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Eoin Noonan /Web Summit via Getty Images The BBC’s vacant director-general job was described as a “poisoned chalice” with some of the U.K.’s top television contenders – including Apple’s creative director for Europe, Jay Hunt – reportedly turning it down.
Eventually it was longtime Google exec and one-time Olympic rower Matt Brittin who was both experienced and brave enough to take the role that has seen so many of its incumbents come a cropper.
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