Recently I've been ripping-the-piss out of the BBC due to their 'over-the-top' commentary mixed
in with heavy dollop of diversity virtue-signalling and -in my view, a severe Left-leaning agenda
topped with a hint of confirmation for homogeneous social-living.
Anyway, it looks like this sort of behavior has its effects and I find it curious that the BBC's director
general -Lord Tony Hall, is standing down at the same time.
in with heavy dollop of diversity virtue-signalling and -in my view, a severe Left-leaning agenda
topped with a hint of confirmation for homogeneous social-living.
Anyway, it looks like this sort of behavior has its effects and I find it curious that the BBC's director
general -Lord Tony Hall, is standing down at the same time.
Quote:BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive.BBC:
'Around 450 jobs will be cut from BBC News under plans to complete its £80m savings
target by 2022. Outlets to be hit by job closures include BBC Two's Newsnight, BBC Radio
5 Live and the World Update programme on the World Service.
BBC News boss Fran Unsworth said there had to be a move away from traditional broadcasting
and towards digital. But broadcasting union Bectu said the changes mean staff will be "under even
more pressure to deliver".
The job cuts announced on Wednesday include the previously announced closure of BBC Two's
Victoria Derbyshire programme. BBC News currently employs around 6,000 people, including
1,700 outside the UK. Its budget after the changes will be around £480m per year.
Unsworth, who is director of BBC News, said: "The BBC has to face up to the changing way
audiences are using us.
"We need to reshape BBC News for the next decade in a way which saves substantial amounts of
money. We are spending too much of our resources on traditional linear broadcasting and not
enough on digital."
Around 450 jobs will be cut from BBC News under plans to complete its £80m savings target by 2022.
Outlets to be hit by job closures include BBC Two's Newsnight, BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Update
programme on the World Service.
What will be cut?
The corporation announced in 2016 that it needed to save £800m, with around £80m of that figure coming
from News. Just over £40m - around half - of the savings required in BBC News have already been found
over the past four years.
The remaining savings will be found in large part by restructuring the newsroom to adopt a "story-led" model,
which will see planned stories each rolled out across a greater number of programmes and outlets.
The BBC said this would avoid the duplication that occurs from several programmes putting resources into
the same news stories.
However, the changes mean there will be a reduction in the overall number of stories covered, and
Newsnight will produce fewer films. The corporation said further information about which specific jobs
are to go will be announced early in the summer.
Unsworth also said there would be a review of the number of presenters BBC News has and how they work.
While Victoria Derbyshire and World Update will be closed, Unsworth said there are unlikely to be any further
closures of entire programmes or services.
The savings are expected to result in post closures across BBC News as the planning and commissioning of
stories is centralised. The BBC News website will be largely, although not entirely, protected, as the corporation
prepares to invest further in digital, including the launch of a new version of the BBC News app.
The 450 job cuts include around 50 post closures at the World Service that were announced at the end of 2019...'
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