FT Vet Rona Fairhead Expected To Be First Woman To Chair BBC Trust

Former Financial Times Group chief executive Rona Fairhead is understood to have been selected by the British government as the next chair of the BBC Trust, the body that oversees the BBC. Fairhead still has to be questioned by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, and signed off on by the Queen, but BBC News reports Culture Secretary Sajid Javid said she was the government's preferred candidate. Should she garner all the necessary stamps of approval, she would…

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