Tony Hall, currently chief executive of the Royal Opera House, was announced as the BBC's new director-general on Thursday. Hall served as the BBC's director of news for a decade before taking the Royal Opera post in 2001.
BBC Chooses New Director-General
LONDON (AP) — The BBC has chosen a former head of its news division to lead the broadcaster as it struggles to recover from a child abuse scandal.
Tony Hall, currently chief executive of the Royal Opera House, was announced as the BBC’s new director-general on Thursday. Hall served as director of news for a decade before taking the Royal Opera post in 2001.
He succeeds George Entwistle, who resigned on Nov. 10 after just 54 days as director-general.
The BBC has been shaken by controversy over a decision not to run a report that one of its former stars, Jimmy Savile, was an alleged serial sexual abuser of young women. It also aired a report falsely linking a politician to child sex abuse.
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