• September 26.2008

BBC executive: Hutton is our Jayson Blair

Posted by Bertrand Pecquerie on February 12, 2004 at 11:00 AM

The BBC director of news, Richard Sambrook, has compared the Hutton crisis to the fallout at the New York Times over rogue reporter Jayson Blair and the Times' Hitler diaries as the corporation works to repair its reputation in the wake of the scandal...
Thanks to the Guardian and Claire Cozens.

Excerpts of the article:

"... We talk a lot about audiences but we are still a very inward looking organisation," he wrote.

"Audience focus isn't just about trying to understand what they like to watch or listen to or read. It's also about a genuine openness to their concerns about our programmes and about our coverage. Open mindedness and self questioning are at the heart of strong journalism. We have a long way to go to be a genuinely open organisation - but we need to start and will be the stronger for it."

The whole article on MediaGuardian.co.uk

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ana maria freitas gauland said:

I M BRASILIAN AND LIVE IN BRASIL .I LIKE ,A LOT THAT NEUSPAPER.