Danish

The BBC has turned to Europe for a first Digital Director, BBC News. Naja Nielsen, 51 (Norre Gymnasium, Copenhagen and the Danish School of Media and Journalism) has been with Danish public service broadcaster DR in news most of her career, as a reporter, producer, boss of current affairs, radio news and tv news.

In 2017 she opted to join Orb Media, a digital news organisation in Washington, working on sharing stories found with data research. BBC News is a partner; you may remember a story about micro particles of plastic found in bottled water from March last year.  She was a delegate to the News Xchange Conference in Edinburgh last November (remember all that Steve Bannon hoo-ha ?) and may well have come to the attention of Fran Unsworth and Lord Hall there.

Is she going to change the BBC Newsroom culture for the better ?  She's tried at DR, and here's an entertaining slide show, which loses a little in translation, including the question "Why does Messi score for Barcelona but not Argentina ?"

Here she is in a clip from 2016.