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BBC Trust publishes 2011/2012 workplan, which includes an impartiality review of the broadcaster's coverage of the Arab Spring with the findings due to be published later this summer
Posted by James Chapple on 02/04/12Helen Boaden: BBC network news to cut 140 roles by April 2013
Director of BBC News Helen Boaden tells staff where cuts will be made, which includes the loss of three Newsnight reporters and 17 news service jobs in Radio 1 and 1Xtra
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 27/03/12Myers: BBC stations can save by 'sharing' managing editors
A review of BBC local radio by Radio Academy CEO John Myers recommends cutting the number of managing editors and sharing the role across stations to save costs
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 27/02/12Strikes avoided after BBC agrees to delay new terms
Strike ballot called off after broadcaster agrees to delay implementing changes to terms and conditions for new staff by nine months
Posted by Joel Gunter on 28/11/11Review finds BBC Online weaknesses 'effectively addressed'
A review commissioned by the BBC Trust found weaknesses in BBC Online management controls identified in 2008 have been addressed and that greater transparency has been adopted
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 08/11/11NUJ to ballot on no-confidence vote in BBC director general
Union announces first no-confidence vote in a BBC director general in response to the broadcaster's Delivering Quality First programme
Posted by Joel Gunter on 03/11/11BBC must 'strengthen' savings approach, says NAO
A report by the National Audit Office identifies lessons to be learnt for further savings being taken by the BBC under the 2010 licence fee settlement
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 02/11/11Unions to issue strike ballot after BBC rejects proposals
NUJ and Bectu warn of strike action before Christmas after BBC rejects proposals on Delivering Quality First cuts
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26/10/11BBC to scrap Ariel print edition after 75 years
Delivering Quality First cuts will cost the broadcaster's communications department 30 jobs, including four at Ariel, which will go online-only from December
Posted by Joel Gunter on 20/10/11BBC defends Thompson's 'robust exchange' over cuts
Director general Mark Thompson heavily criticised by the National Union of Journalists after he told staff: 'no one is forcing you to stay'
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17/10/11Helen Boaden: Staff will 'bear the brunt' of cuts in BBC News
Director of news at the BBC Helen Boaden told staff that the News group will be cutting between 700 to 800 full time posts in savings bid
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 07/10/11BBC to cut nearly 2,000 jobs
BBC confirms around 2,000 jobs at risk as it outlines proposals to make savings of £670 million a year
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 06/10/11Bectu considers legal action over BBC Wales job cuts
Media union Bectu claims to have had no contact from the BBC since a 24-hour strike on Friday and is now preparing documents for its solicitors
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 04/10/11BBC Wales redundancy strike suspended
Broadcast union BECTU has agreed to suspend its planned 24-hour strike pending the outcome of appeals by members of staff at risk of redundancy
Posted by Joel Gunter on 19/08/11BBC Wales staff to strike over planned redundancies
Union announces 24-hour strike over four editors and one assistant producer due to be made redundant on 31 August
Posted by Joel Gunter on 18/08/11#jpod in depth: Strikers on BBC picket lines
#jpod looks at the BBC strikes, speaking to NUJ members on the picket lines and Jonathan Lovett father of the chapel for the NUJ at Tindle Newspapers in Enfield, on winning concessions from management
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/08/11BBC journalists plan indefinite work to rule
Second strike over compulsory redundancies is due to take place on Monday with indefinite work to rule to follow
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/07/11No closures in BBC local radio, Mark Thompson tells staff
BBC director general has assured staff that no stations will be closed and there will be no full or part merger of local radio and Radio 5Live
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/07/11BBC news programmes disrupted by strike
Today programme delayed and BBC Breakfast cancelled as thousands of journalists walk out over compulsory redundancies
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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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BBC savings given green light as local radio cuts halved
The BBC Trust asked the broadcaster to scale back proposed cuts to local radio, but has approved others, including a 'new all-England programme' for stations on weekday evenings
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 16/05/12