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400 jobs moving out of London in BBC shake-up
THE BBC is shifting 400 roles out of London including whole specialist teams in one of the biggest changes to its structure. 150 jobs will be scrapped rather than moved out of the capital. The cuts are part of 520 job
losses across news that were announced last year and part of a £800 million savings package across the BBC. News is being asked to save £85 million. ’Teams covering the
environment, technology, and education, will move to Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, and Birmingham. Daytime programmes on
Radio 1, Radio 2, and 1Xtra will be broadcast from elsewhere in the UK. Radio 3’s leadership team will go to Salford along with a
moves, raising expectations that there could be a series of high-profile departures. There are plans to create
56 new roles mostly in digital and and because some programmes will be regularly broadcast from outside London. Paul Siegert, NUJ national
number of 6Music’s staff. A third of Radio 4’s Today
programme will broadcast outside London. Newsnight and Radio 4’s PM will also regularly go to other regions. The proportion of the TV
budget spent outside London will increase from 50 per cent to 60 per cent in the next seven years.
Some specialists have voiced doubts about the
broadcasting organiser, said: “We welcome more diversity and creating more content out of London is a good thing, as is extra investment in apprenticeships. However, it’s strange that at the same time the BBC is talking about the importance of getting out of London and investing in the regions as a means of better serving the audience, it has also axed 450 posts in English regions and cut £25 million from that budget.”
“ Plan to ensure journalists’ safety
THE NUJ has welcomed a national safety plan for journalists which was launched by the Government in response to the growing intimidation of reporters, photographers and other media workers. The National Committee for the Safety of Journalists’
plan sets out a range of measures designed to ensure freelance and staff journalists are protected and supported. It also calls on social media platforms to do more to stamp out online abuse, and on the criminal justice system to ensure those who
Delegate meeting deadline
UNION branches have until May 14 to put late notice motions to the postponed delegate meeting, which is being held online on May 21 and 2. Late notice motions are to enable the agenda, which was finalised early last year, to be updated. The union’s national
executive council (NEC) is asking delegates to approve an increase in subscriptions after failing to achieve an increase at the last delegate meeting in April 2018. The proposed increases range
from 6.6 per cent to 12 per cent depending on members’ incomes. Many of the motions in the agenda are already being implemented because there was no opposition from the NEC.
International drive on Belarus
More than 50 leaders of journalists’ unions and
associations across Europe have written to European governments and heads of state to express their deep concerns about the intensification of the repression of journalists in Belarus. The initiative was organised by the European
Federation of Journalists to mark Freedom Day in Belarus on March 25. There are
currently 12 journalists in jail in Belarus and since the elections, which were
held last August 2020 some 480 journalists have been detained.
attack and threaten journalists are brought to justice. A survey of NUJ members last year
found that more than half of respondents had experienced online abuse and nearly a quarter had been physically assaulted or attacked.
Teams covering the environment, technology and education will move to Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow and Birmingham
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RECORD COMPLAINTS OVER PIERS MORGAN Two episodes of Good Morning Britain in which Piers Morgan made comments about the Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey that led to him quitting the show, have attracted the most complaints to the TV regulator ever. Ofcom said the episodes triggered 57,121 complaints, surpassing the previous record of 44,500.
FACEBOOK FACES LAWSUIT IN FRANCE Reporters Without Borders, the freedom of expression campaign group, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in France. It claims that the platform is not providing the ‘safe’ online space that it promises for journalists and the public.
BURSARIES ON OFFER AT THE GUARDIAN The Guardian Foundation is offering bursaries for aspiring journalists to study for an MA in journalism. The awards aim to help those who face financial difficulty in studying, and those from backgrounds that are under-represented in the media. The application deadline is May 22. See
https://workforus.the
guardian.com
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