[Keith]

Why have packages when you can film videos where they have a correspondent or producer speaking and then randomly zoom onto their faces and then zoom back out again? Or maybe they want more people to watch those terrible short clips with annoying soundtracks where they stick dung emojis and large flashing Word Art text over video.

It would be nice if BBC News could implement a policy where when these short clips are produced a version of the footage is made available without any graphics or soundtrack. That would make it easier for it to be reused for TV, where standard graphics can be added where appropriate. It would also allow a reporter to add their own narrative audio to it for TV output.

Focusing on producing output for online/app content isn't necessarily a bad thing. However they need to do it in a way where either all of elements of it can be reused by TV and possibly even radio. At the moment there's scope for improvements.