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BBC World Service to axe 130 jobs as it seeks to save £6 million

Planned cost-saving measures include closing posts across the service in the UK and internationally as well as cutting roles in BBC Monitoring.

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

BBC World Service facing ‘cognitive warfare’, says director-general Tim Davie

An inquiry is looking to establish whether increased Government support is needed.

Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2024

Chancellor allocates ‘increase in funding’ for BBC World Service in Budget

A BBC statement said the broadcaster ‘welcomed the funding’.

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024

BBC lessons for girls in Afghanistan

Brief letters: World Service education | Storm names | Outdoor smoking | The Who v Oasis | Men’s hair

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2024

OPINION - Tim Davie: We should take offence less and listen more to keep our free press safe

If you like elections, and for keen political observers they remain the most compelling of dramas, then 2024 is your year. About 70 countries are going to the polls, representing half the world’s population. One senses a period in which the geopolitical climate for the next few years will be…

Evening Standard · May 3, 2024

Kathryn Davies obituary

Other lives: BBC World Service current affairs presenter and a newspaper foreign correspondent in south-east Asia and the Middle East

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2024

Rashid Ashraf obituary

Other lives: Broadcaster in Urdu who worked for the BBC World Service for 45 years

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023