BBC Appoints Former Google Exec Matt Brittin as Director General, Succeeding Tim Davie

By K.J. Yossman

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Former Google executive Matt Brittin has been appointed the new director general of the BBC, succeeding beleaguered Tim Davie.

He is set to take up the post on May 18.

Davie is stepping down on April 2 after tendering his resignation last year following a documentary-editing scandal. Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s director of nations, will step in as interim director-general in between.

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