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Ex-BBC content chief loses Telegraph complaint over Gaza doc criticism

Ex-BBC content chief loses Telegraph complaint over Gaza doc criticism

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Charlotte Moore, pictured giving a speech on 5 March 2025. Picture: David Parry Media Assignments/PA Wire The BBC’s former chief content officer has had a complaint against The Telegraph rejected by IPSO over an article linking her OBE to a Gaza documentary that broke broadcasting rules. Charlotte Moore complained that a Telegraph article headlined: “BBC boss handed OBE despite being blamed for discredited Gaza film” was inaccurate. The piece, published on 30 December 2025, reported that she “bore much of the blame for the Gaza documentary” in reference to the corporation’s film that broke broadcasting rules. The documentary Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone was pulled from iPlayer in 2025 after it emerged that its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official in Gaza. The BBC was found to be in “serious breach” of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code. The article appeared in print and online with the subheading: “Charlotte Moore’s award among several in Honours List that could be accused of rewarding failure”. It added that a group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and …

Irish News wrong to allege ‘serious editorial misconduct’ on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO

Irish News wrong to allege ‘serious editorial misconduct’ on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO

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Stephen Nolan. BBC Northern Ireland has won a complaint against the Irish News over four articles that alleged staff had been “planted” in the audience of presenter Stephen Nolan’s TV show. Press regulator IPSO found the Irish News had “overstated” the nature of audience manipulation allegations shared with it by a source. Rather than staff posing as audience members, IPSO said, the source’s description appeared to match up better with the BBC’s position: that “spotters” would point out people who wished to participate for the production staff to call upon. The allegations relating to Nolan Live were reported in four articles over the course of five days in August 2023. IPSO said the inaccuracy was significant because it “represented a serious allegation of editorial misconduct that could have serious reputational implications” both for the BBC and individuals working on the programme. IPSO added that the Irish News had failed to provide the allegations to the BBC ahead of the first article, which related mainly to the “work environment” of the programme but included references to …

Lisa Nandy ‘really concerned’ by lack of complaints upheld by IPSO

Lisa Nandy ‘really concerned’ by lack of complaints upheld by IPSO

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Lisa Nandy speaking at the Society of Editors Conference 2026. Picture: Lucy Young Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said she is “really concerned” about the efficacy of press regulator IPSO. Speaking at the Society of Editors Future of News Conference in London on Tuesday, Nandy raised concerns but said the Government “will tread carefully and cautiously about regulation of the press”. She said “any right-minded government should” be cautious around press regulation “because it is a precious and important thing that fearless journalists can hold government to account”. But she said regulation of the media is “perhaps the single greatest area in which I am urged by the public to act”. Nandy said she is “really concerned that when we look at IPSO, that when complaints are made, only 1% of them are upheld, and nobody’s ever been fined… “If only 1% of complaints are upheld and nobody has ever been fined, is that because everything that is produced by the press in this country is 100% true and accurate, or is that because the …

Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published

Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published

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Telegraph school fees article The Telegraph has refused to tell press regulator IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly impacted by school fee increases came to be published. The article, headlined “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, was published and quickly withdrawn in June last year. Despite speculation that the article had been written using AI, Press Gazette confirmed it had been written by a real journalist and was based on a phone interview set up by a PR working for financial planning firm Saltus whose school fees research was referenced in the story. The journalist appears to have been deceived by the man on the phone who gave a fake name. Freelance journalist Ian Fraser raised concerns about the piece and the fact he could find no trace of bankers named Al and Alexandra Moy, the subjects of the piece, anywhere else online. He also noted the pictures of a family used in the article were stock images taken in 2012 and 2014. …