MY
Lyse seems to have her experiences more rooted in the Middle East, in her commercial she always says something along the lines "I've lived in the Middle East for many years." It may seem her role overlaps a lot onto Jeremy Bowen (Middle East editor role)'s role. John Simpson would appear to be running Lyse's role, although one must say he doesn't always make appearances, sometimes having a long hiatus between his current and previous appearance. Between a chief correspondent and an editor, who is of a higher rank?
In the southeast Asian region, I surmise there are only 3 countries having stable BBC correspondents. In Singapore, the Newsday team seems to also function as correspondents to Singapore and its immediate neighbouring countries. Jonathan Head, the South East Asia correspondent (not sure if he still is), has always been based in Thailand. In Indonesia, we have Karishma Vaswani, recently promoted to editor role from a correspondent. In her place, there's this short-hair lady I can't recall her name at the moment. I don't recall Philippines having any correspondents even though it's pretty vast, but probably it lacks economic or political stories to require a permanent correspondent. In the typhoon Haiyan incident, Singapore's team is dispatched there before others. I think it's fair to say Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos would be covered by Johnathan Head who is in Thailand.
@independent, possible. Or come to think of it, she may be attached to another channel at the moment.
@i-lied, Jennifer Pak has covered major news before, including the MH370, which she covered extensively so I believe she is capable. She has been covering mostly Malaysian events for the BBC for quite some years. The only thing being she isn't tied to the BBC, a freelancer. I've seen her appearing on some other Asian news channels.
In the southeast Asian region, I surmise there are only 3 countries having stable BBC correspondents. In Singapore, the Newsday team seems to also function as correspondents to Singapore and its immediate neighbouring countries. Jonathan Head, the South East Asia correspondent (not sure if he still is), has always been based in Thailand. In Indonesia, we have Karishma Vaswani, recently promoted to editor role from a correspondent. In her place, there's this short-hair lady I can't recall her name at the moment. I don't recall Philippines having any correspondents even though it's pretty vast, but probably it lacks economic or political stories to require a permanent correspondent. In the typhoon Haiyan incident, Singapore's team is dispatched there before others. I think it's fair to say Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos would be covered by Johnathan Head who is in Thailand.
@independent, possible. Or come to think of it, she may be attached to another channel at the moment.
@i-lied, Jennifer Pak has covered major news before, including the MH370, which she covered extensively so I believe she is capable. She has been covering mostly Malaysian events for the BBC for quite some years. The only thing being she isn't tied to the BBC, a freelancer. I've seen her appearing on some other Asian news channels.
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I guess this time though it's slightly more serious than a plane disappearing as we actually know what happened this time and also appears to put the airlines future is serious doubt. It's also possible that Jennifer Pak wasn't available for whatever reason and when the story first broke, Mariko Oi was providing reaction live from the Singapore studio so I'm guessing Singapore has local editorial control on this one as a studio and bureau.
CR
Speaking of HARDtalk, I note they've put themselves at the forefront of interviewing with a recent innovation, which is a segment of the programme I like to think is called 'HARDstare'. The rules appear to be that you can only play if the guest is not in the studio, but you can play in any studio you like. I've included some examples in the video below, including a rare round of the game where Stephen Sackur plays:
There is a fair bit of audio lag (five seconds or so) on the recording for some reason, but it is genuinely just 15 seconds of staring at the interviewee.
There is a fair bit of audio lag (five seconds or so) on the recording for some reason, but it is genuinely just 15 seconds of staring at the interviewee.
JW
In continuation of the comments elsewhere noting inconsistency on BBC World at the weekends, so far this weekend we've had: Saturday: Alice Baxter, Maryam Moshiri, Maleen Saeed. Sunday: James Coomarasamy, Daniela Ritorto.
For a variety of reasons, the same inconsistency now exists midweek as well:
5am - Naga leaving and only doing a few days a week now;
8am - No permanent presenter since Nik left;
GMT - unavoidable mixture of presenters due to George's absence;
Impact - now hosted by the never-present Yalda Hakim;
Global - Soapy gone. Now a different presenter every day;
WNT - Zeinab now away quite frequently.
Newsday - a variety of fillers.
Business Edition and Embley PBS - probably the two most consistent slots on the channel at the moment. Mike and Tanya are fairly consistent, albeit Mike currently on holiday.
The channel feels a wee bit "lost" at the moment.
For a variety of reasons, the same inconsistency now exists midweek as well:
5am - Naga leaving and only doing a few days a week now;
8am - No permanent presenter since Nik left;
GMT - unavoidable mixture of presenters due to George's absence;
Impact - now hosted by the never-present Yalda Hakim;
Global - Soapy gone. Now a different presenter every day;
WNT - Zeinab now away quite frequently.
Newsday - a variety of fillers.
Business Edition and Embley PBS - probably the two most consistent slots on the channel at the moment. Mike and Tanya are fairly consistent, albeit Mike currently on holiday.
The channel feels a wee bit "lost" at the moment.
MY
8am - I can see Geeta fairly regularly, although she does go off on week-long leaves every now and again. Otherwise, she would usually do about at least 3 days of the week. In the past I concluded both she and David Eades seems likely regulars on 8am. Now with other branded slots left shorthanded, David has been deployed all over the place, hence 8am being rather unpredictable again. I'd hope to see Geeta staying on a more routine schedule on 8am.
Impact - I've seen Yalda pretty regularly. I think I only saw Karin on it last Friday.
Newsday- Babita is back after her week-long absence doing another duty. So we would likely get a bit of consistency there again. Kasia probably back on Fridays, it was probably an unusual coincidence both she and Babita were unavailable last week.
Update: Lyse Doucet is in the studio talking with Yalda on Impact just now. A special done by her will be featured over the weekend.
Impact - I've seen Yalda pretty regularly. I think I only saw Karin on it last Friday.
Newsday- Babita is back after her week-long absence doing another duty. So we would likely get a bit of consistency there again. Kasia probably back on Fridays, it was probably an unusual coincidence both she and Babita were unavailable last week.
Update: Lyse Doucet is in the studio talking with Yalda on Impact just now. A special done by her will be featured over the weekend.
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