Journalists and other personnel at BBC News remain divided over the organisation’s treatment of the story concerning its most senior news anchor Huw Edwards – identified on Wednesday as the presenter at the centre of allegations of spending thousands of pounds on sexual pictures.
The Times of London reports concerns within the building that one BBC news presenter, Victoria Derbyshire, had been making enquiries about the alleged behaviour of another senior presenter, in the days before the scandal came to light.
Derbyshire went on to break a story on daily current affairs show Newsnight that three BBC staffers (current and past) had accused Edwards of sending them inappropriate messages.
The Times quotes another unnamed presenter saying, “I felt like it was more of an HR thing than a story.” However, a Newsnight source defended the editorial decisions, telling the paper: “Whenever there’s a story about the BBC we bend over backwards to prove that we’re independent.
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