Carrie Gracie resignation

1. Amol will be next year.
2. It's not about whether or not everyone is on the list - but whether there's discrimination involved in the levels of pay. While I'm not sure whether or not Clive is alluding to race being an issue (given he and Amol are some of the very few high profile broadcasters of colour at the Beeb), the question would be whether Clive is paid the same as his female counterparts for the same level of work? Almost no NC presenters made the list, after all.

Carrie’s resignation is making the top lines on BBC World News. It’s in fact the second top headline in the bulletin I’m watching right now. 03G.

That’s quite something, actually.

Sorry if I’ve repeated something that’s already stated earlier post.

Second story on The Briefing, also the paper review spent a significant time on it. As it happens exec BBC presenter, reporter Jonathan Charles.

Also Carrie is presenting on Radio 4's Today in a few moments

And committed the cardinal sin of crashing the pips at 7am.

Out of interest, are ITN and Sky reporting this story ?

It's an interesting and significant story, but to be blunt, she's not really a household name, and
it seems to be the BBC are (once again) getting over excited about one of their own issues.

I'm not saying it's an important issue, it most certainly is, but the way it's being reported is that there's something unique about it, and there's not. Read up about the Dagenham sewing machinists dispute.....

GMB had it as their second story this morning

This sums it up quite perfectly.

BBC rules mean that Carrie Gracie can't discuss Carrie Grace if Carrie Gracie is presenting the programme discussing Carrie Gracie. So she is sitting in silence while Mariella Frostrup talks about Carrie Gracie on the Today programme

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) January 8, 2018

Overall Carrie played a risky game and it seems to have paid off for her. The BBC will never lose her now and if anything will put her straight back in the anchors chair just to serve a purpose and make a point. Afternoon Live with Simon McCoy and Carrie Gracie anyone?

It puts this clip to light where a couple of years ago during the MP Expenses scandal, Carrie was forced to reveal her £92k salary at the time live on air by guest Lord George Foulkes rigorously defending the use of licence fee payers money.

if the BBC didn't report on this they'd be accused of a cover up... I think the point about the Dagenham machinists is that that was a LONG time ago. We shouldn't still have to be having this conversation.

'Meanwhile we are by no means the only workplace with hidden pay discrimination and the pressure for transparency is only growing. I hope rival news organisations will not use this letter as a stick with which to beat the BBC, but instead reflect on their own equality issues.'

The Mail managed to ignore that from its front page, but then The Rothermeres & Dacres of this world are hardly a trusted source of news, equality of fairness. The proof of the pudding will be if the entrenched BBC management culture will allow Carrie Gracie to continue in the long term or shuffle her out sideways which is the usual practice. If the BBC needs to find money there is a whole tench of uselass BBC management post which could be disposed of to pay the workers equal pay.

I agree, the Dagenham machinists led to a change in legislation, that almost 50 years on clearly hasn't been enough.

The point I'm making is a tiny proportion of the audience will identify with Carrie's lifestyle and wages, it feels
like it's something the BBC (and broader media) have suddenly discovered, or at least rediscovered, whereas it's been deep seated and omni present in many industries and walks of life for decades, in fact for ever really !

On the ITV news they made a point on how she was paid less than Jeremy Bowen and Jon Sopel. But surely despite all being editors, the latter two should be paid more.

I'd assume Middle East Editor comes with a 'at risk of being blown up any moment' bonus and also the fact that Bowen has worked for the BBC for a million years and held that post for a good 10 years or more will count for something.

North American Editor must also come with a higher rate as like it or not, the U.S. is always at the top of the news agenda, and Sopel appears on the network news practically every day.