The new layer of management below BBC Director of News James Harding is beginning to take shape. Mary Hockaday, whose current role as Head of the Multimedia Newsroom disappears, re-emerges as Controller, World Service, English - a heritage post that Mr Harding has "resurrected" to give the service "an editor, a champion, an ambassador of its own." Mary started her BBC career there, as a production trainee in 1986.
Gavin Allen, previously elevated to News Editor by Harding, leaps up to become Controller of Daily News Programmes, running a motley portfolio of BBC1 news bulletins, Breakfast and news programmes on 5Live in Salford, plus Today and its sister shows on Radio 4, and World Service English shows like Newshour.
Jon Zilkha, a former 5Live colleague, exits the Business and Economics Unit to become Controller of 24/7 and Digital News, in charge of the News Channel, World News, and News Online.
A little out of left-field comes Fiona Campbell, currently Acting Head of Documentaries and Features for the beleaguered BBC3. She gets to run Current Affairs, currently being minded in an acting capacity by old C4 hand Jim Gray, with previous boss Ceri Thomas on a six month stint at Panorama.
In the last three appointments, there's a feeling of generational change - and the likelihood of several noses being out of joint for a while, as unsuccessful candidates work out where all this leaves them.
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