Media Masters - Jonathan Munro

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 8 a.m.

Jonathan Munro is the BBC\u2019s Head of Newsgathering, leading the day-to-day activity and deployments of all journalists working across the network\u2019s 60 international bureaux. Prior to this he spent 26 years at ITN joining as an editorial trainee, and ultimately becoming their Correspondent reporting on stories in the US, Russia and Africa. In this in-depth interview, Jonathan describes the challenges of covering a year of \u201ca lot of shade and not much light\u201d - including Covid-19, Brexit and the Presidential election; discusses incoming D-G Tim Davie\u2019s new social media impartiality guidelines, and their efforts to improve on-screen diversity; and shares lessons learnt following the BBC\u2019s controversial coverage of the aborted police investigation into Sir Cliff Richard.\xa0