Quite the longest of yesterday's explanatory missives about how BBC News will work with 500 fewer staff comes from UK News Content (née UK Newsgathering). It's about three pages long. Normally, when I'm looking for examples of over-written blah from the BBC, I have to choose bits. I could have chosen any of it...
The On the Day team will be our 24/7 central logistical and content hub, bringing together deployments, gathering and content sharing. It will support all our output and editorial teams on the day’s main UK and international stories – particularly breaking and developing news, and provide material to outlets, be that copy, stills or other content. It brings together functions currently spread across UK and World Newsgathering, News Intake, Operations, and some output teams. It will focus on the day’s top UK and global developing and breaking stories, as agreed at the day’s key editorial meetings, and be the point of contact with Story teams and Outlets, taking an overview of how specialist resources are being used. Specifically, this means: co-ordinating breaking news information, deployments, gathering and distribution of ready-to-run content to all outlets – focusing on key copy, footage, audio/video clips, stills, guests and contributors, UGC, BBC expert analysis and graphics. The multi-skilled team will be organised around ‘Live’, ‘Content’ and ‘Production’ – with UK and global-facing roles, and new multiskilled Journalist and Journalism Researcher roles. The aim of this new working and staffing model, which has been tested over recent months, is to reduce duplication, simplify our processes and improve communication and speed.
News staff have been issued with invitations to follow-up HR and Wellbeing Sessions on Zoom. It makes you want to cry.
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