BBC faces accelerating decline, warns its own media editor

BBC faces accelerating decline, warns its own media editor

BBC media editor Amol Rajan warns the corporation is "destined to shrink at an accelerating rate," with BBC News declining fastest. A £500 million savings target over two years comes as the licence fee loses real-terms value and evasion rises. Rajan, leaving Radio 4's Today for YouTube, called Today "the last big mass-market news programme."

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