They've done it in schools for a while - two headteachers are replaced by one executive head who shuttles between sites, and everything's marvellous.
Now they're doing it in BBC Local Radio. Radio Today has discovered that at least eight BBC station bosses are taking a redundancy deal or moving on. For the time being, Lancashire and Merseyside will have one editor, as will York and Humberside, Oxford and Berkshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. At other stations where there are vacancies, Assistant Editors will 'act up'.
A BBC spokesman says (do I sense a smirk ?) "Our listeners will not notice any difference as a result of these changes.”
One presumes, with the cancellation of the regional weekly Inside Out, some similar manoeuvres are to follow in regional tv news, and the general superstructure that runs the Nations & Regions....
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