Fran Unsworth new Director of BBC News & Current Affairs

+++ Fran Unsworth appointed new Director of News + Current Affairs at BBC +++

— Amol Rajan (@amolrajan) December 15, 2017

The local heads of regions will be maneuvering

Yep - with the less widely reported departure of David Holdsworth, who is currently head of English regions, announced there is another management space to fill...

Unsworth and Holdsworth, just need Jobsworth and there's a complete family.

Noteworthy this bucks the trend of making senior appointments at BBC News from outside the BBC, notably the press (James Harding, Ian Katz, Sarah Sands, Amol Rajan).

David Holdsworth's departure also coincides with the BBC's local radio stations being given more editorial freedom to decide their target audience.