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‘BBC Breakfast’ Editor Was Rewarded With More Power After Facing Bullying & Misconduct Claims
‘BBC Breakfast’ editor Richard Frediani was rewarded with more power after facing allegations of bullying, misconduct, and shaking a female colleague.
Giving evidence to UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee this week, BBC Director General Tim Davie said the corporation has “zero tolerance” for misconduct, even if an employee considers it to be a “marginal” complaint about wrongdoing. Caroline Dinenage, the Conservative MP who chairs the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, told Deadline that the allegations about Frediani are “deeply disappointing and frustrating,” and part of a “conveyor belt of unacceptable behaviour at the BBC.” On the FOI figures about upheld grievances, she added: “The lack of disciplinary action being taken gives a worrying impression that the corporation is failing to treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves.” He has transformed Breakfast into an engine room of news, delivering scoops on Captain Tom Moore’s pandemic heroics and Manchester United player Marcus Rashford’s fight for free school meals, the latter of which won a Royal Television Society award.
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