BBC to cut an estimated 450 jobs in modernization plan.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.LONDON -- The BBC said Wednesday that plans to “modernize” the British broadcaster's newsroom will lead to the loss of an estimated 450 jobs.
BBC News employs about 6,000 people, including 1,700 outside the U.K., according to an article about the job cuts on its website. “We need to reshape BBC News for the next decade in a way which saves substantial amounts of money,” Unsworth said. “We are spending too much of our resources on traditional linear broadcasting and not enough on digital.”Like traditional news outlets throughout the world, the publicly funded BBC faces financial and political pressure in a fast-changing media landscape.have criticized BBC's coverage of the U.K.’s impending departure from the European Union.
The broadcaster also received negative coverage over the salaries of some in the news division that were regarded as too high and for a gap between what the BBC's women journalists made compared to male counterparts.
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