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Title: James Harding's speech.
Post by Administrator on Dec 4^th, 2013, 2:51pm

Courtesy of the BBC Media Centre here is James Harding's speech given to staff on the 4th December.

"There has never been a more important time for us to deliver on that singular purpose of the BBC: to inform. No one has put it better than John Reith. That’s our mission. We have got to deliver on that."

Title: Re: James Harding's speech.
Post by Administrator on Dec 4^th, 2013, 5:10pm

"Ariel" has a report on James Harding's speech here.

"The 'unsettling and wearying' cost-cutting would go on, admitted Harding, as DQF continued its march, with more 'substantial' savings to be announced later next year.

'We will have to look not only at efficiency savings, but cutting the scope of what we do,' he admitted. That includes not doing some things."

That includes not doing some things.

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