Days in

It's rather sad. The BBC has published the minutes of George Entwistle's first meeting in charge as Director General of the BBC - and it seems he had a 100 day plan. There were 46 to go when he reached agreement on terms for his resignation.

1.7 George Entwistle outlined the strands of work in the plan for his first 100 days and invited the non-executive directors to become involved in any strands they would like to. The Board discussed the benefit of having an overarching ‘strategy’ strand that pulled together all of the other strands and redefined the strategic objectives for the next 3-5 years. 

1.8 In line with the creative thrust of the plans and further to previous Board discussions, the Board asked about in house production. It was noted that redesign work was already taking place in this area but in house production would fall under the creative excellence strands.

Timing suggests we should get one more set of minutes from the Entwistle era; watch this space.