BBC News website in June 2007.

The BBC News Player contains extensive amounts of videos, both of individual news reports, entire news bulletins and current affairs programmes.

BBC News Online (more recently referred to as simply the BBC News website) [1] is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. Forming a major part of bbc.co.uk, the website is the most popular news website in the United Kingdom (between 60% and 70% of that total are from the UK), as well as one of the most popular worldwide, averaging around 15 million visitors per month. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1070, 265 KB)BBC News Online File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1070, 265 KB)BBC News Online File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... BBC News is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporations news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... The domain name bbc. ... For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ...

The website contains international news coverage, as well as British, entertainment, science, and political news. Many reports are accompanied by audio and video from the BBC's television and radio news services, while the latest TV and radio bulletins are also available to view or listen to on the site together with other current affairs programmes.

History

The site launched in November 1997, headed by founding editor Mike Smartt. Designed originally by Matt Jones, the look of the website has since been redesigned several times including a major overhaul in 2003, primarily by Paul Sissons and Maire Flynn, to coincide with a relaunch of BBC News 24. Mike Smartt OBE was the founder and editor-in-chief of BBC News Online, the BBCs Internet news service. ... BBC News 24 is the BBCs 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. ...

Smartt was later succeeded by Pete Clifton who was subsequently promoted to Head of BBC News Interactive. Pete Clifton (b. ...

The editorial and management departments of the website are based in BBC Television Centre, while the development and site design teams are based in BBC White City - both in the White City area. BBC Television Centre (sometimes abbreviated TVC or TC) in London is home to much of the BBCs television output and, since 1998, almost all of the corporations national TV and radio news output by BBC News. ... BBC White City, main entrance BBC White City on a foggy day BBC White City refers both to a collection of BBC buildings at Wood Lane, White City in west London, and an office building within that collection of buildings. ... White City is a place in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London in England. ...

The site was named best news website at the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards every year from 1998 to 2001 when the award category was withdrawn. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) annually hosted the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards[1][2] for multimedia entertainment between 1998 and 2003. ...

Features

UK/World editions

There are two different editions of the site: a UK edition, which gives prominence to UK stories, and a world edition, which prioritises international news. All articles are archived indefinitely and can be retrieved via searching or by browsing the extensive Special Reports section, which contains collections of articles relating to major news stories. The previous seven days' top stories were formerly available through the Week at a Glance section of the website. Screenshot of archive copy of Week at a Glance from 2004 Week at a Glance was a section of the BBC News online website. ...

As well as pure news articles, the site also contains material to support BBC news, current affairs and factual programmes. The Magazine section contains features prompted by current news stories, as wells as a number of regular items within the weekly Magazine Monitor weekly column with various light-hearted sub-sections including 'Caption Competition', reader's letters, 'Punorama', quizzes and various other humorous items. A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ...

By a large contrast to the Magazine section, Have Your Say, linked with the radio and television programmes of the same name allows readers to debate issues in the news An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

A more detailed section of the web site is 'Special Reports, formerly In Depth. This brings together news articles of the same topic or incident and also includes many explanatory articles or diagrams.

Since the beginning of May 2007, BBC News 24 has been streamed live on the UK version of the website.^[1] May 2007 is the fifth month of that year. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Columnists

BBC News Online has a small number of topic-specific columns written by BBC journalists. Examples include education correspondent Mike Baker's Mike Baker Weekly column and technology commentator Bill Thompson's bill board (formerly bill blog). BBC News Online Science Writer Ivan Noble, diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in August 2002, shared his experiences of cancer in Tumour Diary until his death on 31 January 2005. A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... Bill Thompson (born 1960) is a technology writer best known for his weekly column on BBC online and his appearances on Go Digital, a radio show on the BBC World Service. ... Ivan Noble Ivan Noble (June 1967 - January 31, 2005) was a British journalist working for BBC News Online. ...

The use of blogs has also grown with correspondents including Nick Robinson, Robert Peston , Mark Mardell and Evan Davis, amongst others, making use of them to provide updates on the latest news events. The Editors' blog has also seen BBC News editors giving their reasons for editorial decisions, as well as defending criticisms of the BBC. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nick Robinson (right) interviewing Michael Portillo in July 2001. ... Robert Peston is a British journalist, currently (as of 2006) the Business Editor of BBC News. ... Mark Mardell has been Europe Editor for BBC News since May 2005. ... Entry 1 for Evan Davis: Evan Davis, founder of Telavir Internet, has made quite an impact in the Internet world. ...

Real-time information

The site launched a set of semi-official RSS 0.91 syndication feeds in June 2003 and upgraded them to RSS 2.0 in March 2000^{[citation needed]}. Every news index has its own RSS feed, including the in-depth sections. For RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Since June 2006 the site has been providing real-time user information on its most popular news stories.

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Forum

The site has a forum called 'Have Your Say'.

Under then Editor Pete Clifton, the system behind the forum was upgraded in 2005 to allow for comments to be added faster and appear in real-time, subject to varying levels of moderation. Pete Clifton (b. ...

The impartiality of the forums has been criticised by organisations such as News Sniffer: moderators are accused of sometimes appearing to promote their own agenda.

The Have Your Say section, previously known as Talking Point, links with the radio and television programme of the same name - World, Have Your Say on the BBC World Service and Have Your Say broadcast on BBC News 24 and BBC World Service - that may be streamed and/or downloaded through the website. The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world through multiple technologies. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... BBC News 24 is the BBCs 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. ...

Criticism

The site is primarily funded by the television licence, paid by all UK households owning a television set, and used to carry no advertising. The World edition has received some subsidy from the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office through its grant-in-aid to the BBC World Service. This has led to complaints of unfair competition from commercial rivals. Others note that large numbers of international visitors enjoy the site at the expense of the UK public, leading to suggestions that foreign users be shown advertising or charged subscription fees when accessing the site. Proposals to include advertising on the international version of the website were discussed by the BBC Trust in February 2007, but were opposed by BBC journalists, who feared it would weaken public trust in the impartiality of the BBC. In November 2007, the site did start to carry advertising ^[2]. The advertising consists of large animated banners, which has led to complaints that these make the site's content harder to read. ^[3] This article is about a licence that is required to own or operate a television or radio. ... Television set may refer to: Television, a device to display television programs Television studio, an installation in which television or video productions take place Set construction, theatrical scenery This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Advert redirects here. ... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, seen from St. ... The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world through multiple technologies. ... Competition is the act of striving against others for the purpose of achieving gain, such as income, pride, amusement, or dominance. ... The BBC Trust logo The BBC Trust is a body that oversees the BBC, being independent of BBC management and external bodies. ...

References and footnotes

Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

BBC Portal

• BBC News at bbc.co.uk
• BBC News Online - About the site at bbc.co.uk
• About BBC News - News Interactive bbc.co.uk
• BBC News OPML file of all RSS feeds (XML) at bbc.co.uk
• BBC News Errors
• First article on the BBC role in Social Bookmarking on the Internet - The BBC added Social Bookmarking links in August 2007, to their News and Sport articles, raising the profile of them significantly.

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• Real time user information
• About real time user data

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• News article from 22 October 1997 - The oldest article still available.
• See the site from 1997 to present at Archive.org