The Cost Of BBC Cuts: Less Objective Foreign Reporting, Reporters Say

Part of the cuts involve cutting 44 foreign correspondents and replacing about half of them with local reporters—natives of the countries the BBC wants to report on.

The Guardian reports, however, that this may pose some unforeseen challenges: “Nobody questions the value of having locally-recruited journalists,” a former BBC insider said. “But if you are a Tunisian citizen with a Tunisian passport it is extraordinarily easy for the government to put you under pressure not to reveal truth and expose wrongdoing because your family live there.