Guardian Media Group wants to take a leading role in any consortium bidding to take over ITV's regional news programming in the north of England, MediaGuardian reports today.
Mark Dodson, chief executive of GMG's regional newspaper division, said the company was keen to take the lead in any pilot scheme to take over news provision in one of the ITV regions in the north of England.
Dodson added that a pilot would need to be run one of ITV's English regions, possibly in addition to a similar trial in either Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, as the requirements for any consortium to provide public service news broadcasting would be significantly different in both.
He said GMG would look to forge partnerships with a number of different organisations to take the idea forward, possibly including radio broadcasters, other newspaper groups and news agency the Press Association.
"I think that GMG would be keen to lead a trial in the north of England on behalf of themselves and the Newspaper Society," Dodson added.
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