BBC World Service to cut 130 roles to save £6m in the next year BBC World Service will cut a net 130 jobs, including in the UK, as it battles to save £6m in the year ahead.

NUJ World Service branch opposes cuts as "bad for the BBC, bad for Britain, and bad for the world..Losing journalists means lower quality content and programmes & our audiences notice that. Yet the BBC is subjecting the World Service to death by a thousand cuts"

1) (re: quoted post) WTF
2) Now is a terrible time for the BBC to be cutting the World Service and programmes like Science in Action

Roland and producers like @juliansiddle.bsky.social did amazing work during the pandemic in 2020-21. Highly praised by BBC WS management, "We heard it on Science in Action 2 weeks before anywhere else". Continues as the best show to follow for climate crisis science and now US #avianflu.

There's nothing out there that serves a global audience (or UK one for that matter) with vital science issues of the day as intelligently and timely as #ScienceInAction. Please re-think its demise @bbcworldservice.bsky.social

BBC World Service - Science In Action, First US avian flu fatality H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the US and claims its first human life

Truly terrible move by BBC World Service to axe its flagship science news show #ScienceInAction, the world's best, smartest science journalism in audio for a global audience. Host @peaseroland.bsky.social is the most insightful, informed, energetic journo in the BBC Science Universe.
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