Given Half a Chance - Anchors of the Future

There is some really good talent in the field across all the majors. Historically, we've seen some of those field correspondents moving behind the desk to become prime anchors (Jeremy Thompson, Lyse Doucet, Ben Brown, Mark Austin, Jim Clancy, and some younger candidates like Babita Sharma, James Dagwell, Claire Marshall, Clive Myrie, Geraint Vincent, Tim Wilclocks, etc.)

Any bets on today's current crop of fieldsters who will shortly be given a chance of permanent news anchoring? My money's on:

Matthew Price - BBC News America
Errol Barnett - CNNI
Ashish Joshi - Sky News
Karishma Vaswani - BBC News Jakarta (incredibly advancing this one)
Sharanjit Leyl - BBC News Singapore

He is the regular anchor of the 6amET bulletin on Saturdays

Geraint Vincent still does field reporting regularly rhough. Sky have already started to do this with correspondents such as Sarah Hughes, Jayne Secker, Matt Smith etc making the step up to be presenters...........and good ones at that

The BBC have been doing this recently aswell with people such as Carole Walker, Sangeeta Myska (sp?) and theres more but my brain is still asleep.

Im pretty sure James Lansdale and Reeta Chakrabati have also presented aswell. For the BBC I can see Lorna Gordon, and Kim Ghattas (sp?) becoming anchors.

I agree with most of the ones above aswell.

Though Sangita Myska was one of the main studio presenters of BBC Three's 'The News Show' (and the 15 minute '7 O'Clock News on BBC Three') - alongside Ben McCarthy and Tazeen Ahmad ISTR (and Julian Worricker in the very early days).

When BBC Three relaunched the show as a 30 minute '7 O'Clock News on BBC Three', Sangita and Ben moved on, and it became a near permanent double act of Eddie Mair and Tazeen Ahmad.

Really? I thought he was only a fill-in if Natalie, Rosemary, or Ralitsa aren't there. Either way, he doesn't seem to be that bad. I like him better than most of the CNN.com anchors they used to put on as replacements on weekends. They sent Errol to fill in for Sasha Herriman in London while she was/is(?) on maternity leave, and he filed some interesting reports.

As for field reports potentially becoming anchors later, I'd like to see CNN's Dan Rivers anchor if he ever gets tired of doing his extraordinary field work. I'd be interested in seeing him do a double headed bulletin with Kristie Lu Stout or Anna Coren.

I'd also like to see Bed Wedeman fill in for Stan Grant on Prism from Abu Dhabi, but I have the feeling they'll just send the show back to Atlanta if Stan can't do it.

Suzanne Virdee - BBC West Midlands

She has plenty of national potential. She even had a stint on Breakfast in 2005.

Ever since the September changes there is now a 4th, short, Saturday shift, 5-9amET I think, with just the one bulletin at 6amET/11amGMT.

Geraint Vincent has been nominated for best actor at next year's Oscars for his presentation of the Cumbria floods.

I quite like Daisy McAndrew, I think she'd be good. Think she's presented ITV News on the odd occasion.

Wesley Smith

She was always very good on the Daily Politics a few years ago when she was the co-presenter