bbcBBC News chief executive Deborah Turness has said the corporation has “no institutional bias” following her resignation over criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing out a speech by Donald Trump.
“Mistakes are made,” but BBC journalists are “hard-working people who fight for impartiality,” he said in his first public remarks since announcing his resignation, outside New Broadcasting House in London.
Both Turness and BBC director-general Tim Davie resigned on Sunday in an unprecedented move following criticism of the programme.
The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo that suggested the US president’s speech had been edited to make it appear to explicitly encourage the Capitol riots in January 2021.
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