BBC, Criticized Over Pay Gap, Cuts Salaries of Some Male Journalists<br />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<br />this month to leave her position as the British broadcaster’s China editor to protest unequal pay between men and women at the organization.<br />Mr. Vine described his decision to take a wage cut as a “no-brainer.”<br />“I think it needs to be sorted out, and I support my female colleagues who have rightly<br />said they should be paid the same when they’re doing the same job,” he told the BBC.<br />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.”<br />Her resignation revived criticism of Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, which last summer published the salaries of its top stars.<br />“The BBC has agreed to pay cuts with a number of leading presenters,<br />and others have agreed in principle,” the organization said Friday, although it was unclear how much they had agreed to reduce their salaries.
