Congratulations to Fran Unsworth (St Dominic's Brewood and Manchester) newly anointed as boss of the BBC World Service Group. In succeeding Peter Horrocks, she retains the role of deputy to James Harding, who has room to give her a £50k pa salary boost to match the Horrocks package.
Harding's new division of responsibilities now has a dominance of women (Fran, Mary Hockaday, Controller of World Service English, and Liliane Landor, running language services) in charge of news output outside the UK. We await with interest the appointment of a Controller 24/7 World, to run the tv channel BBC World and the news bit of bbc.com, reporting to Jon Zilkha. The quartet will have the most specific objective in News - driving the collective audience to 500 million.
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