How BBC Verify is transparent in its fact checking
BBC Verify and how fact-checking and investigative work is shared with the audience. We ask the BBC’s director of news content what transparency means and why it’s important?
With the launch of a new unit, BBC Verify, the BBC is now sharing the fact-checking and investigative work its journalists and correspondents do behind the scenes with the audience. We ask the BBC’s director of news content what “transparency” actually means and why it is important?
Plus, is the corporation getting repetitive with its use of interviewees? A listener tells us he has heard the same guest in three different programmes.
Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
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- Sat 3 Jun 202308:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East & South Asia
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