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Title: New DG's first task?
Post by Administrator on Mar 30^th, 2013, 4:27pm

What's in Hall's in-tray?

"The Guardian" here published their list of the new DG's immediate priorities. What do you think?

• Restore trust in BBC News in the wake of the meltdown at Newsnight over the Jimmy Savile scandal. See through the final ramifications of the Savile crisis, including a review by Dame Janet Smith.

• Resolve the industrial dispute with trade unions over job cuts, excessive workload and alleged bullying.

• Fill the two vacancies at the top of BBC management: director of news and director of television.

• Complete the £700m round of cost-cutting begun by former director general Mark Thompson.

• Redress the imbalance that has led to too few women appearing on BBC television channels and radio.

• Respond to criticism from, among others, the broadcaster Lord Bragg and Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, that the BBC does not do enough arts coverage.

• Develop a technology strategy, post-iPlayer, for the mobile era.

Or.. something else?

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• Prepare for his first Commons select committee appearance as director general on 25 April and pave the way for a new charter and licence fee settlement in the runup to 2017.

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Title: Re: New DG's first task?
Post by Administrator on Mar 31^st, 2013, 4:52pm

Torin Douglas, The BBC's Media Correspondent, has written a piece with his thoughts on the new DG's workload.

It may be found here.

"......Lord Hall must also tackle a management culture described by the chairman of the BBC Trust Lord Patten as "dysfunctional" and "chaotic", in evidence to the Pollard Review of the Savile affair.

But he will also be aware that in the end the BBC must be judged on its creativity - "it's the programmes, stupid" - and its relationship with its audiences. And these in turn will continue to be affected by the rapid changes in technology that have transformed the media landscape in recent years.

From radio to television to online and the iPlayer, the BBC has always managed to keep in touch with the future. That may prove Lord Hall's hardest task in the coming years."