The Culture, Media and Sports Committee have called for a “more symbiotic relationship” between the BBC and news providers, through measures which could effectively result in the outsourcing of local news delivery to smaller publishers.

In the run up to the renewal of the BBC Charter in 2016, the committee’s report encouraged the BBC to embrace an increasingly collaborative culture with smaller press organisations, through the allocating a portion of the licence fee to “public service journalism”.

In recent years the BBC has piloted schemes to both share stories with local papers and provide links to local news reports from the BBC’s own webpages, however the latest committee findings encourages a more extensive and deeper relationship between the BBC and local organisations going forward.

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