In September last year, months into Kay’s employment, Ozy was plunged into scandal when a New York Times report called into question its audience figures and suggested that a boss at the firm had impersonated a Youtube executive on a conference call with Goldman Sachs. Kay and Watson had already worked together on a podcast called When Katty Met Carlos, a BBC and Ozy co-poroduction.
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Kay left the BBC to become senior editor and executive producer of Ozy Media, a news and entertainment business founded in 2013 by former TV anchor Carlos Watson. She told Axios at the time: “It took a really special place to get me to leave a special place.” She first worked for the corporation in the early 1990s and had been a Washington-based correspondent since 2002. Kay appeared to have left the BBC last May with some regret. I mean, people leave at various stages of their career depending on what they want to do… But I bet you none of them would say that it was because they didn’t like the BBC.” “I imagine if you went back to snapshot ten years ago you’d probably find five people left then. I’m deeply committed to the BBC’s objective news reporting. “I’m sure they each have their own reasons for the career decisions that they’ve made.
“I know some of them individually and I don’t know all of them individually,” says Kay when I reel off the list above. So, I ask Kay, why is everyone leaving the BBC? (Okay, not everyone, but the BBC has lost some high-profile journalists of late – Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, Andrew Neil and Andrew Marr, to name a few – and The Times claims it is facing a “talent exodus” and “brain drain”.) Ozy? ‘ I think I’ve said all I want to say’ That’s – I haven’t seen that in the 25 years that I’ve lived in this country… I’d like to dig into that and see: How robust is American democracy at the moment?” Click here to subscribe to Press Gazette’s must-read newsletters, Future of Media and Future of Media US “Or talking about the prospect of California seceding from the union. “You have serious people in this country at the moment talking about the prospect of a civil war,” she adds.
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