Overview
- Davies will join the BBC board as an executive director on Feb. 1 and take the interim role on April 3.
- Tim Davie leaves in early April after resigning in November over the Panorama editing controversy.
- Rhuanedd Richards will serve as interim Director of Nations while Davies acts as interim chief.
- The BBC says appointing a permanent Director-General is the Board’s top priority with the process already in motion.
- The corporation continues to contest President Trump’s multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit and to prepare its response to the government’s BBC Charter Green Paper.