Conclusions from Ghomeshi report ‘troubling and disappointing’: CBC
Posted Apr 16, 2015 10:09 am.
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TORONTO – The CBC says the conclusions from a report into the handling of the Jian Ghomeshi scandal are “troubling and disappointing.”
A letter to employees signed by upper management says that outside investigator Janice Rubin spoke with 99 people over the last five months to prepare the report.
The CBC says it will be working with the Canadian Media Guild to review the nine recommendations outlined in the report.
The letter says the CBC will “implement as many of those as we can, as quickly as possible.”
The letter also included an apology to employees “who experienced inappropriate behaviour” in the workplace, saying “it has no place at CBC/Radio-Canada.”
The public broadcaster also says it is “severing ties” with two top executives: Chris Boyce, executive director of CBC Radio, and Todd Spencer, the head of human resources and industrial relations for English services.
The CBC fired Ghomeshi, the host of its daily radio arts and culture show “Q,” in October after seeing what it called “graphic evidence” that he had caused physical injury to a woman.
