As recently as 25 years ago my answer would be VOA, BBC World Service, and a few others from Europe on the SW bands with English language service that I routinely tuned in evenings in the hotel. Now with global streaming services and global broadcasts of the 24 hour networks and all the stuff/feeds on the web, not very useful. But mid-90's traveling in Europe or SE Asia, it was handy to have a link back to U.S. news sources, and that SW set was easy. Finding a reliable internet link not so much.
Most of what I hear these days in terms of English language broadcasts on SW are programs targeted at the statist countries like Cuba, China, and parts of Africa or the middle east where apparently there are still lots of SW sets (also lots of native language stuff targeted at those). So while the BBC still has a presence, I hardly consider them a trusted news source at this point. There are both Catholic and Protestant religious stations targeting those areas of the world.
In the 70's and through the 80's when I fell into the habit of listening in the evenings (Radioshack DX-150) there was no satelite TV, no internet, things were jumping, and the cold war was on. Radio Moscow and the other East block stations were a hoot (in terms of the rampant and ridiculous nature of the BS they broadcast) and we were bombarding everything on that side of the iron curtain with everything from decadent western pop music to every country's version of the news in the West. It was truly a lot more interesting and the airwaves were simply full.
For traveling overseas for business now, I doubt I would invest in such a device.
I guess I just have them out of habit, and they are great AM/FM sets to have around in the "no bars" wilderness areas of the US I tend to enjoy. They are such superior radios they still pull in the clear channel AM stations at night no matter where you are (e.g. camping in Sunlight Basin or Kirwin ghost towns in WY), and the $10 AM/FM sets will not always do that.