BBC’s China editor, Carrie Gracie, wrote an open letter to licence fee payers citing a “crisis of trust” at the BBC over men being paid more than women.
Gracie has received scores of supportive messages from a string of prominent broadcasters and politicians. She told the BBC’s Today programme on Radio 4, of which she is also a presenter, how much she had been moved by the backing she’d received.
Interviewed by her co-presenter John Humphrys, whose £600,000-plus pay packet is at least four times more than Gracie’s, she said: “The support that I’ve had in the last few hours over this … does speak to the depth of hunger for an equal, fair and transparent pay system.”
She added: “What is lovely for me is that people are mentioning my China work, because I would not wish to be remembered for ever as the woman who complained about money.”
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