Trust approves change to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Newsbeat’s online services
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trust has today published a change to which enables the closure of the Newsbeat app and for Newsbeat’s website content to be integrated into ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News online.
The change was approved at the Trust’s December 2016 meeting after seeing evidence from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Executive that more young people are using the main ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News website and app compared to Newsbeat’s online services.
The aim of the changes is to make Newsbeat content available in places where young people are more likely to seek out news content, thereby helping to connect more people to a wider ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ offering and ensuring that Newsbeat’s journalism is more central to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News website and digital platforms.
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ announced back in May 2016 in its of its plan to integrate Newsbeat output into ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Online and close the separate app.
The Newsbeat programme remains unaffected by these changes and will continue to broadcast as usual on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 1.
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