BBC output must keep pace with audiences’ fast-changing lives.


Paul Mason, formerly Newsnight’s economics editor, has joined Channel Four News as its culture and digital editor. Before leaving the BBC, he filmed an interview for the College of Journalism in which he reflected on his 12 years at the BBC and the challenges the Corporation faces as its audiences change their patterns of media consumption.

An edited transcript from that interview may be found here.

".......The danger sometimes is that the signals that come from the top are “don’t mess up,” (sometimes put a bit more forcefully), whereas the signals should be from the outside world, saying “you’re not ordinary enough, you’re not believable enough, you’re not innovating enough.”


If I said one thing on leaving this building, it would be:-

          become more receptive to those signals.".

From the BBC College of Journalism.