Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

Is that such a terrible thing?

Who is on now presenting the Press Preview? Is it Jane Secker?

It is indeed

Gillian Joseph presenting Sunrise today with Chloe Potter

Edit 6:20: Stephen Dixon took over, Gillian back to the 2nd presenter role, Chloe Potter can finally go home

From Chloe Potter's Twitter: Will be sticking around for @SkyNews Sunrise keeping @SkyGillian company until @SkyStephen arrives... #sleepypresenter

To BSkyB's summer reception at the Foreign & Commonwealth office on Thursday evening, where the famous (Nasser Hussein), the powerful (James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks) and Louise Redknapp ate mini fairy cakes, roast beef and scallops in the opulent – and perhaps suitably imperial – surroundings of Durbar Court. Only the imitation grass underfoot, which made the floor resemble the Astroturf pitch at Kenilworth Road circa 1985, detracted from the atmosphere of grandeur, as News Corp had been granted permission earlier that day to take full control of Sky. The bigwigs, including Brooks and Murdoch Jr, disappeared soon after the party began, but Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch was still chatting amiably to guests long into the evening. He was still there when Monkey made his excuses and left, at 10.45pm, just as rumours of an after-show party in Leicester Square began to sweep the room. Other guests included Mariella Frostrup, who stuck close to Brooks, PR supremo Roland Rudd, who celebrated his 50th birthday in lavish style last month, and newsreader Dermot Murnaghan. Strangely, however, the Sky News contingent seemed to be in less celebratory mood. Could that be because Sky News is about to be thrown out into the corporate jungle, without Rupert Murdoch's millions to support it? It will be interesting to see whether the loss-making Sky News can afford its own lavish summer party this time next year.