![]() ![]() “There will be people – both inside and outside the BBC – who’ll worry this change means less investigative journalism across BBC News. “It simply no longer makes sense to keep a bespoke reporting team dedicated to a single news programme with a small and declining audience, however good that programme is,” she wrote. “We’ll all have our own memories of Newsnight – from Jeremy Paxman famously repeating the same question to Michael Howard to the Prince Andrew interview,” she wrote.īut she added that the BBC had streamlined editorial teams to avoid duplication. In a blogpost, Turness addressed the decision to cut Newsnight to 30 minutes, praising its impact since its debut on 30 January 1980. ![]() While TV and radio remain crucial to BBC News, we must invest in our digital platforms to ensure they are also the home of our very best journalism, and today’s package of measures will accelerate this transformation.” Turness said: “Like many businesses, we are in a tough financial climate and as our audiences shift rapidly from TV to online news consumption, we need to make choices about where we allocate our resources. Panorama will continue as the flagship current affairs brand on BBC One, with no change in the number of hours, while a new BBC News Investigations unit will be created and BBC Verify will get a boost. The corporation said the programme would become a 30-minute discussion programme showcasing “the best of the BBC’s talent and news-making interviews to make sense of the day’s news”.Īs part of the BBC’s plan to cut 1,000 hours of content, the Our World documentary strand on the News channel – which bills itself as “BBC journalism at its best, with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics” – will be axed, and BBC Two will make nine fewer hours of single documentaries each year. More than half of Newsnight’s 60 jobs will be lost. The corporation expects the changes to save £7.5m as part of its plan to cut spending by £500m. ![]() BBC Breakfast, also broadcast from Salford, will be extended by 15 minutes, she said. An extended hour-long edition of BBC News at One will be relocated to Salford, making it the only daily BBC national news bulletin to be broadcast outside London. ![]()
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