BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

It's a mobile bureau launched last year - they produce some interesting content that would never be picked up by national or world news. Supposedly the viewers chose where to go next and the topics to cover. The current series is in Russia and the reports air over a month or so. I think there are three correspondents and I would characterize them twenty something hipsters who want to travel and tell stories.


Is there a local news paper or bureau of a larger news organization near by? I think in Denver they worked out of the news papers office.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28843888

This was in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Aside from a few trendy shops and restaurants, it's mostly a residential area around where I saw it. No news outlets are anywhere nearby. Also, in that link and whenever I searched, I never found anything about the BBC Popup being in LA.

Maybe they are getting the white collar point of view. If I recall correctly they have covered a lot of the small towns, poor states and blue collar workers in depth.

Good to see Caroline Wyatt back on BBC News. I seem to recall her stepping down from television reporting due to illness?

Yes, Caroline stepped away from television reporting following diagnosis with MS a few months ago. According to this article she was planning a long summer break then returning to radio reporting in the main.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36574680

BBC Newsday with Katty Kay in US on location of US Debates & Barbita Sharma in London.

Worth noting BBC News is advertising internally for a Media Editor to 'deliver exclusive stories and cover the major developments in the world of media – from global deals, to digital advances, to the future of the BBC'.

http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Media-Editor-BBC-Newsgathering/18028

Interesting brief, especially given it's an editor-level role which I find bemusing.

Didn't they remove a media correspondent role not that long ago?

Not sure why you find basic journalism for an editor role bemusing? It sounds similar to the Home Editor, Sport Editor, Business Editor, Economics etc. editor roles. Effectively a senior correspondent responsible for breaking stories and being across their brief in detail.

There may be a difference in letting a media correspondent take redundancy, and not instantly replacing them, and removing a role.

The BBC has been making DQF savings for a while now, which include reducing headcounts in certain grades. A person in a role may take redundancy, without the specific post they held being closed.

But Torin Douglas' media correspondent brief was specifically folded into David Sillito's already large arts and culture brief, which is a little different to him simply not being replaced immediately. I think this likely has more to do with altered editorial priorities in 2016 - both in terms of changed leadership at BBC News, and the much higher profile media news has received in recent years.

Torin may have volunteered for redundancy, but a job was always going to be lost within the arts and media department due to DQF.

While I'd imagine ongoing health concerns might make his appointment unlikely, I would have thought Steve Hewlett would be an obvious front runner for the post.

I was just questioning whether the area of media news requires an editor-level journalist, not merely the role of Media Correspondent that David Sillito already assumes. You could argue Religion, Wales or Northern Ireland deserve an editor before Media does.