BBC News
BBC News is the news division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the UK's public-service broadcaster. Funded primarily by a licence fee and operating under a public charter, it is one of the world's most widely used news sources. It provides broad coverage of national and international affairs and is mandated to maintain impartiality.
BBC News at a glance
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Northern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Public broadcaster
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1922
- Ownership
- A public corporation under Royal Charter, funded by the licence fee
- Published from
- London
- Website
- bbc.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups BBC News
Crosswire groups BBC News as Centrist for comparisons within the United Kingdom's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In the United Kingdom, The Guardian is listed as Left-leaning, while Daily Mail and The Sun are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open BBC News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where BBC News sits in the United Kingdom's press
BBC News was founded in 1922, is published from London and is a public corporation under Royal Charter, funded by the licence fee. It is one of 9 outlets tracked in the United Kingdom and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, the United Kingdom ranks fifth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to BBC News outside the United Kingdom, starting with Northern Europe, are RÚV (Iceland), NRK (Norway), DR (Denmark) and Yle News (Finland). Opening one of them beside BBC News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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