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{{Infobox company
| name = BBC News
| logo = BBC News 2022 (Alt).svg
| logo_size = 150px
| logo_caption = Logo used since 2022
| type = [[Division (business)|Division]]
| area_served = Specific services for United Kingdom and rest of world
| key_people = {{ubl|[[Deborah Turness]] (CEO, News and Current Affairs)|[[Jonathan Munro]] (director of Journalism and Deputy CEO)}}
| industry = [[Broadcasting|Broadcast media]]
| services = Radio, internet, and television broadcasts
| owner = <!-- Per [[Template:Infobox company]], it states: "If the company is majority-owned by a single entity and as such is a subsidiary or division, omit the owner field and use the parent field instead." -->
| num_employees = 7,000 (5,500 journalists)<ref name="bbcnews.bbcstudios.com">{{Cite web |date=10 December 2023 |title=BBC News (TV) Platform – BBC Studios |url=https://bbcnews.bbcstudios.com/platforms/bbc-news-tv/ |access-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210180419/https://bbcnews.bbcstudios.com/platforms/bbc-news-tv/ |archive-date=10 December 2023 }}</ref>
| parent = [[BBC]]
| divisions = {{ubl| [[BBC News Online]] |
[[BBC News (British TV channel)|BBC News (TV Channel)]]}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|1922|11|14|df=y}}
| location_city = London
| location = [[Broadcasting House]]
| locations = 
| homepage ={{ubl| {{URL|bbc.co.uk/news|bbc.co.uk}} (UK) | {{URL|bbc.com/news|bbc.com}} (global) }}
}}
'''BBC News''' is an operational [[Division (business)|business division]]<ref>{{cite web|title=News Group Senior Management |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/bbcstructure/journalism.html |date=December 2014 |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230043836/http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/bbcstructure/journalism.html |archive-date=30 December 2016 |url-status = dead}}</ref> of the [[BBC|British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. 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 news coverage.<ref name=Boaden>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3970000/newsid_3975900/3975913.stm|title=NewsWatch – About BBC News – This is BBC News|access-date=3 April 2007|date=18 November 2004|first=Helen|last=Boaden|archive-date=17 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217084131/http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3970000/newsid_3975900/3975913.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westminsterjournalism.co.uk/Broadcast06/BBC/BBCNewsIntro.html |title=Content |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227135731/http://www.westminsterjournalism.co.uk/Broadcast06/BBC/BBCNewsIntro.html |archive-date=27 February 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output<ref name="bbcnews.bbcstudios.com">{{Cite web |date=10 December 2023 |title=BBC News (TV) Platform – BBC Studios |url=https://bbcnews.bbcstudios.com/platforms/bbc-news-tv/ |access-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210180419/https://bbcnews.bbcstudios.com/platforms/bbc-news-tv/ |archive-date=10 December 2023 }}</ref> including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign [[correspondent]]s are stationed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Herbert J|first1=John|title=Practising Global Journalism: Exploring Reporting Issues Worldwide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fFsAAAAQBAJ&q=the%20bbc%20has%20correspondents%20in%20nearly%20every%20country&pg=PA24|publisher=CRC Press |at=Chapter 1, Page 24|access-date=6 March 2015|isbn=9781136029868|date=11 February 2013|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132749/https://books.google.com/books?id=2fFsAAAAQBAJ&q=the%20bbc%20has%20correspondents%20in%20nearly%20every%20country&pg=PA24#v=snippet&q=the%20bbc%20has%20correspondents%20in%20nearly%20every%20country&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Deborah Turness]] has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A message to staff from Deborah Turness, CEO BBC News and Current Affairs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2022/bbc.com/mediacentre/articles/2022/deborah-turness-message-to-staff-first-day/ |access-date=6 December 2022 |publisher=BBC |language=en |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206162356/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2022/bbc.com/mediacentre/articles/2022/deborah-turness-message-to-staff-first-day/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019, it was reported in an [[Ofcom]] report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/173734/bbc-news-review.pdf |title=Review of BBC news and current affairs |publisher=Ofcom |page=31 |date=24 October 2019 |accessdate=8 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504045751/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/173734/bbc-news-review.pdf |archive-date=4 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in [[Broadcasting House]] in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through [[BBC English Regions]], the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.

The BBC is a [[Quasi-autonomous non-government organisation|quasi-autonomous]] corporation authorised by [[list of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter|royal charter]], making it operationally independent of the government.

==History==
{{Further|Timeline of BBC Television News}}
{{Further|Timeline of BBC Radio News}}

===Early years===
{{rquote|right|This is London calling – 2LO calling. Here is the first general news bulletin, copyright by [[Reuters]], [[Press Association]], [[Extel|Exchange Telegraph]] and [[Central News Agency (London)|Central News]].|BBC news programme opening during the 1920s{{r|crisell1997}}}}
The [[British Broadcasting Company]] broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station [[2LO]] on 14 November 1922.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Burke|first1=Professor of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OoxsKnfVzLwC&q=The+British+Broadcasting+Company+broadcast+its+first+radio+bulletin+from+radio+station+2LO+on+14+November+1922&pg=PA132|title=A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet|last2=Briggs|first2=Asa|last3=Burke|first3=Peter|date=29 July 2005|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0-7456-3511-8|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132653/https://books.google.com/books?id=OoxsKnfVzLwC&q=The+British+Broadcasting+Company+broadcast+its+first+radio+bulletin+from+radio+station+2LO+on+14+November+1922&pg=PA132#v=snippet&q=The%20British%20Broadcasting%20Company%20broadcast%20its%20first%20radio%20bulletin%20from%20radio%20station%202LO%20on%2014%20November%201922&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7&nbsp;pm, and to force it to use [[news agency|wire service]] copy instead of reporting on its own.{{r|crisell1997}} The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, created its own news operation.<ref name=":0" /> However, it could not broadcast news before 6&nbsp;p.m. until [[World War II]].{{r|crisell1997}} In addition to news, Gaumont British and Movietone cinema [[newsreel]]s had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, with the BBC producing its own equivalent ''[[Television Newsreel]]'' programme from January 1948.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Development of Communication Between the Government, the Media and the People in Britain, 1945–51|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1759/1/U192411.pdf|last=Moore|first=Martin|date=October 2004|website=The London School of Economics and Political Science|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601040326/http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1759/1/U192411.pdf|archive-date=1 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> A weekly ''Children's Newsreel'' was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/history/history.htm|title=1950s British TV Milestones|access-date=3 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070427124228/http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/history/history.htm| archive-date= 27 April 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> The network began [[simulcasting]] its radio news on television in 1946, with a still picture of [[Big Ben]].<ref name="crisell1997">{{cite book | title=An Introductory History of British Broadcasting | url=https://archive.org/details/introductoryhist00cris | url-access=limited | publisher=Routledge | author=Crisell, Andrew | year=1997 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/introductoryhist00cris/page/n31 15], 26–27, 92 | isbn=0-415-12802-1}}</ref> Televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within [[Alexandra Palace]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alexandrapalace.com/history.html|title=Alexandra Palace – A History of the Palace|access-date=3 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404014257/http://www.alexandrapalace.com/history.html|archive-date=4 April 2007|url-status = dead}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=July 2014}}

The public's interest in television and live events was stimulated by [[Elizabeth II#Succession|Elizabeth II's]] [[Coronation of the British monarch#History|coronation]] in 1953. It is estimated that up to 27&nbsp;million people<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/landmark.html |title=British TV Landmark Dates |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070506033602/http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/landmark.html |archive-date=6 May 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radio's audience of 12&nbsp;million for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1953.htm |title=Chronomedia: 1953 |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-date=25 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525193855/http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1953.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to [[Alexandra Palace television station|Alexandra Palace]] for transmission, and then on to other UK transmitters opened in time for the event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvyears/articals/coronation/arrangements/arrangements.htm |title=1950 |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204504/http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvyears/articals/coronation/arrangements/arrangements.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> That year, there were [[Television licensing in the United Kingdom (historical)#Number of licences issued|around two million TV Licences held in the UK]], rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Owens|first=Edward|title=The Family Firm: monarchy, mass media and the British public, 1932–53|chapter='This time I was THERE taking part'|date=2019|pages=331–372|publisher=University of London Press|jstor=j.ctvkjb3sr.12|isbn=978-1-909646-94-0}}</ref>

===1950s===
Television news, although physically separate from its radio counterpart, was still firmly under radio news' control in the 1950s. Correspondents provided reports for both outlets, and the first televised bulletin, shown on 5 July 1954 on the then [[BBC One|BBC television service]] and presented by [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]], involved his providing narration off-screen while stills were shown.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The BBC performs painful internal surgery|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/30/the-bbc-performs-painful-internal-surgery|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0013-0613|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521142154/https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/30/the-bbc-performs-painful-internal-surgery|url-status=live}}</ref> This was then followed by the customary ''Television Newsreel'' with a recorded commentary by [[John Snagge]] (and on other occasions by [[Andrew Timothy]]).{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

On-screen newsreaders were introduced a year later in 1955{{snd}} [[Kenneth Kendall]] (the first to appear in vision), [[Robert Dougall]], and [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]]—three weeks before [[ITN]]'s launch on 21 September 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Kenneth Kendall, newsreader and presenter|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kenneth-kendall-newsreader-and-presenter-1596900|website=The Scotsman|date=17 December 2012|language=en|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001204817/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kenneth-kendall-newsreader-and-presenter-1596900|url-status=live}}</ref>

Mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1950.htm|title=Chronomedia: 1950|access-date=8 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016210036/http://terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1950.htm| archive-date= 16 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> to larger premises{{snd}} mainly at [[Lime Grove Studios]] in [[Shepherd's Bush]], west London{{snd}} taking Current Affairs (then known as Talks Department) with it. It was from here that the first ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'', a new documentary programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953, with [[Richard Dimbleby]] becoming anchor in 1955.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_past_faces_of_panorama/html/1.stm|title=In pictures: Past Faces of Panorama|access-date=9 April 2010|work=BBC News|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820055940/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_past_faces_of_panorama/html/1.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1958, [[Hugh Carleton Greene]] became head of News and Current Affairs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kviak52wjXsC&q=In+1958,+Hugh+Carleton+Greene+became+head+of+News+and+Current+Affairs&pg=PA78|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|date=2 September 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-24739-0|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===1960s===
On 1 January 1960, Greene became [[Director general|Director-General]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tight|first=Malcolm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRPPJqqHTQoC&q=On+1+January+1960,+Greene+became+Director-General+and+brought+about+big+changes+at+BBC+Television+and+BBC+Television+News&pg=PA46|title=Education for Adults|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-68517-7|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132647/https://books.google.com/books?id=DRPPJqqHTQoC&q=On+1+January+1960,+Greene+became+Director-General+and+brought+about+big+changes+at+BBC+Television+and+BBC+Television+News&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q=On%201%20January%201960%2C%20Greene%20became%20Director-General%20and%20brought%20about%20big%20changes%20at%20BBC%20Television%20and%20BBC%20Television%20News&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Greene made changes that were aimed at making BBC reporting more similar to its competitor ITN, which had been highly rated by study groups held by Greene.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|chapter=The Reinvention of Radio – The 1960s|date=2011|pages=80–100|editor-last=Chignell|editor-first=Hugh|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230346451_5|isbn=978-0-230-34645-1}}</ref>

A newsroom was created at Alexandra Palace, television reporters were recruited and given the opportunity to write and voice their own scripts–without having to cover stories for radio too.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

On 20 June 1960, [[Nan Winton]], the first female BBC network newsreader, appeared in vision.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nan Winton, the first woman to read the national news on BBC television|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nan-winton-death-age-bbc-newsreader-female-age-cause-dead-obituary-a8929606.html|date=30 May 2019|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=30 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330185500/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nan-winton-death-age-bbc-newsreader-female-age-cause-dead-obituary-a8929606.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 19 September 1960 saw the start of the radio news and current affairs programme ''The Ten O'clock News''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kviak52wjXsC&q=bbc+news+the+start+of+the+radio+news+and+current+affairs+programme+The+Ten+O'clock+News&pg=PA83|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|date=2 September 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-24739-0|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[BBC Two|BBC2]] started transmission on 20 April 1964 and began broadcasting a new show, ''[[Newsroom (BBC programme)|Newsroom]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=House of Lords – Communications – Minutes of Evidence|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/8040202.htm|publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160952/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/8040202.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The World at One]]'', a lunchtime news programme, began on 4 October 1965 on the then Home Service, and the year before ''News Review'' had started on television. ''News Review'' was a summary of the week's news, first broadcast on Sunday, 26 April 1964<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1964.htm|title=Chronomedia: 1964|access-date=3 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070303014530/http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1964.htm| archive-date= 3 March 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> on BBC 2 and harking back to the weekly ''Newsreel Review of the Week'', produced from 1951, to open programming on Sunday evenings–the difference being that this incarnation had subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. As this was the decade before electronic caption generation, each superimposition ("super") had to be produced on paper or card, synchronised manually to studio and news [[footage]], committed to tape during the afternoon, and broadcast early evening. Thus Sundays were no longer a quiet day for news at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The programme ran until the 1980s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |title=TV Ark: BBC News |access-date=16 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516061628/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |archive-date=16 May 2007 |url-status = usurped}}</ref>{{snd}} by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor{{snd}} to be superseded by [[Ceefax]] subtitling (a similar [[Teletext]] format), and the signing of such programmes as ''[[See Hear]]'' (from 1981).

On Sunday 17 September 1967, ''[[The World This Weekend]]'', a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]].

Preparations for colour began in the autumn of 1967 and on Thursday 7 March 1968 ''Newsroom'' on BBC2 moved to an early evening slot, becoming the first UK news programme to be transmitted in colour<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1960s.pdf History of the BBC – key dates page 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424053328/http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1960s.pdf |date=24 April 2009 }} BBC Heritage 1960s.</ref>{{snd}} from Studio A at Alexandra Palace. ''News Review'' and ''Westminster'' (the latter a weekly review of [[Palace of Westminster|Parliamentary]] happenings) were "colourised" shortly after.

However, much of the insert material was still in black and white, as initially only a part of the film coverage shot in and around London was on colour [[reversal film]] [[film stock|stock]], and all regional and many international contributions were still in black and white. Colour facilities at Alexandra Palace were technically very limited for the next eighteen months, as it had only one [[RCA]] colour [[Quadruplex videotape]] machine and, eventually two [[Pye Ltd.|Pye]] [[Diode gun Plumbicon#Plumbicon|plumbicon]] colour [[telecine]]s–although the news colour service started with just one.

Black and white national bulletins on BBC 1 continued to originate from Studio B on weekdays, along with ''[[Town and Around]]'', the London regional "[[opt out]]" programme broadcast throughout the 1960s (and the BBC's first regional news programme for the South East), until it started to be replaced by ''[[Nationwide (TV programme)|Nationwide]]'' on Tuesday to Thursday from Lime Grove Studios early in September 1969. ''Town and Around'' was never to make the move to Television Centre{{snd}} instead it became ''London This Week'' which aired on Mondays and Fridays only, from the new TVC studios.<ref>''London This Week'' had started in early 1969 as a once per week "opt out" replacing the Friday edition of ''Town and Around'' {{cite web|url=http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/|title=TV & Radio Bits: BBC South East: History|access-date=21 June 2007}}{{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

[[File:BBC TV Centre.jpg|thumb|right|Television News moved to [[BBC Television Centre]] in September 1969.]]

The BBC moved production out of Alexandra Palace in 1969. BBC Television News resumed operations the next day with a lunchtime bulletin on BBC1{{snd}} in black and white{{snd}} from Television Centre, where it remained until March 2013.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

This move to a smaller studio with better technical facilities allowed ''Newsroom'' and ''News Review'' to replace [[back projection]] with [[colour-separation overlay]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} During the 1960s, [[Communications satellite|satellite communication]] had become possible;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/early_satellite.html|title= British TV History – Early Satellite <!--here only the homepage title says "Broadcast" instead (is it better?):-->Relays to/from Britain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510052949/http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/early_satellite.html|archive-date=10 May 2011}} 1960s & 70s, British TV History</ref> however, it was some years before digital line-store conversion was able to undertake the process seamlessly.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

===1970s===
[[File:Angela Rippon (Durdham Downs, Bristol, 1983) (363351929).jpg|thumb|right|Angela Rippon, pictured in 1983, became the first female news presenter in 1975.]]

On 14 September 1970, the first ''[[BBC Nine O'Clock News|Nine O'Clock News]]'' was broadcast on television. Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N1<ref name=Dougall>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ten/2655185.stm|title=About the Ten O'Clock News|access-date=15 August 2007|work=BBC News|date=17 January 2003|archive-date=17 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217064328/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ten/2655185.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>{{snd}} described by ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref name="bbcnews1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm|title=About BBC NEWS – Timeline of events – 1970s|access-date=25 August 2007|work=BBC News|archive-date=17 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217064331/http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> as "a sort of polystyrene padded cell"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/7/3/46772.html |title=Northern Echo: Archive |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092219/http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/7/3/46772.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=live }}{{snd}} ''Robert Dougall was even less flattering about the first set, and is quoted as saying that the tiling was "grey and lavatorial" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm 1970 Voices from the field] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307094711/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm |date=7 March 2008 }} together with "a huge round thing" in the background{{snd}} referring to the new rotating clockface logo and CSO screen.'' Newswatch, BBC.</ref>—the bulletin having been moved from the earlier time of 20.50 as a response to the ratings achieved by ITN's ''[[ITV News at Ten|News at Ten]]'',<!-- rendering appropriate to this period. --> introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV. Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall presented subsequent weeks, thus echoing those first television bulletins of the mid-1950s.

[[Angela Rippon]] became the first female news presenter of the ''Nine O'Clock News'' in 1975. Her work outside the news was controversial at the time, appearing on ''The [[Morecambe and Wise]] Christmas Show'' in 1976 singing and dancing.<ref name=Dougall/>

The first edition of ''[[John Craven]]'s Newsround'', initially intended only as a short series and later renamed just ''[[Newsround]]'', came from studio N3 on 4 April 1972.

Afternoon television news bulletins during the mid to late 1970s were broadcast from the BBC newsroom itself, rather than one of the three news studios. The newsreader would present to camera while sitting on the edge of a desk; behind him staff would be seen working busily at their desks. This period corresponded with when the ''Nine O'Clock News'' got its next makeover, and would use a CSO background of the newsroom from that very same camera each weekday evening.

Also in the mid-1970s, the late night news on BBC2 was briefly renamed ''Newsnight'',<ref>
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News on radio was to change in the 1970s, and on Radio 4 in particular, brought about by the arrival of new editor Peter Woon from television news and the implementation of the ''Broadcasting in the Seventies '' report. These included the introduction of correspondents into news bulletins where previously only a newsreader would present, as well as the inclusion of content gathered in the preparation process. New programmes were also added to the daily schedule, ''[[PM (Radio 4)|PM]]'' and ''[[The World Tonight]]'' as part of the plan for the station to become a "wholly speech network".<ref name="bbcnews1" /> ''[[Newsbeat]]'' launched as the news service on [[BBC Radio 1|Radio 1]] on 10 September 1973.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1970s.pdf History of the BBC – key dates page 4] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614000032/https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1970s.pdf |date=14 June 2007 }} BBC Heritage 1970s.</ref>

On 23 September 1974, a [[teletext]] system which was launched to bring news content on television screens using text only was launched. Engineers originally began developing such a system to bring news to deaf viewers, but the system was expanded. The [[Ceefax]] service became much more diverse before it ceased on 23 October 2012: it not only had subtitling for all channels, it also gave information such as weather, flight times and film reviews.

