Telegraph editor: BBC, CNN now top competitors
By Alexandra Zeumer, Monday 26 May 2008 at 20:51 :: Competition :: #1700 :: rss
Telegraph Media Group’s editor-in-chief told the Google Zeitgeist conference that the arrival of multimedia reporting means he now sees CNN and the BBC as the Telegraph's main competition, Journalism.co.uk reported Friday.
Will Lewis, who spoke at the event last week, told delegates that when it comes to online, the Telegraph is looking past traditional competition on Fleet Street and concentrating on consumers’ needs.
Unlike other newspaper publishing companies, however, Lewis said he does not believe Google or other online news referral sites as rivals of the Telegraph, but instead as sites that benefit the publication.
“A lot of people in our industry think Google is an enemy. We love Google; it brings an enormous amount of business to our door. We love Digg too, it brings enormous amounts of business to us. Embrace the people that help you grow a new business is our general mantra,” Lewis said, according to Journalism.co.uk.
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