World Service launches BBC Minute bulletin aimed at younger listeners
The BBC World Service has launched a 60-second long global news bulletin aimed at younger audiences today, to be updated…
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BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks to leave the corporation at the end of the year
Peter Horrocks is standing down as director of the BBC World Service Group after five years in the job. Horrocks…
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BBC says it will be ‘better steward’ of World Service as Foreign Office funding ends
The BBC has said it will "prove a better steward" of the World Service than the Government as it takes…
ByBBC newsreader quits ‘after claims he helped foment revolution in Kyrgyzstan’
BBC newsreader Arslan Koichiev has resigned after claims emerged that he’d help foment a revolution in Kyrgyzstan, according to a…
ByBBC retains BBC Hindi news as alternative funding explored
The BBC said today that it intended to retain a part of the Hindi news service it had originally earmarked…
ByEgypt closes Al-Jazeera bureau as journalists come under increasing pressure
Egypt withdrawn the licence to broadcast of rolling news channel Al-Jazeera and shut down its Cairo bureau. The state-run Middle…
ByNUJ members condemn BBC Online and World Service cuts
Members of the National Union of Journalists have reacted angrily to the proposed cuts to the BBC World Service and…
ByPeter Horrocks: World Service will lose 30m from audience
BBC Global News director Peter Horrocks said yesterday the cuts imposed on the World Service would lead to an immediate…
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