New Faces

International choices for BBC World output from Washington (coming our way in the UK), and all from outside the BBC. 

Sumi Somaskanda is to be chief presenter. Born in Rochester, New York, in a Tamil family that had escaped Sri Lanka, she went to Allendale Columbia, interned with WHEC10 News, and then took degrees in broadcast journalism at the Medill School, Northwestern University, Chicago. 

She worked New York, Washington and San Francisco, before moving to the English service of Deutsche Welle in Berlin in 2010, and last year became their correspondent in Washington. 

Her editor will Adam Levy, from Fair Lawn New Jersey, who joined CNN straight from George Washington University in 2007. 

Carl Nasman joins from freelancing, after longer spells with DW and NBC; he seems to be married to the other new hire, Helena Humphrey, who has also worked for DW, NBC, ITN  and more. Presumably they declared the relationship to interim Editor of the channel, Paul Royall.