Number of employees 3,500 (2,000 are journalists) Website BBC News is an operational of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013.
The department's annual budget is in excess of £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in in London. Through the, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in, and. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.
The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by, making it operationally independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss its director-general, and required to report impartially. As with all major media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum, both within the UK and abroad. Contents. History Early years “ This is London calling – 2LO calling. Here is the first general news bulletin, copyright by, and. ” — BBC news programme opening during the 1920s The broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station on 14 November 1922. Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7 PM, and to force it to use copy instead of reporting on its own.
On Easter weekend in 1930 (18 April), this reliance on newspaper wire services left the radio news service with no information to report after saying There is no news today. Piano music was played instead. The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, created its own news operation. However, it could not broadcast news before 6 PM until.
Gaumont British and Movietone cinema had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, with the BBC producing its own equivalent programme from January 1948. A weekly Children's Newsreel was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers. The network began simulcasting its radio news on television in 1946, with a still picture of. Televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within in London. The public's interest in television and live events was stimulated by in 1953. It is estimated that up to 27 million people viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radio's audience of 12 million for the first time. Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to for transmission, and then on to other UK transmitters opened in time for the event.
That year, there were, rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955. 1950s Television news, although physically separate from its radio counterpart, was still firmly under radio news' control – correspondents provided reports for both outlets–and that first bulletin, shown on 5 July 1954 on the then and presented by, involved his providing narration off-screen while stills were shown. This was then followed by the customary Television Newsreel with a recorded commentary by (and on other occasions by ). It was revealed that this had been due to producers fearing a with visible facial movements would distract the viewer from the story.
On-screen newsreaders were finally introduced a year later in 1955 – (the first to appear in vision), and Richard Baker–three weeks before 's launch on 21 September 1955. Mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950 to larger premises – mainly at in, west London – taking Current Affairs (then known as Talks Department) with it. It was from here that the first, a new documentary programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953, with becoming anchor in 1955. On 18 February 1957, the topical early-evening programme, hosted by and designed to fill the airtime provided by the abolition of the, was broadcast from Marconi's Viking Studio in St Mary Abbott's Place, – with the programme moving into a Lime Grove studio in 1960, where it already maintained its production office. On 28 October 1957, the, a morning radio programme, was launched in central London on the.
In 1958, became head of News and Current Affairs. He set up a BBC study group whose findings, published in 1959, were critical of what the television news operation had become under his predecessor,. The report proposed that the head of television news should take control (away from radio), and that the television service should have a proper newsroom of its own, with an editor-of-the-day.
1960s On 1 January 1960, Greene became Director-General and brought about big changes at and BBC Television News. BBC Television News had been created in 1955, in response to the founding of ITN. The changes made by Greene were aimed at making BBC reporting more similar to ITN which had been highly rated by study groups held by Greene. A newsroom was created at Alexandra Palace, television reporters were recruited and given the opportunity to write and voice their own scripts–without the 'impossible burden' of having to cover stories for radio too. In 1987, almost thirty years later, resurrected the practice of correspondents working for both TV and radio with the introduction of bi-media journalism, and 2008 saw tri-media introduced across TV, radio, and online.
On 20 June 1960, the first female BBC network newsreader, appeared in vision. 19 September saw the start of the radio news and current affairs programme The Ten O'clock News. Started transmission on 20 April 1964, and with it came a new news programme for that channel,., 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 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, 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 – by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor – to be superseded by subtitling (a similar format), and the signing of such programmes as (from 1981).
On Sunday 17 September 1967, a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be. 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 – from Studio A at Alexandra Palace. News Review and Westminster (the latter a weekly review of 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, 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 colour machine and, eventually two colour –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, the London regional ' programme broadcast throughout the 1960s (and the BBC's first regional news programme for the South East), until it started to be replaced by on Tuesday to Thursday from Lime Grove Studios early in September 1969. Town and Around was never to make the move to Television Centre – instead it became London This Week which aired on Mondays and Fridays only, from the new TVC studios. Television News moves to Television Centre. Television News moved to in September 1969. The final news programme to come from Alexandra Palace was a late night news on BBC2 on Friday 19 September 1969 in colour. It was said that over this September weekend, it took 65 removal vans to transfer the contents of Alexandra Palace across London. BBC Television News resumed operations the next day with a lunchtime bulletin on BBC1 – in black and white – from Television Centre, where it remained until March 2013.
