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Broadcasters must react to threat from ‘creator journalism’, says ex-head of BBC News

Deborah Turness
Turness said she had been examining the new form of ‘one-to-one’ journalism, delivered through digital platforms. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Broadcasters must urgently adapt to an existential threat from “creator journalism” that is causing audiences to shun traditional television news, the former boss of BBC News has said.

Deborah Turness, who resigned from the BBC alongside the then director general, Tim Davie, last year, said consumption was “collapsing” for traditional television news, which was facing “a profound moment of disruption”.

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