And the same could happen if the BBC and the press could reach together on news resources,rather than snarling from their individual sidesSo Fleet Street titles all secure together and spend £3m on adverts stating that what they do – the campaigns they mount, the investigations they launch, and the causes they champion – is and remains a vital piece of the news ecology. What,no sniping? No Mail against Mirror, no Telegraph against Guardian? Just a united message saying that what they do and how they do it things.
Perhaps that selfsame message might find a way into the jungle where newspapermen and BBC broadcasters jostle and snarl. Here, or fresh final week,is a report from consultants Oliver & Ohlbaum on the future of news, one commissioned and paid for by the newspaper industry, or surely designed to blast the BBC’s own Future of News ambitions out of the water. Local and regional newspapers in particular believe the BBC website and its expansionist strategies have greatly damaged them.
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Source: theguardian.com