US broadcaster ABC plans to cut hundreds of jobs

The employees affected are to be paid severance payments, but redundancies are also planned if necessary. As the New York Times reported on Tuesday, the job cuts had been feared for weeks and were a sign of the ever-increasing financial difficulties of the television stations' news departments. The president of ABC News, David Westin, wrote in a memo to employees that the transformation would result in a leaner, smaller news department. In future, the broadcaster wants to rely more on digital journalists who produce, record and edit most of their material themselves.