Some UK politicians are likely to be unhappy that fewer of their constituents’ concerns will be covered by a station funded by licence fee payers but aimed also at audiences abroad, where it will be allowed to sell adverts. The Guardian has learned that Turness has asked for more home news on the station. The channel is expected to launch in the first week of April and will split into two feeds when it needs to cover big breaking domestic stories that are not of enough importance or interest to world audiences. The BBC News chief executive, Deborah Turness, said: “This team’s editorial leadership, talent, knowledge and flair make them the ideal presenters to bring the BBC’s trusted journalism to people at home in the UK and around the globe.” The BBC said all the anchors had been appointed “via a competitive interview process in accordance with BBC HR procedures”. Hakim, Moshiri and Hockings have worked principally as anchors on BBC World News. Amroliwala is the main presenter for BBC World News’s flagship programme, Global, but is known to UK audiences as he was a lead presenter on the BBC News channel for 16 years.įraser presents The Context on the BBC News channel and has co-presented Beyond 100 Days on BBC World News. Some insiders have said the choice of presenters signals that the focus of the new channel will be more on international news. One source said eyebrows had been raised about the age of the women who had not been chosen, and claimed all but one of them have had pay corrections due to equal pay issues. The National Union of Journalists is understood to be arguing there is still room for others on the new channel or in other roles across the corporation such as radio. Instead, Matthew Amroliwala, Christian Fraser, Yalda Hakim, Lucy Hockings and Maryam Moshiri will be the key presenters of BBC News, leaving the future of the others at the BBC in doubt. Other regulars such as Annita McVeigh, Geeta Guru-Murthy or Shaun Ley were also not chosen and some presenters such as Joanna Gosling declined to audition and have already left. BBC News (formerly BBC World News) is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd.

Presenters were invited to apply for the chief anchor roles on BBC News and none of Hill, Brown or Croxall were chosen although Hill will be presenting more shifts on the main BBC News bulletins so will remain at the corporation.

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