BBC's Newsbeat service to be axed as part of online cuts

The service will close as part of the BBC's cuts to its online content, along with a database of over 11,000 recipes and a bunch of other web services.

Here's what the else the press release reveals the BBC will do:

Close the iWonder service, but redeploy its formats across BBC Online
Close the BBC’s Food website. BBC Worldwide’s Good Food site will remain
Focus on distinctive long-form journalism online under a Current Affairs banner and close the online News Magazine
Integrate Newsbeat output into BBC News Online, but close the separate Newsbeat site and app
Continue to offer travel news online as part of BBC News but close the Travel site and halt development of the Travel app
Stop running local news index web pages, offering instead an open stream on our rolling guide to BBC and local news provider stories, ‘Local Live’
Remove ring-fenced funding for iPlayer-only commissions
Reduce funding for Connected Studio, the digital innovation programme, with innovation increasingly funded within business-as-usual and the Studio maintained as an enabler of innovation
Reduce digital radio and music social media activity and additional programme content that is not core to services

These deep cuts form part of the Government's recent White Paper, which has looked at the BBC's future and decided to swing a cleaver indiscriminantly. Read The Guardian's view on the White Paper.

“What we do has to be high quality, distinctive, and offer genuine public value,” a BBC source told The Independent. “While our audiences expect us to be online, we have never sought to be all things to all people and the changes being announced will ensure that we are not.”

Newbeat arrived on BBC Radio 1 in 1973, but now also lives online and provides news for younger audiences, focusing on entertainment, sport, technology, politics, money, "life", and a category for not-quite-news-but-still-interesting-things titled "You What?".