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Original title :
BBC News to Cut 450 jobs

Yes bound to happen.


Was just on SkyNewsHD newsflash

[BBC News’ Director, News & Current Affairs, Fran Unsworth,
is leading a meeting explaining the ‘modernisation’
of the BBC to around 130 employees in the room,
and many more elsewhere watching on an internal live stream.
She has announced 450 job losses…
The major restructuring will focus on pooling
resources into “multi-skilled story teams”,
instead of the current farce of the BBC
sending multiple news crews to the same event
to cover it for different programmes.
At major events such as party conferences
sometimes the bloated BBC contingent
is as numerous as all the rest of the media combined.
It is bonkers that individual programmes have their
own economics, science, and tech presenters
when they are only occasionally used…
The BBC is belatedly and brutally making the
decisions it would have have been forced
to make a long time ago if it were
run like a for-proft company.
The way to avoid big ruptures like this
in the future is to move
to a sustainable subscription-based model…]