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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

DAN09690 posted:
Bob Paisley posted:
Who's the young woman presenting the sport on BBC News this morning (Monday)? I didn't catch her name at the start.

Aly Rowell - formerly of Wales Today.

An enlightening and prompt reply. Thanks.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Who's the young woman presenting the sport on BBC News this morning (Monday)? I didn't catch her name at the start.
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2015 Election and the Leaders Debates

DVB Cornwall posted:
It was interesting to see this develop this afternoon, notable that all the major contributors are silent on Twitter tonight. Turned quite nasty at one stage, with others coming on board with anti-BBC tweets.

Yes it was broken by Tom Bradby, but are ITN and it's staff expecting an attribution for a story. It simply isn't done either way . The story once in the wild really is fair game once verified.

I expected better from one of the protagonists too.

Bradby makes it look like it was some incredible scoop he unearthed and it was now being nicked by everyone else. He just so happened to interview Cameron on the day Ofcom made its ruling about the Greens. It wasn't exactly a case of brilliant investigative journalism. Cameron made similar comments on Granada Reports and Northwest Tonight.
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2015 Election and the Leaders Debates

Andrew posted:
There is currently a bit if a Twitter spat going on regarding this Cameron exclusive. The BBC reported by saying they and/or Nick Robinson had learnt this info. In reality it was via the interview with ITV News. Tom Bradby and Alastair Stewart have both waded in to defend ITV's honour.

Robinson claims he was independently working on the same story and didn't just poach it from the ITN interview. Sounds fairly plausible. Cameron's clearly trying to avoid the debates and is coming up with a way to do it. Personally, I'm not sure these debates are ever going to happen.
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Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

Did anyone get to the bottom of why Catherine Jones was appointed Health Editor and then only seemed to do the job for about five minutes?
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ITV News: Rotas & Presenters

aconnell posted:
This is quite unusual. Penny Marshall, who was going to be the BBC's Education Editor, is in fact returning to ITV News before even starting at the BBC. I've never heard of anything like this happening before!





Will return as Social Affairs Editor.

It's a slightly unusual case, since she's been ill. Serious illness makes you reassess things. Maybe she just wanted to stay where she was comfortable and felt at home.
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NBC News, MSNBC, ABC News and others from across the pond

I've always thought there was something of the Emperor's New Clothes about Deborah Turness. A lot of people say she has great ideas - but I've never been convinced about her. A view, I suspect, that is shared by more than a few people on this forum.
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ITV News: Rotas & Presenters

Brekkie posted:
I think if a male left they would have to poach - getting Dermot Murnaghan back would be my choice, or otherwise always thought Charlie Stayt would fit in well with ITV News.

Dependent on who left though I think they might just opt to make one of the bulletins single-headed - both Mary and Julie are more than capable of anchoring one of the flagship shows single handed. It's also important nowadays to have presenters they can send on location for days or even weeks on end - in that regard Mark Austin would be difficult to replace but I guess the best bet would most likely be a correspondent who can easily switch from one role to the other.

Is there any chance he's likely to leave? Has this recent flurry of speculation been prompted by something in particular?
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Critique posted:
Rotas aren't my bag, but where has Reeta Chakrabarti appeared from? I had previously never seen nor heard of her (although research has shown that she did exist previously), but now she is presenting the main network news bulletins? It seems a very quick progression through the ranks for someone relatively unknown?

I wouldn't exactly call her 'unknown'. She's been a correspondent for BBC News for many a year - although she's fairly new to news reading. Her promotion has prompted quite a discussion.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Newsroom posted:
Andrew posted:
Never before has someone gone from no news reading what so ever to presenting every bulletin going, including the most major flagship bulletins, in such a short space of time.

Not saying that she shouldn't be, just that it is quite unusual.


Makes no sense whatsoever. I find her unbearable to watch. Zero gravitas, as said time and time again - they have a stable of excellent presenters to cover the flagship bulletins without having to use Reeta. She's a great correspondent but sucks at presenting.

Without wanting to sound like a reactionary, Daily Mail-reading, UKIP voter, I assume her ethnicity might have played a part? The Beeb has been criticised for a lack of diversity on screen - so promoting a woman of colour must've seen like a good idea (which I don't essentially disagree with, by the way).
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BBC Breakfast

Steve Williams posted:
lxflyer posted:
Breakfast is not a specialist sports show, nor would I expect it to be. Charlie and Naga were asking the sort of questions that people watching who are not experts about (for example) judo - probably the vast majority of viewers - would ask.


And, of course, Naga has won Mastermind with her specialist subject of golf, so she's certainly got some sporting knowledge.

Not enough to correctly refer to football teams in the plural, as is the convention in British broadcast journalism. Whenever she talks about them in sports copy - she says Generic FC 'is' rather than 'are'...but I realise this is a very specific and particular hobby-horse on my part.
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Final election programme for David Dimbleby

mansoor posted:
I wonder if Jeremy Paxman will be part of the BBC election team now he has departed from Newsnight. He has been part of the election night team since 1997.

If not, who? Andrew Neil would be prefect choice. Andrew Marr? Evan Davis?

I don't know if Marr's health issues might limit his involvement on election night. Staying up all night is a lot to ask for a man who's had a major stroke.