Tim Davie
 Tim Davie     ( media executive) | |
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| Born | Timothy Douglas Davie 1967-04-25 Croydon, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Selwyn College (Cambridge) |
| Children | 3 |
| Spouse | Anne Claire Shotbolt |
Resigned as seventeenth Director-General of the BBC
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Timothy Douglas Davie is a British media executive who has worked for the BBC since 2005 as director of marketing, communications and audiences, director of audio and music, acting director general and chief executive of BBC Studios. He was appointed the seventeenth Director-General of the BBC, having succeeded Lord Hall in the role on 1 September 2020.[1]
BBC doctored Trump speech
On 3 November 2025, Gordon Rayner Associate Editor of The Telegraph wrote:
The BBC doctored a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph.
A Panorama programme broadcast a week before the US election made it seem that the president told supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
The “mangled” footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias which was compiled by a recent member of the BBC’s standards committee and is now circulating in government departments.
The dossier said the programme made the US president “‘say’ things [he] never actually said” by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later.
It claimed that senior executives and the BBC’s chairman had ignored and dismissed a string of serious complaints raised by the corporation’s own standards watchdog.
The Telegraph will soon publish other excerpts of the memo which accuse the BBC’s Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza, and accuse the corporation of “effective censorship” of its coverage of the transgender debate.[2]
Resignation
On 9 November 2025, Tim Davie resigned as BBC Director-General after a newspaper report suggested a BBC Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.
Letter to staff
In a letter addressed to the staff of the BBC, Davie wrote:
I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the BBC after 20 years. This is entirely my decision, and I remain very thankful to the chair and board for their unswerving and unanimous support throughout my entire tenure including during recent days.
I am working through exact timings with the Board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months.[3]
