24-09-2023, 09:51 AM
(23-09-2023, 10:55 PM)Brekkie Wrote: As for the next general election - it's easy to forget Fiona Bruce is still part of BBC News with her newsreading role somewhat secondary to her other gigs, but might she be the forgotten but actually obvious candidate to lead election coverage moving forward in the short term at least considering she's already stepped into one pair of Dimbleby's shoes and is perhaps a safer pair of hands for a complex multi-hour live broadcast than some of the other candidates.I'm not so sure about this. She might present Question Time, so has some politics specialism, but I don't think she really has any multi-hour developing news experience (I don't think she ever presented News 24/News channel). I think there are arguments for several of the network team - in terms of seniority, it's Raworth; that formal but genial style of Edwards and Dimbleby, Myrie; for rolling news experience, it's Hill; Chakrabarti started off as a politics reporter, as per Dimbleby and Edwards; and Husain has both multi-hour and interviewing experience.
However, judging by the local elections, they're clearly going to go down the Kuennsberg route, which I'm sure will go down especially well (particularly given the likely outcome).