The BBC’s star presenters will be grounded at home instead of parachuted in to cover big stories around the world, it has emerged, as more cost-cutting measures from the corporation begin to bite. In particular, BBC bosses want to bar presenters from the BBC News channel, the Asian Network, Newsbeat, the Victoria Derbyshire programme and BBC Breakfast from jetting off. A BBC source said: “The new deployment guidelines will stop duplication, meaning more cost-effective foreign news coverage. The cuts are expected to impact the BBC’s coverage of the US presidential election, with a pared-down news team sent to report on the November ballot. Removing their star journalists and presenters from the field will make a 10% saving for the BBC’s news budget.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2016 12:33 UTC