Nielsen talks about navigating a looming budget shortfall at the 100-year-old public broadcaster and why Queen Elizabeth would approve of the Beeb's warts-and-all coverage.
Last month, her job just got a bit harder. With a coming budget shortfall — care of the U.K. government’s decision to freeze the TV license fee that supports much of the BBC’s work — director-general Tim Davie revealed 200 million pounds in cuts, necessitating the Beeb’s segue to a “digital-first” organization, with all of the cost savings that implies.
BBC News, with outposts around the world and websites and apps in 41 languages — in addition to its flagship English-language services — is used by nearly half a billion people a week. The BBC, by nature of the outsize position it occupies in Britain, can be a polarizing place to work. “There is always somebody who has an opinion about what we do,” she says during a Zoom interview from BBC’s London headquarters. “But our independence is really important for us.
WWD: The internet is currently coursing with outlandish conspiracy theories and disinformation, which has given rise to the so-called fact checkers, but now there are fake fact checkers. How do you deal with the scourge of social media-enabled lies? We have come to realize over the past years that actually fact finding, myth busting, reality checks, it’s important we do it.
WWD: How does the BBC view America as a market but also as an important part of the world to interpret that, at the moment, feels like a backsliding democracy to many of us who live here?Actually, the two countries are not too dissimilar. I’ve lived and worked in America as well. I think their diversity is really the strength for both countries. So yes, we have some people with the British accent, but we have people with a Danish accent like me.
Emily Maitlis’ devastating interview with Prince Andrew about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for the BBC program Newsnight, leading Queen Elizabeth II to strip her son of all his military titles and royal patronages.WWD: How has the way you cover the royals changed as Princes Harry and William, in particular, have pushed back on the intrusiveness of the media and its role in the death of their mother, Princess Diana?We do what we’ve always done. We are first journalists.
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