BBC: plan for regional hubs makes financial sense and is good politics for the government

By Matt Walsh, Head of the school of journalism, media and culture, Cardiff University

The BBC is calling it a “blueprint for the biggest transformation in decades”. The UK’s national public service broadcaster has announced plans to move hundreds of journalists’ jobs and some programme commissioning out of London, to strengthen both local reporting and the creative economy in the UK’s nations and regions.

With hard questions about the BBC’s long-term financial future being asked, it is one of new director general Tim Davie’s big…

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