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.
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They are busy looking for any bad news about Trump, Boris, or Brexit. If the news is good, a special team are on hand to subtly downgrade it and construct suitable innuendos. They also have to have several stories every day about climate change, plastic, or anything that makes middle class people feel guilty about their lifestyles and consumption. Then they have to find stories about transsexuals, and women who get paid less than men for doing the same job. Both of those are pretty rare, so it takes quite a big team to locate them. And they need to find stories about plump women with blue hair who live with two ginger blokes in provincial towns. It is, you will readily admit, quite a sizeable operation, and not one you could shed staff from without compromising quality.
I’m frankly surprised that they can produce so much quality content with such a small staff. /sarc
Good news indeed, let it continue.
As Sam says, it takes a lot of people to dredge up all their junk scare stories about Trump, Brexit and climate change. It also requires skill to divert them from reporting anything about the gilets jaunes protests in France, in progress for over 60 weeks or so by now, and from finding any negative stories from Spain, Belgium, Sweden or other EU nations
Sam - all excellent points. I suppose it isn't easy for uninstructed outsiders to understand how much effort all this requires.
Timbotoo - me too :)
James - if possible at frequent intervals.
Graeme - yes it's like dancing on eggshells. Quite an achievement in some ways.
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