BBC Monitoring Online
BBC Monitoring is part of the BBC. BBC Monitoring covers reports from radio, television, news agencies, press and new media in over 150 countries, in over 100 languages, providing a distinctive foreign news and information service from open sources. Monitoring operates around the clock, reporting on political and economic events that have an impact upon internal affairs, international relations, human rights and business. News is translated in to English without additional analysis or editorial comment to ensure the impartiality and authority expected from the BBC.
Customers include government offices and embassies, the media, academic institutes, international charities and geopolitical organisations as well as businesses worldwide.
BBC Monitoring was established in 1939 to assess the use being made of radio by the Axis powers.
- During World War II BBC Monitoring established a number of its essential trademarks which are still valued:
- Focusing on open sources - specifically a wide range of broadcasts and news agency transmissions.
- Providing "the words as spoken" - accurate and impartial translations of what a politician said or what a formal document contained.
- How the media reported an event.
Monitoring's importance was quickly recognised and expanded to cover world events. BBC Monitoring has reported on many historic developments - the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, perestroyka and the collapse of the Soviet Union. More recently we provided detailed coverage of events during the Gulf War and during the crises in former Yugoslavia.
For more information please visit BBC Monitoring Website: www.bbcmonitoringonline.com 
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