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BBC Newsnight’s Neil Breakwell to head up Vice News UK operations

on May 26, 2016 | 0 comments

By Jessica Goodfellow

Vice News has named BBC’s Neil Breakwell its London bureau chief, one of many newly created roles in the media company that will see Breakwell head up Vice UK’s news operation.

Breakwell’s appointment to Vice News comes just hours after the division announced a number of layoffs across its UK and US news teams. At the same time, Vice promoted Josh Tyrangiel to run its weekly and daily HBO news programmes.

Breakwell joins from the BBC where he was deputy editor at BBC Newsnight. In the new role, Breakwell will oversee Vice’s news gathering across Western Europe as the media Read full story ›

Source: The Drum