Redistribution

More examples of the squeeze on BBC News - and the impact of the token distribution of some jobs around the UK. 

Ben Hunte, 29 (Highams Park and University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus B.Sc in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience) was the first to be titled "LBGT Correspondent" at BBC News, at the end of 2018. He's had a spell working in West Africa, but is now leaving to join Vice News. The BBC has decided that Leeds is the key place to base a new LGBT Correspondent. Ben lives in Walthamstow.

Sean Coughlan moves to the pool of News Correspondents, based in London; his role as Education and Family Correspondent will now go to someone willing to call Leeds home. 

Sian Lloyd has spent her time with News moving between Wales and Midlands correspondent, and has now decided to leave - so there's a job with a rationale waiting for someone in the Midlands. 

Arif Ansari, Head of News for the Asian Network, has skipped to the Executive Complaints Unit, rather than compete for a bigger job doing news for R1/R1Xtra and the Asian Network, based in Birmingham.