CounterValue: Why Burnham and the Beeb won’t save the local press
March 31st, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Newspapers
Andy Burnham’s proposals for partnerships between the local press and the BBC won’t save regional newspapers, argues Justin Williams.
“How would allowing Google News to classify this stuff as duplicate content help? And how exactly would reproducing a few semi-local videos from the Beeb boost the uniques at borcestshirebilge.co.uk?” he asks.
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