Rob Norman and Jon Miller have been appointed non-executive directors of BBC Global News Ltd, which owns and operates the BBC’s commercially funded global 24-hour news channel BBC World News and bbc.com/news.
Norman is the chief digital officer of GroupM Worldwide and Miller the co-founder of Fuel Media Capital.
They will join the boards of directors of BBC Global News Ltd, which includes the director of global news Peter Horrocks and CEO Jim Egan.
Commenting on the appointments, Horrocks said: “We want BBC Global News Ltd. to offer international news to audiences in a seamless, integrated way across platforms, which is why Rob and Jon’s expertise in the digital marketplace is so important.
We’ve just completed a re-launch of BBC World News from new studios in ‘the world’s newsroom’ in London and bringing Rob’s and Jon’s experience to the table is another big step forward for our business.”