ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose has said some staff at the broadcaster unconsciously let their biases show through, as she revealed she had no plans to cut jobs despite the almost $84 million budget reduction facing the organisation.

"Sometimes I think we might be biased. I think sometimes we could do with more diversity of views," Ms Buttrose told ABC Radio on Wednesday. "Sometimes I think, people without really knowing it, let a bias show through."

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ABC chair Ita Buttrose. Jessica Hromas

"I haven't got a problem with anybody's view but I think we need to make sure ours is as diverse as it can be ... The more diverse views we can represent, the better it will be for us," Ms Buttrose said in remarks that dovetail with the demands of some of the ABC's conservative critics.

Ms Buttrose, a publishing veteran, was appointed to run the ABC this year after a period of turmoil in which it was revealed former chairman Justin Milne appeared to demand senior journalists Emma Alberici and Andrew Probyn be fired for criticising the Coalition.

The ABC is held to a high standard of accuracy and impartiality by legislation. Two independent audits in 2014 on the ABC’s coverage of the 2013 election and the immigration debate respectively found the broadcaster’s content was impartial.

However in the years since, the broadcaster has admitted a small number of its stories did not meet its standards.

Ms Buttrose said ABC staff should not be afraid of losing their jobs, despite a 2018 funding indexation freeze that will cost the broadcaster $83.7 million over three years.

"I wouldn't be nervous at all," Ms Buttrose said. "There are many ways of achieving savings, you know. It's not just people."

The ABC still has an annual budget of more than $1 billion from the government, which also provided three more years of a local news gathering grant worth $44 million.

Ms Buttrose's optimism on staffing stands in contrast to managing director David Anderson's warning before the election that cuts were inevitable.

"Having been through a number of budget reductions to this point, I don’t see how we can avoid staff cuts and, I think, disruption to our content," Mr Anderson said this month.

Ms Buttrose did not detail how the broadcaster plans to manage the cuts beyond saying it had no plans to close radio or television stations.

She said she planned to meet with new Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher and the Prime Minister to discuss funding.

"It's no good bleating and whimpering," Ms Buttrose said. "We've got to present a case as to why we need it, what it's for, where it'll take us, what our plans are for the future, what the digital impact will be on the way we do broadcasting."

If the ABC was to meet the challenges of digital broadcasting, Ms Buttrose said she believed it "might need a bit more of a help" from government, including longer-term funding than the three-year guarantees on which the organisation currently operates.

She also said she believes in print media. "I do think in the print version you get a better selection of stories," Ms Buttrose said. "I'm not sure I can ever break that habit on account of reading newspapers since I was 12 or 13. It's a habit, I love it."