Selectors

Whilst the Newsnight team await the arrival of new editor Ian Katz, they'll be delighted to know that he fought off 53 other candidates; that the final interview panel was Fran Unsworth, Acting Director of News Janice Hadlow, Controller BBC Two,  Ceri Thomas, Head of News Programmes and Dan Goad, Head of HR, Network News; and that "candidates were scored against a set of competencies during their interviews and the decision as to who was appointed will have been made jointly between the interviewers based on these scores."

This response to an FOI inquiry sets a neat precedent - presumably the BBC can release the names of all interview panels on request. Go for it, boys and girls.