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By Will 2 years ago, mid-December Add your comment below
I’ve been reading the blog of Richard Sambrook for some time. He’s the BBC’s Director of Global News, so it’s quite rare to be given some insight into the mechanics of such an interesting job. He’s been the victim of the Evening Standard today, however, who are getting their pants in an almighty twist over the supposed news that the BBC are going to hand Sambrook the post of Director of the World Service without advertising it externally. Such nonsense was rejected entirely out of hand.
Hmmmm…except:
1. Im not a candidate for the job, because
2. it reports to me and I will be deciding who gets it.
3. A simple phone call by the Standard could have established that, although I recognise how inconvenient the facts can be when they knock down a story on a quiet Friday.
As for the Daily Telegraph reporter who excitedly followed this item up telling our press office it had the makings of a “Front Page Piece”… let’s trust that even on a pre-Christmas Saturday they can find something better, or at least true, to report…
Worth subscribing to.
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