By Jessica Goodfellow

The BBC has disputed reports that many of its journalists are paid up to 40 per cent more than their rivals at commercial broadcasters, saying national newspapers “overegged” salary reports to play into licence fee payer concerns.

While the internal salary report shows some middle ranking grades to be noticeably higher than peers at commercial broadcasters such as ITV, the notion that this applies to all BBC journalists is misleading, the BBC said. Some journalists at the public broadcaster are up to 20 per cent below market base.

The broadcaster pointed out that what the reports fail to take into account is Read full story ›

Source: The Drum