URGENT - UK-BBC-New-Director
Published On: Nov 22 2012 07:26:08 AM EST
(CNN) -- Tony Hall, the chief executive of the Royal Opera House and the BBC's former director of news, has been appointed the corporation's new director general, the BBC announced Thursday. This comes after the resignation of George Entwistle earlier this month. He quit after a BBC report led to a former senior politician being wrongly accused of child abuse.
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