BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign

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Summary

• BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resign over a documentary about Donald Trump
• The Telegraph published a leaked BBC memo suggesting a Panorama documentary edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021
• The memo also criticised other areas of BBC News coverage
• In a statement, Davie says: "There have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility" - read it in full
• In a separate statement, Turness says "the buck stops with me". She admits mistakes were made, but says allegations of institutional bias are "wrong"
• Davie weathered many scandals during his time leading the BBC, but not this final one, our culture reporter writes

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