As Tim Davie is forced to step aside, the outgoing BBC director general left his staff with a firm message: “fight for our journalism,” he told employees on Tuesday, only days after Donald Trump threatened to sue the corporation for $1 billion over a Panorama programme. Speaking during a 40-minute internal call, Davie acknowledged the mounting pressure of the past week but tried to reassure staff that BBC would get through the crisis. Davie resigned on Sunday along with BBC News chief Deborah Turness. He admitted the corporation had made “some mistakes that have cost us” but said he remained “fiercely proud” of the organisation and the work its journalists do every day. He told the meeting that long-term arrangements for the news division would be confirmed soon and that the BBC

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