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Byline: Katy Brand Sharon Stone once said: 'If you have a vagina and a point of view, you are considered a threat.' Of course, not all of us women are [...]

Byline: Hannah Furness The BBC's head of news has used his first public speech to hit back at critics including Theresa May, claiming accusations his journalists are putting local papers [...]

'He is going to be CEO beginning November 12,' a New York Times spokesman said on Sunday. The New York Times maintained its confidence in the paper's new chief following [...]

Affectionately known as 'Del', he approached radio with the same kind of uncomplicated agenda which had brought him success at the helm of the Daily Star â a paper whose [...]

Byline: Brendan O'Neill 'This generation can expect to grow up poorer than their parents.' So said Paul Mason in the Guardian this week, as part of that paper's middle-class pity-fest [...]

Byline: Andrew Gilligan As I mentioned in last Sunday's paper, I think there's a real danger that the much-hyped TV election debates could be a disastrously damp squib. The 'debates' [...]

Byline: Michael Hogan Disney+ might be great for children but it's by no means just for them. It not only owns the LucasFilm and Marvel franchises but the streaming platform [...]

Byline: Alexander Larman Endorsements for major films usually come from critics and broadcasters, but, ever so often, a higher power altogether can be called upon. Perhaps the apotheosis of this [...]

Byline: Thom Gibbs, Senior Sports Writer Thirty million copies have been sold of The Secret, the self-help manual for obtaining whatever you want in life through the pseudoscientific power of [...]

Byline: Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor Where most British broadcasters give up on Christmas and stuff their schedules with repeats, Sky should be commended for making an effort. Every [...]

Byline: Douglas Murray What does America have against the Royal family? Strangely enough, given the history, in the main the answer is 'almost nothing'. I was in the States when [...]

Byline: Telegraph reporters A former BBC DJ has been found guilty of waging a relentless stalking campaign against broadcasters and subjecting Jeremy Vine to an 'avalanche of hatred'. Alex Belfield [...]

Byline: Madeline Grant, PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER The Titanic went down to Nearer My God to Thee. In the end, Boris Johnson went down to the distant strains of the Benny Hill [...]

Byline: Edward Malnick, Sunday Political Editor The broadcasting regulator has been accused of stifling 'rational criticism' of the response to Covid by labelling scepticism about Britain's approach to the pandemic [...]

Byline: Sherelle Jacobs, Daily Telegraph Columnist After three months stuck in a lockdown nightmare, this week, Britain finally passed through the Covid Looking Glass -- to a strange new reality [...]

Byline: Michael Deacon, Parliamentary Sketchwriter Right now, journalists at the BBC -- and indeed other news broadcasters -- have a problem. Their coverage of the crisis is coming in for [...]

Byline: Telegraph Reporters Changes to the BBC charter are being outlined in the House of Commons as it is up for renewal. Stars earning more than £150,000 a year are [...]

Byline: Telegraph View The BBC is on trial for its future. There are things the corporation does well: the excitement surrounding Helen Titchener's court appearance in this week's The Archers [...]

Byline: Teresa Machan One of the joys of cruising is meeting people you're unlikely to come across in everyday life. Not just passengers but noteworthy speakers, too. Classicists, archaeologists, military [...]

Byline: Steven Swinford The BBC has become too big and can no longer justify trying to be 'all things to all people' in the age of Netflix, the government has [...]

Byline: Norman Tebbit It is difficult to place any interpretation on the statements of the Prime Minister at the G7 press conference other than that reached unanimously by the British [...]

Byline: Camilla Turner Theresa May's plan to introduce counter-extremism powers to vet British broadcasters' programmes before transmission was attacked by a Conservative cabinet colleague, a leaked letter has revealed. Sajid [...]

Byline: Hannah Furness Arts Correspondent As the original quizmaster for University Challenge, he is well used to facing conundrums to perplex the greatest brains in Britain. Now Bamber Gascoigne is [...]

Byline: Alice Vincent Entertainment Writer Natural history broadcaster David Attenborough has made a career out of educating people in the wonders of the world. But this week he enlightened some [...]

Byline: Ben Riley-Smith Scottish Political Reporter Scots would lose access to some BBC television shows if the country goes independent, Labour's shadow Scottish secretary will warn today. Margaret Curran is [...]

