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BBC Monitoring provides a service of news and information to subscribers based on its monitoring of global news media. It is part of the BBC’s Global News Division, which also includes BBC World ...

“There have been concerns from within the BBC that Russian and Chinese state media are spending an ‘eyewatering’ £8bn a year, compared with the World Service’s £400m budget … There is also evidence ...

BBC World Service is expanding its news offer with the launch of a pilot Polish-language news website, BBC News Polska, and its content on social channels. Going live from June 24th, the website will ...

BBC World Service has been given a funding boost in the UK budget. The budget document said: “In 2025-26, the settlement provides an increase in funding to the BBC World Service, protecting existing ...

The International Development Committee of the UK House of Commons has launched a new inquiry on the future funding of the BBC World Service. BBC World Service provides news to radio, TV and digital ...

Corporation welcomes three-year settlement as it continues to push for government to take on all of service’s costs The BBC World Service will be given increased government funding as part of a ...

BBC World Service is launching BBC Global Women, a new commitment to highlight women’s storytelling across its global output. The BBC says that this new editorial priority will “enhance the BBC World ...

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has written to the Government to ask for reassurances over the future funding of the BBC World Service, following reports of potential ...

Through an extended partnership with Zeno Media, BBC World Service and BBC News Hausa content is now available on Zeno’s global audio platform, Zeno.FM. Audiences around the world can now access BBC ...

The government will increase funding of the BBC World Service over the next three years, the foreign secretary is to announce on Thursday. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will ...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the UK House of Commons will hold a scrutiny session on the BBC World Service at 10am on Thursday January 8th 2026, taking evidence from senior BBC officials ...