BBC website 'must stop acting like a newspaper'

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

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: