{"id":3786,"date":"2026-03-23T05:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/former-google-exec-matt-brittin-named-new-bbc-director-general-the-times-reports-arab-news-pk\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:13:53","slug":"former-google-exec-matt-brittin-named-new-bbc-director-general-the-times-reports-arab-news-pk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/former-google-exec-matt-brittin-named-new-bbc-director-general-the-times-reports-arab-news-pk\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Google exec Matt Brittin named new BBC director-general, The Times reports &#8211; Arab News PK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/arab.news\/8kjte<br \/> \tFormer Google executive Matt Brittin has been \u200bconfirmed as the BBC\u2019s new director-general, the Times reported on Sunday, citing sources.<br \/> \tBrittin\u2019s appointment was approved by the BBC \u200cboard at \u200ca meeting on \u200bThursday, \u200cwith \u2060an \u200bofficial announcement \u2060expected this week, the report said.<br \/> \tReuters could not immediately verify the report. BBC did not immediately respond \u2060to a request \u200cfor \u200ca comment.<br \/> \tIn January, \u200bBBC said \u200cDirector-General Tim Davie \u200cwould step down on April 2 and be temporarily succeeded by Rhodri Talfan Davies, \u200cthe broadcaster\u2019s director of nations, until a \u2060permanent replacement \u2060is appointed.<br \/> \tDavie announced his resignation in Novemberfollowing criticism of the British corporation\u2019s news service over the misleading editing of a video clip of US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiVEFVX3lxTE9DNElmVkRWZE5qa1VzWG93TDVOTW9xQm5sMjkyRmhyanFMRmx1RWx6M1ctcVVPSmtqbnBkX19nM3dFMGhUem5sS29BM09VNlhEWVVOcA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/arab.news\/8kjte Former Google executive Matt Brittin has been \u200bconfirmed as the BBC\u2019s new director-general, the Times reported on Sunday, citing sources. Brittin\u2019s appointment was approved by the BBC \u200cboard at \u200ca meeting on \u200bThursday, \u200cwith \u2060an \u200bofficial announcement \u2060expected this week, the report said. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. BBC did not immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}