Alert: The 2025 Editorial Guidelines come into effect on Monday 1 September.
The 2025 Editorial Guidelines come into effect on Monday 1 September.
Until then, the 2019 guidelines remain in force:
- Download the 2019 Guidelines in English
- Download the 2019 Guidelines in Welsh - Argraffu pdf o’r Canllawiau yn Gymraeg
- View the guidance notes for the 2019 Editorial Guidelines.
A-C
- Access agreements and indemnity forms
- Anonymity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audience Interactivity
- BBC News Brands, Use of BBC News Brands by BBC Commercial Services for marketing events
- Body-worn cameras ('GoPros') and microphones
- Charitable appeals
- Children and young people, Interacting with online
- Children and young people as contributors, Working with
- Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting
- Conflicts of Interest
- Conflicts of Interest: Financial Journalism
- Contestants and Talent searches
- Coverage of sponsored (non-sports) events mounted by third parties
- Crediting and labelling external relationships
D-K
- Data and Reporting Statistics
- Drones, Use of
- Duty of Care
- Election Guidelines archive
- Factual content featuring illegal or anti-social behaviour, reuse of
- Feeds and Links
- Fictitious news bulletins
- Filming in medical emergencies
- Financial journalism, Conflicts of Interest
- Hearing-impaired and visually-impaired audiences
- Images, stills and photographs
- Impartiality
- Indemnity forms and access agreements
- Informed consent
- Interactivity, Audience
- Interacting with children and young people online
- Internet research
- Investigations
L-O
- Language - Racist Language
- Links and feeds
- Live output
- Makeover programmes – funding and selection of contributors
- Marketing Events, Use of BBC News Brands by BBC Global News for
- Medical emergencies, filming in
- Missing people, privacy
- Natural World, recording the
- Off-air events, public service
- Opinion polls, surveys, questionnaires, votes and 'straw polls'
P-R
- Personal use of Social Media
- Photographs, stills and images
- Privacy and missing people
- Private investigators, The use of
- Props: the supply and use of props in drama, comedy, entertainment, factual entertainment and lifestyle programmess
- Public Service off-air events
- Racist Language
- Recording the Natural World
- Removal of BBC Online content
- Reporting and portrayal of tribal peoples
- Reporting statistics and data
- Reporting the UK
- Re-use of factual content featuring illegal or anti-social behaviour
- Right of reply
- Risk of working with contributors including vulnerable contributors
S-T
- Secret Recording
- Social Media, Personal use of
- Social media BBC Accounts – Programme, Brand or Genre, Use of
- Sponsorship of BBC on-air or online events broadcast on BBC Public Services
- Statistics and Data, Reporting
- Stills, photographs and images
- 'Straw polls'
- Surveys
- Talent searches and contestants
- Ticketing for BBC events and programmes
- Trailing of BBC related commercial products, material or services on BBC Network Radio and BBC Sounds
- Tribal Peoples, Reporting and portrayal of
U-Z
- UK, Reporting the
- Use of BBC News Brands by BBC Commercial Services for Marketing Events
- Use of drones
- Use of private or third parties for investigative purposes
- Use of social media
- Use of social media BBC Accounts – Programme, Brand or Genre
- User-generated and Social Media Content
- Video and audio news releases
- Visually impaired and hearing impaired audiences
- Votes (political and public policy)
- Vulnerable adults, Working with
- Working with children and young people as contributors
- Working with vulnerable adults