{"id":163687,"date":"2025-09-27T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163687\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:31:07","slug":"stv-cuts-culture-secretary-deeply-concerned-over-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163687\/","title":{"rendered":"STV cuts: Culture secretary &#8216;deeply concerned&#8217; over job losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Angus Robertson said STV was an important part of Scottish identity and culture and had a key role to play in Scottish broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The sustainability of quality news from reliable sources is crucial in the fight against false or misleading information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is alarming to see decisions to reduce services and resources of news provision across the country, particularly given STV&#8217;s public service commitments to invest in news and help tackle misinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Describing the plans as a &#8220;worrying step backwards&#8221;, the culture secretary said he would &#8220;continue to champion stronger journalism and a Scottish broadcasting sector&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, STV chief executive Rufus Radcliffe said: &#8220;The way audiences consume news content is changing rapidly and fundamentally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our output needs to respond to that as linear viewing declines and digital consumption of news increases.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Robertson said STV was an important part of Scottish identity and culture and had a key role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-163687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}