By the end of the decade, the practice of shooting on film for inserts in news broadcasts was declining, with the introduction of [[Electronic news gathering|ENG]] technology into the UK. The equipment would gradually become less cumbersome{{snd}} the BBC's first attempts had been using a [[Philips]] colour camera with backpack base station and separate portable [[Sony]] [[U-matic]] recorder in the latter half of the decade.

===1980s===
In 1980, the [[Iranian Embassy Siege]] had been shot electronically by the BBC Television News [[Outside broadcasting]] team, and the work of reporter [[Kate Adie]], broadcasting live from [[South Kensington|Prince's Gate]], was nominated for BAFTA actuality coverage, but this time beaten by ITN for the 1980 award.<ref>[http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 BAFTA awards 1981] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224131452/http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 |date=24 February 2016 }} British Academy of Film and Television Arts.</ref>

''[[Newsnight]]'', the news and current affairs programme, was due to go on air on 23 January 1980, although trade union disagreements meant that its launch from Lime Grove was postponed by a week.<ref name="bbcnews2">{{cite news|title=About BBC NEWS – Timeline of events – 1980s|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1980s.stm|access-date=25 August 2007|archive-date=8 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208122541/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1980s.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 27 August 1981 [[Moira Stuart]] became the first African Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television.

By 1982, ENG technology had become sufficiently reliable for Bernard Hesketh to use an [[Ikegami Tsushinki|Ikegami]] camera to cover the [[Falklands War]], coverage for which he won the "[[Royal Television Society]] Cameraman of the Year" award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rts.org.uk/servedoc.asp?filename=AWARDS1.pdf#page=36 |title=RTS Hall of Fame – page 46 |access-date=11 April 2007 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924233153/http://www.rts.org.uk/servedoc.asp?filename=AWARDS1.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2006 }}</ref> and a [[BAFTA]] nomination<ref>[http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 BAFTA 1981 awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224131452/http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 |date=24 February 2016 }} [http://www.bafta.org British Academy of Film and Television Arts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831045105/http://www.bafta.org/ |date=31 August 2011 }}.</ref> – the first time that BBC News had relied upon an electronic camera, rather than film, in a conflict zone. BBC News won the BAFTA for its actuality coverage,<ref>[http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/TV_and_%20Craft_Winners_1980-1989.pdf BAFTA 1982 – page 10] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051210100448/http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/TV_and_%20Craft_Winners_1980-1989.pdf |date=10 December 2005 }} British Academy of Film and Television Arts (PDF).</ref> however the event has become remembered in television terms for [[Brian Hanrahan]]'s reporting where he coined the phrase "I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back"<ref>Barnes, Julian (25 February 2002), [https://www.theguardian.com/falklands/story/0,,657871,00.html "The worst reported war since the Crimean"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132746/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/feb/25/broadcasting.falklands |date=24 November 2023 }}, ''The Guardian''.</ref> to circumvent restrictions, and which has become cited as an example of good reporting under pressure.<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/technolfalk.htm Media & War – The Falklands Conflict] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929160659/http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/technolfalk.htm |date=29 September 2006 }} Imperial War Museum.</ref>

The first BBC breakfast television programme, ''[[Breakfast Time (British TV programme)|Breakfast Time]]'' also launched during the 1980s, on 17 January 1983 from Lime Grove Studio E and two weeks before its [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] rival [[TV-am]]. [[Frank Bough]], [[Selina Scott]], and [[Nick Ross]] helped to wake viewers with a relaxed style of presenting.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530363.stm|title=BBC on this day – 17 January. 1983: BBC wakes up to morning TV|access-date=3 April 2007|work=BBC News|date=17 January 1983|archive-date=19 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219140555/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530363.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''Six O'Clock News'' first aired on 3 September 1984, eventually becoming the most watched news programme in the UK (however, since 2006 it has been overtaken by the ''[[BBC News at Ten]]''). In October 1984, images of millions of people starving to death in the [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia|Ethiopian famine]] were shown in [[Michael Buerk]]'s ''Six O'Clock News'' reports.<ref name="BBCLiveAid">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/702700.stm "Live Aid: The show that rocked the world"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205000805/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/702700.stm |date=5 December 2008 }}. BBC. Retrieved 7 January 2018</ref> The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth".<ref>{{cite news|title=Higgins marvels at change in Ethiopia's Tigray province|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/higgins-marvels-at-change-in-ethiopia-s-tigray-province-1.1992467|work=The Irish Times|date=7 January 2018|access-date=7 January 2018|archive-date=18 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918134554/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/higgins-marvels-at-change-in-ethiopia-s-tigray-province-1.1992467|url-status=live}}</ref> The BBC News report shocked Britain, motivating its citizens to inundate relief agencies, such as [[Save the Children]], with donations, and to bring global attention to the crisis in Ethiopia.<ref>{{cite news|title=Live Aid: Against All Odds: Episode 1|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078x3n|publisher=BBC|date=7 January 2018|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=24 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524001908/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078x3n|url-status=live}}</ref> The news report was also watched by [[Bob Geldof]], who would organise the charity single "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" to raise money for famine relief followed by the [[Live Aid]] concert in July 1985.<ref name="BBCLiveAid"/>

Starting in 1981, the BBC gave a common theme to its main news bulletins with new electronic titles–a set of computer-animated "stripes" forming a circle<ref>The circle had been a recurring theme of the BBC1 news logo since the start of the ''Nine'' in 1970, as it was thought to fit in nicely with the long-running BBC 1 globe ident, and clock face which normally precedes news broadcasts. Used until 1986, the hard wired news version was known as ANT (Animated News Titles) [http://www.bbceng.info/Designs/RDCE/part_I/101to200/ipage_43.htm BBCEng.info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016201502/http://bbceng.info/Designs/RDCE/part_I/101to200/ipage_43.htm |date=16 October 2007 }} and this new logo was drawn live{{snd}} triggered by an audio tone on track two of the two-track mono quarter-inch audio tape of opening title music to ensure synchronisation{{snd}} and also produced the "venetian blind" wipe to the opening story.</ref> on a red background with a "BBC News" typescript appearing below the circle graphics, and a theme tune consisting of brass and keyboards. The ''Nine'' used a similar (striped) number 9. The red background was replaced by a blue from 1985 until 1987.

By 1987, the BBC had decided to re-brand its bulletins and established individual styles again for each one with differing titles and music, the weekend and holiday bulletins branded in a similar style to the ''Nine'', although the "stripes" introduction continued to be used until 1989 on occasions where a news bulletin was screened out of the running order of the schedule.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |title=TV Ark: BBC News Report: Zeebrugge ferry disaster from 6&nbsp;March 1987 |access-date=1 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095542/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status = usurped}}</ref>

In 1987, [[John Birt, Baron Birt|John Birt]] resurrected the practice of correspondents working for both TV and radio with the introduction of bi-media journalism.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Forgan|first=Liz|date=17 October 2000|title=Comment: Liz Forgan on BBC radio at White City|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/17/broadcasting.bbc|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726153440/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/17/broadcasting.bbc|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1990s===
[[File:BBC Television Centre Newsroom KristynaM Flickr.jpg|thumb|right|The combined newsroom for domestic television and radio was opened at Television Centre in West London in 1998.]]

During the 1990s, a wider range of services began to be offered by BBC News, with the split of [[BBC World Service Television]] to become [[BBC World]] (news and current affairs), and [[BBC Prime]] (light entertainment). Content for a 24-hour news channel was thus required, followed in 1997 with the launch of domestic equivalent [[BBC News 24]]. Rather than set bulletins, ongoing reports and coverage was needed to keep both channels functioning and meant a greater emphasis in budgeting for both was necessary. In 1998, after 66 years at Broadcasting House, the '''BBC Radio News''' operation moved to [[BBC Television Centre]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/120791.stm|title=BBC NEWS – New era for BBC radio news|access-date=18 August 2007|date=26 June 1998|work=BBC News|archive-date=17 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217064359/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/120791.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

New technology, provided by [[Silicon Graphics]], came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1<!-- Not 'BBC One' until 1997. --> bulletins, creating a virtual set which appeared to be much larger than it was physically. The relaunch also brought all bulletins into the same style of set with only small changes in colouring, titles, and music to differentiate each. A computer generated cut-glass sculpture of the [[BBC coat of arms]] was the centrepiece of the programme titles until the large scale corporate rebranding of news services in 1999.

In November 1997, [[BBC News Online]] was launched, following individual webpages for major news events such as the [[1996 Olympic Games]], [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]], and the [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|death of Princess Diana]].<ref>{{cite news |date=13 December 2007 |title=10 years of the BBC News website |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7057140.stm |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628042938/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7057140.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1999, the biggest relaunch occurred, with BBC One bulletins, BBC World, BBC News 24, and [[BBC News Online]] all adopting a common style. One of the most significant changes was the gradual adoption of the corporate image by the [[:Category:BBC Regional News shows|BBC regional news programmes]], giving a common style across local, national and international BBC television news. This also included ''[[Newyddion]]'', the main news programme of [[Welsh language]] channel [[S4C]], produced by BBC News Wales.

===2000s===
Following the relaunch of BBC News in 1999, regional headlines were included at the start of the BBC One news bulletins in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC One London – 1 January 2000 – BBC Genome|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2000-01-01|access-date=8 March 2021|publisher=BBC|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301172301/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2000-01-01|url-status=live}}</ref> The English regions did however lose five minutes at the end of their bulletins, due to a new headline round-up at 18:55.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kevin|first=Deirdre|title=Snapshot: regional and local television in the United Kingdom|url=https://www.vau.net/system/files/documents/GB_Regional_TV_in_the_UK_April2015.pdf|website=vau.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418003313/https://www.vau.net/system/files/documents/GB_Regional_TV_in_the_UK_April2015.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref> 2000 also saw the ''Nine O'Clock News'' moved to the later time of 22:00.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McQueen|first=David|title=A very conscientious brand: A case study of the BBC's current affairs series, Panorama|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4898275.pdf|website=core.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204192014/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4898275.pdf|archive-date=4 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> This was in response to ITN who had just moved their popular ''[[ITV News at Ten|News at Ten]]'' programme to 23:00.<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 October 2001|title=BBC news move 'halts decline'|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1600622.stm|access-date=8 March 2021|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411062848/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1600622.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> ITN briefly returned ''News at Ten'' but following poor ratings when head-to-head against the BBC's ''Ten O'Clock News'', the ITN bulletin was moved to 22.30, where it remained until 14 January 2008.

