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BBC’s Thompson faces harder Times
Mark Thompson - image by Getty I don’t know Mark Thompson, outgoing director-general of the BBC, but I have my doubts about how well his long career at Britain’s public-service broadcaster –...
View ArticleBBC needs a chief operating officer
I’m interested to see the name of Caroline Thomson re-emerge on the list of potential candidates to take over as BBC director-general from George Entwistle, who stepped down humiliatingly on Saturday....
View ArticleBBC picks insider in outsider’s clothing
The appointment of Tony Hall as director-general of the BBC, succeeding the unfortunate George Entwistle, indicates how hard it is to appoint a genuine outsider to one of the most wide-ranging and...
View ArticleThe curse of the CEO with a ‘safe pair of hands’
In the list of phrases that should be scratched from the management lexicon, “safe pair of hands” comes pretty high. The man named to be chief executive of BG, Chris Finlayson, is the latest to be...
View ArticleThe BBC wants its intellectual property rights back
It always pays to scrutinise the small print in grand pronouncements about the future, especially those about the BBC. So I listened intently this morning to Tony Hall, the BBC’s director general, as...
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