[Newshound47]

It must be quite unusual to announce a retirement but not be able to formally set a date. The election could be anytime until January 2025.

[Stuart]

It must be quite unusual to announce a retirement but not be able to formally set a date. The election could be anytime until January 2025.

Technically, saying 'after the election' is also a moveable feast.

I doubt she'd finish on the Friday after the results. She may have simply set a date sometime early next year and has used the election as a trigger point for her decision to leave Newsnight.

I didn't realise she'd done it for 30 years. That's quite a feat on one programme.

[Mjb]

With the editor and Kirsty now going is this the end for Newsnight?

[JMT1985]

With the editor and Kirsty now going is this the end for Newsnight?

Eh of course not - Newsnight has been on air since 1980 and has gone through a mountain of presenters, reporters, editors, producers, directors etc - of course not.

[DTV]

Eh of course not - Newsnight has been on air since 1980 and has gone through a mountain of presenters, reporters, editors, producers, directors etc - of course not.

No, but fewer longstanding and/or senior members of the team does decrease the number of people who are internally going to fight in the programme's corner against the proposed changes, which, let's be honest, do amount to Newsnight ending in all but name.

[House]

It must be quite unusual to announce a retirement but not be able to formally set a date. The election could be anytime until January 2025.

Although it’s not that unusual for someone to announce they’re leaving/retiring ‘next year’ or ‘in the new year’, which can be similarly vague periods. I suspect, if anything, they considered the timing beneficial because it would have appeared inescapably negative if she’d announced it after cuts were formally made. It also suggests a stability for Newsnight at least until the next election.

[oscillon]

In an unusual stint, Katie Razzall presented today's Newsnight

[mccanmat]

In an unusual stint, Katie Razzall presented today's Newsnight

I thought Katie was a fairly regular cover when others are off - I’ve seen her present a few times before

[DTV]

In an unusual stint, Katie Razzall presented today's Newsnight

Not that unusual, she's been a semi-regular presenter of Newsnight since around 2018.

[thomalex]

In an unusual stint, Katie Razzall presented today's Newsnight

I read that as an unusual shirt