“BBC News used to be in many media but it wasn’t really multimedia.
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Digital, TV and radio teams sit in proximity to each other to aid story-sharing.” For Egan, this approach is not so much about innovation as working in a smarter way. “Today we have clear guidelines at correspondent level regarding the order stories are filed across platforms, starting with a 140-word quick fire message that can be use on Twitter or via SMS. “We’re in pursuit of genuine convergence,” says Jim Egan, chief operating officer of BBC Global News, the division that runs BBC World News and bbc.com/news, the BBC’s commercially funded international news platforms. It will house all UK-based BBC news journalists, regardless of what platform or part of the world their output is destined for. Where they sit influences their approach to carriage deals, advertising strategy, content syndication and the investments they make in editorial.Īt UK public broadcaster the BBC, a new news studio has been built to help meet such challenges. The market is split between channels that are expected to be self-reliant and those that are publicly supported.
News channels realise they are not just in competition with other news channels, but with all channels, and need a schedule that is rich enough to hold viewers between bulletins and at times when the news agenda drags.įinally, there’s the question of funding. Next up is what to do when the news is dull.
In news, online and mobile platforms are not an optional extra but a core part of any news operation. The very nature of news means that media owners in this space must be able to source stories fast and then deliver them to audiences across all available platforms. But running a news-based channel brings with it a unique set of challenges. Running any TV channel in an era of digital fragmentation is difficult. News channels, perhaps more than any other, are at the forefront of changes in media consumption.
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