Is the BBC's new director general more than a safe pair of hands? Jane Martinson
about 5 years in The guardian
Under scrutiny from No 10, Tim Davie will need to be a financial whizz, journalistic rock and political streetfighter
Why did anyone really believe anyone other than Tim Davie would be the next director general of the BBC? Facing an existential crisis, buffeted by financial, political and cultural storms, the very British corporation was always likely to pick the privately educated white man who went to Oxbridge.
Faced with a choice between Davie and the two other strong contenders – a woman with creative rather than editorial experience, the BBC’s director of content, Charlotte Moore, and a charismatic outsider, William Lewis, a media executive who has attracted more headlines in his career than the other two put together – the BBC’s chairman, David Clementi (Winchester, Oxford), went for Davie (Whitgift, Cambridge; although he went to Whitgift on a scholarship, and was the first in his family to go to university). Continue reading...
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