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Articles tagged BBC World Service (10)

“By focusing on providing news online, the World Service is putting its resources where it can best promote British soft power and international influence, thereby improving prospects for its own continued existence. However, abandoning radio entirely would be a mistake.”
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In a country where the 10 most popular languages are all spoken by at least 25 million people, creating content that’s relevant to everyone is a tall order — which is why the BBC World Service needs some help.
“It wasn’t only about launching the new teams itself…The way we are launching new services impacts in a very big editorial way how we’re running existing ones.”
India’s digital revolution is taking place on mobile devices, and the BBC says it will offer more mobile content than ever before.
The broadcaster is following up on an experiment using WhatsApp to provide updates on the fight against Ebola in West Africa.
The British broadcaster released a new report looking at the future of news as it looks toward its royal charter renewal in 2017.
April 25, 2011