Announcement comes before Matt Brittin replaces Tim Davie as director general next month
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The BBC is to cut as many as 2,000 jobs in the biggest down-sizing of the public service broadcaster in 15 years.
Staff were to be informed of the cuts, which will affect about 10% of the BBC’s 21,500 staff, at an all-staff meeting on Wednesday.
The cuts, which are being set in motion before the former top Google executive Matt Brittin takes over as director general next month, represents the biggest round of BBC job cuts since 2011.
