The BBC's director general Tim Davie has resigned after mounting criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by doctoring a speech by Donald Trump.
The BBC chief, who held the position for five years, announced his resignation alongside Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News on Sunday.
The Telegraph published details last week of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of the US president's speech together so he appeared to encourage supporters to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell”.
Announcing his resignation yesterday, Davie said that he bore “ultimate responsibility” for mistakes made at the BBC and suggested he had struggled with the “very intense personal and professional demands of managing this role over many years in these febrile times”.
Turness said in a statement that the Panorama controversy had "reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC", adding: "The buck stops with me."
She said: "In public life leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down. While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong."
Trump posted a message on social media in which he celebrated Davie’s resignation. He said: “The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught “doctoring” my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th."