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The BBC Press Office
About the BBC Press Office website
The BBC Press Office website
offers journalists BBC press releases and press packs, programme
information, biographies, speeches and key facts.
No password is required to access the site.
You can send an email direct to the BBC Press Office
via Contact Us on the left-hand side of this
site.
The BBC Press Office is open at these hours (UK time):
Mondays to Fridays, 8.00am-midnight
Saturdays, Sundays & UK public holidays, 11.00am-11.00pm
Images
Images on the BBC Press Office website are for illustrative purposes only. They are subject to copyright and you may not use them without permission.
To obtain images for UK media use please email pictures@bbc.co.uk. If you wish to request an image you have seen on this website, include the web address of the page on which it appears.
BBC Pictures also provides a free website service, www.bbcpictures.com, for UK media to download images promoting the BBC's current and future programming.
If you are a staff member of a UK-based press outlet, ie a picture editor, picture researcher or journalist who regularly requires BBC publicity images for editorial purposes, then please do register on the site.
Content available on the BBC Press Office website
Press releases and press
packs can be found by date (from 2002 onwards), by search and, for more recent releases, by category.
BBC Worldwide
releases
are included in a separate section – BBC Worldwide.
BBC World
releases
are included in a separate section – BBC World.
Programme Information is
available for Network TV and Network Radio in webpage format.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Programme Information is also available
but in pdf format.
There are approximately 400 Biographies
on the site of key BBC staff and talent.
The site also includes key Speeches
made by senior BBC figures.
There is also a selection of Key
Facts about the BBC and its services.
Search
The Press Office website has two search engines
- one to search the BBC and web, and one to search the BBC Press Office.
Search the BBC and Web
At the top-right hand side of every
page is the pan-BBC search. Results from this box will find pages
from the whole of the BBC and the web, including BBC News
and Sport, plus BBC audio & visual content.
Search BBC Press Office
The second search box can also be found at
the top-right hand side of the Press Office website.
The
BBC Press Office search will find content from the BBC Press
Office website only.
RSS
Keeping up-to-date with the information you need from the
billions of pages on the web can be time-consuming and tedious.
RSS is a means of overcoming this - it delivers the latest news and features directly to you, so that you no longer have to click from site to site.
There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but the majority agree on 'Really Simple Syndication'.
In simple terms, it allows you to identify the content you like and have it delivered directly to your personalised web page or feed reader.
It takes the effort out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.
Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity.
The BBC offers many RSS feeds, including BBC News, BBC Sport and Doctor Who. Visit the BBC's Feed Factory website for a simple listing of them.
Still not sure about RSS? The BBC Feed Factory Help page has a simple guide to understanding RSS - and instructions on how to receive RSS feeds from the BBC Press Office website.
Email alerts
The BBC Press Office offers an email alert service for journalists. This service is not available to non-journalists.
Journalists who wish to sign up for email alerts should complete the form at:
www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/aboutus/contactus.shtml
Please indicate which service you require by stating the required option, from the list below, in the "Inquiry – subject" line:
- Subscribe to press release email alerts
- Subscribe to TV Programme Information (PI) email alerts
- Subscribe to Radio Programme Information (PI) email alerts
- Subscribe to email alerts for press releases, TV PI and Radio PI
Subscriber information: The BBC may contact you in the future for your opinions and views on this service. Participation in any user research is at your discretion and you do not have to take part.
Links
The Press Office often suggests related links from its content.
You may also find the following links useful:
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