In a previous post, I wrote hoping that new structures for the BBC World Service (within Global News) responded to the new opportunities of a licence-fee funded future. An announcement from Craig Oliver, the man in charge of broadcasting in English to the world, leaves a rather opaque situation. Ambiguity can be useful in uncertain times, but...
Steve Titherington, long-time servant of World Service News and Current Affairs (Radio), becomes Senior Commissioner (News, Sport & Factual), and Paul Gibbs (who's loomed larger-than-life in BBC business programming for years) is Senior Commissioner (Programmes).
But then we learn that Steve will take special responsibility for the World Service. This puts him in a grand lineage, following the likes of Bob Jobbins, Phil Harding and Gwyneth Williams. And Paul Gibbs takes responsibility for BBC World News and bbc.com, the international-facing website. So he follows, albeit indirectly, the likes of Rachel Attwell, Sian Kevill and others. Well done to them both, despite the new dodgy titles.
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