BBC News Now is a fast‑paced rolling news programme that focuses on delivering the very latest breaking stories from around the world with immediacy and depth. The show prioritises covering multiple stories in detail during each broadcast, combining live reporting, interviews, analysis, and real‑time reactions from where events unfold.
The format of BBC News Now is designed to be reactive, ensuring that major global developments, whether political upheavals, economic shifts, natural disasters or significant social events are brought to viewers with clarity and context as they happen. The programme often features correspondents on the ground alongside studio presentation, making it rich in perspective and up‑to‑date insight.
The programme’s pace is reflected in its emphasis on immediacy: key headlines are introduced quickly, then unpacked with footage, context and expert input, giving audiences both the facts and the implications behind them. Replacing slower, more traditional news formats in this part of the schedule, BBC News Now serves as the BBC’s flagship format for reactive and comprehensive rolling news.
The main presenter of BBC News Now is Lucy Hockings, a seasoned broadcast journalist who anchors the programme and brings deep experience in international live news coverage. She is supported by a team of relief presenters from the wider news roster, including Ben Thompson, Lewis Vaughan Jones, Samantha Simmonds, and Tanya Beckett and others, who step in on various editions.
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