NY Times in spotlight as ex-BBC chief takes reins

November 13, 2012 01:06

Former BBC chief Mark Thompson has assumed his new role at The York Times Co amid questions about whether the crisis engulfing the British broadcaster would spill over to the US news organisation.

Thompson, named in August as the US media firm's president and chief executive, remains part of the news even though he has denied any role in shelving an investigative report into sex abuse by the late BBC star Jimmy Savile.

The Times has reaffirmed support for Thompson and he has said the scandals at the BBC would not affect his new job.

But as Thompson was readying his entry in New York, his successor as BBC director-general, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday after the broadcaster's flagship news programme wrongly implicated a British politician in a separate child sex abuse scandal.

"Like many people, I'm very saddened by recent events at the BBC but I believe the BBC is the world's greatest broadcaster and I've got no doubt that it will once again regain the public's trust both in the UK and around the world," Thompson told ITV, another British broadcaster, as he entered The Times headquarters.

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