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| Abbreviation | BBCM |
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| Formation | August 26, 1939[1] |
| Headquarters | London |
Region served | Global |
| Services | Open-source intelligence |
| Leader | Liz Howell |
Parent organization | BBC |
| Website | monitoring |
BBC Monitoring (BBCM) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation which monitors, and reports on, mass media worldwide using open-source intelligence. Based at New Broadcasting House, the BBC's headquarters in central London, it has overseas bureaux in Cairo, Delhi, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kyiv, Miami, Nairobi, Ramallah, Tashkent and Tbilisi.[2][3]
A signals-receiving station for BBC Monitoring is at Crowsley Park in South Oxfordshire, close to BBCM's former (1943–2018) headquarters at Caversham Park.[4] The service's first home (1939–1943) was at Wood Norton Hall in Worcestershire.[1]
BBC Monitoring selects and translates information from radio, television, the press, news agencies and online outlets from 150 countries in up to 100 languages. Reporting produced by the service is used by the government of the United Kingdom and commercial customers such as Oxford Analytica, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Liverpool John Moores University.[5] The BBC announced in July 2017 that it planned to sell the site at Caversham Park and move employees to London, which took place in May 2018.[4]
- ^ a b "BBC Monitoring: 26 August 1939". bbc.com.
- ^ BBC Monitoring at BBC Online
- ^ Media Reports at BBC News
- ^ a b Anon (2018). "BBC leaves historic site after 75 years". BBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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