20/05/2016 Newswatch

London to trespassing, after scaling the walls of Buckingham Palace. At

ten o'clock we will have a full round-up of the day's news. First

Newswatch. Welcome to Newswatch. Coming up, Newsbeat's website and

application is disappearing, what is going to happen to young people's

news? And was it worth tracking down this man in America just a comment.

When a plane drops out of the sky When a plane drops out of the sky

without explanation, broadcasters are faced with a challenge. When in

Egypt Air flight bound for Cairo dropped off the radar, it was clear

something serious had occurred. For a long time it was not clear what

happened. This man was not happy... Although the inquests into the

deaths of 96 football fans at Hillsborough 25 years ago has

finished, a criminal enquiry into the disaster has continued. One of

those under investigation is the match commander David ducking birth,

the BBC has been trying to track down the commander, on Wednesday he

was tracked down on a family trip to San Francisco. Can I ask you a

reaction? Just at the moment ongoing criminal enquiries, I am afraid I am

unable to comment. I hope you excuse me. Do you have a message for the

families? I have said what I'm going to say. A polite encounter,

prompting a question from viewers. Why on earth was it necessary to

send Duncan Kennedy to San Francisco airport to spring and harass David

Dukinfield, regarding Hillsborough? It was an appalling unjustified

intrusion by a reporter hell-bent on pushing a microphone into his face.

Knowing full well he would not be able to answer questions, quite

rightly. Due to the ongoing legal issues. Someone is very obviously

monitoring David Dukinfield's movements. Which in itself is

worrying and disgraceful. Why did the BBC feel it was necessary to

send a reporter and camera crew to San Francisco to ask questions of

David Dukinfield, because of the potential for future litigation, he

was unable to answer? Was this a sensible use of resources? We asked

BBC News for a response. BBC News announced a big shake-up of

online offerings this week in light of government pressure to offer

distinct content, which does not in pain during commercial rivals.

Making the headlines about other changes, was the fate of 11,000

recipes, some on the licence fee funded BBC Food, some on BBC Good

Food, which suddenly became the subject of fevered debate. Many

people think the BBC has been encroaching on the market. The BBC

recipe website will close. All of the recipes will survive, but many

will be increasingly hard to find. Shortly after that was broadcast, on

Tuesday afternoon, and as an online petition against the proposals

neared 200,000 signatures, there was a U-turn. All of the recipes on the

BBC Food website would now be available on BBC Good Food. What

does this have to do with their conversation? More than you think.

Commercial rivals want BBC Two lessen its content. There will be

changes how you find reason to -- how you find regional news, and the

closing of Newsbeat. Those content will be moved to the main BBC News

website. There was concern on Twitter about this.

I'm joined by Debbie Ramsey, the editor of radio one and Newsbeat.

Newsbeat as a Brown has been around since the 1960s, it was just radio.

Remind us of the range of content you make. Targeting 16-24

-year-olds. What is the aim and secret of attracting them? The aim

is to tap into subjects important to them. Lifestyle, money, music,

education, politics. Makes sense of the world for them, so they are

equipped to go forward. Also to give them a voice, so they can tell

stories to the wider world. We do that in a range of ways now. A very

long time since Newsbeat was just a radio programme, we make visual

documentaries, we have a YouTube channel, all the social media, we

reach them and tell stories that way. People would say in 2016, a

dedicated website and app is exactly what young people need? Our

audiences coming mainly through their website, 16-24 URLs, that is

how they find us, through social media. -- 16-24 year olds. We will

have a prominent place on the front page. Everybody will see us, that is

really exciting. We will have an index page. We will keep doing those

stories, there will be no letup in the original journalism we do. What

about for people who were accessing news only through the Newsbeat app?

Young audiences put off by the existing mainstream news products,

and they need a different way in. That is what the BBC should be

doing? Very few people tap in through the main site. Very small

number, about two percent go to the home page. They are finding us from

online news and social. We are taking the stories to them, really

important for a young audience we are where they are. We will keep

working in the same way, reducing those stories that nobody else is

telling. We will be doing stories on Drake, the world's biggest artist

signing to a small British label, because that is what our users want.

Nobody else will touch it, but we will. There is a feeling that

Newsbeat's presents will be reduced? We have social media, Facebook pages

growing. We tell our stories in different ways. Not just an online

site. Yesterday we tell the story of what is happening in Venezuela in 60

seconds via a video on Facebook. That is not involved in the site,

communicating with the audience. We pride ourselves on talking to our

audience, on all the different mediums. If we are focusing on one,

we are behind the times. We think of our audience, radio, online, online

articles and stories, social media as well. They talk to us on those

platforms, telling us things, we want to hear more about rights for

under 25-year-old mothers to be at work. It turns out we can give a

really good slant on stories in the mainstream as well, absolutely what

we should be doing. Nobody is tackling. Thank you so much.

We will be keeping our eyes out for further changes to the BBC website

and other announcements expected from BBC News about the future of

services in the next few weeks. A couple of your other comments. We

know from recent announcements by Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson,

any pronouncements about Adolf Hitler can get you into trouble. It

was dangerous territory for this play out. You may be wondering how

they reacted in Brussels when they heard Boris Johnson was comparing

the EU to Nazi Europe. By pure good fortune, the exact moment the news

broke was captured in the EU office. Allen last clip is from the same

programme. EU referendum special edition of Newsnight. Kevin Davies

explaining who contributed what to the European Union budget? If you

look what you're putting, net, per head, Britain makes the seventh

biggest contribution. Some legal life viewers noticed a surprising

entry. We knew it took part in the Eurovision Song contest, rather

successfully last weekend. We think they meant Austria! Thanks

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