After the scandal: Tony Hall, the new BBC boss

Tony Hall takes over as the new director general of BBC on April 2 and will begin the job of repairing the media group’s battered reputation. Hall was the only candidate contacted by the BBC Trust for the £450,000-a-year post used to be held by George Entwistle who stepped down in November after a Tory peer was mistakenly implicated in child abuse claims in a BBC2 Newsnight report. Hall, who was previously chief executive of the Royal Opera House, will spend part of his first day speaking to staff at the corporation, which has been beset with problems since the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. Hall, a former BBC news executive, also has to contend with low staff morale – highlighted by last week’s strike in a row over jobs, workload and claims of bullying.


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