State owned BBC refuses to release outside commercial interests of its taxpayer paid employees including 'journalists'-UK Daily Mail

12/11/11, "MPs say BBC must reveal details of journalists' commercial deals," UK Daily Mail, Miles Goslett

"MPs have demanded that the BBC reveals details of all commercial deals its journalists have with other organisations, amid fears of an increasing number of conflicts of interest affecting their work.

The Corporation is under pressure following The Mail on Sunday’s disclosure two weeks ago that senior BBC journalist Roger Harrabin accepted £15,000 in grants from the University of East Anglia, which was at the heart of the ‘Climategate’ scandal, and then reported on the story

• without declaring this interest to viewers.

Under BBC rules, employees must register shareholdings, outside corporate work, voluntary positions, book contracts and relevant interests of family members and partners. But the

• BBC has refused to make public details of the register,
  
• despite a Freedom of Information request from this newspaper."...via Tom Nelson
  

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