BBC Foreign Correspondents Warn Cuts Compromise Impartiality

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By: Josh Halliday | Guardian.co.uk

BBC foreign correspondents have raised fears that the corporation's £7m cost-cutting exercise in its overseas newsgathering operation will make the broadcaster more vulnerable to bullying governments in the Middle East.

The BBC plans to replace foreign correspondents in countries including Pakistan and Lebanon with locally-recruited reporters, who corporation insiders say are "uniquely exposed" to pressure from authoritarian regimes.































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