BBC News

===1950s===
Television news, although physically separate from its radio counterpart, was still firmly under radio news' control in the 1950s. Correspondents provided reports for both outlets, and the first televised bulletin, shown on 5 July 1954 on the then [[BBC One|BBC television service]] and presented by [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]], involved his providing narration off-screen while stills were shown.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The BBC performs painful internal surgery|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/30/the-bbc-performs-painful-internal-surgery|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0013-0613|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521142154/https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/30/the-bbc-performs-painful-internal-surgery|url-status=live}}</ref> This was then followed by the customary ''Television Newsreel'' with a recorded commentary by [[John Snagge]] (and on other occasions by [[Andrew Timothy]]).{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

On-screen newsreaders were introduced a year later in 1955{{snd}} [[Kenneth Kendall]] (the first to appear in vision), [[Robert Dougall]], and [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]]—three weeks before [[ITN]]'s launch on 21 September 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Kenneth Kendall, newsreader and presenter|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kenneth-kendall-newsreader-and-presenter-1596900|website=www.scotsman.com|date=17 December 2012|language=en|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001204817/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kenneth-kendall-newsreader-and-presenter-1596900|url-status=live}}</ref>

Mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1950.htm|title=Chronomedia: 1950|access-date=8 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016210036/http://terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1950.htm| archive-date= 16 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> to larger premises{{snd}} mainly at [[Lime Grove Studios]] in [[Shepherd's Bush]], west London{{snd}} taking Current Affairs (then known as Talks Department) with it. It was from here that the first ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'', a new documentary programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953, with [[Richard Dimbleby]] becoming anchor in 1955.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_past_faces_of_panorama/html/1.stm|title=In pictures: Past Faces of Panorama|access-date=9 April 2010|work=BBC News|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820055940/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_past_faces_of_panorama/html/1.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1958, [[Hugh Carleton Greene]] became head of News and Current Affairs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kviak52wjXsC&q=In+1958,+Hugh+Carleton+Greene+became+head+of+News+and+Current+Affairs&pg=PA78|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|date=2 September 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-24739-0|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>