Senior BBC presenters must prove their skills in a “screen test” as star names battle to save their jobs following a cull of frontline roles 🔴Exclusive from adamsherwin10
Presenters will be put through their paces with a studio-based, “practical test”, lasting some 40 minutes, it is understood.
Martine Croxall broke news of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on BBC News – she is urging bosses to rethink a plan to close the rolling news channel in its current form The channel will broadcast from London during UK daytime and Singapore and Washington DC during the rest of the day. When a major story breaks in the UK, a “domestic-only stream” of the channel will be made available.
However “big beasts” who present the frontline BBC One bulletins – such as Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce and Clive Myrie – are understood to have been spared the reapplication process, with their jobs protected.Newsnight