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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Krupa Padhy, like Nkem Ifejika, Nuala McGovern, James Menendez and Ros Atkins (to name but some) are all current or previous BBC World Service Radio presenters - BBC World News TV seems a natural progression.

BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

Emma Vardy has now become full time Ireland correspondent alongside Chris Page

BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

Will Ross and Mary Harper are BBC World Service Africa Editors based in NBH.

There are BBC World Service regional editors (two in each case) for East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and The America’s (the latter covering Latin America) all permanently based in NBH.

It’s more of an analyst role than a correspondent.

BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

Nick Beake has taken up the reins as Myanmar correspondent based in Yangon (replacing Jonah Fisher) who moved to Kiev some time back.

BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

Carrie Gracey is also returning to her BBC roots, rejoining BBC World Service radio, presenting the weekly hour long discussion programme The Real Story (previously known as Newshour Extra).

BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

One departee from the BBC that seems to have gone unmentioned is Gavin Hewitt, who was the Chief Correspondent.

BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

Nkem Ifejika comes from BBC World Service radio where he was a presenter of their morning rolling news programme, Newsday.

He is now a full time BBC World presenter, having started last weekend.

Carrie Gracie resignation

I suspect that she is a staffer - in other words a permanent employee.

Carrie Gracie resignation

To be fair I don’t think Jon Sopel has reported on any of the countries outside the USA in his current role. It is very much a US focussed position. That isn’t a criticism of him by the way. It’s the reality of the job.

Will Grant in Havana tends to cover most Latin America & Caribbean stories, with occasional assistance from James Cook in LA, while South America is covered from São Paulo.

The only time that any of the Washington based team have visited the Caribbean of late was during the recent hurricanes.

Carrie Gracie resignation

Far more likely to be someone with experience of China, such as one of the current or former Beijing correspondents.

As for Carrie - she could go to radio as well such as Today or the World Service.

Carrie Gracie resignation

We don’t know the nature of her contract - she may have taken leave of absence or a secondment from her permanent newsroom role to be China Editor for a specific period.

If that were the case then it’s quite possible to resign the China post and return to the newsroom, in whatever guise that may end up being.

Carrie Gracie resignation

Really??

I think that’s rather unfair - I’d argue she is well known having been around a long time as a BBC correspondent including a long spell in the Middle East.