Will Lewis, the former Telegraph editor who was a candidate for BBC DG when they selected Tim Davie, asks the right questions to support his suggestion that the BBC should separate the roles of CEO and Editor-in-chief.
"Should the person leading the BBC’s negotiations over its future funding be the same person ultimately responsible for the corporation’s reporting of those talks ? Should the executive seeking to win sports broadcasting rights for the BBC oversee a journalistic operation investigating the sporting federations selling those rights ? Should the director-general comment unfavourably on the proposed takeover of a rival broadcaster (as Mark Thompson did about BSkyB in 2010), while being editor-in-chief of a team covering that self-same bid ?"
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