The BBC is planning new very local services and Mark Thompson told newspaper editors that it might pay them for local content.
I think in both the UK and the US we will find a complementary architecture for national and local news evolving: The national licenses and pays for or promotes and links to local content; the locals do likewise for national content because neither can afford to do what the other does. I’ll write more about this later in a post I’m writing about what I’m calling reverse syndication.
I wrote some of this back in May in a Guardian column suggesting such a relationship for the BBC and other news providers.
