"Owenna Griffiths, the editor of Today for more than five years, is said to be planning to step down and leave the BBC". Thus The Observer in a piece co-written by Ceri Thomas, a former editor of Today.
This is an unusual piece of signalling. The Editorship of Today is the most exposed editorial role in BBC Radio; people who take it on either have, or develop, a thick carapace, and later prove valuable to BBC News in senior managerial roles, perhaps further from the microphone, less immediately rewarding, but important for adding experience, tact and diplomacy to the organisation as a whole.
Owenna, now 52, started listening to Today at Cambridge University; this is her third stint with the show. Last year, she lost Mishal Husain, closely followed by her long-term deputy, Louisa Lewis. If the Observer is right, she doesn't want to work in a new role with current BBC News supremos Jonathan Munro and John McAndrew, or they have failed to persuade her to stay.
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