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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>An excellent proposal - but for me it's far more important to improve the quality of broadcast journalism than simply increase the number generating it!<br><br><div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><b>Ian Hickling</b><br></font></div><font style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:12pt;" size="3"><font style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Partner</font></font><br><br><a href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><img alt="" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2SkDsnIzSZgRbNnNKBSiwxiFhFQWRGV55mTjVL23fulnJpstZmYxeKrrYefY4qxiSgkMrAETld64XINLXCsujE_zI5gAsQyWeCWvHixcrNYtar3Sij4YlVBgN2NSQ-n2DsgZvrnpWZlfwCQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png"></a><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">Office: 01635 578435 (7am-11pm UK time)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">Carphone: 07530 980115 (only responds when driving)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</font></i></div></div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: david@theradiopeople.co.uk<br>Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 08:33:00 +0100<br>To: cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk<br>Subject: [cma-l] Lord Hall - BBC and Community Reporters<br><br><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">Dear All,</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">The BBC’s Lord Hall is about to make the first of four speeches outlining the BBC’s future. What will it mean for community radio?</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">Among the specific plans he will outline includes a multi-million pound investment in journalism, with a network of 100 <u>public service</u> reporters across the country to deliver news from courts and councils. </div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">This is a great opportunity for community radio <i>as a body</i> to tap into a publicly-funded journalistic resource that could be and should be working directly with local stations.</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">The BBC is also going to create a 'hub' for data journalism, giving <u>local newspapers</u> access to its statistical analysis, and offer audio and video clips free to other websites. </div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">I hope the CMA is talking with both the BBC and DCMS. </div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">Providing licence fee funded resources to privately owned media organisations ahead of not-for-profit community broadcasters is clearly unacceptable. A partnership with the BBC should have ambition and deliver outcomes that are more tangible than is currently framed in the memorandum of understanding.</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">Local news is essential for a strong democracy and community radio needs to be at the forefront of its delivery. What the BBC is tabling is an unprecedented offer that would put millions into a local journalism partnership. Community radio needs to be an equal partner in that.</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">David Duffy</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 0.8em;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://theradiopeople.co.uk" target="_blank">theradiopeople.co.uk</a> </div><br>_______________________________________________
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