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This week, I take a look at the challenges faced by former Google executive Matt Brittin as he prepares to take charge at the BBC, one of the U.K’s most enduring cultural exports and a crucial part of its media and communications landscape.
The BBC is cherished by most Britons — and loathed by a sizeable minority of them — but is buffeted by all sides as it enters negotiations with the government about its funding model and governance. Those negotiations are, in turn, being influenced by developments elsewhere around the world.
Director-general of the BBC is, along with England football manager, one of the toughest jobs in British public life.