The retirement in 2009 of [[Peter Sissons]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 October 2019|title=Remembering Peter Sissons, the TV news presenter with unflappable onscreen authority|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-sissons-death-tv-news-presenter-itn-bbc-channel-4-question-time-a9142781.html|access-date=8 March 2021|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418020258/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-sissons-death-tv-news-presenter-itn-bbc-channel-4-question-time-a9142781.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and departure of [[Michael Buerk]] from the ''Ten O'Clock News''<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 June 2002|title=Buerk quits BBC Ten o'Clock News|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/jun/07/bbc.tvnews1|access-date=8 March 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418011151/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/jun/07/bbc.tvnews1|url-status=live}}</ref> led to changes in the BBC One bulletin presenting team on 20 January 2003. The ''Six O'Clock News'' became double headed with [[George Alagiah]] and [[Sophie Raworth]] after [[Huw Edwards (journalist)|Huw Edwards]] and [[Fiona Bruce]] moved to present the ''Ten''. A new set design featuring a projected fictional newsroom backdrop was introduced, followed on 16 February 2004 by new programme titles to match those of BBC News 24.

BBC News 24 and BBC World introduced a new style of presentation in December 2003, that was slightly altered on 5 July 2004 to mark 50 years of BBC Television News.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3829605.stm |title=Fifty years of TV news |access-date=3 April 2007 |date=5 July 2004 |work=BBC News |first=Chris |last=Heard |archive-date=22 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061222142448/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3829605.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> The individual positions of editor of the ''One'' and ''Six O'Clock News'' were replaced by a new daytime position in November 2005. Kevin Bakhurst became the first Controller of BBC News 24, replacing the position of editor. Amanda Farnsworth became daytime editor while [[Craig Oliver (media executive)|Craig Oliver]] was later named editor of the ''Ten O'Clock News''. The bulletins also began to be [[simulcast]] with News 24, as a way of pooling resources.

Bulletins received new titles and a new set design in May 2006, to allow for ''Breakfast'' to move into the main studio for the first time since 1997. The new set featured [[Barco NV|Barco]] videowall screens with a background of the London skyline used for main bulletins and originally an image of cirrus clouds against a blue sky for ''Breakfast''. This was later replaced following viewer criticism.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5048764.stm|title=Breakfast's new look|access-date=3 April 2007|date=5 June 2006|work=BBC News|archive-date=20 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120095948/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5048764.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The studio bore similarities with the ITN-produced [[ITV News]] in 2004, though ITN uses a [[Colour-separation overlay|CSO]] [[Virtual studio]] rather than the actual screens at BBC News. Also, May saw the launch of ''World News Today'' the first domestic bulletin focused principally on international news.

BBC News became part of a new BBC Journalism group in November 2006 as part of a restructuring of the BBC. The then-Director of BBC News, [[Helen Boaden]] reported to the then-Deputy Director-General and head of the journalism group, [[Mark Byford]] until he was made redundant in 2010.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8057696/BBCs-Mark-Byford-made-redundant.html ''BBC's Mark Byford made redundant'', Neil Midgley, Daily Telegraph,11 October 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013235402/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8057696/BBCs-Mark-Byford-made-redundant.html |date=13 October 2017 }}. Retrieved 2 April 2013.</ref>

On 18 October 2007, [[Mark Thompson (television executive)|Mark Thompson]] announced a six-year plan, ''Delivering Creative Future'', merging the television current affairs department into a new "News Programmes" division.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/18/reform.shtml|title=Radical reform to deliver a more focused BBC|publisher=BBC Press Office|date=18 October 2007|access-date=25 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071020051207/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/18/reform.shtml| archive-date= 20 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/10/post_51.html|title=BBC cuts: look on the bright side|work=The Guardian |date=22 October 2007|access-date=25 October 2007 | location=London |first=Steve |last=Hewlett| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071024120744/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/10/post_51.html| archive-date= 24 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> Thompson's announcement, in response to a £2&nbsp;billion shortfall in funding, would, he said, deliver "a smaller but fitter BBC" in the digital age, by cutting its payroll and, in 2013, selling [[BBC Television Centre|Television Centre]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7050440.stm|title=BBC cuts back programmes and jobs|work=[[BBC News]]|date=18 October 2007|access-date=25 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071020035603/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7050440.stm#tables| archive-date= 20 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref>

The various separate newsrooms for television, radio and online operations were merged into a single multimedia newsroom. Programme making within the newsrooms was brought together to form a multimedia programme making department. [[BBC World Service]] director Peter Horrocks said that the changes would achieve efficiency at a time of cost-cutting at the BBC. In his blog, he wrote that by using the same resources across the various broadcast media meant fewer stories could be covered, or by following more stories, there would be fewer ways to broadcast them.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/11/multimedia_news.html|title=Multimedia News|work=[[BBC News]]|date=12 November 2007|access-date=19 December 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071115103603/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/11/multimedia_news.html| archive-date= 15 November 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref>

A new graphics and video playout system was introduced for production of television bulletins in January 2007. This coincided with a new structure to BBC World News bulletins, editors favouring a section devoted to analysing the news stories reported on.

The first new BBC News bulletin since the ''Six O'Clock News'' was announced in July 2007 following a successful trial in the Midlands.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6291338.stm|title=BBC One gets extra news bulletin|work=BBC News|access-date=11 July 2007 | date=11 July 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070714232708/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6291338.stm| archive-date= 14 July 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> The summary, lasting 90 seconds, has been broadcast at 20:00 on weekdays since December 2007 and bears similarities with ''[[60 Seconds]]'' on [[BBC Three]], but also includes headlines from the various BBC regions and a weather summary.

As part of a long-term cost cutting programme, bulletins were renamed the ''BBC News at One'', ''Six'' and ''Ten'' respectively in April 2008 while BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News and moved into the same studio as the bulletins at BBC Television Centre.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3735982.ece |title=BBC rings changes with news revamp |work=The Times |location=London |date=13 April 2008 |access-date=30 April 2009 |first=Dipesh |last=Gadher |archive-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907171053/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3735982.ece |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews24/2008.html |title=BBC News Channel – 2008 |publisher=TV Ark |date=21 April 2008 |access-date=30 April 2009 |url-status = usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510021938/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews24/2008.html |archive-date=10 May 2011 }}</ref> BBC World was renamed ''BBC World News'' and regional news programmes were also updated with the new presentation style, designed by [[Lambie-Nairn]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Peter Horrocks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/04/new_news.html |title=BBC NEWS – The Editors Blog – New News |publisher=BBC |date=21 April 2008 |access-date=30 April 2009 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805003251/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/04/new_news.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

2008 also saw tri-media introduced across TV, radio, and online.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Uncorrected Evidence m274|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmfaff/memo/annual/ucm27402.htm|publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726153245/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmfaff/memo/annual/ucm27402.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The studio moves also meant that Studio N9, previously used for BBC World, was closed, and operations moved to the previous studio of BBC News 24. Studio N9 was later refitted to match the new branding, and was used for the BBC's [[2009 United Kingdom local elections|UK local elections]] and [[2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|European elections]] coverage in early June 2009.

===2010s===
[[File:BBC Broadcasting House newsroom and studio 2013.jpg|thumb|right|The new newsroom in Broadcasting House]]

A strategy review of the BBC in March 2010, confirmed that having "the best journalism in the world" would form one of five key editorial policies, as part of changes subject to public consultation and [[BBC Trust]] approval.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8544150.stm|title=BBC 6 Music and Asian Network face axe in shake-up|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2 March 2010|access-date=2 March 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100303054531/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8544150.stm| archive-date= 3 March 2010 |url-status = live}}</ref>

After a period of suspension in late 2012, Helen Boaden ceased to be the Director of BBC News.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21455396 ''Helen Boaden becomes director of BBC Radio'', BBC News, 14 February 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404060207/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21455396 |date=4 April 2018 }}. Retrieved 16 April 2013.</ref> On 16 April 2013, incoming BBC [[Director-General of the BBC|Director-General]] [[Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead|Tony Hall]] named [[James Harding (journalist)|James Harding]], a former editor of ''[[The Times]]'' of London newspaper as Director of News and Current Affairs.<ref name="harding">[http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/rss/1178458/Former-Times-editor-James-Harding-news-boss-BBC/ ''Former Times editor James Harding to be news boss at BBC'', Gordon MacMillan, MediaWeek, London, 16 April 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132757/https://www.campaignlive.co.uk// |date=24 November 2023 }}. Retrieved 16 April 2013.</ref>

From August 2012 to March 2013, all news operations moved from Television Centre to new facilities in the refurbished and extended [[Broadcasting House]], in [[Portland Place]]. The move began in October 2012, and also included the BBC World Service, which moved from [[Bush House]] following the expiry of the BBC's lease. This new extension to the north and east, referred to as "New Broadcasting House", includes several new state-of-the-art radio and television studios centred around an 11-storey atrium.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sabbagh|first=Dan|title=The news from the BBC: its £1bn new base is finally coming on air|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/07/bbc-1bn-new-base-broadcasting|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=26 December 2012|location=London|date=7 September 2012|archive-date=11 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911114538/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/07/bbc-1bn-new-base-broadcasting|url-status=live}}</ref> The move began with the domestic programme ''[[The Andrew Marr Show]]'' on 2 September 2012, and concluded with the move of the BBC News channel and domestic news bulletins on 18 March 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coomes|first=Phil|title=Goodbye Television Centre|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-18627051|work=BBC News|access-date=26 December 2012|date=6 July 2012|archive-date=3 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203151813/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-18627051|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=BBC News begins move into Broadcasting House|date=9 July 2012|url=http://www.newscaststudio.com/blog/2012/07/09/bbc-news-begins-move-into-broadcasting-house/|publisher=Newscast Studio|access-date=26 December 2012|archive-date=17 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117060101/http://www.newscaststudio.com/blog/2012/07/09/bbc-news-begins-move-into-broadcasting-house/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Last move">{{cite news|title=BBC TV Centre broadcasts last network news bulletins|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21818963|access-date=18 March 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=18 March 2013|archive-date=31 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231012440/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-21818963|url-status=live}}</ref> The newsroom houses all domestic bulletins and programmes on both television and radio, as well as the [[BBC World Service]] international radio networks and the [[BBC World News]] international television channel.

