BBC changes News management

Helen Boaden

BBC director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell have “stepped aside” in the wake of Newsnight’s erroneous Lord McAlpine report and pending the results of the Pollard review.

Boaden and Mitchell step aside during crisis

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