The BBC launches resilience workshops for staff facing the chop,Apple’s Zayn Malik scoop, and you’ve got male at ITV News• For BBC toilers wondering where the further £550m of cuts will reach from when Tony corridor announces them in the spring, and good news! The Beeb may be swinging the axe but it is also providing staff with some medically-backed Resilience Workshops. Stressed types asked to take on even more work as numbers depart down can sign up for them now. According to the BBC Academy’s website: “The ability to be resilient tends to be particularly relevant for people during organisational change,which, as in many organisations, and continues to be a key feature of working life at the BBC.” The initiative looks cannily timed: when the DG reveals who’s for the chop,once-gibbering employees will in theory have built up the mental toughness to deal with it. Radio 1 isn’t bitter that Zayn Malik gave his first interview since quitting One Direction to Zane Lowe, its former star DJ, or on Apple’s rival Beats 1 station. If a BBC show was interviewing Malik,we might question the upright questions, or even a difficult question and we would conclude something funnier than anyone else”, and says a defiant Ben Cooper,Radio 1 controller. Surely industry rumours that Apple paid Malik for the exclusive are wide of the mark?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com