BBC News and [[CBS News]] established an editorial and newsgathering partnership in 2017, replacing an earlier long-standing partnership between BBC News and [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 July 2017 |title=BBC changes US news partner |url=https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2017/07/17/bbc-changes-us-news-partner/}}</ref>

In an October 2018 [[Simmons Research]] survey of 38 news organisations, BBC News was ranked the fourth most trusted news organisation by Americans, behind CBS News, ABC News and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Benton |first=Joshua |author-link=Joshua Benton |date=5 October 2018 |title=Here's how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!) |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/heres-how-much-americans-trust-38-major-news-organizations-hint-not-all-that-much/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208001945/https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/heres-how-much-americans-trust-38-major-news-organizations-hint-not-all-that-much/ |archive-date=8 December 2020 |access-date=29 December 2022 |website=[[Nieman Lab]]}}</ref>

===2020s===
[[File:BBC News 2019.svg|thumb|200px|Logo used from 2019 to 2022]]
In January 2020 the BBC announced a BBC News savings target of £80&nbsp;million per year by 2022, involving about 450 staff reductions from the current 6,000. BBC director of news and current affairs [[Fran Unsworth]] said there would be further moves toward [[digital broadcasting]], in part to attract back a youth audience, and more pooling of reporters to stop separate teams covering the same news.<ref name=bbc-20200129>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51271168 |title=BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive |work=BBC News |date=29 January 2020 |access-date=14 December 2020 |archive-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215000003/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51271168 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=telegraph-20200129>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/01/29/budget-cuts-will-not-solve-bbcs-problems/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/01/29/budget-cuts-will-not-solve-bbcs-problems/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-status=live |title=Budget cuts will not solve the BBC's problems |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url-access=subscription |date=29 January 2020 |access-date=14 December 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> A further 70 staff reductions were announced in July 2020.<ref name=guardian-20200715>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/15/bbc-announces-further-70-job-cuts-in-news-division |title=BBC announces further 70 job cuts in news division |last=Waterson |first=Jim |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 July 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101031912/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/15/bbc-announces-further-70-job-cuts-in-news-division |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[BBC Three]] began airing the news programme ''The Catch Up'' in February 2022. It is presented by Levi Jouavel, Kirsty Grant, and Callum Tulley and aims to get the channel's target audience (16 to 34-year olds) to make sense of the world around them while also highlighting optimistic stories.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kahn |first=Ellie |date=31 January 2022 |title=BBC3 preps 'shareable' news bulletin |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/bbc3-preps-shareable-news-bulletin/5167083.article |url-access=subscription |magazine=[[Broadcast (magazine)|Broadcast]] |id={{ProQuest|2624210115}} |accessdate=16 May 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516094756/https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/bbc3-preps-shareable-news-bulletin/5167083.article |archivedate=16 May 2024 }}</ref> Compared to its predecessor ''[[60 Seconds]]'', ''The Catch Up'' is three times longer, running for about three minutes and not airing during weekends.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bryan |first=Scott |date=2 February 2022 |title='The whole launch show is a pre-record': we watched BBC Three's return to TV – so you didn't have to |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/02/the-whole-launch-show-is-a-pre-record-we-watched-bbc-threes-return-to-tv-so-you-didnt-have-to |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=16 May 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516094726/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/02/the-whole-launch-show-is-a-pre-record-we-watched-bbc-threes-return-to-tv-so-you-didnt-have-to |archivedate=16 May 2024 }}</ref>

According to its annual report {{As of|2021|12|lc=y}}, India has the largest number of people using BBC services in the world.<ref>{{cite news|date=2 December 2021|title=बीबीसी के अंतरराष्ट्रीय ऑडियंस में भारत पहले पायदान पर बरक़रार – GAM रिपोर्ट|language=hi|trans-title=India retains top spot in BBC's international audience – GAM report|newspaper=[[BBC Hindi]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/hindi/international-59498603|access-date=4 December 2021|archive-date=2 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202105446/https://www.bbc.com/hindi/international-59498603|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2025, following the earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand, a television news bulletin (BBC News Myanmar) from the Burmese service using a vacated [[Voice of America]] satellite frequency began its broadcasts.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lokalna wesja BBC News ruszy w DTH |url=https://satkurier.pl/news/243440/lokalna-wersja-bbc-news-ruszy-w-dth.html |work=satkurier.pl |language=Polish}}</ref>

==Programming and reporting==
In November 2023, BBC News joined with the [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]], {{ill|Paper trail media|lt=Paper Trail Media|de}} and 69 media partners including [[Distributed Denial of Secrets]] and the [[Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project]] (OCCRP) and more than 270 journalists in 55 countries and territories<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=14 November 2023 |title=Inside Cyprus Confidential: The data-driven journalism that helped expose an island under Russian influence – ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/leaked-data-journalism-methodology/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130214812/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/leaked-data-journalism-methodology/ |archive-date=30 November 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=14 November 2023 |title=About the Cyprus Confidential investigation – ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/about-cyprus-confidential-investigation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121093552/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/about-cyprus-confidential-investigation/ |archive-date=21 November 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> to produce the '[[Cyprus Confidential]]' report on the financial network which supports the regime of [[Vladimir Putin]], mostly with connections to Cyprus, and showed Cyprus to have strong links with high-up figures in the Kremlin, some of whom have been sanctioned.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 November 2023 |title=Cyprus Confidential: Leaked Roman Abramovich documents raise fresh questions for Chelsea FC: ICIJ-led investigation reveals how Mediterranean island ignores Russian atrocities and western sanctions to cash in on Putin's oligarchs |language=en |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/2023/11/15/cyprus-confidential-leaked-roman-abramovich-documents-raise-fresh-questions-for-chelsea-fc/ |access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=14 November 2023 |title=Cyprus Confidential – ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/ |access-date=14 November 2023 |website=icij.org}}</ref> Government officials including Cyprus president [[Nikos Christodoulides]]<ref name=":72">{{Cite web |date=15 November 2023 |title=Cypriot president pledges government probe into Cyprus Confidential revelations – ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cypriot-president-pledges-government-probe-into-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214203142/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cypriot-president-pledges-government-probe-into-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |archive-date=14 December 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and European lawmakers<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 November 2023 |title=Lawmakers call for EU crackdown after ICIJ's Cyprus Confidential revelations – ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/lawmakers-call-for-eu-crackdown-after-icijs-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114123/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/lawmakers-call-for-eu-crackdown-after-icijs-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |archive-date=24 December 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> began responding to the investigation's findings in less than 24 hours,<ref name=":72"/> calling for reforms and launching probes.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=14 November 2023 |title=Cyprus ignores Russian atrocities, Western sanctions to shield vast wealth of Putin allies – ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cyprus-russia-eu-secrecy-tax-haven/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214002320/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cyprus-russia-eu-secrecy-tax-haven/ |archive-date=14 December 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Solutions |first=BDigital Web |title=Finance Minister perturbed over 'Cyprus Confidential' |url=https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/finance-minister-perturbed-over-cyprus-confidential |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114126/https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/finance-minister-perturbed-over-cyprus-confidential |archive-date=24 December 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=knews.com.cy}}</ref>

===Television===
[[File:BBC News helicopter watching over the cuts protest.jpg|thumb|BBC News helicopter over London]]

BBC News is responsible for the news programmes and documentary content on the BBC's general television channels, as well as the news coverage on the BBC News Channel in the UK, and 22 hours of programming for the corporation's international [[BBC World News]] channel.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} Coverage for [[BBC Parliament]] is carried out on behalf of the BBC at [[Millbank]] Studios, though BBC News provides editorial and journalistic content.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} BBC News content is also output onto the BBC's digital interactive television services under the [[BBC Red Button]] brand, and until 2012, on the [[Ceefax]] [[teletext]] system.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Perraudin|first=Frances|date=16 September 2019|title=BBC to switch off Red Button information service in 2020|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/16/bbc-to-switch-off-red-button-2020|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=14 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714143124/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/16/bbc-to-switch-off-red-button-2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

The music on all BBC television news programmes was introduced in 1999 and composed by [[David Lowe (television and radio composer)|David Lowe]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Column: David Lowe – the man who changed news music forever|url=https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/11/03/column-david-lowe-the-man-who-changed-news-music-forever/?og=1|website=NewscastStudio|date=3 November 2015|language=en-US|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160751/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/11/03/column-david-lowe-the-man-who-changed-news-music-forever/?og=1|url-status=live}}</ref> It was part of the re-branding which commenced in 1999 and features '[[BBC Pips]]'.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=What is the music used in TV news programmes? {{!}} Classical-Music.com|url=http://www.classical-music.com/article/what-music-used-tv-news-programmes|website=BBC Music Magazine|date=23 September 2019 |access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=25 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925114905/http://www.classical-music.com/article/what-music-used-tv-news-programmes|url-status=live}}</ref> The general theme was used on bulletins on [[BBC One]], News 24, BBC World and local news programmes in the BBC's [[:Category:BBC Regional News shows|Nations and Regions]].<ref name=":2" /> Lowe was also responsible for the music on Radio One's ''[[Newsbeat]]''.<ref name=":2" /> The theme has had several changes since 1999, the latest in March 2013.<ref name=":1" />

