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New BBC Boss Matt Brittin Warns Staff ‘Tough Choices Are Unavoidable as We Make Savings’ on First Day in the Job

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The BBC’s new director general Matt Brittin has warned that “tough choices are unavoidable” in his first memo to staff.

Describing himself as a “lifelong fan of the BBC,” the former Google executive opened the missive by saying that over the last few weeks he has been meeting teams in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and internationally “across genres and formats, to listen and learn.”