{"id":9233,"date":"2015-01-23T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/23\/do-you-speak-bengali-hindi-or-urdu\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:42:49","slug":"do-you-speak-bengali-hindi-or-urdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/23\/do-you-speak-bengali-hindi-or-urdu\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Speak Bengali, Hindi or Urdu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>BBC Seeks Bi-Lingual Journalists <\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"458\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/BBC%20World%20Academy-458x191.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The BBC World Service is on the hunt for aspiring bilingual journalists from all over the UK to apply for a new training scheme \u2013 Future Voices \u2013 being launched this year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Budding reporters who are fluent in English and one of 28 other BBC World Service languages will have the opportunity of a month\u2019s training and work experience placement with the BBC in New Broadcasting House in London. This is the first time the World Service has offered training courses directly targeted at potential journalists in the UK.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Liliane Landor, Controller of World Service Languages for the BBC, said:<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe BBC World Service reaches hundreds of millions of people a week, on TV, online, mobile and radio too, in 28 different languages as well as English.\u00a0 For the first time ever, we\u2019re offering a training placement to bilingual aspiring journalists in Britain.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe know there are millions of bilingual people in the UK and we\u2019re looking for fresh new voices with the potential to become BBC reporters. You don\u2019t need any qualifications \u2013 you just need to be over 18, fluent in English and another language and, most importantly, have demonstrated your passion for international news.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The World Service is a key part of BBC News and bilingual reporters will work with one of the BBC\u2019s UK news programmes in English as well as with a BBC language service. This will follow a week of training. Each trainee will be assigned a mentor throughout. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The BBC is keen to encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and from all corners of the UK.\u00a0 The first wave of training will be in March this year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Candidates should apply online on: <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/careerssearch.bbc.co.uk\/jobs\/job\/World-Service-Future-Voices\/10454\" href=\"http:\/\/careerssearch.bbc.co.uk\/jobs\/job\/World-Service-Future-Voices\/10454\"><span title=\"blocked::http:\/\/careerssearch.bbc.co.uk\/jobs\/job\/World-Service-Future-Voices\/10454\">http:\/\/careerssearch.bbc.co.uk\/jobs\/job\/World-Service-Future-Voices\/10454<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Seeks Bi-Lingual Journalists &#13; The BBC World Service is on the hunt for aspiring bilingual journalists from all over the UK to apply for a new training scheme \u2013 Future Voices \u2013 being launched this year. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Budding reporters who are fluent in English and one of 28 other BBC World Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}