World Briefing is BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

's standard news strand. Along with The World Today

The World Today (BBC World Service)

The World Today is BBC World Service's high profile, Sony Radio Academy Award winning, early morning news and current affairs programme, which as of the 27th March 2011 will be broadcast from 0300 to 0830 daily. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, serious international...

, Newshour

Newshour

Newshour is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs programme, which broadcasts twice daily: at 1400 and 2100 each edition lasting one hour. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, international interviews and in-depth reports of world news...

, World Update and World: Have Your Say

World: Have Your Say

World Have Your Say is an international BBC global discussion show, which broadcasts on BBC World Service every weekday at 1800 hours UTC and on BBC World News every Friday at 1500 hours UTC....

, it makes up a core part of the schedule's broadcast material. It is broadcast on the hour for a half hour programme whenever other news strands are not on air. Each individual version of the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

 opts in and out of different editions whilst other Public Radio stations around the world carry editions of World Briefing. As of the Spring schedule changes in 2011 the times of day World Briefing air changed to incorporate 11pm and to remove 4am. (GMT)

Presenters

Due to the nature of World Briefing many BBC personalities appear on the programme. Core presenters include:

• Valerie Sanderson
  Valerie Sanderson
  Valerie Sanderson was one of the original presenters on BBC News 24 when it launched in 1997.-Early life:She studied at St Andrews University, then did a postgraduate degree at the Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.-BBC:...
  
  
• James Menendez

See also

• BBC World Service
  BBC World Service
  The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
  
  , the home of World Briefing
• BBC News
  BBC News
  BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation 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...
  
  
• BBC World News, The BBC's International Television Station