Deborah Turness

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Born4 March 1967
Alma materUniversity of Bordeaux, University of Surrey
SpouseJohn Toker

Employment.png CEO of News and Current Affairs

In office
31 January 2022 - Present
EmployerBBC

In January 2022, the BBC announced that ITN CEO Deborah Turness, a former NBC News President, has been appointed CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, replacing Fran Unsworth.[1]

Deborah Turness, who will be paid £400,000 per year, will be responsible for a team of 6,000 journalists that is shifting to digital, moving out of London and losing hundreds of staff as part of a multimillion-pound savings drive. Her job title differs from Director of News and Current Affairs Unsworth’s, which the BBC said is a reflection of its “ambition to continue to build the BBC’s global news brand and grow its news services.”[2]

Rhetorical tweet

On 6 January 2022, HijackedEUrophile tweeted:

Is the new head of BBC News the same Deborah Turness who is married to a senior Cabinet Office civil servant & Director of Communications for Security and Intelligence, John Toker?

No prizes for guessing his politics!

I’m sure the Tory DG had no ulterior motive for selecting her.[3]


 

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