LONDON, July 15 — The BBC said today it will go ahead with hundreds of newsroom staff cuts delayed during the coronavirus crisis, as UK media outlets reel from the pandemic’s economic fallout. The British broadcaster, which announced in January it planned to axe 450 newsroom jobs to meet...
The BBC said today it will go ahead with hundreds of newsroom staff cuts delayed during the coronavirus crisis, as UK media outlets reel from the pandemic’s economic fallout. — AFP pic
The redundancies, which were paused as the Covid-19 crisis hit Britain severely from March, will now be implemented “in stages”, it said. In separate streamlining moves previously unveiled, the BBC will also shed hundreds of jobs in its sprawling regional operations. The move follows an announcement last week by Reach, which publishes national newspapers the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, and a string of local titles, to cut about 550 jobs.
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