A new digital team, led by news editor Jay Savage, is joining the BBC News Sydney bureau. The team is made up of experienced digital journalists who will take responsibility for the BBC News site (bbc.co.uk and BBC News on bbc.com) during Australia daytime hours.
Further new appointments include six journalists:
- Chris Graham who has previously worked with UK news outlets The Independent, The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
- Helen Sullivan who joins from her previous role as Reporter and Liveblogger with The Guardian.
- Victoria Bourne who joins from her previous role as Reporter with the ABC.
- James Chater who joins from his previous role as Correspondent with DW in Taipei.
- Yang Tian who joins from her previous role as News Producer with The Guardian.
- Ottilie Mitchell who joins from the BBC News US digital team.
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So the BBC main bureausin this region are Singapore and Sydney?
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BBC News Burmese is launching a satellite video channel in Myanmar - on the space previously occupied by VOA.
Good to see them stepping up and not letting CGTN and co take the cake. Funding is still a big issue for World Service though…
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Paddy O’Connell and Matt Chorley are joining Newsnight:
Today we’ve launched our new streaming area- the official home of BBC News Live. From the heart of our London newsroom you’ll be able to get comprehensive coverage on a range of UK stories. @OpsBBC @errongordon and team leading the way on making this all come to life. pic.twitter.com/n10epzXTeU
— BBCMediaOps (@OpsBBC) June 6, 2025
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🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC News launches new set for live UK news coverage. pic.twitter.com/yP4FPkgrBO
— The TV Room (@thetvroom) June 6, 2025
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That actually looks nice, could see something like that working in Nine’s newsroom in Sydney.
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Love it!
What is bbc news live?
Did they launch a streaming channel?
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It’s the set they’ll use when there’s a story breaking that’s big enough to warrent rolling coverage in the UK, but not enough for the whole world, so they kick up a stream on the iPlayer to cover it.
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Here’s a video of it in action:
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Interesting to see Studio E immediately in use for World in the background after they switch to the newsroom.
I guess this would normally be the case without BBC News Live.
Could be mistaken but is that Marjorie Taylor Green being interviewed on the catwalk video wall towards the end of the clip?
Looks great!
So if there is breaking uk news we’ll see this in use on the uk feed of bbc news channel?
Seven and Nine and ABC really need to start moving into the streaming news space. Using that language, that feel, and manning things look and feel like a streaming news service. Rather than a linear service
Seven and nine should have a 24/7 streaming news channel each by now
Cities as small as 1-2 million have several local 24/7 streaming news channels in us ans Canada. Australia can easily have 2 national ones
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Previously IIRC they just did it in front of a screen in the newsroom
Yeah, that’s exactly what will happen. Plus any events that warrant an iPlayer stream but aren’t quite important enough for the TV channel.
I’m pretty sure this is the first big project under Erron Gordon’s influence, and I think you can perhaps see that (the faux? wooden flooring and the PTZ camera). Looks much better than what they had before, anyway.
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Love how The BBC still intergrade their newsroom into their backdrops. Not many networks do this anymore.
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ABC has been doing exactly what the BBC has started do on iview and YouTube since 2020.
No they have not - the BBC has dedicated hosted streams on their website for major event, etc.
ABC just has live feeds of press conferences on it’s socials, and puts a live stream to the news channel at the top of the blogs
No, they have a UK feed opt out from the now merged news channel which is largely the old world channel. If they’re running UK opt out and they need to put up another live event stream, that is just a raw live feed
Nevertheless we are talking about pop up live event streams that cover something that isn’t on the news channel, and the ABC has been doing it for 5 years.
I tend to agree that it’s not as revolutionary as some quarters might suggest - most news outlets have been running live event media conferences or streams for a few years now. The presentation (the fact there is some) and polish is slightly better on this.
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You tried to claim that what the BBC does is exactly the same as what the ABC does - it is not. ABC does not have hosted online streams.
