Michael Jermey, ITV‘s director of news and current affairs, has resigned after 16 years to chair the Disasters Emergency Committee.
Jermey will remain at ITV until the end of the year, at which point the British broadcaster hopes to have hired his successor.
The role will be advertised in the coming days. One of the UK’s most senior news executives, Jermey was influential in bringing election debates to Britain in 2010 and overhauled the Tom Bradby-fronted ITV News at Ten.
He launched ITV’s Exposure strand, which is perhaps best known for the 2012 documentary The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, which exposed the former BBC presenter as a monstrous sex offender.
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