Editing BBC Asian Network (section)

===Rotherham sex abuse scandal controversy===
In 2018, the station's Head of News Arif Ansari was charged under the [[Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992]] after a reporter was thought to have named a victim of the [[Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal]] during a live news bulletin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rotherham-grooming-gangs-victims-named-bbc-journalist-arif-ansari-asian-network-anonymity-a8579476.html|title=BBC journalist Arif Ansari to go on trial accused of naming Rotherham grooming victim|date=2018-10-11|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45827413|title=BBC editor denies naming abuse victim|date=2018-10-11|work=BBC News|access-date=2019-01-09|language=en-GB}}</ref> In January 2019, he was cleared when a judge ruled that Ansari was not at fault and had been incorrectly told the name of the victim was a pseudonym. He was the first BBC editor to be tried under the legislation.<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC Asian Network editor found not guilty of 'honest mistake'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46920537|access-date=11 August 2021|publisher=BBC News|date=18 January 2019}}</ref>