BBC website 'must stop acting like a newspaper'

The BBC should stop behaving like a newspaper, and get rid of written content from its website, the Culture Secretary has warned.

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John Whittingdale told Radio 4’s The Media Show that newspapers have ‘legitimate concerns’ about the broadcaster trampling on their turf, by publishing so much ‘long-form journalism’. ‘The fact that you can access content which looks like long-form journalism on the BBC website is clearly something [newspapers] are unhappy about, and raises this question as to whether or not the BBC should be essentially entering the printed news market and that, I think, is a legitimate concern for them to express,’ he said. Read more:

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