BBC

The complainant made a request for emails and agreements between BBC staff and staff at organisations in the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) partnership. The BBC explained the information was covered by the derogation and excluded from FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information was held by the BBC for the purposes of “journalism, art or literature” and did not fall under FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.