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It was openly advertised. This is a commercial BBC World hire.
None of the dropped presenters have any of the Washington experience she has and none have been the permanent host of a main evening news programme. She has interviewed every US president since Clinton and has many contacts there. Basically she is in a different league.

That’s not what Naja Nielsen said in this interview. It says that the expansion is coming from the public funded side of the BBC not the commercially funded side. The article questions how this can be justified when they are reducing the number of staff in London. 

pressgazette.co.uk 

Well America is so much more important to the BBC then its UK roots, they should change their slogan from:

This is Our BBC 
to 
This is America's free BBC