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(Image source: BBC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Jonathan Marks takes a look at the future of the BBC World Service<\/a> under the umbrella of the BBC News group board.<\/p>\n

His conclusion? Just doing the news may be “too narrow a remit.”<\/p>\n

I tend to agree.<\/p>\n

Read for yourself on Jonathan’s blog, Critical Distance<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Marks takes a look at the future of the BBC World Service under the umbrella of the BBC News group board. His conclusion? Just doing the news may be “too narrow a remit.” I tend to agree. Read for yourself on Jonathan’s blog, Critical Distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[104,327,352,2372,246],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-critical-distance","tag-jonathan-marks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2ov","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8204,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/concerns-about-the-bbc-world-service-after-reorganization\/","url_meta":{"origin":9207,"position":0},"title":"Concerns about the BBC World Service after reorganization","author":"Thomas","date":"December 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Marks of the weblog Critical Distance writes: Bumped into an interesting document on the voice of the listener and viewer site in the UK. 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