Smog buster

The BBC has turned to Richard Sambrook to try to sort out a better social media policy for its staff and key presenters. 

Richard (Maidstone Technical High School, Reading and Birkbeck) was Director of News from 2001, and a defender of the BBC's position on weapons of mass destruction/dossiers and the utterances of Andrew Gilligan. He moved to run Global News after the findings of the Hutton Report.

Richard's tenure as a BBC senior manager came with the rise of Facebook, and he was relaxed about hacks signing up, which irritated cold-war-warrior tech managers, who thought such applications could bring plague upon BBC computer systems. His recent academic theme has been 'info-smog' - how Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others cloud real information with chaff which he's dubbed "digital pollution. "