BBC News Group Board has made role of its most senior BAME news executive redundant
10 February 2021 • 7:27pm
An email signed by dozens of BBC staff was understood to have been sent to Tim Davie protesting at Kamal Ahmed s removal
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The BBC is facing a backlash after making the role of its most senior BAME news executive redundant, and appointing an all-white board in contravention of the corporation’s diversity rules.
Kamal Ahmed, once tipped as a future director-general, has lost his job as part of plans to “modernise” BBC News.
The BBC News Group board has been cut from 11 to eight. Those who have survived the restructure include Jonathan Munro, the executive responsible – along with Fran Unsworth, director of news and current affairs – for the BBC’s disastrous coverage of the police raid on Sir Cliff Richard’s home.