BBC Apologizes To PinkNews Over Misconduct Documentary & Article

BBC apologises to PinkNews founders over defamatory allegations

The BBC has withdrawn allegations levelled at the publishers of British LGBTQIA+ website PinkNews and issued an unreserved apology. In the British High Court, the BBC retracted and apologised for claims it had published about PinkNews founder and CEO Benjamin Cohen and his husband, Anthony James, who serves as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. In December 2024, the broadcaster aired the documentary PinkNews: Behind Closed Door and published…

The BBC settles with PinkNews after falsely accusing founder of sexual misconduct

BBC Apologises “Unreservedly” to PinkNews Founder Over Defamatory Sexual Misconduct Claims

The BBC has paid compensation to PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband Anthony James after a 2024 documentary and accompanying article accused the pair of sexual misconduct. In the High Court, the corporation’s counsel said the BBC apologises “unreservedly” for the defamatory allegations. The article was deleted this morning, while the documentary came off…

Red faces at the BBC over PinkNews

The corporation has apologised and paid out damages after accepting a documentary about the publication's founder was defamatory

BBC Apologizes To PinkNews Over Misconduct Documentary & Article

The BBC has “apologized unreservedly for the defamatory allegations” made in a documentary and accompanying article about the founder of one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ publications and his husband. The BBC this morning removed from its website the original PinkNews article. The documentary came off iPlayer last year after its window ran down. The […]

Statement regarding BBC apology to Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James

On 10 December 2024, the BBC broadcast and published a documentary and accompanying news coverage making extremely serious and false allegations about us. The BBC ignored warnings about the veracity of these allegations and chose to broadcast false claims to millions of people. Today, nearly two years later, the BBC has retracted those allegations in […] The post Statement regarding BBC apology to Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James appeared first …