Tim Davie urges BBC staff to defend and champion their journalism
BBC at a crossroads: independence, accountability and a $1bn legal threat
What happened
A storm that began with the editing of a single interview has swept to the upper echelons of the BBC, laid bare tensions about impartiality and placed Britain’s most trusted broadcaster at the centre of a wider global argument about media, power and truth.
On Sunday Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, resigned after a report found that footage used in a Panorama documentary had been selectively edited to portray former US…