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BBC World News America
''BBC World News America'' is an American current affairs news program created by Garth Ancier and produced by BBC News, which premiered on October 1, 2007. Produced out of the BBC's Washington, D.C. bureau, Caitríona Perry and Sumi Somaskanda are the main presenters. Katty Kay – who originally appeared on the program through her role as a Washington-based correspondent for BBC News – served as the main presenter from 2011 to 2021, replacing original co-anchor Matt Frei. The program is broadcast worldwide on International feed of BBC News channel and, through an agreement with Washington's PBS member station, WETA-TV, is syndicated to PBS member stations and select non-commercial educational independent stations throughout the United States. Until June 2019, Los Angeles–based NCE station KCET handled this distribution. From its debut until March 25, 2011, the program was one-hour long, airing as a simulcast on BBC America in the United States and BBC News internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC America
BBC America is an American basic cable network that is owned by AMC Networks. The channel primarily airs sci-fi and action series and films, as well as selected programs from the BBC (such as its nature documentary series). Unlike the BBC's domestic channels in the United Kingdom, BBC America does not receive funding from the British licence fee (which is the principal funding for the BBC's channels within the United Kingdom), as the BBC cannot fund any of its channels that are available outside the United Kingdom. Consequently, BBC America operates as a commercial-supported channel and accepts traditional advertising. It is also funded by television subscription fees. , BBC America is available to approximately 60,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2017 peak of 82,000,000 households. In 2024, AMC Networks purchased BBC Studios' remaining stake in the channel. AMC Networks continues to license the BBC name and branding from BBC Studios as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the testimony of Witness, observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Subject matters for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, economy, business, fashion, sport, entertainment, and the Climate change, environment, as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning Monarchy, royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, and Crime, criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technology, Technological and Social change, social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Thomas
Philippa Thomas (born 22 November 1965) is a former television newsreader and journalist, both domestic and foreign. At the BBC she was a chief news presenter at BBC World News, presenting evening bulletins on BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She was presenter of ''Coronavirus: Your Stories'' on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. She left the BBC in 2021 to become a full-time Executive Coach. Early life and education She was raised in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the daughter of an English teacher and an air force pilot and attended a state comprehensive. Thomas joined University College, Oxford to study English Literature in 1984, she switched to Philosophy, Politics and Economics a year later. Career After graduating from university with a double first, Thomas gained a place on the BBC News Trainee scheme. Of the eight in her intake, she was the only woman. Thomas has reported extensively from the United States, South America, Africa, and continental Europe. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Trevelyan
Laura Kate Trevelyan (born 21 August 1968) is a British-American journalist who worked for the BBC for 30 years. She served as an '' On the Record'' reporter, United Nations correspondent (2006–2009), and New York correspondent (2009–2012), before anchoring '' BBC World News America'' (2012–2023). Early life and education Trevelyan was born on 21 August 1968. She was educated at Parliament Hill School in North London and was a member of her local Air Cadet unit (which she later described as being a "wonderful experience" and a positive influence on her later life). Trevelyan graduated with a first-class degree in Politics from Bristol University. She gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from the Cardiff School of Journalism in 1991. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Willis (journalist)
David Rowland Willis (born 29 September 1960 in London) is an English journalist who lives in the United States. Education Willis was educated at St Joseph's College, an independent school in the county town of Ipswich in Suffolk, followed by Harlow Technical College, since renamed Harlow College, in the new town of Harlow in Essex. Career Willis entered journalism after college as a cub reporter on the ''Hertfordshire Mercury'' newspaper and joined the BBC in 1983. After spells in local radio and regional television, he moved to London to assume the role of political correspondent, based at the Houses of Parliament. His career as a foreign correspondent began in 1994, after he was appointed the BBC's Asia correspondent. During six years based in Singapore, he covered the Hong Kong handover, the funeral of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and the death of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and obtained exclusive pictures of the Cambodian dictator Pol Pot's "trial" by fellow Khmer Rouge ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Fleury
Michelle Fleury (born 1971) is a journalist who is the BBC's New York business correspondent and a reporter for BBC World News. In 2019, she co-hosted the BBC News programme ''Beyond 100 Days'' with Christian Fraser while Katty Kay had a three month sabbatical. Career Fleury has covered American business and economics for more than 10 years and regularly reports live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on financial markets. As well as speaking at conferences, Fleury has presented a variety of general news programmes on BBC World News, including World News America and half-hour, business-focused special programming such as ''Working Lives''. Personal life Fleury was born in London in 1971 and graduated from Warwick University. She lives in Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitriona Perry
