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Kamal Ahmed: Publishers, don’t dump ‘unreliable’ tech platform ‘boyfriends’

BBC, The News Movement and Reuters leaders respond to Digital News Report findings.

By Charlotte Tobitt

News publishers can still find great value – including revenue – on social media platforms despite them behaving like “unreliable boyfriends,” The News Movement’s editor-in-chief and ex-BBC editorial director Kamal Ahmed has said.

Ahmed and other news leaders, as well as the lead author of the Digital News Report Nic Newman, also discussed why a “one-size-fits-all” model no longer works in news content and distribution.

The comments were made at an event at the Reuters headquarters in London to mark the publication of the Digital News Report.

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