The BBC World Service has engaged with the UN over the protection of its Iranian journalists and their families since 2017 ...

It began in 1932 as the “BBC Empire Service” — making radio broadcasts via globe-girdling shortwave to the far-flung territories ruled under the British Crown. Subsequently, what is now the BBC World ...

Encompass Digital Media’s Woofferton site in the United Kingdom beams BBC World Service content in shortwave DRM to Europe and beyond. The author is chairman of the DRM Consortium. Her commentaries ...

Three UK House of Commons Select Committees – the Culture, Media and Sport, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees – have called on the Government to sufficiently resource the BBC ...

Marie Gillespie receives funding from the AHRC and ESRC. The BBC World Service is well-known to insomniacs tuning in to Radio 4 in the middle of the night, intrepid travellers, expat Britons and ...

The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday on October 18, 2022. It comes as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences from global entertainment providers, anxieties about the ...

The BBC World Service has published its performance review covering the period of 2016 – 2020. The review, set out in the 2016 Agreement with the Secretary of State for Department for Digital, Culture ...

ONE DAY LONGER. SUSAN: ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ARE STEPPING UPSQUEHANNA VALLEY ARE STEPPING TO HELP RESETTLE AFHGAN REFUFEES. CHURCH WORLD SERVICE IN ...

BBC World Service will cut a net 130 jobs, including in the UK, as it battles to save £6m in the year ahead. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced an extra £32.6m for the BBC World Service for ...

UPDATE 03:46 a.m PT: The BBC has confirmed the relocation of some of its World Service journalists away from the UK as it gets set to introduce a digital-first model that will see a net loss of around ...