BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Is this the first time this year that Fiona Bruce has done the Ten?

2nd this year as she did one on January 3rd just before starting Question Time but yes first since January.

Former 5 News presenter Simon Pusey on WNT this evening. Is he still with Arise News or went the freelance route?

His twitter bio states former journalist and founder of a take away delivery start up so I can only assume that isn't going particularly well.

I don't think Arise have any staff do they? (They outsourced their news production in the UK to two different Indies back in the day. The tech crew were employed separately and Arise left a large number of freelance crew with massive unpaid invoices, some so bad that they had to remortgage I believe)

Arise still exists?!

Yes! From Lagos with Nigerian presenters.

Looks like Sophie Long has finally made her move to the the states as LA Correspondent.

She's been in LA for at least a month if not longer

I say, old boy. Keep up. We were discussing that weeks ago over sherry, remember?

Interesting that Clive is doing the Ten even though Huw did the Five earlier.

Does happen now and again. I guess the 5 and 10 work on different rotas.