BBC Director of Future Media and Technology Erik Huggers Offers Few Details on Cuts

BBC director of future media and technology Erik Huggers shed some light on the changes coming to BBC Online in a post titled BBC Online — Putting Quality First, but Huggers didn’t reveal any details on the staff cuts that will likely be involved in slashing online costs by 25 percent.

Highlights from Huggers’ post:

Many of you will be familiar with the headlines of the strategy review. By 2013, we propose a BBC Online that:

• Does fewer things better, against the BBC’s five editorial priorities;

• Has half the number of top-level directories (i.e.

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