Hundreds of jobs to go as BBC announces World Service cutbacks

The BBC has announced deep cuts to its World Service output that will result in the loss of hundreds of jobs, saying it has been forced to act by the government’s ongoingIn a move that could weaken the UK’s soft power around the world, the corporation will stop producing radio output in 10 languages, including Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic.

The World Service was traditionally funded directly by the government and was seen as a soft power tool that provided British news and information to hundreds of millions of people around the globe. This money largely dried up as part of George Osborne’s austerity measures in 2010,Since then the BBC has had to go cap-in-hand to the government to seek extra funding to support specific World Service projects, with ministers providing around £400m in additional cash since 2016.

Some foreign-language World Service teams based in London will move to the countries they serve, such as Thai services shifting to Bangkok, the Korean service to Seoul, and the Bangla service to Dhaka. Several staff on those services said they expect to take redundancy rather than relocate, resulting in a loss of institutional knowledge.

BBC has grown big like Loch Ness monster They should be about British news Now the have dumb dear daughter Gupta's India Crowd science Endless news n politic review n discussion We dont want to know about Truss & cronies BBCNews

“And now the memorial of QE2 is done, we turn off the lights one final time.”

Incredible. One of the few positive influences the UK has internationally. Foot. Gun. Shoot.

This, along with cuts to the ABC (Lateline, World Today and PM), means that our access to quality international reporting is shrinking smaller and smaller. But hey, at least the rich get a nice tax break.

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