BBC News: Presenters, correspondent & rotas

Of Naga: “She’s the rudest person on tv”.

LOL. How funny!

It is worth noting Peston has done exactly the same as Laura with less of the flack - but it is a big issue with broadcast journalism at the moment, especially when the government are boycotting the shows that do challenge the narrative.

Peston often seems to think he is employed by Twitter or Facebook rather than ITV/ITN. He needs to be given a Nokia brick instead of a smartphone.

Laura K certainly hasn't helped herself, but the vitriol is horrific. Sadly, this means she can't do the sensible thing which is to *stop bloody tweeting* because it'd look like a victory for the sexist bullies.The BBC also does not help the situation by including political correspondents' tweets in online stories, encouraging people to read every tweet from them as a tablet of stone.

Journalism in general, and particularly political journalism, is locked in a toxic embrace with social media. I can't see a way out of it without one major group ordering its reporters to, say, pull back from Twitter.

I'm quite sure when Breakfast started Sophie & Jeremy did Mon-Thu and Darren Jordon & Sarah Montague (later Sian Williams) did Thu-Sun. Although I could be wrong on that as I'm not sure if the Friday presenters also did Saturdays and Sundays.


It's possible George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth did 5 days when they initially took over the 6 in 2003. There's clips on TV Ark of George presenting the bulletin on a Friday, and I've just checked on Genome the first week they did the 6 in January 2003 they did 5 days.

Not quite 5 days on the same bulletin, but wasn't there a period in which Sian Williams did Breakfast Monday-Thursday and then the six on Fridays?

Aaron Heslehurst does 5-days a week on BBC World.

My gosh. If only I knew about this website before!

I send my thanks for sending my inner geek insane and giving me something to do this evening

The problem with Twitter is that you learn too much of people’s own personal opinions on it and this is particularly difficult when it is their job to be impartial and not to let us know their opinions. To be fair this isn’t a problem that I have with Laura but there is definitely a younger generation of journalists who can’t separate their personal lives, and opinions, from their jobs.

With the last 8-10 weeks of combined presentations, who are the presenters we'd normally expect to see that we aren't seeing much of?

We're mostly seeing the same faces week in and week out, with a little variation.

Geeta Guru-Murthy, Philippa Thomas and Ros Atkins are about the only regular presenters not currently appearing (or not appearing in the studio in Ros' case), other than those who wouldn't currently be appearing in any case (Victoria Fritz, Ben Bland). Additionally a lot of the relief team (Simon Pusey, Krupa Padhy, Reged Ahmad, Rachel Schofield etc) are simply not currently needed so while they are not appearing in most cases this'll be due to a lack of need rather than anything preventing them from doing so.

Being in Los Angeles, I go to bed around the time Sally Bundock / David Eeds get started, and by the time I'm up and going, its Matthew Amroliawala and I have no idea what happened in between.

Katty Kay has also not been presenting, but similar to Ros Adkins, reporting from home.

What's Tanya Beckett up to these days?

Tanya is freelance and occasionally contributes to BBC Radio. She hasn’t presented BBC World News for quite some time, where she was doing weekend and late night slots infrequently when she stopped being a business presenter.

David Eades and Sally Bundock currently share the morning slot between them, with occasional appearances from Tim Willcox.

Karin Giannone and Samantha Simmonds have been doing weekend mornings lately.

Philippa Thomas is busy with other (non BBC) work at the moment.

Krupa is primarily a BBC World Service radio presenter (along with the likes of James Menendez and Nuala McGovern). Whilst radio is their primary work, they all fill in on BBC World News tv from time to time, Nuala on a more regular basis and across all tv output, and James/Krupa normally on generic BBC World News.

Due to the obvious lack of slot time at the moment, none of them are really needed on World TV but are busy on World Radio.

Snippet: when Outside Source was launched on World TV some years ago, Krupa was the main deputy for Ros Atkins.

Simon Pusey: overnight slots covered adequately at the moment by Mike and Lewis and James R.

Furthermore, Babita Sharma is now back in the system and therefore even less of a requirement for cover in the traditional Newsday slot.