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A new graphics and video playout system was introduced for production of television bulletins in January 2007. On 18 October 2007, ED Mark Thompson announced a six-year plan, “Delivering Creative Futures” (based pin up aviator game on his project begun in March 2005), merging the television current affairs department into a new “News Programmes” division. 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. Following the relaunch of BBC News in 1999, regional headlines were included at the start of the BBC One news bulletins in 2000.

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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. Programme making within the newsrooms was brought together to form a multimedia programme making department. One of the most significant changes was the gradual adoption of the corporate image by the BBC regional news programmes, giving a common style across local, national and international BBC television news. 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.

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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. 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. Furthermore, he wrote, the inquiry only looked at the BBC’s domestic coverage, and excluded output on the BBC World Service and BBC World. 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”.

Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N1 – described by The Guardian 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 News at Ten, introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV. 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. 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 stock, and all regional and many international contributions were still in black and white. The programme ran until the 1980s – by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor – to be superseded by Ceefax subtitling (a similar Teletext format), and the signing of such programmes as See Hear (from 1981).

On 23 September 1974, a teletext system which was launched to bring news content on television screens using text only was launched. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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 Radio 4. 19 September 1960 saw the start of the radio news and current affairs programme The Ten O’clock News. 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. The network began simulcasting its radio news on television in 1946, with a still picture of Big Ben. In addition to news, Gaumont British and Movietone cinema newsreels had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, with the BBC producing its own equivalent Television Newsreel programme from January 1948.

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By the end of the decade, the practice of shooting on film for inserts in news broadcasts was declining, with the introduction of ENG technology into the UK. Engineers originally began developing such a system to bring news to deaf viewers, but the system was expanded. New programmes were also added to the daily schedule, PM and The World Tonight as part of the plan for the station to become a “wholly speech network”. 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. 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.

• BBC World was renamed BBC World News and regional news programmes were also updated with the new presentation style, designed by Lambie-Nairn.
• 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.
• It was also the least likely to use independent sources, like the Red Cross, who were more critical of the war.
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• Her work outside the news was controversial at the time, appearing on The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1976 singing and dancing.

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. 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. On 20 June 1960, Nan Winton, the first female BBC network newsreader, appeared in vision. It was from here that the first Panorama, a new documentary programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953, with Richard Dimbleby becoming anchor in 1955. Mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950 to larger premises – mainly at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd’s Bush, west London – taking Current Affairs (then known as Talks Department) with it. On-screen newsreaders were introduced a year later in 1955 – Kenneth Kendall (the first to appear in vision), Robert Dougall, and Richard Baker—three weeks before ITN’s launch on 21 September 1955.

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. The BBC Verify service was launched in 2023 to fact-check news stories, followed by BBC Verify Live in 2025. The general theme was used on bulletins on BBC One, News 24, BBC World and local news programmes in the BBC’s Nations and Regions. The music on all BBC television news programmes was introduced in 1999 and composed by David Lowe. 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. 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.

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The first BBC breakfast television programme, Breakfast Time also launched during the 1980s, on 17 January 1983 from Lime Grove Studio E and two weeks before its ITV rival TV-am. 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 Prince’s Gate, was nominated for BAFTA actuality coverage, but this time beaten by ITN for the 1980 award. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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• BBC News’ domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London.
• 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”.
• The service includes 15 gigabytes of storage for free for individual users, which includes any use by other Google services such as Google Drive and Google Photos; the limit can be increased via a paid subscription to Google One.
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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. BBC Persian, the BBC’s Persian language news site, was blocked from the Iranian internet in 2006. 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. In light of the Gaza war, the BBC suspended seven Arab journalists over allegations of expressing support for Hamas via social media.

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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. 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”. 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. The website contains international news coverage as well as entertainment, sport, science, and political news. Launched in November 1997, it is one of the most popular news websites, with 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021, as well as being used by 60% of the UK’s internet users for news. BBC News does not produce the BBC’s regional news bulletins, which are produced individually by the BBC nations and regions themselves.

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 wire service copy instead of reporting on its own. A new Gmail feature was launched in January 2014, whereby users could email people with Google+ accounts even though they do not know the email address of the recipient. Google updated its terms of service for Gmail in April 2014 to create full transparency for its users in regard to the scanning of email content. On June 23, 2017, Google announced that, later in 2017, it would phase out the scanning of email content to generate contextual advertising, relying on personal data collected through other Google services instead. In May 2015, Google announced that Gmail had 900 million active users, 75% of whom were using the service on mobile devices.