BBC's James Harding to newspaper publishers: let's work together

Corporation's news executive seeks local journalism deal with press owners, saying differences have been 'overdone'James Harding, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, opened a conference on local journalism today by arguing that the differences between the corporation and newspaper publishers have been "overdone."He told the audience at Salford's MediaCity it was the reason he had been keen to bring both sides together. He said:"Whether we are in local journalism for profit or to fulfill a public service remit, paid for by advertising or cover price, subscription or the licence fee, our starting point is the same the belief that nothing is more important in news than informing people of what's going on where they live and where they work. If all politics is local, then so, by definition, is news.""The single most striking thing I have learned since joining the BBC is that our biggest audiences for TV news are for the regional bulletins: roughly 5 million people tune in each night for the 6 o'clock news; by 6.30, when we roll out the regional bulletins in England and news for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, that number is closer to 6 million people.""Fewer journalists does not mean less news, it means more PR. It means a society in which the decisions of powerful people go unreported and unchallenged, undermining any belief in local democracy and institutions, public services and private businesses. We may compete like cats in a sack for stories, but, in... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digiday Publishing Summit Event Briefing: Why publishers need to think like gyms to retain subscribers

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