Guardian Media 100: No. 33
Highfield is placed at 33 in The Guardian’s Media 100 list of the UK’s most powerful media people.
Highfield, perhaps the BBC’s most consummate empire builder, has spent most of the last year on the back foot. In the run-up to the government-ordered Graf report into the BBC’s new media operations, he spent a great deal of time defending the BBC’s online reputation, commissioning KMPG to rebuff accusations that bbc.co.uk unfairly distorted the marketplace.