Giving evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee

On February 22nd 2022 I gave oral evidence to the House of Lords' Communications and Digital Committee’s inquiry into BBC future funding.

You can watch a video of the session here.

This was the first evidence session, so the focus was less on the BBC specifically, and more on setting the scene by looking at broad trends in the media, and thinking about what future trends might be.

I’ve summarised what I said in the Twitter thread below, and linked to some of the underlying evidence - most of which comes from the Digital News Report.

On Tuesday I gave evidence to the House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee inquiry into BBC future funding.

Here’s a short thread summarising the data on UK news use/attitudes behind what I said.

Video in tweet below.https://t.co/OEuig71TYh

— Richard Fletcher (@richrdfletcher) February 24, 2022