We believe in the power of collaboration and knowledge sharing and the vital role it plays in telling India's story. Our collaborations across the country are driven by this goal.
BBCShe: In 2023, a project called "BBCShe" was launched with the aim of telling impactful stories through a gender lens.
BBC Young Reporter India: Prior to BBCShe, the BBC Young Reporter India was launched as a media education project in 2021.
We worked closely with local media houses that are dedicated to representing female audiences better. Our collaborators included English digital news platform The News Minute, Marathi website Baimanus, community radio Gurgaon Ki Awaaz, sports website The Bridge and Feminism in India.
The project, which was adapted from the successful BBC scheme in the UK, involved a series of workshops aimed to support students, schools and teachers, helping them sift facts from fake news and understand online information better.
Reporters from each of these media houses worked with our teams. The project culminated into a passionate knowledge-sharing session and a roundtable with editors.
Over 50 trainers were trained, including media educators, teachers, journalists who helped reached 8,000 students in 120 schools across India despite challenges presented during the pandemic.
TV programmes
Our Delhi bureau is equipped with cutting-edge television, digital, and audio studios and production facilities. The studios are used to produce and broadcast daily bulletins on prominent Indian TV channels for BBC News.
BBC News Hindi's "Duniya" is our most-watched television news bulletin produced for NDTV India. This 18-minute offer brings the best of the BBC News global coverage to its Hindi audience at 10 pm IST every weekday. With a 26 million unique weekly reach, "Duniya" maintains its focus on India's neighbourhood, including countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, while also covering issues concerning India's diaspora whether in the US, Canada, the UK or elsewhere.
BBC News Tamil's "Ulaga Seithi Arikai" is a ten-minute capsule that focuses on the best international news stories, ground reports and snippets that are relevant to the Tamil audience. Produced for Thanthi TV and telecast at 7:45 pm IST every weekday, it gets an average weekly reach of 9.1 million.
BBC News Telugu's "Prapancham" offers a snapshot of the most significant global, national, and regional developments for the Telugu-speaking audience. Produced and presented for the HM TV audience for 11 minutes, the bulletin is a fast-paced offer that informs, educates, explains, and entertains every weekday at 8 pm IST.
The studios and broadcast facilities are also used for digital productions. Presenter-led explainers, live shows, digital audio programmes, chroma-based productions etc are regularly supported by a highly skilled production operations team.
Training & Development
We have a strong team of specialists who deliver training in digital, broadcast media and career development for staff and the wider industry, online and face-to-face.
Early Careers Schemes: We run an annual Trainee Scheme (for graduates) and an Internship programme (for those pursuing graduation). Both schemes have been designed in partnership with BBC News and are paid opportunities at Collective Newsroom (see more details on the Careers page).
Specialised training: We give specialised training to staff working in hostile environments like war zones or in situations involving public unrest. We emphasise mental wellbeing with access to confidential employee assistance services.
Staff development: Staff are given world-class training from the day they join us. This includes training in essential journalism like storytelling, newsgathering, verification, digital video production, using analytics tools, data journalism and leadership development to name a few.
We run programmes like Hot Shoes and attachments where staff are given a chance to move around within the organisation, work with another team for a select duration to gain new skills.
Colleagues also have a chance to apply for a mentor or become a mentee themselves with strong emphasis on learning and feedback.
