BBC News Live

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for collecting and broadcasting news and current affairs both domestically and abroad. As the world's largest broadcast news organisation, this department produces about 120 hours of radio/television programming per day plus online coverage - employing 5,500 journalist across its output in 50 foreign news bureaus with 250 correspondents stationed worldwide. Deborah Turness has served as CEO for news and current affairs since September 2022.

Ofcom reported in 2019 that the BBC spent PS136m between April 2018 and March 2019, according to an Ofcom report. All BBC domestic, global, and online news divisions are housed within Broadcasting House's largest live newsroom - as well as Parliamentary coverage produced and broadcast from studios in central London. Through BBC English Regions the BBC offers regional centres throughout England along with national news centres located across Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, providing localised local news programmes alongside current affairs shows and sport programs that cater to their respective national centres in these nations - all nations producing local programmes from their regional centres across all nations in an English region in order to bring their national audiences an English experience that mirrors their local counterparts in terms of local programming for Parliamentary coverage or Parliamentary coverage produced and broadcast from London studios located centrally in central London.

The BBC is an autonomous corporation established under royal charter, making it operationally independent from the government.