Margaret Sullivan: I Once Was Skeptical About Mark Thompson.

In late 2012, I was the newly minted public editor (or newsroom watchdog) at the New York Times, when the news hit that Mark Thompson was likely to be the newspaper’s next CEO. By the time the the Jimmy Savile scandal erupted, over historic sexual abuse by a popular children’s TV presenter, Thompson had already left for the New York Times.” “Had I known about the nature of the allegations and the credible allegations that these horrific crimes had taken place during his time at the BBC and in the building at the BBC, I, of course, would have considered them very grave and would have acted very differently,” Thompson said at the time.