The [[BBC Arabic Television]] news channel launched on 11 March 2008,<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Arabic-language television channel to be launched 11 March|url=https://www.arabmediasociety.com/bbc-arabic-language-television-channel-to-be-launched-11-march/|website=Arab Media & Society|date=16 February 2008|language=en-US|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160936/https://www.arabmediasociety.com/bbc-arabic-language-television-channel-to-be-launched-11-march/|url-status=live}}</ref> a [[BBC Persian Television|Persian-language channel]] followed on 14 January 2009,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Committee|first=Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8L81HYbAUfQC&q=bbc+news+a+Persian-language+channel+followed+on+14+January+2009&pg=PA101|title=Foreign and Commonwealth Office annual report 2007-08: report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence|date=2009|publisher=The Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-215-52627-4|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132819/https://books.google.com/books?id=8L81HYbAUfQC&q=bbc+news+a+Persian-language+channel+followed+on+14+January+2009&pg=PA101#v=snippet&q=bbc%20news%20a%20Persian-language%20channel%20followed%20on%2014%20January%202009&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> broadcasting from the Peel wing of Broadcasting House; both include news, analysis, interviews, sports and highly cultural programmes and are run by the [[BBC World Service]] and funded from a grant-in-aid from the British [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|Foreign Office]] (and not the [[Television licensing in the United Kingdom|television licence]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/news/story/2007/04/070426_adverttv.shtml |script-title=fa:آگهی استخدام در تلویزیون فارسی بی بی سی |work=BBC News |language=fa |date=26 April 2007 |access-date=4 January 2009 |archive-date=15 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915193131/http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/news/story/2007/04/070426_adverttv.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Radio===
BBC Radio News produces bulletins for the BBC's national radio stations and provides content for local BBC radio stations via the General News Service (GNS), a BBC-internal<ref>{{cite web|author=Smith, Mort|title=Ceefax: The early days|date=23 October 2012|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20032531|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811184649/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20032531|url-status=live}}</ref> news distribution service. BBC News does not produce the BBC's regional news bulletins, which are produced individually by the BBC nations and regions themselves. The BBC World Service broadcasts to some 150&nbsp;million people in English as well as 27 languages across the globe.<ref name="About WS">{{cite web|title=About the World Service|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio/help|work=Help|publisher=BBC|access-date=18 March 2013|archive-date=18 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318055140/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio/help|url-status=live}}</ref> BBC Radio News is a patron of the [[Radio Academy]].<ref>The Radio Academy [http://www.radioacademy.org/about/patrons/ "Patrons"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107234239/http://www.radioacademy.org/about/patrons/ |date=7 January 2010 }}.</ref>

===Online===
{{Main|BBC News Online}}
BBC News Online is the BBC's news website. Launched in November 1997,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4492820.stm|title=BBC News Interactive's new editor|access-date=11 April 2007|date=2 December 2005|work=BBC News|archive-date=6 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106140827/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4492820.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> it is one of the most popular news websites,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2022 |title=Top Websites Ranking for News & Media Publishers in the world |url=https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/category/news-and-media/ |access-date=23 October 2022 |website=SimilarWeb |archive-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430115953/https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/category/news-and-media/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with 1.2&nbsp;billion website visits in April 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2021 |title=New data shows BBC is the world's most visited news site |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/worldnews/2021/new-data-shows-bbc-is-the-worlds-most-visited-news-site/ |access-date=12 January 2025 |website=BBC News |language=en |quote=The BBC’s online news brands .. came in first place with a combined 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021. }}</ref> as well as being used by 60% of the UK's internet users for news.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 July 2022 |title=News Consumption in the UK: 2022 |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/241947/News-Consumption-in-the-UK-2022-report.pdf |access-date=23 October 2022 |website=Ofcom |archive-date=19 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019163415/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/241947/News-Consumption-in-the-UK-2022-report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The website contains international news coverage as well as entertainment, sport, science, and political news.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/|title=Help – About our site|access-date=11 April 2007|work=BBC News | date=28 November 2003| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070328040313/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/| archive-date= 28 March 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref>

[[Mobile app]]s for [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]] and [[Windows Phone]] systems have been provided since 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC News iPhone and iPad app launches in the UK|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10738882|access-date=1 February 2015|work=BBC News|date=23 July 2010|archive-date=25 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150125142437/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10738882|url-status=live}}</ref> Many television and radio programmes are also available to view on the [[BBC iPlayer]] and [[BBC Sounds]] services. The BBC News channel is also available to view 24 hours a day, while video and radio clips are also available within online news articles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/5286426.stm|title=Help – Your guide to the BBC News Player|work=BBC News|access-date=11 April 2007 | date=25 August 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070315183757/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/5286426.stm| archive-date= 15 March 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref>

In October 2019, BBC News Online launched a mirror on the [[dark web]] anonymity network [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor]] in an effort to circumvent censorship.<ref name="bbc_news_darkweb">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981|website=BBC News|title=BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror|date=23 October 2019|access-date=25 March 2021|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319112027/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981|archive-date=19 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/773060596/bbc-launches-tor-mirror-site-to-thwart-media-censorship|title=BBC Launches Tor Mirror Site To Thwart Media Censorship|last=Zialcita|first=Paolo|date=24 October 2019|access-date=25 October 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191025202723/https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/773060596/bbc-launches-tor-mirror-site-to-thwart-media-censorship|archive-date=25 October 2019|publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20930085/bbc-news-dark-web-tor-the-onion-browser-secure-censorship|title=BBC News heads to the dark web with new Tor mirror|last=Porter|first=John|date=24 October 2019|work=[[The Verge]]|access-date=25 October 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191024133650/https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20930085/bbc-news-dark-web-tor-the-onion-browser-secure-censorship|archive-date=24 October 2019}}</ref>

==Criticism==
{{Main|BBC controversies|Criticism of the BBC}}

===Political and commercial independence===
The BBC is required by its charter to be free from both political and commercial influence and answers only to its viewers and listeners. This political objectivity is sometimes questioned. For instance, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' (3 August 2005) carried a letter from the [[KGB]] defector [[Oleg Gordievsky]], referring to it as "The Red Service". Books have been written on the subject, including anti-BBC works like ''Truth Betrayed'' by W J West and ''The Truth Twisters'' by Richard Deacon. The BBC has been accused of bias by Conservative MPs.<ref>{{Cite news|date=17 February 2020|title=BBC licence fee: Tory MPs warn No 10 against fight|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51530752|access-date=4 June 2021|archive-date=4 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604190724/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51530752|url-status=live}}</ref>

The BBC's Editorial Guidelines on Politics and Public Policy state that while "the voices and opinions of opposition parties must be routinely aired and challenged", "the government of the day will often be the primary source of news".<ref name=BBCEditorialGuidelines>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/impartiality_21century/f_editorial_guidelines_extracts.txt "Editorial Guidelines Extracts"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307235004/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/impartiality_21century/f_editorial_guidelines_extracts.txt |date=7 March 2013 }}, [[BBC]].</ref>

The BBC is regularly accused by the government of the day of bias in favour of the opposition and, by the opposition, of bias in favour of the government. Similarly, during times of war, the BBC is often accused by the UK government, or by strong supporters of British military campaigns, of being overly sympathetic to the view of the enemy. An edition of ''[[Newsnight]]'' at the start of the [[Falklands War]] in 1982 was described as "almost treasonable" by [[John Page (MP for Harrow West)|John Page]], MP, who objected to [[Peter Snow]] saying "if we believe the British".<ref name="Falklands Newsnight">Denis Taylor, "BBC broadcasts jammed", ''The Times'', 4 May 1982, p. 2.</ref>

During the first [[Gulf War]], critics of the BBC took to using the satirical name "Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation".<ref name="news24"/> During the [[Kosovo War]], the BBC were labelled the "Belgrade Broadcasting Corporation" (suggesting favouritism towards the [[FR Yugoslavia]] government over ethnic [[Albanians|Albanian]] rebels) by British ministers,<ref name="news24">{{cite news|publisher=News 24 |url=http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1390672,00.html |title=BBC versus British government |date=21 July 2003 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309115833/http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0%2C%2C2-10-1462_1390672%2C00.html |archive-date=9 March 2008 }}</ref> although [[Slobodan Milosević]] (then FRY president) claimed that the BBC's coverage had been biased ''against'' his nation.<ref>{{cite news|work=BBC News|date=22 August 2002|title=Milosevic attacks BBC 'bias'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2220904.stm|access-date=1 January 2010|archive-date=8 July 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708024137/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2220904.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Conversely, some of those who style themselves anti-establishment in the United Kingdom or who oppose foreign wars have accused the BBC of pro-establishment bias or of refusing to give an outlet to "anti-war" voices. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a study by the Cardiff University School of Journalism of the reporting of the war found that nine out of 10 references to weapons of mass destruction during the war assumed that Iraq possessed them, and only one in 10 questioned this assumption. It also found that, out of the main British broadcasters covering the war, the BBC was the most likely to use the British government and military as its source. It was also the least likely to use independent sources, like the Red Cross, who were more critical of the war. When it came to reporting Iraqi casualties, the study found fewer reports on the BBC than on the other three main channels. The report's author, [[Justin Lewis (media scholar)|Justin Lewis]], wrote "Far from revealing an anti-war BBC, our findings tend to give credence to those who criticised the BBC for being too sympathetic to the government in its war coverage. Either way, it is clear that the accusation of BBC anti-war bias fails to stand up to any serious or sustained analysis."<ref>{{cite book|last=McNair|first=Brian|title=News and Journalism in the UK|date=18 February 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1134128846|page=79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HlB8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref>

Prominent BBC appointments are constantly assessed by the British media and political establishment for signs of political bias. The appointment of [[Greg Dyke]] as Director-General was highlighted by press sources because Dyke was a Labour Party member and former activist, as well as a friend of [[Tony Blair]]. The BBC's former Political Editor, [[Nick Robinson (journalist)|Nick Robinson]], was some years ago a chairman of the [[Young Conservatives (UK)|Young Conservatives]] and did, as a result, attract informal criticism from the former Labour government, but his predecessor [[Andrew Marr]] faced similar claims from the right because he was editor of ''[[The Independent]]'', a liberal-leaning newspaper, before his appointment in 2000.

