Twitchy Wednesday at BBC News, with Director of News Fran Unsworth preparing to reveal a new vision, to be achieved with a new, smaller workforce. When last reported, she needed to shed 450 jobs - the target will have grown, but how many pixels will there be in the vision ?
BBC England took a very detailed approach in defining their new reduced product - single presentation of regional tv news; no more than six reports in each half hour show; and keeping to lockdown schedules on local radio. Like others before them, they seek serious investment in equipment to automate large elements of tv production; and they've busted one of Lord Hall's attempts to make Birmingham look busy, closing the online production hub that processes news from around the country onto 'local' web pages. What the England announcement didn't do was to be specific about who would have to leave - all grades of staff, except senior management, are 'at risk'.
Fran first announced her 450 target at the end of January. Lord Hall announced that the process to define how that would be achieved had been suspended on 25th March. How much work have Fran's Harvard trusties done since then ?
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