Former BBC head of politics Katy Searle, six months away from Auntie, says there are big decisions ahead about cuts within BBC News. She says the merger of BBC World News and the BBC News doesn't work for viewers in the UK, and expects changes in the years ahead.
The debate about Newsnight funding, she says, is because "audience levels are very, very small". She also puts a bigger figure than most on the current Newsnight budget: "Is it really the right thing to do to spend £13m on a programme that's only watched by 300,000 ?".
"Programmes like the Today programme are running on tiny amounts of staff now, and for me that is a real concern. The reputation that the programme rightly still continues to hold is under the threat if the resources are cut so thin that they aren't able to do their journalism to the standards that they should".
All this, and much more, in the first of a new season of Beeb Watch podcasts from Roger Bolton.
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