[[Mark Thompson (television executive)|Mark Thompson]], former Director-General of the BBC, admitted the organisation has been biased "towards the left" in the past. He said, "In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left".<ref>{{cite news |last=Yesawich |first=Avi |url=http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=186893 |title=Report: BBC dir.-gen. admits previous organizational bias |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-date=11 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511111244/http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=186893 |url-status=live }}</ref> He then added, "The organization did struggle then with impartiality. Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC."

Following the [[Brexit|EU referendum]] in 2016, some critics suggested that the BBC was biased in favour of leaving the EU.  For instance, in 2018, the BBC received complaints from people who took issue that the BBC was not sufficiently covering anti-Brexit marches while giving smaller-scale events hosted by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage more airtime.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Galsworthy |first1=Mike |title=What's actually going on with the BBC and Brexit bias? |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/04/17/what-s-actually-going-on-with-the-bbc-and-brexit-bias |website=politics.co.uk |access-date=29 March 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032408/https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/04/17/what-s-actually-going-on-with-the-bbc-and-brexit-bias |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the other hand, a poll released by YouGov showed that 45% of people who voted to leave the EU thought that the BBC was 'actively anti-Brexit' compared to 13% of the same kinds of voters who think the BBC is pro-Brexit.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Matthew |title=Is BBC News pro-Brexit or anti-Brexit? |url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2018/02/22/bbc-news-pro-brexit-or-anti-brexit |website=YouGov |access-date=29 March 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032405/https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2018/02/22/bbc-news-pro-brexit-or-anti-brexit |url-status=live }}</ref>

===India===
In 2008, the [[BBC Hindi]] was criticised by some Indian outlets for referring to the terrorists who carried out the [[2008 Mumbai attacks]] as "gunmen".<ref>[http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Dec222008/editpage20081221108056.asp Mealy-mouthed BBC]{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The BBC cannot see the difference between a criminal and a terrorist|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/14mumterror-mj-akbar-slams-bbc-for-biased-coverage-of-mumbai-terror-attack.htm|access-date=5 July 2012|publisher=[[Rediff.com]]|archive-date=8 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908211553/http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/14mumterror-mj-akbar-slams-bbc-for-biased-coverage-of-mumbai-terror-attack.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The response to this added to prior criticism from some Indian commentators suggesting that the BBC may have an [[Indophobic]] bias.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=42169 |title=BBC coverage biased, say British Hindus |work=The Indian Express |date=2 March 2004 |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-date=15 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515113814/http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=42169 |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2015, the BBC was criticised for a BBC [[Storyville (TV series)|''Storyville'']] documentary interviewing one of the rapists in India. In spite of a ban ordered by the Indian High court,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/03/asia/india-rape-comment-outrage/index.html | publisher=CNN | title=Indian court bans controversial interview with convicted rapist | author=Madison Park and Harmeet Shah Singh | date=4 March 2015 | access-date=9 May 2015 | archive-date=24 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424230948/http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/03/asia/india-rape-comment-outrage/index.html | url-status=live }}</ref> the BBC still aired the documentary "[[India's Daughter]]" outside India.

===Hutton Inquiry===
{{Main|Hutton Inquiry}}

BBC News was at the centre of a political controversy following the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. Three BBC News reports ([[Andrew Gilligan]]'s on ''[[Today programme|Today]]'', Gavin Hewitt's on ''The Ten O'Clock News'' and another on ''[[Newsnight]]'') quoted an anonymous source that stated the British government (particularly the Prime Minister's office) had embellished the [[September Dossier]] with misleading exaggerations of Iraq's [[weapons of mass destruction]] capabilities. The government denounced the reports and accused the corporation of poor journalism.

In subsequent weeks the corporation stood by the report, saying that it had a reliable source. Following intense media speculation, [[David Kelly (weapons expert)|David Kelly]] was named in the press as the source for Gilligan's story on 9 July 2003. Kelly was found dead, by suicide, in a field close to his home early on 18 July. An inquiry led by [[Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton|Lord Hutton]] was announced by the British government the following day to investigate the circumstances leading to Kelly's death, concluding that "Dr. Kelly took his own life."<ref>{{cite web|author=Vikram Dodd|title=Dr David Kelly: 10 years on, death of scientist remains unresolved for some|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/david-kelly-death-10-years-on|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 July 2013|access-date=24 March 2017|archive-date=24 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324180323/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/david-kelly-death-10-years-on|url-status=live}}</ref>

In his report on 28 January 2004, Lord Hutton concluded that Gilligan's original accusation was "unfounded" and the BBC's editorial and management processes were "defective". In particular, it specifically criticised the chain of management that caused the BBC to defend its story. The BBC Director of News, [[Richard Sambrook]], the report said, had accepted Gilligan's word that his story was accurate in spite of his notes being incomplete. Davies had then told the BBC Board of Governors that he was happy with the story and told the Prime Minister that a satisfactory internal inquiry had taken place. The Board of Governors, under the chairman's, [[Gavyn Davies]], guidance, accepted that further investigation of the Government's complaints were unnecessary.

Because of the criticism in the Hutton report, Davies resigned on the day of publication. BBC News faced an important test, reporting on itself with the publication of the report, but by common consent (of the Board of Governors) managed this "independently, impartially and honestly".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3890821.stm |title=BBC Iraq war coverage criticised |access-date=11 April 2007 |date=13 July 2004 |work=BBC News |archive-date=15 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315044309/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3890821.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Davies' resignation was followed by the resignation of [[Director-General of the BBC|Director General]], [[Greg Dyke]], the following day, and the resignation of Gilligan on 30 January. While undoubtedly a traumatic experience for the corporation, an ICM poll in April 2003 indicated that it had sustained its position as the best and most trusted provider of news.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3889595.stm |title=BBC report 2004: At a glance |access-date=11 April 2007 |date=13 July 2004 |work=BBC News |archive-date=15 July 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040715042305/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3889595.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Israeli–Palestinian conflict===
{{See also|Criticism of the BBC#Middle East and Israel|Balen Report}}
The BBC has faced accusations of holding both anti-Israel and anti-Palestine bias.

Douglas Davis, the London correspondent of ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', has described the BBC's coverage of the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]] as "a relentless, one-dimensional portrayal of Israel as a demonic, criminal state and Israelis as brutal oppressors [which] bears all the hallmarks of a concerted campaign of vilification that, wittingly or not, has the effect of delegitimising the Jewish state and pumping oxygen into a dark old European hatred that dared not speak its name for the past half-century.".<ref name=Davis130>Davis, Douglas. "Hatred in the air: the BBC, Israel and Antisemitism" in Iganski, Paul & Kosmin, Barry. (eds) ''A New Anti-Semitism? Debating Judeophobia in 21st century Britain''. Profile Books, 2003, p. 130.</ref> However two large independent studies, one conducted by Loughborough University and the other by Glasgow University's Media Group concluded that Israeli perspectives are given greater coverage.<ref>{{cite web |title=The BBC's reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |last1=Downey |first1=John |last2=Deacon |first2=David |last3=Golding |first3=Peter |last4=Oldfield |first4=B |last5=Wring |first5=Dominic |year=2006 |url=https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/The_BBC_s_reporting_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict/9471353?file=17095769 |website=Loughborough University Institutional Repository |hdl = 2134/3158}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3827207.stm |title=Palestine issue confuses Britons |work=BBC News |first=James |last=Read |date=22 June 2004 |access-date=27 September 2010 |archive-date=23 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123001938/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3827207.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Critics of the BBC argue that the Balen Report proves systematic bias against Israel in headline news programming. The ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' criticised the BBC for spending hundreds of thousands of British tax payers' pounds from preventing the report being released to the public.<ref>[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2398870.ece BBC fights to suppress internal report into allegations of bias against Israel] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013035628/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2398870.ece |date=13 October 2008}} by Andy McSmith (''The Independent'') 28 March 2007.</ref><ref>T''Telegraph'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20061018094538/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/15/nbeeb15.xml BBC mounts court fight to keep 'critical' report secret], 15 October 2006.</ref>

[[Jeremy Bowen]], the Middle East Editor for BBC world news, was singled out specifically for bias by the [[BBC Trust]] which concluded that he violated "BBC guidelines on accuracy and impartiality."<ref name=ind160409>''[[The Independent]]'', 16 April 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090418210846/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bowen-breached-rules-on-impartiality-1669278.html Bowen 'breached rules on impartiality'].</ref>

An independent panel appointed by the [[BBC Trust]] was set up in 2006 to review the impartiality of the BBC's coverage of the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbcgovernorsarchive.co.uk/docs/reviews/panel_report_final.pdf |title=Impartiality Review: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |work=BBC Governors |access-date=14 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614000035/http://www.bbcgovernorsarchive.co.uk/docs/reviews/panel_report_final.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> The panel's assessment was that "apart from individual lapses, there was little to suggest deliberate or systematic bias." While noting a "commitment to be fair accurate and impartial" and praising much of the BBC's coverage the independent panel concluded "that BBC output does not consistently give a full and fair account of the conflict. In some ways the picture is incomplete and, in that sense, misleading." It notes that, "the failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, [reflects] the fact that one side is in control and the other lives under occupation".

