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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jemima Kiss

Runners and riders for Ashley Highfield's job

Ten house points to Mike Butcher over on TechCrunch UK for his sterling work on a 'choose your own BBC future media director'. As we know, it would be a shocker if Erik Huggers didn't get it, but the view from the techists is a bit different.

Top of the bill is Ian Forrester. He's an extremely sound techie and very well connected, but a politician he is not. If the description of Highfield's job as 85% politics, 15% action is accurate, anyone that feels the need to do rather than to talk won't be very happy in that role at all. And anyway, Ian can make far more difference on the ground.

This list makes cracking reading for a who's who of UK web media though. Excellent stuff.

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