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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the BBC World Service has achieved savings primarily through closing TV and radio platforms, it has experienced a fall in audience numbers and it has not yet achieved its aim to switch audiences ...

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 ...