BBC: World News & Stories 12+
Live, Breaking, Sport & Video
BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.
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- Free
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Description
THE BBC APP: News, stories, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.
BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, and more. More stories and videos covering business, innovation, culture, travel, Earth, and much more.
LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section.
BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos, and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment, and history.
BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Sign up for breaking news notification alerts from BBC News, delivered straight to your mobile device.
FEATURES:
• Log into your BBC Account to save articles and videos for later on the app and BBC.com
• Watch videos over both cellular and wifi
• Increase your font size for readability
• Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience
• Share stories and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send to friends via SMS and email
• Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news push notifications, you decide
ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.
Our data processor AppsFlyer collects information on behalf of the BBC for attribution and analysis purposes. You can opt out from AppsFlyer tracking by filling out their ‘Forget My Device’ form: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout
The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. To read BBC’s Privacy Policy go to https://www.bbc.com/usingthebbc/privacy/
If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms
What’s New
Version 2024.7.1
Performance updates and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Reliable, readable, courageous but very Anglo-Saxon
Your news are very reliable and readable, also in in-depth articles. They are also courageous, when f.i. adressing the plight of Rohingas, Murder By Salman or the totalitarian turn of China, presently the plight of the Uighurs. Only criticism, from a Danish perspective: Your daily coverage - in spite of the above mentioned praise - is heavily Anglo-Saxon. You underreport events and developments in Continental Europe, including the EU as a force of global significance.
Yet another degradation
Some years ago I complained that a new version of this app made it more difficult to be informed broadly, and now with the latest change in layout, this process has continued. BBC used to be a place where you could find excellent news coverage of world news that was difficult to find elsewhere. Originally, each world region had a number of headlines on the main page, but that changed some years ago to just four headlines per region, and now the regions are more or less gone, to be superseded by “topics” where there are only two headlines per topic. One tendency that increased with the previous version, and has continued now, is to bring more video footage, where several minutes are spent on superficial coverage that could have been read in much more depth in the same time. Probably this is because the younger generation prefers video to text The main page has been taken over with coverage of the main stories only, and on the topics page several important topics where BBC was strong, like Africa, have gone completely on some days. On other days, the topic reappears.
The journalism is still fair, and excellent, and the BBC is still one of my main source of news.
The new version seems indeed to run more smoothly, and adverts do pop up in unexpected places like before.
Asks about cookies constantly
The app asks for cookie consent on every single article I click on
App Privacy
The developer, BBC Studios Distribution Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Provider
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BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 211598784
- Address
- 1 Television Centre London N/A W12 7FA United Kingdom
- Phone Number
- +44 2084330337
- comhelp.bbc@bbc.com
- Size
- 79.7 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- © 2024 BBC
- Price
- Free