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Amol Rajan warns BBC destined to shrink at ‘accelerating rate’

Presenter says he is moving to YouTube to avoid being left ‘behind the curve’ as media landscape changes The outgoing Today programme presenter Amol Rajan has warned that the BBC is destined to “get smaller at an accelerating rate”, as he prepares to depart for a new project on YouTube. Rajan, who announced earlier this year that he was leaving BBC News to “unleash my inner entrepreneur” in the creator economy, said

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#3203
First seen
26 Aug 2026, 18:29 UTC
Last checked
27 Aug 2026, 09:00 UTC
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Publisher layer

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Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
26 Aug 2026, 18:15 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Michael Savage Media editor
Section
BBC
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Presenter says he is moving to YouTube to avoid being left ‘behind the curve’ as media landscape changes The outgoing Today programme presenter Amol Rajan has warned that the BBC is destined to “get smaller at an accelerating rate”, as he prepares to depart for a new project on YouTube. Rajan, who announced earlier this year that he was leaving BBC News to “unleash my inner entrepreneur” in the creator economy, said
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    Amol Rajan warns BBC destined to shrink at ‘accelerating rate’

    Presenter says he is moving to YouTube to avoid being left ‘behind the curve’ as media landscape changes The outgoing Today programme presenter Amol Rajan has warned that the BBC is destined to “get smaller at an accelerating rate”, as he prepares to depart for a new project on YouTube. Rajan, who announced earlier this year that he was leaving BBC News to “unleash my inner entrepreneur” in the creator economy, said

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Capture ID
#2848
Observed
26 Aug 2026, 18:29 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
486,430 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt
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