BBC Online and TV news 'worst hit'
Updated on 15 October 2007
BBC websites, TV news and BBC Scotland are among the areas set to be affected by budget cuts, it has been reported.
Director-general Mark Thompson is due to tell staff on Thursday which departments will be worst hit by redundancies.
Up to 2,800 jobs could go as the BBC seeks to make annual savings of 3% in order to meet a £2 billion funding shortfall.
Mr Thompson has already signalled that the BBC will reduce the number of web pages it produces.
News is also likely to be hard hit, as radio, TV and online operations are integrated, according to the MediaGuardian website. A source said the number of stories on the BBC news website will be reduced and they will be updated less often.
More than half of the BBC's TV news programme editors are said to be facing the axe.
BBC Scotland and potentially BBC Wales are also due to be affected by the cuts, although the BBC Trust wants these proposals to be watered down, according to MediaGuardian.
Mr Thompson will present his plans to the Trust on Wednesday and address staff at 10am on Thursday.
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons said that no area of the BBC is safe from the efficiency drive.
"There is no part of the BBC's output that can be exempt from the search for better value. There are no protected areas. If you can do things more effectively in any area, even the priority areas of news and current affairs, then you have to make those savings," he said.
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