Two BBC news brass step aside
News director, assistant will bow out until probe concludes
Posted: November 13, 2012 at 5 a.m.
The BBC struggled Monday to contain a spreading crisis over its reporting of a decades-old sexual abuse scandal as two senior executives withdrew temporarily from their jobs after the resignation of the corporation’s director general.
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