Mihir Bose leaves the BBC

The BBC sports news editor, Mihir Bose, has resigned from the corporation for personal reasons after two and a half years.

Bose, a former Daily Telegraph journalist, was appointed to his current job at the end of 2006 and took up the post in January 2007.

He was the corporation's first sports news editor and one of the biggest recent signings made by BBC News. He was handed a brief to expand the remit of its sports coverage and appeared regularly on its major news bulletins, as well as contributing to the BBC1 weekly sports magazine show Inside Sport.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "Mihir Bose has resigned for personal reasons with immediate effect."

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I don't know if he appeared more on the news channel, but on BBC1 he only seemed to appear about once every 3 months to do a report about Setanta

has to go down as a failed appointment. no doubt hired on a huge salary but didn't break one single story of note, despite his 'contacts'

He was involved in reporting quite a few big stories but his problem was just that he wasn't any good. The other sports news reporters the BBC have did just as good a job as he did but with less fuss.

I'm wondering whether Salford Quays might have been in the mix in this. It's also clear that the department is having serious difficulities filling the News Channel studio sport reporter positions this summer and that new relatively unsure personnel are being used even at peak times.

oh good, I wasn't the only one to find him intolerable. Even his reports on simple things like the bejing pollution were poor.

I read he was one of the ones to go on that course run by the controller of BBC1's husband. My first thought was "how poor was he before that?"

I wonder if they'll bother replacing him, and if they do what do you bet they pick one of the current Sports correspondents...

Considering the abuse he got on his blog, and sad to say a fair bit of it seemingly racially motivated, I'm surprised he stuck out this long.

His role did seem rather pointless though, kind of stuck in a vortex somewhere between BBC Sport and BBC News, and ultimately unimportant to either.

Useless.

Who was the previous Sports Editor or Senior Correspondent? Was it Rob Bonnet? Over on BBCW we had a gentleman called David Brenner who used to appear. he was good.

An example of poor recruitment on behalf of the BBC, much like the abysmal mistake ITN made when they hired Ruth Lee as their Economics Editor some years ago. Absolutely appalling on air, made him painful to watch. Another classic example of a right royal mess up was appointing Tim Ewart to the then Newsroom South East.

Robert Peston was supposedly coached by that chap. I actually switched channels when Peston was on the news at one today. Why they don't appoint people who have already been trained I'll never know.