BBC News will have to find £80 million in cuts over four years

The BBC will announce significant cuts to its news operation as painful reforms are pushed through before the next director-general is appointed.

Popular news programmes, which could include BBC Two’s Victoria Derbyshire and Radio 4’s World At One, are likely to bear the brunt in a push for more centralised commissioning.

The BBC News channel will be unaffected.

Producers and reporters will increasingly be expected to produce packages that can be reworked for multiple BBC news outlets, across TV, radio and online. Resources will be focused on digital news, a controversial move given complaints from commercial publishers that its ever-expanding website undermines their business models. The BBC is planning to launch a daily news podcast, inspired by the success of The Daily by The New