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Bad news for BBC as corporation plans £80m of cuts to current affairs output

on Mar 1, 2016 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

BBC News staff have been warned of a fresh round of cutbacks targeted at the department as the corporation seeks to make savings of £80m over the next four years.

Announcing the decision to staff yesterday James Harding, the BBC’s head of news, said that the reduction in spending was a ‘working assumption’ and would come on top of £5m in savings already agreed as part of a separate £150m cost cutting plan through to 2017.

The latest measure forms part of a wider ambition to save £550m a year by 2021-22 and has fuelled speculation on the future of Radio 5 Read full story ›

Source: The Drum