The BBC is renowned for its sober and staid news executives. Most are invariably educated at Oxford or Cambridge and rise up through the ranks over several decades. But that’s not the case an…
is renowned for its sober and staid news executives. Most are invariably educated at Oxford or Cambridge and rise up through the ranks over several decades.
“She’s been hired to shake up BBC News, which despite its deserved global reputation for being accurate and impartial, is at times guilty of being a bit dull,” adds the observer. Moving rapidly through the ranks, Turness soon established a reputation for her uncanny ability to get people on side. She made her name during a decade as editor of ITV News.
It was these skills that got the attention of NBC, who hired her as the first non-American and the first woman to run the network’s news operation.Moving to New York gave Turness a high-flying lifestyle — and a uniquely demanding job fiercely scrutinized by her Comcast bosses and the wider U.S. media.
In February 2017, she was moved aside at NBC News and given a new job, in Europe, as president of a new division, NBC News International. However, the planned global channel was nixed in August 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
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