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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC was criticised for ageism after dropping veteran newsreader Moira Stuart after four decades More than two years after the BBC dropped her – sparking accusations of ageism – veteran newsreader Moira Stuart is being lined up for a return to the airwaves on Chris Evans's BBC Radio 2 breakfast show . Stuart, a familiar voice on BBC television for four decades, is understood to be Evans's...
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trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Mark Thompson makes an academic case for protecting "public space" in the UK broadcasting landscape. No clues, yet, as to how big the BBC part of that space will be when the various internal reviews report... "But I can tell you that I expect to see on the BBC a further shift in emphasis in favour of investment in high quality, original British content in those areas which are least...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Making the dissolution of Brawn GP complete, Formula One world champion Jenson Button has stepped into the fun of being Lewis Hamilton ’s teammate at McLaren for 2010. It’s probably been Formula One’s worst kept secret these past few weeks, but it’s official now: after Rubens Barrichello ’s leave for Williams and Brawn GP’s sale to Mercedes-Benz , Jenson Button...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Imagine flashing forward five years to life with the Tories: Mark Thompson has been sacked, Strictly Pole Dancing is on TV, and Simon Cowell runs an alternative BBC November 16, 2014: In a combative interview yesterday with Sunday Guardian Observer Online, Boris Johnson insisted that the broadcasting reforms by the current government have been "better for the taxpayer and better for television...
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Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The wearing of poppies by presenters on the BBCNI has been described as an “ongoing insult” by a West Belfast-based victims’ organisation. Relatives for Justice Director Mark Thompson says the poppy, which has been a permanent feature on the lapels of BBC presenters for the past three weeks, is not a neutral symbol, despite unionist claims to the contrary. And he says the BBC should...
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Boulton (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
They've cost the British tax-payer around £200bn and left us with a sense we didn't much for our cash. Until now, perhaps. Unveiling next week in the Queen's Speech - Power to the People - new legislation to allow ordinary folks to take class action against their banks. Lord Myners, the City Minister, will be telling Adam all about that and Schools Secretary Ed Balls MP will be outlining what...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The BBC has real questions to answer about the salaries of its top executive. But that's not why it's under attack The BBC gets a serious kicking today over the salaries of senior executives - not surprisingly led by the Murdoch press. The Times splashes : "37 BBC staff earn more than the Prime Minister." The Sun adds : "Oceans of BBC exes." (See what they did there? Mark Thompson...
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SNOPPER SAYS..... (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
BEYOND RANTING Woke up this morning - dark - raining - switched on the news and wondered, not for the first time, why it is that `news` is invariably bad. Not just bad but mostly annoying, frustrating, leading almost to a feeling of hopelessness that however strongly I might be offended by what I hear, I am powerless to do anything about it. Maybe that feeling comes from living in the New Labour Liberal...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A 70p parking meter claim and a £647 two-night stay in a Las Vegas casino hotel marked the extremes of expenses claimed by Mark Thompson, BBC director-general, in...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Mark Thompson's salary package of £834,000 has become an uncomfortable political issue for the BBC director general, held up by the Tories as a potent symbol of the corporation's profligacy with public money. But it seems that for Thompson himself, even this generous sum may not be enough to cover the irritating little costs that go with the job. According to documents released by the BBC today,...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
NUJ journalists at the BBC World Service news and current affairs department are to hold their own referendum on director general Mark Thompson's salary. They will be asked to back calls for him to reduce his salary to five times the median level of BBC news and production staff. The BBC website puts Thompson's salary including bonuses at £664,000 and his total remuneration in 2008/9 at £834,000....
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
BBC : The salaries of the top 100 decision-makers at the BBC have been published online in a move for greater openness. The details, which include business-related expenses, have been revealed in line with plans set out by director general Mark Thompson in July….Caroline Thompson, the BBC ‘s chief operating officer, said the corporation would publish “a precise total amount”...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The Director General of the BBC claimed 63 times on his expenses for parking meter charges as low as 70 pence, according to figures published by the corporation today.
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
BBC director general Mark Thompson claimed a night at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on expenses, it has emerged.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Gordon Brown is deemed to be the 29th most powerful person in a world, according to a list compiled by the business magazine Forbes. The prime minister is joined by BBC director general Mark Thompson, who at number 65 is the only other Briton to feature in the index, which is topped by the US president Barack Obama, followed by his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao. Osama bin Laden comes in at number...
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