Catriona is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Caitríona Balfe (born 1979), Irish actress and former model * Catríona Cannon (born 1968), librarian and academic * Caitríona O'Leary (born 1969), Irish singer * Caitríona O'Reilly (born 1973), Irish poet and critic * Caitríona Ruane (born 1962), Irish politician Caitriona * Caitriona Beggs (born 1977), Irish cricketer * Caitriona Jennings (born 1980), Irish athlete * Caitriona Reed (born 1949), American Buddhist teacher Catriona * Catriona Carey, Irish field hockey and camogie player * Catriona Cuddihy (born 1986), Irish athlete * Catriona Fallon, American rower * Catriona Forrest (born 1984), Scottish field hockey player * Catriona Grant, Scottish politician * Catriona Gray (born 1994), Filipino-Australian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Vice-presidential Debate, 2008
The 2008 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 2008 presidential election. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization formed in 1987, organized four debates among the major party candidates, sponsored three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. Only Republican nominee John McCain and Democratic nominee Barack Obama met the criteria for inclusion in the debates, and thus were the only two to appear in the debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The CPD-sponsored vice presidential debate took place between their respective vice presidential running mates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Both McCain and Obama did not agree to additional debates; however, each was interviewed at the Civil Forum on the Presidency, held on August 16, 2008, and at the Service Nation Presidential Forum on September 11, 2008. Both Palin and Biden also did not participate in any additional deba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Tuesday, 2008
Super Tuesday 2008, Super Duper Tuesday, Mega Tuesday, Giga Tuesday, Tsunami Tuesday, and The Tuesday of Destiny are names for February 5, 2008, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries were held. Twenty-four states and American Samoa held either caucuses or primary elections for one or both parties on this date. Furthermore, the week-long Democrats Abroad Global Primary began on this day. The large number of states that held elections on February 5 could have shortened the period between the first caucus in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, and the ''de facto'' selection of a party's nominee to just a few weeks. Super Tuesday 2008 saw 52% of the Democratic and 41% of the Republican delegates awarded by early February 2008. By comparison, only about 1% of nominating convention delegates had been selected by that point in the 2000 election cycle. It was held approximately one month before Supe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Caucuses
The Iowa caucuses are quadrennial electoral events for the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. state of Iowa. Unlike primary elections, where registered voters cast ballots at polling places on election day, Iowa caucuses are meetings where voters gather to discuss and select candidates for their registered party. Political parties hold the caucuses, in contrast to most state-run primaries. Both presidential and midterm elections in Iowa use caucuses. The caucuses are also held to select delegates to county conventions and party committees, among other party activities. The Iowa caucuses are noteworthy as the first major contest of the United States presidential primary season. Although caucus-goers have been unrepresentative of the nation's overall demographic, caucuses are still seen by some as a strong indicator of how a presidential candidate will do in later contests. Candidates who do poorly in the Iowa caucus frequently drop out in the following days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Karachi Bombing
The Karsaz bombing attack occurred on 18 October 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan; it was an attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The bombing occurred two months before she was assassination of Benazir Bhutto, assassinated. The bombing The streets of Karachi ground to a halt to welcome the return of Benazir Bhutto, after an eight-year self-imposed exile during which she lived in Dubai and London. Two explosions occurred in front of the rallying truck from which she greeted her supporters and party members at approximately 00:52 Pakistan Standard Time, PST, on the route about halfway from the airport to the Mazar-e-Quaid, tomb of Muhammad Ali Jinnah for a scheduled rally, just after Bhutto's truck had crossed a bridge. Police vehicles bore the brunt of the blasts, which completely destroyed three police vans and killed at least 20 policemen in the vehicles. Conflicting reports indicate that Bhutto, who was not injured in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking News
Breaking news, also called late-breaking news, a special report, special coverage, or a news flash, is a current issue that warrants the interruption of a scheduled broadcast in order to report its details. News broadcasters also use the term for continuing coverage of events of broad interest to viewers, attracting accusations of sensationalism. Formats Breaking news has been common to U.S. mass media since the 1930s, when the mass adoption of radio allowed the public to learn about new events without the need to print an extra edition of a newspaper. Television When a news event warrants an interruption of current non-news programming (or, in some cases, regularly scheduled newscasts), the broadcaster will usually alert all of its affiliates, telling them to stand by for the interruption. The network's feed will then switch to a countdown sequence, to allow any affiliated stations to switch to the network feed. If a national network newscast is in progress when the brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
