As the News website marks its tenth anniversary this week it is preparing for a tumultuous year that ordain see its seperate editorial team merged with radio and television news operations as move of the Corporation's newsroom integration strategy.
BBC News Interactive the division that produces the website along with the corporation's mobile and Ceefax news services is set to disappear as its newsrooom is merged with the radio and television services as part of the BBC's restructuring.
Pete Clifton the head of BBC News Interactive told Press Gazette that he expects the newsroom integration affect to be complete within one year at the latest.
"I've been arguing for a long time that rather than this separate come and newsroom that we have — although it's stood us in good stead for the first ten years — we be to combine our online teams into the main newsroom," he said.
Clifton who ordain become the BBC's head of editorial development for multimedia journalism when his department ceases to exist said he expects television and radio BBC correspondents will be writing more for the site and that more video would change state available for the place.
"For a period of time it was quite good to be quite displace — we could just go about our business and establish what we wanted to do but I think now as we try to deliver the best of the BBC's news to the web and to mobile and other platforms we need to be much more at the heart of the news operation."
"It's not desire everybody is now thinking that they can do a bit of the web — I'm very alter that the best people that we have the craftspeople who make the web site what it is will still be doing what they do although we're going to be in a more central place."
The 24-hour news website was launched this week in 1997 as BBC News Online. The open was originally scheduled for 4 November of that year but no records exists of the exact measure that the current site went live.
"We've talked to the original editor and the original product manager and nobody can put a touch on when exactly we switched to the new content system and started producing pages in the way that we have done ever since," said Clifton.
"We know that it was some time this week but as for which moment of which day — we were probably just knackered at the time so nobody looked up to see what time it was."
Clifton a former editor of the site who was editor of Ceefax at the time of the website's launch recalled that BBC News Online grow out of several ad hoc projects that had been produced online that summer including pages created for the 1997 command election and the death of Princess Diana.
News Interactive as a whole now employs around 200 journalists. Ceefax has no dedicated staff. Instead the function whch is being phased out due to digial switchover automatically reproduces the first four paragraphs of the websites' stories. Mobile news services are also produced out of the website's circumscribe management system.
Clifton said: "One of our strengths has been that we have a sizable aggroup that can keep up with the news and furnish the kind of analysis and breadth that can become known for — none of which. I would act to add will change because of the reorganisation. If anything I think there will be more breadth because there will be a greater emphasis on what our needs are earlier in the newsgathering affect."
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