This move to better technical facilities, but much smaller studios, allowed Newsroom and News Review to replace with. It also allowed all news output to be produced in colour, ahead of the transition of BBC1 to colour from 15 November 1969 – and, like Alexandra Palace Studio A, these studios too were capable of operating in for the US, Canada, and Japan as the BBC occasionally provided facilities for overseas broadcasters. During the 1960s, had become possible, however colour field-store were still in their infancy in 1968, and it was some years before digital line-store conversion was able to undertake the process seamlessly. Angela Rippon, pictured in 1983, became the first female news presenter in 1975. On 14 September 1970, the first was broadcast on television. Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N1 – described by as 'a sort of polystyrene padded cell' —the bulletin having been moved from the earlier time of 20.50 as a response to the ratings achieved by ITN's, 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.
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 Christmas Show in 1976 singing and dancing. The first edition of 's Newsround, initially intended only as a short series and later renamed just, 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, but this was not to last, or be the same programme as we know today – that would be launched in 1980 – and it soon reverted to being just a news summary with the early evening BBC2 news expanded to become Newsday. 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, and as part of the plan for the station to become a 'wholly speech network'.
Launched as the news service on on 10 September 1973. On 23 September 1974, a 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 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 technology into the UK. The equipment would gradually become less cumbersome – the BBC's first attempts had been using a colour camera with backpack base station and separate portable recorder in the latter half of the decade.
1980s By 1982, ENG technology had become sufficiently reliable for Bernard Hesketh to use an camera to cover the, coverage for which he won the ' Cameraman of the Year' award and a nomination – 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, however the event has become remembered in television terms for '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' to circumvent restrictions, and which has become cited as an example of good reporting under pressure. Two years earlier, the had been shot electronically by the BBC Television News team, and the work of reporter, broadcasting live from, was nominated for BAFTA actuality coverage, but this time beaten by ITN for the 1980 award., 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. On 27 August 1981 became the first African Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television. The first BBC breakfast television programme, also launched during the 1980s, on 17 January 1983 from Lime Grove Studio E and two weeks before its rival., and helped to wake viewers with a relaxed style of presenting. 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 ).
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 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. 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 to become (news and current affairs), and (light entertainment). Content for a 24-hour news channel was thus required, followed in 1997 with the launch of domestic equivalent. 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. New technology, provided by, came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1 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 glass sculpture of the was the centrepiece of the programme titles until the large scale corporate rebranding of news services in 1999. In 1999, the biggest relaunch occurred, with BBC One bulletins, BBC World, BBC News 24, and all adopting a common style.
One of the most significant changes was the gradual adoption of the corporate image by the, giving a common style across local, national and international BBC television news. This also included, the main news programme of channel, produced by BBC News Wales. 2000s Following the relaunch of BBC News the previous year, regional headlines were included at the start of the BBC One news bulletins in 2000. The English regions did however lose five minutes at the end of their bulletins, due to a new headline round-up at 18:55.
2000 also saw the Nine O'Clock News moved to the later time of 22:00. This was in response to ITN who had just moved their popular programme to 23:00. 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 of and departure of from the Ten O'Clock News led to changes in the BBC One bulletin presenting team on 20 January 2003.
The Six O'Clock News became double headed with and after and moved to present the Ten. At the time of the changes, a new set design featuring a projected background image of a fictional newsroom was introduced. New programme titles were introduced on 16 February 2004 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. 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 was later named editor of the Ten O'Clock News. The bulletins also began to be 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 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. The studio bore similarities with the ITN-produced in 2004, though ITN uses a 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, reported to the then-Deputy Director-General and head of the journalism group, until he was made redundant in 2010.
On 18 October 2007, announced a six-year plan, Delivering Creative Future, merging the television current affairs department into a new 'News Programmes' division. Thompson's announcement, in response to a £2 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 the.
