More meetings

If you were an embattled news organisation about to shed 450 journalists, and wanted to get more bang for your bucks out of those who remained, what would you do first ?

Yes, of course, that's right; I'm sorry it was so obvious. Set up a committee to choose what stories to cover. And that's just what they're doing at Broadcasting House. It'll be led by Paul Royall, who already brings you the tv bulletins on BBC1, and Debbie Ramsay who minds Newsbeat on Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and it will feature the brains of people working on BBC Breakfast, marketing, audience engagement, yoof, diversity, women's issues, podcasts and all that good stuff. Bound to work, eh ?

Meanwhile, in another part of piloting a smaller workforce, Nisha Kapur will lead a team providing stories under the heading "Growing Up, Learning and Identity".

Nisha is currently commissioning editor for BBC Africa. She's well connected - only last year she was spotted with now-Culture Minister John Whittingdale and a possible replacement for Lord Hall.