BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Michelle Fleury has been the only biz presenter in New York with both Samira Hussain and Nada Tawfik on maternity leave. The latter was cover for Samira.

I thought Mariko Oi was based in Tokyo.

She's Singapore based and has covered Newsday/Asia Business Report for Rico/Sharanjit.

Pleased to announce that @JPonpolitics is the new BBC Deputy Political Editor https://t.co/udrVs6rPmj @BBCNews pic.twitter.com/JUoOhP7UxP

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) April 13, 2016

John Pienaar appointed as new BBC Deputy Political Editor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/john-pienaar-dep-pol-ed

Good choice, will be nice to see him back on our screens much more.

I think she's often in Tokyo as well. But is primarily Simgapore based.

Maleen Saeed has left BBC World News to join TRT World in Turkey.

Many weeks ago. Months, in fact.

Just a quick note to say that Clive Myrie is appearing as a guest panellist on Have I Got News For You tonight.

Haven't seen it yet, but when I first saw he was going to be on I was a little surprised. But then HIGNFY do generally have the odd BBC presenter/correspondent who you wouldn't necessarily think would be first choice for a programme like that but the usually always fit in on the show great. Political journalists are frequent appearers but Will Gompertz and Caroline Wyatt have also appeared once. In fact it's the 'unusual' guests who are quite often the best - I still think Moira Stuart was one of the best guest presenters. Andrew Neil is also appearing later in the series, but he has appeared on it before.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b077sdjr/have-i-got-news-for-you-series-51-episode-2

Who knows, if the cutbacks continue at BBC News - we'll probably end up with HIGNFY in the weekend second Papers slot as part of DQF.

I hope the News Channel gets to return the favor and invite Paul and Ian to be guests on The Papers-Now that would be interesting.