BBC digital news operation must be curbed, say newspaper publishers
by Mark Sweney from Technology | The Guardian on (#K506)
News Media Association calls on government to implement 10 changes to corporation's objectives and governance in submission to green paper
UK national and regional newspaper publishers have called for the BBC's digital news operation to be curbed to allow commercial players to flourish at home and abroad.
The News Media Association, the trade body for the UK newspaper industry, "fundamentally disagrees" with the corporation's ambition to grow its online news services, according to its submission to the government green paper on the BBC charter review.
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