MUMBAI: Dominic Coles has been appointed as BBC’s Journalism Group COO. He was previously director of sports rights and finance at the BBC. He assumes overall...
MUMBAI: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced organisational changes to meet the challenges and opportunities of its Creative Future vision, placing future media & technology...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has appointed Liliane Landor as its new editor for news and current affairs. She is responsible for all the BBC World Service...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that its office in Tashkent is being suspended and all local staff withdrawn with immediate effect. The office will remain...
MUMBAI: The BBC has appointed Vin Ray as the first director of its newly established College of Journalism. Vin Ray, currently the deputy jead of the...
MUMBAI: In an email to the staff of UK pubcaster BBC DG Mark Thompson has said reports that the corporation’s journalists are being muzzled to win...
MUMBAI: David Jordan, who was the BBC’s chief adviser, politics has been appointed as the new controller of editorial policy. Jordan succeeds Stephen Whittle, who retires...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has announced plans to take forward the recommendations from the Ronald Neil Report to develop a far-reaching training programme for the...
MUMBAI: Nick Robinson will succeed Andrew Marr as the BBC’s political editor. Robinson returns to the BBC after three years at ITN where he is currently...
MUMBAI: BBC DG Mark Thompson has launched an extensive cross-media, audience-focussed project Creative Futures. This will produce an editorial blueprint for BBC programmes, content and services...
MUMBAI: BBC’s new Director-General (DG) Mark Thompson had a clear message to a staff gathering of the need for real, radical change over the next few...
MUMBAI: The BBC launched its statements of programme policy for 2004/2005 in the UK. It will devote more time to arts, current affairs and documentaries. However...
MUMBAI: BBC’s acting DG Mark Byford committed himself to defending the BBC’s independence, which he described as “non-negotiable”.He recently delivered a lecture to the foreign press...
MUMBAI: Veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke, who authored Letter From America for 58 years, died today at his New York home. He was 95. Cooke died...
MUMBAI: BBC Two channel’s controller Jane Root is to leave BBC to join Discovery Networks as executive vice president and general manager of the Discovery Channel...
MUMBAI: Last month, there was organisational upheaval at the BBC following the publication of Lord Hutton’s report on the death of weapons expert David Kelly. The...
MUMBAI: In the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra locals can now hear BBC World Service in FM as well as on short wave and medium...
NEW DELHI: The BBC will create a single integrated BBC international news and information division from December, bringing together BBC World Service and BBC World following...