BBC slashes 450 newsroom jobs in shift to digital

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The cuts are in addition to 50 jobs losses announced late last year, meaning the BBC is planning to shed 500 of its 6,000 news staff.

"We need to reshape BBC News for the next decade in a way which saves substantial amounts of money," Fran Unsworth, director of news and current affairs, said in a statement."We are spending too much of our resources on traditional linear broadcasting and not enough on digital."

The BBC said its newsrooms will in future focus on fewer stories and reorganize around a"story-led" model, with more journalists based outside of London. The story teams will be organized around topics such as culture, technology and innovation, money and work, the planet, and politics. Unsworth said the news division needs to save £80 million by 2022, due to"pressures across the BBC." About half of those savings have already been reached, but the network had to find new ways to reach audiences and save more money, she added.

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