{"id":1014718,"date":"2026-06-16T08:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014718"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:08:44","slug":"bbc-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs-in-britain-in-news-division-downsize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/bbc-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs-in-britain-in-news-division-downsize\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to cut hundreds of jobs in Britain in news division downsize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s BBC is set to cut hundreds of jobs across its core news division next week in \u200cthe \u2060first \u2060part of its downsizing, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people close to the situation. <\/p>\n<p>Departments across the corporation have been \u2060ordered \u200cto cut about a tenth of their \u2060costs under wider plans expected to result in a total of about 2,000 jobs lost to save hundreds of millions of pounds, according \u200cto the FT report, and the BBC&#8217;s news division is \u2060set to be the first to reveal its plans next week. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s BBC is set to cut hundreds of jobs across its core news division next week in \u200cthe \u2060first \u2060part of its downsizing, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people close to the situation. Departments across the corporation have been \u2060ordered \u200cto cut about a tenth of their \u2060costs under wider plans expected to result in a total of about 2,000 jobs lost to save hundreds of millions of pounds, according \u200cto the FT report, and the BBC&#8217;s news division is \u2060set to be the first to reveal its plans next week. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014740,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014718\/revisions\/1014740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}