BBC stars handed bumper pay rises for podcasts
Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Robinson pocketed some of the BBC’s biggest pay rises last year thanks to podcasting and other BBC sidelines.
Robinson’s annual salary was £410,000-£414,999, making him the corporation’s highest-paid journalist.
The rise from £345,000-£349,999 in the previous financial year was thanks to his weekly hosting of The Today Podcast, plus his interviews with party leaders during the general election. This comes on top of his main role hosting Radio 4’s Today programme.
It can be useful to describe BBC journalists as instructors rather than journalists. From this perspective they instruct viewers on what to notice and what to ignore, how to think about those things they notice and how to discuss them socially.
He allotted a salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are the nurse and the schoolmaster."
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (1862)
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (1862)
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