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Image via WikipediaThe BBC’s new Statements of Programme Policy has a revealing snippet about the attitudes of TV to user-generated content.
On page 57 of this lengthy document (PDF), the broadcaster says:
We will augment our news coverage with video, still images and messages submitted by
viewers, where appropriate, in order to offer first-hand accounts and a [...]

Buried in the BBC Trust’s review of bbc.co.uk is some revealing information about how the corporation has adopted blogging.
In a section on accountability, the Trust explores how the BBC’s commitment to “to forge a new relationship with licence fee payers” online and suggests that “recent developments, such as the development of BBC editors and management [...]

The BBC Trust’s review of the BBC online activities has been published, with some media seizing on the overspend of £36m.
Overall, the Trust is positive about bbc.co.uk, describing it as an “excellent service that is highly valued by users and makes a strong contribution to delivering the BBC’s public purposes”.
But it adds that “it is [...]

Headlines for the web need to make sense on their own, as people often access sites via RSS feeds.
I wonder how many people were puzzled, amused, shocked or disappointed by the headline on this BBC science story:

Perhaps it is no surprise that at the time of writing, this was the most e-mailed and most read [...]

My request to find out how much the BBC has made in advertising revenue since it started putting ads on the international version of its news site, BBC.com, has been rejected (PDF).
I filed a Freedom of Information request using the WhatDoTheyKnow site.
In its reply, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, argued that:
Disclosure would [...]

Image via WikipediaThis is something that I have addressed before, but it is too important to ignore - the issue of repurposing content for the web.
The BBC has taken its first steps towards integrating its news departments, with TV and radio now working in a common newsroom. The online team will join them [...]

Image via WikipediaThe BBC’s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy.
In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer.
So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a [...]

In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network.
The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service broadcasting because it was about encouraging people [...]

Image via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme:
…on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home [...]

The BBC has upgraded its blogging software to be better able to handle the thousands of comments it receives on its array of official blogs, as BBC News blogs editor Giles Wilson explains:
It’s often been frustrating to leave comments (and also frustrating to publish them) because of slow response times. Part of the problem was [...]