BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

Well that's a promotion! Hollyrood or LA, I know which one I would choose.

And worth noting it's part of a wider bunch of moves - Laura Bicker to Washington, Martin Patience to Lagos and John Sudworth to Beijing.

To run through some changes in correspondents so far this year:

Gone unreported here is Mike Wooldridge's retirement as World Affairs Correspondent at the end of June, after 45 years service to the BBC. One of the best foreign correspondents that the Corporation has had.

Also, another long serving correspondent, Mark Doyle, finished up as International Development Correspondent back at the end of March, but does not appear to have been replaced.

Tom Esslemont, a foreign correspondent who was based at various times in Washington, Tbilisi and Moscow, has also left the BBC.

Rana Jawad is still North Africa Correspondent, but has relocated from Tripoli to Tunis.
Mark Lobel, previously Middle East Business Correspondent in Dubai, appears to have returned to London.
Duncan Crawford has returned from Brussels to London.
Nigel Cassidy, previously European Business Correspondent, has left the BBC.

Also, Lorna Gordon is now back up and running as Scotland Correspondent again, while James Cook has now arrived in Los Angeles.

The East Africa correspondent role has remained unfilled since the end of March when Ed Thomas returned to the UK.

Nick Robinson leaving his current post, to replace James Naughtie on R4's Today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33466774

I wonder who his replacement will be. Surely a woman? Laura K? Allegra Starton?

Laura Kuenssberg would be my pick.

Robert Peston was rumoured to have coveted the job, but he is absolutely dreadful so i hope he stays at Economics.

I'd like the idea of the BBC poaching Bradby, it would royally screw up ITV News' intentions in one stroke. Laura Kuenssberg is the obvious replacement though.

Maybe ITV got wind of this forthcoming vacancy and moved to promote Bradby into his new role to prevent him switching sides.

Why does it have to be a woman? Surely whoever gets the job should get it based on their experience, what they can bring to the role and leadership? Not what gender they were born!

Surely the three in the running would be:

Joey Jones (Sky News)
James Landale
Laura Kuensberg

There were rumours some time ago that the beeb wanted Joey to jump ship.

Because of the fact that the BBC is supposed to be representative of the population and an equal opportunities employer, at the moment all three of the big 'three' editors are held by men and most of the other editors are men. Furthermore, this isn't helped by the fact the BBC has set itself numerous targets based on gender, BAME, region, age, LGBT and disabilities and regularly fails to meet them.

I would be surprised if both ITV and the BBC didn't promote from within rather than looking elsewhere. However, the interesting appointments may be the replacements of those promoted as political editors.

As I say, the best person should be chosen for the job.

But putting someone in a senior job role because they merely tick a box based on their sexuality, race, age or gender is poor practice.

The biggest problem in the media is that there's been very little diversity in those climbing the ranks - this is where the problems need addressing, at the source.

Diversity is very important in the media and its something I fully support - and surely the person who gets the job would want to know they were selected on their skills and experience, I know I would be.