BBC chief to spell out job cuts
BBC staff will hear details today of plans to axe up to 2,800 jobs to help plug a £2bn (€2.9bn) funding shortfall, which could lead to a wave of strikes by journalists and broadcasting workers.
A series of briefings will be held at BBC offices across the UK to announce where the cuts will be made, with several hundred jobs expected to be axed in the BBC’s factual division, which makes programmes such as 'Planet Earth' and 'Top Gear', around 600 in news, 80 in sport as well as cuts in Scotland, Wales and in the corporation’s online business.
