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BBC director-general to leave post in shadow of Scott Mills scandal

Tim Davie steps down on Thursday after five-and-a-half years in the top job

The Independent UK

Final day as BBC director-general for Tim Davie

Mr Davie will be replaced by interim director-general, Rhodri Talfan Davies, on April 2, before former Google boss Matt Brittin steps in on May 18.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on the BBC’s future: who decides what news means?

Editorial: AI is interpreting journalism without regard for truth. The BBC must build the capacity to ensure its reporting is understood on its own terms

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Scott Mills’s sudden sacking suggests BBC has made its mind up about him

Amid lurid speculation, the decision has been taken with unusual speed in the last days of Tim Davie’s regime as director general – and it appears to be final

The Guardian - UK

Tim Davie lands top UK creative industries role after leaving BBC

He will begin his new role as co-chair of the Creative Industries Council on August 1

The Independent UK

Tim Davie to co-chair Creative Industries Council after leaving BBC

He will begin his new role on August 1.

Evening Standard

BBC gets a new director general: how others have fared in the hardest job in UK media

Matt Brittin has been named the new director general of the BBC. He joins the broadcaster after almost two decades working at Google: he was its president in Europe, the Middle East and Africa before leaving in 2024. He is already on the board of the Guardian Media Group.

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Thursday briefing: Why most Israelis back the conflict with Iran, even as international support wanes

In today’s newsletter: This new war has exposed widening fractures between Israel and its allies, and the country finds itself increasingly out of step with global opinion

The Guardian - UK

Meghan and Harry hail ‘reckoning’ for social media firms after US court ruling

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they ‘stand with every parent and young person who refused to be silenced’.

Evening Standard

House of Lords backs UK social media ban for under-16s for second time

Nash said social media companies have taken a ‘cavalier approach’ to content damaging to children

The Independent UK

Camilla and her late father to be the subject of new BBC documentary

The Queen announced the news while celebrating the fifth anniversary of her Queen’s Reading Room book club

The Independent UK

BBC names ex-Google executive Matt Brittin its new director-general as it faces a feud with Trump

Former Google executive Matt Brittin has been announced as the new director-general of the BBC

The Independent UK

Nadiya Bychkova confirms Strictly Come Dancing exit after nine years amid BBC shake-up

The news of her departure follows reports that several long-standing professionals will not return to the hit Saturday night dance show

Evening Standard

TSA alerted ICE to mother and daughter at San Francisco airport before viral arrest

TSA is sharing certain traveler information with ICE as part of Trump’s expansive deportation efforts

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Evening Standard

Former Google executive Matt Brittin ‘honoured’ to become BBC director-general

Tim Davie leaves the role on April 2.

The Conversation

Matt Brittin: BBC’s new director general appointed at an existential moment for the broadcaster

The BBC has appointed former Google executive Matt Brittin as its new director general. Brittin will replace outgoing director general Tim Davie. He resigned last year in the wake of revelations about the editing of a Panorama documentary about Donald Trump and board disagreements over how it should be handled.

Evening Standard

What issues will new BBC director-general Matt Brittin have to deal with?

He joins the BBC at a tumultuous time as it faces a lawsuit from Donald Trump over the editing of a documentary.

The Independent UK

The Latest: DHS officials to give update to Congress as travel delays worsen

As travel disruptions deepen and senators race to clinch a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown, House lawmakers will hold a hearing to discuss the impacts of the funding lapse

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The Independent UK

BBC names former Google boss Matt Brittin as new director-general

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Matt Brittin announced as BBC’s next director-general to replace Tim Davie

Brittin’s predecessor Tim Davie resigned over criticism of how the broadcaster edited a 2021 speech by Trump in a documentary

Evening Standard

Former Google executive Matt Brittin announced as BBC director-general

Tim Davie leaves the role on April 2.

The Guardian - UK

From YouTube to Trump: six urgent issues for BBC’s new boss, Matt Brittin

Pressing tasks for new director general also include an expiring royal charter, and appointing a new top team

The Guardian - UK

Matt Brittin: why the BBC’s new Doctor Who-loving boss may not have much time for sleep

After almost two decades at Google, the incoming director general is taking on British media’s most powerful and treacherous job

The Guardian - UK

Former Google executive Matt Brittin selected to be next BBC director general

Former Olympic rower to lead corporation as it hammers out future funding model with government

The Guardian - UK

Ant & Dec are shunned at last! The TV Baftas make some clever omissions for once

It’s the end of an era, as stars who have dominated the whole millennium lose out to new TV royalty like Claudia Winkleman. Plus: rare double nods for two of the UK’s best actors!

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