Ian Carter

Dec 4, 2023 | pressgazette.co.uk | Ian Carter |Toby Granville |Paul Rowland |Gary Shipton

In a rare joint public statement, senior editors at the UK’s five biggest commercial regional news publishers have banded together to call for the BBC to stop “suffocating” their businesses. They want the BBC to ditch its local news strategy and do more to link to other publishers. Here they explain why.