BBC News and BBC World presenters among 70 staff facing sack
by Mark Sweney from World news | The Guardian on (#61DJ6)
BBC News and BBC World News are to merge to create a single 24-hour TV channel, the corporation said
Presenters on the BBC News channel and BBC World are set to be sacked as part of 70 UK job cuts in a plan to create a single more digitally-focused rolling news service.
The corporation, which suggested the proposal to merge its UK and international news channels in May, said that the new-look channel will launch next April and be called BBC News.
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