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Entwistle announced his resignation in central London, Saturday Nov. 10, 2012. (Max Nash/AP)

BBC in ‘ghastly mess’ after resignations, as its former leader takes reins at NYT

Nov. 12, 2012 8:02 am

Still reeling from the fallout of a sex abuse story it spiked, the British Broadcasting Corporation is now in even more peril because of another sex abuse story that never should have been broadcast. Director General George Entwistle resigned Saturday over a report that falsely accused a former British politician, Lord McAlpine, of child sex abuse.

• Acting BBC Director General Tim Davie told staff in an email, "I am determined to give the BBC the clarity and leadership it deserves in the next few weeks."

• BBC director of news Helen Boaden and deputy director of news Steve Mitchell have temporarily "stepped aside" -- not resigned -- though neither "had anything at all to do with the failed 'Newnight' investigation into Lord McAlpine," the BBC said. Iain Overton was editor of the British Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which produced the botched McAlpine report with the BBC; he resigned Monday. (more...)
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Why Sulzberger keeps a dog-eared Time from 1977

July 25, 2011 8:54 am

New York magazine
It reminds him how media critics can be so wrong. “This is the Time magazine piece on my father about how he was such an awful publisher that the newspaper wasn’t going to survive," Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. tells Seth Mnookin, who writes:
As it turned out, the piece was a fairly positive account of his father’s effort to remake “America’s greatest newspaper” -- evidence, if more were needed, of the painfully thin skin of a man who has spent decades on the defensive.
In his New York magazine cover story titled "The Kingdom and the Paywall," Mnookin writes that the Times "has taken a do-or-die stand for hard-core, boots-on-the-ground journalism, for earnest civic purpose, for the primacy of content creators over aggregators, and has brought itself back from the precipice. And if that does indeed end up being the case, there’s one unlikely person who deserves most of the credit: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr."
Sulzberger says, “Let’s be clear - we’re three months into this. It proves that we’re on a good track, better than we had imagined, but we’ve got to continue to invest. We’ve got to continue to change and adapt and grow from this experience. And we will.”
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Sulzberger: NYT did not spend $40M to build paywall

Apr. 6, 2011 8:47 am

The Daily Beast
Bloomberg's figure is "vastly wrong," says Arthur Sulzberger Jr. "It was much less. Don’t use that number. It’s not accurate.” At a Columbia University event, the Times publisher declined to offer any digital subscription numbers, saying it was too soon; he promised the company would provide some figures eventually. || More from Joe Pompeo, Sharon Elizabeth Samuel and Staci Kramer.
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