Martin Jay
The BBC World Service started to look dull, out of touch, and not especially relevant.
A massive layoff of hundreds of Washington Post journalists made headlines in recent days, as did news about a funding crisis for the international division of the BBC (BBC World Service), leading to debate among some about the future of international news.
The lion's share of the Post's redundancies were foreign correspondents, indicating that international news, for the mainstream media at least, is in decline.