 1 stuck playing downbeat music with the occasional news bulletin update. Specialist music programmes were taken off air, while presenters kept chat to a minimum.

Some BBC radio cricket commentary were left continuing to provide coverage from grounds across England, unaware that no one was able to hear their output because it had been replaced. Even cricket fans on the BBC website coverage found their source of information cut off, with the corporation’s county championship liveblog shut down immediately after Philip’s death was announced – even as play continued across the country.

One of the few broadcasters to buck the trend was Channel 4, which did air extended tributes to the former royal consort but provided an alternative for viewers by showing Gogglebox and the final of reality TV hit The Circle as planned.

One issue facing the BBC is when to return coverage to normal and how to respond to complaints. In a sign that the corporation is doomed to be criticised by all sides, the rightwing Defund the BBC campaign described it as “disgraceful” that the corporation was making it easier to complain about its coverage, saying: “The anti-British BBC has set up a form to encourage complaints about the volume of coverage of Prince Philip’s death.”

Another issue is how to serve parts of its audience who would like an alternative to the wall-to-wall coverage. By late Friday afternoon there was one death dominating the most-read stories on the BBC website: The demise of rapper DMX.

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He was just ambling by pleasantly. It was intermission and I was desperately trying to push through the general crush of people to work my way to the toilets. God, in retrospect I should’ve asked him if he had any special vaguely-famous-person toilet access…

Concept: You are at the world-famous Globe Theatre, where you have taken in half a performance of some Shakespeare work in which all the characters wear black t-shirts and moto jackets, and all of them are played former Doctors Who or Tom Hiddleston. You very much need to find a toilet, despite a suspicion that the authentic Elizabethan way is to just pee wherever. 

By accident, you make eye contact across the room with someone -- it’s Ian McNeice, the newsreader guy on Rome. He looks totally at ease. He’s having a happy day. Good for Ian McNeice. Drawn to him by instinct, you find yourself drifting through the crowd until you’re standing next to him and then, compelled and unable to stop yourself, you tell him you’re looking for a toilet. 

“Oh,” says Ian McNeice. “There’s a special famous people toilet at the Globe, I can get you in.”

Ian McNeice takes you by the hand and navigates deftly through the crowd. You may have passed through a brick wall, or onto the street, or somehow through the floorboards -- because suddenly you are no longer in the heated press of intermission, your heart no longer racing from the chaos of families and Shakespeare enthusiasts and bachelorette parties and those people who are constantly engaged in telling others that Shakespeare wrote dick jokes for “groundlings,” and that they were people who stood on the floor close to the stage. You are in a quiet, well-lit room. You are far from the madding crowd, and indeed there is the entire cast of Far From the Madding Crowd. In fact in this room is everyone who’s ever been in a BBC, HBO, Canal+, or Masterpiece show. Just all there, wearing sweaters and loafers. Reading the Economist in hard copy or hanging out by what appears to be a Deutsche Grammaphon jukebox or arm wrestling Sir Ian McKellen. 

At the far side of the room is a door with a toilet symbol on it, and it is there that Ian McNeice directs you. 

“Right there,” he says.

You enter the room, pee for a minute while taking in a lot of inscrutable wall etchings like “Dame Judi Dench owes me TWO pieces of gum” and “looking for a recommendation for a nice pair of slippers, much obliged -Dan Stevens.” The hand towels are perfectly dry and extremely plush. You take a couple seconds in the mirror but don’t want Ian McNeice to think you’re doing something weird, so you head on out. 

The door opens, and with a compliment about the famous people toilet ready on your lips you step out... into the intermission crowd at the Globe Theatre. 

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BBC Presenter Clive Myrie Shares Sobering Experience Of ‘Long Night’ Fleeing Ukraine For Romania

BBC journalist Clive Myrie has shared his experience of leaving Ukraine for Romania, after reporting on the front line since Russia invaded last month.

The broadcaster detailed his journey from the capital Kyiv to the Romanian border via Moldova in a series of tweets posted on Sunday evening.

Explaining that the drive to the border had taken 17 hours, Clive revealed that it then took a further eight hours to travel just two miles to the crossing.

He tweeted “After 17 or so hours drive in all from Kyiv, heading south then west, then into Moldova to the frontier, we arrive at the queue to cross from Moldova to Romania,’ he penned in his first post.

“This was to become a long night. We are less than two miles from the crossing.”

After 17 or so hours drive in all from Kyiv, heading south then west, then into Moldova to the frontier, we arrive at the queue to cross from Moldova to Romania. This was to become a long night. We are less than 2miles from the crossing….. pic.twitter.com/zdV3D1dQ4F

— Clive Myrie (@CliveMyrieBBC) March 6, 2022

He continued: “A full 8 hours later, we travel the less than two miles to cross into Romania with the leaflet saying ‘If you are Ukrainian you have the right to enter Romania and you will be protected’.”

A full 8hours later, we travel the less than 2miles to cross into Romania with the leaflet saying “if you are Ukrainian you have the right to enter Romania and you will be protected!” #ukrainepic.twitter.com/UDu3FHYki3

— Clive Myrie (@CliveMyrieBBC) March 6, 2022

Clive also reflected on families who were fleeing for their lives after being shelled.

“It was a long, day of driving and queuing to get out of Kyiv. Imagine having to leave all you know in a hurry because you’re being shelled,” he continued.

“What do you pack? Do pets come too? It’s freezing cold and you pray those in neighbouring countries will welcome you, not despise you!

“My thoughts are with the one million who’ve fled Ukraine because they might be killed. The millions who fled Syria and many other millions escaping repression, poverty, war.

“They all pray they’ll be welcomed in other countries as human beings. That’s all they ask.”

It was a long, day of driving and queuing to get out of Kyiv. Imagine having to leave all you know in a hurry because you’re being shelled! What do you pack? Do pets come too? It’s freezing cold and you pray those in neighbouring countries will welcome you, not despise you! 1/2 pic.twitter.com/61vDc3qNH4

— Clive Myrie (@CliveMyrieBBC) March 6, 2022

My thoughts are with the 1million who’ve fled #Ukraine because they might be killed. The millions who fled #syria and many other millions escaping repression,poverty, war. They all pray they’ll be welcomed in other countries as human beings. That’s all they ask 2/2 #refugeespic.twitter.com/cV4bpO9zt0

— Clive Myrie (@CliveMyrieBBC) March 6, 2022

Clive has received widespread praise for his coverage of the crisis over the past two weeks, including from fellow journalists.

Former BBC and GB News newsreader Simon McCoy said: “You are doing an amazing job. Look after yourselves.”

World At One presenter Sarah Montague added: “Watching @CliveMyrieBBC makes me feel very proud that I work at the BBC. He is a class act.”

During one of his early live reports from a rooftop opposite St Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Clive and the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet were forced to put on flak jackets after they were interrupted by an air raid siren.

He later told the PA news agency: “You’ve got to be aware that you are in the middle of a war zone, a live war zone, and anything could happen.

“None of us are stupid enough to stay out there reporting while bullets are raining down, that would be madness and frankly no story is worth that, but the advice was we could still keep broadcasting as long as we took the minimal protection of putting on safety gear.

“So that’s what we did and it meant we could continue telling the story, getting that across to our viewers so that they understand what is going on.”

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