Editing BBC Monitoring (section)

{{Short description|Division of the British Broadcasting Corporation}}
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| formation = {{start date|df=yes|1939|08|26}}<ref name=start>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/august/bbc-monitoring/|title=BBC Monitoring: 26 August 1939|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
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'BBC Monitoring' (BBCM) is a division of the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] which monitors, and reports on, mass media worldwide using [[open-source intelligence]]. Based at [[Broadcasting House|New Broadcasting House]], the BBC's headquarters in central London, it has overseas bureaux in Cairo, Delhi, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kyiv, Miami, Nairobi, [[Ramallah]], [[Tashkent]] and [[Tbilisi]].<ref>[https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk BBC Monitoring] at [[BBC Online]]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/default.stm Media Reports] at [[BBC News]]</ref>

A signals-receiving station for BBC Monitoring is at [[Crowsley Park]] in [[South Oxfordshire]], close to BBCM's former (1943&ndash;2018) headquarters at [[Caversham Park]].<ref name=caversham/> The service's first home (1939&ndash;1943) was at [[Wood Norton Hall]] in [[Worcestershire]].<ref name=start/>

BBC Monitoring selects and translates information from radio, television, the [[newspaper|press]], [[News agency|news agencies]] and online outlets from 150 [[Country|countries]] in up to 100 [[language]]s.  Reporting produced by the service is used by the [[government of the United Kingdom]] and commercial customers such as [[Oxford Analytica]], the [[Bureau of Investigative Journalism]] and [[Liverpool John Moores University]].<ref name=about/> The BBC announced in July 2017 that it planned to sell the site at Caversham Park and move employees to London, which took place in May 2018.<ref name=caversham>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-46276138|title=BBC leaves historic site after 75 years|date=2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2020-03-11|language=en-GB|author=Anon}}</ref>