The Wikipedia page on Ashley Highfield has finally been updated to reflect the news that he is no longer CEO of Johnston Press (or on the boards of William Hill and BFI).
In the past, the page has rather puffed Ashley's achievements. I note an addition in February, from a contributor called Broadcasting House 777 (whose profile no longer exists) which inserted a quotation from Wired Magazine in 2009. It reported that some former BBC colleagues dismissed Highfield as "a Paul Smith-suit-wearing, Ferrari-driving incompetent who got lucky and took credit for the success of others".
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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-man-who-saved-the-bbc
ReplyDeleteWritten years before the axing of Don't Mention It