:00:00. > :00:04.Now, it is time for it News watch with Samira Ahmed, and this week,
:00:04. > :00:19.Hello. Welcome to Newswatch. This week: Is the BBC's Athens buying the
:00:19. > :00:25.increasing demand, especially from young people, for getting news via
:00:25. > :00:32.mobiles, apps and social media? And are these suitable interviewees?
:00:32. > :00:44.opposition on the consumer affairs programme Watchdog, and the Cookie
:00:44. > :00:52.But first, on Wednesday, the BBC broadcast the findings of a survey
:00:52. > :00:56.editor Mark Easton presented them. service cuts. This is how home
:00:56. > :01:00.poll suggests that six out of ten After five years of austerity,
:01:00. > :01:02.poll suggests that six out of ten people in Britain think public
:01:02. > :01:08.services have stayed the same or actually improved. Good news for the
:01:08. > :01:10.government, and it was hailed as such by David Cameron at Prime
:01:10. > :01:15.Minister 's question Time. When such by David Cameron at Prime
:01:16. > :01:17.woke up this morning and heard that the BBC was reporting that you can
:01:18. > :01:38.the BBC by the pollsters ICM, you the BBC was reporting that you can
:01:38. > :01:39.the BBC by the pollsters ICM, you services had stayed the same in
:01:39. > :01:40.the BBC by the pollsters ICM, you past five years, compare and with a
:01:40. > :01:47.similar proportion, 40%, saying past five years, compare and with a
:01:47. > :01:49.quality had got worse. Colin Phipps felt the BBC had twisted the poll's
:01:49. > :02:32.Also on Wednesday, BBC News showed Hakimullah Mehsud, a man with a
:02:33. > :02:39.Also on Wednesday, BBC News showed million bounty on his head. The
:02:39. > :02:47.government wants to talk, it has to TRANSLATION: We believe in talks,
:02:47. > :02:48.but the government has taken no serious attempt to approaches. The
:02:48. > :02:59.government needs to sit with us serious attempt to approaches. The
:02:59. > :03:22.the consumer affairs programme One's Watchdog, but it is not often
:03:22. > :03:24.the consumer affairs programme invites leading politicians on as
:03:24. > :03:41.pledge to freeze energy prices if invites leading politicians on as
:03:41. > :03:43.Hundreds of viewers contacted the BBC to complain that the Labour
:03:43. > :03:44.leader should not have been invited on the programme to expand his
:03:44. > :04:16.Where next? That was the title of the BBC Director—General's speech on
:04:16. > :04:20.Tuesday, looking forward to at the corporation needs to change in the
:04:20. > :04:25.years leading up to its centenary in identified with the shift in the way
:04:25. > :04:33.news is being accessed, particularly Almost every teenager today has
:04:33. > :04:35.news is being accessed, particularly mobile, and it is this device they
:04:35. > :04:41.value the most, not the radio or the television. But for all of us,
:04:41. > :04:45.expectations are changing. When something big is happening, people
:04:45. > :04:50.don't want to wait. The public wants news they can trust about what is
:04:50. > :04:54.going on, wherever it is in the world. Now, in the palm of their
:04:54. > :05:00.hand, and then they want to share it, and they want to talk about
:05:00. > :05:02.hand, and then they want to share This trend is confirmed by research,
:05:02. > :05:06.with a recent study finding that though television is still just
:05:06. > :05:06.with a recent study finding that main news platform used in the UK,
:05:06. > :05:12.among younger viewers. The use of main news platform used in the UK,
:05:12. > :05:14.among younger viewers. The use of tablet computers for accessing news
:05:14. > :05:18.has doubled here in the last ten months, and almost one in five of us
:05:18. > :05:22.week by e—mail or social network. shared a news story in the previous
:05:22. > :05:32.week by e—mail or social network. So, how does BBC News Gator for
:05:32. > :05:37.Hi, I'm Sam. He is a check on the global news channels. Well, there is
:05:37. > :05:42.specifically at younger audiences, and Radio 1 's Newsbeat, and the
:05:42. > :05:51.teens and early 20s feel they are corporation has, of course, been
:05:51. > :05:53.teens and early 20s feel they are being served, I spoke on a recent
:05:53. > :05:58.trip to Glasgow to a group of media students. I asked them how they
:05:58. > :06:01.tended to consume news. A lot of it is from the internet, but that is
:06:01. > :06:07.when I'm out and about on my phone. I'm on my phone all the time, I
