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Former BBC controller fears for World Service independence amid defence funding push

Liliane Landor says journalism must not be ‘linked or subordinated to defence’, as BBC explores new funding sources

The Guardian - UK

BBC bosses want defence budget to help pay for the World Service

Exclusive: Executives at corporation say media monitoring and anti-disinformation are vital to national security

The Guardian - UK

Cuts to BBC World Service funding would ‘make us less safe’, MPs tell ministers

Reducing budget would involve closing parts of institution promoting UK soft power abroad, leaving gap for Russia to push propaganda

The Guardian - UK

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Ministers accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ over UK’s soft power around the world

Government’s own advisers warn of funding crisis for BBC World Service, British Council and universities

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: a boon to the UK, as well as audiences elsewhere

Editorial: Britain would benefit from pledging more sustained and committed support in this age of disinformation and global turmoil

The Guardian - UK

The world reveres the BBC – and so should we

Letters: Readers respond to the cuts being made to the broadcasting corporation’s budget, including for the World Service

The Guardian - UK

BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk

Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok

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Having risked my life in war zones for the BBC, I know this: cuts to the World Service will be disastrous

In an age of disinformation, our broadcaster is trusted to find and tell the truth. Now more than ever we need it, says former reporter, MP and Unicef ambassador, Martin Bell

The Guardian - UK

Ministers demand BBC World Service plan for cuts as aid budget slashed

Exclusive: David Lammy asks BBC bosses to draw up tightened budget amid criticism move could harm UK’s global influence

The Guardian - UK

World Service must be fully state-funded to counter disinformation, say BBC bosses

Ministers must cover full costs of championing western values abroad, senior BBC figures to argue

The Guardian - UK

Emily Thornberry says BBC World Service ‘must be preserved’

There are plans to cut the service by 130 jobs to save around £6 million for the next financial year.

The Independent UK

BBC World Service facing ‘cognitive warfare’, says director-general Tim Davie

An inquiry is looking to establish whether increased Government support is needed.

Evening Standard

Chancellor allocates ‘increase in funding’ for BBC World Service in Budget

A BBC statement said the broadcaster ‘welcomed the funding’.

Evening Standard

BBC World Service retreat ‘helping Russia and China push propaganda’

BBC director-general Tim Davie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast unchallenged

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Presenter Martine Croxall sues BBC for age and sex discrimination

Case comes after insiders warned of a potential ageism row last year following merger of BBC News and World News channels

The Guardian - UK

Toby Murcott obituary

Other lives: BBC science news reporter and producer on Radio 4 and the World Service

The Conversation

BBC's emergency Gaza radio broadcasts show why World Service mustn't rely on digital technology

The BBC has just announced that it will start an emergency radio service for listeners in Gaza. Daily news bulletins will be produced in London and Cairo by BBC News Arabic, the corporation’s Arabic-language television service.

The Week

BBC re-runs play for listener who missed ending in 1978

BBC radio is to re-broadcast a play for a listener who missed the ending in 1978. Sue Reilly was “gripped” by The Gazebo, a comic murder mystery by Alec Coppel, when she first heard it on the World Service in August 1978, said The Telegraph, but she missed the closing…

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Evening Standard

OPINION - We need a muscular BBC to fight the coming tide of AI disinformation

There will be exhausted but happy BBC executives this week delighted at how deftly they handled its coverage of Eurovision and the Coronation. Both events showed BBC creativity at its peak. There is, however, an arm of the broadcaster which is far less celebrated: the World Service. It has often…

The Independent UK

BBC World Service launches emergency pop-up radio service for Sudan

The radio service will be broadcast twice daily featuring eye-witness accounts, news on diplomatic efforts and will serve to counter disinformation.

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