The BBC Food website carrying more than 11,000 recipes is to close as part of a plan to cut £15m from the corporation's online budget.
All existing recipes will be archived, although the commercial BBC Good Food website will remain.
The BBC news channel will not be closed but a decision will be made on its future in July.
The proposals were announced by head of BBC news and current affairs James Harding.
They include closing the Newsbeat website and app, as well as indexes dedicated to providing local news to more than 40 geographical areas around the country.
The iPlayer service will make other non BBC TV channels and programmes available to audiences.
The online creative review, revealed on Tuesday, sets out savings of more than £15 million, around 15% of the editorial budget.
Mr Harding said the internet required "the BBC to redefine itself, but not its mission".
He said The BBC must also be clear about what it will not do online. It cannot be all things to all people," said Harding.
The proposals, subject to approval, include:
• Close the iWonder service, redeploying its formats across BBC Online
• 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 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 digital radio and music social media activity and additional programme content that is not core to services
Mr Harding said "no decision" had been made on the future of the BBC News Channel, but that the closure of the rolling channel was not an option.
Among six options on the table, to be decided on by the executive board in July, were a single news channel offering "a global agenda from London".
Recipe petition
Recipes from TV programmes will remain online for 30 days, but the planned end to the BBC's Food website has had a strong reaction.
An online petition to save the recipe archive has attracted more than 30,000 supporters.
Dan Lepard, a chef whose recipes appear on BBC Food, said the website was an "extraordinary, world-class archive" and asked where were "our rights" to preserve such a "library".
"With the BBC recipes, you know they work. I can tell you that loads of recipes out there, don't work, will fail. The BBC ones work," he told BBC Radio 4's Today.
Xanthe Clay, a food writer for the Daily Telegraph, said it was a "fantastic archive" of largely British recipes which come directly from chefs, and was "part of our cultural heritage".
What's cooking?
- Contributing chefs include Nigella Lawson with 71 recipes, the Hairy Bikers with 477 and James Martin with 1,641
- A recipe for easy chocolate cake is recommended by 1,002 users. Other favourites are shortbread, sausage casserole and fluffy American pancakes
- The site contains 11,163 recipes, including 14 for spaghetti bolognese, 55 for vegetable soup and nine for Eton mess
- Technique tips range from grating a lemon and boiling an egg to gutting a fish and assembling a wedding cake
The online proposals announced on Tuesday follow the publication of the government's White Paper on the future of the BBC last week.
What is the BBC White Paper about?
What is the government proposing?
Last year, Chancellor George Osborne said the BBC website was becoming "a bit more imperial in its ambitions".
"If you've got a website that's got features and cooking recipes - effectively the BBC website becomes the national newspaper as well as the national broadcaster.
"There are those sorts of issues we need to look at very carefully," he said.