BBC News to cut a further 415 jobs

 A A staff of 8,400 are employed by the BBC's News division
 

The BBC's News department is to axe 415 jobs as cost-cutting measures continue, the BBC's director of news James Harding has announced.

The move is part of £800m efficiency savings required after the licence fee was frozen in 2010.
The latest cuts are expected to save £48m by 2017.
BBC News currently employs around 8,400 people, including around 5,000 journalists, based in London, around the UK and overseas.
He also set out plans to substantially restructure the news division and put the BBC at the forefront of producing news for the digital age using new technologies.
A total of 195 new posts will be created to fulfil this plan, meaning a net reduction of 220 full-time jobs overall.

Around 70% of the annual running costs of BBC News are staff-related, meaning there would inevitably be an impact in this area, Mr Harding said.
"It will be a testing time of uncertainty and change," he told staff, adding, the "challenge is how to make BBC News even better, despite having less money".
"It means you're going to see good people, talented journalists, leaving the BBC. I think that is difficult."
He added that the BBC would be at the forefront of a "fourth revolution in news" online and on mobile apps, and "delivering ever better value for money is part of that."

LOSSES AND CHANGES

• More 'single presenter' programmes on the News Channel
• Closure of 60 Seconds on BBC Three in autumn 2015, when the channel moves online
• Panorama losing its dedicated reporters.
• BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight and the World Service programme Newshour will be united under a single editor
• The News Channel and World News will merge some output
• Fewer staff in Southern Africa and Afghanistan
• One post in Home Affairs, Health, Business and Local Government will close
• Six posts in Arts and Entertainment will close

GAINS

• An increase in the budget for the World Service, from £245m this year to £250m in 2016-17
• An £8m investment in original, distinctive journalism, chasing "big stories"
• Create a small team to cover the under-reported Afro-Caribbean community
• Increase the number of political reporters and city correspondents across England to enhance local coverage
• Extra money for Newsnight
• Reintroduce a controller for the World Service in English
• A new, small specialist unit based in Birmingham reporting on Community Affairs