All change !

You'd hardly be surprised that, in the current white heat of reinvention at Broadcasting House, Alan Dickson, Chief Operating and Financial Officer of BBC News, is changing his top team, to enable them to "work more seamlessly and effectively". It's all about "empowering our senior managers to lead our brilliant teams towards the challenges and opportunities of the BBC’s digital future."

For insiders who may have been puzzled by Alan's re-structuring note, I append a helpful diagram.


  










Meanwhile, at BBC Newsgathering, Jasmin Buttar appears to have moved on from her role as Editor of the Business and Economics Unit; Dominic Ball has been appointed to the post.

Tomorrow Kamal Ahmed takes on his new role as Editorial Director; in the New Year, reporter/presenter Sophie Long, once squired by Kamal, becomes Los Angeles correspondent, some fair distance away.