Writing in the ''Financial Times'', [[Philip Stephens (journalist)|Philip Stephens]], one of the panellists, later accused the BBC's director-general, Mark Thompson, of misrepresenting the panel's conclusions. He further opined "My sense is that BBC news reporting has also lost a once iron-clad commitment to objectivity and a necessary respect for the democratic process. If I am right, the BBC, too, is lost".<ref>Philip Stephens: BBC is losing public service plot, ''Financial Times'', 20 June 2006.</ref> Mark Thompson published a rebuttal in the FT the next day.<ref>The BBC's success story has a public service plot, Mark Thompson, ''Financial Times'', 21 June 2006.</ref>

The description by one BBC correspondent reporting on the funeral of [[Yassir Arafat]] that she had been left with tears in her eyes led to other questions of impartiality, particularly from Martin Walker<ref name=Walker>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2174641,00.html |title=The BBC pro-Israeli? Is the Pope Jewish?-Comment-Columnists-Guest contributors |work=The Times |location=London |access-date=11 April 2007 |date=11 May 2006 |first=Martin |last=Walker |archive-date=1 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001075902/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2174641,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> in a guest opinion piece in ''[[The Times]]'', who picked out the apparent case of Fayad Abu Shamala, the [[BBC Arabic]] Service correspondent, who told a [[Hamas]] rally on 6 May 2001, that journalists in Gaza were "waging the campaign shoulder to shoulder together with the Palestinian people".<ref name=Walker/>

Walker argues that the independent inquiry was flawed for two reasons. Firstly, because the time period over which it was conducted (August 2005 to January 2006) surrounded the Israeli withdrawal from [[Gaza City|Gaza]] and [[Ariel Sharon]]'s stroke, which produced more positive coverage than usual. Furthermore, he wrote, the inquiry only looked at the BBC's domestic coverage, and excluded output on the [[BBC World Service]] and BBC World.<ref name=Walker/>

[[Tom Gross]] accused the BBC of glorifying [[List of Hamas suicide attacks|Hamas suicide bombers]],<ref>[http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/gross200406181018.asp Tom Gross on BBC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628025507/http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/gross200406181018.asp|date=28 June 2010}} National Review Online.</ref> and condemned its policy of inviting guests such as [[Jenny Tonge]] and [[Tom Paulin]] who have compared Israeli soldiers to [[Nazis]]. Writing for the BBC, Paulin said [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli soldiers]] should be "shot dead" like [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s S.S, and said he could "understand how suicide bombers feel".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=Sarah |date=13 April 2002 |title=Death to Jewish settlers, says anti-Zionist poet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/13/israel.booksnews |access-date=4 November 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

The BBC also faced criticism for not airing a [[Disasters Emergency Committee]] aid appeal for Palestinians who suffered in Gaza during 22-day war there between late 2008 and early 2009. Most other major UK broadcasters did air this appeal, but rival Sky News did not.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Percival |first=Jenny |last2=Holmwood |first2=Leigh |last3=Lewis |first3=Paul |date=26 January 2009 |title=Sky and BBC refuse to air Gaza appeal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/26/gaza-israel-palestinians-bbc |access-date=20 April 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

British journalist [[Julie Burchill]] has accused BBC of creating a "climate of fear" for [[British Jews]] over its "excessive coverage" of Israel compared to other nations.<ref>{{cite web |last=Burchill |first=Julie |url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=178724 |title=How the British media get their kicks |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=18 June 2010 |access-date=5 July 2012 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024041913/http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=178724 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In light of the [[Gaza war]], the BBC suspended seven Arab journalists over allegations of expressing support for Hamas via social media.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bbc-urgently-investigating-group-arab-173746683.html |title=BBC Suspends, Investigates 7 Arab Journalists over Hamas Support |date=15 October 2023 |access-date=22 October 2023 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132822/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bbc-urgently-investigating-group-arab-173746683.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Partners===
BBC and ABC share video segments and reporters as needed in producing their newscasts. with the BBC showing ''[[ABC World News Tonight]] with [[David Muir]]'' in the UK. However, in July 2017, the BBC announced a new partnership with [[CBS News]] allows both organisations to share video, editorial content, and additional newsgathering resources in New York, London, Washington and around the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-bbc-join-forces/ |title=CBS News and BBC News join forces around the globe |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=13 July 2017 |publisher=CBS News |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-date=13 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713124235/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-bbc-join-forces/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

BBC News subscribes to wire services from leading international agencies including [[PA Media]] (formerly Press Association), [[Reuters]], and [[Agence France-Presse]]. In April 2017, the BBC dropped [[Associated Press]] in favour of an enhanced service from AFP.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://photoarchivenews.com/news/the-bbc-drops-ap-for-afptv-ap-statement/|title = The BBC drops AP for AFPTV – read the AP Statement|date = 30 March 2017|access-date = 21 July 2017|archive-date = 11 October 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171011231855/https://photoarchivenews.com/news/the-bbc-drops-ap-for-afptv-ap-statement/|url-status = live}}</ref>

===The view of foreign governments===
BBC News reporters and broadcasts are now and have in the past been banned in several countries primarily for reporting which has been unfavourable to the ruling government. For example, correspondents were banned by the former [[apartheid]] regime of South Africa. The BBC was banned in [[Robert Mugabe#Prime Minister and President|Zimbabwe under Mugabe]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afrol.com/News2002/zim040_joytv_bbc.htm|title=Broadcasting of BBC in Zimbabwe stopped|access-date=11 April 2007|publisher=afrol – African News Agency|archive-date=30 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180629/http://www.afrol.com/News2002/zim040_joytv_bbc.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> for eight years as a terrorist organisation until being allowed to operate again over a year after the [[2008 Zimbabwean presidential election|2008 elections]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/07/resuming_operations_in_zimbabw.html|title=Resuming operations in Zimbabwe|access-date=29 July 2009|archive-date=2 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202055243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/07/resuming_operations_in_zimbabw.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The BBC was banned in Burma (officially Myanmar) after their coverage and commentary on anti-government protests there in September 2007. The ban was lifted four years later in September 2011. Other cases have included Uzbekistan,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4407086.stm|title=BBC NEWS – Programmes – From Our Own Correspondent – Uzbeks banish BBC after massacre reports|access-date=11 April 2007 | date=5 November 2005 | work=BBC News | first=Monica | last=Whitlock| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070314044208/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4407086.stm| archive-date= 14 March 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref>
China,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=21745|title=AsiaMedia : China : Censor blocks sensitive issues in BBC series|access-date=11 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310194208/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=21745|archive-date=10 March 2007|url-status = dead}}</ref> and Pakistan.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4437494.stm BBC Urdo taken off Pakistan radio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051231214057/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4437494.stm |date=31 December 2005 }} – BBC News: 15 November 2005.</ref> [[BBC Persian]], the BBC's [[Persian language]] news site, was blocked from the Iranian internet in 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/12/18/iran_bloggers_test_regimes_tolerance/ |title=Iran bloggers test regime's tolerance |work=The Boston Globe |access-date=11 April 2007 |date=18 December 2006 |first1=James F. |last1=Smith |first2=Anne |last2=Barnard |archive-date=16 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016191018/http://boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/12/18/iran_bloggers_test_regimes_tolerance/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The BBC News website was made available in China again in March 2008,<ref>[http://www.abclive.in/abclive_global/bbc-news-website-china.html BBC News Website Gets Access in China] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408024616/http://abclive.in/abclive_global/bbc-news-website-china.html |date=8 April 2009 }} Dinesh Singh-Rawat, ABC Live, 25 March 2008.</ref> but {{as of|2014|October|lc=y}}, was blocked again.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/mediacentre/statements/website-china BBC statement regarding China blocking BBC News website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208041921/http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/mediacentre/statements/website-china |date=8 December 2019 }} ''BBC News'' 25 October 2014</ref>

In June 2015, the Rwandan government placed an indefinite ban on BBC broadcasts following the airing of a controversial documentary regarding the 1994 [[Rwandan genocide]], ''Rwanda's Untold Story'', broadcast on BBC2 on 1 October 2014. The UK's Foreign Office recognised "the hurt caused in Rwanda by some parts of the documentary".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/01/rwanda-places-indefinite-ban-on-bbc-broadcasts-over-genocide-documentary|title=Rwanda places indefinite ban on BBC broadcasts over genocide documentary|first=Dugald|last=Baird|work=The Guardian|date=1 June 2015|access-date=10 January 2016|archive-date=28 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128025853/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/01/rwanda-places-indefinite-ban-on-bbc-broadcasts-over-genocide-documentary|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2017, reporters from the BBC (as well as the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Politico]], [[CNN]], and others) were denied access to a United States White House briefing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer|title=Trump press ban: BBC, CNN and Guardian denied access to briefing|first=Sabrina|last=Siddiqui|work=The Guardian|date=25 February 2017|access-date=25 February 2017|archive-date=31 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731190705/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017, [[BBC Hindi|BBC India]] was banned for a period of 5 years from covering all [[List of national parks of India|national parks and sanctuaries]] in India.<ref>{{Cite web|date=15 April 2017|title=Kaziranga film: BBC banned for 5 years from all national parks, sanctuaries|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kaziranga-film-bbc-banned-for-5-years-from-all-national-parks-sanctuaries-4613758/|access-date=18 April 2021|website=The Indian Express|language=en|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418160439/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kaziranga-film-bbc-banned-for-5-years-from-all-national-parks-sanctuaries-4613758/|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the withdrawal of [[CGTN (TV channel)|CGTN]]'s UK broadcaster licence on 4 February 2021 by [[Ofcom]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=4 February 2021|title=Ofcom revokes Chinese broadcaster CGTN's UK licence|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55931548|access-date=4 February 2021|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320110450/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55931548|url-status=live}}</ref> China banned BBC News from airing in China.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/02/12/bbc-news-banned-china-cgtn-uk.cnnbusiness |title=China bans BBC News after UK pulls CGTN's license |date=12 February 2021 |access-date=13 February 2021 |archive-date=13 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213225430/https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/02/12/bbc-news-banned-china-cgtn-uk.cnnbusiness |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|BBC|Journalism}}
* [[:Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists]]
* [[:Category:BBC television news shows]]
* [[List of current BBC newsreaders and reporters]]
* [[List of former BBC newsreaders and journalists]]

==References==
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* [https://archive.org/details/TV-BBCNEWS BBC NEWS Internet Archive]

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