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News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the
department led by Helen Boaden within the BBC responsible for the
corporation's news-gathering and production of news
programmes on BBC television, radio and online.
BBC World News
Producing 120 hours of output
daily, the organisation is the largest broadcasting news gatherer in
the world while carrying out the key objective of the BBC's Royal Charter to
"collect news and information in any part of the world and in any manner
that may be thought fit".
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 4 million global readers every month. The website
contains exhaustive international news coverage as well as entertainment,
sport, science, and political news. Many reports are accompanied by audio
and video from the BBC's television and radio news services within the BBC
News player.
The
department is based at the News Centre within BBC Television Centre
in West London, W12, and operates regional centres across the United Kingdom
together with 44 news-gathering bureaux based around the world; only three
are based within the UK. Political coverage is based at the Millbank Studios
in 4 Millbank in Westminster. With an annual budget of £350 million, BBC
News consists of 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists.
Competition within the UK comes mainly from rolling news channel Sky News,
but also from ITN, a major independent provider of news services to
commercial networks.
Around the world the BBC complements other news providers services, although
some regimes have restricted broadcasts and BBC journalists' movements.
BBC News became part of the new BBC
Journalism group in November 2006 as part of a major restructuring of the
BBC. Helen Boaden remains Director of BBC News, reporting to Mark Byford,
head of the new group and Deputy Director-General.
It was announced on 18 October, 2007 as part of Mark Thompson's new six year
plan, Delivering Creative Future, that there would no longer be a television
Current Affairs department in its own right — it would become a unit within
the new News Programmes department. The Director General's announcement, in
response to a £2billion shortfall in funding, would deliver "a smaller, but
fitter, BBC" in the digital age— along with imminent job cuts and the sale
of Television Centre in 2013.
The various newsrooms of the BBC: television, radio and online, were merged
together to create a multimedia newsroom — programme making within the
newsrooms was brought together to form the multimedia programme making
departments. Peter Horrocks, referring to the changes, stated that the move
would bring about a greater efficiency — particularly at a time of
cost-cutting at the BBC. He highlighted the dilemma faced with such a change
in his blog: that by using the same resources across the various
broadcasting mediums means fewer stories can be covered — or by following
more stories, there would be fewer ways to broadcast them.
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