BBC, Criticized Over Pay Gap, Cuts Salaries of Some Male Journalists
LONDON — The BBC said on Friday that it was reducing the salaries of several of its most prominent male journalists following Carrie Gracie’s decision
this month to leave her position as the British broadcaster’s China editor to protest unequal pay between men and women at the organization.
Mr. Vine described his decision to take a wage cut as a “no-brainer.”
“I think it needs to be sorted out, and I support my female colleagues who have rightly
said they should be paid the same when they’re doing the same job,” he told the BBC.
Ms. Gracie left her post in Beijing this month and returned to the BBC newsroom in London, where, she said, she would be “paid equally.”
Her resignation revived criticism of Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, which last summer published the salaries of its top stars.
“The BBC has agreed to pay cuts with a number of leading presenters,
and others have agreed in principle,” the organization said Friday, although it was unclear how much they had agreed to reduce their salaries.