Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Busy line

Just a catch up on former BBC DG Mark Thompson in his new job as CEO of the New York Times. In the last month or so, 30 staff at the paper have been given deals or laid off, and a range of promotions followed; the Boston Globe has been put up for sale; the International Herald Tribune is to be renamed the International New York Times; and Mark has been delivering pizza to the NYT team providing live streamed coverage of the Oscars.

So perhaps he just hasn't had time for the series of "town hall" meetings he promised NYT staff. These were delayed from December, because of the Pollard inquiry, and promised for early in the New Year.  But we have one worrying element at large - a story in The Sunday Times (prop R Murdoch) claiming that lawyers for Helen Boaden say she telephoned Mark in December 2011 about the Newsnight allegations against Jimmy Savile. This story does not appear in any of the Pollard transcripts, emails or submissions published last week; it comes from freelance Miles Goslett.  If true, it makes Mark's protestations of what he knew and when about JS difficult to maintain, to say the least. So far, there's no response from Boaden, Thompson or the NYT.

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