:06:07. > :06:09.when I'm out and about on my phone. soon as you see on Facebook or
:06:10. > :06:13.Twitter and update about what is happening in such and such a place,
:06:13. > :06:18.the first thing I will do is type in, say, for example, someone says,
:06:18. > :06:22.can't believe what's happened in a CERN country, I will go straight
:06:22. > :06:26.onto the internet on my phone, and type in the country's name, and
:06:26. > :06:29.onto the internet on my phone, and get automatic headlines. Something
:06:29. > :06:32.we were discussing earlier is, a younger generation of people who
:06:32. > :06:35.have their favourite app, the same way their parents might have a
:06:35. > :06:38.favourite newspaper. They would maybe go to the BBC News on their
:06:39. > :06:45.app, as opposed to ITV News. If maybe go to the BBC News on their
:06:45. > :06:53.need to know, now. If you're asking The immediacy of news by apps,
:06:53. > :06:56.online and website is one advantage. Another is the way the audience
:06:56. > :06:58.online and website is one advantage. choose what they want to find out
:06:58. > :06:59.about, although how far the BBC should be encouraging such targeting
:06:59. > :07:08.On the internet, you can tailor should be encouraging such targeting
:07:08. > :07:10.whereas on TV, you are always at the mercy of what they want to show
:07:10. > :07:13.you. Usually, I will tend to follow mercy of what they want to show
:07:13. > :07:18.you. Usually, I will tend to follow up on stuff that interests me more,
:07:18. > :07:24.especially since you can do it much things that you on for your leisure
:07:24. > :07:28.time, and I think that is another leisure time and time reading the
:07:29. > :07:42.source for news. Do you sit down and leisure time and time reading the
:07:42. > :07:54.from the national headlines to your to watch it at six o'clock and I
:07:54. > :07:54.from the national headlines to your the TV, I think, is really important
:07:54. > :08:04.get back from college, I will get my for knowledge and getting that. If I
:08:04. > :08:06.get back from college, I will get my the TV, so I will have BBC News
:08:06. > :08:06.get back from college, I will get my and I will have my YouTube and
:08:06. > :08:12.happening on television. Then I and I will have my YouTube and
:08:12. > :08:17.put on the Channel four news, and I obviously get push messages on my
:08:17. > :08:28.Guardian, and from the BBC, which tell me headlines. I consume news
:08:28. > :08:32.Although the thing that I notice is, when I am watching something on
:08:32. > :08:35.television, I am having a more passive relationship with it, it may
:08:35. > :08:38.be on in the background or something like that, whereas when I am using
:08:38. > :08:47.the internet, I am more actively So do these developments and habits
:08:47. > :08:52.have implications for the BBC in how it allocates its news budget? Our
:08:52. > :08:55.students thought so. I think for the younger generation, they should
:08:55. > :09:00.definitely be putting more money into the website and Facebook sorts
:09:01. > :09:07.of things, even, because Facebook platforms for people our age. I
:09:07. > :09:12.think would be shared function and the re—tweet function on Twitter, it
:09:12. > :09:16.means that things we didn't know about before, we can get told about
:09:16. > :09:27.amount of sharing that happens to issues become big issues due to
:09:27. > :09:28.amount of sharing that happens to It is a whole new world of news
:09:29. > :09:32.consumption, and big challenges remain for the BBC in deciding how
:09:32. > :09:37.satisfy the changing habits of its quickly and how deeply it tries
:09:37. > :09:38.satisfy the changing habits of its Finally, for the third week in a
:09:38. > :09:44.this time was a surprise in choice row, we have had comments about
:09:44. > :09:48.this time was a surprise in choice of guest on Monday's programme. We
:09:48. > :09:52.end with the news tonight that the BBC reverse the flow of talent
:09:52. > :10:00.leaving the organisation today with appearing mostly on the children's
:10:00. > :10:04.Channel CBBC, but we are fortunate enough to be joined by him now from
:10:04. > :10:19.monster, why the BBC? Oki ! —— our studio at Westminster. But the
:10:19. > :10:24.The appearance of the Cookie Monster Twitter, thus perhaps achieving
:10:24. > :10:25.The appearance of the Cookie Monster purpose. Opinion was divided. One
:10:25. > :11:05.Monster's alter ego. Human guests next week's News watch could include
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