BBC drops World Agenda mag
As part of an ongoing pruning programme the BBC World Service is to axe its magazine World Agenda in its drive to save cash.
From March 11 the website will be mothballed whilst the print edition, a monthly periodical distributed to government officials and diplomats, has already been canned.
The guardian reports that this process will see content on the website archived along with the departure of the small team of editors who fed the site.
The Corporation needs to save 20% from its annual £253m budget following the comprehensive spending review, which saw the Beeb forced to pick up the tab for World Service content which had previously been bankrolled by the Foreign Office.