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. 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. 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. The summary, lasting 90 seconds, has been broadcast at 20:00 on weekdays since December 2007 and bears similarities with on, 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. BBC World was renamed BBC World News and regional news programmes were also updated with the new presentation style, designed.
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 and coverage in early June 2009. 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 approval. After a period of suspension in late 2012, Helen Boaden ceased to be the Director of BBC News.
On 16 April 2013, incoming BBC named, a former editor of of London newspaper as Director of News and Current Affairs. From August 2012 to March 2013, all news operations moved from Television Centre to new facilities in the refurbished and extended, in. The move began in October 2012, and also included the BBC World Service, which moved from 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. The move began with the domestic programme on 2 September 2012, and concluded with the move of the BBC News channel and domestic news bulletins on 18 March 2013.
The newsroom houses all domestic bulletins and programmes on both television and radio, as well as the international radio networks and the international television channel. Broadcasting media Television. BBC News helicopter in use over London BBC News is responsible for the news programmes – and some 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 channel internationally. Coverage for is carried out on behalf on the BBC at Studios though BBC News provides editorial and journalistic content.
BBC News content is also output onto the BBC's digital interactive television services under the brand, and until 2012, on the system. The distinctive music on all BBC television news programmes was introduced in 1999 and composed. It was part of the extensive re-branding which commenced in 1999 and features the classic '. The general theme was used not only on bulletins on but News 24, BBC World and local news programmes in the BBC's. Lowe was also responsible for the music on Radio One's.
The theme has had several changes since 1999, the latest in March 2013. The news channel launched on 11 March 2008, a followed on 14 January 2009, broadcasting from the Peel wing of Broadcasting House; both include news, analysis, interviews, sports and highly cultural programmes and are run by the and funded from a grant-in-aid from the British (and not the ). 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 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 million people in English as well as 27 languages across the globe. BBC Radio News is a patron of The. Main article: BBC News Online is the BBC's news website.
Launched in November 1997, it is one of the most popular news websites in the UK, reaching over a quarter of the UK's internet users, and worldwide, with around 14 million global readers every month. The website contains international news coverage as well as entertainment, sport, science, and political news. Many television and radio programmes are also available to view on the service. 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.
Opinions. Main articles: and 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, (3 August 2005) carried a letter from the defector, 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's Editorial Guidelines on Politics and Public Policy state that whilst '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'. 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 at the start of the in 1982 was described as 'almost treasonable' by, MP, who objected to saying 'if we believe the British'.
During the first, critics of the BBC took to using the satirical name 'Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation'. During the, the BBC were labelled the 'Belgrade Broadcasting Corporation' (suggesting favouritism towards the government over ethnic rebels) by British ministers, although (then FRY president) claimed that the BBC's coverage had been biased against his nation. 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, 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.' Prominent BBC appointments are constantly assessed by the British media and political establishment for signs of political bias.
The appointment of as Director-General was highlighted by press sources because Dyke was a Labour Party member and former activist, as well as a friend of. The BBC's current Political Editor, was some years ago a chairman of the and did, as a result, attract informal criticism from the former Labour government, but his predecessor faced similar claims from the right because he was editor of, a liberal-leaning newspaper, before his appointment in 2000., 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'. 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.' India In 2008, the BBC was criticised by some for referring to the terrorists who carried out the as 'gunmen'.
The response to this added to prior criticism from some Indian commentators suggesting that the BBC may have an bias. In March 2015, the BBC was criticised for airing a documentary interviewing one of the rapists in India. In spite of a ban ordered by the Indian High court, the BBC still aired the documentary. But, the BBC was supported by many others from the world for standing for justice, instead of coming under pressure of some Indian fundamentalist organizations. Hutton Inquiry. Main article: BBC News was at the centre of a political controversy following the.
Three BBC News reports ('s on, Gavin Hewitt's on The Ten O'Clock News and another on ) quoted an anonymous source that stated the British government (particularly the Prime Minister's office) had embellished the with misleading exaggerations of Iraq's 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, 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 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.' 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, 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, 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'. Davies' resignation was followed by the resignation of, 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.
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