The BBC has today announced that around 450 jobs will be cut from BBC News as part of wider plans to complete its £80m savings target by 2022. The area’s most hit by the job closures include BBC Two’s Newsnight, BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Update programme on the World Service. The BBC News boss Fran Unsworth said there had to be a move away from traditional broadcasting and towards digital (very much like UNN). UNN has our contributors, we can only dream of employing 450 people yet alone axing 450 jobs to save money. 

BBC News currently employs around 6,000 people, including 1,700 outside the UK. According to its own website following these changes the BBC News budget will be around £480m per year. Ms. Unsworth the 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 five to 10 years in a way that saves substantial amounts of money. We are spending too much of our resources on traditional linear broadcasting and not enough on digital.”

The remaining savings that need to be found will in large part be found 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, also known as the repetition of news. The BBC announced in 2016 it needed to save £800m by 2020. The BBC really struggles to connect with many British people , especially those from poorer socio-economic backgrounds, and those under 35. This move is being seen by many as a move to address this balance. Although do young people not watch television in general, is this the beginning of the end of the BBC.

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