{"id":1015324,"date":"2026-06-18T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015324"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:57:29","slug":"bbc-to-cut-550-jobs-in-cost-saving-drive-including-news-division-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/bbc-to-cut-550-jobs-in-cost-saving-drive-including-news-division-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to cut 550 jobs in cost-saving drive, including news division layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London: Britain&#8217;s BBC public service broadcaster will cut 550 jobs, including in its news and content divisions, it said on Wednesday, as part of plans under new director-general Matt Brittin to save \u00a3500 million over the next three \u200cyears. <\/p>\n<p>The BBC \u2060is \u2060facing a battle to stay relevant as viewers, particularly younger audiences, \u200bshift to streamers and other digital platforms. <\/p>\n<p>In March, the corporation named \u200bformer Google executive Brittin as its new director general. At the time, BBC Chair Samir Shah said there \u200bwas a need for radical \u2060reform at \u200cthe publicly funded organisation, and Brittin said \u200bit faced \u200ba moment of &#8220;real risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Britain&#8217;s BBC public service broadcaster will cut 550 jobs, including in its news and content divisions, it said on Wednesday, as part of plans under new director-general Matt Brittin to save \u00a3500 million over the next three \u200cyears. The BBC \u2060is \u2060facing a battle to stay relevant as viewers, particularly younger audiences, \u200bshift to streamers and other digital platforms. In March, the corporation named \u200bformer Google executive Brittin as its new director general. At the time, BBC Chair Samir Shah said there \u200bwas a need for radical \u2060reform at \u200cthe publicly funded organisation, and Brittin said \u200bit faced \u200ba [&hellip;]<\/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-1015324","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\/1015324","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=1015324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015347,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015324\/revisions\/1015347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}