{"id":379,"date":"2006-11-25T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/25\/editors-vs-readers-at-the-bbc\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T15:33:06","slug":"editors-vs-readers-at-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/11\/25\/editors-vs-readers-at-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors vs Readers at the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

How in touch are the BBC<\/a>\u00a0with the readers of their news website?<\/p>\n

Chris Riley<\/a>\u00a0has created a clever site that compares the current stories on the BBC News front page<\/a>\u00a0against the most popular stories<\/a>\u00a0on it.<\/p>\n

It is an interesting exercise in analysing\u00a0the dynamic between readers and editors.\u00a0Should BBC News<\/a>\u00a0– as a publicly funded service<\/a>\u00a0– give us the stories the readers want? After all, they do pay for it.\u00a0Or would that lead to a glut of stories about celebrity weddings and weaken their core strengths as a broadcaster that can operate outside commercial pressures?<\/p>\n

Perhaps they should go down the Digg<\/a>\u00a0route and get users in the UK (those who pay the licence fee) to vote on stories. You could then have an option to view the conventional news page or the one with the most popular stories as voted by users. It would be similar to the way you can chose to\u00a0select a UK or an International version on the current site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not only would it be an interesting snapshot of what BBC editors and readers think but it would involve licence fee payers in a way that isn’t really possible on TV or radio. That is going to be crucial for the BBC in a future where a tax on televisions<\/a> will surely\u00a0be untenable (not to say downright anachronistic).<\/p>\n

If it is to survive,\u00a0as well as thrive, in the future (and let’s hope it does – preferably with less bureaucracy<\/a>) then it has\u00a0to use its audience as well as serve it. Director General Mark Thompson<\/a>\u00a0has spoken<\/a>\u00a0about the need to innovate and adapt to the world of Web 2.0<\/a>, so\u00a0why not involve audiences in\u00a0their output?<\/p>\n

Closer to\u00a0home, why not\u00a0make\u00a0BBC Film<\/a>\u00a0a more interactive and user friendly site? Why not allow users to comment on the reviews<\/a>? And why not do a dedicated film podcast with their presenters\u00a0like Mark Kermode<\/a>\u00a0and Jonathan Ross<\/a>?<\/p>\n

> BBC Touch<\/a>
\n> BBC News<\/a>
\n> Digg<\/a>
\n>\u00a0The most popular stories on BBC News at the moment<\/a>
\n> Thanks to Jeff Jarvis for the link to Chris Riley’s site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How in touch are the BBC\u00a0with the readers of their news website? Chris Riley\u00a0has created a clever site that compares the current stories on the BBC News front page\u00a0against the most popular stories\u00a0on it. It is an interesting exercise in analysing\u00a0the dynamic between readers and editors.\u00a0Should BBC News\u00a0– as a publicly funded service\u00a0– give us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}