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• BBC World Service chief to step down

  1 Sep 2014: Peter Horrocks to leave position as executive of global news operations in the new year to ‘find a new challenge’. By John Plunkett

• BBC website rejects request to remove interview with Siberian activist

  5 Aug 2014: State regulator had threatened to block BBC Russia website if material featuring Artem Loskutov was not taken down. By John Plunkett

• The BBC: how the voice of an empire became part of an evolving world

  2 Jul 2014: In the sixth of our in-depth nine-part series on the past, present and future of the corporation, Charlotte Higgins looks at how it became a news outlet that was trusted internationally but now faces fundamental questions about its purpose

• Licence fee should be charged to iPlayer users, says acting chair of BBC Trust

  23 Jun 2014:

  Diane Coyle, acting chair of the BBC Trust, says the BBC is 'less independent than it needs to be'

• BBC fails to air Shipping Forecast for first time in more than 90 years

  30 May 2014: Radio 4 suffers technical fault meaning World Service broadcast instead of weather forecast that first went on air in 1924. By John Reynolds and Mark Sweney
  

• What coverage of Boko Haram tells us about western attitudes

  15 May 2014: Letters: The Boko Haram incident plays into the hands of nations that present themselves as champions of equal rights, but which are actually only filling the world up with more prejudice

• MPs voice fears over BBC World Service

  31 Mar 2014: Foreign affairs committee unconvinced safeguards in place to protect broadcaster after BBC takes over control and funding

• BBC's Peter Horrocks: 'It's not that easy to get advertising in Somalia'

  30 Mar 2014:

  World Service boss on financial pressure, selling ads, transmitting news via brainwaves, and Newsnight's 'brio'. By John Plunkett

• A licence (fee) to kill? Changing BBC funding needn't be so dramatic

  30 Mar 2014: Peter Preston: European countries fund state TV in half a dozen different ways. A debate on decriminalisation doesn't mean disaster

• BBC to argue for licence fee link to inflation

  9 Mar 2014: Internal report into corporation's funding recommends move to inflationary rise in place of price freeze

• BBC3: 'The first time in our history that we are proposing to close a TV channel'

  6 Mar 2014: BBC's director general and director of television explain the reasons behind their decision in an email to staff

• Liberal newspaper Express Tribune cowed into silence by Pakistani Taliban

  28 Feb 2014: Media group opts for self-censorship on terrorism after Taliban admits murder of three employees for critical reports on militants

• BBC World Service to reduce shortwave transmissions as part of savings drive

  19 Feb 2014: Peter Horrocks, director of global news, says £15m must be saved to fund new investments over the next three years. By John Plunkett

• BBC World Service to launch teenage news bulletin

  18 Feb 2014: Project part of £8m drive to gain more younger followers around world which will also include African version of website

• Should UK licence-fee payers still fund the World Service?

  16 Feb 2014: Observer editorial: The end of Foreign Office funding puts the BBC's gift to the world in jeopardy

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