The BBC

[OTL]

BBC News

BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings...In an email to staff, the corporation laid out proposals for the initial 200 job losses in the news division.

 

[dermott]

BBC News

BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings...In an email to staff, the corporation laid out proposals for the initial 200 job losses in the news division.

Rooney first out the door!

 

[OTL]

Rooney first out the door!

might have been Huw Edwards?

perhaps they should just increase the licence fee ?

 

[PloKoon13]

Brittin has been there for all of 30 seconds and is already making swingeing cuts.

If the anti-BBC propaganda spewing from the craven legislators-for-hire wearing blue rosettes means that I lose Radio 4, it's guillotine time.

 

[PloKoon13]

Correspondents being told to prioritise online braindead content over the Today Programme:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/27/today-programme-bbc-social-digital-content-radio-4

Brittin is an incredibly clever man, mimicking the approach which has worked so well for Reach, DMG, and the Observer. (Er...)

What's next? I'm going to take a wild guess that it will involve something along the lines of a 'strategic digital partnership'. (Translation: get rid of 20% of the hacks and feed everything into ChatGPT)

 

[dermott]

Correspondents being told to prioritise online braindead content over the Today Programme:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/27/today-programme-bbc-social-digital-content-radio-4

Brittin is an incredibly clever man, mimicking the approach which has worked so well for Reach, DMG, and the Observer. (Er...)

What's next? I'm going to take a wild guess that it will involve something along the lines of a 'strategic digital partnership'. (Translation: get rid of 20% of the hacks and feed everything into ChatGPT)

Beyond despair.