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BBC News

news division of the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation
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Summary

BBC News is a news desk[1]. It draws 10,463 Wikipedia views per month (news desk category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Peabody Awards[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: London[4]
  • Country: United Kingdom[5]
  • Instance of: news broadcasting[6], division[7], newspaper[8]
  • Owned by: British Broadcasting Corporation[9]
  • Headquarters location: London[10]
  • Location: Broadcasting House[11]
  • Child organization or unit: BBC Weather[12], BBC News Punjabi[13]
  • Commons category: BBC News[14]
  • Industry: journalism[15]
  • Inception: November 14, 1922[16]
  • Parent organization or unit: British Broadcasting Corporation[17]
  • Official website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news[18], https://www.bbc.com/news[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:BBC News[20]
  • Described at URL: https://ground.news/interest/bbc-news_bf95f4[21]
  • Political ideology: impartiality[22]
  • Name in kana: ビービーシー ニューズ[23]
  • Social media followers: 12,000,000[24], 27,900[25], 1543[26], 28,000[27], 114,300[28], 13,800,000[29], 15,500,000[30], 17,300,000[31]

Why It Matters

BBC News has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

FAQs

What awards did BBC News receive?

Honors received include Peabody Awards[3].

Related Entities

Democracy Live London newspaper United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  17. [19] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ground.news. Retrieved . ground.news. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22w ago · NatHaddan · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Child organization or unit → BBC Weather, BBC News Punjabi
    Name in kana → ビービーシー ニューズ
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