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BBC business editor’s connections with News International questioned

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

July 12, 2011 | 2 min read

The close relationship between BBC business editor Robert Peston and Will Lewis, general manager of News International has been called into question.

According to the Daily Mail; “A new crisis, and again it seems to be Mr Peston, the BBC's business editor, who is making the running with another series of scoops, this time broadcasting or blogging a relentless succession of dramatic developments in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

“And once again, questions are emerging over quite who is providing the enthusiastic journalist with the 'inside track' that has placed him at the vanguard of the story.”

Mail Online claims media commentators have highlighted the close personal and formerly professional relationship between Peston and Will Lewis ...”the very senior News International troubleshooter, amid suggestions that the BBC man is being used by the Murdoch machine.”

“There are certainly links between Mr Peston, the son of Labour peer and economist Maurice Peston, and Mr Lewis. They are friends and neighbours living in North London and were former colleagues at the Financial Times.

The article also claims that Mr Peston is close to News International's director of corporate affairs, Simon Greenberg.

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