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THE BBC NEWSPAPER Ord Strictly for Pudsey photograph 17·11·09 Week 46 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel : MIKE ALSF a THE BBC NEWSPAPER ord Strictly for Pudsey Spotlight presenter Natalie ◆Cornah and her professional partner Nick Hole took to the floor on the weekend to help raise money for Children in Need. Cornah was one of 11 presenters from Radio Cornwall, Radio Devon and Spotlight to take part in Strictly for Pudsey, a dance competition held in the Plymouth Guildhall. See Page 4 > NEWS 2-4 WEEK AT WORK 8-9 OPINION 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 216 SALARIes /news aa 00·00·08 17·11·09 a 17·11·09 news 3 NEWS BITES BBC to go public with hospitality register and aggregate star salaries Pay list embraces the high As PART of Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s a anti-bullying season, Bebo, Facebook, Habbo, MSN, MySpace profile and lesser known and YouTube have teamed up to offer advice on their sites to Room 2316, White City The salary list of the top 107 Salary: £120,000 Salary: £76,300 combat online bullying. Radio 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS decision makers includes both Total remuneration: £127,800 Total remuneration: £81,100 1 is dealing with bullying this 020 8008 4228 household names and little week in its output and a website Editor Still more to come known managers. Their earn- MARKETIng, COMMUNICA- BBC PeoPLE has been created to support the Candida Watson 02-84222 ings encompass a wide range, TIons AND AUDIences Lucy Adams, director campaign. bbc.co.uk/bullyproo Salary: £320,000 Deputy editors by Sally Hillier they hold positions on the most senior boards as shown in these examples Sharon Baylay, director and therefore hold the greatest responsibility Salary (May 2009): £310,000 Total remuneration will be in A REVIseD version of the BBC Sally Hillier 02-26877 u FAR FROM beIng THE enD of the story, the for spending licence fee money and for over- BBC DIRecTIon GROUP (BDG) Total remuneration: as a new- Annual Report and Accounts iPlayer is to be launched as Cathy Loughran 02-27360 publication last week of the salaries, out-of- seeing the BBC’s services in their area of oper- Mark Thompson, comer, this will be in Annual 2009/10 a dedicated channel on the Features editor pocket expense claims and centrally booked ations,’ Caroline Thomson explained. director general Report and Accounts 2009/10 Robert Johnston, Nintendo Wii on November 18. Clare Bolt 02-27445 costs of the BBC’s top leaders is part of an on- In an interview with Ariel ahead of last Salary: £664,000 Jacky Brandreth-Potter, direc- reward director The iPlayer is already accessible Reporters going process, with further disclosures prom- week’s publication, Lucy Adams, director of Total remuneration: £834,000 tor of brand and planning Salary: £183,750 via the Nintendo Wii, but the Laura Scarrott 02-84224 ised in the new year. BBC People, said the corporation had thought David Jordan, director of Salary: £167,145 Total remuneration: £196,550 new version is faster and has Production editor Another round of expenses submitted by sen- ‘long and hard’ about the fairness or other- editorial policy and standards Total remuneration: £174,945 Paul Greeves, head of safety, a full-screen user interface. Claire Barrett 02-27368 ior executives will be revealed, fulfilling a pledge wise of pitching staff with no public profile Salary: £167,000 Sue Lynas, director of MC&A security and health Art editor to make such information available on a quar- into the spotlight by exposing their earnings. Total remuneration: £174,800 for audio and music Salary: £114,400 BBC One drama The Street, which Ken Sinyard 02-84229 terly basis, and a register of gifts and hospital- ‘That’s why we went on board structure, Jessica Cecil, head of director- Salary: £128,375 Total remuneration: £119,200 has ended with the closure of Total remuneration: £136,175 Business co-ordinator ity will be published. This will set out the gifts rather than just picking people at random,’ general’s office ITV Studios drama department, and hospitality that have been accepted by exec- said Adams. ‘If you have a position of respon- Salary: £122,500 JOURNALISM where it was made, won five of Silvana Romana 02-84228 utives in accordance with BBC policy. sibility sufficient to be on a board, then you’re Total remuneration: £130,300 FINAnce AND BUSIness Mark Byford, deputy dg 13 BBC prizes at the weekend’s Ariel mail A register of interests for senior staff is clearly a senior manager, which means that Zarin Patel, Salary: £471,000 RTS North West Awards. Writer [email protected] also to be disclosed, including sharehold- sometimes you will be on the receiving end of VISION chief financial officer Total: £485,000 Jimmy McGovern took the craft Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel ings and any memberships or director- decisions that may not feel very comfortable. Jana Bennett, director Salary: £346,000 