''World Briefing'' is
BBC World Service's longtime news strand. It has broadcast roughly more than 13,000 unique episodes. Along with ''
The World Today'', ''
Newshour'', ''
World Update
''World Update'' was a radio programme that was BBC World Service's morning news strand. Broadcast at 10:06 GMT, it was also carried by public radio stations across the United States. Between 2003 and 2020, the programme was presented by Dan Da ...
'' and ''
World: Have Your Say'', it covered a large part of the schedule (four hours each weekday). It was broadcast on the hour as a half-hour programme whenever other news strands were not on air. Each individual version of the BBC World Service opted in or out of various editions.
Public radio stations around the world also broadcast various editions of World Briefing.
On 25 March 2013, BBC World Service announced that ''World Briefing'' would be cancelled and replaced by ''The Newsroom''. ''The Newsroom'' first aired on 1 April 2013 at 11am GMT. Unlike ''World Briefing'', ''The Newsroom'' airs daily on a less frequent basis (only up to six times per day).
Presenters
The presenters were:
* David Bamford
* Oliver Conway
* Frederick Dove
* Jackie Leonard
*
Andrew Peach
Andrew Peach is a radio presenter in the United Kingdom. He presents a daily news and phone-in show on BBC Radio Berkshire which was named 'Best Local Radio Show in the UK' at the 2021 Radio Academy ARIA Awards. He also presents network programme ...
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Valerie Sanderson
Valerie Sanderson (born 1960 in Nottingham) is one of the main presenters of ''The Newsroom'' (and previously ''World Briefing'') on the BBC World Service. Sanderson was one of the original presenters on BBC News 24 when it launched in 1997.
Ear ...
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Maddy Savage
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Doreen Walton
See also
*
BBC World Service, the home of World Briefing
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broad ...
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BBC World News
BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and ...
, The BBC's International Television Station
References
External links
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