Chris Waiting News Today

Chris Waiting, chief executive of The Conversation, shares why he fears an end to the BBC licence fee could threaten the future of its journalism.

This is a transcript of The youth movement grows up, part four of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast

They said the Covid-19 pandemic had played a “significant role” in the closure because their set-up was designed to avoid the daily news cycle and focus on longer-term structural developments around the world. Ten staff members will lose their jobs when the website closes at the end of the year. The site had correspondents based in the UK, US, Nigeria, India, Italy and Argentina. The English-language The Correspondent was launched by the team behind the Dutch De Correspondent, which began i...