A look into the complex array of issues involved in reporting science stories in the news, from one of the researchers on last year's BBC Trust-commissioned Science Review. What counts as an 'expert', and how many of them do you need for your show? And why isn't it good enough to say "scientists have found..."?

Despite the sale of televised England home-matches from the BBC to commercial broadcasting, cricket remains central to collective imaginings of 'Englishness'. Recent attempts to situate the sport within the history of empire reveal much about the BBC's continuing ties to the ideology of state-led imperialism.  

Private industry is extremely well represented among the Beeb's trustees and directors, from bankers to energy and security firm executives. How does this square with the BBC's public service remit?

The BBC World Service has lost resources and its much loved home in Bush House; by 2014 it will have lost a quarter of its staff and its traditional source of funding. What hope is there for the institution Kofi Annan called "Britain's greatest gift to the world in the twentieth century"?

After an opaque, expensive process involving a slick HR head-hunting firm, Director of BBC Vision George Entwistle has been announced as the next Director General, taking over from Mark Thompson in the autumn. The devil, as ever, is in the detail.

The retention of the unique licence fee system for funding the BBC has sustained a lot of criticism in recent years, but with 95% of British households paying the fee, the defence usually centres on its guarantee of universalism. Is that a misnomer - and would a subscription model not be better for everyone?