We will open up the BBC to other news providers, through a new partnership which we hope will help local journalism to thrive.
These services include The Editors' Lab that puts together editors, start-ups, developers and engineers, to provide new tools to the community of news providers.
This plainly provides a challenge for news providers but also an opportunity to be far more engaged with the audience.
The BBC does not stop other news providers being successful, and we already provide footage of events to news providers in the UK on a case by case basis".
About £195m of investment comes from commercial TV and radio news providers, most notably ITN and Sky News in TV and IRN in radio.
Far from giving up on journalism, they are providing big chunks of funding to online news providers, such as BuzzFeed, Vice, and Vox.
In fact, Fox News took over the No. 1 position among cable news providers just two months after the attacks.
All major news publishers – and some internet news providers – have indicated they will join such a system provided there is no statutory backstop.
Engagement with local news providers might help address that.
And the more established news providers have been hesitant.
That will simply open internet firms, like news providers, to accusations of bias.
