EXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s head of digital journalism has quit after just four months, prompting further anxiety about the UK broadcaster’s plans to merge its international and domestic news channels.
Saeed Ahmed has left the BBC after joining from NPR last October. He was based in Washington D.C. and was tasked with overseeing the UK broadcaster’s digital news content aimed at U.S.
audiences. America is seen as a potential growth territory for the BBC as it looks to export and monetise its brand of impartial British news around the world.
In an email to staff, Stuart Millar, the BBC’s digital executive news editor, said: “I’m sorry to announce that Saeed Ahmed has decided to leave his role as US head of digital journalism to take up a senior position with another news organisation.
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