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Also I don't see why they need correspondents all over the world, surely they can use freelance reporters or local news providers.
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One reporter might cover more than on country within a geographic area but using local ones means using ones who may not be trained to the standard the BBC require and unable to provide the depth that the audience would expect. With the amount of news the BBC output, especially with the website and world service, they need full time reporters anyway. The BBC is one of the worlds 'big hitters' in terms of news and whilst papers are losing their foreign correspondents it's good to have a service that keeps them.
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I accept Radio 1 news may need to be tailored to their audience, but R2, R4 and R5 probably have the same audience demographic surely one news bulletin can be put together to cover those three.
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Radio 4 and Radio 5 are very different in terms of output. Radio 4 is a lot more in-depth and analysis and has less 'human interest' stories (cat can play piano etc) whereas Radio 5 tend to have more stories, less time spent on each, and tend to encourage morons to phone them up to pontificate on the 'issues' (my dog can play the banjo etc).