Complementary news
The BBC is planning new very local services and Mark Thompson told newspaper editors that it might pay them for local content.
I think in both the UK and the US we will find a complementary architecture for national and local news evolving: The national licenses and pays for or promotes and links to local content; the locals do likewise for national content because neither can afford to do what the other does. I’ll write more about this later in a post I’m writing about what I’m calling reverse syndication.
I wrote some of this back in May in a Guardian column suggesting such a relationship for the BBC and other news providers.
Tags: newnews, newspapers, norg, reversesyndication
November 7th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
How does this differ from AP?
November 7th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
[...] Posts are forthcoming on the following: the Society of Editors Conference in Glasgow (see Roy Greenslade, Fleet Street 2.0), at which attending editors and journos are buzzing about the Google print ad test run project (more today on that via Poynter's Jim Romenesko, Mathew Ingram and BuzzMachine); Gannett's newsroom convergence (see E-Media Tidbits, Editors Weblog , Editor and Publisher and Wired); and the BBC's local stations plans to buy content from local and regional newspapers (BuzzMachine & Wordblog, also see the Wordblog post on print and broadcast journalism training convergence). [...]