Dull ?

Steve Clarke, on the Royal Television Society, ruminates on the appointment of Deborah Turness at BBC News. 

He quotes a former colleague "This is a very Tim Davie appointment. She’s been hired to shake up BBC News, which, despite its deserved global reputation for being accurate and impartial, is at times guilty of being a bit dull.”

And a UK news chief "The job is a poisoned chalice, but she survived and thrived at NBC, so I suspect she feels she can take in her stride every­thing that the BBC can throw at her."

A former colleague on her time at NBC “Deborah was a ball of energy, and there were parts of NBC that had an allergic reaction to it. The Brian Williams crisis didn’t help, although it was nothing to do with her.”