Thursday, January 19, 2023

Digital news at speed

Whoops. The man hired to run BBC News' digital operations from Washington, who said the BBC was aggressively expanding in North America, has gone, after two and a half months in post. 

Saeed Ahmed joined at the start of November, from NPR. Yesterday, Jake Kanter at Deadline revealed he'd left; an email from Digital News Editor Stuart Millar said “I’m sorry to announce that Saeed Ahmed has decided to leave his role as US head of digital journalism to take up a senior position with another news organisation. This is with immediate effect."

There's no sign of a very big job yet on Saeed's Twitter feed; indeed he has deleted a number of tweets related to his BBC appointment. Yet yesterday he posted a selfie as he started teaching an 'Introduction to Journalism' course at Georgetown. 

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