Editors-a-go-go

The BBC's coverage of science as whole gets a warm bath of approval, in a report by Professor Steve Jones (himself a regular on tv and radio) commissioned by the BBC Trust.

Amongst the negatives, however, he finds there is too little cooperation between the bits of the BBC that cover science, and that news coverage relies on a limited a pool of commentators and sources.

Others might add that the News science correspondents tend to chase in a pack. David Shukman and Jonathan Amos were in Florida for the final space shuttle launch earlier this month, as well as James Gordon from the New York Office - and there were pieces on the action from Pallab Ghosh, stuck in the UK, as well as plenty of interviews with former science correspondent Dr David Whitehouse.

Now it seems the solution is the creation of another "Editor", to sit alongside Nick Robinson, Robert Peston, Will Gompertz and David Bond.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't....