a firm telling off from the speaker of the house of commons, sir lindsay hoyle. he accused the chancellor of riding roughshod over mps by providing information to the media before parliamentarians. but are only politicians and spin doctors to blame? some viewers feel that journalists contribute to the problem by frequent speculation about what might be in the budget and repeatedly questioning ministers about its content in advance. peter asked: and peter hammon road on monday: —— and peter hammon wrote on monday: last friday morning, the sun newspaper revealed that the queen had spent wednesday night in hospital. a fact previously undisclosed by the palace. this was the response of the bbc�*s royal correspondent.

officials at buckingham palace have not been giving us a complete, reasonable picture of what has been occurring. the media was led to believe on wednesday that the queen was resting at windsor castle, that's what we, the bbc, reported and other branches of the media reported to our viewers, listeners and readers. in point of fact, she was being brought into a hospital in central london for these preliminary investigations. rumours and misinformation proliferate, thrive when there is an absence of good, proportionate, trustworthy information. a number of viewers got in touch with us following that and similar broadcasts. ann recorded this video for us. mrwitchel, her majesty does not report to you. so it is not for you to decide what level of information regarding her medical status

is proper or otherwise. misinformation. .. it clearly is not your strongest suit, is it? as for you, bbc, there is a gulf between what is in the public interest and what might be interesting to the public were they to be intrusive and prying. do better, please. we put those points to bbc news and they told us: now, bbc news has a problem where its audiences of

the future going to be found? research from a regulator in 2019 found that young people in britain have almost entirely abandoned television news broadcasts with 16— to 2a—year—olds spending a third less time watching live news from public service broadcasters than they were five years ago. as for the younger age group, youtube is on course to overtake bbc television next year as the main current affairs provider among 12— to 15—year—olds. we were prompted to look at this phenomenon by a recent email from a 12—year—old called sophie. we asked sophie to expand on that by recording a video. my view is there's not enough content on the bbc to engage people my age into watching it in the future and the present, because there's been many important subject matters that

have happen online and on media and itjust hasn't been broadcasted. like the pride mcc and cc and many other stuff. another thing is that there's never been any good stories about apps like and twitter and youtube and that's never been on bbc either. and so older generations and people that had had the apps are starting to think really bad stuff about them when really they are important for people's mental health and meeting people online to talk to them. well, one of those at bbc news whose job it is to think about how to appeal to younger audiences is debbie ramsey. we can speak to her now. sophie referred there to mcc, which is to do with minecraft. i suspect a fair amount of our older audience won't know what that is. i wonder is that the sort of thing that should be getting more attention on bbc news? i think it does get attention. some of these subjects do get attention, but i think sometimes the challenge is getting it on the right places so that

young people can actually see it. certainly, in bbc news, we do try and make sure that the younger audience aged 12 to 15 know about what we're doing and know that news is for them. sometimes it may be that the way we do that is through a third platform, like instagram or tiktok, which we are kind of working on our strategy around, oryoutube, but ouraim is always to bring them back to the bbc because there is so much content and so much good content that we are making just for them. can i ask how concerned you are about this missing audience? i think everybody in the media industry is concerned about the kind of challenges that we're facing because people have so much choice now. so it is a challenge for us to be where younger audiences are. and then perhaps bring

them back to the bbc. there is absolutely no point in the bbcjust doing everything that everybody else does. we have to add value. we can'tjust be doing things on youtube, on tiktok, on other platforms that don't add value to people's lives. there are several things that are in place and are being brought into place in bbc news, like bbc young reporter, which is aimed at 11— to 18—year—olds, and is a way in which young people can tell their own stories with support from colleagues inside the bbc across a range of platforms and a range of outlets as well. sophie who emailed in is 12. i was really struck that newsrounds is targeting 6

to 12, newsread is 16 to 20 for even allowing for the young reporter 11 to 18, it does seem there is an obvious gap. what is bbc doing to get younger teenagers? because when you're that age, you tend to be consuming kind of the content that is for slightly older than you. so, you know, sophie, in the piece we saw earlier, mentioned twitch and she mentioned tiktok, i think. all of those platforms are actually aimed at older than her. you've got to be 13 to even start using those platforms. so it's making sure that the content that we have out there is also suitable, i think in news, for all audiences to understand. really being clear in our tone in our language, and simple and just avoiding kind ofjargon and aiming stories

thatare kind of too high, as in, for example, if you're going to do a scientific story, not writing it for the scientific community. you mentioned the challenge ofjargon. actually, cop26 is a perfect example of a story where we know young people really care about climate change. so much of the coverage seems people using really good language talking about carbon emissions. we've had a really hard look at how we are going to approach cop, which is starting this weekend. so we had a really hard look at how we would approach that in news, even to the extent of not calling it cop. if you look at some of the search terms online, a lot of people are googling, what is cop? so we've got to remember that we are saying things like climate change or climate conference and just talking normally

and simply. strikingly, we know audiences are getting more compartmentalised with all the variety of channels and media on offer. it is there a danger at all that bbc news could alienate its older, traditional viewers in trying to appeal to the young? i think the bbc does have to be careful. i think we are aware of this and aware of the complexity around the audience and it being for everyone. as long as we are maintaining that and not being skewed a certain way, say into telling stories or from the south of england for a 50—something audience. as long as we are not falling into those categories or falling into the habit of just telling stories for younger audiences or more urban audiences, and we are keeping in mind

the full picture, i think that, you know, we will meet that challenge because we are so aware of it now, and we know that we need to hit all these different people who we serve. that is who we are there for. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on the bbc news on tv, radio, online and social media, email us, or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc. you can call us and do have a look at our websites for previous interviews. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. skies have cleared across some parts of the country and it's even dried out, but in other areas,

it's raining again. the next weather front is currently moving into western parts of the uk, and the whole weekend is going to be very changeable from rain to sunshine back to rain again. so, here's the satellite picture, and you can see lots of weather systems circling around the north atlantic, some of them moving in. this is the one that's over western parts of the uk right now. so if it's raining where you are at this very moment, it's as a result of this weather front, and you can see it here through the early hours of the morning. the rain will be heaviest around south—western scotland, wales and also the south—west of england. in some areas, there could be 20, 30, maybe even 40mm of rain. at the same time, and this is 7am, it's dry in newcastle, hull and just about dry in london as well. but watch the weather front — it moves into central parts of the uk, it pushes eastwards by late morning. certainly by lunchtime, the bulk of that rain is out in the north sea. and the weather improves across most of the uk.

it's not going to be completely dry, there will be showers around, but there's certainly a lot more sunshine around the second half of the day. 15 in london, around 11 degrees for belfast and also glasgow. then saturday night, a window of opportunity and a window of drier weather before the next area of low pressure sweeps in. certainly worthy of a mention — it's the fact that the clocks go back early hours of sunday. so here we go, sunday's weather map. here's the low pressure moving into the uk. now, a lot of isobars there, pressure lines, so that means there's going to be quite a strong wind blowing into western and south—western parts. galeforce winds, in fact. here's that band of rain in the morning. then by the time we get to lunchtime, the bulk of that rain again is out in the north sea. and it dries out, not completely — some areas, particularly around the irish sea, northern ireland here, we will have showers. now, the good news is for some of the trick—or—treaters, at least, that the skies will be clear enough and i think there'll be

some drier weather around as well. but not completely dry, always some showers about. and the forecast shows that the weather will be changeable through the first half of the week, but towards the end of the week, things should settle down. bye— bye.

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