Easy peasy

Ray Snoddy's Newswatch this week offered a viewer a chance to be a news presenter - this of part of a wider debate about quality of the BBC's current roster of on-screen talent, and continuing assertions of "how difficult can it be ?"

So it was good to see a run out for specialist presentation trainer Ian Blandford, who works sometimes for the BBC's College of Journalism and sometimes for his own company Brightspark.  I wonder if he'll be giving training to new C4 presenters Matt Frei and Cathy Newman; Mrs Blandford is Jay Hunt.

• The Daily Mail suggests that the departure of Samira Ahmed from the presentation team at C4 News in the recent shakeup was not straightforward.