Under the disastrous tenure of chief executive Chris Licht, the news channel had seen top anchors leave and ratings plunge. Enter, two months later, Mark Thompson, the British former BBC director general and former chief executive of the New York Times. Thompson defended the decision, saying the British public had the right “to hear the full range of political perspectives”. Photograph: James Manning/PAThompson left the New York Times in 2020 after eight years. “We face pressure from every direction – structural, political, cultural, you name it,” Thompson said in a memo to staff this week.

Source: CNN September 03, 2023 10:11 UTC