BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. James Harding has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013. 

The department's annual budget is in excess of £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London. Through the BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes. 

The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by Royal Charter, making it operationally independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss its director-general, and required to report impartially. As with all major media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum, both within the UK and abroad.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC
3,500
it has 3,500 staff
2,000
2,000 of whom are journalists
in Europe
in Europe
global
domestic, global and online news divisions
No
The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by Royal Charter, making it operationally independent of the government,
James Harding
James Harding has been Director
2013
since April 2013
120 hours
 120 hours
yes
as well as online news coverage
yes
The department's annual budget is in excess of £350 million
£350 million
annual budget is in excess of £350 million
Broadcasting House
 live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House
London
in central London
Yes
global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London.
Millbank
Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London
Yes
as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland
Scotland
as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Yes
All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes 