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Mary Hockaday, ex-Controller BBC World Service: Funding and Editorial Independence at the World Service

Mary Hockaday, ex-Controller BBC World Service: Funding and Editorial Independence at the World Service

Update: 2025-10-09
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Mary Hockaday, former Controller of BBC World Service, discusses the future of the BBC World Service amid funding pressures and political challenges, the debate over government and defence funding, the challenges of budget cuts, and the global influence and value of the World Service.

 

“For me, the most important thing in all of this is almost wherever the money comes from, that the principles of independence, editorial independence, are absolutely sacrosanct.”


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Mary Hockaday, ex-Controller BBC World Service: Funding and Editorial Independence at the World Service

Mary Hockaday, ex-Controller BBC World Service: Funding and Editorial Independence at the World Service