A former director of global news at the BBC is to review how the corporation maintains impartiality on social media.
The BBC has appointed Richard Sambrook, currently director of journalism of Cardiff University, to review online behaviour of programmes and staff.
Prof Sambrook, who worked for BBC News for 30 years, will examine whether impartiality guidelines are being adhered to on platforms like Twitter.
The review was commissioned before this week’s Emily Maitlis controversy.
The BBC said: “As part of our ongoing work on impartiality ... Read even more
