George Entwistle: BBC exec with decades of programme experience is best man for the job

RICHARD KAY: Humphrys - How I killed off my boss

John Humphrys (pictured) has spoken for the first time about his infamous Today programme interview with former BBC Director General George Entwistle.

dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 10 days ago)

BBC's John Humphrys: I'm not planning to pack it in just yet

Presenter signs nine-month extension to Radio 4 Today contract and will also front BBC1's Mastermind for another three yearsJohn Humphrys, the presenter of Radio 4's Today programme, has said he has no intention of stepping down after signing a nine-month extension to his contract, which expires at the end of the year.Humphrys, who has been a presenter on Radio 4's flagship...

guardian.co.uk (1 month and 17 days ago)

Humphrys wins award for DG grilling

Today programme presenter John Humphrys wins a Sony radio award for his grilling of former BBC director-general George Entwistle over the Jimmy Savile scandal.

bbci.co.uk (10 days ago)

John Humphrys to receive Harvey Lee Award for George Entwistle grilling on Today programme

independent.co.uk (2 months and 12 days ago)

BBC Releases Jimmy Savile Scandal Probe Transcripts

U.K. media had a field day Friday with statements from the likes of former director generals Mark Thompson and George Entwistle, about a dropped report that put the BBC in crisis mode.

hollywoodreporter.com (3 months ago)

Should John Humphrys have won an award for savaging his own boss?

John Humphrys wins the "radio journalism of the year" prize for, inter alia, his masterly dismemberment of George Entwistle on the morning before poor George and his director generalship disappeared into the long night of trust disavowal. Admirable, eh? No BBC mandarin too mighty to escape a Humphing good towsing. You don't get much more independent and award-worthy than...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

Anne McElvoy: Restoring trust in the BBC isn’t all Hall must do

New dawns at the BBC come along often these days. No sooner has a space been carved out for a portrait of George Entwistle, the corporation’s shortest lived pope, than his successor Lord Hall is swept by a tide of unfortunate events into the post.

standard.co.uk (1 month and 20 days ago)

Roy Greenslade: BBC’s Tony Hall will be judged on how he handles his inherited crises

The BBC’s new Director-General, Tony Hall, as with his short-lived predecessor, George Entwistle, isn’t being allowed a honeymoon. He has become embroiled in two controversies within two weeks of arriving at the Corporation.

standard.co.uk (1 month and 5 days ago)

‘Either have a public inquiry or private inquiry. This is neither’

Details of a lunch at which George Entwistle, when he was Director-General of the BBC, learnt that Jimmy Savile was...

thetimes.co.uk (3 months ago)

'Incapable of getting truth': BBC report reveals procedure-obsessed chaos in handling Savile crisis

As it tried to manage the Jimmy Savile crisis, the BBC’s senior management styled itself in terms of the Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBR) at a moment of national peril. The Director General George Entwistle appointed himself Gold Commander, with deputies given the rank of silver and bronze. He even selected an “incident commander”.

independent.co.uk (3 months ago)