Byline: Simon Johnson and Ben Riley-Smith TV viewers in an independent Scotland would have to pay extra to view all the BBC's TV and radio output, a former director-general of [...]

Byline: Michael Wilkinson The new broadcaster that would replace BBC Scotland under Scottish independence would be a 'small-scale operation' that 'could not match' the BBC's current offering, a leading academic [...]

Byline: Simon Johnson Scottish Political Editor Gordon Brown has warned an independent Scotland's state broadcaster would have to introduce a 'significantly higher' licence fee to afford the same level of [...]

Byline: Olivia Parker Friday night consists of one of two things. The first option is being at home in north London catching up with my husband, Joe [Craig, the children's [...]

Byline: Theo Merz 'It's incredible how well he's doing,' the publicist says as she leads me in to meet Chris Tarrant. She's talking about his recovery from a stroke he [...]

William Ash, who has died aged 96, was the real-life 'cooler king' of Stalag Luft III, said to be one of several sources for the character Virgil Hilts, played by [...]

Byline: Louisa Peacock Deputy Women's Editor * Tony Hall: My BBC 'women in radio' target is on track One cold, early morning earlier this year, Lilley Mitchell, 29, found herself [...]

Kirsty Wark I always knew I'd be a working mother. Before I started at Newsnight in 1993, I couldn't imagine not having a career, even though my mother had given [...]

Byline: Michael Hogan 1) The house that Beeb built In the show: All new BBC staff attend a 'digital handshake session, run by the technical services choreographer' showing them how [...]

Byline: Padraic Flanagan Schools watchdog Ofsted is to overhaul its inspection regime, planning shorter visits for thriving centres of learning to allow more time for it to focus on under-performing [...]

Byline: Emma Barnett Women's Editor Nearly three years ago I stepped into a radio studio for the first time and began presenting. It was one of the most frightening moments [...]

Byline: James Edgar Professor Stephen Hawking is claiming victory in a bet with another scientist in light of the recent announcement that gravitational waves rippling through the universe have been [...]

Byline: Claire Carter Piers Morgan, the broadcaster and former tabloid journalist, has been questioned over allegations of phone hacking. Below are some of the television personality's previous comments on the [...]

Byline: Roger Wright On the day in 1967 that the old Third Programme became Radio 3, it broadcast an afternoon of sport, including sailing, golf and horseracing. Our programming has [...]

Simon Hoggart, the journalist who has died aged 67, wrote on politics, latterly as The Guardian's acerbic and witty parliamentary sketchwriter, and on wine for The Spectator; for many years [...]

David Coleman, who has died aged 87, was the face and voice of BBC Television sport for 40 years, the anchorman for the flagship Grandstand programme on Saturday afternoons and [...]

Byline: Jasper Copping Clare Balding, the broadcaster, has spoken of the family rift triggered when she revealed that she was homosexual. She said her grandmother told her she was 'disgusting' [...]

Byline: Des Lynam I had been asked a few times to write my autobiography when I was fairly active in the sports-broadcasting business but had no inclination to do so [...]

Byline: Mark Nicholas My passion for Australia began through the radio (or wireless, as my grandmother often reminded me). In the winter of 1970/71, I smuggled a small transistor into [...]

Byline: David Barrett and Claire Duffin On Tuesday, Lord Hall, the BBC director-general, will address a selected audience of employees and outsiders in the Radio Theatre at New Broadcasting House [...]

Byline: Alice Arnold 'Fir Park should have been torched on Thursday in order to cleanse the stadium after it played host to black footballers.' It's a pretty shocking statement but [...]

Byline: Daniel Johnson The six-time Olympic champion, who has said he is reconsidering plans to retire after the Rio 2016 Games, confirmed he is currently 'dating' but avoids English women [...]

Byline: Libby Purves Is radio sexist? Do we need quotas, as the broadcaster Alice Arnold said last week? Is the new director-general, Tony Hall, right to lay down a rule [...]

Byline: Toby Young James Harding, the ex-editor of the Times who starts his new job as the BBC's director of news today, has a lot on his plate. The BBC's [...]

Byline: Claire Carter Nick Robinson issued the warning after the tranquility of his rural cottage by the sea, bought four years ago for his family to escape from their busy [...]