Zena Marks
@zenamarks.bsky.social
Science + natural history journalist and producer-director for TV, digital and radio. Social evolution specialist. Sceptical, not cynical.
Love this phrase: "reculer pour mieux sauter" - to fall back in order to take a better run at something (lit. 'jump')
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Love this phrase: "reculer pour mieux sauter" - to fall back in order to take a better run at something (lit. 'jump')
Essential 4 min viewing - to understand what's going on behind the scenes at the #BBC re: #TimDavie #RobbieGibb #Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... - courtesy of @rosatkins.bsky.social
Ros Atkins on... how the BBC is run
The BBC's analysis editor looks at how the organisation works - to understand why two bosses quit over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Essential 4 min viewing - to understand what's going on behind the scenes at the #BBC re: #TimDavie #RobbieGibb #Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... - courtesy of @rosatkins.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
If only the BBC's editorial standards board - bizarrely comprising of former Conservative spin doctor Robbie Gibb, and almost no journalistic experience in the 21st Century - had done its job and acted appropriately, and earlier, on editorial issues. #BBC
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If only the BBC's editorial standards board - bizarrely comprising of former Conservative spin doctor Robbie Gibb, and almost no journalistic experience in the 21st Century - had done its job and acted appropriately, and earlier, on editorial issues. #BBC
Very good piece: www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam... #BBC
The malign right can't be allowed to destroy the BBC
Panorama made mistakes but this ‘scandal’ is the work of populists trying to control the airwaves. They won’t rest
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very good piece: www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam... #BBC
Surely the buck ultimately stops with the #editorialstandardscommittee of the #BBC? 👀
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Surely the buck ultimately stops with the #editorialstandardscommittee of the #BBC? 👀
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If you’ve been watching the Hack there’s an ITV documentary on phone hacking at 10.15 pm this evening
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you’ve been watching the Hack there’s an ITV documentary on phone hacking at 10.15 pm this evening
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Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
#TheHack is amazing television. #Murdoch is playing life like Jonathan Ross plays #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors. The audacity! When are the faithfuls going to break him down?!
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
#TheHack is amazing television. #Murdoch is playing life like Jonathan Ross plays #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors. The audacity! When are the faithfuls going to break him down?!
An #incometax rise at this time, or any rise which breaks the Labour manifesto commitments, would be a spectacularly bad idea - both in party political AND national interest terms. It would throw the country into political upheaval once more.
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
An #incometax rise at this time, or any rise which breaks the Labour manifesto commitments, would be a spectacularly bad idea - both in party political AND national interest terms. It would throw the country into political upheaval once more.
#TheHack (on ITV and ITVX) is absolutely, mind-blowingly brilliant www.itv.com/watch/the-ha...
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#TheHack (on ITV and ITVX) is absolutely, mind-blowingly brilliant www.itv.com/watch/the-ha...
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Absolutely blown away by this🧠🤯 Can't stop watching 🔥
Out of this world choreography by Katya & impeccable delivery by Lewis.
Magical and mesmeric 40/40. Will go down as one of the all time Strictly performances.
#Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #Halloween #KatyaJones #LewisCope
Out of this world choreography by Katya & impeccable delivery by Lewis.
Magical and mesmeric 40/40. Will go down as one of the all time Strictly performances.
#Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #Halloween #KatyaJones #LewisCope
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Absolutely blown away by this🧠🤯 Can't stop watching 🔥
Out of this world choreography by Katya & impeccable delivery by Lewis.
Magical and mesmeric 40/40. Will go down as one of the all time Strictly performances.
#Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #Halloween #KatyaJones #LewisCope
Out of this world choreography by Katya & impeccable delivery by Lewis.
Magical and mesmeric 40/40. Will go down as one of the all time Strictly performances.
#Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #Halloween #KatyaJones #LewisCope
As Marina Hyde so rightly points out on 'TRI Entertainment', Joe M is a gameplay genius & should be big authority figure. I haven't explicitly said it yet, I guess cos it seems so blindingly obvious. He gets down to brass tacks & understands where skin in the game reveals itself. #CelebrityTraitors
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
As Marina Hyde so rightly points out on 'TRI Entertainment', Joe M is a gameplay genius & should be big authority figure. I haven't explicitly said it yet, I guess cos it seems so blindingly obvious. He gets down to brass tacks & understands where skin in the game reveals itself. #CelebrityTraitors
ADORE Celia Imrie's firebird jacket. It's like something from a Russian fairytale #Uncloaked
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
ADORE Celia Imrie's firebird jacket. It's like something from a Russian fairytale #Uncloaked
AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation) at the end of Cat's "I am a Faithful" statement. Think both of the traitors have just confirmed suspicions of them there #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation) at the end of Cat's "I am a Faithful" statement. Think both of the traitors have just confirmed suspicions of them there #CelebrityTraitors
David goes on logic. Go to David with the arguments against Alan (Paloma murder, forgetting shield, giggles during frankness), Nick. From then on it's walking him through casting logic #CelebrityTraitors But don't gang together too much to David, Joe and Nick, in case he thinks you're too cosy
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
David goes on logic. Go to David with the arguments against Alan (Paloma murder, forgetting shield, giggles during frankness), Nick. From then on it's walking him through casting logic #CelebrityTraitors But don't gang together too much to David, Joe and Nick, in case he thinks you're too cosy
Pleeeaaaase no recruitment tonight. The numbers would just be crazy #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Pleeeaaaase no recruitment tonight. The numbers would just be crazy #CelebrityTraitors
Good deductive techniques. If it's not Kate, Joe knows it's Cat - just casting lore #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Good deductive techniques. If it's not Kate, Joe knows it's Cat - just casting lore #CelebrityTraitors
Joe's upset cos he thought Nick would vote Alan too #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Joe's upset cos he thought Nick would vote Alan too #CelebrityTraitors
Alan seeming a lot less likeable stirring there #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Alan seeming a lot less likeable stirring there #CelebrityTraitors
Jonathan said "you have to look at everyone" as Cat just did #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Jonathan said "you have to look at everyone" as Cat just did #CelebrityTraitors