"The next stage were years of consolidation, editorial growth and creative experimentation. The first major wave of change involved recruitment, training and staffing and resulted in the creation of the site indexes needed to deliver full 24x7 region-specific, interactive and multimedia coverage. The BBC then decided to allocate funding for 24x7 news websites in Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. The Clinton/Lewinski scandal hit in the middle of a week where the page was encouraging debate on a totally different topic, highlighting beautifully how extremely difficult it is to not update a BBC-branded site continuously and retain credibility", remembers Julia Zapata, first editor of the site and later Head of BBC Mundo until 2009. "There were only two of us working on the site at the time, the site was neither supposed to nor able to reflect the changing news. The website was born in 1999 as a debate site - a single page dedicated to encouraging a weekly discussion of specific subjects on the global news agenda. BBC Mundo benefits from the international newsgathering strength of the BBC, which has journalists in more places than any other international news broadcaster. The BBC's Spanish service also has a newsroom in Miami, offices in Buenos Aires and México City, and reporters in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Havana, Caracas, Bogotá, Santiago, Quito, Lima and Madrid. The website offers news, information and analysis in text, audio and video.īBC Mundo has its headquarters on the fifth floor of the BBC's New Broadcasting House in London.
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