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BBC World news Names Linda Yueh as Chief Business Correspondent
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Mumbai: Today BBC World News announced the appointment of Linda Yueh as Chief Business Correspondent, a new Singapore-based position that signals the channel’s continuing commitment to Asia and determination to expand the breadth and depth of its international business coverage.
The BBC is investing heavily in new programmes and facilities...
BBC World News launches new studios, new programming, new presenters
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Mumbai: Fresh from announcing important new distribution deals in the US and Burma, the BBC’s international television news channel, BBC World News, is unveiling a dramatic new look next week when it re-launches from new studios in central London. The channel will feature a refreshed line-up of programmes and presenters, and will be...
Presenter Yalda Hakim to join BBC World News
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The BBC has announced that one of Australia’s brightest young journalists, Yalda Hakim, is joining BBC World News as a presenter and correspondent for a new current affairs programme.
Yalda is currently the presenter of SBS Dateline in Australia. From a headline-making investigation in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province to her reporting...
Presenter Jon Sopel to join BBC World News
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Today, the BBC announced that BBC News presenter and reporter, Jon Sopel will join BBC World News as one of the channel’s lead anchors. Sopel will present an afternoon show that will launch early next year from the channel’s new home at New Broadcasting House in central London.
Jon brings a wealth of international and UK experience...
BBC launches commercially-funded TV and digital news operations
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Mumbai:The BBC has today announced a series of significant changes to its international news portfolio including bringing its commercially-funded TV and digital news operations together for the first time.
Multimedia journalists will work on broadcast and digital output alongside each other in 'the world's newsroom', broadcasting...
BBC World News The Ideas Exchange brings together Martin Varsavsky and Carlos Moncayo
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BBC World News’ new eight-part series, The Ideas Exchange, pairs up business leaders from around the world to debate today’s business landscape and their secrets to success. The third episode travels to Madrid to discover what Argentine-Spanish entrepreneur, Martin Varsavsky - a self-made millionaire by 27, who has founded...
Series Finale of BBC World News’ Collaboration Culture travels to Tokyo
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Tokyo: A new seven part series on BBC World News, Collaboration Culture pairs fourteen creative and celebrated figures from the worlds of fashion, dance, music, food and art and invites them to collaborate on a new, innovative project. In the final episode of the series, scheduled to air on 11th August, British artist David Shrigley travels...
BBC World News launches a new seven-part series Collaboration Culture
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A new seven part series on BBC World News, Collaboration Culture pairs fourteen creative and celebrated figures from the world of fashion, dance, music, food and art and invites them to collaborate on a new, innovative project. In the second episode of the series, scheduled to air on July 7, British artist Bob and Roberta Smith – real...
BBC World News launches Horizons second series
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BBC World News launches the second series of Horizons, a collection of ten programmes exploring the business world of the future.
Presented by the award-winning business journalist Adam Shaw, Horizons will continue to travel across the globe to destinations including Brazil, China, Israel and Turkey to find out about the business ideas that...
BBC World News announces the 2011 World Challenge finalists
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The World Challenge, an annual competition run by BBC World News and Newsweek in association with Shell , has announced its 12 finalists for 2011. The competition highlights and rewards small enterprising and innovative businesses around the world and this year's competition includes finalists from Cambodia, Chile, Egypt, India, Japan,...