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Here, with no fee required, are my suggestions for potential candidates to replace Fran Unsworth as Director of BBC News. Was it worth paying Korn Ferry to snuffle round, when you could crowdsource the answers ?  Unless, of course, Korn Ferry's job is to do the diligence that was lacking when the BBC re-hired Martin Bashir.... 

Kevin Bakhurst, Content Director at Ofcom, former boss at News 24

Jamie Angus, in charge of BBC News programmes, from a start as political researcher

Naja Nielsen, BBC Digital news boss, at one time Head of News at Danish broadcaster DR.  

Jonathan Munro, BBC Newsgathering/News Content boss, in charge of helicopter deployments, Lucy Manning and Dan Johnson 

Cristina Nicolotti Squires, No 2 at Sky News, from a previous career at ITN. 

Liliane Landor, recently returned to run the BBC's international output, from a spell running foreign news for C4. 

James Goldston, until February President of ABC News, resident of Brooklyn Heights, married to BBC presenter Laura Trevelyan. Still bills himself as a Chelsea FC fan - are the kids old enough for a move back to the UK ?

Mike McCarthy, in charge of CNN International

Jon Williams, former Beeboid running 350 at RTE News - can he step up to 6,000 ?

Candidate tactics will be important. Certain people on this list will only let their names go forward with a guarantee that they make the final three, or that their names never go public. That sort of thing only allows Tim Davie two other choices to bring before the BBC Board.