After Guido revealed that Verify managed to decrease its staff while increasing the cost of employing the ones it had left, the BBC’s crack fact-checking team is expanding again. Oh boy…
The BBC has put up a new ad for an “Impact Producer” on the Verify team – you’ll need a “proven track record of producing on-the-day and impactful journalism for TV and Digital output.” Or at least one as impressive as Marianna Spring’s…
For a salary of up to £62,000 – well above the £29-39,000 that other junior hires at the BBC can expect – the corporation is “happy to discuss flexible working” with its new producer. Seeing as the 61-strong team with combined salary costs of £3.2 million has only managed to produce four stories in the last week you’d think they’d want their new hire in the office. Don’t count on the reporting getting any better…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.