Newsround (originally called John Craven's Newsround, before the departure of Craven) is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children.

Initially commissioned as a short series by BBC Children's Department, who held editorial control, its facilities are provided by BBC News. The programme is now aimed at 6 to 12-year-olds.

Originally called John Craven's Newsround, it was mostly presented by John Craven between 4 April 1972 and 22 June 1989. Originally, stand-in presenters from BBC News bulletins, including Richard Whitmore.

By the 1980s, the programme had developed its own presentation team presenters including Roger Finn and Helen Rollason with Craven in the dual role of chief presenter and programme editor. On Craven's departure, the show was renamed Newsround, and was now anchored by a rotating team of presenters.

Past presenters have included Juliet Morris, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Julie Etchingham, Chris Rogers, Kate Sanderson, Matthew Price, and Becky Jago. Regular reporters on the programme, who have also presented it, include Paul McDowell, Paul Welsh and Terry Baddoo.

The distinctive opening theme used for the first fifteen years of the programme was not composed especially for it, but is instead the opening bars of a cover of Johnny One Note by Ted Heath.

Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986. As the event was shown during the opening titles, it is often erroneously stated that the tragedy happened live on air, but it in fact happened about fifteen minutes earlier. This edition was presented by Roger Finn, who had only recently joined the programme.

In 1981, the programme was also first in Britain to report an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in Vatican City.