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| About 100 BBC Monitoring jobs to be axed amid £4m cuts | |
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| At least 98 jobs at the BBC Monitoring department are to be cut ahead of a £4m reduction in funding. | |
| The department analyses local media from 150 countries in 100 different languages, but the operation is to be scaled down. | |
| The World Service said the Afghan bureau will be closed and new bases will open in Istanbul and Jerusalem. | The World Service said the Afghan bureau will be closed and new bases will open in Istanbul and Jerusalem. |
| The monitoring team will relocate from Caversham Park in Reading, its base since 1943. | The monitoring team will relocate from Caversham Park in Reading, its base since 1943. |
| The BBC said it would begin consultations with unions shortly. | The BBC said it would begin consultations with unions shortly. |
| The loss of jobs will mean a reduction of nearly a third from the department's 320 staff. | |
| It is understood that the service's new headquarters will be based in London. | |
| A significant number of roles being cut are based in Reading. | |
| The service, which provides international content and communications to BBC News, governments and commercial clients, was previously funded by the UK government, but since 2013 it has been paid for by the licence fee. | |
| World Service Group director Francesca Unsworth said: "Like all media organisations, BBC Monitoring has to keep pace with the new landscape of digital and social media. | |
| "And, like the rest of the BBC, Monitoring needs to make savings." | |
| The service's budget for 2016/17 was £13.3m, but £4m has been cut amid cost-cutting across the BBC. |