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BBC News increased its audience reach to 467 million every week (up 12% year-on-year). The BBC World Service delivered over 70% of the BBC’s international audience reach, attracting 355 million people weekly (up 14% year-on-year).

🗣️ “Journalism that combines courage, discipline and public-interest reporting" 🏆 Congrats to @BBCPanorama and @HannahOGrady for scooping the 2026 Orwell Prize for Journalism, for its long-running investigation into UK Special Forces. The investigation uncovered classified operations and found evidence of unlawful killings by the SAS.

On 9 and 10 July @BBCWorldService will be bringing the BBC Future of Journalism Festival to Nairobi, featuring leading journalists and media voices from across Africa and beyond for two days of panel discussions, workshops and live podcast recordings Find out more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/25p6u4c7

The News at Six and Ten has been rescheduled today because of the World Cup We’ll have live coverage on BBC One all afternoon with the latest on the PM’s resignation, plus BBC News Specials at 16:30–17:30 and 20:30–21:30, presented by @SophieRaworth from Downing Street

You can watch the documentaries here: Colombia: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… Darfur: youtu.be/bfJF2bOtKn0?is…

Double win for BBC World Service Eye current affairs at the @onewm Awards! 📌 Darfur: Siege and Massacres 📌 Colombia: Petroleum, Pollution & Paramilitaries Congratulations to our editorial teams and the brave contributors who made these investigations possible.

The BBC is the most-visited news website in the world in any language, according to Press Gazette’s new ranking of the world’s top online newsbrands Most news sites lost traffic year on year in May 2026, with 37 recording declines in visits

BBC World Questions comes to Marrakesh on 10 June, with a special edition focused on young women and change. We are inviting Moroccans to join us for the debate that will be seen and heard around the world. Sign up here 👉 bbc.in/4xcrruk

BBC statement on @bbcquestiontime “Question Time always considers panel selection carefully. "With 14 candidates running in the Makerfield by-election, we are unable to have every candidate or party on the panel. We have selected five panel members based on past and current electoral support in the constituency, including in recent local elections and the last general election. “The programme will, however, ensure the audience is given appropriate information about the other candidates. “We recognise the multi-party nature of UK politics and are committed to ensuring different parties are appropriately covered for audiences across all our platforms.”

Newsnight BBC Two, 2 June 2026 In an interview about the murder of 18 year old Henry Nowak, we mistakenly quoted the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as saying people should respond to his death with a “white, cold rage”. To be clear Mr Farage actually said “pure, cold rage” as had been stated earlier in the programme and we apologise to him for this error. The programme has been removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedbac…

I owe Nigel Farage an apology. During last night’s Newsnight we covered the murder of Henry Nowak and the political reaction to the case, including discussing Nigel Farage’s comments about “pure, cold rage”. However I referred to “white cold rage”. This was a mistake on my part, a misremembering of the quote. It didn’t change the content of the interview but I should have got the quote right. I apologise to Nigel Farage for this.

Fiona Crack, Interim Global Director, BBC News, speaks with Rodrigo Carvalho, @GloboNews, about the importance of journalism and its role today @sxswlndn #SXSWLondon

Last night @BBCNews was recognised for its coverage of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake and its aftermath, winning in the ‘Outstanding Continuing Coverage: Short Form’ category at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Congratulations to everyone involved!

“Independent and impartial news has never been more important” BBC World Service is launching BBC News Magyarul (Hungarian) and BBC News Romania (Romanian), aided by AI translation technology, following the success of BBC News Polska (Polish). This means that from this summer, BBC World Service will be available in 45 languages. bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

Featuring eye-witness accounts and previously unseen archive footage, @bbcworldservice has announced a landmark documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker Meji Alabi Surviving Biafra will be available to stream from Monday 1 June on BBC iPlayer and YouTube bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

2/2 📺+15m watched BBC News bulletins, programmes and election coverage on TV and iPlayer. 📻174k listened to elections radio coverage across BBC Sounds. 🌟46.5m TikTok views, with posts across our social media performing well above the daily average. With thanks to everyone who tuned in across our platforms!

The results are in - the BBC was the place millions came to get all their #elections news! On elections results day: 💻Around 19m unique visitors to BBC News Online - the highest since the 2024 General Election. ➡️Nearly 24m viewed our live results web page - across BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC Local 1/2