THE Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which was behind the botched Newsnight programme into child abuse, has also suffered a serious blow over the crisis at the BBC with the resignation of its editor Iain Overton.
THE Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which was behind the botched Newsnight programme into child abuse, has also suffered a serious blow over the crisis at the BBC with the resignation of its editor Iain Overton.
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MICHAEL SETTLE
Mr Overton, 39, announced his departure on Twitter, where he had written that a "very senior political figure" would be exposed as a paedophile on November 2, hours before the report was broadcast.
Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen used a parliamentary motion to call on the funders, which include Oxfam, Save The Children and the Joseph Rowntree Trust, to cut all ties with the bureau. He said it was now "totally discredited as a serious producer of quality journalism".
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