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BBC boss Tim Davie to crack down on staff airing views on social media — www.theguardian.com

Fresh off the distraction about whether the BBC's comedy unit is biased against the Conservative government, the new director general of the BBC says he wants to focus on impartiality after accusations of bias in its news coverage. Tim Davie (coincidentally a former Tory councillor) is keen that the BBC not be seen to do its job in keeping the government in check, and to that end has issued an edict that its journalists remain completely impartial on social media:

"'If you want to be an opinionated columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media then that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC,' he said in a speech to staff at the BBC’s office in Cardiff. Davie said that staff would have to adhere to new social media rules that will be 'rigorously enforced'."

It comes only a few months after Will Lewis, the former boss of Dow Jones and ex-Financial Times editor Lionel Barber expressed similar sentiments. They were similarly wrong. Audiences - particularly the young audiences the BBC desperately needs to court - are savvy enough to realise that journalists are people and that people hold opinions. We do our audiences a disservice if we pretend they're not smart enough to realise that. As with Davies' approach to comedy commissioning, this won't save the BBC - and in fact might hasten its demise.

Regional publishers hit back at Facebook's 'inflammatory' threat to ban news sharing in Australia — www.theguardian.com

Thank god this situation has calmed down. No, wait, exactly the opposite has happened: the president of Country Press Australia, Bruce Ellen, says the social media giant’s response is ‘preemptive’ of negotiations and the situation has been enflamed. At least Facebook's got the criticism of its election responsibilities under control...

City AM delays print return as commuter audience slow to get back into office — www.pressgazette.co.uk

While City AM's fellow metro freesheet The Evening Standard urges people to get back to work (against the public's will but surely coincidentally better for the Standard's balance sheet), City AM itself is delaying its return to print in line with the public response.

Why we should be talking about the transformation of publishing, not its decline — www.nichepublishers.com.au

Finally, a hopeful entreaty from Lyndsie Clark, who argues that Australia's current market presents opportunities for the publishers who understand the economic climate and how it impacts their business.

Listen up: Podcast lessons from Terri White

Lessons from award-winning publisher podcasts — voices.media

Empire's Terri White is a favourite of the Media Voices team - she even appeared on our 100th episode spectacular. In this special additional episode, she explains to Peter why the Pilot TV Podcast has been so successful.

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