Variety, 20 Jan 2013, Steve Clarke: "BBC World News, the pubcaster's 24-hour global news web, has begun broadcasting from its new home -- the hi-tech hub of New Broadcasting House. The switch to new premises, in the heart of London's West End shopping district, comes with an on-screen rebrand and a new schedule offering what the Beeb claims are higher quality production values, which it hopes will help boost distribution globally. ... [I]n an increasingly competitive environment as rivals like Al Jazeera English prepare to enter the U.S., where BBC World News struggles to find distribution, it is more prosaic factors like audience figures that will determine whether the channel's performance matches the ambition of its new HQ. 'I always say that we aim to deliver the three Rs -- reach, revenue and reputation, of which the most important is reputation,' said Jim Egan, COO at BBC Global News."

BBC The Editors blog, 14 Jan 2013, Andrew Roy, head of news for BBC World News: "BBC World News has come a long way since it launched as a shoestring commercial operation in a backroom at Television Centre more than 20 years ago. Our audiences have grown massively. We're required viewing from the President's White House in Washington to the President's Blue House in Seoul. And in an era when bad mortgages in the US can trigger a global economic meltdown, we know there is a huge appetite for world news delivered fast, accurately and objectively.

BBC News, 18 Jan 2013: "As part of the move and re-design, the BBC has re-recorded the music you hear at the start of each [BBC World News] news programme. A full orchestra was used at the Abbey Road studios in London, where The Beatles also did some of their best work." With video -- that, for me, does not work on Firefox, but does on IE.

Critical Distance Weblog, 23 Jan 2013, Jonathan Marks: "It looks to me like the new BBC newsroom was built by crossing the colour scheme of Al Jazeera English with the technology that you find in Al Arabiya in Dubai. ... For me, the BBC is at its best when it is humble, just getting on with bringing in the best reports from around the world."

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MediaMughals, 22 Jan 2013: "BBC World News announced the appointment of Linda Yueh as Chief Business Correspondent, a new Singapore-based position that signals the channel's continuing commitment to Asia and determination to expand the breadth and depth of its international business coverage."