BBC is not just ageist against women, says John Simpson - The Independent

BBC is not just ageist against women, says John Simpson: "

He once claimed to have liberated Kabul. Now, John Simpson is facing a different kind of war much closer to home: ageism at the BBC. Many female correspondents have railed against age discrimination and now it is the turn of the men. 'There are not many of us left,' said Simpson, the Corporation's 65-year-old world affairs editor. 'We have mostly died out or retired. I'm certainly the oldest person in the BBC newsroom.'

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