BBC News is an operational business division of the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 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 bureaus with more than
250 correspondents around the world. Fran Unsworth has been director
of news and current affairs since January 2018.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
Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is
produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English
Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national
news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 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 royal charter, making it operationally
independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss
its director general, and require it to report impartially. However,
as with all major media outlets, it has been accused of political bias
from across the political spectrum, both within the United Kingdom and
abroad.
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 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 bureaus with more than
250 correspondents around the world. Fran Unsworth has been director
of news and current affairs since January 2018.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
Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is
produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English
Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national
news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 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 royal charter, making it operationally
independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss
its director general, and require it to report impartially. However,
as with all major media outlets, it has been accused of political bias
from across the political spectrum, both within the United Kingdom and
abroad.
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