Description
Matt Brittin is the new Director-General of the BBC. A wide variety of friends, enemies, and neutral observers offer him advice.
Edited by John Mair and Andrew Beck
The BBC’s new charter starts in 2028. Matt took office in May 2026 and became the Corporation’s eighteenth director-general. He has a very full in-tray. Can he save the BBC from what seems to be a permanent state of existential crisis? 2025 was a horrible year with crisis after crisis. The BBC needs to recover from that.
Everyone has an opinion on the BBC. The editors have sought the views of wide range of opinion-formers: Director-Generals, senior broadcast executives, friendly critics, media professors, media journalists, and more.
THE EDITORS
This is John Mair’s 66th edited book. Most of them have been about the media. Six of them have been about the BBC. He is a former BBC Current Affairs producer and university lecturer.
Andrew Beck is an author, adviser, and editor. This is the tenth book he has edited with John Mair.
