Even Naja Nielsen, who made her journalistic reputation in Denmark, has caught the language of W1A: "We want to keep the best of what we do at the moment, while introducing better ways of reporting what matters."
This is from a statement ahead of the phased subsumption of the BBC News channel, into the money-making mothership of BBC World News. Our Naj does, at least, mention that money is at the heart of this:"We need to modernise the way we deliver the news – while addressing the financial challenges we face.
So the schedules that face the UK from Monday are largely split into half-hour chunks. There's no mention of World News 'brands' like The Context, Outside Source or World Update. Newsday, from Singapore, is there. The all-new-World News America may not be ready for Monday. Newsnight gets a run-out after the BBC News at Ten, in a move demanded by no-one. And the technocrats of BBC News have clearly been unable to turn round a tv version of the Nicky Campbell show in time, despite announcing their intention back in July 2022. Making commercial competitors look agile....
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