[1] Mahbub Morshed is the current managing director and chief editor of the agency.

[2][3] News agencies or wire services have been in existence in present-day Bangladesh from before its independence.

It had its head office in Karachi and it covered the then East Pakistan with two branches in Dhaka and Chittagong.

[4] Under the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Ordinance of 1979, a board of directors runs the agency.

[5] Beginning with the head office in Dhaka and a bureau in Chittagong, BSS now has bureaus in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogra, Khulna, Barishal, Rangamati and Sylhet and has its correspondents in all the 64 districts of the country.