Dominic Coles, award with the judges’ award ships of public or industry bodies, as well as ‘We did a lot of consultation and sessions Salary: £412,000 Total: £429,000 chief operating officer going to the production team. business interests held by immediate fam- on why we had chosen to do this, and actu- Total remuneration: £515,000 Chris Day, group financial Salary: £257,500 Dragons’ Den and BBC Three comedy Guest contributors this week ily members. Such information is already ally the feeling was that while people might John Yorke, controller of dra- controller Total: £265,300 Massive were other winners. available on Executive Board members and find it difficult, they understood that as sen- ma production and new talent Salary: £211,500 James Heath, controller of GARETH HYDes, head of editorial details are now being gathered on people and expenses of the 107 top decision makers ior managers it was their responsibility to be Salary: £238,119 Total remuneration: £219,300 strategy, journalism group To MARK the 10th anniversary of for Children in Need, on the lower down the command chain. represent ‘unprecedented levels of transparen- part of this.’ Total remuneration: £270,919 Jo Woods, finance and busi- Salary: £85,000 BBC Radio’s Food & Farming Awards sometimes ‘harrowing’ stories In another move towards greater openness cy’ that ‘go beyond any other public body’, said Even so, the process of going public was Claire Dresser, chief adviser ness director, audio & music Total remuneration: £89,800 Prince Charles and the Duchess behind the appeal. Page 4 and transparency, the BBC says that early in 2010 chief operating officer Caroline Thomson. a tricky act to get right, Adams observed. Salary: £98,500 Salary: £134,003 of Cornwall will attend this year’s it will unveil details of how much it pays celebri- Among almost 3000 lines of information on ‘We’re trying to be open and accountable, Total remuneration: £103,300 Total remuneration: £141,803 AUDIO & MUSIC ceremony, to be hosted at the end of PeTER STewART, broadcast ty performers, although this will be in aggregate expenses, only one percent has been redacted but in doing so are revealing the salaries of Tim Davie, director the month by Mark Thompson in the journalist at Radio Kent, finds a form, shown in total in bands, rather than as a (blacked out) to protect confidentiality, she some of our staff, a number of which are in FM&T OPERATIons Salary: £325,000 Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House. different dimension to reporting breakdown of individual payments. added. excess of £100,000. Erik Huggers, director Caroline Thomson, chief Total: £403,000 the news on the Falklands. Page 15 The BBC has long argued that it could be The disclosures, which went live last ‘I imagine that if I were earning the na- Salary: £223,000 operating officer Graham Ellis, controller of VAnessA WHITBURN, editor commercially damaging to let rivals know Thursday on the About the BBC website, and tional average [about £27,000], and my part- Total remuneration: £274,000 Salary: £333,000 production of The Archers, represented the what its big names are getting – a case that include job descriptions for each managerial ner had just lost their job in the recession, Kerstin Mogull, chief operating Total remuneration: £413,000 Salary: £200,000 programme and the BBC at the holds little water with critics who believe that role, cover high profile executives such as Mark and I saw a list of big salaries at the BBC, it officer Nicholas Eldred, group gen- Total: £207,800 funeral last week of actor Norman BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 a publicly funded broadcaster should come Thompson, Alan Yentob, Jana Bennett and would not feel very palatable. However, we Salary: £175,000 eral counsel and secretary Paul Smith, Painting, who played Phil Archer completely clean on talent costs. Peter Salmon as well as lesser known people. can’t have a remuneration strategy driven by Total remuneration: £182,800 Salary: £219,751 head of editorial standards for nearly 60 years. A memorial Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 Last week’s revelations about the salaries ‘These senior leaders were selected because public opinion.’ Anna Mallett, controller, Total remuneration: £227,551 Salary: £110,000 service will be held in 2010. BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 business strategy Tom Sleigh, chief adviser Total remuneration: £114,800 Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS THE BBC’S news service in Turkish, Advertise in Ariel BBC Turkçe, will celebrate 70 years of Ten Alps Publishing 020 7878 2314 broadcasting on November 20 with www.bbcarielads.com ‘Surplus’ funds new service but no decision on top slicing until 2012/13 a televised debate on the future of news co-presented by the BBC’s David Printing We had to check and check again Eades and Banu Güven from NTV, the Garnett Dickinson Group BBC’s broadcast partner in Turkey.
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