Go west

One of my old BBC bosses, Richard Sambrook, is on the move again. He was Director of News at the time of the Kelly/Gilligan/Hutton palaver, and moved to become Director of World Service and Global News in 2004. In February 2010, he joined the Edelman PR group, as Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer. One Edelman's more recent clients is News International - though Richard has been at pains to make it clear he's not working on that account.

As well as all the journalism stuff, he was the BBC executive who said it was OK for staff to be on Facebook. Which reduced some people's productivity during their normal hours of work quite considerably.

Now he's joining the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, at Cardiff University, as Director of its Journalism Centre, starting in June. He succeeds Richard Tait, of Newsnight, Channel 4, ITN and a former BBC Governor and Trustee.

There'll be a few familiar faces for Richard drifting around. Ian Hargreaves, Professor of the Digital Economy, used to run news at the BBC for John Birt; and Huw Edwards is an honorary professor, although he hasn't yet used his title on screen. Nor am I implying he uses it in the newsroom.  I just don't know.