Background
Pollard was born in Birkenhead and educated at Birkenhead School, an independent school in the city.
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Pollard started his career in journalism as a reporter at the Birkenhead News, and later worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Liverpool and London. He was executive producer at ITN for 13 years, before joining Sky News where he worked from 1996 to 2006. In 2009 he was appointed as chief executive of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), responsible for providing broadcasting and cinema services to British forces and their families.
In October 2012, Pollard was appointed to lead an inquiry into the British Broadcasting Corporation following allegations of sexual abuse by the late broadcaster and disc jockey Jimmy Savile.
Pollard"s remit was to look at why an investigation into Savile"s activities by journalists on the British Broadcasting Corporation Two news programme Newsnight was dropped shortly before it was due to be transmitted. His report was published in December 2012 and concluded that the decision to drop the original Newsnight report in December 2011 was "flawed", but that it had not been done to protect programmes prepared as tributes to Savile.
His report criticised George Entwistle for apparently failing to read emails warning him of Savile"s "dark side", and stated that, after the allegations against Savile eventually became public, the British Broadcasting Corporation fell into a "level of chaos and confusion was even greater than was apparent at the time". Pollard is married with two sons.
