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updates and news reports on the demise of a brazilian footballer seem to me to be just a little bit excessive, perhaps. others put it more strongly, such asjenny fenwick... now to a loss of another kind. after the ending over the past few months of dateline london and the film review — both reported on this programme — a third news channel staple had its final edition on monday, signed off by david eades, who himself left the bbc this week. just to say that tonight has been the final edition of the papers, here on bbc news channel. all i can say now is thanks for watching. the pa...

legend pele is undoubtedly sad and certainly very newsworthy, to have six days of continual updates and news reports on the demise of a brazilian footballer seem to me to be just a little bit excessive, perhaps. others put it more strongly, such asjenny fenwick... now to a loss of another kind. after the ending over the past few months of dateline london and the film review — both reported on this programme — a third news channel staple had its final edition on monday, signed off by david eades, who himself left the bbc this week. just to say that tonight has been the final editi...

Like pmqs was mentioned there, which has been contentious week in, week out for some time. and live is a big component of what we do now, and the audience wants to follow along. and we see that when we alert those things for follow live, the audience comes in millions and they stick with the live page, as well. so it's very much not a clickbait thing. one of the viewers there was saying, shouldn't it be for specific events, and shouldn't you have the option to say, "i just want breaking news alerts," like a courtjudgment or a major incident? yeah, and i think that's a really good piece of feed...

"what's happened now? " but no, it's not breaking news — it's a plug for comment - ianalysis, an article on the bbci news app or website, or there's coverage about to start on the news channel. i sometimes it's an open question and you have to click _ to find the answer — some people call. that "clickbait". so what is the editorial guidance on the use i and abuse of news alerts? well, to answer that very question, i'm joined by stuart miller, the digital news editorfor bbc news. thank you for coming on newswatch. so, has there been a decision to put out more alerts than you used to, and wh...

But fundamentally, we want people to get the biggest stories and the best bbc content and analysis to their phones without them having to go and looking for it. i suppose what some of the viewers feel, which is coming across, is they don't like the idea ofjust getting adverts for bbc news content, because that's not what they signed up for, it's not an alert. yeah, and i think what alerts are has evolved a lot over the last few years, not just for the bbc but for every news organisation — from the days when it was just straightforward breaking news text messages, to much more of a richer con...