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Former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson: “US TV News Is In Dead Trouble”

17.11.2021 - 16:27

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Former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson has said US TV news is in “dead trouble” as it loses audiences under the age of 60.Thompson, who used to be BBC Director General and ran the NYT between 2012 and 2020, described US news channels as being “completely unchanged” since the 1980s, stating that the UK has done more to innovate during that time.“News feels like a particularly old-fashioned style of broadcasting aimed entirely at older audiences,” he said at today’s Freeview Outside the Box event. “I live in the US and [TV news] seems completely unchanged since the 1980s.

I think it is in dead trouble.”News broadcasters’ greatest challenge is to reinvent the experience of serious journalism for a smartphone generation, argued Thompson, who