BBC told to emulate Buzzfeed by producing 'informal' short videos where reporter acts as a 'friend'

BBC journalists have been told to follow youth-friendly media such as Buzzfeed and Vice by making more “dynamic” and “informal” short videos in which the reporter acts as “a friend” to the viewer. The BBC’s “Project Newstream” has drawn up guidelines, seen by The Independent, in which reporters are instructed to produce “snappy, energetic” films of...