BBC to cut almost one in 10 staff to make £500m savings

The BBC has announced it will cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs – or almost one in 10 – in an attempt to tackle “significant financial pressures”.

For audiences, the job in hand now over the next three or four years is to make sure that we are delivering the best possible value for money, that we are modernising the BBC, and that we are making sure that we are fit for the future.