Turness will inherit a newsroom that has lost hundreds of experienced staff through redundancies and relocations
The BBC has hired ITN’s chief executive to lead its news coverage, at a time when the broadcaster is struggling with substantial budget cuts and facing scrutiny over the impartiality of its coverage.
Deborah Turness will inherit a newsroom that is halfway through an unpopular two-year restructuring process and has lost hundreds of experienced staff through redundancies and relocations. Its audience remains enormous across the UK and abroad but it is struggling with the transition away from traditional broadcasting formats and is regularly used as punchbag by politicians.
