The BBC said Jupp would be paid a salary of £400,000. Turness started on a similar salary in 2022, but that had increased to between £445,000 and £449,999 in her last year before leaving the role.
Jupp will have responsibility for about 4,500 staff, and also serve as a member of the BBC’s executive committee.
Jonathan Munro, who has been acting as interim head of the news division for the last 11 months, will return to his role as deputy director of BBC News when Jupp takes up her role.
Brittin said: “I would like to thank Jonathan Munro for his professionalism and leadership of BBC News in the past 11 months. I have been personally grateful for his deep experience, calm head and steady hand.”
The director general said BBC News remained the most used and most trusted news provider around the world and across the UK, but added that it faced significant challenges.
“In a world of infinite choice, audiences are fragmenting, trust is scarce and facts are contested,” Brittin said.
“It is our duty to recommit to the BBC’s distinctive journalistic mission while reinventing how we serve audiences, and to rise to these challenges. In Rachel, we have someone who can do both, with a fresh persepctive to lead BBC News into a new era.”
Jupp’s predecessor Turness left the BBC after an internal memo leaked to the Telegraph highlighted that an episode of Panorama broadcast a year earlier had edited a speech by President Trump in a misleading way.
The BBC’s then-director general Tim Davie also resigned over the scandal, and was replaced by Brittin earlier this year.
The episode of Panorama spliced together two sections of a speech he delivered in 2021, shortly before the Capitol riots on 6 January.
President Trump launched a $10bn (£7.6bn) lawsuit against the BBC after the edit came to light.
The BBC apologised and said the edit had given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action”, but rejected his demand for compensation.
The case is currently scheduled to go to trial in 2027.
