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I know it’s far from normal times, but this must be the first time in years (or decades) we’ve someone jump from an editor or senior correspondent role straight into presenting mainstream bulletins, and not via the news channel? I know JamesWorldNews mentioned yesterday she presented some shifts on World before, but that was a few years ago now.

Arguably Chakrabarti, who I believe presented weekend evening bulletins the same week as her first News channel shifts. Alagiah also had fairly little studio presenting experience before joining the network team in 1999, though I think he might have been one of the interim presenters on News 24 afternoons after Guru-Murthy quit for Channel 4. There were also a few correspondents who have presented Breakfast in the last few years, without previous presenting experience.

Conversely, Jane Hill must have the opposite record - she was presenting daytime summaries and weekend bulletins from 2001 onwards, but only got officially promoted to network this year.

I don't expect that Adler has become a network presenter, I imagine it's just plugging the gaps caused by the unexpected presenter changes - the five core network presenters have basically been on solid since Edwards de facto left, eventually leave and/or illness would catch up with them. I'm also not sure she's solely a correspondent these days, she has co-presented a popular visualised podcast and was a presenter at this year's Proms - so it's not totally out of the blue.