But news executive Helen Boaden said she "had never heard any dark rumours".
Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, said there would be up to 800 post closures in news.
He was "a wry and witty broadcaster of immense experience", according to Helen Boaden, controller of Radio 4.
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Before MacQuarrie's review was completed, BBC News Director Helen Boaden and her deputy, Steve Mitchell, were asked to "surrender all their responsibilities" pending the outcome of the review, the BBC said.
Helen Boaden and Steve Mitchell have been asked to surrender all their responsibilities as head and deputy head of BBC News, pending the results of the Pollard inquiry, I have learned.
The BBC's director of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Steve Mitchell, have been asked to "step aside" pending an internal review into the way abuse claims about Jimmy Savile were handled.
An internal email issued by the BBC's director of news Helen Boaden - who returned to her post on Thursday after stepping aside during the Savile crisis - described the recent criticisms of the corporation as "bruising".
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This is in stark contrast to other senior executives at the BBC, including former director general Mark Thompson and director of news Helen Boaden, who both told the inquiry they had never heard any "rumours" about the DJ.
Helen Boaden, who was director of news for eight years, has been made director of radio, while Tim Davie, who has been acting director general for the past four months, moves to a role in charge of the BBC's global activities.
On Monday, the BBC's director of News Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell "stepped aside" from their roles, pending Nick Pollard's report into the management of Newsnight's report into allegations of sexual abuse by the late TV presenter and radio DJ Jimmy Savile, which was dropped.
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The Director of News, Helen Boaden, and the Controller of Radio Four, Mark Damazer, have both made clear that, although Ed will not be presenting Today, they want, and expect, him to remain a part of their plans, on radio in particular, for many years to come.
Panorama found that at an awards luncheon at the Hilton hotel on 2 December 2011, BBC director of news Helen Boaden told Mr Entwistle, the then director of Vision - which oversees BBC TV commissioning and programming - about the Newsnight investigation and its possible impact on the planned tributes to Savile.
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