They just announced on Media Guardian than James Chater has quit Sky News. Could he be the first of many?
You mean David Chater. A shame, but he has been under-used as Africa correspondent.
Yeah sorry that's the one, he's been there for ages hasn't he?
That's a shame - he was one of their best correspondants. I don't recall seeing him on screen for a while although I might of just missed him to be fair.
Chater: became one of the most familiar faces of UK TV news during the second Gulf war
Veteran Sky News correspondent David Chater, who reported from the streets of Baghdad as US forces entered the city in 2003, is to leave the news channel.
Chater, who is Sky's Africa correspondent, became one of the most familiar faces of UK TV news during the second Gulf war and is resigning after 13 years with Sky News.
His departure is understood to have followed a meeting last week with the Sky News managing editor, Simon Cole, in Johannesburg.
It is not thought his exit is related to the changes being implemented at the channel this week, which are understood to include job cuts and the axing of underperforming programmes introduced as part of last autumn's relaunch.
The head of Sky News, Nick Pollard, said Chater was leaving to pursue "other interests" and praised his "outstanding career" with the channel.
"David has been one of the true stalwarts of Sky News's international coverage for many years and has played a central role in many of our greatest successes. He is resigning from Sky to pursue other interests," he said.
Chater has worked for the broadcaster in a variety of roles, joining to open its Moscow bureau in 1993. His coverage of the Chechen war from Grozny won him a gold medal as international reporter of the year at the New York Festivals.
He has also worked as Sky News' Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and in its investigative unit in the UK.
Chater was in Baghdad when the Iraqi capital fell to American troops in April 2003 and also covered the battle for Falluja.
Sky News' promotional material describes him as "one of Sky's most senior and well-respected correspondents".
Chater moved to Sky from ITN, which he joined as a graduate trainee. He was seriously injured while covering the conflict in Yugoslavia for ITN in 1991, when he was shot in the back by a sniper's bullet in Vukovar.
Mr Pollard said Chater would leave in the "near future", adding that "a new Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg, will be appointed in due course".
More changes are expected at the channel later this week as the channel attempts to turn things around after last October's misfiring relaunch.
Programmes at the top of the hit list are understood to include the Sky Report with Julie Etchingham and World News Tonight, with James Rubin.
The relaunch has failed to make its mark with either viewers or critics, and the channel lost out to a resurgent BBC News 24 at this year's Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for the first time for five years.
Mr Pollard will leave in the autumn and will be succeeded by the channel's executive editor, John Ryley.
kay is class and she's been really impressive this afternoon. i'm not one to slag off Ginny tho, she's too likeable for that lol, plus I think her faults are sometimes overly exaggerated.