Excessive management layers undermined BBC’s journalism

Journalists in the British media giant BBC’s 6,000-strong news operation complain that excessive layers of management have led to confused decision-making. On November 12, the findings of an internal investigation showed that, as two top news executives stood aside, “basic” journalistic failures in a news report in which it wrongly accused a senior politician of child abuse has resulted in the deepening crisis at the world’s largest publicly funded broadcaster. The investigation found there had been a failure to complete “basic journalistic checks” since journalists on that flagship Newsnight program had failed to show the accuser a photograph of the politician.


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