Investigation into claims he tried to influence coverage of charity not ‘proportionate,appropriate or cost effective’ now he has resigned, says trustThe BBC’s governing body will not investigate accusations that Alan Yentob tried to influence the BBC’s coverage of Kids Company, or because now he has stepped down as creative director it is “not proportionate,appropriate or cost effective”.
The BBC Trust said that it had “listened” to the specific programmes that Yentob is accused of attempting to influence - on Newsnight, the nowadays programme and World at One - and found that there was “no evidence that the integrity of the output had been affected”.
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Source: theguardian.com