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BBC World Service audience drops by 14m in past year
Service closures and cuts to World Service funding has reduced the BBC's reach around the globe but online audience increases
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 12/07/11BBC strike to take place next week
Members of the National Union of Journalists vote for strike action over compulsory redundancies at the World Service
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 08/07/11Lord Patten to scrap BBC executive bonuses
Trust chairman says BBC director general's pay would be capped and senior managers' perks 'phased out'
Posted by Joel Gunter on 07/07/11Lord Patten signals cuts to 'toxic' executive pay at BBC
BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten says executive pay 'seems to fly in the face of public service ethos'
Posted by Joel Gunter on 04/07/11Foreign Office pledges extra funding for BBC World Service
Foreign secretary William Hague says the 'world has changed' since the settlement was announced last year
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 22/06/11BBC journalists to begin strike ballot over job cuts this week
NUJ confirmed this morning that a strike ballot over the threat of compulsory redundancies will begin on Friday
Posted by Joel Gunter on 15/06/11BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten vows to protect World Service from cuts
Patten indicated that either BBC3 or BBC4 could be axed in bid to free up funding
Posted by Joel Gunter on 13/06/11#polis11: BBC impartiality 'an ongoing, daily battle', says news director
Speaking at the POLIS Value of Journalism conference Helen Boaden says impartiality "is not a simple thing" but is the core of BBC's journalism
Posted by Joel Gunter on 10/06/11MPs call for reversal of World Service funding cuts
Motion tabled by Richard Ottaway MP to review proposed cuts to broadcaster's budget receives cross-party support at House of Commons debate
Posted by Joel Gunter on 19/05/11Hague rejects committee's call to ringfence World Service from cuts
Foreign affairs committee said that the Service's income should be ringfenced against spending cuts to secure its 'value to the nation'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 18/05/11BBC News job cuts 'a slap in the face', says NUJ
Broadcaster has announced 45 more job cuts at its news division, following 420 over the past four years
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/05/11NUJ to ballot BBC journalists for strike action next week
Union to ballot staff over 100 journalists across the broadcaster said to be facing compulsory redundancy
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28/04/11MPs warn of 'major long term ramifications' of BBC World Service cuts
A report published today advises World Service's income should be ring-fenced against further cuts to secure its 'value to the nation'
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 13/04/11MP slams 'enormous' waste of money at former employer BBC
Roger Gale spoke out today against senior management pay levels and proposals to severely cut back BBC local radio services
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/04/11BBC defends coverage of anti-cuts march after accusations of bias
Director of BBC News Helen Boaden admitted that it is difficult to 'strike the correct balance' but said that the broadcaster served its audiences 'appropriately and thoroughly'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30/03/11BBC local radio cuts risk 700 job losses, claims NUJ
Union has condemned proposals to replace local news and programmes with Radio 5 Live
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 11/03/11World Service may be spared some job cuts after 'fantastic' coverage of Arab uprisings
BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks tells the Foreign Affairs Select Committee: 'We maybe able to alter some of these job losses'
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 10/03/11World Service to retain Hindi broadcast while it seeks commercial funding
News and current affairs output in Hindi was due to be shut in spending cuts but will be kept 'for an interim period'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 07/03/11BBC to scrap 31 current affairs posts in restructure
Cuts at department responsible for producing Panorama follow recent job losses at the World Service and online division as savings take effect
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'There's no fat to cut away here': BBC Sussex staff join nationwide strikes
BBC journalists in Brighton manned a picket line from 4am as part of nation-wide strikes by NUJ members at the broadcaster
Posted by Joel Gunter on 1 August 2011BBC to close down Religion and Ethics messageboards
'Relatively few' users results in the closure of BBC Religion and Ethics message boards, but a blog will rise from the ashes
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 June 2011Guardian: BBC proposal to 'pool' journalists across Today, Newsnight and Panorama
BBC News director Helen Boaden outlined the idea of a pooled team of journalists to staff on Tuesday, the Guardian reports
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 May 2011Switched off: Two more BBC World Service languages have ceased broadcasting
BBC Caribbean Service and the BBC Russian Service have broadcast their final programmes after seven decades of service
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 28 March 2011BBC announces special swansong for Russian-language broadcasts
A week of special programmes sees the end of the BBC Russian service in March, with a live weekend programme titled Pyatiy Etazh
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 24 March 2011Independent: BBC savings have to come from somewhere
BBC Delivering Quality First review attempts to find ways of coping with no increase in the licence fee for the next five years through cuts
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 March 2011'Hope will be denied to millions of our listeners': World Service staff protest against cuts
Rachel McAthy reports from the NUJ protest against cuts outside the BBC World Service offices
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26 January 2011BBC Internet Blog: Domains earmarked for closure by the end of the year
The BBC Trust has revealed up to 360 posts within BBC Online are to be cut by 2013 and there are plans to halve the number of 'top level domains'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 25 January 2011Guardian: Cuts will see World Service merged with BBC News, says Thompson
BBC Director general Mark Thompson said in an interview with the Media Guardian he aims to save half a billion pounds a year by slashing overheads
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 6 December 2010#bbcstrike: What's going on at the BBC today?
The BBC strike as curated through Storify
Posted by Laura Oliver on 5 November 2010Guardian: Hundreds of jobs at risk at BBC World Service
Government funding cuts in BBC World Service funding will result in job losses at the 'staff-heavy' organisation, says Peter Horrocks, director of BBC Global News
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 4 November 2010BECTU members apply to NUJ in order to join BBC strikes
Activists from the media and entertainment union Bectu are applying to join the National Union of Journalists so they can take part in planned strike action at the BBC over pensions
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 November 2010Details of BBC funding cuts leaked ahead of spending review
George Osbourne's comprehensive spending review outlining the changes the government has made to BBC funding is formally announced after leaks
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 20 October 2010BBC staff unions to hold meetings on scheduled strike dates
The NUJ, BECTU and Unite hold meetings to allow members to put further questions to union officials about the BBC pensions row
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 October 2010BBC unions prepare staff for strike action
The NUJ and BECTU have published a Q&A for members about the strikes over pension proposals at the BBC
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 September 2010BBC pensions update - strike ballot result expected today
BBC staff unions are expected to announce the result of a ballot for strike action following pension proposals which could see the introduction of a one per cent cap on increases in pensionable salary and the closure of the final-salary scheme to new joiners
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 1 September 2010NUJ Release: Thousands of BBC journalists to strike over compulsory redundancy risk
The focus of industrial action will be the World Service's South Asian section where up to 20 positions are at risk of being cut
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NUJ accuses BBC of 'avoiding talks' in run up to strike
National Union of Journalists says management shows 'no real interest' in talks about compulsory redundancies
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14/07/11