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Been receiving messages almost all day about this, from current and former staff. Will highlight a couple of (public) ones, with some added thoughts. https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1314224757512916992">https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT...
Joe -- a friend, and now once again colleague at the FT -- was one of many cases of reporters meeting the high bar for the BBC& #39;s world beating young trainee scheme, only to find the BBC made it incredibly difficult to stay on. https://twitter.com/JoeMillerJr/status/1314226130673700864">https://twitter.com/JoeMiller...
It& #39;s baffling how much money is spent training young reporters only to let them go to rivals, or just drift away entirely. Joe hustled and made it work, but he won& #39;t mind me saying that it was never a stable outlook.
I don& #39;t know Theo, but I checked out his work today. Young, black, talented -- no stable contract for more than three years. https://twitter.com/tchikomba1712/status/1314329238993068033">https://twitter.com/tchikomba...
Another person of colour, who asked to remain anonymous, via DM: "4 years on and I am living the hell described in your tweet re BBC contracts. No contract, no security, no pay rise. And every time that damn BBC rich list comes out I have to bite my tongue."
One issue is the "attachment" culture, a system originally set up for people to join special projects etc, but now used to paper over the lack of real opportunities with permanent status.
