Carrie Gracie, BBC’s veteran China editor has resigned her position in Beijing in protest over what she called a “secretive and illegal pay culture” for men and women at the British public broadcaster.
In an open letter, Gracie said the BBC was facing a “crisis of trust”, after it was revealed two-thirds of its stars earning more than 1,50,000 pounds were male.
Gracie said she left her role as editor of the corporation’s Beijing bureau last week, but would return to her former post in the TV newsroom “where I expect to be paid equally”.
In the letter, issued on yesterday, she accused the BBC of having a “secretive and illegal pay culture”. Gracie — a China specialist who is fluent in Mandarin — said “the
BBC belongs to you, the licence fee payer”.