NewsWatch is a weekly BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 television programme presented by Raymond Snoddy

Raymond Snoddy

Raymond Snoddy OBE is a British journalist, television presenter, author and media commentator. He is currently best known for presenting the BBC News Channel's weekly viewer right to reply programme NewsWatch, but also writes for a number of publications on issues relating to the news...

 that provides a viewer and listener right of reply for BBC News

BBC News

BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...

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The programme

The programme was launched in 2004 as a response to the Hutton Inquiry

Hutton Inquiry

The Hutton Inquiry was a 2003 judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, a biological warfare expert and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.On 18 July 2003, Kelly, an employee...

, as part of an initiative to make BBC News more accountable. The programme is broadcast on the BBC News channel on Friday evenings at 8:45pm and Saturday mornings at 7:45am, or viewed online at bbc.co.uk/newswatch.