11/10/2013 Newswatch

Now, it is time for it News watch with Samira Ahmed, and this week,

Hello. Welcome to Newswatch. This week: Is the BBC's Athens buying the

increasing demand, especially from young people, for getting news via

mobiles, apps and social media? And are these suitable interviewees?

opposition on the consumer affairs programme Watchdog, and the Cookie

But first, on Wednesday, the BBC broadcast the findings of a survey

editor Mark Easton presented them. service cuts. This is how home

poll suggests that six out of ten After five years of austerity,

poll suggests that six out of ten people in Britain think public

services have stayed the same or actually improved. Good news for the

government, and it was hailed as such by David Cameron at Prime

Minister 's question Time. When such by David Cameron at Prime

woke up this morning and heard that the BBC was reporting that you can

the BBC by the pollsters ICM, you the BBC was reporting that you can

the BBC by the pollsters ICM, you services had stayed the same in

the BBC by the pollsters ICM, you past five years, compare and with a

similar proportion, 40%, saying past five years, compare and with a

quality had got worse. Colin Phipps felt the BBC had twisted the poll's

Also on Wednesday, BBC News showed Hakimullah Mehsud, a man with a

Also on Wednesday, BBC News showed million bounty on his head. The

government wants to talk, it has to TRANSLATION: We believe in talks,

but the government has taken no serious attempt to approaches. The

government needs to sit with us serious attempt to approaches. The

the consumer affairs programme One's Watchdog, but it is not often

the consumer affairs programme invites leading politicians on as

pledge to freeze energy prices if invites leading politicians on as

Hundreds of viewers contacted the BBC to complain that the Labour

leader should not have been invited on the programme to expand his

Where next? That was the title of the BBC Director—General's speech on

Tuesday, looking forward to at the corporation needs to change in the

years leading up to its centenary in identified with the shift in the way

news is being accessed, particularly Almost every teenager today has

news is being accessed, particularly mobile, and it is this device they

value the most, not the radio or the television. But for all of us,

expectations are changing. When something big is happening, people

don't want to wait. The public wants news they can trust about what is

going on, wherever it is in the world. Now, in the palm of their

hand, and then they want to share it, and they want to talk about

hand, and then they want to share This trend is confirmed by research,

with a recent study finding that though television is still just

with a recent study finding that main news platform used in the UK,

among younger viewers. The use of main news platform used in the UK,

among younger viewers. The use of tablet computers for accessing news

has doubled here in the last ten months, and almost one in five of us

week by e—mail or social network. shared a news story in the previous

week by e—mail or social network. So, how does BBC News Gator for

Hi, I'm Sam. He is a check on the global news channels. Well, there is

specifically at younger audiences, and Radio 1 's Newsbeat, and the

teens and early 20s feel they are corporation has, of course, been

teens and early 20s feel they are being served, I spoke on a recent

trip to Glasgow to a group of media students. I asked them how they

tended to consume news. A lot of it is from the internet, but that is

when I'm out and about on my phone. I'm on my phone all the time, I

when I'm out and about on my phone. soon as you see on Facebook or

Twitter and update about what is happening in such and such a place,

the first thing I will do is type in, say, for example, someone says,

can't believe what's happened in a CERN country, I will go straight

onto the internet on my phone, and type in the country's name, and

onto the internet on my phone, and get automatic headlines. Something

we were discussing earlier is, a younger generation of people who

have their favourite app, the same way their parents might have a

favourite newspaper. They would maybe go to the BBC News on their

app, as opposed to ITV News. If maybe go to the BBC News on their

need to know, now. If you're asking The immediacy of news by apps,

online and website is one advantage. Another is the way the audience

online and website is one advantage. choose what they want to find out

about, although how far the BBC should be encouraging such targeting

On the internet, you can tailor should be encouraging such targeting

whereas on TV, you are always at the mercy of what they want to show

you. Usually, I will tend to follow mercy of what they want to show

you. Usually, I will tend to follow up on stuff that interests me more,

especially since you can do it much things that you on for your leisure

time, and I think that is another leisure time and time reading the

source for news. Do you sit down and leisure time and time reading the

from the national headlines to your to watch it at six o'clock and I

from the national headlines to your the TV, I think, is really important

get back from college, I will get my for knowledge and getting that. If I

get back from college, I will get my the TV, so I will have BBC News

get back from college, I will get my and I will have my YouTube and

happening on television. Then I and I will have my YouTube and

put on the Channel four news, and I obviously get push messages on my

Guardian, and from the BBC, which tell me headlines. I consume news

Although the thing that I notice is, when I am watching something on

television, I am having a more passive relationship with it, it may

be on in the background or something like that, whereas when I am using

the internet, I am more actively So do these developments and habits

have implications for the BBC in how it allocates its news budget? Our

students thought so. I think for the younger generation, they should

definitely be putting more money into the website and Facebook sorts

of things, even, because Facebook platforms for people our age. I

think would be shared function and the re—tweet function on Twitter, it

means that things we didn't know about before, we can get told about

amount of sharing that happens to issues become big issues due to

amount of sharing that happens to It is a whole new world of news

consumption, and big challenges remain for the BBC in deciding how

satisfy the changing habits of its quickly and how deeply it tries

satisfy the changing habits of its Finally, for the third week in a

this time was a surprise in choice row, we have had comments about

this time was a surprise in choice of guest on Monday's programme. We

end with the news tonight that the BBC reverse the flow of talent

leaving the organisation today with appearing mostly on the children's

Channel CBBC, but we are fortunate enough to be joined by him now from

monster, why the BBC? Oki ! —— our studio at Westminster. But the

The appearance of the Cookie Monster Twitter, thus perhaps achieving

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