[Independent]

Dropping the investigative films may be the worst idea to ever come out of these cuts - I get that Panorama will still exist (for now...) but it's not the same thing

How are the investigations on Newsnight different from Panorama's? I ask because I'm a former World viewer and am wondering what the differences are.

If they want to have decent 'discussion' around the day's stories, but with BBC correspondents instead of anybodies.. maybe they should just be screening Newscast every single evening instead.

The French news channels have mastered televised radio. France info does that for a small proportion of their programming. Don't know why the UK services haven't considered that.

I know there has to be cuts, but I do think they are in danger of damaging the BBC News brand. 
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My biggest bug bear of all is this talk of a digital BBC. It’s now becoming increasingly clear to me that the current BBC big wigs want to move the BBC to become online only.
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 Yes viewing figures are going down for traditional methods however they still make up a large part of how the BBCs audience access their content. As so often seems the case, the BBC have become obsessed about accessing the bbc digitally even if it isolates huge numbers of its current audience. [...] attract a younger audience. What ends up happening is the changes annoy large numbers of the BBCs loyal audience who begin to swap their loyaities who are never replaced by enough of the audience the bbc is chasing.

When a public broadcaster executive mentions "digital first" and the like, it's a red flag. But tbf other places seem to do a better job. FAST channels in the US and DR in Denmark actually launched an online news channel recently. With the BBC (and other English public broadcasters), "digital first" just means dumb down and poorer quality. The BBC's news website is one gigantic embarrassing dumbed down click bait site in order to (allegedly) appeal to young people. The management of the BBC News has been a mess for a while. It's hard to believe funding issues alone are behind the sharp decline in the quality of the BBC. From what I'm reading about the UK services, it seems those in charge have little interest in quality public broadcasting content, interested in clicks and not interested in helping people understand complex issues.