{"id":13526,"date":"2024-04-18T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:58:48","slug":"nma-responds-to-public-accounts-committee-report-on-the-bbcs-implementation-of-across-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/nma-responds-to-public-accounts-committee-report-on-the-bbcs-implementation-of-across-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"NMA Responds To Public Accounts Committee Report On The BBC\u2019s Implementation Of Across The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Responding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/publications\/44190\/documents\/219918\/default\/\">Public Accounts Committee\u2019s report on the BBC\u2019s implementation of Across the UK<\/a>, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: <em>\u201cThe Public Accounts Committee is absolutely right to criticise the BBC for its plans to cut much-loved local radio services and instead push unnecessarily into digital local news services.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cCommunities are already very well served with local news by commercial publishers who employ thousands of local journalists up and down the land, covering the courts and councils, publishing agenda-setting scoops, and campaigning on behalf of their readers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cBy forcing local publishers to compete with the might of the licence fee, the BBC\u2019s misguided plans to ramp up its own local news provision will put all this at risk, ultimately leaving us with the BBC as the sole provider of local news in this country.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAs the Committee suggests, the BBC must be made to look again at its plans and let truly local journalists continue their excellent work as the true champions of their communities.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the Public Accounts Committee\u2019s report on the BBC\u2019s implementation of Across the UK, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said: \u201cThe Public Accounts Committee is absolutely right to criticise the BBC for its plans to cut much-loved local radio services and instead push unnecessarily into digital local news services. \u201cCommunities are already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc","category-local-media-works","category-news","category-sustainability-of-local-journalism","bbc","local-media-works","news","sustainability-of-local-journalism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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